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>"he's being charged for crimes committed before they were crimes"
From TFA:
Defense attorney David Oblon argued in court that nine years was far too long given that Jaynes was charged as an out-of-state resident with
violating a Virginia law that had taken effect just two weeks before.
The law took effect two weeks before the spamming. It was a crime to do what he did two weeks before he did it.
Bank robbery would have been a poor choice of substitute crimes. First, it's a federal crime, so you're going to federal PIMTA prison, not state. Second, it's very unlikely that robbing banks would have grossed $750,000 a month, as stated in the article. Third, since
bank robberies result in arrest 57.7% of the time (in 2001), it's unlikely he would've gotten away with it.
>Conservatism is the defense of the status quo. Today and in the past. Anything else is sophistry and revisionism.
You're confusing, intentionally or not, conservatism's multiple definitions. Republicans (who call themselves conservatives) today do not want the status quo - that's why they passed the USA PATRION Act, appoint privacy advocates who don't believe in privacy, etc. Another case in point: Terry Schiavo. The status quo said that it was up to the state courts. Most of today's conservatives thought otherwise (mad props to Republican Christopher Shays for standing up to them, at least on this issue).
I've seen plenty of OSS and proprietary software code that had comments that *looked* auto-generated. Stuff like:
/** Sets the Home to a new value */ public void setHome(String newHome) {... }
I've never understood why people do things like this. Why not do something useful: specify what's a valid or invalid value of newHome, say when it should or should not be called. Or just leave it blank if you can't find something useful to say.
>Curiously, the only debts that aren't presently dischargeable in bankruptcy are fines imposed for crimes, child support awards and...guess what...student loans. You can thank the GOP for the latter in 1995.
Why can you thank the GOP? Clinton was POTUS. Did this law get passed over his veto? I really don't know the answer, but I rather doubt it. And by the way, it was 1998, not 1995
I don't think Adobe would be very happy to lose trademark protection on PhotoShop, then see Microsoft release Microsoft Photoshop, Gnu release Gnu Photoshop, etc.
JavaDoc is nice, but Sun discourages the use of sample code in JavaDoc. For this reason, I find JavaDoc less useful than Microsoft's MSDN documentation or the documentation typical of a Perl module. JavaDoc is good when you can't remember some detail about the object or method you're using, but it's not good when you're just starting out. Sun would say, "That's what a tutorial is for! JavaDoc is an API reference, not a tutorial.", but why not have both?
For a Windows version of sudo, see here. It's not identical to sudo, but it's a start. The idea is to let the user run as a normal user most of the time, then run a batch file to switch to Administrator mode temporarily; while in Admin mode, you can use the Control Panel just like any other admin. It's not a panacea, but it helps.
However, this batch file works better on XP Pro than on XP Home, because on Pro it can save the administrator's password, so you don't have to enter it every time (like you do on Home).
Sure, right now, the Prius is a fashion statement for some people. But Toyota has two other hybrid models in development; the Highlander and the Lexus RX400h. Honda has three models currently shipping: Insight, Civic, Accord. Ford has the Escape, and GM is working on hybrid full-size trucks.
These companies are not doing it because Hollywood types like to be seen in hybrid cars. They're doing it because the hybrids make good money and people like them. Consumer Reports recently wrote that the Prius had the highest customer satisfaction rating - 94%.
I'm probably guilt of feeding the troll, but hybrid cars are not a fad.
Yes, they're more complex. But that doesn't translate into being more expensive. A Prius with a load of safety equipment is about $24000 MSRP (dealers can mark it up, but Toyota is increasing the supply, so the markup will go away soon). That gets you a decent car, about the size of a Toyota Camry (though the trunk is smaller - the battery is back there), that compares pretty well with cars costing about the same amount and gets much better gas mileage.
Diesels are fine. But saying that hybrid electric cars are a fad is flat wrong.
Minor nit: the electric system is better during deceleration, too, because it recharges the battery (though based on the rate of deceleration in my Prius when I take my foot off the gas pedal, it's not getting a lot of charge). Plus, in hybrids (at least in the Prius), the gas engine usually shuts off during deceleration, so it saves gas that way.
"Large enterprises should not use Linux because it is not secure enough, has scalability problems and could fork into many different flavours, according to the Agility Alliance, which includes IT heavyweights EDS, Oracle, Cisco, Microsoft, Sun, Dell and EMC."
all future patents from the same entity are date stamped and put to the "bottom of the pile".
