Well, first off, I do think Guiness is wrong: they've no right to take these domains away. HOWEVER. The guy never filed a response. This is equivelent, in my mind, to failing to show up for court - if you're not there, you don't get to argue your case. If he really cared, he could have written in explaining his side. Maybe he still would have lost, but he never even tried.
Secondly, this is hardly the first time he's done this. According to the paper, he's been involved in what, six or seven cases like this? If he hasn't learned by now, I have no sympathy for him.
Easy - the survey was probly distributed online. 8-) More seriously, they probly didn't survey in the areas where people were less likely to have computers. They were trying to prove a point, which was that net use doesn't damage people's lives. So they're not going to go to places where no-one can log in, they're going to interview upper/middle class, suburban neighborhoods, where everyone could afford to be on the net if they wanted. Statistics can be completely accurate without sharing any actual information. In this case, they did offer information - that of those with the financial ability to buy a computer and net access, or access to a public school/library with net access, a fair portion don't think it's hurt them.
OK. Here's the deal with locksmithing, since a number of people here seem to have mis-understood this. I took a locksmithing course, while toying with the idea of starting a business. The law, in most US states, is that it is illegal to own locksmithing/picking tools with intent to commit a crime.
Which, really, means very little. If they search you and find the tools, they obviously think they can claim you were suspicious, and they'll add that to the list. However, if the tools fall out of your pocket, and you can show that you're a locksmith, you've got a good chance of getting out. Of course, if you can't prove you're a locksmith, you're likely to spend a few nights in jail waiting for someone to give you a hand... (this has happened to retailers, and salesmen traveling to conventions...)
In other words, it's intent that counts. If they can't prove intent, they'll have a hard time keeping you in jail.
OK... so you make it closed source, and require a license to work on it. licenses available to anyone who can convince linus they've got a good idea (ie, everyone), and punishment for breaking the license ruling is 6 months hard labour. I think working on the code should be about the right level of difficulty, don't you?
Gnome and KDE are fairly pathetic imitations of an already pathetic OS (windows).
Of course, windows is just a poor imitation of MacOS, so see where this argument ends up? Despite using a 'pc' for economic reasons (I couldn't afford a mac) I've always said that the only machine with a good GUI was the Mac. That ended with System7, but...
Ok folks, there's an easy solution to the problem of a company not giving you the full OS on CD: buy from a company that does. I just bought a new PC, with, I'm ashamed to say, Windows 98. And I'll keep it, until all the games I want are available for linux.
However, I got a full version. And, had I chosen, I could have gotten a full version of ME, or of RedHat, or a store-burned RedHat CD & install (for about $30). All of these were the OEM versions, but not linked to the bios (at least, I havn't noticed... and I've already used it to fix another machine). And yes, they sell machines with no OS at all. They also give away a free copy of Corel WordPerfect Office 2000 with every M$ OS. (The store, by the way, is PCs For Everyone. So shop at a smaller store, and simply DON'T BUY from companies that don't sell things you want! It's that easy!
The difference, in my mind, is this: it is unlikely for a bird to be blown more than a few hundred miles off course, and it is unlikely that it will drop those seeds in a place where A) they will successfully germinate and B) will have another of their kind and the correct types of animals to help them reproduce - therefore, they even if it sprouts, it may not last more than a single generation.
Also, environments that change in this way rarely change (AFAIK) catastrophicly. If the plant/animal is not "intended" to live in that environment, it won't. There are a few exceptions, such as rats, which can live just about anywhere, but mostly plants which are introduced by lost birds simply can't take over - their ecological niche is already filled, by something that's well established. However, if humans decide that, for instance, kudzu is a great plant, and it should be planted and nurtured along the side of every highway in the US, where it has no natural competition, and it's being helped out with fertilizer, that's a bad thing. Or, in the other direction, if people decide that they'd really like to have goats on their new island home, when that island had no grazers larger than a rabbit before, it will - and did - cause problems. I don't recall the name of the island, but most of it is dead. There are now trees, and almost no grass. In fact, those goats are now starving to death, because the island can't support them. I don't think we'll see the day when an off-course seagull carries a goat to a remote island.
First off, they're not allowed to change your service without your consent.
Secondly, they're legally required to stop calling you if you ask. My advice is ask them politely once to stop calling you, then tell them if they don't take you off their phone lists *WHILE YOU'RE ON THE PHONE* you're going to call a lawyer, and sue. They'll do it, 'cause you'd win. No question. They're required by law to do it, if they break the law, they have no case. I actually met someone who took AT&T to court, and won. (Case never got to court...AT&T settled personally when his lawyer called them up. Like I said... they've got no case.)
I've been using SuSE (as well as linux in general) for a bit over a year: I have had problems with configs not being where I expected them (or where the HOWTOs say they should be), but I've never had them overwritten. Of course, that could be because once I get them working, I stop using YaST to modify them...
And, under 6.4, if you modify the sendmail.cf, it notices, and refuses to overwrite - instead it leaves it as is, and puts it's own version named something like sendmail.cf.SuSEversion. I dunno...I don't use YaST for anything but user modifications and adding packages, so I havn't had any problem.
