True, but it also says a lot about the Democrats when they can't figure out how to sell a bona fide Vietnam War hero over a draft dodging, beer swilling, National Guard pilot who didn't even bother showing up for some of his mandatory drills!
I have seen exactly one primary source that places estimates of Iraqi dead since July 2003 at 150,000+. However, I have seen a rebuttal that states that at least some of that number was inflated by counting cemetaries of people killed by Saddam's forces over the past 10 years in acts of reprisals. Other people challenge the perception that those deaths were directly caused by American or coalition action, as it is extremely difficult to differentiate from hospital records whether a boy brought in with a gunshot wound was shot by a terrorist or coalition soldier. It's even more difficult to determine whether that act was deliberate or accidental.
Look, I happen to think that Bush Jr. is a moron who is surrounded by manipulative, deceitful, assholes. He got into the war with Iraq for all the wrong reasons, and has no clear exit strategy. All the lessons learned by people like Caspar Weinberger from Vietnam were forgotten or ignored.
I also think his father missed a bet when he didn't at least ASK his coalition if they wanted to go to Baghdad or not in '91. The Saudis were certainly ready for us to after Saddam dropped some Patriots on 'em.
However, the real question that should be asked is; would the Iraqis trade that death toll, real or not, for going back to the status quo? Given the extremely high turnout for last weekend's elections, I'd say that the question has been rather eloquently answered, don't you?
This shouldn't have been modded Insightful. The GP did NOT offer advice, only discuss at a very high level what the issues concerning patent law are. His discussion matches up with every single authoritative source that I've read, so it's useful and even accurate! I'm surprised I read it on Slashdot! (joke! really!):)
Nope, the rank order isn't even close to current practice. In the current USN, it's ensign, lieutenant junior grade, lieutenant, lieutenant commander, commander, captain. Then the admirals; one star is rear admiral lower half, two star is rear admiral upper half, three star is vice admiral, four is admiral, and five is fleet admiral (reserved for wartime only). A colonel is the equal of a Navy captain.
Commander Adama has what is roughly equivalent to a carrier task force command, which I think would make him a RA-UH. The CAG billet is typically a captain, as is the ship captain. However, in order to keep things moving for the show I think they grossly simplified things.
The US is the no. 1 global emitter of CO2 as generated by industrial sources that cooperate in gathering numbers. And yes, bringing down that figure would help quite a bit in reducing the overall contribution to CO2 production. However, I have seen no numbers whatsoever for any of the other sources that I mentioned. Not even SWAGs. Even the link that you gave me (thx, btw. not many people will do that much) only counts CO2 production from burning fossil fuels, and ignores other sources.
Until I do see more comprehensive estimates, I refuse to buy the argument that reducing the US contribution as much as the Kyoto accords require will have any long term impact on CO2 that will offset the immediate and long term damage to the world's economy.
but the oil, SUV and US military-industrial industries will jump all over any perceived weakness or exaggeration in the scientific case for urgent, immediate action.
Will someone PLEASE tell me why we never consider the fact that 6+ billion people are generating far more in the way of air pollution and extraneous heat sources than the oil companies, vehicle manufacturers, and the US mil-ind complex? For example, what about forests being burned in South America and Asia as part of land clearing exercises? What about cooking fires? Garbage dumps and fires? China's past complete disregard for safety and environmental concerns?
How much of global warming is contributed by the poorer societies as they struggle to better themselves? How much leeway should they be given?
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Man, take off that tinfoil hat of yours. You've got the brim FAR too tight and it's cut off circulation to your brain.
