Perjury is lying under oath, so an accused person can commit perjury. In the US, an accused person (aka defendant) has the right to not testify. But if the defendant waives this right and chooses to testify under oath, then he (or she) can commit perjury. Prosecutions for perjury, and especially for perjury commited by defendants, are rare, but the crime occurs just the same.
It's not as easy to use as OSX (or KDE), but it works. I use it everyday on my primary computer. I'll grant that it's not going to help most users (the ones who run every executable sent to them), but for people who want to use good security principles and still install software every once in a while, it's a good thing.
I looked at one of my older CDs just now, and found a litte "10/90" inscribed on the inner ring. I probably bought the CD around 1990.
Best of luck to the person who says in March 2005, "I downloaded that song in January 2005, sure, but I bought the CD the previous June" when the CD has "02/05" inscribed on it.
On my Windows XP system, an empty Word document is 11K. Adding about 34K of ASCII text, and the size is 105K. This is not great (and I'm sure OpenOffice could do better), but it's not that bad.
It depends on which kind of margin you are talking about. 15% margins after taxes, salaries, advertising, office space, and all other expenses are accounted for is more than many businesses make. But that's not what the person quoted in TFA is talking about. He's talking about the marginal revenue of $1 from $0.15 of advertising. Most businesses have to spend a lot more than $0.15 to get $1 in additional revenue.
>But what he doesn't have is a steady revenue stream, constantly topping off his vault.
Did you forget that most computers come with a Windows license, an Microsoft Office license, or both? If that's not a constant revenue stream, I don't know what is. I'd be willing to bet that the revenue from upgrades (Office 2000 -> 2003) is chump change compared to the revenue from new PCs.
I agree with the rest of your post. My point is that MSFT has a steady revenue stream, and they want it to get bigger.
To do this, make the script below into a batch file. (The script below assumes you've renamed your administrator account to something - I chose XXXAdministrator). Read the comments in the script to see how it works - it's pretty nifty.
@echo off REM 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. REM
setlocal set _Admin_=%COMPUTERNAME%\XXXAdministrator set _Group_=Administrators set _Prog_="C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\iexplore.exe file:///c:/" 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
"The first and only time I experimented with out-of-spec IDE cables was on my main workstation."
And he had a reason for out of spec cables: he couldn't reach the connector on the motherboard.
For not reading GRUB parameters, well, there's just no excuse for that.
It's good to know that the judge respects and applies the law _as written_, and doesn't try to punish the defendant because he (the defendant) is a total scumbag.
I would rather the law had been written such that selling legitimate addresses to spammers was punishable by death, but that's not the way it happened. So, given that the CAN-SPAM law doesn't prohibit selling addresses to spammers (which may or may not be true), it seems like the right decision.
By the way, this guy needs a new defense lawyer. BADLY.
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>Will the contract language leave Oracle in the embarrassing position of promoting DB2 as the preferred database platform for Peoplesoft and JD Edwards?
The press release says nothing about PSFT (now ORCL) having to promote DB2. It's IBM that's promoting DB2 as the database of choice for PSFT. I highly doubt that the contract says anything about PSFT promoting DB2. At best, it might specify that PSFT has to remain compatible with DB2 for a specified period of time, but even that's unlikely. I'd bet that 90% of the contract is about how to divvy up the revenue from joint sales.
These types of "strategic alliances" are ordinary in the enterprise software industry and mean very little. Companies typically have them with just about every other company in the space except for direct competitors. This one will go the way of the dodo eventually, but it wasn't much to begin with.
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Though disposable diapers (to use the US term) may increase scrotum temp, I don't think that is a likely cause of lowered sperm counts in adults. I think the elevated scrotum temp would cause a short-term problem with killing sperm, not a long-term developmental problem. For example, if you're an adult male concerned with your sperm count, it's better to wear boxers rather than briefs. "Going Indian" (without underwear) is probably best.
I'm a little surprised to read about a moderated discussion on digital music, where one of panelists says:
Hector: I'm almost afraid to comment on what we'll see in the future because some of these ideas aren't copyrighted, and may show up on the next batch of digital players.
