I'm sorry. I've never heard of dragging with the right button. I've never bothered even trying that in windows. I hardly ever use windows anyway.
I just thought you were having problems left dragging because you were performing the default action instead of being able to drag, because the icon was already selected. I used to have that problem, and thought you did too.
AFAIK, there is no solution to your problem outside of modifying the code. Sorry I couldn't help.:(
Also sorry this response is so late.
btw, next time i boot into windows, I'll try out the right drag just to see what you are talking about.
Either look for the mouse options in the control panel, or type "kcmshell mouse". When the configuration dialog appears, select "double-click" in the icons group.
I have never seen a rename popup in konqueror. In order to rename, I select a file, then press "f2". The renaming works as you described. In fact, the renaming will not work with a "slow double-click" on purpose, to keep from accidental renames, or worse the likely chance that the rename will make an empty filename.
If you were expecting a certain amount of thought preparing an argument on a slashdot forum, you have abnormal expectations.:)
I'll leave you unimpressed with a couple of quick answers.
Jury members are selected by lot. Jury members decide who collects evidence. Jury members decide who the experts are going to be. Juries will sometimes make consistently good, rational judgements, but not always, they are human. I never implied that the society will be "smoothly-functioning". I think you are looking for Utopia or some other "Ideal State" not "Reality".
Frankly speaking, if you don't have easy answers to questions like the above This quote is the dead giveaway. It gives me insight into why you are not easily impressed. I have an easy question. Which came first, the chicken or the egg? I'd like to see an easy answer with an easy explanation that I can't poke any holes in. If you can answer this one question well enough to impress me, I will most certainly make a much better attempt at returning the favor. Good Luck!;)
I just noticed the reply, and I really wish I had a little time this morning to expand on what I said. Juries are not perfect, but no form of government is. Their are two levels of juries. Their are trial juries, and the grand jury.
You raised many good points that I have always feared about runaway juries, especially runaway grand juries.
I had a lawyer defend me once. He arranged a civil suit at the one year deadline from the incident. Immediately after he filed suit, I happened to be indicted by the grand jury to be tried for a felony. This was an obvious response to the civil suit. I asked my lawyer about how I could've been indicted from such skimpy evidence. His reply is that he could indict an oak tree if he wanted to. This helped me understand the current state of our jury system (very poor). BTW, the lawyer used to be a D.A. so he was talking from experience. Since then I've done a little study on what the jury is supposed to be like, and how it compares to the present day.
The common law jury system is really the backbone of the United States. It was the best system that could be created in its time, and our founding fathers would probably be rolling in their graves if they were to see what has become of it.
You deserve a good reply to the very important points that you raised. I wish I had a little more time, but I would be glad to continue this through email or im/irc.
Representative republic is JUST A FORM OF DEMOCRATIC GOVERNMENT. Not really, the representation could be divvied up between the 100 most influential families. The progeny of these families would inherit the Senate, each family representing their own geographic region that they control. Republics have their origins in fascism, and served as a tool to help unify local rulers into larger, more cohesive nation.
Actually, I don't have a hammer. But, if I had a hammer, I'd hammer in the morning, I'd hammer in the evening, I'd hammer out a warning of danger to freedom and justice.
This legislation is an interaction between the people and their government. It allows a person or set of people to make unreasonable searches and possible seizures making them insecure in their "papers and effects", and is therefore unconstitutional.
set "timestamp_timeout" in/etc/sudoers to 0 and sudo will always ask for a password. The NOPASSWD tag will override this for those entries in the sudoers file that contain it. Using commands that have the NOPASSWD tag will not update the timestamp, and won't require a password.
Set this and test it with:
sudo ls && sudo ls
You should have to enter the password twice. If you are even more concerned about how sudo is used on your system, you can set the mail_always option (and related options) to get reports on who is calling what and when with sudo.
I hope this helps somewhat. I had some of the same fears that you seem to be expressing, and found this solution to be bearable, although not quite good enough.
What is missing is the ability to "sudo -k command" so that invoking sudo like this will both run the command and kill the timestamp so subsequent commands need auth. The expression "sudo command || sudo -k" creates a race condition where another process can invoke sudo while there exists a valid timestamp. p.s. -- my sudoers file for my laptop is below, modified with a few comments.
