Anyone else thinking of the episode of Star Trek where the people let the computers simulate war and in the end the losing group goes to the execution chamber?
SCO: I present to the court exhibit A. Judge: What is it? SCO: I present you the penguin, it's not just a penguin, it's an evil penguin. Look at its eyes; look at his eyes! At the way they look straight through you, as if to say "I am an evil penguin." Look at how he waddles along in his "innocent" way, but he doesn't fool us. Oh no! He doesn't fool SCO... Judge: Get the hell out of my court!
You'd think that a near duplicate repost changing the grammar in a couple places would at least correct the glaring grammatical errors already present. Slashdot is an interesting place.
People have said about the GPL "Oh, well that's never been challenged in court. Who knows how it would hold up."
Any lawsuit that pits Linux vs. greedy competitor is good just for the sake of strengthening the name. SCO is going to lose, that much is near certain, and it's going to be a good reference in the future for companies thinking of making specious claims about the community's code. If there truly is a problem with Linux the community needs to know about it so it can be fixed, not have everyone charged $$$ for the problem without disclosing it. It's good that the money poured into SCO has gone to waste. That money won't be suing Linux again, and the interests behind it will think twice next time.
Just because someone sues you....that doesn't mean that all of your private information and trade secrets should become public information.
If it did, then it might cut down on the number of lawsuits.
Which would result in trade secrets no longer being protectable. We'd have to rely on copyrights and patents for *everything,* and look how much fun those already are.
That's just about as many people who left Clinton's cabinet in between terms. I'm hoping it means they think their jobs are done and there's nothing major looming on the horizon that any of them feel like they need to be a part of.
The opposite option: they're getting out while they can. I can't really believe that though. They've already worked through one of the most polarizing administrations in quite a long time (i'm no history buff), they're probably just tired. If the Bush administration is planning on anything more "interesting" (May you live in interesting times. --Confucious) than this whole Iraq thing, well, I'd be impressed.
My mom taught in high school for a year and a half. She was a chemist by degree and after spending nearly a decade doing that became a teacher. Like all well meaning first year teachers she got stuck teaching 9th grade physical science. Half the kids in there were 18 and it was supposed to be a freshmen year course. School was just a way of life for them, passing wasn't.
She couldn't take it. The opinion about her I've gotten from several of her students is that she was "just too nice." There are too many students there that don't belong.
Also of note, the concensus among teachers at that high school regarding students is summed up by the observation that "stupid people breed faster." The promise shown by todays students is in the fact that they got through public school systems without turning into cruft.
Wow. I had to look that up. I've spent so many years thinking a troll refered that ugly guy under the bridge. I knew it was like a subtle flamebait comment, but it makes more sense now...
YHBT: You are quite likely to see this if you respond incautiously to a flame-provoking post that was obviously floated as sucker bait.
Of course, noone in the linux community give a ripe fuck about whether or not the code they run is legal.
Fool!
That's all we care about. Why do you think we make so much of an issue about companies making exclusive deals to release video and audio in formats that don't have any sort of official support from the format creator? It's not like we own DVD-audio players and our music only comes in SACD; the ability to play WM9 is only several hundred lines of code away and yet we're expected to purchase a completely different operating system to be able to play them.
The sad story about using "illegal" code in Linux (isn't libdvdread still like this?) is that it is often more useful than the a) hard to find b) not that great altenative. I personally find that where there is both a commercial and free version of a linux program ported from Windows, the commercial version acts like cripple-ware.
You'll hear complaints about that logic. None of them will apply it to the U.S. education system even though that's exactly what's been happening. The No Child Left Behind act effectively forces the auto workers to upgrade to robot efficiency. Everyone's mad about the teachers who are failing the federal tests, but no one wants anything but the perfect school teacher for their child.
So the U.S. creates an organization open to all countries in order to fight Communism, the Cold War ends, that organization (which no longer has a "lion's share of its operation" needing to be done) gets stacked with anti-U.S. nations, and now it's shame on the U.S.?
