Don't you remember Sim Moon (or whatever) where you set up colonies on the moon to refine Helium-3 that is supposed to be in the lunar dust?
Actually, it has been considered a serious possibility for some time now but I don't think anyone has proven that the moon has the quantities needed yet.
To make nuclear a truly global energy source, 3rd world countries without training will have to start up their own facilities. Given that both the US (3 Mile Island) and the Soviets (Chernobyl) couldn't do this successfully, what makes us think that the world -can-.
I wholeheartedly agree, global warming and global dimming (perhaps we should just say "the results of global air pollution") are larger threats -in the long run- than nuclear catastrophy. However, what we should be doing right now is:
a) getting off gas/oil for vehicles... if the price goes up another dollar then alternative portable energy becomes much more cost effective. Go ahead and ramp the price now and keep it there. Anything over what is required for the gas gets put into a research fund for the alternative energy. Once those fuels are effective enough that there are mass-market alternatives to gas combustion, then the price of gas should be fixed to be slightly higher than the alternative fuel, with all proceeds going a clean-up fund (we know there are technologies that can begin to scrub the air, and if nothing else planting trees is cheap).
People will argue that the cost of gas will be too high to go anywhere. I say that we will adapt and overcome. In Ireland recently I noticed that gas was.95Euro per -liter-... that's almost 4Euro per gallon and that translated to almost $6 with conversion. Other people can get by with fewer cars and less gas, why can't we? Build out mass transit. Get down to 1 or 2 family vehicles. Geeks are often in a prime position to help this by working from home if your company allows. Or car-pool.
b) research alternative mass production... we've seen on/. recently that solar cells may be about to get a doubling of efficiency. Where I live we can buy 25% of our electricity from wind power for less than an extra $5/month. Make that $20 and go to pure Wind. Does that mean that the amps you suck down actually got created by a Windmill, not necessarily, but it does mean that for every amp you buy there has to be a Windmill producing that much clean energy. Not every part of the country can use Wind, and not every part can use Solar, but most can usually use one or the other, and those who can't could probably use hydraulics. There are vast areas that could be converted to Solar or Wind production.
c) Additionally, the government should start subsidizing traditional oil/shale/peat/coal manufacturers with research funding so that those companies that would normally be fighting for their existence can instead lobby for the funding to convert themselves into green companies.
And ya know, people have said this until the 70's. If no one is going to listen then sure, build nuclear, but be prepared for the U.S., China and the EU to subsidize the oversite for the world. And be prepared for a few more uninhabitable places. Do some research into just how bad Chernobyl was. That place is -STILL- falling apart and is about to have to undergo one of the most expensive construction projects in HISTORY to re-cap it. Even then it is a wasteland for thousands of years.
I was all for the space race, but we should be making the trip to Mars mean something... use it to develop renewable technologies (I think a colony would probably need that, anyway) even if it delays things. There are many ways we could be encouraging such research.
Any program that is complex enough to have user input and system/user output is going to be possibly exploitable.
So yes, I believe it may be possible to exploit Mozilla.
But I also believe that the exploit will be known almost as soon as it hits the streets rather than being kept quiet until the devs get around to fixing it.
And if the devs don't quickly fix it I trust that the community will, because it is in their own interests.
The last 2 paragraphs are because Mozilla is open, IE is closed, plain and simple.
Not to mention that I don't believe that Mozilla is -as- vulnerable to exploits as IE nor will such exploits be as serious due to purposeful lack of OS integration.
Maybe, but I often find as a user when trying to compile a package that has a.pc pkg-config file requirement for another package that that other package often forgets to leave it's.pc file around.
For instance, when compiling Evo from fresh source on a version of SuSE awhile back, I installed the various -devel RPMs that were required and yet those -devel RPMs left out their.pc files, meaning that even though I had the development libraries, Evo couldn't find them.
Not saying pkg-config may not be useful, but it needs to be standardized on like autoconf used to be before it becomes truly useful to the power user.
Personally, I don't care which is used (pkg-config or a fixed autoconf) so long as it works well with others and is consistent.
This is exactly my experience. About a year ago I decided to unsub from SPAM whenever it came in.
After about a month of effort, I reduced my SPAM by more than 1/2 for a short while. Within 3 months I was at a higher level than before.
Just because you unsub from the SPAM source doesn't mean your address is removed from the databases / CDs that the SPAM source purchased. It is the harvesters that are truly evil.
