You are the fool, the clauses are phrased that way. The intent may be to stop you running a brothel, but there's no reason they couldn't be applied to anything that the housing association wanted to.
That's nothing, a friend was asked to sign a 'government' housing contract that said he could be evicted for:
Using the house for imorral perpouses( I read this as praying to the wrong god, or at the wrong time of day).
Taking any flamable substance into the house (I read this as, the house must be flodded with freon gas, and he must not let any air in, god help anyone who spontaionlasly combusts, or frats).
Being known to the police, or something to that effect, basicly, if you talk to the police, without doing anything wrond, let alone having a convistion.
Tony for wanting to track every car in the country by satalite (that's know where every driver is all the time).
Pop round someones house, they get arrested for something bad a few weeks later, you get a knock on the door, you car's been seen going to and from that area on regular occasions.
In summary, he wants to replace car tax by spending a few million pounds on tracking, cameras, and people to watch you. When all he had to do was put up petrol by 8-10p, which could have been done tomorow and cost next to nothing. the only privacy issue would be that your insurance would need to be automaticly checked against the MID(Motor insurers database) every time you pulled up in a petrol station, but then they check your number plate every time anyway to make sure your not a known driveoff thief.
If you have an IPod Apple in part controls your life, they also take Apple tax, stop immigration, or migration to other products etc... which is exactly what a government does.
And why isn't the DMCA on par with the types of oppressive acts you assume the gpp is referring to?
If I shoot someone there dead, not very nice.
If I stop someone from translating a book into a different language thousands of people may not live as fuller life s they could.
Which ones worse? Thousands/Millions of naive people or a few dead ones.
The world isn't black and white, the powers that be (including your boss) may want you to think it is, but it isn't.
I'm sure who ever moderated this comment doesn't quite understand the world.
If I go to McDonalds, or buy fresh fruit from a shop I am unable to evaluate what effects the product is going to have on me, so I rely on someone else to do it.
All to often this someone else has a conflict of intrest, they are the producer or seller of the food.
This is where the watchdogs take over, they dissasemble tand analise the food using chemistry and other technologies, and tell us if a product is good or bad and why.
Do you pull out a gaschromatagraph or mass-spectromiter before you eat?
I only need someone else to be able to read and understand the source code. Just like I only needed someone else to tell me that there are heavy-metals in fillings.
Some people.... Bill, Joe, and Nancy are security experts, they have been working in the security field for 15 years and have disassembled and evaluated almost every worm and virus out there.
They are not known for making mistakes and have a good reputation in the field, there security advise is almost always taken by alert boards and often quoted in the press.
They all work for separate companies and there reputation stands on what they say.
They all agree that XYZ is a 'whiteworm' and only patches a hole in the system, when all the holes are patched the worm no longer propagates.
Now, can I please say that the worm is ok? or do you need a vision from God telling you that the worm won't cause problems.
By definition a 'whitenight' will only modify a broken system, people de-compile worms all the time, and post there workings on security bulletins. If the security folks say that the worm is a 'whiteworm' then the chances are that it is.
Linux has it's fair share of worms to, and if you move the same 'stupid' windows users over to linux there still going to be stupid, and your still going to get worms and trojans and spyware, though more will be at user not system level, since it's harder to evevate priviilages on a Unix bos than a Windows one.
Sir, you system is was fucked in the first place, that's why it's being modified.
It's a bit like the dentist giving you a filing because you teeth are fucked, and will get more and more fucked until the hole is patched.
It would be nice if you could see the source code so that you know nothing else is going to be affected, but then it would also be nice if the dentist told you that the filling contained heavy-metals:-
Well, it depends on how you tell the deamons and kernel drivers to do it.
Take a look in/proc, there's a lot of differance there too.
I'm more worried about the mess in the/etc directory and the whole/usr/usr/local/opt problems.
Gentoo try to fix runlevels/etc/runlevels not/etc/rc.d But the first time I tried to boot single user it too an age to work out that I should use gentoo's linux single run level not linux 1 like everything else.
I would really like something that put init scripts into a dependancy tree so that I could start several at once and get my boot times down to something sensible. suggestions anyone?
Gentoo's init.d scripts are weird too, and can be a pain, but this helps put the configuration is in the non-standard/etc/conf.d (good move).
Logging and log rotation is also different between discributions.
It's called civial disobitiance. It's thie differance between not repliying to spam or a letter offering you the chance to win $1 million, and forwarding all the spam and letters to someone who really needs to think about the problem.
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Sounds like Apple are embeding the UI layer and the Application layer, that's what you get from a single vendor solution....
Well.. maybe not.. but how hard can it be for Apple to do a carbon copy for Linux, like they've done for Windows.
What about an archimedies screw, or an insideout one?
It wouldn't have any sharp edges to chop the cells up
So the contract is invalid, since they didn't make sure that I knew what I was signing (or not signing).
You are the fool, the clauses are phrased that way.
The intent may be to stop you running a brothel, but there's no reason they couldn't be applied to anything that the housing association wanted to.
That's nothing, a friend was asked to sign a 'government' housing contract that said he could be evicted for:
Using the house for imorral perpouses( I read this as praying to the wrong god, or at the wrong time of day).
