My philosophy is that business men are evil, but politicians are stupid. We need to find a balance between the evil (but efficient) business men and the stupid (but well-meaning) politicians.
Knowing that Bush intended to sell his shares "at some future point" is useless. Everyone with shares intends to eventually sell them. Knowing EXACTLY WHEN an executive actually sells his shares is important. Bush filed his after-the-fact report NINE MONTHS later.
Using his inside information, Bush knew the stock price would drop, so he sold. His inside information would not have predicted that the stock price would rise again weeks later. It's not like he knew all future stock prices and chose to sell sooner but for less profit.
Microsoft makes about 60% of its revenue from sales outside the USA. So international markets are extremely important to them, especially when they need "new" markets because they already own 95% of the existing markets.
Isn't this "Privilege Elevation" really just an implementation of capabilities? Given the proper capability token, the program can now access a particular priveleged resource (eg syscall).
I've read a little about Linux's supposed support for capabilities, but I haven't read about any program that uses it..?
If they vote "by voice", are the individual votes documented anywhere? Is this just a ploy to pass something controversial, but then not be hold accountable for your votes?
LOS ANGELES--The Recording Industry Association of America filed a $7.1 billion lawsuit against the nation's radio stations Monday, accusing them of freely distributing copyrighted music.
"It's criminal," RIAA president Hilary Rosen said. "Anyone at any time can simply turn on a radio and hear a copyrighted song. Making matters worse, these radio stations often play the best, catchiest song off the album over and over until people get sick of it. Where is the incentive for people to go out and buy the album?"
According to Rosen, the radio stations acquire copies of RIAA artists' CDs and then broadcast them using a special transmitter, making it possible for anyone with a compatible radio-wave receiver to listen to the songs....
Because of this massive virus infection, the Chinese gub'mint must take complete control of its citizens computers. US gub'mint to soon follow suit because freedom-hating Iraqi virus writers are threatening our country's freedoms. To prevent our freedom, we must destroy it.
I'm surprised someone hasn't created a driver abstraction layer that enables the same driver code to work on Windows, Linux 2.4, and older Linux kernels. New Linux drivers often get backported, but each driver developer must do the same type of backporting work. Why not consolidate all the backporting into a single, shared (and debugged) driver abstraction layer?
2.5.31 with the HT patch dramatically reverses these numbers, providing an average performance that is 30% better than 2.4.10 without HT.
I don't think comparing Linux 2.5.31 with HT to Linux 2.4.10 without HT is a fair comparison. That supposed 30% performance gain could easily be attributed to many of the HUGE kernel changes made in the 2.5.x series. A more fair comparison would be 2.5.31 without HT turned ON and then turned OFF. Then you only have a single variable.
The more expensive the Content Management System, the crappier the URLs. Compare, for instance, StoryServer's weird comma-delimited numeric URLs to Radio UserLand's human-readable (and guessable) URLs. Then compare the prices--orders of magnitudes of difference. So, at least in this respect, there's an inverse relationship between price and quality.
Shawn should write an autobiographical book. He has seen a lot of behind the scenes technical and legal sides of this HUGE issue that has seen lots of press. He is a semi-celebrity, so he could probably sell quite a few books.
Plus he just adopted his 15-year old brother? There must be some interesting stories behind that. Sounds a lot like Dave Eggers' "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius" (highly recommended!) In fact, the title "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius" could easily apply to Napster!;-)
I agree. Most of the CDs that I have bought in the past two years were because I discovered these bands' MP3s (such as the Brian Jonestown Massacre). These bands get no play on the radio or MTV, so how am I supposed to discover their music? The recording companies aren't doing enough to market new talent and now they want to stop people from doing free marketing FOR THEM?
LOS ANGELES--The Recording Industry Association of America filed a $7.1 billion lawsuit against the nation's radio stations Monday, accusing them of freely distributing copyrighted music.
"It's criminal," RIAA president Hilary Rosen said. "Anyone at any time can simply turn on a radio and hear a copyrighted song. Making matters worse, these radio stations often play the best, catchiest song off the album over and over until people get sick of it. Where is the incentive for people to go out and buy the album?"
According to Rosen, the radio stations acquire copies of RIAA artists' CDs and then broadcast them using a special transmitter, making it possible for anyone with a compatible radio-wave receiver to listen to the songs....
I'm glad to see some new innovation in Linux distibutions. Lunar Linux is completely unlike those other Linux distributions. It includes innovative new software that other Linux distributions do have, such as Mozilla, GNOME, KDE, gcc, and the Linux kernel.
Slashdot Mirror
hmm.. is the SEC hiring??
My philosophy is that business men are evil, but politicians are stupid. We need to find a balance between the evil (but efficient) business men and the stupid (but well-meaning) politicians.
Knowing that Bush intended to sell his shares "at some future point" is useless. Everyone with shares intends to eventually sell them. Knowing EXACTLY WHEN an executive actually sells his shares is important. Bush filed his after-the-fact report NINE MONTHS later.
