Many people have legitimate reasons to use different From: headers. As long as the envelope address is genuine, the email is easily traced, so there is no need to go imposing misguided restrictions on the email headers.
So, just like the first amendment can't be altered or abolished, the 2nd, 5th, 9th, or 10th can't either. None of them can! They are not rights granted to you by a government, but rights that you were born with as a human being.
They are rights granted to US citizens by the US goverrnment. There are around 5 billion human beings who were not born with these rights, and there are but a few hundred million in the US who have these rights, some of whom kid themselves over how easily those "rights" could be taken away.
Inside me is a kneejerk activist who wants to point to this as evidence that growing up, as children have since 9/11/01, surrounded by authority figures who casually restrict freedom of speech in the name of guarding against terrorism, encourages children to pattern their thoughts and behavior along similar unfortunate lines.
But actually, I'd like to know what similar studies have been conducted in years past.
A large scale study was carried out in Germany, Japan and Italy in the 1930s and '40s. Whole nations patterned their thoughts and behaviour behind totally irrational megalomaniacs. More recently similar smaller scale studies have been carried out in Cambodia, North Korea and Microsoft, and one larger scale study in China has been going on for over fifty years now.
in real life, we would call this sort of activity by authorities "terrorism"
I wonder if anyone's done a study on what US Kids understand "terrorism" to mean. It seems to be an extremely overused term these days.
I Europe we call the sort of act "collective punishment", though some extremists equate it with terrorism. In the US, they reward it with billions of dollars of military aid.
Second, the upgrade to your systems may not have any functionality, but it would allow you to keep your customers.
Given that all Intuit's former customers have to go out and buy a new copy now, who do you think would lose customers if banks told Intuit where to stick their Quicken tax and started recommending something else to their customers?
Just as Evian is held responsible by the FDA or other appropropriate authority, RedHat, Mandrake, SuSe or other distributer would be held liable under any applicable consumer law if you bought your GNU/Linux distribution boxed and from a shop, or perhaps the PC manufacturer if it was preinstalled. If you think Microsoft takes any more responsibility than the minimum required by law, you obviously haven't read the EULA. They even go to the extent of having a separate warrantee/limitation of liability section for each juristiction, so you know they are just spelling out the legal minimums.
Let me guess, he stole the idea of the www from an American? I predict that in 50 years time we will discover that it was - in fact - China that made the first powered flight...
Its supposed to be a controlled flight though. Riding on the back of a giant firecracker does not count.
The third world would not only pollute less if they entered the first world, but they would also be much better prepared to handle any possible problems.
So clearly we need China, Japan and the EU to freeze the US's debt repayments so it can have a chance of pulling itself out of its downward spiral and back into the first world and start polluting less.
Last, and most powerful of all, is refactoring. I can, with that dreaded mouse, move a class between packages far faster than you can even if you're a regexp wizard. I can rename variables and methods without fear. In short, I can do everything I need in order to make sure that the codebase makes sense.
Refactoring is only useful if you are working by yourself and didn't do any design work to start with. I am personally sick of hearing Eclipse fanboys rant about how its the greatest thing since sliced bread. If you're working as part of a team, it is fucking annoying to have some twerp refactor the code base so the code you are working on suddenly won't compile and you have to go searching for where all the methods have gone. Classnames and packages should be set in stone. Changing them willy-nilly just because you like to show off your new Eclipse toy makes the code less maintainable, not more.
I've never seen any issues with GUI code, unless you mean that it doesn't have a native look-and-feel (but then, neither do a lot of recent Windows programs, Microsoft ones included).
The only platform issues I've seen are former VB programmers hard-coding paths with backslashes in them, and OS/390 defaulting to EBDIC encoding for reading files (which had been deployed with the application and were actually in ASCII).
The Emacs/XEmacs fork is given passing mention in the article, but is actually one of the more interesting ones. At the time XEmacs really did represent a step forward
GNU Emacs would have represented an even bigger step forward had the XEmacs developers not gone it alone. The Emacs developers had come up with an elegant design for Emacs that would work on both X and a TTY terminal. The commercial company that was pushing for X support decided that this ambitious project was going to take too long and went off and wrote XEmacs, which ripped out the TTY support replacing it with X. Only later did TTY support get added back in to XEmacs, and GNU Emacs was left with a much smaller pool of developers, meaning it fell behind for a few years. GNU Emacs 20 was first to get integrated Mule (multilingual) support, and its likely that GNU Emacs will be first with a stable GTK release and maybe first to use Unicode as its internal encoding, but both Emacs and XEmacs have been fairly close in features for some time now, and the developers have started co-operating more in recent years.