I understand what you mean though. The U.N. has done a good bit of adapting since its primary purpose fell apart. One part you didn't quite get right though: "Unless things change with the way the US does business, it's going to find itself alone when bad things start to happen." That "alone" you speak of isn't going to be economic, we're just too loaded with resources. No, it's likely going to be if the U.S. removes all the other countries.
I'm only replying to tell you that no one else will be replying. Yes, a lot of money did go into the global warming simulations and greenhouse effect projections. Just as much money has been earned by the publishers of books on global warming and the greenhouse effect. Look even at the companies who stepped in to replace freon once it got its black label: billions for much poorer solutions. There's just so much money pouring into research to find that cheap materials are harmful so that more expensive ones can actually see the market.
In a world of lies, damn lies, and statistics... well, everyone has lots of statistics and the juicy ones are in favor of global warming. The statistics can refute what your saying but there aren't any hard facts that do so, like the articles you've posted include, so few people Slashdot will be touching your post.
The Apocalypse hasn't sold this well since John wrote his Revelation.
This is the first time I can recall Slashdot reporting on a reasonably interesting (YMMV) programming contest that didn't end yesterday. This sets a real good standard. Keep it up!
The problem is that water will cause corrosion in the caskets that store the waste (again, as pointed out in the article).
That's the part of the article I stopped reading at. I've seen the metal those storage casks are being made of. In the early 70s they put samples of various test materials on coasts on the East coast. For over thirty years they sat their getting daily splashes of seawater and being exposed to rain and sunlight. The metal the casks will be made from was in that test and still had a perfect mirror finish when I saw it last year. The casks are designed to withstand saltwater corrosion. The fraction of decay the material exhibited allowed for several hundred thousand years before rupture, well over the requirement.
I wouldn't worry about the ecosystem either. Yucca is already within the Nevada Test Site. Also, Yucca has a closed water basin meaning that groundwater there doesn't have anything to do with that of Las Vegas. I'm also curious how radioactive heavy metals are supposed to be able to travel 100 miles through water.
I know what you mean. I read that this "HaikuOS" had finally implemented fork() and I thought someone was rewriting the Linux kernel in haiku, a la deCSS.
Then I thought it was funny that something related to Japanese was implementing a fork.
Well, I murdered him, but he had terminal cancer. I gave it to him, then told him he was doing fine until I was healthier than he. Then I only gave him *most* of the cure so he couldn't suddenly recuperate on me. I didn't *really* kill him. I mean, I was sick too, I needed the medicine for myself!
The reporters job is to report the *FACTS*. The journalist's job is to explain the truth.
Reporters don't put biases into their reports, journalists offer explanations and propose ideas based on the facts. If scientists have already proposed those explanations there's nothing for the journalist to do.
He stated: If you're referring to 2000 Fox wasn't the first to call it. THat's another F911 fabrication.
Moore's website confirms that Fox was NOT the first news site to call the election. CBS called it first, in favor of Gore. When Fox did finally call the election it was with more up to date data and for Bush. The Fahrenheit 911 fabrication he refers to is the implication that Fox somehow changed the outcome of the election by calling it in favor of Bush. The Fox release had *better data* than the CBS release which was premature enough to have influenced the election since it came out before polling stations had closed and possibly convinced Gore voters that their vote wasn't needed.
Moore's evidence is a CNN report stating that *all* of the news outlets were at fault for the confusion in 2000.
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Someone set up a torrent to the Quicktime fast. I'm downloading it from the server and pieces of it are singed.
Anyone else thinking of the episode of Star Trek where the people let the computers simulate war and in the end the losing group goes to the execution chamber?
Here's an extract:
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SCO: I present to the court exhibit A.
Judge: What is it?
SCO: I present you the penguin, it's not just a penguin, it's an evil penguin. Look at its eyes; look at his eyes! At the way they look straight through you, as if to say "I am an evil penguin." Look at how he waddles along in his "innocent" way, but he doesn't fool us. Oh no! He doesn't fool SCO
Judge: Get the hell out of my court!
