Right, that's my point. My employer doesn't need to know my age, since the only things he could do with it are illegal. Why should I have to give it to him?
Incidentally, firing someone for their age is illegal here too. That doesn't mean that it doesn't happen.
Our CPR (Central Person Registry) stores your CPR-number. Mine looks like this:
130477-1235 (no, this is not my real CPR-number)
This indicates that my birthdate is the 13th day of the 04th month of the 77th year.
Well, that's stupid. That means you can't give someone your ID number without also giving them your birthdate and gender. Why does my employer need to know my exact age? So he can fire me when I turn 60?
Unique means "one of a kind". You wouldn't say, "slightly one of a kind", or "the Solar System has very nine planets"; it makes no sense. Neither does "very unique".
Instead you could say, "a very rare case mod", "an original case mod", "an extremely creative case mod", or "a highly unusual case mod".
There are billions of phrases in the English language which make sense; why use ones that don't?
b) Companies that take no action (that is dont make a patch available/requestable) on a vulnerability that was reported to them but not announced to the public, are liable for exploits.
Do you really want to be liable when some hacker sends you an exploit on your code and you can't/don't manage to fix it fast enough?
I'm no fan of Microsoft, but I'm even less of a fan of government intrusion.
So fight against government intrusion by fighting against Microsoft. Remember, every day Microsoft says, "Government, go out and find anyone who is copying MS software, and throw them in jail."
Complaining about government antitrust interferance without complaining about government anticopying interference is just looking at one side of the coin.
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RedHat needs a compile from source package format that most people can figure out. srpms may do it, but I have no clue how to use them.
You admit that you have no clue how to use.src.rpm, yet you feel confident saying that RPM "just plain sucks" when the source environment is different from the build environment?
Look, it's not that difficult. Try a few of the following: manrpm, rpm--help, or even rpm--rebuildfoo.src.rpm. (Then check/usr/src/redhat/RPMS/<arch> for the rebuilt binary package.)
After you ask to be put on their do not call list, they are allowed to call you once per year. That means that you are going to have to prove that they called you three times in a row.
You are going to have no end of trouble trying to sue them in small claims court if they are calling from another state. They know this, and hence they often call from another state. There is no way to serve them if you are in California and they are in, say, Utah. The only way to do it is registered mail (the Sheriff won't do it), and the clerk won't send registered mail out of state.
Of course, you could get a lawyer and sue them in Federal court. That is, if you want to make a Federal case out of it. *rimshot*
But even if you do that, even if you pay for a lawyer and all the filing fees and waste days of your time in court, you *still* have to enforce the judgement against them (i.e. collect the money).
If you want to go through all that, great, more power to you. But it's too much trouble for me.
On the other hand, if you're a lawyer who's looking for something to do and you want to do the legwork on a suit, I'd be glad to sign over 90% of anything you can collect...
Think for a second: you're a government agency, and you notice someone sending bits to your server that make it crash. What's your first response?
Well, if they knew enough to know to whom to send a search warrant, then they probably already knew enough to find his website. They could have read the damn site before getting all legal on his ass.
Sure, if I redistribute GPL'd software in violation of the license, the license terminates. But I don't see where it says that I can't re-license the software.
So, according to the plaintiffs, if I violate the GPL (say, by forgetting to date one of my changes, as required by 2a), I can never distribute the program again?
If that's the legal interpretation, then the GPL needs to be fixed.
EBay says that fraud is a persistent problem, but the company adds that it affects fewer than 0.01% of the millions of transactions the auction site handles every year.
0.01%? Am I the only one who thinks that's a little low? Given that I've completed maybe 20 purchases on ebay, and was cheated on 2 of them...I dunno, I have a hard time believing that I'm all *that* different from the standard bargain-hunter on ebay.
Ok. I was just responding to the original story which said, "It hasn't...spread to all the usual mirrors yet...". Whether Mandrake was mirrored or not, it still makes sense to let the mirrors get at software releases first.
Why, oh why do you announce product releases before they've been mirrored? It just means that the main site gets clogged, and nobody can get it. It took *days* to get Redhat 7 off a mirror, quite possibly because you announced it before the mirrors updated, and/.ers clogged the main site.