As several followups show, Microsoft hasn't been able to make a dent in Linux's rise no matter what they do. In fact, it looks like the more that they attack it, the more interested people get in trying it out for themselves. Some of those people are PHBs who would NEVER have heard of Linux if it hadn't been for Microsoft taking out full page ads telling them how awful it is. Mind you, these are the same PHBs who are sick and tired of paying through the nose for essentially useless Microsoft support contracts and explaining to their respective Boards of Directors just how come they can't seem to keep the latest virus/trojan/worm off their desktops. After a while, ANY alternative begins to look good!:lol:
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National holiday:
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Definition Field Listing ratified 3 March 1952; approved by US Congress 3 July 1952; effective 25 July 1952 Legal system:
Definition Field Listing based on Spanish civil code and within the US Federal system of justice Suffrage:
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Other points show that PR is hardly a paradise (GDP per capita at $16,800 for example) but it hardly looks like a place with no 'rule of law'.
But WHAT is this way to make a living? And please, don't tell me it's "support", I don't believe it anymore... I agree that you can write OSS in your spare time, but I haven't met anyone who wrote OSS for a living (and I don't want answers like Alan Cox or RMS).
Gartner and IDC both estimate that approximately 70% of all changes to FOSS are now being made by people who are paid to do so. They base their estimates on several factors; self-admission by developers, company email addresses, etc. So, it looks like a lot of people are making a comfortable living at it.:)
Microsoft relies on "responsible disclosure" to ensure that they are able to release fixes with vulnerability announcements. Closed source means that announcements can be scheduled and planned for monthly "patch day"...
If only Microsoft did work this way. From eeye.com:
Windows VDM #UD Local Privilege Escalation
Release Date: October 12, 2004
Date Reported: March 18, 2004
Patch Development Time (In Days):
208
and
Windows Shell ZIP File Decompression DUNZIP32.DLL Buffer Overflow Vulnerability
Release Date: October 12, 2004
Date Reported: August 2, 2004
Patch Development Time (In Days):
71
and
Microsoft DCOM RPC Memory Leak
Release Date: April 13, 2004
Date Reported: September 10, 2003
Patch Development Time (In Days):
216
Three reports to Microsoft from one security vendor. Two of the three critical failures. And patch time is measured in months??????
Hey, I'm a backwoods geek too, but I think you're missing the point of the "In Japan" rants. People aren't pissed because you and I can't get FTTH. They're pissed because they can't get it in downtown Manhattan or LA!
And to be honest, physicians don't WANT paramedics bothering them at the emergency department for
every incoming patient.
(Emphasis added)
I think you two are in violent agreement. You both expect the EMT/paramedic to call in when they see a real problem. His point is that most ERs don't want a call about every single little side issue that comes up during transport.
No, centralized torrent distribution works just fine for what it was designed for! At no time was the capability of providing anonymous services for warez a consideration.
Don't like it? Solve the problem yourself. Bram Cohen has stated time and again that he has no interest in solving it for you. The BitTorrent code is readily available in several languages, now. You are free to use that as a starting point if you really care that much about it.
Gentoo's startup scripts that reside in/etc/init.d explicitly list dependencies. I wonder if there would be any headaches using your trick for that distro? I can't see how. I'll have to try it out.
You never know, they might have whacked a Bellsouth technician or two and not realized it.
Spoken like someone who has (a) never been outside a city's beltway and (b) never even held a gun (let alone shot one) in his life. Maybe you should do a little quiet research before you start throwing around such ignorant statements about other people's lives.
Ummm, no. Take a look at the long term climatological charts (which the doomsayers and pollyannas both refuse to do). They show an almost perfect square wave; long periods of warm alternated by long periods of ice age, where long is measured in thousands of years. We're actually at the end of a typical warm peak. Since that's true, we should be doing everything that we can to encourage holding the world temperature up!:)
So far as I know, there is no single accepted theory as to what causes the change between two metastable states. Without understanding that, it makes sense to add as little additional factors as possible. In that regard, the Kyoto accords make sense. However, as has been pointed out elsewhere, those pounding on the US for its failure to sign the Kyoto accords fail to recognize two things:
1) The US led the world in creating true, workable, enforceable environmental legislation and regulation at every governmental level. Ya think someone would ask us how to figure out what is doable and what isn't?
