I wasn't trolling. That's a tidy answer for the ACLU, but it seems like a cop-out to me. Sometimes the NRA doesn't touch some bills, such as some recent bills in state governments that link gun possession to drug posession, making simple possession of both something that qualifies you as a drug kingpin, even if you only have a single antique musket and a single hit of LSD.
The NRA won't risk looking "soft on crime". The ACLU won't touch gun issues. Things like this fall through the cracks.
Drug reform activists managed to get this repealed, at least in my state, but the ACLU was not interested, and neither was the NRA.
Rather than have dozens of police officers wandering about the streets more-or-less aimlessly, a smaller number can be directed to trouble spots very quickly.
The logical extension is cameras in homes. Get robbed? No problem, the police have all your video on file, and can just pull up the footage to see who broke into your home.
Or maybe there are pesky political demonstrators marching down the street, interrupting traffic. With the cameras in place, it will be easy to convict them for something to shut them up for a while.
It's not as much what their doing now, it's that the same arguments for what they are doing now can be used to justify real loss of freedom.
It's hard to keep up with licenses at a small company. I'd venture to say most companies with 50 computers or less have at most one IT person to handle everything. A company with 150-200 clients and a few servers might have 2-3 IT people if they are lucky.
The only reasonable way such a company can ensure full licenses is to pay MS's outrageous "protection money". I forget what they call it, something like "software assurance". When the BSA comes in, you are guilty until proven innocent. Most companies roll over.
The major things holding back the adoption are a lack of native anonymous SFTP capabilities, and a really shitty default SFTP client.
I, for one, would like to see a SFTP that used something like rsync become the standard. Screw resume, who needs resume when your client can pick out any missing or corrupt parts and correct them?
Rsync has saved me tons of time in the past. I've downloaded several hundred meg files, only to find them corrupted in transit (thanks Starband!), but if I can find someone who is willing to put the files up and set up rsync for me to sync to, I can uncorrupt my file in less than a minute, rather than downloading the whole damn thing again.
The only thing that mystifies me is why there is so much stagnation in basic file transfer protocols. My former college has resorted to using DAV when they decided to disable FTP for security reasons. DAV is probably great and all, but it wasn't really designed with replacing FTP in mind.
All the pieces are there, someone just needs to roll them into one product. You can rsync over ssh, and you can install a special shell to make an "SCP/SFTP only" account. But you still can't have a single, universal way to securely get files, in a way that would kill FTP forever.
That is pretty insensitive, no one likes being rolled into one big group. He should have properly referred to them using proper terms like "gooks," "chinks," "slants," or "nips".
RAID isn't a backup. It isn't meant to take the place of a backup. Backups let you restore files as they existed at some point in time in the past.
rm -rf, worms, trojans, etc.. RAID does nothing for these.
Use rsync-incremental, or rdiff-backup for backing up your unix-like systems to other disks. Both are excellent backup solutions (use them in addition to RAID for full protection).
LyX is a nice frontend to LaTeX. There are several packages for LaTeX hyperlinked PDFs, like Prosper and hyperref. You should be able to do pretty well with a combination of those.
The LaTeX that LyX creates is neat and readable, so it shouldn't be a problem to hand tweak it if you need to.
SCO is publically traded on a major market, though they were likely in risk of being delisted. They have name recognition in the IT industry. Their press releases cross stock market newswires. When they mention IBM in their press release, it also gets listed under IBM's news ticker.
CNBC is a major stock market channel. Maria Bartiromo is a hottie. When she talks, guys listen. MS and NBC are partners.
I don't think it's any deep conspiracy, just the usual sort of slightly sleezy stuff, combined with the benefits of being listed on a major market.
I think you misunderstand, if the GPL is invalid, it means the software can't be copied at all (except as allowed by copyright law, the whole "one copy" thing). It doesn't magically fall into public domain or anything.
she plans to "ship as many American IT jobs overseas as possible."
At least she plans to further her company through legitimate means, rather than baseless legal claims, lies, and deception. I also don't see what's wrong with getting the most for your money. Sounds like a good plan for any business.