Hector, I hate to break it to you, but ideas can't be copyrighted. He probably meant to say, "patented" (which would need more rewording to be really correct, but it's close enough). Maybe I'm just nitpicking, but it seems like he's not familiar with patent law terminology. Or else I'm reading it wrong - is he really afraid that somebody will implement the ideas in the article? Why would that be something to be afraid of? Is he afraid he won't get his cut? He's a journalist - he's paid to talk about his ideas. If he wanted more payment, he should be an entrepreneur.
No, they didn't care, because they were getting the stuff for free. Why bother to care how they got infected if the cost of getting infected again is zero?
As their technically-savvy grandchild, it is your duty to explain to them what the cost of being infected can be: identity theft, loss of privacy, cost of hiring someone to clean it off (hint: charge them for removing the stuff next time). Enabling them by just cleaning off the stuff when their computer gets infected is not going to help.
9/11 could be the same thing -- our government had information but failed to act on it.
I know it's quite popular to think of large organizations as having some sort of collective brain (like the Borg on ST:TNG), but this just isn't the case. In the 9/11 case, one person in the government had information that an attack was planned by Islamic terrorists, another person had information that Islamic flight school students were acting very suspiciously, but these two people never met. They never talked to each other, they didn't even know the other person existed, let alone what information they had. Could somebody have put it all together? Possibly, yes. But it wasn't likely, and it didn't happen.
As for the token gesture you mention, that was already done -- the FBI (which is part of the government after all) was the organization that knew about the flight school students. Perhaps you meant the FAA or the airlines? Then I would agree. Also, a case could also be made that not having hijacker-resistant cockpit doors was negligent (it's not like 9/11 was the first airplane hijacking).
The Bhopal case is entirely different from 9/11. UC was in the business of making dangerous chemicals. Everything at that plant was under direct control of UC. If UC officials neglected proper safety procedures (I take no position on whether they did), they should be held criminally liable for damages caused.
Jobs isn't on the list because CRN is targeted towards business computing ("Vital Information for VARs and Technology Integrators"), not home computing. Dell does both, while the iPod and most other recent Apple inventions are targeted towards the home.
The Run key in the registry is only one of many places that spyware can be installed. To get all of them, use a tool like AutoRuns, from System Internals, which is free and works great (disclaimer: I haven't tried the just-released version 6.0). AutoRuns looks in several places, and allows you to easily disable or re-enable entries. I'm not sure that their disabling works reliably vs. spyware, because spyware will re-enable itself, but it's a start.
Could have a "report vandalism" button or, more generically, a "call system operator" button to report the problem. This would be useful whenever a car needed to be serviced: vandalism, bodily fluids, mechanical malfunction, etc. Since the system would have a record of who took which car where, it wouldn't be too hard to search the logs for vandalism incidents and correlate them with particular riders.
All of your points are noted, but why do think these haven't been addressed? Just because they're not noted on the (mostly PR-related) company website? Do you have access to some detailed design documents that the rest of us don't? Here's my off-the-cuff ideas.
What happens when there is a ball game and everyone wants to get off at the same stop and the backup leaks into the main line? You build extra capacity at stadiums.
What happens when too many cars are dropped off at one place and not enough at another? Who load balances? The system load-balances itself. Too many empty cars at one location - the empty cars get back on the track and go to an emptier station.
What happens when someone has thrown up in the car at the front of the line and you don't want to get in it, and want to get in the one behind it? Is there a button that says "send this car off for cleaning?" If so, what happens when teenagers keep hitting that button? So you put a button on the car (good idea, BTW). And the adults at the station tell the teenagers to stop hitting it (or call the transit police). Or the teenagers get bored.
SkyWeb Express is certainly an interesting technology, but it's basically an advanced railway. Autonomous, individualized, and very interesting, but still rail. Might be a good replacement for the subways in cities that have them, or an addition to cities that could use subways. It'd be nice if a major city (like New York) actually tried it.
So you think it's better to have secret arrests? Would that further the cause of justice? What if it was you being locked up? Would you want your relatives to know that you've been arrested? Apparently not.
There are much better ways to solve the lynch mob problem than secret arrests. Please read some history. (This applies to the current US Justice Department, also). Or maybe just Google for secret arrests and see how trouble it's caused.
And don't bother to say, "I don't want secret arrests, I just don't want the names published." Sorry, that's the price for an free press, without which you can't have a free society (there are other necessary ingredients -- thank a veteran--, but a free press is probably most important).