Using his inside information, Bush knew the stock price would drop, so he sold. His inside information would not have predicted that the stock price would rise again weeks later. It's not like he knew all future stock prices and chose to sell sooner but for less profit.
31337 = "eleet" = elite
For those that don't yet know, Ellen Feiss' fan club is at ellenfeiss.net.
bleep bleep bleep bleep bleep bleep bleep
that is 40 in octal: 2002 - 40 octal (32 decimal) = 1970
Microsoft makes about 60% of its revenue from sales outside the USA. So international markets are extremely important to them, especially when they need "new" markets because they already own 95% of the existing markets.
Isn't this "Privilege Elevation" really just an implementation of capabilities? Given the proper capability token, the program can now access a particular priveleged resource (eg syscall).
I've read a little about Linux's supposed support for capabilities, but I haven't read about any program that uses it..?
but you know, Slashdot is laughing at you..
If they vote "by voice", are the individual votes documented anywhere? Is this just a ploy to pass something controversial, but then not be hold accountable for your votes?
Representative democracy in action..
Why do you think it takes them so long to finish school?
Why do we even have an FBI? What does the FBI do that individual state police departments cannot? Hunt down aliens?
btw, thanks for that link about traffic jams! very interesting reading!
1. Train medical students online.
2. ???
3. Profit!!!
RIAA Sues Radio Stations for Giving Away Free Music
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LOS ANGELES--The Recording Industry Association of America filed a $7.1 billion lawsuit against the nation's radio stations Monday, accusing them of freely distributing copyrighted music.
"It's criminal," RIAA president Hilary Rosen said. "Anyone at any time can simply turn on a radio and hear a copyrighted song. Making matters worse, these radio stations often play the best, catchiest song off the album over and over until people get sick of it. Where is the incentive for people to go out and buy the album?"
According to Rosen, the radio stations acquire copies of RIAA artists' CDs and then broadcast them using a special transmitter, making it possible for anyone with a compatible radio-wave receiver to listen to the songs.
Because of this massive virus infection, the Chinese gub'mint must take complete control of its citizens computers. US gub'mint to soon follow suit because freedom-hating Iraqi virus writers are threatening our country's freedoms. To prevent our freedom, we must destroy it.
When you control the mail, you control... information!!
I'm surprised someone hasn't created a driver abstraction layer that enables the same driver code to work on Windows, Linux 2.4, and older Linux kernels. New Linux drivers often get backported, but each driver developer must do the same type of backporting work. Why not consolidate all the backporting into a single, shared (and debugged) driver abstraction layer?
2.5.31 with the HT patch dramatically reverses these numbers, providing an average performance that is 30% better than 2.4.10 without HT.
I don't think comparing Linux 2.5.31 with HT to Linux 2.4.10 without HT is a fair comparison. That supposed 30% performance gain could easily be attributed to many of the HUGE kernel changes made in the 2.5.x series. A more fair comparison would be 2.5.31 without HT turned ON and then turned OFF. Then you only have a single variable.
Brent Simmons' Law of CMS URLs:
The more expensive the Content Management System, the crappier the URLs. Compare, for instance, StoryServer's weird comma-delimited numeric URLs to Radio UserLand's human-readable (and guessable) URLs. Then compare the prices--orders of magnitudes of difference. So, at least in this respect, there's an inverse relationship between price and quality.
Shawn should write an autobiographical book. He has seen a lot of behind the scenes technical and legal sides of this HUGE issue that has seen lots of press. He is a semi-celebrity, so he could probably sell quite a few books.
Plus he just adopted his 15-year old brother? There must be some interesting stories behind that. Sounds a lot like Dave Eggers' "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius" (highly recommended!) In fact, the title "A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius" could easily apply to Napster!
I agree. Most of the CDs that I have bought in the past two years were because I discovered these bands' MP3s (such as the Brian Jonestown Massacre). These bands get no play on the radio or MTV, so how am I supposed to discover their music? The recording companies aren't doing enough to market new talent and now they want to stop people from doing free marketing FOR THEM?
RIAA Sues Radio Stations for Giving Away Free Music
...
LOS ANGELES--The Recording Industry Association of America filed a $7.1 billion lawsuit against the nation's radio stations Monday, accusing them of freely distributing copyrighted music.
"It's criminal," RIAA president Hilary Rosen said. "Anyone at any time can simply turn on a radio and hear a copyrighted song. Making matters worse, these radio stations often play the best, catchiest song off the album over and over until people get sick of it. Where is the incentive for people to go out and buy the album?"
According to Rosen, the radio stations acquire copies of RIAA artists' CDs and then broadcast them using a special transmitter, making it possible for anyone with a compatible radio-wave receiver to listen to the songs.
I'm glad to see some new innovation in Linux distibutions. Lunar Linux is completely unlike those other Linux distributions. It includes innovative new software that other Linux distributions do have, such as Mozilla, GNOME, KDE, gcc, and the Linux kernel.