2) The Kyoto accords don't account for every man made emission. Without that, it doesn't allow for a clear count of total emissions dumped into the atmosphere. For example, what about cooking/heating fires widely used throughout the world? As pointed out elsewhere in this thread what about sloppy mining practices that cause fires? What about garbage plants? etc.
I'd be happy if the GPL said, anything I do can be released under whatever licence I like, as long as the original GPL stuff is still GPL (obviously), but it doesn't say that.
YES IT DOES SAY THAT!
Look. The GPL ONLY applies to code that is released under it. YOUR code, if you choose, can be released under whatever licence that YOU choose. What you can't do is mix your code with GPL code in a single application under any other license but the GPL.
You can, as the MySQL code clearly demonstrates, release your code under two different licenses at the same time if you so choose. So what is the problem?
Oh, I don't know. I'm in a position to talk to software vendors here in the US on a semi-regular basis. About 3/4s of them are supporting at least Red Hat and Suse (now Novell) distros. ALL of them target specific versions of each distro that they support. I point out to them that generally speaking, their software doesn't really need that level of specificity, and that they would reduce their development and test costs considerably if they could target the LSB instead.
About a third say, "But our customers don't know what that is!" or something similar. I respond, "So? Target the LSB and you can still certify that your software runs on a much broader list of distros!" Some of them get it, some of them don't.
About a third say, "No, we can't do that because of X." Sometimes X is real, sometimes it isn't. I make myself available to talk through X to help them determine just how much of a hurdle X really is. In one recent case, the senior development architect admitted to me that I was right and that they should take a longer look at LSB support. However, he was constrained by their parent company's policy (which was under review at the time). He was going to begin agitating for a move to LSB as a target.
The final third say, "What a great idea! Why didn't we think of that?" and promise to look into it. Some (most?) of them come back later and say they can't. A few come back with a revised 'Supported Distributions' list.
So, yes, polite pressure on your vendors DOES work. Just point out the benefits to THEM.:)
You guys all missed the point of the parent's post. Look at the slashdot ID numbers! They are all close together. It's an astroturf campaign, that's all.
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True, but it also says a lot about the Democrats when they can't figure out how to sell a bona fide Vietnam War hero over a draft dodging, beer swilling, National Guard pilot who didn't even bother showing up for some of his mandatory drills!
I have seen exactly one primary source that places estimates of Iraqi dead since July 2003 at 150,000+. However, I have seen a rebuttal that states that at least some of that number was inflated by counting cemetaries of people killed by Saddam's forces over the past 10 years in acts of reprisals. Other people challenge the perception that those deaths were directly caused by American or coalition action, as it is extremely difficult to differentiate from hospital records whether a boy brought in with a gunshot wound was shot by a terrorist or coalition soldier. It's even more difficult to determine whether that act was deliberate or accidental.
Look, I happen to think that Bush Jr. is a moron who is surrounded by manipulative, deceitful, assholes. He got into the war with Iraq for all the wrong reasons, and has no clear exit strategy. All the lessons learned by people like Caspar Weinberger from Vietnam were forgotten or ignored.
I also think his father missed a bet when he didn't at least ASK his coalition if they wanted to go to Baghdad or not in '91. The Saudis were certainly ready for us to after Saddam dropped some Patriots on 'em.
However, the real question that should be asked is; would the Iraqis trade that death toll, real or not, for going back to the status quo? Given the extremely high turnout for last weekend's elections, I'd say that the question has been rather eloquently answered, don't you?
This shouldn't have been modded Insightful. The GP did NOT offer advice, only discuss at a very high level what the issues concerning patent law are. His discussion matches up with every single authoritative source that I've read, so it's useful and even accurate! I'm surprised I read it on Slashdot! (joke! really!) :)
Not to mention that these files are pretty small for a torrent.
The shows airing out of order didn't help.
