So open season on Windows is fine, but open season on a linux disto is not. If the slashdot community wants people to respect its opinions and find it useful, it must be unafraid to critize even RH when its favorite things are screwed up. This is a very serious flaw if you are running a web site off a RH 7.0 box. Course most smart people won't run a RH X.0 version for anything important, just like most smart people don't use a new version of Windows or Office that hasn't gotten a service pack yet.
I don't believe this is stacking the deck. The people they asked to do this originally probably also have security clearances and ties with the DoD or other government agencies.
If you don't think that university types have grants from the US Government (probably a lot of DOD work), you are crazy.
I was not saying that Browne was not intelligent. I agree with most of his policy ideas and think they would be great in practice.
My problem with Harry Browne as President of the US is that he has no in field experience (so might say that is good thing).
I want to elect a man who is not only intelligent, well spoken, and I agree with, but also a man that has some experience in politics. Preferabbly on the national level.
Out of the rest of the field, Gore is clearly the most qualified by experience, but I think his policies will lead this country exactly the wrong way.
All that said, I will probably vote Browne because all the rest are too far from my views.
Of course there is a difference, but have you ever signed up for an online service of some sort? Almost every damn service these days will send the same sort of stupid message. This is not a case of Microsoft being EVIL, it is a case of MARKETING people thinking something stupid. Any large venture will put this sort of horrible advertising in.
I'm not saying it's not wrong to do, I'm just saying why does this deserve an article when thousands of other products and companies do this.
The implementation is clearly bad in that they don't give you a chance to edit the message, but like I said the idea is not so bad.
Jeez...this article is more about clueless newbies sending spam...the product specifically asks if you want to email ALL of your email contacts. Maybe a lot of people just didn't bother to read the message. The implementation is clearly bad, but that doesn't make the idea (allowing people who have just changed their address to send a mail to everyone they email regularly) bad.
This is so typical of the politicians in the US today. Bargaining games to determine the future of the workforce in this country. The republican congress will not dare put the Government into a freeze, so Clinton will get to pass whatever he wants that is attached to the budget.
This is almost as silly as releasing the freaking oil reserve. That was clearly an attempt to bribe the American public to vote democratic. Look at the situation for what it is:
1) The oil reserves are filled by tax monies
2) The release of the oil reserves drops oil prices for the US public
In other words, this was a direct subsidy to those people who the most oil in this country. This provides a definite disincentive to conserving fossil fuels and protecting the environment (a key Democratic position).
I am hoping that some day soon, we get some of these power hungry bastards out of office. And put someone who doesn't think it is a great idea for everyone's money to pass through a bloated bureacracy before being redistributed by that bureacracy to the best lobbyists.
Although I don't think Harry Browne is presedential material, the Libertarian party will likely get my vote this year.
Yes, I know there is off-topic rambling in here, maybe it contains a bit of truth.
I'm just not willing to bet my life on a trip to space...maybe I'm just too conservative. I don't think the trip would be that much fun; Mir is cramped, loud, and somewhat dangerous from all reports.
The 1 in 100 is about typical for a failure of a launch vehicle. They are currently beating that average. I expect a failure for them that will bring them closer to the industry norm, but maybe they produce more reliable launch vehicles, but I doubt it with their current funding situation.
I don't think you know exactly what an H1-B Visa means:
-The "employee" can only work at the company sponsoring their visa
-There is little to no chance that they can get citizenship any quicker than just applying themselves
-A company can decide at any point that if they don't want the H1-B that they can send them back
This has the effect that these people are not given any real opportunity and are scared to ask for raises etc, because they can be sent back to their country at any time with no job.
That is why some people call it slave labor.
I don't think anyone would complain if these people were granted citizenship and did not live in a state of fear. The new citizen would feel empowered enough to be paid his/her fair worth and would not be undercutting others out of fear.
Okay, on a philosophical basis I disagree with this concept. I think the government should provide a minimum of services to its citizens and this isn't one of them.
But how do they expect to fairly distribute this tax? I cannot envision any possible fair scheme to accomplish this. Clearly they must have one in place already for the copying machines. Does anyone know what it is?
CNRI believes that this version is compatible with the GPL, but there is a technicality concerning the choice of law provision, which Richard Stallman believes may make it incompatible.