OK. Let's stick with facts. What legislation has Bush proposed to increase nuclear power generation? We can give him partial credit for trying to store nuclear waste long-term at Yucca mountain (the merits of the proposal can be debatedly separately, but he's at least trying to deal with the waste problem). Has he proposed building any new power plants? Maybe we can give him credit for not actively trying to shut down operating nuclear plants? Funding new designs? Not that I am aware of, but I could be wrong. That's not much of a record for supporting nuclear power, especially compared to, say, his changes to the emissions regulations for coal-fired power plants.
I'll grant you that Kerry would not have done any better on decreasing dependence on foreign oil; since he lost, that is irrelevant, in any case. Maybe Clinton II will get her chance to make a stand on this issue in 2008. My prediction is that by the middle of the century, something big will have to change, because the oil's not going to last forever.
As for his being a former president of an oil company, I just think it's unlikely that he would turn his back on the oil industry. Yes, I know he doesn't have a vested interest anymore, but I just don't see him screwing his old buddies by bravely pushing forward with an initiative to replace oil as a primary energy source for America. If anything, his adventure in Iraq has shown that he thinks oil is important enough to safeguard. (Not that he's succeeding, but that's another story.)
Because that is how long it would take the US government to design, produce funding for, circumvent current regulation, and build a new nuclear power infastructure.
Design? Are there not existing designs which are good enough? Like the designs for the reactors providing 25% of our current electricity. Or pebble bed reactors (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pebble_bed_reactor), or one of the other advanced designs? The French seem to be building reactors with the current designs without any problems. See http://www.cea.fr/gb/institutions/nuclear_power.ht m, for example.
Funding could be done with 1 congressional vote, if people wanted to. Ditto regulation. Infrastructure (power lines, plant siting, etc.) would take more time, but not 20-30 years. What's missing is the desire to become energy independent and the willingess to make sacrifices.
What could either of them gain from supporting oil sales through war in Iraq (which in it's very nature was doomed to destroy fixed corporate oil assets).
Do you know what Halliburton does? They rebuild oil fields, and other critical infrastructure. What did Cheney, personally, gain? I'm not sure exactly. But I find it an awfully big coincidence that Halliburton is getting no-bid contracts for rebuilding Iraq when their former CEO is in the White House.
I think that even Islamic Fundamentalism hasn't killed as many people as coal mining and its effects. The coal industry is practically bragging (see http://coalage.com/ar/coal_coal_mine_deaths/) that only about 30 people are killed every year as a direct result of coal mining accidents. Never mind its effects on the environment, or the long-term effects on people, miners and otherwise (black lung disease, acid rain, etc.). Yes, I know that uranium is mined, and it kills people (see http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/pgms/worknotify/uranium.h tml), but I think it's a lot fewer.
But there's no chance for increased nuclear power with the current administration. GWB was president of an oil company, for goodness's sake! Plus, he's so tight with the Saudis, it's ridiculous. No, we'll have to stick with more instability in the Middle East, and US troops on the ground to protect oil^H^H^H democracy.
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Can you explain the polio vaccine? How about smallpox?
Perjury is lying under oath, so an accused person can commit perjury. In the US, an accused person (aka defendant) has the right to not testify. But if the defendant waives this right and chooses to testify under oath, then he (or she) can commit perjury. Prosecutions for perjury, and especially for perjury commited by defendants, are rare, but the crime occurs just the same.
It's not as easy to use as OSX (or KDE), but it works. I use it everyday on my primary computer. I'll grant that it's not going to help most users (the ones who run every executable sent to them), but for people who want to use good security principles and still install software every once in a while, it's a good thing.
Best of luck to the person who says in March 2005, "I downloaded that song in January 2005, sure, but I bought the CD the previous June" when the CD has "02/05" inscribed on it.
On my Windows XP system, an empty Word document is 11K. Adding about 34K of ASCII text, and the size is 105K. This is not great (and I'm sure OpenOffice could do better), but it's not that bad.
It depends on which kind of margin you are talking about. 15% margins after taxes, salaries, advertising, office space, and all other expenses are accounted for is more than many businesses make. But that's not what the person quoted in TFA is talking about. He's talking about the marginal revenue of $1 from $0.15 of advertising. Most businesses have to spend a lot more than $0.15 to get $1 in additional revenue.