Unless I'm mistaken, yahoo is just indexing the name of the video file and perhaps the surrounding text if it is on a webpage. Altavista has done that for quite some time now too, and Hotbot did it almost a decade ago, but Googles indexing of the actual video content via closed captions is slightly more impressive.
Our mission is to organize the world's information, and that includes the thousands of programs that play on our TVs every day.
Also not as good as it sounds, apparently "the world" only extends to a few of the major US TV networks.
BBC already has video online, and they add subtitles to all content broadcast on BBC1 and BBC2, so it should have been easy to include them in the test. Given BBC's attitude towards the internet and making information freely available compared with most commercial broadcasters, they probably would have bent over backwards to help Google with this.
But emacs 21 has some random wackiness where utf-8 isn't considered a valid encoding for CJK
The tables for mapping CJK onto Unicode are not present in 21.3, but they were posted to gnu.emacs.sources by Dave Love around April 2002, and are available somewhere on his FTP site. 21.4 will have the tables, and dynamically load them as needed, and that can be got from CVS now (and is reasonably stable, certainly more stable than the unicode branch).
There seem to be a lot of comments saying nothing more than "use ssh!", and worryingly they are being modded up by the slashdot sheep who can't see beyond using CVS on the public internet like their pet open source projects do.
The article author has been a bit vague about his requirements, but he did mention that this is for a project team within his company. In all likelyhood his users are all on a secure LAN, and ssh will buy him nothing but added complexity. Possibly more useful if his clients are all on Windows machines is the SSPI authentication module for CVS NT (unfortunately also requires the server to be Windows, unless there is some hook into Samba to enable this that I don't know about), which gives secure transparent login to domain users.
Configuring multiple authentication methods will let you cater to remote users and those not logged into a Windows domain, but if your server is visible to the public internet, leave pserver off!
In a "Soviet Russia" kind of moment, a homeless person told me to leave when I sat on a park bench in Gothenburg, Sweden a couple of years ago. Not knowing what drugs he was on and what sort of knife or broken bottle he was packing, I complied.
Monsanto removes the contaminating crop at their expense.
No they don't. They claimed that in court, but his wife is now suing Monsanto in small-claims court because they have failed to remove the very canola plants they sued her husband over 7 years ago from her organic garden.
Having to worry about licensing issues is a fixed cost for any development. Whether its the GPL or Microsoft's redistributable code license, the company lawyer needs to go through all the third party licenses and make sure that all terms are being complied with and it is not going to expose the company to unforseen risk.
Freedom2Surf, they used to be cheapest, but I don't think thats true anymore. Checking their pricing again, the £14 and £20 are for capped downloads (1GB and 5GB respectively), which might be another reason I chose to stick with my 512k unmetered. For 2Mbps uncapped, you're looking at £35, which isn't such a great deal compared with the 8Mbps for £40 I've seen advertised over the last couple of months for metro areas.
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It is not better to silently ignore the fact that you are dealing with what looks like corrupt data.
Many people have legitimate reasons to use different From: headers. As long as the envelope address is genuine, the email is easily traced, so there is no need to go imposing misguided restrictions on the email headers.
They are rights granted to US citizens by the US goverrnment. There are around 5 billion human beings who were not born with these rights, and there are but a few hundred million in the US who have these rights, some of whom kid themselves over how easily those "rights" could be taken away.
But actually, I'd like to know what similar studies have been conducted in years past.
A large scale study was carried out in Germany, Japan and Italy in the 1930s and '40s. Whole nations patterned their thoughts and behaviour behind totally irrational megalomaniacs. More recently similar smaller scale studies have been carried out in Cambodia, North Korea and Microsoft, and one larger scale study in China has been going on for over fifty years now.
I wonder if anyone's done a study on what US Kids understand "terrorism" to mean. It seems to be an extremely overused term these days.
I Europe we call the sort of act "collective punishment", though some extremists equate it with terrorism. In the US, they reward it with billions of dollars of military aid.
Given that all Intuit's former customers have to go out and buy a new copy now, who do you think would lose customers if banks told Intuit where to stick their Quicken tax and started recommending something else to their customers?
Just as Evian is held responsible by the FDA or other appropropriate authority, RedHat, Mandrake, SuSe or other distributer would be held liable under any applicable consumer law if you bought your GNU/Linux distribution boxed and from a shop, or perhaps the PC manufacturer if it was preinstalled. If you think Microsoft takes any more responsibility than the minimum required by law, you obviously haven't read the EULA. They even go to the extent of having a separate warrantee/limitation of liability section for each juristiction, so you know they are just spelling out the legal minimums.
