If you look at the original Slashdot article from the time of his conviction (linked in one of the comments here), reportedly he was not allowed to use the context of his quotes in his defense. So all the jury saw were a couple of snippets the Scientologists picked out. He probably ruined his case by going on the run, as I can't believe that a higher court would not have overturned the decision on appeal.
While not outright illegal, everyone here would give me the eyeball if I went out picketing a Jewish mosque.
If you can find yourself a Jewish mosque to picket, then I say go for it. You'd probably get a lot of support from Jews and mosques around the world (not to mention the evangelical Christians) for picketing such an abomination.
Windows Mobile is built on top of Windows CE. Windows CE is a very modular system, you include the modules you need depending on hardware and functionality you need. Windows Mobile (formerly known as Pocket PC) is a standard set of modules so application developers have a common platform to target.
OK, checking my facts, it wasn't Apple that released the info, it was PortalPlayer (now acquired by nVidia), and only rumour linked it to the iPhone (which still wasn't announced at the time). So its possible that its a higher spec chip like an XScale, and Apple have another new product up their sleeves powered by a PortalPlayer processor.
Indeed, but the specific company that Apple have announced as the supplier of their application processors for the iPhone only produces 2 relatively low speed variants, and there are no press releases announcing future faster products.
I'm pretty sure Apple ported OS X for the same reason as Microsoft ported Windows CE. It was their OS.
My suspicion about the real reason they are not opening the iPhone up for development, is that they haven't really ported OS X at all. They've got a UI for the phone apps that looks and feels like OS X, but there are no Quartz libraries or any other libraries that third party developers would expect, the apps they have are all hand coded and heavily optimised. The device just doesn't have the power for a generic OS X like interface. Apple haven't released details about the clock speed or the CPU other than what company they are buying it from, but a quick check of the company's website shows that they sell two processors, both running at less than 200MHz. If they haven't made a secret deal for a chip that hasn't been announced yet, expect the iPhone to run at the speed of a PDA from 5 years ago.
It would basically allow Microsoft to say that Linux can't be taken seriously by any business, because the FSF will basically revoke your "right to use" Linux if they don't like how you do business
It's widely known that Microsoft will basically send in the BSA to audit you at your own expense if they don't like how you do business. It doesn't seem to stop most businesses from taking Windows seriously.
Any journalist that refers to the FSF's work as part of the open-source Linux operating system is just trolling IMHO. They clearly haven't listened to anything RMS has said on the topics of open-source or Linux, so how are the readers supposed to believe they have listened in this case?
Microsoft does not offer refunds for purchases made through their web site and they are sticking to that policy, leaving users like me who already paid them hundreds of dollars with no recourse and unable to affect the remedy to this horrible situation.
Does the US really have no laws protecting consumers from this sort of crap? You were sold a product that is defective, and the supplier has no acceptable substitute to replace it with. If you paid with a credit card, the credit card company should at least come down on them even if the law won't.
It's a fact that most were captured in non-uniform clothing armed (and often engaging allied forces) in Iraq and Afghanistan
Afghanistan is not the sort of place you would want to wander around UNARMED, even before the US invasion the place was full of bandits who would ambush you as you went through mountain passes. And in those circumstances, when someone unknown starts shooting at you, you shoot back. The fact that these guys were picked up armed and in civilian clothes says nothing about their guilt, and even that they were shooting at allied forces may just be a case of who shot first.
The advantages that cellular has over wired telecoms is even greater in areas of sparse population. A few carefully situated cell towers wok out much cheaper than laying a network of cable to cover everyone.
Short version: they use Active-X because of US export policy.
If that were all it was, the rest of the world would be using ActiveX as well.
I suspect the real reason that South Korea has invented its own encryption algorithms rather than trust a third party's lies to the north of their border. But even so, they could still use SSL/TLS with those algorithms (RFC 4162) instead of resorting to the snake oil they are using today.
MS is *the* dominant player in *all* software markets
IBM big-iron is still pervasive in the back-office side of the financial and insurance industry. Double-byte character sets together with EBCDIC encoding is probably the worst nightmare I have ever had to deal with.
Are your "write once, run anywhere" applications using internal APIs, or are they relying on bugs in the 1.3 class libraries to run? Personally I've only ever come across code that DOESN'T run properly on 1.3, due to bugs introduced between 1.2 and 1.3, and fixed in 1.4.
Iceland gets 82.7% of its electricity from Hydro dams. Most of the rest comes from Geothermal though. The Philippines on the other hand get about 27% of their electricity from Geothermal - they're the number two producer after the US.
VRFY used to be useful in the early 1990's, but around 1995 the Internet started to prefer privacy. You'd be lucky to find ANY mail server these days that does anything useful with the VRFY command.
So why on earth is it so hard for The Feds to track who purchases larges quantities of these securities before such solicitations are made
They're offshore. There have been warnings in the UK about these scams, which mention that many of the stocks touted in the spams are restricted stocks in the US, and cannot be sold on the US markets but can be sold to unscrupulous and unsuspecting foreigners alike under Regulation S.