Yeah, it really is. I've been trying to move toward open solutions with a minimum of vendor lockin. We've had Creo and ArtPro present their piece, but both seemed intent on selling thier lockin-ware complete workflow solutions.
development of trapping systems should be really straightforward
Straightforward, but difficult I've heard. I've discussed in-rip trapping with the Ghostscript people, and they seem to think it will take a pretty serious effort. Even if they did implement it, I don't think in-rip autotrap by itself would ever be intelligent enough for prepress work. The ability to tweak traps by hand will probably always be necessary.
I'd really love some open source developers to step up to the plate on this one. Ghostscript and GSView have been invaluable tools for me so far with my prepress work (GSView/epstool supports DCS2 now due to my company's funding of said features). The new version of FullPress is even based on a custom licensed version of Ghostscript. There's an old open source OPI server out there too, I don't know if it's still useful.
We have the open foundation, we just need some people to get together to fill in the missing pieces. As a side benefit, a trap would be useful for non-prepress printing too, as it could be used by inkjet printer drivers.
You didn't touch on their real less popular position, that the ACLU's version of the constitution seems to be missing the 2nd amendment. They are also in favor of programs that render one group "more equal" than other's, like affermative action.
I never understood how formalizing and institutionalizing descrimination somehow is supposed to end it.
Don't say 802.11x when you mean 802.11*. 802.11x is a wireless security standard. As far as I can tell, this article has nothing to do with 802.11x. I see this error a lot.
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That's OK, I have it on good authority that Uranus will be renamed in 2636 to Urectum.
I wasn't trolling. That's a tidy answer for the ACLU, but it seems like a cop-out to me. Sometimes the NRA doesn't touch some bills, such as some recent bills in state governments that link gun possession to drug posession, making simple possession of both something that qualifies you as a drug kingpin, even if you only have a single antique musket and a single hit of LSD.
The NRA won't risk looking "soft on crime". The ACLU won't touch gun issues. Things like this fall through the cracks.
Drug reform activists managed to get this repealed, at least in my state, but the ACLU was not interested, and neither was the NRA.
Rather than have dozens of police officers wandering about the streets more-or-less aimlessly, a smaller number can be directed to trouble spots very quickly.
The logical extension is cameras in homes. Get robbed? No problem, the police have all your video on file, and can just pull up the footage to see who broke into your home.
Or maybe there are pesky political demonstrators marching down the street, interrupting traffic. With the cameras in place, it will be easy to convict them for something to shut them up for a while.
It's not as much what their doing now, it's that the same arguments for what they are doing now can be used to justify real loss of freedom.
Only if EULAs are indeed valid. That's still not been established fully.
It's hard to keep up with licenses at a small company. I'd venture to say most companies with 50 computers or less have at most one IT person to handle everything. A company with 150-200 clients and a few servers might have 2-3 IT people if they are lucky.
The only reasonable way such a company can ensure full licenses is to pay MS's outrageous "protection money". I forget what they call it, something like "software assurance". When the BSA comes in, you are guilty until proven innocent. Most companies roll over.
The major things holding back the adoption are a lack of native anonymous SFTP capabilities, and a really shitty default SFTP client.
I, for one, would like to see a SFTP that used something like rsync become the standard. Screw resume, who needs resume when your client can pick out any missing or corrupt parts and correct them?
Rsync has saved me tons of time in the past. I've downloaded several hundred meg files, only to find them corrupted in transit (thanks Starband!), but if I can find someone who is willing to put the files up and set up rsync for me to sync to, I can uncorrupt my file in less than a minute, rather than downloading the whole damn thing again.
The only thing that mystifies me is why there is so much stagnation in basic file transfer protocols. My former college has resorted to using DAV when they decided to disable FTP for security reasons. DAV is probably great and all, but it wasn't really designed with replacing FTP in mind.
All the pieces are there, someone just needs to roll them into one product. You can rsync over ssh, and you can install a special shell to make an "SCP/SFTP only" account. But you still can't have a single, universal way to securely get files, in a way that would kill FTP forever.
wouldn't all those neutrons knocked loose generate more radioactive waste by contaminating anything nearby?
Contaminating them how? Irradiating something (usually) doesn't somehow make it radioactive when it wasn't before.
