They also want to have their bases covered when it comes to liability.
Can you point to any instance where Microsoft, or some other comparable company has been held liable for defects in their software? People keep bringing up this argument, but I can not ever recall anyone actually using this in practice.
And what happens when you challenge someone on their hyperbole? They don't back down and say "dude, I was exagerating." They keep trolling by trying to defend the sentiment behind it.
That may explain qweqwe321's reply (oh wait, he or she didn't reply), but it doesn't explain the others who replied in support of prison rape, or the moderator who modded my post flamebait. Those people made a conscious choice to take up a keyboard and make a statement supporting rape or other violent behavior.
Can you show me a study or survey indicating that people are actually in favour of prison rape?
It is right here. Read these posts. A non-negligible, vocal, hopefully minority of people apparently are in favor of prison rape and are eager to call out those who would disagree. It does seem that there is a slightly larger group of people, thank God, that are not afraid to speak out against rape and violence.
Don't confuse hyperbole about justice being meted out with a reflective acceptance of rape inside prisons.
I invite you to read the enlightened responses my criticism of prison rape garnered below.... I think you will find "acceptance of rape inside prisons" a most favorable way to characterize them. I would say some of them even cheer for prison rape....
Well, I'm for institutionalized prosecution of crimes rather than private endeavours in that area...
As am I, as am I. Part of the basis of a functioning society is that restrain our vigilante tendencies. But at the same time, we shouldn't allow our institutions to indulge our more base desires for revenge either.
You are talking to geeks here who have to wade through megabytes of spam each day. As liberal and anti-prison as some of us come, in this very special case, I doubt you'll find much sympathy for the spammer...
I understand that. The subtext here is that there is a huge difference (at least to me) between wanting to personally brutalize someone and institutionalized brutality. For example, I personally would have no problem using deadly force against someone threating my family. At the same time I am stridently opposed to the death penalty.
Allowing institutionalized brutality diminishes us all.
Perhaps being given accomodation, three meals a day, playstations, TV, music, books, free instructional courses, sports facilities, isn't considered punishment enough by many people.
Oh, I totally agree. However, that is not an excuse for our acceptance of crime inside prison walls. Especially heinous crimes like rape. By giving prison rape a "wink-and-a-nod" so to speak, we are dooming people like poor Jhannet to a punishment far in excess of their (purported) crimes. (Not that poor Jhannet has done anything to warrant a year in prison. She is probably more than punished enough already....)
Indeed, I think that the relative luxury of some prisons (with "playstations, TV, music, books, free instructional courses, sports facilities") compared to what most people think it should be encourages the acceptance of heinous criminal behavior behind prison walls. If prisons were better run, society wouldn't feel so much like we are being taken advantage of and wouldn't tolerate prison rape to compensate.
What the hell is up with rape being considered part and parcel of a just prison sentence? It is just sickening that a large segment of our population does not seem to have a problem with people being raped, assaulted, or otherwise abused while in prison. Imprisonment is supposed to be the punishment for serious crimes, not imprisonment, rape, etc.
I work at a university where those responsible for computing technology don't even seem to consider non-Microsoft solutions. Every embrance and extend technology that comes out of Redmond is rolled out as soon as possible. The people in charge seem quite like a cult of Microsoft to me.
The STOP signal will cause the parent shell to display a command prompt. If there were any keystrokes pending in that shell, they'll be typed, potentially running a command immediately instead of running it only after completion of the job we just stopped. This could be wrong.
Sounds like a shell problem rather than a kernel problem. Who is STOPping jobs in an interactive shell that someone is typing in anyway? Hrm. The more I think about it the more this doesn't seem right. I am sure I have STOPed calculations launched by a shell script and the script didn't continue. It waited for the STOPed job to continue, finish, and then the rest ran...
Are you seriously prepared to condemn every single infected person
Yes, he is. He is a Christian.
I don't think so. A real Christian would have pity, even for those who "made a mistake" or "were careless", and would not want them to suffer and die, leaving behind friends and family, who also suffer. Therefore, every Christain should support the search of an AIDS vaccine in an effort to reduce suffering. Therefore, the grandparent poster is not a Christian, or at least is quite far from understanding Christ's teachings fully.
"perl" script that would modify Intel-compiler generated executables to bypass the "Genuine Intel" test embedded in the executables, and use the optimized code path.
Link please? I would really like to have that script.
Christ on a cracker, I'm so glad I use TeX instead of any of these things.
This got modded as funny, and it is, but there is a serious side to this too. I don't know much about Quark and such, but I will never leave LaTeX after my undergraduate thesis was mangled by newer versions of MSWord. It's not that it won't open, mind you, it's just that the formatting is never like it was in the original. Working with an open source document system is so much better as far as being assured your work is not lost. And LaTeX gives you the same layout, each time, everytime.
I don't have this problem because I refused to buy a DVD player until I could find one that either lacked or could easily be modified to lack the "you can only do what I tell you" (AKA UOP (user operation prohibited)) "feature". So I bought a Daewoo 5700, burned a CD, and haven't had to worry about Macrovision or UOP or regions or any of that stuff.
