Upgrading from older versions of distros isn't always straightforward, either. In Fedora, the recommended practice has long been to back up the data, install clean, and restore the data. The upgrade process has gotten considerably easier in the last few releases, but there are still some potentially nasty problems. My upgrade via installation DVD from Fedora 9 to Fedora 10 went badly when it wouldn't boot all the way through the kernel and to the encryption password. I was able to get my data off of it, but it took a couple of hours to get a usable Live CD with the right versions of the disk encryption software and then get it mounted and my data off of it before rebuilding it.
Apparently, Holder felt it more important to punish the prosecution on this one than nail Senator Tubes.
I think that this is far more important than a conviction for Stevens. Prosecutors all over the country need to know that they cannot get away with such things. While the judges should and do stop such things when they're seen, there is also an important point to the Justice Department performing some self-policing so that the judges don't have to find it, because when a judge finds it in one case, it potentially taints the convictions of other defendants who have been tried by anyone involved on the prosecution side of that case.
My parents used to cruise and street race in Southern California, and the preferred place to do it was about a block from the police station. The reason was simple: aside from shift changes (times for which were well known), there were no cops there. They were deployed far enough away that the racers only rarely saw a patrol car in the area, let alone on the racing street itself.
I'd have just as much of a problem with it if the ban was on KDE4, which similarly received a lot of bad press because of stability and feature problems.
I'm not saying that Vista should be the next step. I just don't believe that the legislature should be making that decision.
A friend pointed me to this site, (possibly NSFW depending on certain links) which has a couple of people going inside North Korea to shoot video. What they shoot is not concentration camps. It's not executions. It's not poverty (strictly speaking). It's just the completely bizarre world that is North Korea. I wish I could describe it, but my words just wouldn't do it justice.
I do work for a government, so I'm well acquainted with the purchasing and the oddball requirements that come with it. Generally speaking (though I've seen some significant exceptions that drew a great deal of controversy), the government bends over backwards to ensure that things are as fair as possible in the technology assessments. We listen politely to the senior leadership, including elected officials, and then go and do what the laws and policies tell us to do so that we're not held to the fire when some violation is brought up.
I've no problem skipping Vista. I have it on on my work notebook and have since Beta 2, and while it's fine for me, my notebook is more powerful than most. We've identified software incompatibilities that will take most of a year to fix, by which time Windows 7 is due out, so the upgrade makes sense. My position is that it should be -- and usually is -- decided after proper evaluations, and not prior by uninformed elected officials.
The software cost of upgrading is often effectively nil, because most large enterprise environments are on multi-year Enterprise Agreement contracts that allow for no-additional-cost software upgrades. There is the time to deploy which costs some money, but depending on how they do it, it shouldn't really be that expensive with current software management mechanisms, including those built into Active Directory which produce a lower cost of deployment.
It's appropriate for the legislature to specify technologies in more abstract terms, such as ordering a pilot project for IPv6 or requiring that all networks have IDS/IPS on them. Deciding that a specific product is inappropriate is out of their purview, however, as they do not as a group have the expertise to make that decision. I would wager that a significant portion of them are still running Windows XP (if not OS X) and have little or no experience with Vista aside from what their son's best friend's cousin's neighbor told them.
Would you be comfortable with them blocking Red Hat on the reason that Fedora's update servers got cracked last summer, and therefore we can't rely on Red Hat-sponsored projects to properly secure their systems?
It's not a matter of whether Microsoft can pay to have it done. It shouldn't be in there because it sets a bad precedent. If they can forbid Windows Vista, why not forbid any other piece of software that has, whether or not for valid reasons, gotten bad press? These decisions are much better left to those deploying the technologies.
Count me in that group. I despise extraneous sound in my environment, whether it be the fan in my notebook or the guy in the cubicle next to me that was never taught to chew with his mouth closed. If I had someone with a Type M or similar keyboard sitting next to me, I might well beat him to death with his own keyboard, since if I tried to shoot him, he'd block it with the keyboard and it might well ricochet back and kill me.
Schools almost always have different rules, clearly explained since back when I was in junior high during the end of the Reagan years, on prescription medications. Specifically, the school must be informed if the student has them, and in most cases, the medication has to be provided to and dispensed by the school nurse. This difference provides a reason for the school administrators to get involved to some degree. I don't argue that.
