There is a branch of Islam which wishes to have Islam be the established religion mush as Christianity was the established religion in Europe until recently. This means Islamic punishments for crimes and restrictions on women that they interpret is present in the Koran.
Western culture undermines these attitudes. Women are encouraged to work outside the home and dress as they wish. Individual liberty and freedom of (and from) religion are not the values they want to promote. Converting someone from Islam to another religion is illegal under the kind of legal system they wish to institute. Humanism, the underlying philosophy for the West is not compatible with their fundamentalist Islamic worldview.
There is an economic component. The areas of the world where this branch of Islam predominates are poor and underdeveloped. Even the Palestinian occupied territories are economically dependant on Israel, a Western-style state. The Western economic powers have embargoed Afganistan, Iran and Iraq which they view as keeping these areas poor becuase of their religion.
The war they have declared is cultural and economic.
Thus the World Trade Center was an ideal target. It represented American and Western economic power. It was a very visible attack on the society which represents evil to them.
His office was on the 30th floor of 3 World Trade Center (not one of the towers). His office faced the towers and he saw both planes hit. The explosion from the second blew out all of the windows in his buildings. He saw burning people
jumping out of the towers and strike the ground. He was outside a few hundred yards from the towers when the first one fell. He dove into a subway entrance as a black clould of ash and debris came rolling across the plaza. His friend broke his ankle in the dive for safety.
He knows of 10 friends who lost their lives today. Two of those are friends he grew up with.
His account is horrific. He saw someone dismembered by the falling debris just a few yards from where he was.
I understand that it takes at least 30 minutes to evacuate the tower if they can use the elevators. It takes about an hour to walk down from one of the top floors if the elevators are not available.
My next door neighbor was in one of the towers this morning when the first plane struck. They began evacuations before the second plane hit. My neighbor was completely out of the building before the collapse and was uninjured.
We're just saying that no one will pay for the work.
It's attitudes like that which will keep commercial developers away from Linux. I was thinking about buying the plugin, but this post made me go ahead and do it.
In the United States, copyright isn't technically automatic...
<Bzzzzzzt!> Sorry, thanks for playing. Under current copyright law, you own a copyright in any expression you create registered or not, with out without notice.
Sales have been weak, but when you consider that many of the early adopters most likely already have an HDTV compatible display, then consider that major hardware makers have been having to go back to the drawing board to put in place MPAA mandated Content Controls. Yeah, sales could be better, but you're still looking at several hundred thousand units in the channel right just this year.
Several hundred thousand <gasp!> it's a drop in the bucket. The Content Controls will kill HDTV for good. "What do you mean I can't tape Buffy the Vampire Slayer?"
The electronics industry may be staking their future on it, but unless people have a real *reason* to HDTV, it just ain't gonna happen. If the FTC tries to turn off the old broadcast stations before 98% of the people are ready, there will be riots in the streets.
I see all the local electronics stores heavily promoting HDTV equipment. But no one is buying.
Enjoy your HDTV. I'll get one when I can tape my favorite shows.
No one wants it. Cables operators won't be carrying it becuase it costs them more $ and takes up several standard channels. When the dealine hits and 0.01% of all televisions are HDTV capable, the deadline will be put off indefinately.
Non-executable stack is not a significant barrier. If there is an expliotable buffer overrun in an executable stack kernel the form of the exploit changes, but the kernel is still vulnerable to the same overrun. Go to the Linux Kernel Archive and follow any one of the many discussions on non-executable stack.
I have a DOS Technical Reference, an IBM PC Hardware Technical Reference and an IBM AT Hardware technical Reference. These were the old style looseleaf format binder in a slipcover. I read the commented assembler listing of the BIOS. I learned quite a bit of assembler language from that reference.
Hmmmm. I thaought that Bode's "Law" was a little more accurate than that.
But, OK. We have Earth a 1.0 AU, Mars at 1.5AU and Jupiter at 5.2AU. That puts the place of the missing planet at about 2.25AU.
The precise location of the habitable zone is dependant on the star's brightness, but lets assume that it's in roughly the same place as on Earth.
That means that this star's asteroid belt is about at Mars location leaving room for a rocky planet at or slightly in closer to that star than Earth is to the Sun.
The only confirmed life on other planets far away will be from "Intellegent Life" (Meaning they have access to radios).
Unfortunately, there is only a very short span of time between "Intelligent Life" with access to radios and access to television which destroys all "Intelligent Life" it comes into contact with.
The monitoring program ran on a computer connected to the firewall. That computer had several functions. One was to monitor web browsing. Another was intrusion detection. By ordering the techs to diconnect this computer from the network, they also diconnected the intrusion detection for the entire federal judiciary's intranet.