Defaults env_reset Defaults timestamp_timeout = 0
# Host alias specification
# User alias specification
# Cmnd alias specification
# User privilege specification root ALL=(ALL) ALL # this line is fairly standard umeboshi ALL=(ALL) PASSWD: ALL # it's handy to use hibernate without auth umeboshi bard = NOPASSWD:/usr/sbin/hibernate # sometimes fam keeps me from umounting removable drives umeboshi bard = NOPASSWD:/etc/init.d/fam # these initscripts are don't run on boot # but may be useful later, please note that these are the # initscripts that are called, and not the underlying applications. umeboshi bard = NOPASSWD:/etc/init.d/samba umeboshi bard = NOPASSWD:/etc/init.d/uml-utilities umeboshi bard = NOPASSWD:/etc/init.d/postgresql-7.4
Here they will pull you over, put you in the backseat of their car with cuffs (although this does not mean you are arrested) Actually you are arrested and the fact is being ignored by both you and the officer.
Every apt source in your sources list has root access to your system, except possible the deb-src entries.
It only takes one rogue package with a postinst script that installs a rootkit to ruin your day. The package can be distributed more easily if it is marked as "req" and is an updated version, from your previous one.
I've seen some "ubuntu helpers", like an older automatix script, wget a deb package, dpkg -i whatever.deb, and then rm whatever.deb . Scripts like that really scare me.
I suspected the same thing, as I have been using foreign keys for a long time in postgresql now, and I have never come across those problems. I read the section right above this and went pale. I was told that mysql got support for foreign keys a couple of years ago, but I now understand what they consider "support" for foreign keys.
The real kicker for me was this sentence.
The only nice aspect of FOREIGN KEY is that it gives ODBC and some other client programs the ability to see how a table is connected and to use this to show connection diagrams and to help in building applicatons. I always believed that relational integrity was the major "nice aspect" of foreign keys. I guess this really sets the record straight, and gives some of the best insight into the capabilities of the developers in making a good relational database.
Don't forget the vorpal blade of competition of dismemberment, the +2 quill of proprietary formats, the reams of BillGee's Grasping Fist scrolls, the +5 ring of protection from gov't lawsuits, and finally the portable hole they use to make XP quickly disappear.
French grammer nazi's decited that they didn't like my french and moded every post I ever made down. So this account sits at 0 now. You should have seen it 3 years ago when it was at -2. It was just a case of abuse of the mod system before they "fixed" it. I'll remember that next time I have mod points, and browse at 0. I'll at least try to put you back up to 1 if I see you at an unmoderated 0, in a discussion I'm moderating. I took the liberty of browsing through some of your more recent posts determine if this would be appropriate. I hope you don't mind. I did happen to snicker at the interstellar bypass remark, regardless of your instructions not to laugh:)
I really have no clue where the rights of the child end and the parents begin. From what I've started to figure they begin and end where its convenent for the system. After all they think nothing of jacking a child up an try him as an adult it there was enough money involved. I can't think of the case right now but it involves a 14 or 15 year old hacker getting his case jack up to tri him as an adult. I'm pretty sure someone will remind me sooner or later. I really aggravates me that a 14 year old will be treated as an adult for capital offenses, yet not be eligible to vote until reaching adulthood. The hypocrisy here is staggering, and it really takes an irrational mind to consider this right and proper. I remember being warned of being tried as an adult when I was a mischievous 12-13 years old and thinking that this was an idle threat told to keep me in line. It's too bad that isn't true, although I understand that it varies from state to state.
I think I need to ingest more caffine.... I'm on my second cup now:)
I almost missed your comment, were you modded down, or do you normally post at 0? I could find no moderation history for your comment, and I am somewhat perplexed at how you got a zero.
Back to the topic, the rights of a child is a matter I have been troubled over pretty deeply. If all of the child's rights revert back to the parents, where do they go when the parents die (please assume no other relatives to care for the child)?