You'd think that a near duplicate repost changing the grammar in a couple places would at least correct the glaring grammatical errors already present. Slashdot is an interesting place.
Me.
People have said about the GPL "Oh, well that's never been challenged in court. Who knows how it would hold up."
Any lawsuit that pits Linux vs. greedy competitor is good just for the sake of strengthening the name. SCO is going to lose, that much is near certain, and it's going to be a good reference in the future for companies thinking of making specious claims about the community's code. If there truly is a problem with Linux the community needs to know about it so it can be fixed, not have everyone charged $$$ for the problem without disclosing it. It's good that the money poured into SCO has gone to waste. That money won't be suing Linux again, and the interests behind it will think twice next time.
Next will be dealing with Microsoft's patent FUD.
Just because someone sues you....that doesn't mean that all of your private information and trade secrets should become public information.
If it did, then it might cut down on the number of lawsuits.
Which would result in trade secrets no longer being protectable. We'd have to rely on copyrights and patents for *everything,* and look how much fun those already are.
In other news...
Steve Ballmer and Darl McBride have both retired from their positions and eloped to Massachusetts where their marriage would be legal.
Actually, Donald Rumsfeld hasn't resigned.
And they went to Norway.
My degree is in computer science. I don't mind having the same job for 8 years.
That's just about as many people who left Clinton's cabinet in between terms. I'm hoping it means they think their jobs are done and there's nothing major looming on the horizon that any of them feel like they need to be a part of.
The opposite option: they're getting out while they can. I can't really believe that though. They've already worked through one of the most polarizing administrations in quite a long time (i'm no history buff), they're probably just tired. If the Bush administration is planning on anything more "interesting" (May you live in interesting times. --Confucious) than this whole Iraq thing, well, I'd be impressed.
My mom taught in high school for a year and a half. She was a chemist by degree and after spending nearly a decade doing that became a teacher. Like all well meaning first year teachers she got stuck teaching 9th grade physical science. Half the kids in there were 18 and it was supposed to be a freshmen year course. School was just a way of life for them, passing wasn't.
She couldn't take it. The opinion about her I've gotten from several of her students is that she was "just too nice." There are too many students there that don't belong.
Also of note, the concensus among teachers at that high school regarding students is summed up by the observation that "stupid people breed faster." The promise shown by todays students is in the fact that they got through public school systems without turning into cruft.
That's the first time I've seen a news post to Slashdot that literally requires you to RTFA.
Shut up!
Buy Firefly!!!
It's only like $20 for 15 40-minute episodes at Wal-Mart.
Wow. I had to look that up. I've spent so many years thinking a troll refered that ugly guy under the bridge. I knew it was like a subtle flamebait comment, but it makes more sense now...
YHBT: You are quite likely to see this if you respond incautiously to a flame-provoking post that was obviously floated as sucker bait.
Yeech.
Of course, noone in the linux community give a ripe fuck about whether or not the code they run is legal.
Fool!
That's all we care about. Why do you think we make so much of an issue about companies making exclusive deals to release video and audio in formats that don't have any sort of official support from the format creator? It's not like we own DVD-audio players and our music only comes in SACD; the ability to play WM9 is only several hundred lines of code away and yet we're expected to purchase a completely different operating system to be able to play them.
The sad story about using "illegal" code in Linux (isn't libdvdread still like this?) is that it is often more useful than the a) hard to find b) not that great altenative. I personally find that where there is both a commercial and free version of a linux program ported from Windows, the commercial version acts like cripple-ware.
That the page that Google uses to replace the MSN Search bar you get when you run a default search engine in IE. See here.
stifling change for job security is stupid.
You'll hear complaints about that logic. None of them will apply it to the U.S. education system even though that's exactly what's been happening. The No Child Left Behind act effectively forces the auto workers to upgrade to robot efficiency. Everyone's mad about the teachers who are failing the federal tests, but no one wants anything but the perfect school teacher for their child.