Nope, the rank order isn't even close to current practice. In the current USN, it's ensign, lieutenant junior grade, lieutenant, lieutenant commander, commander, captain. Then the admirals; one star is rear admiral lower half, two star is rear admiral upper half, three star is vice admiral, four is admiral, and five is fleet admiral (reserved for wartime only). A colonel is the equal of a Navy captain.
Commander Adama has what is roughly equivalent to a carrier task force command, which I think would make him a RA-UH. The CAG billet is typically a captain, as is the ship captain. However, in order to keep things moving for the show I think they grossly simplified things.
Geeez. The whole POINT to the question was that we got the answer wrong! THAT was the joke.
(shaking head, muttering) Some people could spoil anything....
The US is the no. 1 global emitter of CO2 as generated by industrial sources that cooperate in gathering numbers. And yes, bringing down that figure would help quite a bit in reducing the overall contribution to CO2 production. However, I have seen no numbers whatsoever for any of the other sources that I mentioned. Not even SWAGs. Even the link that you gave me (thx, btw. not many people will do that much) only counts CO2 production from burning fossil fuels, and ignores other sources.
Until I do see more comprehensive estimates, I refuse to buy the argument that reducing the US contribution as much as the Kyoto accords require will have any long term impact on CO2 that will offset the immediate and long term damage to the world's economy.
How much of global warming is contributed by the poorer societies as they struggle to better themselves? How much leeway should they be given?
Man, take off that tinfoil hat of yours. You've got the brim FAR too tight and it's cut off circulation to your brain.
:lol:
As several followups show, Microsoft hasn't been able to make a dent in Linux's rise no matter what they do. In fact, it looks like the more that they attack it, the more interested people get in trying it out for themselves. Some of those people are PHBs who would NEVER have heard of Linux if it hadn't been for Microsoft taking out full page ads telling them how awful it is. Mind you, these are the same PHBs who are sick and tired of paying through the nose for essentially useless Microsoft support contracts and explaining to their respective Boards of Directors just how come they can't seem to keep the latest virus/trojan/worm off their desktops. After a while, ANY alternative begins to look good!
Huh?
...
From the CIA World Fact Book:
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Country name:
Definition Field Listing
conventional long form: Commonwealth of Puerto Rico
conventional short form: Puerto Rico
Dependency status:
Definition Field Listing
commonwealth associated with the US
National holiday:
Definition Field Listing
US Independence Day, 4 July (1776); Puerto Rico Constitution Day, 25 July (1952)
Constitution:
Definition Field Listing
ratified 3 March 1952; approved by US Congress 3 July 1952; effective 25 July 1952
Legal system:
Definition Field Listing
based on Spanish civil code and within the US Federal system of justice
Suffrage:
Definition Field Listing
18 years of age; universal; island residents are US citizens but do not vote in US presidential elections
Executive branch:
Definition Field Listing
chief of state: President George W. BUSH of the US (since 20 January 2001)
head of government: Governor Sila M. CALDERON (since 2 January 2001)
cabinet: Cabinet appointed by the governor with the consent of the legislature
elections: US president and vice president elected on the same ticket for four-year terms; governor elected by popular vote for a four-year term; election last held 7 November 2000 (next to be held 2 November 2004)
election results: Sila M. CALDERON (PPD) elected governor; percent of vote - 48.6%
======
Other points show that PR is hardly a paradise (GDP per capita at $16,800 for example) but it hardly looks like a place with no 'rule of law'.
Gartner and IDC both estimate that approximately 70% of all changes to FOSS are now being made by people who are paid to do so. They base their estimates on several factors; self-admission by developers, company email addresses, etc. So, it looks like a lot of people are making a comfortable living at it.
If only Microsoft did work this way. From eeye.com:
and
and
Three reports to Microsoft from one security vendor. Two of the three critical failures. And patch time is measured in months??????
LOL! Preach on, mah brutha!
Best putdown of a misguided and uninformed civilian that I've seen in 30 years!
Hey, I'm a backwoods geek too, but I think you're missing the point of the "In Japan" rants. People aren't pissed because you and I can't get FTTH. They're pissed because they can't get it in downtown Manhattan or LA!