My feeling is that the child has inherent rights, but may not be developed enough to understand them. We live in a very dangerous society if children have no rights in the eyes of the law. This does not mean that the children should be allowed to express those rights fully (being too young to grasp the consequences of doing so), but some minimum standard of rights are necessary to acknowledge in order to keep our children from enslaving their children in the future. This may sound a little far fetched, but tradition is far more powerful that any law, and any law can be amended to match tradition. When an idea or procedure attains the status of tradition, it is generally accepted as right and proper, and usually requires a "revolutionary appraisal" seen at the time as a "paradigm shift" to set things straight. Such is the inherent power of tradition shared by a population. History is full of such examples, take Rosa Parks as one of them. Galileo is another good example that helps show the abstraction of this more completely.
I do agree that what happened is entirely fucked up. No doubt about this. If my child was held in such manner, there would be hell to pay. Instead of a civil suit, I would petition the grand jury for, at minimum, an investigation. It shouldn't be difficult to convince a grand jury that certain officials involved should be subpoenaed to testify. There is nothing like an innocent child held in criminal custody to pique their interest.
Absolutely, once a person is charged with a criminal offense, they have a right to a jury trial, as per the 6th amendment. Your current understanding of how the state handles dropping charges is a testament to how they abuse the bill of rights.
I could put this another way. Without the right to a public jury trial, the state is free to implement a revolving door policy whereby a person could be arrested, be held for a few days while they are encouraged to "help with roadside landscaping", released when charges are dropped only to be re-arrested and have the process repeat itself.
The filing of charges is the first step in a criminal prosecution. It is up to both the prosecutor and defendant to agree to have charges dropped. The defendant is not required to agree with this. The state cannot arbitrarily drop charges once a criminal prosecution begins without ignoring their 6th amendment obligations.
The civil suit is generally a red herring displayed before people as a solution. The fact of the matter is that most of the agencies that might be affected by such a civil suit have insurance policies that help cover losses brought about by the civil suits. This is a planned and acceptable alternative that favors those that are being sued, therefore it is promoted as the primary tool to use in these circumstances.
However it is not always the best way to fix the problem. A grand jury has all of the authority and right to order investigations, subpoena witness and actually indict capital crimes. In fact one of the very next steps in the criminal prosecution, in this case since the kid was charged with a felony, is the district attorney presenting evidence before the grand jury in order to actually indict the kid for that felony.
After saying all of this, states laws vary and the structure of the grand jury may be modified by the state constitution. My advice on the grand jury may only apply in certain states. My stance on the right to public jury trial applies over all the states.
If the kid has not waived his rights, he can still demand his jury trial for the offense. After the trial, he can seek an audience and petition the grand jury to subpoena the principal to testify before it. This could possibly lead to an indictment.
Slashdot Mirror
No, it is the sequel to first America that failed miserably at the end.
You can easily mirror wikipedia and keep it in sync.o wnload
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Database_d
Vote for ME -- I'm well-tapered, half-cocked, ill-conceived and
TAX-DEFERRED!
I don't understand.
I want to TAKE IT HOME and DRESS IT UP in HOT PANTS!!
What makes you believe you might want to take it?
I'm young.. I'm HEALTHY.. I can HIKE THRU CAPT GROGAN'S LUMBAR REGIONS!
Maybe your plans have something to do with this.
I'm sorry. I've never heard of dragging with the right button. I've never bothered even trying that in windows. I hardly ever use windows anyway.
:(
I just thought you were having problems left dragging because you were performing the default action instead of being able to drag, because the icon was already selected. I used to have that problem, and thought you did too.
AFAIK, there is no solution to your problem outside of modifying the code. Sorry I couldn't help.
Also sorry this response is so late.
btw, next time i boot into windows, I'll try out the right drag just to see what you are talking about.
I suppose it is truly silent! :)
Either look for the mouse options in the control panel, or type "kcmshell mouse". When the configuration dialog appears, select "double-click" in the icons group.
I have never seen a rename popup in konqueror. In order to rename, I select a file, then press "f2". The renaming works as you described. In fact, the renaming will not work with a "slow double-click" on purpose, to keep from accidental renames, or worse the likely chance that the rename will make an empty filename.
Are you feeling better now? ;)
I'll leave you unimpressed with a couple of quick answers.