Or we could just start calling it something else. If enough people call it something else, the silly names will be soon forgotten.
That is pretty insensitive, no one likes being rolled into one big group. He should have properly referred to them using proper terms like "gooks," "chinks," "slants," or "nips".
But only if there is a physical threat of violence usually.
Otherwise just collecting on a debt would be extortion "Pay up or I'll get a judgement against you", isn't exortion.
RAID isn't a backup. It isn't meant to take the place of a backup. Backups let you restore files as they existed at some point in time in the past.
rm -rf, worms, trojans, etc.. RAID does nothing for these.
Use rsync-incremental, or rdiff-backup for backing up your unix-like systems to other disks. Both are excellent backup solutions (use them in addition to RAID for full protection).
LyX is a nice frontend to LaTeX. There are several packages for LaTeX hyperlinked PDFs, like Prosper and hyperref. You should be able to do pretty well with a combination of those.
The LaTeX that LyX creates is neat and readable, so it shouldn't be a problem to hand tweak it if you need to.
There are no where near 1 million lines of code in the kernel itself. I'm counting 680,000 in the 2.4.18 copy I have, excluding the drivers directory.
They would have no right to distribute anything GPL. Which is why their claims are so stupid.
What do you know, this box has that video card.
:) Thanks.
Guess that narrows it down.
Does Slashdot even bother saving the IP address for every post?
Go try to moderate a story you posted as an AC in.
Those things you described could arguably be less legitimate because there is some level of deception going on.
Hiring programmers in another country doesn't involve any deception that I can see.
Oh well. My foot tastes kind good. I'd rate it somewhere between cheese whiz and neufchatel.
and my lawyers are preparing lawsuits against some of the larger auto manufacturers
Shouldn't you be suing car owners? That would be more akin to what SCO is doing.
SCO is publically traded on a major market, though they were likely in risk of being delisted. They have name recognition in the IT industry. Their press releases cross stock market newswires. When they mention IBM in their press release, it also gets listed under IBM's news ticker.
CNBC is a major stock market channel. Maria Bartiromo is a hottie. When she talks, guys listen. MS and NBC are partners.
I don't think it's any deep conspiracy, just the usual sort of slightly sleezy stuff, combined with the benefits of being listed on a major market.
I think you misunderstand, if the GPL is invalid, it means the software can't be copied at all (except as allowed by copyright law, the whole "one copy" thing). It doesn't magically fall into public domain or anything.
SCO won't win anyway, their claim is ridiculous.
she plans to "ship as many American IT jobs overseas as possible."
At least she plans to further her company through legitimate means, rather than baseless legal claims, lies, and deception. I also don't see what's wrong with getting the most for your money. Sounds like a good plan for any business.
It's frustrating, I would imagine.
Yeah, it really is. I've been trying to move toward open solutions with a minimum of vendor lockin. We've had Creo and ArtPro present their piece, but both seemed intent on selling thier lockin-ware complete workflow solutions.
development of trapping systems should be really straightforward
Straightforward, but difficult I've heard. I've discussed in-rip trapping with the Ghostscript people, and they seem to think it will take a pretty serious effort. Even if they did implement it, I don't think in-rip autotrap by itself would ever be intelligent enough for prepress work. The ability to tweak traps by hand will probably always be necessary.
I'd really love some open source developers to step up to the plate on this one. Ghostscript and GSView have been invaluable tools for me so far with my prepress work (GSView/epstool supports DCS2 now due to my company's funding of said features). The new version of FullPress is even based on a custom licensed version of Ghostscript. There's an old open source OPI server out there too, I don't know if it's still useful.
We have the open foundation, we just need some people to get together to fill in the missing pieces. As a side benefit, a trap would be useful for non-prepress printing too, as it could be used by inkjet printer drivers.
You didn't touch on their real less popular position, that the ACLU's version of the constitution seems to be missing the 2nd amendment. They are also in favor of programs that render one group "more equal" than other's, like affermative action.
I never understood how formalizing and institutionalizing descrimination somehow is supposed to end it.
Don't say 802.11x when you mean 802.11*. 802.11x is a wireless security standard. As far as I can tell, this article has nothing to do with 802.11x. I see this error a lot.