Putting them on the "bottom of the pile" sounds like they would still have a chance of being approved. Instead, how about suspending the company's filing privileges for a period of, say, 6 months?
I don't agree with the concept of jail time. Let the punishment fit the crime. Filing fraudulent patent applications -> filing privileges suspended.
Re:Abandoning Email is Stupid
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Donald Knuth On NPR
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Abandoning email may be stupid for you, but you are not Donald Knuth. Read his page on why he abandoned it. He dropped it in 1990, when SPAM was a lunchmeat.
... And if you do report an error [in TAOCP] via email, please do not include attachments of any kind; your message should be readable on brand-X operating systems for all values of X.
p.s. The constitution does not grant rights to individuals. Instead it limits the rights of the government.
Whether the Constitution and its amendmentsgrant rights to people or simply recognize the rights of the people is an interesting question. Either way, the rights are there, written down in the Constitution for all to see. Yes, the Constitution limits the rights of the government, but what it's limiting is the government's ability to infringe upon the rights of the people.
I haven't used a CPU that supported NX natively. My only experience with DEP is on an IBM T21 laptop with XP SP 2. I have had no problems with IE, Office 2003 (Outlook, Excel, Word, PowerPoint), Firefox, Symantec Antivirus, GAIM, Perl scripts (mostly my own), several Java apps, and several other third party applications written in Delphi, C/C++, etc.
I even enabled DEP for all programs and services, not the default "essential" ones.
Scam is a little harsh. They are doing this for the PR and FUD value, pure and simple. "Microsoft stands behind its products. We'll even pay you if we damage your data. Do you other vendors offer this?" Of course, this offer applies only to their spyware tool, but they'll still make the claim, and it will be true. Nobody will bother to make the claim (who wants to spend an hour filling out forms, etc. for $5 ?), and they'll use THAT as evidence of their software's reliability.
See here for a top on how to resolve this. You may have to give them administrator access, but you don't have to give it to them forever (however, this tip works best for Win XP PRO, not XP Home).
One thing you can do is to run QuickBooks as an administrator, but run everything else as a normal user. This is what I do. You do NOT have to logoff and logon to do this. Create a script like this (taken almost directly from Margosis's blog):
@echo off
REM This batch file starts a command shell under the current user account, REM after temporarily adding that user to the local Administrators group. REM Any program launched from that command shell will also run with REM administrative privileges. REM REM You will be prompted for two passwords in two separate command shells: REM first, for the password of the local administrator account, and REM second for the password of the account under which you are logged on. REM (The reason for this is that you are creating a new logon session in REM which the user will be a member of the Administrators group.) REM REM CUSTOMIZATION: REM The following values may be changed in order to customize this script: REM REM * _Prog_ : the program to run REM REM * _Admin_ : the name of the administrative account that can make changes REM to local groups (usu. "Administrator" unless you renamed the REM local administrator account). The first password prompt REM will be for this account. REM REM * _Group_ : the local group to temporarily add the user to (e.g., REM "Administrators"). REM REM * _User_ : the account under which to run the new program. The second REM password prompt will be for this account. Leave it as REM %USERDOMAIN%\%USERNAME% in order to elevate the current user.
setlocal set _Admin_=%COMPUTERNAME%\Administrator set _Group_=Administrators set _Prog_="QUICKBOOKS_OR_YOUR_PROGRAM_HERE" set _User_=%USERDOMAIN%\%USERNAME%
if "%1"=="" ( runas/savecred/u:%_Admin_% "%~s0 %_User_%" if ERRORLEVEL 1 echo. && pause ) else ( echo Adding user %1 to group %_Group_%... net localgroup %_Group_% %1/ADD if ERRORLEVEL 1 echo. && pause echo. echo Starting program in new logon session... runas/savecred/u:%1 %_Prog_% if ERRORLEVEL 1 echo. && pause echo. echo Removing user %1 from group %_Group_%... net localgroup %_Group_% %1/DELETE if ERRORLEVEL 1 echo. && pause ) endlocal
It's worked on almost every program I tried (the one exception was for an uninstall program started through Add-Remove Programs). It's a pain to do this for lots of programs, but if you have only a few, it's not too bad.
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From TFA:
The law took effect two weeks before the spamming. It was a crime to do what he did two weeks before he did it.