Did you forget that most computers come with a Windows license, an Microsoft Office license, or both? If that's not a constant revenue stream, I don't know what is. I'd be willing to bet that the revenue from upgrades (Office 2000 -> 2003) is chump change compared to the revenue from new PCs.
I agree with the rest of your post. My point is that MSFT has a steady revenue stream, and they want it to get bigger.
To do this, make the script below into a batch file. (The script below assumes you've renamed your administrator account to something - I chose XXXAdministrator). Read the comments in the script to see how it works - it's pretty nifty.
"The first and only time I experimented with out-of-spec IDE cables was on my main workstation."
And he had a reason for out of spec cables: he couldn't reach the connector on the motherboard.
For not reading GRUB parameters, well, there's just no excuse for that.
I would rather the law had been written such that selling legitimate addresses to spammers was punishable by death, but that's not the way it happened. So, given that the CAN-SPAM law doesn't prohibit selling addresses to spammers (which may or may not be true), it seems like the right decision.
By the way, this guy needs a new defense lawyer. BADLY.
The press release says nothing about PSFT (now ORCL) having to promote DB2. It's IBM that's promoting DB2 as the database of choice for PSFT. I highly doubt that the contract says anything about PSFT promoting DB2. At best, it might specify that PSFT has to remain compatible with DB2 for a specified period of time, but even that's unlikely. I'd bet that 90% of the contract is about how to divvy up the revenue from joint sales.
These types of "strategic alliances" are ordinary in the enterprise software industry and mean very little. Companies typically have them with just about every other company in the space except for direct competitors. This one will go the way of the dodo eventually, but it wasn't much to begin with.
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Though disposable diapers (to use the US term) may increase scrotum temp, I don't think that is a likely cause of lowered sperm counts in adults. I think the elevated scrotum temp would cause a short-term problem with killing sperm, not a long-term developmental problem. For example, if you're an adult male concerned with your sperm count, it's better to wear boxers rather than briefs. "Going Indian" (without underwear) is probably best.
Hector, I hate to break it to you, but ideas can't be copyrighted. He probably meant to say, "patented" (which would need more rewording to be really correct, but it's close enough). Maybe I'm just nitpicking, but it seems like he's not familiar with patent law terminology. Or else I'm reading it wrong - is he really afraid that somebody will implement the ideas in the article? Why would that be something to be afraid of? Is he afraid he won't get his cut? He's a journalist - he's paid to talk about his ideas. If he wanted more payment, he should be an entrepreneur.
As their technically-savvy grandchild, it is your duty to explain to them what the cost of being infected can be: identity theft, loss of privacy, cost of hiring someone to clean it off (hint: charge them for removing the stuff next time). Enabling them by just cleaning off the stuff when their computer gets infected is not going to help.
I know it's quite popular to think of large organizations as having some sort of collective brain (like the Borg on ST:TNG), but this just isn't the case. In the 9/11 case, one person in the government had information that an attack was planned by Islamic terrorists, another person had information that Islamic flight school students were acting very suspiciously, but these two people never met. They never talked to each other, they didn't even know the other person existed, let alone what information they had. Could somebody have put it all together? Possibly, yes. But it wasn't likely, and it didn't happen.
As for the token gesture you mention, that was already done -- the FBI (which is part of the government after all) was the organization that knew about the flight school students. Perhaps you meant the FAA or the airlines? Then I would agree. Also, a case could also be made that not having hijacker-resistant cockpit doors was negligent (it's not like 9/11 was the first airplane hijacking).
The Bhopal case is entirely different from 9/11. UC was in the business of making dangerous chemicals. Everything at that plant was under direct control of UC. If UC officials neglected proper safety procedures (I take no position on whether they did), they should be held criminally liable for damages caused.
Jobs isn't on the list because CRN is targeted towards business computing ("Vital Information for VARs and Technology Integrators"), not home computing. Dell does both, while the iPod and most other recent Apple inventions are targeted towards the home.