(Emphasis added)
I think you two are in violent agreement. You both expect the EMT/paramedic to call in when they see a real problem. His point is that most ERs don't want a call about every single little side issue that comes up during transport.
No, centralized torrent distribution works just fine for what it was designed for! At no time was the capability of providing anonymous services for warez a consideration.
Don't like it? Solve the problem yourself. Bram Cohen has stated time and again that he has no interest in solving it for you. The BitTorrent code is readily available in several languages, now. You are free to use that as a starting point if you really care that much about it.
Gentoo's startup scripts that reside in /etc/init.d explicitly list dependencies. I wonder if there would be any headaches using your trick for that distro? I can't see how. I'll have to try it out.
Spoken like someone who has (a) never been outside a city's beltway and (b) never even held a gun (let alone shot one) in his life. Maybe you should do a little quiet research before you start throwing around such ignorant statements about other people's lives.
Ummm, no. Take a look at the long term climatological charts (which the doomsayers and pollyannas both refuse to do). They show an almost perfect square wave; long periods of warm alternated by long periods of ice age, where long is measured in thousands of years. We're actually at the end of a typical warm peak. Since that's true, we should be doing everything that we can to encourage holding the world temperature up! :)
So far as I know, there is no single accepted theory as to what causes the change between two metastable states. Without understanding that, it makes sense to add as little additional factors as possible. In that regard, the Kyoto accords make sense. However, as has been pointed out elsewhere, those pounding on the US for its failure to sign the Kyoto accords fail to recognize two things:
1) The US led the world in creating true, workable, enforceable environmental legislation and regulation at every governmental level. Ya think someone would ask us how to figure out what is doable and what isn't?
2) The Kyoto accords don't account for every man made emission. Without that, it doesn't allow for a clear count of total emissions dumped into the atmosphere. For example, what about cooking/heating fires widely used throughout the world? As pointed out elsewhere in this thread what about sloppy mining practices that cause fires? What about garbage plants? etc.
Heh. Even in today's job market, that's a red flag for me. Time to spending all that unpaid overtime polishing my resume and browsing Monser.com! :P
YES IT DOES SAY THAT!
Look. The GPL ONLY applies to code that is released under it. YOUR code, if you choose, can be released under whatever licence that YOU choose. What you can't do is mix your code with GPL code in a single application under any other license but the GPL.
You can, as the MySQL code clearly demonstrates, release your code under two different licenses at the same time if you so choose. So what is the problem?
Oh, I don't know. I'm in a position to talk to software vendors here in the US on a semi-regular basis. About 3/4s of them are supporting at least Red Hat and Suse (now Novell) distros. ALL of them target specific versions of each distro that they support. I point out to them that generally speaking, their software doesn't really need that level of specificity, and that they would reduce their development and test costs considerably if they could target the LSB instead.
:)
About a third say, "But our customers don't know what that is!" or something similar. I respond, "So? Target the LSB and you can still certify that your software runs on a much broader list of distros!" Some of them get it, some of them don't.
About a third say, "No, we can't do that because of X." Sometimes X is real, sometimes it isn't. I make myself available to talk through X to help them determine just how much of a hurdle X really is. In one recent case, the senior development architect admitted to me that I was right and that they should take a longer look at LSB support. However, he was constrained by their parent company's policy (which was under review at the time). He was going to begin agitating for a move to LSB as a target.
The final third say, "What a great idea! Why didn't we think of that?" and promise to look into it. Some (most?) of them come back later and say they can't. A few come back with a revised 'Supported Distributions' list.
So, yes, polite pressure on your vendors DOES work. Just point out the benefits to THEM.
What are the telcos choosing? for this?
This seems like such a natural fit for IPv6, don't you think?
You guys all missed the point of the parent's post. Look at the slashdot ID numbers! They are all close together. It's an astroturf campaign, that's all.