Try http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/libstdc%2B%2B-libc6.1 -2.so.3.html - I just did a search through metacrawler for the lib, and it came up with a bunch of results.
Would you describe an alternative medicines show as being "anti medical profession zealotry"?
Ever been to an alternative medicine conference? At least here in the US, it IS often an "anti medical profession" show.
Why not let the public choose
Why not? Let's let all the OSes in... and restrict each of them to a specific percentage of the displays. That way people who want to go look at MS stuff can, and those of us who would rather see linux/be/mac/whatever can see that. (Not that this would ever work, but...)
According to the lotus representative I talked to the other day, the Lotus Domino mail server, at least, runs fine on Linux. I commented that I didn't like windows, and he said "Oh...but Domino runs fine on other OSes... Solaris, Unix, and the newest release is available for Linux."
I went from a 14.4 modem to mediaone's RoadRunner. I had an average of 4 days per week up with the cable modem, so I started looking at DSL. (Besides which, I wanted a static IP) Telocity offered me free install, free usage of the modem, and a static IP address. Service runs me about $40/month, but they havn't billed me yet. It's been near 4 months, now.... 8-)
Also, it's a relief to have tech support who know what they're doing and understand linux, in some cases more than I do. With MediaOne, I always dreaded the question 'What version of Windows do you use?', because they didn't understand that I didn't use it. A conversation would run, starting with the "tech support" guy: "What version of Windows are you running?" "I don't use Windows. I use linux." "What's linux?" "It's an operating system. Kind of like windows, only better." "Oh...so that runs in windows, then, right?" "No...it's an operating system. So is windows. Linux runs on the machine, which does not have windows on it." "Oh. Well, if you just switch over to Windows 98, everything will work again." "But I don't WANT Windo.... never mind. I'll go find a new ISP."
Anyway, Telocity has gotten me good service, a good price, and an easy install. (They mailed me the modem, I plugged it in, and it worked.) The one major problem I had was that a power surge blew out the power adapter (along with my surge suppressor and ethernet hub...the computer was ok, tho). But then, they overnighted me a new one, and gave me a week's free service to make sure I didn't have to pay for not having service....
There is only one good excuse for the return of Jar-Jar Binks. After all, we all know he's evil and obnoxious...and the sith are short an apprentice. I can see it now..."Meesa Darth Binks! Yousa gonna die..." (immediately followed by jar-jar cutting off his own tongue with his light-saber.)
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Well, first off, I do think Guiness is wrong: they've no right to take these domains away. HOWEVER. The guy never filed a response. This is equivelent, in my mind, to failing to show up for court - if you're not there, you don't get to argue your case. If he really cared, he could have written in explaining his side. Maybe he still would have lost, but he never even tried.
Secondly, this is hardly the first time he's done this. According to the paper, he's been involved in what, six or seven cases like this? If he hasn't learned by now, I have no sympathy for him.
Easy - the survey was probly distributed online. 8-) More seriously, they probly didn't survey in the areas where people were less likely to have computers. They were trying to prove a point, which was that net use doesn't damage people's lives. So they're not going to go to places where no-one can log in, they're going to interview upper/middle class, suburban neighborhoods, where everyone could afford to be on the net if they wanted. Statistics can be completely accurate without sharing any actual information. In this case, they did offer information - that of those with the financial ability to buy a computer and net access, or access to a public school/library with net access, a fair portion don't think it's hurt them.
Remember, it's ~67% OF THOSE SURVEYED.
OK. Here's the deal with locksmithing, since a number of people here seem to have mis-understood this. I took a locksmithing course, while toying with the idea of starting a business. The law, in most US states, is that it is illegal to own locksmithing/picking tools with intent to commit a crime.
Which, really, means very little. If they search you and find the tools, they obviously think they can claim you were suspicious, and they'll add that to the list. However, if the tools fall out of your pocket, and you can show that you're a locksmith, you've got a good chance of getting out. Of course, if you can't prove you're a locksmith, you're likely to spend a few nights in jail waiting for someone to give you a hand... (this has happened to retailers, and salesmen traveling to conventions...)
In other words, it's intent that counts. If they can't prove intent, they'll have a hard time keeping you in jail.
-CarikOK... so you make it closed source, and require a license to work on it. licenses available to anyone who can convince linus they've got a good idea (ie, everyone), and punishment for breaking the license ruling is 6 months hard labour. I think working on the code should be about the right level of difficulty, don't you?
Of course, windows is just a poor imitation of MacOS, so see where this argument ends up? Despite using a 'pc' for economic reasons (I couldn't afford a mac) I've always said that the only machine with a good GUI was the Mac. That ended with System7, but...
Cole's Axiom: The sum of intelligence in the world is a constant. The population is increasing.
(and if anyone knows who actually said that, please let me know. I never knew.)
Ok folks, there's an easy solution to the problem of a company not giving you the full OS on CD: buy from a company that does. I just bought a new PC, with, I'm ashamed to say, Windows 98. And I'll keep it, until all the games I want are available for linux.