And I have a number of addresses that have never been published and yet occasionally show up with SPAM. I wouldn't be surprised if the harvesters are making use of Outlook addressbook exploits to further harvest.
Exactly. And as hinted a couple of nodes above yours, having JJ broach the whole "emergency powers" thing actually de-emphasizes the dastardliness of that act because we -know- he's a good. Had someone who was not a goof but who instead was bullied into it, it would have emphasized the evilness behind it and Palpatine.
But seriously, there are so many other flaws with ep1 and ep2 that this is a minor contention. I want to see JJ and Palpatine fall in love, retire to Tattoine, and end the movie by having Yoda wake up from a dream where he imagines ep 4-6 as what would have happened if Palpatine had not retired from the Senate. Then Lucas' destruction of the fun in ep4-6 will be complete.
Face it, the reason we hate ep1 and ep2 so much is not because they truly suck (which they do from so many levels) but because they seem to suck purely in -spite- of ep4-6. If ep4-6 had never happened (and if somehow ep1 and ep2 had still gotten funding on their own merits) then we would dismiss them as crap that isn't worth mentioning instead of railing against them.
While it -might- not work, it would be interesting to plug this into Google with a regex like:
(D|d)[^ ]*\ (O|o)[^ ]*\ to see if any web site (besides this thread:) had matches
Altavista used to have something almost like Regex (they allowed grouping and some operators but not all). Honestly, this could probably have been done with Altavista's old version of "Advanced Search".
I understand it had some intense computing behind such a search, and I wouldn't expect immediate results, so to offset the impact allow people to submit regex to a queue and email them when finished.
And yeah, I've submitted this as a request a couple of times and been ignored. I'll try again, maybe post-IPO they'll have the resources to work a bugger like this.
Anyone know of a search service or search meta-service that accepts regex?
Probably not in the case of physical property as what the owner can sue for is loss (which was caused by the initial burgle) and possibly for damages if caused during the burgle.
Only if the 2nd burglar used the property in a manner to additionally damage the owner (perhaps the first burglar stole personal information, and the 2nd used said information to steal the owner's identity).
PS. My.sig would say IANAL if I hadn't used all of the characters already.
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There's a little difference... if you want to use a burglar analogy, then use the analogy of a burglar stealing property from another burglar that stole it from the owners.
Both are illegal, both are prosecutable, but the "victim" burglar can't sue for loss of property from the 2nd burglar because the property belongs to the original owner.
Think of this situation as the mirror of an Angel Investor with an up and coming company. The Angel might invest in 10 startups and have 9 of them die before going public and yet still make a fortune.
In this case, if they can buy 10 failing companies $100M each, each having a $1B+ lawsuit in process, only 1 of those guys has to win their lawsuit for BayStar to make their money back and then some.
What is the best chance that BayStar has for SCO to win? SCO has to focus EVERYTHING on winning (even though by doing so they almost certainly will disappear after the win anyway).
Perhaps this should be the defition of a "Devil Investor"?
I wouldn't be at all surprised if SCO hinted that they would do just this, but they probably din't -commit- to it.
Of course we all know that some times 10 companies out of 10 fail, so BayStar could screw themselves out of the cash, which is why they put pressure on their investments to do the burn-out legislation in an all-out attempt to win.
And I'm with you, I would smoke hundreds of millions of dollars if someone gave me billions to do so:)
No, it's not spread over 50 years, because after 50 years we are still not even close to having migrated, and have either lost business or paid more to gain it (which economically has the same result) in the meantime.
At this rate the gradual change over time will happen when? Never, because it hasn't started happening yet, we continue to use a co-existence model. So to be pendantic, the cost of the current method is infinitely higher than a conversion.
And I don't expect a conversion to happen over 1 year or less... but it should have at least started by now. Unless we happen to think the rest of the world will someday realize their "mistake" and convert back (I would put a smiley here, but I have heard people make this argument before).
Assuming each patty being identical mass, each patty is 1/3rd of a Kg.
How much is that? Obviously it is 333 grams.
I've lived in the U.S. all my life, but I still don't find the above any harder to imagine than trying to remember that a pound is 16oz, and therefore those 6 patties from the pound are a confusing 2.66~ ounces.
Dividing in fourths might have been better for your example.