Jury members are selected by lot.
Jury members decide who collects evidence.
Jury members decide who the experts are going to be.
Juries will sometimes make consistently good, rational judgements, but not always, they are human.
I never implied that the society will be "smoothly-functioning". I think you are looking for Utopia or some other "Ideal State" not "Reality". Frankly speaking, if you don't have easy answers to questions like the above This quote is the dead giveaway. It gives me insight into why you are not easily impressed.
I have an easy question. Which came first, the chicken or the egg? I'd like to see an easy answer with an easy explanation that I can't poke any holes in. If you can answer this one question well enough to impress me, I will most certainly make a much better attempt at returning the favor. Good Luck!
I just noticed the reply, and I really wish I had a little time this morning to expand on what I said.
Juries are not perfect, but no form of government is. Their are two levels of juries. Their are trial juries, and the grand jury.
You raised many good points that I have always feared about runaway juries, especially runaway grand juries.
I had a lawyer defend me once. He arranged a civil suit at the one year deadline from the incident. Immediately after he filed suit, I happened to be indicted by the grand jury to be tried for a felony. This was an obvious response to the civil suit. I asked my lawyer about how I could've been indicted from such skimpy evidence. His reply is that he could indict an oak tree if he wanted to. This helped me understand the current state of our jury system (very poor). BTW, the lawyer used to be a D.A. so he was talking from experience. Since then I've done a little study on what the jury is supposed to be like, and how it compares to the present day.
The common law jury system is really the backbone of the United States. It was the best system that could be created in its time, and our founding fathers would probably be rolling in their graves if they were to see what has become of it.
You deserve a good reply to the very important points that you raised. I wish I had a little more time, but I would be glad to continue this through email or im/irc.
It was the first thing that came to mind by reading the article title, and not reading the summary.
The jury
Republics have their origins in fascism, and served as a tool to help unify local rulers into larger, more cohesive nation.
Actually, I don't have a hammer. But, if I had a hammer, I'd hammer in the morning, I'd hammer in the evening, I'd hammer out a warning of danger to freedom and justice.
Or maybe play "whack a mole".
This legislation is an interaction between the people and their government. It allows a person or set of people to make unreasonable searches and possible seizures making them insecure in their "papers and effects", and is therefore unconstitutional.
set "timestamp_timeout" in /etc/sudoers to 0 and sudo will always ask for a password.
/usr/sbin/hibernate /etc/init.d/fam /etc/init.d/samba /etc/init.d/uml-utilities /etc/init.d/postgresql-7.4
The NOPASSWD tag will override this for those entries in the sudoers file that contain it. Using commands that have the NOPASSWD tag will not update the timestamp, and won't require a password.
Set this and test it with:
sudo ls && sudo ls
You should have to enter the password twice. If you are even more concerned about how sudo is used on your system, you can set the mail_always option (and related options) to get reports on who is calling what and when with sudo.
I hope this helps somewhat. I had some of the same fears that you seem to be expressing, and found this solution to be bearable, although not quite good enough.
What is missing is the ability to "sudo -k command" so that invoking sudo like this will both run the command and kill the timestamp so subsequent commands need auth. The expression "sudo command || sudo -k" creates a race condition where another process can invoke sudo while there exists a valid timestamp.
p.s. -- my sudoers file for my laptop is below, modified with a few comments.
Defaults env_reset
Defaults timestamp_timeout = 0
# Host alias specification
# User alias specification
# Cmnd alias specification
# User privilege specification
root ALL=(ALL) ALL
# this line is fairly standard
umeboshi ALL=(ALL) PASSWD: ALL
# it's handy to use hibernate without auth
umeboshi bard = NOPASSWD:
# sometimes fam keeps me from umounting removable drives
umeboshi bard = NOPASSWD:
# these initscripts are don't run on boot
# but may be useful later, please note that these are the
# initscripts that are called, and not the underlying applications.
umeboshi bard = NOPASSWD:
umeboshi bard = NOPASSWD:
umeboshi bard = NOPASSWD:
Every apt source in your sources list has root access to your system, except possible the deb-src entries.
