...a sleeping bag cover that was stained with blood from the missing wife whom the Linux programmer is accused of killing.
I'd want to know what they meant by "stained with blood"; that could be anything from a few drops to a large patch indicating a serious wound. My bet is the former, or they'd have been more lurid with the description. In which case it's circumstantial; my wife got a paper cut in bed the other day and got blood on the pillow (true story), but that doesn't mean I murdered her.
The floorboards were sopping wet, Cavness testified.
Circumstantial. Ever spilled a quart of milk in the car and had to try to get it out of the carpet?
But an alternative explanation was that he used the car to move a body, scrubbed the blood off the bodywork and dumped the seat because he couldn't get the blood off it.
Still circumstantial. Yes, it could have been Hans cleaning blood off the carpet; it could also have been Hans cleaning oil off the carpet.
The last two calls Nina made on her cellphone were to Hans before she disappeared, just after she dropped off her children at his house.
Also circumstantial, unless they can get ECHELON to tell us the content of the calls.
I agree that it looks suspicious as all hell; but the other side of things looks as suspicious as all hell too, when you read about Nina and her boyfriend.
Also, having possibly out of date maps available in a central archive does kind of worry me. I'd rather have people getting them from us directly.
In which case, your only option is to make the data available via the web, for free or for a very small fee.
As soon as you try to make money reproducing something which is public (and which anyone else has the right to reproduce), someone else will step in and compete with you.
Because if you want a cellphone in the USA you have no other choice.
Because if you want any kind of feature in your phone you have to sign a contract.
Absolutely 100% wrong.
You can buy an unlocked GSM phone from wherever you like, walk into an AT&T or T-Mobile store, and they'll sell you a SIM card for the phone.
When my AT&T contract expired, I called them up and asked for the unlock codes for my phones. They gave them to me.
I currently have a BlackBerry Curve. It doesn't get much more featureful than that. I have absolutely no contract. I walked into a T-Mobile store, bought the phone, gave them my credit card details for the subscription. The phone is fully enabled, there are no carrier locks to prevent my transferring files or otherwise making use of all its functions.
Like XMP, which is pretty much XMLJPG except the XML and JPEG data are either kept in separate files, or the XML is embedded inside the JPG rather than the other way around.
And the BitKeeper license is not going to be a problem, right? Because they've never screwed over an open source project before, so they clearly won't start now.
I'm guessing that Andy Tannenbaum might want you to take a look at MINIX 3.
That's just a wild stab in the dark, though.
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Anyway, what did Apple really do? They switched their OS9 for one of the oldest OS'es still around? Apple did NOT write new code, they used existing code, existing ANCIENT code.
OS X uses the Mach kernel, a project which didn't start until 1985. NeXT was founded in 1985, so NeXTstep is about the same age. The imaging layer in OS X is entirely new and based on PDF, because they didn't want to reuse the licensed NeXTstep Display PostScript from Adobe. Also entirely new are Core Image, Core Data, Core Image, Bonjour, and so on. So other than the core BSD tools, most of OS X dates from the late 80s at the earliest.
Sure, it implements APIs that date back to v7 Unix. But then, Windows Vista implements APIs that date back to 86-DOS aka QDOS in 1981.
For those of us who work in IT with some semblance of responsibility, how exactly do we car-pool to work at 3am when a server crashes and we need to get it up and running before the next day's business?
Since we're talking about congestion charging here, where do you live that has heavily congested roads at 3am?
Ruby is slow, even by scripting language standards (in the main implementation, anyways).
Ruby 1.9 has a new VM that's double the speed.
Both of them aren't that amazing when it comes to Unicode (like Perl or Java)
Ruby 1.9 supports Unicode.
don't have built in security-hardened modes (like Perl's tainting or PHP's weird data firewall thingy, etc)
Ruby has taint, just like Perl. Has for years.
aren't as portable as they might be (like EBCDIC, VMS, S390 and other places that aren't Unix or Windows)
Ruby for VMS. There are a few people working on porting it to z/OS, but I don't think anyone cares much; Rails sites on System z hardware tend to run on Linux for z/OS.
and their package repositories lack sophistication and the ability to properly nest dependencies in a cross-platform way (like Perl, Fortran, R and Erlang).
Ruby's packaging system (RubyGems) is fully cross platform and supports dependency nesting. Has been for years.
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OK, then, that's a suspicious amount of blood.