However, since my kitchen scale switches between ounces and grams on the fly, it wouldn't make my cooking any hard.
Ease of measurement is based on experience. The longer you work in a system, the easier it is to relate to it. I work in U.S. measurements almost all the time and yet I still find metric more logical and easier to process.
Over time the cost of migration is regained by increase in productivity and interoperability.
It applies here, just as it does to international character sets (it cost to transition to double-byte character sets, but it paid off tremendously by opening foreign markets), operating system migrations, etc.
The unit has been slowly creeping in for -decades- (I own 2 20 year old motorcycles from Japan, guess what kind of wrenches I need?) and it just makes it -worse-. The cost of maintaining 2 distinct sets of tools (paper would be a "tool", the factory that has to produce different sizes to export to foreign countries is a "tool", wrenches are "tools", etc) for 50 years and going would, if I guess correctly, be much higher than the cost of converting once and for all.
The government doesn't have the authority to force everyone to go out and buy a metric ruler for their next art project (though most rulers do both, maybe a bad example) but they sure could force all government agencies and -contractors- to move, which would force a much faster transition.
Either that was tongue-in-cheek, which I respect, or you are under the age of 30.
They did try... I was in elementary school at the time. I agree, metric makes a lot more sense in -all- manner of implementation. Unfortunately by the time I left elementary school (lets see... 1982?) they had all but given up.
It definitely makes international travel interesting. It is bad enough when you have to explain your country's politics, but explaining your measurement system (especially in the areas where said system originated) is plain frustrating.
I know what you were responding to, and if you think child support counts as "anything for a buck", it is obvious you don't have kids (with you or not).
I am from here as well, and while I might agree with you that money is too important here, you are attacking the wrong subject to prove your point.
Take a look back through history and I think you'll find the "do I feed my family or do I live with my ideology" is a -tantamount- question of the human experience.
Although this does open up a whole new way of distributing child porn or other illegal materials. Load up the computer, sell it on Ebay for cash-only, mail with a fake return address... the receiver can prove -they- didn't put the stuff on there (wouldn't be too hard, timestamps from before the sale)... the seller can charge a premium for the added insurance.
Better yet, delete the files on a recoverable filesystem or put them in a hidden directory so that the receiver has an even better excuse for not having seen them.
So even if this guys is innocent, the next time the defendant might not be.
Umm, yes, they had chemical weapons. Yes, they were willing to use them.
But do you really think that the U.S. Congress (or foreign governments) would have -ever- been willing to support a war if the only weapons we could "prove" existed were nerve gas launched from a SS-1 Scud missle (range of 700 miles or so)?
Plus you even bring up the possibility that they -did- destroy those weapons after Gulf War I. Gulf War II was sold on the premise that not only did they not do so but that they were in possession of even stronger weapons.
Was Husseing probably interested in sourcing larger weapons? Sure, but the point is he didn't from what every investigation has found. And by now some traces of nuclear devices and/or longer range missiles should have been found.
And if you do research into -why- those foreign countries thought Iraq had such weapons, you would find it was due to intelligence from the U.S. and G.B. that has proven to at least have been faulty if not fraudulent.
Should Hussein have been removed from power? Yep. But if the U.S. (of which I am a voting citizen) expects the rest of the world to behave in accordance to the U.N. and various treaties, we kind of need to lead by example. If GWB had been willing to wait another 6 months I believe he would have gotten the U.N. to throw in. And since there weren't significant WMD threats, the wait wouldn't have hurt the U.S.
Oh and don't forget the whole mess about going after Iraq because of 9/11, which has been proven to be tenuous if not plain wrong. If we wanted to take out the people who perpetrated 9/11 we should have gone to Saudi Arabia (Wahabism was the spark and support for Al-Qaeda) and the Phillipines (where Al-Qaeda cells are known to lurk and launch).
BTW, if you're going to say "Fuck you." it just proves that you're reacting from your own hatred, especially when you aren't willing to post from a logged-in account and have to be an AC.
* GNOME... Internationalization / Localization are improved... remote management of GNOME preferences (and Mozilla, Evolution, etc).
* Java is being tailored to work better on the desktop. Is it available for anyone who wants to download it, yes, but Java Desktop from Sun helps get those desktop requirements into Java.
* Java apps are specifically sought after, evaluated and when the quality meets or exceeds other components, included in Java Desktop
* Java is pre-installed and configured for various things like Mozilla and Star Office.