However, and most people seem to have missed this larger part of my post, having the school administration getting involved does not necessitate an invasive search. If they want to go through her locker, fine. That's school property anyway. But if it's her purse, backpack, clothing, or person, then the parents at a minimum should be involved, if not the police (though I recognize that SCOTUS feels differently about purses and backpacks). Both the administrators that performed the search (and anyone who jumps to the conclusion that it was for sexual jollies probably needs to RTFA) and the school district itself should be held liable for those actions.
The accusation was that she had prescription-strength ibuprofen, which is not OTC medication.
But I agree that the police should have been involved for any form of invasive search. There also shouldn't have been a zero-tolerance policy to begin with, as the enforcement of these often removes the gray area of judgment of when to enforce a policy and moves the gray area into how to enforce the policy, often erring on the side of draconian.
Civil law generally doesn't allow for imprisonment. Laws where violations are considered infractions are called petty violations for a reason -- they're very minor, and tying up the criminal justice system with them would be a waste of resources.
I'm not quite sure what the rest of your argument is. It's a traffic infraction whether there's a cop at your window writing out a citation or a cop at a computer reviewing photos. It's the same alleged violation of traffic law; the major difference is that in one case the evidence is usually based on the observation and memory of the citing officer, and in the other, there's photographic evidence. In both cases, the office involved would have to testify if you insisted that it go to trial. In some states, you can get a jury trial no matter how trivial the offense, though if you lose, you may risk getting hit with court costs.
Libertarianism is not anarchism; they are very different concepts. One sees a need for minimal government, and one eschews government entirely. I don't think there are or recently have been any countries that have a libertarian system of government.
Libertarians do not find the police and judicial system to be "restricting annoyances." They are absolutely necessary to the enforcement of the law. Libertarians do have a use for laws against things like theft, rape, and murder, as these cover the 'unwanted harm' categories that flajann mentioned in another post.
The Libertarian philosophy also sees roads being constructed by those that need them. Similar to the early railroads, which were funded almost entirely by corporate money, the road system would be funded by private money, paid for by tolls. (I have some doubts as to whether such a system would work, but it's never really had a chance to be tested outside of the railroads.)
Finally, someone may take a shot at you, but they risk being shot in turn, either by you and/or by someone else that chooses to carry a firearm. You are also free to wear body armor if you have a fear that someone will take a shot at you. (Incidentally, rates of homicide by rifle haven't changed much since the sunset of the assault weapons ban. They've remained in the same range of 4% to 4.5% of all firearm homicides since 2003, the number of which has been pretty flat from 2005-2007.)
My installation of IE8 scores 20/100 in native mode, and 13/100 in compatibility mode. The basic structure is there, but colors of boxes, shadows, and spacing are incorrect or non-existent.
Knowing all of this, and to be a slight pain, when I purchased my home I signed all dates in YY/MM/DD format. The mortgage company said that the person that had to review and file the paper work was going to be driven nuts;)
I will have to remember to do this when I buy a home, especially if the loan agent is as much a pain as my parents' loan agent was last time when he got impatient because they wanted to read the entire loan document prior to signing it.
The US murder rate is about 5.9 per 100,000. It hasn't been at 9 per 100,000 in a number of years. The UK's is about 1.4 per 100,000. Japan's is about 0.5 per 100,000.
Another point in favor of the F-22 is that virtually the entire F-15 fleet was grounded last year because of unanticipated structural failures, requiring examination and recertification of each plane before it could be brought back into service.
The simple fact is that the F-15 and F-16 are now at least a generation out of date. The main aspect that keeps them in the lead when it comes to US forces against most other nations is that the US has such an overwhelming AWACS presence. However, other nations are rapidly catching up, having learned from the last 20 years of US warfare how critical AWACS functions are in the modern theatre of war. One-on-one, there are several planes from other nations that are matches for -- or superior to -- the F-15, -16, and -18 (including the Super Hornet), and that's not going to slow down. The F-22 is currently the main hope for maintaining a qualitative edge over other nations. The F-35 will help, but in case of large-scale operations against a country with a decent air force, it will be the Raptor clearing the way for the JSF's strike capabilities.
The right to trial by jury over matters in excess of $20 applies to civil cases (Seventh Amendment). The right to trial by jury otherwise extends only to criminal cases (Sixth Amendment). As violations of the vehicle code are infractions and are not subject to imprisonment (though one can lose driving privileges), they are not under either category, and hence no jury rights exist at the level of the US Constitution. Individual state constitutions may differ on this point.