Then you open your organization to patent infringement liabilities. Do you want to be the guy who's name comes up when the CIO asks "Who cost me $X in patent licensing fees from 'free software'?"
So now instead of you being able to thumb your nose at the BSA because you use Open Source, they'll be gunning for your Samba installation.
Even if I had wanted to continue the 28.8k service, it was still $30/month, even though there were plenty of cheaper 56k diakup services available, and they required 1 year pre-payment. Forget it.
Give us a break. So there were cheaper 56k dialup services. Were they wireless?
I pay 27.50 + tax for 9.6kbps CDPD service. I'd have killed for 28kbps wireless at $30/mo.
Well, if the files aren't commingled (eck, hate that word) but are indeed just "related functions close to one another", then they damned well could have taken the IE functionality out, couldn't they have?
Obligatory Monty Python quote:
Inspector: Then we have Number Four, Number Four: "Crunchy Frog".
Mr. Hilton: Ah, yes?
I: Am I right in thinking there's a *real* frog in 'ere?
H: Yes, a little one.
I: What sort of frog??
H: A... dead frog.
I: Is it cooked??
H: We use only the finest baby frogs, dew-picked and flown from Iraq, cleansed in the finest quality spring water, lightly killed, and sealed in a succulent Swiss quintuple-smooth treble-milk chocolate envelope, and lovingly frosted with glucose.
I: That's as may be, but it's still a frog!
H: What else?
I: Well, don't you even take the bones out??
H: If we took the *bones* out, it wouldn't be *crunchy*, would it?
When I need information about a state service, I start with www.state.xx.us where xx is the state. I've used www.state.ny.us, www.state.il.us and www.state.in.us in just the last month.
the Earth is a 'type-13' civilization. Type 13 civilizations destroy themselves by turning their planet into degenerate matter looking for the Higgs boson.
Well, I want wide screen movies. I'll even pay a pretty penny for a higher quality, wide-screen picture. But I won't pay for broken and crippled technology that reduces the amount of control over what I watch with my TiVo. And I don't think that the average consumer will either.
Free box? But I can't tape my favorite shows? No thanks!
Frankly, consumers won't move to HDTV if they lost their ability to casually tape shows for later viewing. This extreme aversion to allowing rights recognized by the SCOTUS will kill the market for this stuff.
Sure, I want to watch wide screen movies at home, but I won't buy any of the crippled products being offered today including DVDs until the stupid restrictions are lifted.
OK, I'm not a physicist, but the ideal gas law is certainly not for incompressible gases. The very presence of the volume term in the equation explicitly takes into acount the compression of gases. It is generally liquids that are incompressible.
Even if it does not strictly apply, it does give some idea how high temperatures and high pressures are related and how tempurature drops when high pressures are released by the loss of containment. I expect that electrostatic repulsion of ions in a plasma would only increase the drop in temperature from the loss of containment.
I don't think that sort of thing would stand up in court if it ever went that far, but it's a demonstration of how far some people are trying to push this sort of "you've only bought the right to use it, and you're lucky we gave you that much" thing.
At several Federal Court decisions (see Novell v. NTC) has held that the sale of media containing software is the sale of a copy under the UCC to which the First Sale doctrine of Copyright Law applies. Quoting that decision:
In Advent Sys. Ltd. v. Unisys Corp., the Third Circuit determined that software is a "good" within the meaning of the Uniform Commercial Code (U.C.C.).13 925 F.2d 670, 676 (3d Cir. 1991). Other courts have also determined that the U.C.C. should apply to software and that the sale of software constitutes the sale of a good. See, Step-Saver Data Sys., Inc. v. Wyse Technology, 939 F.2d 91, 99-100 (3d Cir. 1991); Downriver Internists v. Harris Corp., 929 F.2d 1147, 1150 (6th Cir. 1991). If it is established that the transaction wherein the end-user obtains possession of the software is a sale, the so called "first sale" doctrine, applies. Under that doctrine, the owner/purchaser of a copyrighted product is authorized to dispose of the product without regard to the desires or policies of the copyright holder.
So, yes, Virginia, you do buy a copy of a copyrighted work when you buy software. Any language to the contrary in the license agreement is unenforcable as a matter of law. (Except perhaps in UCITA states.)
ok, so you have this plasma "floating" in the bottle at 12 gazillion degrees. the power goes out. doesn't your ball of plasma just eat it's way through anything it touches and head towards the center of the earth?
No. The only thing keeping the temperature high is the containment. If the containment is lost, the fusion stops (and the net energy output stops) and the plasma expands and cools.