So the U.S. creates an organization open to all countries in order to fight Communism, the Cold War ends, that organization (which no longer has a "lion's share of its operation" needing to be done) gets stacked with anti-U.S. nations, and now it's shame on the U.S.?
I understand what you mean though. The U.N. has done a good bit of adapting since its primary purpose fell apart. One part you didn't quite get right though: "Unless things change with the way the US does business, it's going to find itself alone when bad things start to happen." That "alone" you speak of isn't going to be economic, we're just too loaded with resources. No, it's likely going to be if the U.S. removes all the other countries.
I'm only replying to tell you that no one else will be replying. Yes, a lot of money did go into the global warming simulations and greenhouse effect projections. Just as much money has been earned by the publishers of books on global warming and the greenhouse effect. Look even at the companies who stepped in to replace freon once it got its black label: billions for much poorer solutions. There's just so much money pouring into research to find that cheap materials are harmful so that more expensive ones can actually see the market.
In a world of lies, damn lies, and statistics... well, everyone has lots of statistics and the juicy ones are in favor of global warming. The statistics can refute what your saying but there aren't any hard facts that do so, like the articles you've posted include, so few people Slashdot will be touching your post.
The Apocalypse hasn't sold this well since John wrote his Revelation.
This is the first time I can recall Slashdot reporting on a reasonably interesting (YMMV) programming contest that didn't end yesterday. This sets a real good standard. Keep it up!
The problem is that water will cause corrosion in the caskets that store the waste (again, as pointed out in the article).
That's the part of the article I stopped reading at. I've seen the metal those storage casks are being made of. In the early 70s they put samples of various test materials on coasts on the East coast. For over thirty years they sat their getting daily splashes of seawater and being exposed to rain and sunlight. The metal the casks will be made from was in that test and still had a perfect mirror finish when I saw it last year. The casks are designed to withstand saltwater corrosion. The fraction of decay the material exhibited allowed for several hundred thousand years before rupture, well over the requirement.
I wouldn't worry about the ecosystem either. Yucca is already within the Nevada Test Site. Also, Yucca has a closed water basin meaning that groundwater there doesn't have anything to do with that of Las Vegas. I'm also curious how radioactive heavy metals are supposed to be able to travel 100 miles through water.
I know what you mean. I read that this "HaikuOS" had finally implemented fork() and I thought someone was rewriting the Linux kernel in haiku, a la deCSS.
Then I thought it was funny that something related to Japanese was implementing a fork.
Well, I murdered him, but he had terminal cancer. I gave it to him, then told him he was doing fine until I was healthier than he. Then I only gave him *most* of the cure so he couldn't suddenly recuperate on me. I didn't *really* kill him. I mean, I was sick too, I needed the medicine for myself!
I bow before thee.
I missed Buzz. All the tutorials I could find stunk. It's back now... *sniff*
Reporters and journalists are the same way.
The reporters job is to report the *FACTS*.
The journalist's job is to explain the truth.
Reporters don't put biases into their reports, journalists offer explanations and propose ideas based on the facts. If scientists have already proposed those explanations there's nothing for the journalist to do.
This is exciting and all, but the really importing thing about PARL is that they were the only ones at Clemson willing to host our site.
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He stated: If you're referring to 2000 Fox wasn't the first to call it. THat's another F911 fabrication.
Moore's website confirms that Fox was NOT the first news site to call the election. CBS called it first, in favor of Gore. When Fox did finally call the election it was with more up to date data and for Bush. The Fahrenheit 911 fabrication he refers to is the implication that Fox somehow changed the outcome of the election by calling it in favor of Bush. The Fox release had *better data* than the CBS release which was premature enough to have influenced the election since it came out before polling stations had closed and possibly convinced Gore voters that their vote wasn't needed.
Moore's evidence is a CNN report stating that *all* of the news outlets were at fault for the confusion in 2000.