In most (all?) capital cases, juries do recommend whether or not to put the person to death. Judges usually accept those recommendations and use them. It's an uncommon case where judges lessen a death penalty recommendation to life in prison without parole (they cannot ignore a life sentence recommendation in favor of death).
Judge Kollar-Kotelly actually seems pretty bright. She saw through many of Microsoft's tricks, and did well in keeping up with technical discussions in court according to at least some case watchers.
Incidentally, she's the presiding judge for the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. Since her tenure began in 2002, the number of warrants that had to be modified before being accepted jumped dramatically. Her term expires in May, at which point she will also no longer be part of the FISC, as judges may not be reappointed.
I generally hold judges in high regard, and Judge Kollar-Kotelly ranks highly overall in my mind. She would, I think, make for a respectable member of the Supreme Court if she were appointed, though I think that's unlikely at this point, as she's around age 65 right now, and I think the trend over the next few administrations is going to be to pick much younger potential justices to fill those positions.
if Fox is serious about making Friday evenings a science fiction thing... then I could foresee them dropping T:SCC and replacing it with Futurama and some other show next season
I think it's more likely to end up on Sunday nights, replacing King of the Hill, as that's their animation night. It would be a nice segue from The Simpsons into Family Guy and American Dad, ratcheting the humor towards later fare more gradually than happened with KotH.
From what I've read, the English were responsible for only a handful of ships being lost. Most of the losses were due to weather as the Armada sailed up north around the British Isles and Ireland for their trip home, partially because the crews were weakened and left short-handed by hunger and disease and couldn't properly control the ships.
It may be the way it was handled. Some managers and HR people are very good about these kinds of things, and some are not so good. There's a point where it's appropriate to be professional, which may require some curtness, and there are times when professionalism needs to soften a little. The good ones know when to soften and when to be curt. I don't know if I was when I was a manager of a small retail store many years ago, but I felt no need to soften things when firing someone for falsifying time cards. OTOH, when forced to let someone go in a decision that I thought was unwarranted (the store owner made the call), I did soften things somewhat, and provided my personal information as a reference as I thought the guy was, aside from what I thought was a forgivable mistake, a good worker.
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Upgrading from older versions of distros isn't always straightforward, either. In Fedora, the recommended practice has long been to back up the data, install clean, and restore the data. The upgrade process has gotten considerably easier in the last few releases, but there are still some potentially nasty problems. My upgrade via installation DVD from Fedora 9 to Fedora 10 went badly when it wouldn't boot all the way through the kernel and to the encryption password. I was able to get my data off of it, but it took a couple of hours to get a usable Live CD with the right versions of the disk encryption software and then get it mounted and my data off of it before rebuilding it.
I think that this is far more important than a conviction for Stevens. Prosecutors all over the country need to know that they cannot get away with such things. While the judges should and do stop such things when they're seen, there is also an important point to the Justice Department performing some self-policing so that the judges don't have to find it, because when a judge finds it in one case, it potentially taints the convictions of other defendants who have been tried by anyone involved on the prosecution side of that case.
My parents used to cruise and street race in Southern California, and the preferred place to do it was about a block from the police station. The reason was simple: aside from shift changes (times for which were well known), there were no cops there. They were deployed far enough away that the racers only rarely saw a patrol car in the area, let alone on the racing street itself.
I'd have just as much of a problem with it if the ban was on KDE4, which similarly received a lot of bad press because of stability and feature problems.
I'm not saying that Vista should be the next step. I just don't believe that the legislature should be making that decision.
A friend pointed me to this site, (possibly NSFW depending on certain links) which has a couple of people going inside North Korea to shoot video. What they shoot is not concentration camps. It's not executions. It's not poverty (strictly speaking). It's just the completely bizarre world that is North Korea. I wish I could describe it, but my words just wouldn't do it justice.
I do work for a government, so I'm well acquainted with the purchasing and the oddball requirements that come with it. Generally speaking (though I've seen some significant exceptions that drew a great deal of controversy), the government bends over backwards to ensure that things are as fair as possible in the technology assessments. We listen politely to the senior leadership, including elected officials, and then go and do what the laws and policies tell us to do so that we're not held to the fire when some violation is brought up.