Exercise for the student: Review the ideal gas law (PV=nRT) and calculate the temperature of a 1 million degree plasma as it expands from a volume of 1 m^3 to 10^3 m^3 and reduces in pressure from 3 million atmospheres to 1 atmosphere.
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Is there a typo in the story? Was it really April 1, 2001?
I see no one has answered your question.
There is a branch of Islam which wishes to have Islam be the established religion mush as Christianity was the established religion in Europe until recently. This means Islamic punishments for crimes and restrictions on women that they interpret is present in the Koran.
Western culture undermines these attitudes. Women are encouraged to work outside the home and dress as they wish. Individual liberty and freedom of (and from) religion are not the values they want to promote. Converting someone from Islam to another religion is illegal under the kind of legal system they wish to institute. Humanism, the underlying philosophy for the West is not compatible with their fundamentalist Islamic worldview.
There is an economic component. The areas of the world where this branch of Islam predominates are poor and underdeveloped. Even the Palestinian occupied territories are economically dependant on Israel, a Western-style state. The Western economic powers have embargoed Afganistan, Iran and Iraq which they view as keeping these areas poor becuase of their religion.
The war they have declared is cultural and economic.
Thus the World Trade Center was an ideal target. It represented American and Western economic power. It was a very visible attack on the society which represents evil to them.
His office was on the 30th floor of 3 World Trade Center (not one of the towers). His office faced the towers and he saw both planes hit. The explosion from the second blew out all of the windows in his buildings. He saw burning people
jumping out of the towers and strike the ground. He was outside a few hundred yards from the towers when the first one fell. He dove into a subway entrance as a black clould of ash and debris came rolling across the plaza. His friend broke his ankle in the dive for safety.
He knows of 10 friends who lost their lives today. Two of those are friends he grew up with.
His account is horrific. He saw someone dismembered by the falling debris just a few yards from where he was.
I understand that it takes at least 30 minutes to evacuate the tower if they can use the elevators. It takes about an hour to walk down from one of the top floors if the elevators are not available.
My next door neighbor was in one of the towers this morning when the first plane struck. They began evacuations before the second plane hit. My neighbor was completely out of the building before the collapse and was uninjured.
We're just saying that no one will pay for the work.
It's attitudes like that which will keep commercial developers away from Linux. I was thinking about buying the plugin, but this post made me go ahead and do it.
Support Linux where it counts -- with cash.
In the United States, copyright isn't technically automatic...
<Bzzzzzzt!> Sorry, thanks for playing. Under current copyright law, you own a copyright in any expression you create registered or not, with out without notice.
For a troll, it was a pretty pathetic attempt.
How accurate is the estimate?
Put in an error estimate and it would be more useful.
Sales have been weak, but when you consider that many of the early adopters most likely already have an HDTV compatible display, then consider that major hardware makers have been having to go back to the drawing board to put in place MPAA mandated Content Controls. Yeah, sales could be better, but you're still looking at several hundred thousand units in the channel right just this year.
Several hundred thousand <gasp!> it's a drop in the bucket. The Content Controls will kill HDTV for good. "What do you mean I can't tape Buffy the Vampire Slayer?"
The electronics industry may be staking their future on it, but unless people have a real *reason* to HDTV, it just ain't gonna happen. If the FTC tries to turn off the old broadcast stations before 98% of the people are ready, there will be riots in the streets.
I see all the local electronics stores heavily promoting HDTV equipment. But no one is buying.
Enjoy your HDTV. I'll get one when I can tape my favorite shows.
No one wants it. Cables operators won't be carrying it becuase it costs them more $ and takes up several standard channels. When the dealine hits and 0.01% of all televisions are HDTV capable, the deadline will be put off indefinately.
Non-executable stack is not a significant barrier. If there is an expliotable buffer overrun in an executable stack kernel the form of the exploit changes, but the kernel is still vulnerable to the same overrun. Go to the Linux Kernel Archive and follow any one of the many discussions on non-executable stack.
I have a DOS Technical Reference, an IBM PC Hardware Technical Reference and an IBM AT Hardware technical Reference. These were the old style looseleaf format binder in a slipcover. I read the commented assembler listing of the BIOS. I learned quite a bit of assembler language from that reference.
I should probably sell them on eBay.
Hmmmm. I thaought that Bode's "Law" was a little more accurate than that.
But, OK. We have Earth a 1.0 AU, Mars at 1.5AU and Jupiter at 5.2AU. That puts the place of the missing planet at about 2.25AU.
The precise location of the habitable zone is dependant on the star's brightness, but lets assume that it's in roughly the same place as on Earth.