Taking any flamable substance into the house (I read this as, the house must be flodded with freon gas, and he must not let any air in, god help anyone who spontaionlasly combusts, or frats).
Being known to the police, or something to that effect, basicly, if you talk to the police, without doing anything wrond, let alone having a convistion.
Tony for wanting to track every car in the country by satalite (that's know where every driver is all the time).
Pop round someones house, they get arrested for something bad a few weeks later, you get a knock on the door, you car's been seen going to and from that area on regular occasions.
In summary, he wants to replace car tax by spending a few million pounds on tracking, cameras, and people to watch you. When all he had to do was put up petrol by 8-10p, which could have been done tomorow and cost next to nothing. the only privacy issue would be that your insurance would need to be automaticly checked against the MID(Motor insurers database) every time you pulled up in a petrol station, but then they check your number plate every time anyway to make sure your not a known driveoff thief.
That's costomer to you mr MeNeXT (200840).
/. crowd.
The bastards have got everyone going on this consume, consume , consume, even the
Ok, Apple isn't a government, but then what is?
If you have an IPod Apple in part controls your life, they also take Apple tax, stop immigration, or migration to other products etc... which is exactly what a government does.
And why isn't the DMCA on par with the types of oppressive acts you assume the gpp is referring to?
If I shoot someone there dead, not very nice.
If I stop someone from translating a book into a different language thousands of people may not live as fuller life s they could.
Which ones worse? Thousands/Millions of naive people or a few dead ones.
The world isn't black and white, the powers that be (including your boss) may want you to think it is, but it isn't.
I'm sure who ever moderated this comment doesn't quite understand the world.
If I go to McDonalds, or buy fresh fruit from a shop I am unable to evaluate what effects the product is going to have on me, so I rely on someone else to do it.
All to often this someone else has a conflict of intrest, they are the producer or seller of the food.
This is where the watchdogs take over, they dissasemble tand analise the food using chemistry and other technologies, and tell us if a product is good or bad and why.
Do you pull out a gaschromatagraph or mass-spectromiter before you eat?
looks like only a vision from God will do then...
Better start praying.
I only need someone else to be able to read and understand the source code. Just like I only needed someone else to tell me that there are heavy-metals in fillings.
Don't tell the users the root or admin password.
Home users are always going to be a problem whatever you do.
Some people....
Bill, Joe, and Nancy are security experts, they have been working in the security field for 15 years and have disassembled and evaluated almost every worm and virus out there.
They are not known for making mistakes and have a good reputation in the field, there security advise is almost always taken by alert boards and often quoted in the press.
They all work for separate companies and there reputation stands on what they say.
They all agree that XYZ is a 'whiteworm' and only patches a hole in the system, when all the holes are patched the worm no longer propagates.
Now, can I please say that the worm is ok? or do you need a vision from God telling you that the worm won't cause problems.
By definition a 'whitenight' will only modify a broken system, people de-compile worms all the time, and post there workings on security bulletins.
If the security folks say that the worm is a 'whiteworm' then the chances are that it is.
Linux has it's fair share of worms to, and if you move the same 'stupid' windows users over to linux there still going to be stupid, and your still going to get worms and trojans and spyware, though more will be at user not system level, since it's harder to evevate priviilages on a Unix bos than a Windows one.
Sir, you system is was fucked in the first place, that's why it's being modified.
:-
It's a bit like the dentist giving you a filing because you teeth are fucked, and will get more and more fucked until the hole is patched.
It would be nice if you could see the source code so that you know nothing else is going to be affected, but then it would also be nice if the dentist told you that the filling contained heavy-metals
the devio driver for USB wasn't even looked at over the whole of the 2.5 release series, it's got lots of bugs, and doesn't work on usb2.
There are also a few other areas of the USB system that havn't been updated or looked at for a while.
The patchs I sent about 10 months ago fell on almost dead ears. I think I'll raise a kernel bug and post the patchs again.
Don't wistle a song in the park, your breaking copyright.
He should have used 5 second clips.
Well, it depends on how you tell the deamons and kernel drivers to do it.
/proc, there's a lot of differance there too.
/etc /usr /usr/local /opt problems.
/etc/runlevels /etc/rc.d
/etc/conf.d (good move).
Take a look in
I'm more worried about the mess in the
directory and the whole
Gentoo try to fix runlevels
not
But the first time I tried to boot single user it too an age to work out that I should use gentoo's linux single run level not linux 1 like everything else.
I would really like something that put init scripts into a dependancy tree so that I could start several at once and get my boot times down to something sensible. suggestions anyone?
Gentoo's init.d scripts are weird too, and can be a pain, but this helps put the configuration is in the non-standard
Logging and log rotation is also different between discributions.
How easly is it absorbed into the body?
If I drink this contaminated water, will I absorb a fatal about of radiation before I've absorbed a fatal amount of Plutonium?
The average employee in the uk looses 5 days per year due to sickness, and 7 days per year due to computer faults.
But I'm not using it so it's not illegal.
It's called civial disobitiance.
It's thie differance between not repliying to spam or a letter offering you the chance to win $1 million, and forwarding all the spam and letters to someone who really needs to think about the problem.
Now when my phone is in the glove box and someone trys to call or sends a text I'm going to get arrested.
Perhaps we will get to the point where the want to be anonymous is no longer required.