I've no problem skipping Vista. I have it on on my work notebook and have since Beta 2, and while it's fine for me, my notebook is more powerful than most. We've identified software incompatibilities that will take most of a year to fix, by which time Windows 7 is due out, so the upgrade makes sense. My position is that it should be -- and usually is -- decided after proper evaluations, and not prior by uninformed elected officials.
The software cost of upgrading is often effectively nil, because most large enterprise environments are on multi-year Enterprise Agreement contracts that allow for no-additional-cost software upgrades. There is the time to deploy which costs some money, but depending on how they do it, it shouldn't really be that expensive with current software management mechanisms, including those built into Active Directory which produce a lower cost of deployment.
It's appropriate for the legislature to specify technologies in more abstract terms, such as ordering a pilot project for IPv6 or requiring that all networks have IDS/IPS on them. Deciding that a specific product is inappropriate is out of their purview, however, as they do not as a group have the expertise to make that decision. I would wager that a significant portion of them are still running Windows XP (if not OS X) and have little or no experience with Vista aside from what their son's best friend's cousin's neighbor told them.
Would you be comfortable with them blocking Red Hat on the reason that Fedora's update servers got cracked last summer, and therefore we can't rely on Red Hat-sponsored projects to properly secure their systems?
It's not a matter of whether Microsoft can pay to have it done. It shouldn't be in there because it sets a bad precedent. If they can forbid Windows Vista, why not forbid any other piece of software that has, whether or not for valid reasons, gotten bad press? These decisions are much better left to those deploying the technologies.
Count me in that group. I despise extraneous sound in my environment, whether it be the fan in my notebook or the guy in the cubicle next to me that was never taught to chew with his mouth closed. If I had someone with a Type M or similar keyboard sitting next to me, I might well beat him to death with his own keyboard, since if I tried to shoot him, he'd block it with the keyboard and it might well ricochet back and kill me.
Schools almost always have different rules, clearly explained since back when I was in junior high during the end of the Reagan years, on prescription medications. Specifically, the school must be informed if the student has them, and in most cases, the medication has to be provided to and dispensed by the school nurse. This difference provides a reason for the school administrators to get involved to some degree. I don't argue that.
However, and most people seem to have missed this larger part of my post, having the school administration getting involved does not necessitate an invasive search. If they want to go through her locker, fine. That's school property anyway. But if it's her purse, backpack, clothing, or person, then the parents at a minimum should be involved, if not the police (though I recognize that SCOTUS feels differently about purses and backpacks). Both the administrators that performed the search (and anyone who jumps to the conclusion that it was for sexual jollies probably needs to RTFA) and the school district itself should be held liable for those actions.
Several other stories have been had this happen. It's something on Slashdot's side of things.
The accusation was that she had prescription-strength ibuprofen, which is not OTC medication.
But I agree that the police should have been involved for any form of invasive search. There also shouldn't have been a zero-tolerance policy to begin with, as the enforcement of these often removes the gray area of judgment of when to enforce a policy and moves the gray area into how to enforce the policy, often erring on the side of draconian.
Civil law generally doesn't allow for imprisonment. Laws where violations are considered infractions are called petty violations for a reason -- they're very minor, and tying up the criminal justice system with them would be a waste of resources.
I'm not quite sure what the rest of your argument is. It's a traffic infraction whether there's a cop at your window writing out a citation or a cop at a computer reviewing photos. It's the same alleged violation of traffic law; the major difference is that in one case the evidence is usually based on the observation and memory of the citing officer, and in the other, there's photographic evidence. In both cases, the office involved would have to testify if you insisted that it go to trial. In some states, you can get a jury trial no matter how trivial the offense, though if you lose, you may risk getting hit with court costs.
Libertarianism is not anarchism; they are very different concepts. One sees a need for minimal government, and one eschews government entirely. I don't think there are or recently have been any countries that have a libertarian system of government.
Libertarians do not find the police and judicial system to be "restricting annoyances." They are absolutely necessary to the enforcement of the law. Libertarians do have a use for laws against things like theft, rape, and murder, as these cover the 'unwanted harm' categories that flajann mentioned in another post.
The Libertarian philosophy also sees roads being constructed by those that need them. Similar to the early railroads, which were funded almost entirely by corporate money, the road system would be funded by private money, paid for by tolls. (I have some doubts as to whether such a system would work, but it's never really had a chance to be tested outside of the railroads.)