Apple does not have any patents on the iphone. They have applied for about 300, but none have been granted yet. Regarding the multitouch interface, if you search the internet, you'll find that research has been going on in this area since the 1980's. At best, Apple might be granted a patent on the specific technology they've used to support multitouch in their touchscreen, but there are several other ways to accomplish the same thing, some of which are already available.
What if one uses UTF-8 and the other UCS-2? Or UTF-32? All of those are multi-byte.
No, they're not. UCS-2 and UTF-32 are fixed width encodings, not multi-byte. And if UTF-8 is not eventually supported natively by Ruby, then the Rails implementation will still be needed. The rest of the internet is not going to drop UTF-8 just because Ruby does not support it.
If you'd RTFA instead of rushing to get first post, you would have seen this:
So since Ruby won't be multibyte-aware until this time next year, Rails 1.2 introduces ActiveSupport::Multibyte for working with Unicode strings. Call the chars method on your string to start working with characters instead of bytes.
I don't think its a user vs kernel space thing, more a case of making graphics card acceleration available transparently by providing a dedicated API for it. That said, I doubt that NT4 would have such a hidden API, as it predates the availability of graphics cards with gradient fill acceleration built in, but it was only an example. I can see how in general APIs that were formerly internal might be given external equivalents after someone in the Office team found them useful, but the internal API remained undocumented, leaving Office an advantage in using the feature while maintaining compatibility with older versions of Windows.
On the other hand, the article talks about "broadcast meteorologists", who are better positioned to influence public opinion. If they are pushing a view which is against the scientific consensus, then that can cause problems. I guess he has someone in mind here, I have always wondered why the general public (and government) of US have been so slow to accept global warming as a man made phenomenon, if one or more of the major network's weather presenter has been pushing the oil industry view over the scientific view, that might explain it.
Developers use off the shelf XML parsers, which generally take care of validation for you. Netscape created this problem themselves when they stated in the spec for RSS 0.91 that well-formedness was not enough, RSS 0.91 feeds should be validated against the DTD. They then specified that document authors must use a PUBLIC doctype specifier, so the option of using a SYSTEM one (where the DTD is looked up in a local catalog) is not an option.
Slashdot Mirror
If you look at the original Slashdot article from the time of his conviction (linked in one of the comments here), reportedly he was not allowed to use the context of his quotes in his defense. So all the jury saw were a couple of snippets the Scientologists picked out. He probably ruined his case by going on the run, as I can't believe that a higher court would not have overturned the decision on appeal.
While not outright illegal, everyone here would give me the eyeball if I went out picketing a Jewish mosque.
If you can find yourself a Jewish mosque to picket, then I say go for it. You'd probably get a lot of support from Jews and mosques around the world (not to mention the evangelical Christians) for picketing such an abomination.
Windows Mobile is built on top of Windows CE. Windows CE is a very modular system, you include the modules you need depending on hardware and functionality you need. Windows Mobile (formerly known as Pocket PC) is a standard set of modules so application developers have a common platform to target.
OK, checking my facts, it wasn't Apple that released the info, it was PortalPlayer (now acquired by nVidia), and only rumour linked it to the iPhone (which still wasn't announced at the time). So its possible that its a higher spec chip like an XScale, and Apple have another new product up their sleeves powered by a PortalPlayer processor.
There are tons of ARM CPU variants out there
Indeed, but the specific company that Apple have announced as the supplier of their application processors for the iPhone only produces 2 relatively low speed variants, and there are no press releases announcing future faster products.
The NeXT cube may have had a slick UI for its day, but you'd have to strip a lot of eye-candy from OS X to get back to that.
I'm pretty sure Apple ported OS X for the same reason as Microsoft ported Windows CE. It was their OS.
My suspicion about the real reason they are not opening the iPhone up for development, is that they haven't really ported OS X at all. They've got a UI for the phone apps that looks and feels like OS X, but there are no Quartz libraries or any other libraries that third party developers would expect, the apps they have are all hand coded and heavily optimised. The device just doesn't have the power for a generic OS X like interface. Apple haven't released details about the clock speed or the CPU other than what company they are buying it from, but a quick check of the company's website shows that they sell two processors, both running at less than 200MHz. If they haven't made a secret deal for a chip that hasn't been announced yet, expect the iPhone to run at the speed of a PDA from 5 years ago.
It would basically allow Microsoft to say that Linux can't be taken seriously by any business, because the FSF will basically revoke your "right to use" Linux if they don't like how you do business
It's widely known that Microsoft will basically send in the BSA to audit you at your own expense if they don't like how you do business. It doesn't seem to stop most businesses from taking Windows seriously.
Any journalist that refers to the FSF's work as part of the open-source Linux operating system is just trolling IMHO. They clearly haven't listened to anything RMS has said on the topics of open-source or Linux, so how are the readers supposed to believe they have listened in this case?