Does this surprise anyone? Funny, considering all the RMS talk today.
But with dating using these techniques, it is not generally a binary change in the "guesswork", there are error bars attached to any estimate. They are small I believe.
There is of course the possibility that one of the underlying assumptions used in the techniques are wrong...but those assumptions (and these techniques) have held for a number of years. That doesn't mean they are not still assumptions, it just means that we can feel pretty warm and fuzzy about just like we can feel relatively warm and fuzzy with encryption techniques that have withstood rigorous peer review and testing.
Bullshit. If you take your thinking to the logical outcome, you are saying, unless you have direct proof that something is there, it cannot be. Okay, I guess you don't believe in atoms and science on a microscopic scale cause you can't see it with your own eyes.
The truth is that every day we use science that is based upon things that we can't necessarily measure directly or see directly. You are calling calculations and extrapolations based upon a sound theory guesses. If you follow that path of reasoning, you must throw everything else out.
There conclusions may be wrong, but I would not doubt the dating itself. It is a common and sound technique, not a guess.
I was not advocating this. I just suggested that he might rethink his theft if he had something taken from him.
I'm glad that he is providing something to the community, but I still believe that he should be creative or get help from someone (some artist at TAMU would probably love to do that for free) that can be, and not take other's hard work.
Theft is Theft.
Whether it be websites, source code, music, theft is not a reasonable way to operate.
In this case, without permission it does appear to be pretty blatant theft, but I don't think this guy's site is really big enough for linux.com to worry about.
I imagine most of these people who steal like this have never had something, that they have created or work really hard to buy, stolen.
If I wasn't against theft, I would think that someone should teach him a lesson by cracking his machine and stealing his domain for a while. He might learn what it is like to be a theft victim.
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The candidates themselves decided that. Then they broke that decision multiple times throughout the debate. How sad.
So open season on Windows is fine, but open season on a linux disto is not. If the slashdot community wants people to respect its opinions and find it useful, it must be unafraid to critize even RH when its favorite things are screwed up. This is a very serious flaw if you are running a web site off a RH 7.0 box. Course most smart people won't run a RH X.0 version for anything important, just like most smart people don't use a new version of Windows or Office that hasn't gotten a service pack yet.
Mir is not geostationary; it is at ~400 km; there is quite a bit of drag at such a low altitude.
I don't believe this is stacking the deck. The people they asked to do this originally probably also have security clearances and ties with the DoD or other government agencies.
If you don't think that university types have grants from the US Government (probably a lot of DOD work), you are crazy.
I don't know about the cost of fuel alone, but a good estimate of the cost is ~$10000(US) per pound.
I was not saying that Browne was not intelligent. I agree with most of his policy ideas and think they would be great in practice.
My problem with Harry Browne as President of the US is that he has no in field experience (so might say that is good thing).
I want to elect a man who is not only intelligent, well spoken, and I agree with, but also a man that has some experience in politics. Preferabbly on the national level.
Out of the rest of the field, Gore is clearly the most qualified by experience, but I think his policies will lead this country exactly the wrong way.
All that said, I will probably vote Browne because all the rest are too far from my views.
Of course there is a difference, but have you ever signed up for an online service of some sort? Almost every damn service these days will send the same sort of stupid message. This is not a case of Microsoft being EVIL, it is a case of MARKETING people thinking something stupid. Any large venture will put this sort of horrible advertising in. I'm not saying it's not wrong to do, I'm just saying why does this deserve an article when thousands of other products and companies do this. The implementation is clearly bad in that they don't give you a chance to edit the message, but like I said the idea is not so bad.
Jeez...this article is more about clueless newbies sending spam...the product specifically asks if you want to email ALL of your email contacts. Maybe a lot of people just didn't bother to read the message. The implementation is clearly bad, but that doesn't make the idea (allowing people who have just changed their address to send a mail to everyone they email regularly) bad.
This is so typical of the politicians in the US today. Bargaining games to determine the future of the workforce in this country. The republican congress will not dare put the Government into a freeze, so Clinton will get to pass whatever he wants that is attached to the budget.