The Run key in the registry is only one of many places that spyware can be installed. To get all of them, use a tool like AutoRuns, from System Internals, which is free and works great (disclaimer: I haven't tried the just-released version 6.0). AutoRuns looks in several places, and allows you to easily disable or re-enable entries. I'm not sure that their disabling works reliably vs. spyware, because spyware will re-enable itself, but it's a start.
Could have a "report vandalism" button or, more generically, a "call system operator" button to report the problem. This would be useful whenever a car needed to be serviced: vandalism, bodily fluids, mechanical malfunction, etc. Since the system would have a record of who took which car where, it wouldn't be too hard to search the logs for vandalism incidents and correlate them with particular riders.
What happens when there is a ball game and everyone wants to get off at the same stop and the backup leaks into the main line? You build extra capacity at stadiums.
What happens when too many cars are dropped off at one place and not enough at another? Who load balances? The system load-balances itself. Too many empty cars at one location - the empty cars get back on the track and go to an emptier station.
What happens when someone has thrown up in the car at the front of the line and you don't want to get in it, and want to get in the one behind it? Is there a button that says "send this car off for cleaning?" If so, what happens when teenagers keep hitting that button? So you put a button on the car (good idea, BTW). And the adults at the station tell the teenagers to stop hitting it (or call the transit police). Or the teenagers get bored.
SkyWeb Express is certainly an interesting technology, but it's basically an advanced railway. Autonomous, individualized, and very interesting, but still rail. Might be a good replacement for the subways in cities that have them, or an addition to cities that could use subways. It'd be nice if a major city (like New York) actually tried it.
There are much better ways to solve the lynch mob problem than secret arrests. Please read some history. (This applies to the current US Justice Department, also). Or maybe just Google for secret arrests and see how trouble it's caused.
And don't bother to say, "I don't want secret arrests, I just don't want the names published." Sorry, that's the price for an free press, without which you can't have a free society (there are other necessary ingredients -- thank a veteran--, but a free press is probably most important).
I'll grant you that Kerry would not have done any better on decreasing dependence on foreign oil; since he lost, that is irrelevant, in any case. Maybe Clinton II will get her chance to make a stand on this issue in 2008. My prediction is that by the middle of the century, something big will have to change, because the oil's not going to last forever.
As for his being a former president of an oil company, I just think it's unlikely that he would turn his back on the oil industry. Yes, I know he doesn't have a vested interest anymore, but I just don't see him screwing his old buddies by bravely pushing forward with an initiative to replace oil as a primary energy source for America. If anything, his adventure in Iraq has shown that he thinks oil is important enough to safeguard. (Not that he's succeeding, but that's another story.)
Design? Are there not existing designs which are good enough? Like the designs for the reactors providing 25% of our current electricity. Or pebble bed reactors (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pebble_bed_reactor), or one of the other advanced designs? The French seem to be building reactors with the current designs without any problems. See http://www.cea.fr/gb/institutions/nuclear_power.ht m, for example.
Funding could be done with 1 congressional vote, if people wanted to. Ditto regulation. Infrastructure (power lines, plant siting, etc.) would take more time, but not 20-30 years. What's missing is the desire to become energy independent and the willingess to make sacrifices.
What could either of them gain from supporting oil sales through war in Iraq (which in it's very nature was doomed to destroy fixed corporate oil assets). Do you know what Halliburton does? They rebuild oil fields, and other critical infrastructure. What did Cheney, personally, gain? I'm not sure exactly. But I find it an awfully big coincidence that Halliburton is getting no-bid contracts for rebuilding Iraq when their former CEO is in the White House.
I think that even Islamic Fundamentalism hasn't killed as many people as coal mining and its effects. The coal industry is practically bragging (see http://coalage.com/ar/coal_coal_mine_deaths/) that only about 30 people are killed every year as a direct result of coal mining accidents. Never mind its effects on the environment, or the long-term effects on people, miners and otherwise (black lung disease, acid rain, etc.). Yes, I know that uranium is mined, and it kills people (see http://www.cdc.gov/niosh/pgms/worknotify/uranium.h tml), but I think it's a lot fewer.
But there's no chance for increased nuclear power with the current administration. GWB was president of an oil company, for goodness's sake! Plus, he's so tight with the Saudis, it's ridiculous. No, we'll have to stick with more instability in the Middle East, and US troops on the ground to protect oil^H^H^H democracy.