Microsoft does not offer refunds for purchases made through their web site and they are sticking to that policy, leaving users like me who already paid them hundreds of dollars with no recourse and unable to affect the remedy to this horrible situation.
Does the US really have no laws protecting consumers from this sort of crap? You were sold a product that is defective, and the supplier has no acceptable substitute to replace it with. If you paid with a credit card, the credit card company should at least come down on them even if the law won't.
It's a fact that most were captured in non-uniform clothing armed (and often engaging allied forces) in Iraq and Afghanistan
Afghanistan is not the sort of place you would want to wander around UNARMED, even before the US invasion the place was full of bandits who would ambush you as you went through mountain passes. And in those circumstances, when someone unknown starts shooting at you, you shoot back. The fact that these guys were picked up armed and in civilian clothes says nothing about their guilt, and even that they were shooting at allied forces may just be a case of who shot first.
People may not understand microwaves, but the original article I saw gave the following advice:
Maybe some news sources edited the article down to a short filler piece and left out some of these crucial details.
The advantages that cellular has over wired telecoms is even greater in areas of sparse population. A few carefully situated cell towers wok out much cheaper than laying a network of cable to cover everyone.
Short version: they use Active-X because of US export policy.
If that were all it was, the rest of the world would be using ActiveX as well.
I suspect the real reason that South Korea has invented its own encryption algorithms rather than trust a third party's lies to the north of their border. But even so, they could still use SSL/TLS with those algorithms (RFC 4162) instead of resorting to the snake oil they are using today.
MS is *the* dominant player in *all* software markets
IBM big-iron is still pervasive in the back-office side of the financial and insurance industry. Double-byte character sets together with EBCDIC encoding is probably the worst nightmare I have ever had to deal with.
Are your "write once, run anywhere" applications using internal APIs, or are they relying on bugs in the 1.3 class libraries to run? Personally I've only ever come across code that DOESN'T run properly on 1.3, due to bugs introduced between 1.2 and 1.3, and fixed in 1.4.
they run almost entirely off geothermal
Iceland gets 82.7% of its electricity from Hydro dams. Most of the rest comes from Geothermal though. The Philippines on the other hand get about 27% of their electricity from Geothermal - they're the number two producer after the US.
The only effect it's had is to make Macromedia rich
Wrong Macro. I think you mean Macrovision.
VRFY used to be useful in the early 1990's, but around 1995 the Internet started to prefer privacy. You'd be lucky to find ANY mail server these days that does anything useful with the VRFY command.
So why on earth is it so hard for The Feds to track who purchases larges quantities of these securities before such solicitations are made
They're offshore. There have been warnings in the UK about these scams, which mention that many of the stocks touted in the spams are restricted stocks in the US, and cannot be sold on the US markets but can be sold to unscrupulous and unsuspecting foreigners alike under Regulation S.
which I think Apple has the patent on.
Apple does not have any patents on the iphone. They have applied for about 300, but none have been granted yet. Regarding the multitouch interface, if you search the internet, you'll find that research has been going on in this area since the 1980's. At best, Apple might be granted a patent on the specific technology they've used to support multitouch in their touchscreen, but there are several other ways to accomplish the same thing, some of which are already available.
What if one uses UTF-8 and the other UCS-2? Or UTF-32? All of those are multi-byte.
No, they're not. UCS-2 and UTF-32 are fixed width encodings, not multi-byte. And if UTF-8 is not eventually supported natively by Ruby, then the Rails implementation will still be needed. The rest of the internet is not going to drop UTF-8 just because Ruby does not support it.
If you'd RTFA instead of rushing to get first post, you would have seen this:
I don't think its a user vs kernel space thing, more a case of making graphics card acceleration available transparently by providing a dedicated API for it. That said, I doubt that NT4 would have such a hidden API, as it predates the availability of graphics cards with gradient fill acceleration built in, but it was only an example. I can see how in general APIs that were formerly internal might be given external equivalents after someone in the Office team found them useful, but the internal API remained undocumented, leaving Office an advantage in using the feature while maintaining compatibility with older versions of Windows.
On the other hand, the article talks about "broadcast meteorologists", who are better positioned to influence public opinion. If they are pushing a view which is against the scientific consensus, then that can cause problems. I guess he has someone in mind here, I have always wondered why the general public (and government) of US have been so slow to accept global warming as a man made phenomenon, if one or more of the major network's weather presenter has been pushing the oil industry view over the scientific view, that might explain it.
Developers use off the shelf XML parsers, which generally take care of validation for you. Netscape created this problem themselves when they stated in the spec for RSS 0.91 that well-formedness was not enough, RSS 0.91 feeds should be validated against the DTD. They then specified that document authors must use a PUBLIC doctype specifier, so the option of using a SYSTEM one (where the DTD is looked up in a local catalog) is not an option.