So, next time you announce a release, could you please wait until the mirrors update? Thanks.
Slashdot Mirror
Right, that's my point. My employer doesn't need to know my age, since the only things he could do with it are illegal. Why should I have to give it to him?
Incidentally, firing someone for their age is illegal here too. That doesn't mean that it doesn't happen.
Well, that's stupid. That means you can't give someone your ID number without also giving them your birthdate and gender. Why does my employer need to know my exact age? So he can fire me when I turn 60?
Hell, why not encode your race in there too?
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Unique means "one of a kind". You wouldn't say, "slightly one of a kind", or "the Solar System has very nine planets"; it makes no sense. Neither does "very unique".
Instead you could say, "a very rare case mod", "an original case mod", "an extremely creative case mod", or "a highly unusual case mod".
There are billions of phrases in the English language which make sense; why use ones that don't?
Do you really want to be liable when some hacker sends you an exploit on your code and you can't/don't manage to fix it fast enough?
U HOMOPHONIN': AWFUL
U SPELLIN': BAD
H2K2? Is that like HK40K?
So fight against government intrusion by fighting against Microsoft. Remember, every day Microsoft says, "Government, go out and find anyone who is copying MS software, and throw them in jail."
Complaining about government antitrust interferance without complaining about government anticopying interference is just looking at one side of the coin.
You admit that you have no clue how to use .src.rpm, yet you feel confident saying that RPM "just plain sucks" when the source environment is different from the build environment?
Look, it's not that difficult. Try a few of the following: manrpm, rpm--help, or even rpm--rebuildfoo.src.rpm. (Then check /usr/src/redhat/RPMS/<arch> for the rebuilt binary package.)
You're welcome.
Sounds great, but...
If you want to go through all that, great, more power to you. But it's too much trouble for me.
On the other hand, if you're a lawyer who's looking for something to do and you want to do the legwork on a suit, I'd be glad to sign over 90% of anything you can collect...
So, is RougeWave a C++ SDK for designing makeup, or what?
Uh, guys, isn't the Vancouver Sun a tabloid? I wouldn't take anything they said too seriously.
I really don't want to know what a but ring is.
I'm going to get a patent on granting bad patents, then sue the PTO. :)
Oops.
About par for the course, don't you think? :)
You advertize the Great Slashdot Blackout, yet you're posting on March 22? What's up with that?
Well, if they knew enough to know to whom to send a search warrant, then they probably already knew enough to find his website. They could have read the damn site before getting all legal on his ass.
I know about Steve Jobs' acceptance speech, but I didn't know that Steve Job won too.
There was a phone by my head and written on the mirror in red lipstick was, "Call 911 now or you will die!"
Forget about those plain vanilla "virtual woman" programs...now someone can write a "virtual dominatrix" program. And the whips actually work! :)
Sure, if I redistribute GPL'd software in violation of the license, the license terminates. But I don't see where it says that I can't re-license the software.
So, according to the plaintiffs, if I violate the GPL (say, by forgetting to date one of my changes, as required by 2a), I can never distribute the program again?
If that's the legal interpretation, then the GPL needs to be fixed.
EBay says that fraud is a persistent problem, but the company adds that it affects fewer than 0.01% of the millions of transactions the auction site handles every year.
0.01%? Am I the only one who thinks that's a little low? Given that I've completed maybe 20 purchases on ebay, and was cheated on 2 of them...I dunno, I have a hard time believing that I'm all *that* different from the standard bargain-hunter on ebay.
How nice of TrustE to generate a list of known spammers for us. Now all we have to do is get ahold of that list, and add it to our blacklists. :)
--joe
Ok. I was just responding to the original story which said, "It hasn't...spread to all the usual mirrors yet...". Whether Mandrake was mirrored or not, it still makes sense to let the mirrors get at software releases first.
Why, oh why do you announce product releases before they've been mirrored? It just means that the main site gets clogged, and nobody can get it. It took *days* to get Redhat 7 off a mirror, quite possibly because you announced it before the mirrors updated, and /.ers clogged the main site.
So, next time you announce a release, could you please wait until the mirrors update? Thanks.