But one suspicious piece of evidence and a pile of circumstantial facts makes for a pretty weak murder case.
I'd want to know what they meant by "stained with blood"; that could be anything from a few drops to a large patch indicating a serious wound. My bet is the former, or they'd have been more lurid with the description. In which case it's circumstantial; my wife got a paper cut in bed the other day and got blood on the pillow (true story), but that doesn't mean I murdered her.
Circumstantial. Ever spilled a quart of milk in the car and had to try to get it out of the carpet?
Still circumstantial. Yes, it could have been Hans cleaning blood off the carpet; it could also have been Hans cleaning oil off the carpet.
Also circumstantial, unless they can get ECHELON to tell us the content of the calls.
I agree that it looks suspicious as all hell; but the other side of things looks as suspicious as all hell too, when you read about Nina and her boyfriend.
Read the request. The feature's already there, I'm just asking for a workable UI.
You mean like the HTML abbr and acronym elements, only reimplemented in JavaScript for no good reason?
See my .signature.
In which case, your only option is to make the data available via the web, for free or for a very small fee.
As soon as you try to make money reproducing something which is public (and which anyone else has the right to reproduce), someone else will step in and compete with you.
Even better, serve up incorrect versions and make the misbehaving software choke on valid files.
You know who else executes children? The USA.
José Padilla. Glad to be of service.
Absolutely 100% wrong.
You can buy an unlocked GSM phone from wherever you like, walk into an AT&T or T-Mobile store, and they'll sell you a SIM card for the phone.
When my AT&T contract expired, I called them up and asked for the unlock codes for my phones. They gave them to me.
I currently have a BlackBerry Curve. It doesn't get much more featureful than that. I have absolutely no contract. I walked into a T-Mobile store, bought the phone, gave them my credit card details for the subscription. The phone is fully enabled, there are no carrier locks to prevent my transferring files or otherwise making use of all its functions.
Like XMP, which is pretty much XMLJPG except the XML and JPEG data are either kept in separate files, or the XML is embedded inside the JPG rather than the other way around.
And the BitKeeper license is not going to be a problem, right? Because they've never screwed over an open source project before, so they clearly won't start now.
Right, that's it exactly, I think that a decent UI for cookie and script permissions should be a core part of the product.
They could make the default "dangerous (allow all)".
I'm guessing that Andy Tannenbaum might want you to take a look at MINIX 3.
That's just a wild stab in the dark, though.
OS X uses the Mach kernel, a project which didn't start until 1985. NeXT was founded in 1985, so NeXTstep is about the same age. The imaging layer in OS X is entirely new and based on PDF, because they didn't want to reuse the licensed NeXTstep Display PostScript from Adobe. Also entirely new are Core Image, Core Data, Core Image, Bonjour, and so on. So other than the core BSD tools, most of OS X dates from the late 80s at the earliest.
Sure, it implements APIs that date back to v7 Unix. But then, Windows Vista implements APIs that date back to 86-DOS aka QDOS in 1981.
Any chance that they've removed the dependency on Microsoft's patented .NET technologies via Mono?
(Yes, I know you can manually remove bits of the Gnome environment to get rid of Mono; but the Gnome environment by default includes Mono.)
FYI, I increased the speed of Symphony on my machine by replacing the bundled JVM with Sun's JVM.
(Opinions mine, not IBM's.)
Since we're talking about congestion charging here, where do you live that has heavily congested roads at 3am?
Right, but all the Ruby 1.9 features will be going into Ruby 2.0 when they're fully baked and the problems are worked out.
Ruby 1.9 has a new VM that's double the speed.
Ruby 1.9 supports Unicode.
Ruby has taint, just like Perl. Has for years.
Ruby for VMS. There are a few people working on porting it to z/OS, but I don't think anyone cares much; Rails sites on System z hardware tend to run on Linux for z/OS.
Ruby's packaging system (RubyGems) is fully cross platform and supports dependency nesting. Has been for years.
[Opinions mine, not IBM's.]
You can criticize Ruby for a lot of things, but to claim that it's uglier than Python is laughable.
I figure two command line devotees will result in at least a case of the ass burgers.
Well, I think the UI for controlling scripting and cookies could use some serious work, see sig.
1. Collect empty alcoholic beverage containers.
2. Fill them with Kool-Aid.
3. Stage riotous party shots.
4. Post photos to Facebook.
5. Wait to be suspended without due cause.
6. Sue school district.
7. Profit!