Finally, someone may take a shot at you, but they risk being shot in turn, either by you and/or by someone else that chooses to carry a firearm. You are also free to wear body armor if you have a fear that someone will take a shot at you. (Incidentally, rates of homicide by rifle haven't changed much since the sunset of the assault weapons ban. They've remained in the same range of 4% to 4.5% of all firearm homicides since 2003, the number of which has been pretty flat from 2005-2007.)
My installation of IE8 scores 20/100 in native mode, and 13/100 in compatibility mode. The basic structure is there, but colors of boxes, shadows, and spacing are incorrect or non-existent.
I will have to remember to do this when I buy a home, especially if the loan agent is as much a pain as my parents' loan agent was last time when he got impatient because they wanted to read the entire loan document prior to signing it.
The US murder rate is about 5.9 per 100,000. It hasn't been at 9 per 100,000 in a number of years. The UK's is about 1.4 per 100,000. Japan's is about 0.5 per 100,000.
The researcher is from the Vienna University of Technology, in Austria. I doubt this was funded by US taxpayers.
Another point in favor of the F-22 is that virtually the entire F-15 fleet was grounded last year because of unanticipated structural failures, requiring examination and recertification of each plane before it could be brought back into service.
The simple fact is that the F-15 and F-16 are now at least a generation out of date. The main aspect that keeps them in the lead when it comes to US forces against most other nations is that the US has such an overwhelming AWACS presence. However, other nations are rapidly catching up, having learned from the last 20 years of US warfare how critical AWACS functions are in the modern theatre of war. One-on-one, there are several planes from other nations that are matches for -- or superior to -- the F-15, -16, and -18 (including the Super Hornet), and that's not going to slow down. The F-22 is currently the main hope for maintaining a qualitative edge over other nations. The F-35 will help, but in case of large-scale operations against a country with a decent air force, it will be the Raptor clearing the way for the JSF's strike capabilities.
The right to trial by jury over matters in excess of $20 applies to civil cases (Seventh Amendment). The right to trial by jury otherwise extends only to criminal cases (Sixth Amendment). As violations of the vehicle code are infractions and are not subject to imprisonment (though one can lose driving privileges), they are not under either category, and hence no jury rights exist at the level of the US Constitution. Individual state constitutions may differ on this point.
In most (all?) capital cases, juries do recommend whether or not to put the person to death. Judges usually accept those recommendations and use them. It's an uncommon case where judges lessen a death penalty recommendation to life in prison without parole (they cannot ignore a life sentence recommendation in favor of death).
Judge Kollar-Kotelly actually seems pretty bright. She saw through many of Microsoft's tricks, and did well in keeping up with technical discussions in court according to at least some case watchers.
Incidentally, she's the presiding judge for the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. Since her tenure began in 2002, the number of warrants that had to be modified before being accepted jumped dramatically. Her term expires in May, at which point she will also no longer be part of the FISC, as judges may not be reappointed.
I generally hold judges in high regard, and Judge Kollar-Kotelly ranks highly overall in my mind. She would, I think, make for a respectable member of the Supreme Court if she were appointed, though I think that's unlikely at this point, as she's around age 65 right now, and I think the trend over the next few administrations is going to be to pick much younger potential justices to fill those positions.
if Fox is serious about making Friday evenings a science fiction thing ... then I could foresee them dropping T:SCC and replacing it with Futurama and some other show next season
I think it's more likely to end up on Sunday nights, replacing King of the Hill, as that's their animation night. It would be a nice segue from The Simpsons into Family Guy and American Dad, ratcheting the humor towards later fare more gradually than happened with KotH.
From what I've read, the English were responsible for only a handful of ships being lost. Most of the losses were due to weather as the Armada sailed up north around the British Isles and Ireland for their trip home, partially because the crews were weakened and left short-handed by hunger and disease and couldn't properly control the ships.
It may be the way it was handled. Some managers and HR people are very good about these kinds of things, and some are not so good. There's a point where it's appropriate to be professional, which may require some curtness, and there are times when professionalism needs to soften a little. The good ones know when to soften and when to be curt. I don't know if I was when I was a manager of a small retail store many years ago, but I felt no need to soften things when firing someone for falsifying time cards. OTOH, when forced to let someone go in a decision that I thought was unwarranted (the store owner made the call), I did soften things somewhat, and provided my personal information as a reference as I thought the guy was, aside from what I thought was a forgivable mistake, a good worker.