It only takes one rogue package with a postinst script that installs a rootkit to ruin your day. The package can be distributed more easily if it is marked as "req" and is an updated version, from your previous one.
I've seen some "ubuntu helpers", like an older automatix script, wget a deb package, dpkg -i whatever.deb, and then rm whatever.deb . Scripts like that really scare me.
The real kicker for me was this sentence. The only nice aspect of FOREIGN KEY is that it gives ODBC and some other client programs the ability to see how a table is connected and to use this to show connection diagrams and to help in building applicatons. I always believed that relational integrity was the major "nice aspect" of foreign keys. I guess this really sets the record straight, and gives some of the best insight into the capabilities of the developers in making a good relational database.
Funny, I was actually thinking of throwing some type of Chair throwing Ballmer Balrog summoning wand, but couldn't make it seem funny enough.
:) lol
I like your magic chair much better
Don't forget the vorpal blade of competition of dismemberment, the +2 quill of proprietary formats, the reams of BillGee's Grasping Fist scrolls, the +5 ring of protection from gov't lawsuits, and finally the portable hole they use to make XP quickly disappear.
I almost missed your comment, were you modded down, or do you normally post at 0? I could find no moderation history for your comment, and I am somewhat perplexed at how you got a zero.
Back to the topic, the rights of a child is a matter I have been troubled over pretty deeply. If all of the child's rights revert back to the parents, where do they go when the parents die (please assume no other relatives to care for the child)?
My feeling is that the child has inherent rights, but may not be developed enough to understand them. We live in a very dangerous society if children have no rights in the eyes of the law. This does not mean that the children should be allowed to express those rights fully (being too young to grasp the consequences of doing so), but some minimum standard of rights are necessary to acknowledge in order to keep our children from enslaving their children in the future. This may sound a little far fetched, but tradition is far more powerful that any law, and any law can be amended to match tradition. When an idea or procedure attains the status of tradition, it is generally accepted as right and proper, and usually requires a "revolutionary appraisal" seen at the time as a "paradigm shift" to set things straight. Such is the inherent power of tradition shared by a population. History is full of such examples, take Rosa Parks as one of them. Galileo is another good example that helps show the abstraction of this more completely.
I do agree that what happened is entirely fucked up. No doubt about this. If my child was held in such manner, there would be hell to pay. Instead of a civil suit, I would petition the grand jury for, at minimum, an investigation. It shouldn't be difficult to convince a grand jury that certain officials involved should be subpoenaed to testify. There is nothing like an innocent child held in criminal custody to pique their interest.
Absolutely, once a person is charged with a criminal offense, they have a right to a jury trial, as per the 6th amendment. Your current understanding of how the state handles dropping charges is a testament to how they abuse the bill of rights.
I could put this another way. Without the right to a public jury trial, the state is free to implement a revolving door policy whereby a person could be arrested, be held for a few days while they are encouraged to "help with roadside landscaping", released when charges are dropped only to be re-arrested and have the process repeat itself.
The filing of charges is the first step in a criminal prosecution. It is up to both the prosecutor and defendant to agree to have charges dropped. The defendant is not required to agree with this. The state cannot arbitrarily drop charges once a criminal prosecution begins without ignoring their 6th amendment obligations.
The civil suit is generally a red herring displayed before people as a solution. The fact of the matter is that most of the agencies that might be affected by such a civil suit have insurance policies that help cover losses brought about by the civil suits. This is a planned and acceptable alternative that favors those that are being sued, therefore it is promoted as the primary tool to use in these circumstances.
However it is not always the best way to fix the problem. A grand jury has all of the authority and right to order investigations, subpoena witness and actually indict capital crimes. In fact one of the very next steps in the criminal prosecution, in this case since the kid was charged with a felony, is the district attorney presenting evidence before the grand jury in order to actually indict the kid for that felony.
After saying all of this, states laws vary and the structure of the grand jury may be modified by the state constitution. My advice on the grand jury may only apply in certain states. My stance on the right to public jury trial applies over all the states.
If the kid has not waived his rights, he can still demand his jury trial for the offense. After the trial, he can seek an audience and petition the grand jury to subpoena the principal to testify before it. This could possibly lead to an indictment.