That means that this star's asteroid belt is about at Mars location leaving room for a rocky planet at or slightly in closer to that star than Earth is to the Sun.
Who says they have a head?
The only confirmed life on other planets far away will be from "Intellegent Life" (Meaning they have access to radios).
Unfortunately, there is only a very short span of time between "Intelligent Life" with access to radios and access to television which destroys all "Intelligent Life" it comes into contact with.
Now, get your hands of my TiVo control. <grrrr>
The monitoring program ran on a computer connected to the firewall. That computer had several functions. One was to monitor web browsing. Another was intrusion detection. By ordering the techs to diconnect this computer from the network, they also diconnected the intrusion detection for the entire federal judiciary's intranet.
Then you open your organization to patent infringement liabilities. Do you want to be the guy who's name comes up when the CIO asks "Who cost me $X in patent licensing fees from 'free software'?"
So now instead of you being able to thumb your nose at the BSA because you use Open Source, they'll be gunning for your Samba installation.
Even if I had wanted to continue the 28.8k service, it was still $30/month, even though there were plenty of cheaper 56k diakup services available, and they required 1 year pre-payment. Forget it.
Give us a break. So there were cheaper 56k dialup services. Were they wireless?
I pay 27.50 + tax for 9.6kbps CDPD service. I'd have killed for 28kbps wireless at $30/mo.
Well, if the files aren't commingled (eck, hate that word) but are indeed just "related functions close to one another", then they damned well could have taken the IE functionality out, couldn't they have?
Obligatory Monty Python quote:
Inspector: Then we have Number Four, Number Four: "Crunchy Frog".
Mr. Hilton: Ah, yes?
I: Am I right in thinking there's a *real* frog in 'ere?
H: Yes, a little one.
I: What sort of frog??
H: A... dead frog.
I: Is it cooked??
H: We use only the finest baby frogs, dew-picked and flown from Iraq, cleansed in the finest quality spring water, lightly killed, and sealed in a succulent Swiss quintuple-smooth treble-milk chocolate envelope, and lovingly frosted with glucose.
I: That's as may be, but it's still a frog!
H: What else?
I: Well, don't you even take the bones out??
H: If we took the *bones* out, it wouldn't be *crunchy*, would it?
From the Crunchy Frog sketch
When I need information about a state service, I start with www.state.xx.us where xx is the state. I've used www.state.ny.us, www.state.il.us and www.state.in.us in just the last month.
the Earth is a 'type-13' civilization. Type 13 civilizations destroy themselves by turning their planet into degenerate matter looking for the Higgs boson.
Well, I want wide screen movies. I'll even pay a pretty penny for a higher quality, wide-screen picture. But I won't pay for broken and crippled technology that reduces the amount of control over what I watch with my TiVo. And I don't think that the average consumer will either.
Free box? But I can't tape my favorite shows? No thanks!
Frankly, consumers won't move to HDTV if they lost their ability to casually tape shows for later viewing. This extreme aversion to allowing rights recognized by the SCOTUS will kill the market for this stuff.
Sure, I want to watch wide screen movies at home, but I won't buy any of the crippled products being offered today including DVDs until the stupid restrictions are lifted.
DAT died and so will these.
OK, I'm not a physicist, but the ideal gas law is certainly not for incompressible gases. The very presence of the volume term in the equation explicitly takes into acount the compression of gases. It is generally liquids that are incompressible.
Even if it does not strictly apply, it does give some idea how high temperatures and high pressures are related and how tempurature drops when high pressures are released by the loss of containment. I expect that electrostatic repulsion of ions in a plasma would only increase the drop in temperature from the loss of containment.
At several Federal Court decisions (see Novell v. NTC) has held that the sale of media containing software is the sale of a copy under the UCC to which the First Sale doctrine of Copyright Law applies. Quoting that decision:
So, yes, Virginia, you do buy a copy of a copyrighted work when you buy software. Any language to the contrary in the license agreement is unenforcable as a matter of law. (Except perhaps in UCITA states.)
ok, so you have this plasma "floating" in the bottle at 12 gazillion degrees. the power goes out. doesn't your ball of plasma just eat it's way through anything it touches and head towards the center of the earth?
No. The only thing keeping the temperature high is the containment. If the containment is lost, the fusion stops (and the net energy output stops) and the plasma expands and cools.
Exercise for the student: Review the ideal gas law (PV=nRT) and calculate the temperature of a 1 million degree plasma as it expands from a volume of 1 m^3 to 10^3 m^3 and reduces in pressure from 3 million atmospheres to 1 atmosphere.