This is almost as silly as releasing the freaking oil reserve. That was clearly an attempt to bribe the American public to vote democratic. Look at the situation for what it is:
1) The oil reserves are filled by tax monies
2) The release of the oil reserves drops oil prices for the US public
In other words, this was a direct subsidy to those people who the most oil in this country. This provides a definite disincentive to conserving fossil fuels and protecting the environment (a key Democratic position).
I am hoping that some day soon, we get some of these power hungry bastards out of office. And put someone who doesn't think it is a great idea for everyone's money to pass through a bloated bureacracy before being redistributed by that bureacracy to the best lobbyists.
Although I don't think Harry Browne is presedential material, the Libertarian party will likely get my vote this year.
Yes, I know there is off-topic rambling in here, maybe it contains a bit of truth.
9 is the best I could get too.
I'm just talking sheer launch vehicle failures (manned missions being a small subset)...the numbers don't show high reliability.
I'm just not willing to bet my life on a trip to space...maybe I'm just too conservative. I don't think the trip would be that much fun; Mir is cramped, loud, and somewhat dangerous from all reports.
The 1 in 100 is about typical for a failure of a launch vehicle. They are currently beating that average. I expect a failure for them that will bring them closer to the industry norm, but maybe they produce more reliable launch vehicles, but I doubt it with their current funding situation.
What are the odds that the final "survivor" will be blown up during launch? My guess is about 1 in 100. That is not a prize I would take.
Check out a high priced Nikon or Olympus camera, you will be surprised at the amount of control you will be afforded.
I don't think you know exactly what an H1-B Visa means: -The "employee" can only work at the company sponsoring their visa -There is little to no chance that they can get citizenship any quicker than just applying themselves -A company can decide at any point that if they don't want the H1-B that they can send them back This has the effect that these people are not given any real opportunity and are scared to ask for raises etc, because they can be sent back to their country at any time with no job. That is why some people call it slave labor. I don't think anyone would complain if these people were granted citizenship and did not live in a state of fear. The new citizen would feel empowered enough to be paid his/her fair worth and would not be undercutting others out of fear.
Okay, on a philosophical basis I disagree with this concept. I think the government should provide a minimum of services to its citizens and this isn't one of them.
But how do they expect to fairly distribute this tax? I cannot envision any possible fair scheme to accomplish this. Clearly they must have one in place already for the copying machines. Does anyone know what it is?
Recycling of plastic is done everyday, but you have to look for places to recycle.
Does this surprise anyone? Funny, considering all the RMS talk today.
But with dating using these techniques, it is not generally a binary change in the "guesswork", there are error bars attached to any estimate. They are small I believe.
There is of course the possibility that one of the underlying assumptions used in the techniques are wrong...but those assumptions (and these techniques) have held for a number of years. That doesn't mean they are not still assumptions, it just means that we can feel pretty warm and fuzzy about just like we can feel relatively warm and fuzzy with encryption techniques that have withstood rigorous peer review and testing.
Bullshit. If you take your thinking to the logical outcome, you are saying, unless you have direct proof that something is there, it cannot be. Okay, I guess you don't believe in atoms and science on a microscopic scale cause you can't see it with your own eyes.
The truth is that every day we use science that is based upon things that we can't necessarily measure directly or see directly. You are calling calculations and extrapolations based upon a sound theory guesses. If you follow that path of reasoning, you must throw everything else out.
There conclusions may be wrong, but I would not doubt the dating itself. It is a common and sound technique, not a guess.
Please see google and learn for yourself.
I think you will find it fascinating.
I was not advocating this. I just suggested that he might rethink his theft if he had something taken from him. I'm glad that he is providing something to the community, but I still believe that he should be creative or get help from someone (some artist at TAMU would probably love to do that for free) that can be, and not take other's hard work.
Theft is Theft. Whether it be websites, source code, music, theft is not a reasonable way to operate. In this case, without permission it does appear to be pretty blatant theft, but I don't think this guy's site is really big enough for linux.com to worry about. I imagine most of these people who steal like this have never had something, that they have created or work really hard to buy, stolen. If I wasn't against theft, I would think that someone should teach him a lesson by cracking his machine and stealing his domain for a while. He might learn what it is like to be a theft victim.
That is not what the article said. It said that Microsoft was trying to damage Unix competition while they were putting out an OS to compete.
And they used their standard operating practices to try and make that happen.
I have no clue where "running scared" came from.