See, the market can handle this. You just have to decide which is more important to you, your freedom, or instantaneous gratification. (It is a sad statement about our society that I have to make such a decision wrt a stupid DVD player though...)
it is semi odd that Europe is anti media players in Windows, and then they are threatening to slay free media players. Seams like a double standard.
Maybe they don't like digital multimedia in Europe so they want no media players available at all. It seems like that is what they are going to wind up with.
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Can you point to any instance where Microsoft, or some other comparable company has been held liable for defects in their software? People keep bringing up this argument, but I can not ever recall anyone actually using this in practice.
I am not "foaming at the mouth". But what kind of mindset would lead someone to stand-up, albeit semi-anonymously, and proclaim in favor of rape?
I have been around the block a few times and have seen my share of trolls. This is something much more insidious, I think.
That may explain qweqwe321's reply (oh wait, he or she didn't reply), but it doesn't explain the others who replied in support of prison rape, or the moderator who modded my post flamebait. Those people made a conscious choice to take up a keyboard and make a statement supporting rape or other violent behavior.
It is right here. Read these posts. A non-negligible, vocal, hopefully minority of people apparently are in favor of prison rape and are eager to call out those who would disagree. It does seem that there is a slightly larger group of people, thank God, that are not afraid to speak out against rape and violence.
I invite you to read the enlightened responses my criticism of prison rape garnered below.... I think you will find "acceptance of rape inside prisons" a most favorable way to characterize them. I would say some of them even cheer for prison rape....
As am I, as am I. Part of the basis of a functioning society is that restrain our vigilante tendencies. But at the same time, we shouldn't allow our institutions to indulge our more base desires for revenge either.
I understand that. The subtext here is that there is a huge difference (at least to me) between wanting to personally brutalize someone and institutionalized brutality. For example, I personally would have no problem using deadly force against someone threating my family. At the same time I am stridently opposed to the death penalty.
Allowing institutionalized brutality diminishes us all.
Thanks.
Oh, I totally agree. However, that is not an excuse for our acceptance of crime inside prison walls. Especially heinous crimes like rape. By giving prison rape a "wink-and-a-nod" so to speak, we are dooming people like poor Jhannet to a punishment far in excess of their (purported) crimes. (Not that poor Jhannet has done anything to warrant a year in prison. She is probably more than punished enough already....)
Indeed, I think that the relative luxury of some prisons (with "playstations, TV, music, books, free instructional courses, sports facilities") compared to what most people think it should be encourages the acceptance of heinous criminal behavior behind prison walls. If prisons were better run, society wouldn't feel so much like we are being taken advantage of and wouldn't tolerate prison rape to compensate.
No, that's not right either. Crimes committed in prison should not be given a free pass by society, whether rape, assault, or whatever.
I agree. But that is no reason for some people to condone criminal behavior in prisons.
BTW, I love how I got modded "Flamebait" for speaking out against rape. Nice...
What the hell is up with rape being considered part and parcel of a just prison sentence? It is just sickening that a large segment of our population does not seem to have a problem with people being raped, assaulted, or otherwise abused while in prison. Imprisonment is supposed to be the punishment for serious crimes, not imprisonment, rape, etc.
I am stupefied. Barney Frank has finally done something I agree with. The skiing must be pretty good in hell nowadays...
I work at a university where those responsible for computing technology don't even seem to consider non-Microsoft solutions. Every embrance and extend technology that comes out of Redmond is rolled out as soon as possible. The people in charge seem quite like a cult of Microsoft to me.
I agree with you, but...
I am pretty sure almost all of that mercury goes out the stack and into the air.
Sounds like a shell problem rather than a kernel problem. Who is STOPping jobs in an interactive shell that someone is typing in anyway? Hrm. The more I think about it the more this doesn't seem right. I am sure I have STOPed calculations launched by a shell script and the script didn't continue. It waited for the STOPed job to continue, finish, and then the rest ran...
Huh? What's wrong with STOP?
I don't think so. A real Christian would have pity, even for those who "made a mistake" or "were careless", and would not want them to suffer and die, leaving behind friends and family, who also suffer. Therefore, every Christain should support the search of an AIDS vaccine in an effort to reduce suffering. Therefore, the grandparent poster is not a Christian, or at least is quite far from understanding Christ's teachings fully.
That was the first truly funny thing I have read on slashdot in a long time.
They surely do. As a matter of fact, each state often has various regulations about things like %ethanol and/or oxygenation, minimum octane, etc.
I get 90 cm... 3E-8 m/s * 3E-9s = 9E-1 m = 90cm
This seems to be it. I haven't tested it yet.
Link please? I would really like to have that script.
I don't have this problem because I refused to buy a DVD player until I could find one that either lacked or could easily be modified to lack the "you can only do what I tell you" (AKA UOP (user operation prohibited)) "feature". So I bought a Daewoo 5700, burned a CD, and haven't had to worry about Macrovision or UOP or regions or any of that stuff.
See, the market can handle this. You just have to decide which is more important to you, your freedom, or instantaneous gratification. (It is a sad statement about our society that I have to make such a decision wrt a stupid DVD player though...)
Maybe they don't like digital multimedia in Europe so they want no media players available at all. It seems like that is what they are going to wind up with.
What version? I use 1.2.1 everyday and it works fine for me.