Its supposed to be a controlled flight though. Riding on the back of a giant firecracker does not count.
So clearly we need China, Japan and the EU to freeze the US's debt repayments so it can have a chance of pulling itself out of its downward spiral and back into the first world and start polluting less.
Refactoring is only useful if you are working by yourself and didn't do any design work to start with. I am personally sick of hearing Eclipse fanboys rant about how its the greatest thing since sliced bread. If you're working as part of a team, it is fucking annoying to have some twerp refactor the code base so the code you are working on suddenly won't compile and you have to go searching for where all the methods have gone. Classnames and packages should be set in stone. Changing them willy-nilly just because you like to show off your new Eclipse toy makes the code less maintainable, not more.
I've never seen any issues with GUI code, unless you mean that it doesn't have a native look-and-feel (but then, neither do a lot of recent Windows programs, Microsoft ones included).
The only platform issues I've seen are former VB programmers hard-coding paths with backslashes in them, and OS/390 defaulting to EBDIC encoding for reading files (which had been deployed with the application and were actually in ASCII).
GNU Emacs would have represented an even bigger step forward had the XEmacs developers not gone it alone. The Emacs developers had come up with an elegant design for Emacs that would work on both X and a TTY terminal. The commercial company that was pushing for X support decided that this ambitious project was going to take too long and went off and wrote XEmacs, which ripped out the TTY support replacing it with X. Only later did TTY support get added back in to XEmacs, and GNU Emacs was left with a much smaller pool of developers, meaning it fell behind for a few years. GNU Emacs 20 was first to get integrated Mule (multilingual) support, and its likely that GNU Emacs will be first with a stable GTK release and maybe first to use Unicode as its internal encoding, but both Emacs and XEmacs have been fairly close in features for some time now, and the developers have started co-operating more in recent years.
Unless I'm mistaken, yahoo is just indexing the name of the video file and perhaps the surrounding text if it is on a webpage. Altavista has done that for quite some time now too, and Hotbot did it almost a decade ago, but Googles indexing of the actual video content via closed captions is slightly more impressive.
Also not as good as it sounds, apparently "the world" only extends to a few of the major US TV networks.
BBC already has video online, and they add subtitles to all content broadcast on BBC1 and BBC2, so it should have been easy to include them in the test. Given BBC's attitude towards the internet and making information freely available compared with most commercial broadcasters, they probably would have bent over backwards to help Google with this.
The tables for mapping CJK onto Unicode are not present in 21.3, but they were posted to gnu.emacs.sources by Dave Love around April 2002, and are available somewhere on his FTP site. 21.4 will have the tables, and dynamically load them as needed, and that can be got from CVS now (and is reasonably stable, certainly more stable than the unicode branch).
Production environment? Whats that about?
Not without quotes it isn't!
The article author has been a bit vague about his requirements, but he did mention that this is for a project team within his company. In all likelyhood his users are all on a secure LAN, and ssh will buy him nothing but added complexity. Possibly more useful if his clients are all on Windows machines is the SSPI authentication module for CVS NT (unfortunately also requires the server to be Windows, unless there is some hook into Samba to enable this that I don't know about), which gives secure transparent login to domain users.
Configuring multiple authentication methods will let you cater to remote users and those not logged into a Windows domain, but if your server is visible to the public internet, leave pserver off!
There is an important difference: Problems are challenges to be solved. Issues get logged in issue-tracking to be forgotten forever.
In a "Soviet Russia" kind of moment, a homeless person told me to leave when I sat on a park bench in Gothenburg, Sweden a couple of years ago. Not knowing what drugs he was on and what sort of knife or broken bottle he was packing, I complied.
No they don't. They claimed that in court, but his wife is now suing Monsanto in small-claims court because they have failed to remove the very canola plants they sued her husband over 7 years ago from her organic garden.
Not necessarily. Monsanto have been known to sue farmers whose crops became contaminated with windborne patented seeds from their neighbours' feilds.
Having to worry about licensing issues is a fixed cost for any development. Whether its the GPL or Microsoft's redistributable code license, the company lawyer needs to go through all the third party licenses and make sure that all terms are being complied with and it is not going to expose the company to unforseen risk.
I think the exact wording was I hate collage . I thought he meant he wanted to do some coloring in or join the dots instead.
Freedom2Surf, they used to be cheapest, but I don't think thats true anymore. Checking their pricing again, the £14 and £20 are for capped downloads (1GB and 5GB respectively), which might be another reason I chose to stick with my 512k unmetered. For 2Mbps uncapped, you're looking at £35, which isn't such a great deal compared with the 8Mbps for £40 I've seen advertised over the last couple of months for metro areas.