Bank robbery would have been a poor choice of substitute crimes. First, it's a federal crime, so you're going to federal PIMTA prison, not state. Second, it's very unlikely that robbing banks would have grossed $750,000 a month, as stated in the article. Third, since bank robberies result in arrest 57.7% of the time (in 2001), it's unlikely he would've gotten away with it.
You're confusing, intentionally or not, conservatism's multiple definitions. Republicans (who call themselves conservatives) today do not want the status quo - that's why they passed the USA PATRION Act, appoint privacy advocates who don't believe in privacy, etc. Another case in point: Terry Schiavo. The status quo said that it was up to the state courts. Most of today's conservatives thought otherwise (mad props to Republican Christopher Shays for standing up to them, at least on this issue).
I've never understood why people do things like this. Why not do something useful: specify what's a valid or invalid value of newHome, say when it should or should not be called. Or just leave it blank if you can't find something useful to say.
Why can you thank the GOP? Clinton was POTUS. Did this law get passed over his veto? I really don't know the answer, but I rather doubt it. And by the way, it was 1998, not 1995
I don't think Adobe would be very happy to lose trademark protection on PhotoShop, then see Microsoft release Microsoft Photoshop, Gnu release Gnu Photoshop, etc.
Sun's guide to writing JavaDoc has lots of good ideas, regardless. As does Sun's guide to API specs.
However, this batch file works better on XP Pro than on XP Home, because on Pro it can save the administrator's password, so you don't have to enter it every time (like you do on Home).
These companies are not doing it because Hollywood types like to be seen in hybrid cars. They're doing it because the hybrids make good money and people like them. Consumer Reports recently wrote that the Prius had the highest customer satisfaction rating - 94%.
Yes, they're more complex. But that doesn't translate into being more expensive. A Prius with a load of safety equipment is about $24000 MSRP (dealers can mark it up, but Toyota is increasing the supply, so the markup will go away soon). That gets you a decent car, about the size of a Toyota Camry (though the trunk is smaller - the battery is back there), that compares pretty well with cars costing about the same amount and gets much better gas mileage.
Diesels are fine. But saying that hybrid electric cars are a fad is flat wrong.
Minor nit: the electric system is better during deceleration, too, because it recharges the battery (though based on the rate of deceleration in my Prius when I take my foot off the gas pedal, it's not getting a lot of charge). Plus, in hybrids (at least in the Prius), the gas engine usually shuts off during deceleration, so it saves gas that way.
For sufficiently small values of "the future", I would agree.
"Large enterprises should not use Linux because it is not secure enough, has scalability problems and could fork into many different flavours, according to the Agility Alliance, which includes IT heavyweights EDS, Oracle, Cisco, Microsoft, Sun, Dell and EMC."
to:
EDS: Linux is Insecure, Unscalable?
Why not: "Sun: Linux is Insecure, Unscalable (except the ones we support)" or "Dell: Linux is Insecure, Unscalable (except the ones we sell)"
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Putting them on the "bottom of the pile" sounds like they would still have a chance of being approved. Instead, how about suspending the company's filing privileges for a period of, say, 6 months?
I don't agree with the concept of jail time. Let the punishment fit the crime. Filing fraudulent patent applications -> filing privileges suspended.
On an unrelated note, I love this note on his page about The Art Of Computer Programming:
Plus, how would a 3D video card improve 2D performance?
Whether the Constitution and its amendments grant rights to people or simply recognize the rights of the people is an interesting question. Either way, the rights are there, written down in the Constitution for all to see. Yes, the Constitution limits the rights of the government, but what it's limiting is the government's ability to infringe upon the rights of the people.
Disclaimer: I don't work there, but I know somebody who does.
I even enabled DEP for all programs and services, not the default "essential" ones.
Scam is a little harsh. They are doing this for the PR and FUD value, pure and simple. "Microsoft stands behind its products. We'll even pay you if we damage your data. Do you other vendors offer this?" Of course, this offer applies only to their spyware tool, but they'll still make the claim, and it will be true. Nobody will bother to make the claim (who wants to spend an hour filling out forms, etc. for $5 ?), and they'll use THAT as evidence of their software's reliability.
When was the medical - industrial complex established? Who established it? Where was it established? Why? Who is part of it? Who is not?
See here for a top on how to resolve this. You may have to give them administrator access, but you don't have to give it to them forever (however, this tip works best for Win XP PRO, not XP Home).