However, I got a full version. And, had I chosen, I could have gotten a full version of ME, or of RedHat, or a store-burned RedHat CD & install (for about $30). All of these were the OEM versions, but not linked to the bios (at least, I havn't noticed... and I've already used it to fix another machine). And yes, they sell machines with no OS at all. They also give away a free copy of Corel WordPerfect Office 2000 with every M$ OS. (The store, by the way, is PCs For Everyone. So shop at a smaller store, and simply DON'T BUY from companies that don't sell things you want! It's that easy!
The difference, in my mind, is this: it is unlikely for a bird to be blown more than a few hundred miles off course, and it is unlikely that it will drop those seeds in a place where A) they will successfully germinate and B) will have another of their kind and the correct types of animals to help them reproduce - therefore, they even if it sprouts, it may not last more than a single generation.
Also, environments that change in this way rarely change (AFAIK) catastrophicly. If the plant/animal is not "intended" to live in that environment, it won't. There are a few exceptions, such as rats, which can live just about anywhere, but mostly plants which are introduced by lost birds simply can't take over - their ecological niche is already filled, by something that's well established. However, if humans decide that, for instance, kudzu is a great plant, and it should be planted and nurtured along the side of every highway in the US, where it has no natural competition, and it's being helped out with fertilizer, that's a bad thing. Or, in the other direction, if people decide that they'd really like to have goats on their new island home, when that island had no grazers larger than a rabbit before, it will - and did - cause problems. I don't recall the name of the island, but most of it is dead. There are now trees, and almost no grass. In fact, those goats are now starving to death, because the island can't support them. I don't think we'll see the day when an off-course seagull carries a goat to a remote island.
Just my $.02...
First off, they're not allowed to change your service without your consent.
Secondly, they're legally required to stop calling you if you ask. My advice is ask them politely once to stop calling you, then tell them if they don't take you off their phone lists *WHILE YOU'RE ON THE PHONE* you're going to call a lawyer, and sue. They'll do it, 'cause you'd win. No question. They're required by law to do it, if they break the law, they have no case. I actually met someone who took AT&T to court, and won. (Case never got to court...AT&T settled personally when his lawyer called them up. Like I said... they've got no case.)
I've been using SuSE (as well as linux in general) for a bit over a year: I have had problems with configs not being where I expected them (or where the HOWTOs say they should be), but I've never had them overwritten. Of course, that could be because once I get them working, I stop using YaST to modify them...
And, under 6.4, if you modify the sendmail.cf, it notices, and refuses to overwrite - instead it leaves it as is, and puts it's own version named something like sendmail.cf.SuSEversion. I dunno...I don't use YaST for anything but user modifications and adding packages, so I havn't had any problem.
Try http://rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/libstdc%2B%2B-libc6.1 -2.so.3.html - I just did a search through metacrawler for the lib, and it came up with a bunch of results.
Would you describe an alternative medicines show as being "anti medical profession zealotry"?
Ever been to an alternative medicine conference? At least here in the US, it IS often an "anti medical profession" show.
Why not let the public choose
Why not? Let's let all the OSes in... and restrict each of them to a specific percentage of the displays. That way people who want to go look at MS stuff can, and those of us who would rather see linux/be/mac/whatever can see that. (Not that this would ever work, but...)
According to the lotus representative I talked to the other day, the Lotus Domino mail server, at least, runs fine on Linux. I commented that I didn't like windows, and he said "Oh...but Domino runs fine on other OSes... Solaris, Unix, and the newest release is available for Linux."
Just thought I'd throw that in...
I went from a 14.4 modem to mediaone's RoadRunner. I had an average of 4 days per week up with the cable modem, so I started looking at DSL. (Besides which, I wanted a static IP) Telocity offered me free install, free usage of the modem, and a static IP address. Service runs me about $40/month, but they havn't billed me yet. It's been near 4 months, now.... 8-)
Also, it's a relief to have tech support who know what they're doing and understand linux, in some cases more than I do. With MediaOne, I always dreaded the question 'What version of Windows do you use?', because they didn't understand that I didn't use it. A conversation would run, starting with the "tech support" guy: "What version of Windows are you running?" "I don't use Windows. I use linux." "What's linux?" "It's an operating system. Kind of like windows, only better." "Oh...so that runs in windows, then, right?" "No...it's an operating system. So is windows. Linux runs on the machine, which does not have windows on it." "Oh. Well, if you just switch over to Windows 98, everything will work again." "But I don't WANT Windo.... never mind. I'll go find a new ISP."
Anyway, Telocity has gotten me good service, a good price, and an easy install. (They mailed me the modem, I plugged it in, and it worked.) The one major problem I had was that a power surge blew out the power adapter (along with my surge suppressor and ethernet hub...the computer was ok, tho). But then, they overnighted me a new one, and gave me a week's free service to make sure I didn't have to pay for not having service....
There is only one good excuse for the return of Jar-Jar Binks. After all, we all know he's evil and obnoxious...and the sith are short an apprentice. I can see it now..."Meesa Darth Binks! Yousa gonna die..." (immediately followed by jar-jar cutting off his own tongue with his light-saber.)