* In the background Sun is not just working to put more and more desktop functionality into Java, but is working to make it easier to code things like GNOME with Java. Again, yes you could get that without Java Desktop as a platform, but having the platform helps accelerate the process -and- for people who are concerned about such things helps them know that they will get as much Java as they can with a minimum amount of effort.
If the above doesn't matter for you, and it quite possibly doesn't, then you are not the Java Desktop target user. These features are targetted more at business desktop use, not home use (preinstalled JVMs may not mean much if you only have to install it on one box... but installing it and supporting it on thousands of boxes is a different story).
But just because you don't want the features does not mean they are invalidated.
I was just about braindead working on a presentation for a product launch tomorrow and was thinking about working up a set of -real- client distro tests for competitive review.
Then I started daydreaming about job burnout and possibly looking at becoming a reviewer.
Then just as I had the thought "I wonder what would be needed to write a really useful review" I paged over to/. to get the glassiness out of my eyes and this was the first thing on the page. For a sec I thought I was still day(night)dreaming.
Nah... as a number of others have said I will never purchase a DVD of the "special edition" revisions. If he comes out with a DVD set of the original 3 episodes I'll go for it in a second.
Strangely I found ep1 MUCH more enjoyable when watching the DVD extended features. The pod race became as much about character as action on that DVD. But that doesn't change the majority of my problems with ep1 and ep2.
I will never buy ep1 and ep2 on DVD -never never never- unless they come out with a feature for me to edit away every scene where Annakin and Princess are along together. Tripe.
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Don't you remember Sim Moon (or whatever) where you set up colonies on the moon to refine Helium-3 that is supposed to be in the lunar dust?
Actually, it has been considered a serious possibility for some time now but I don't think anyone has proven that the moon has the quantities needed yet.
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To make nuclear a truly global energy source, 3rd world countries without training will have to start up their own facilities. Given that both the US (3 Mile Island) and the Soviets (Chernobyl) couldn't do this successfully, what makes us think that the world -can-.
... if the price goes up another dollar then alternative portable energy becomes much more cost effective. Go ahead and ramp the price now and keep it there. Anything over what is required for the gas gets put into a research fund for the alternative energy. Once those fuels are effective enough that there are mass-market alternatives to gas combustion, then the price of gas should be fixed to be slightly higher than the alternative fuel, with all proceeds going a clean-up fund (we know there are technologies that can begin to scrub the air, and if nothing else planting trees is cheap).
.95Euro per -liter- ... that's almost 4Euro per gallon and that translated to almost $6 with conversion. Other people can get by with fewer cars and less gas, why can't we? Build out mass transit. Get down to 1 or 2 family vehicles. Geeks are often in a prime position to help this by working from home if your company allows. Or car-pool.
... we've seen on /. recently that solar cells may be about to get a doubling of efficiency. Where I live we can buy 25% of our electricity from wind power for less than an extra $5/month. Make that $20 and go to pure Wind. Does that mean that the amps you suck down actually got created by a Windmill, not necessarily, but it does mean that for every amp you buy there has to be a Windmill producing that much clean energy. Not every part of the country can use Wind, and not every part can use Solar, but most can usually use one or the other, and those who can't could probably use hydraulics. There are vast areas that could be converted to Solar or Wind production.
... use it to develop renewable technologies (I think a colony would probably need that, anyway) even if it delays things. There are many ways we could be encouraging such research.
I wholeheartedly agree, global warming and global dimming (perhaps we should just say "the results of global air pollution") are larger threats -in the long run- than nuclear catastrophy. However, what we should be doing right now is:
a) getting off gas/oil for vehicles
People will argue that the cost of gas will be too high to go anywhere. I say that we will adapt and overcome. In Ireland recently I noticed that gas was
b) research alternative mass production
c) Additionally, the government should start subsidizing traditional oil/shale/peat/coal manufacturers with research funding so that those companies that would normally be fighting for their existence can instead lobby for the funding to convert themselves into green companies.
And ya know, people have said this until the 70's. If no one is going to listen then sure, build nuclear, but be prepared for the U.S., China and the EU to subsidize the oversite for the world. And be prepared for a few more uninhabitable places. Do some research into just how bad Chernobyl was. That place is -STILL- falling apart and is about to have to undergo one of the most expensive construction projects in HISTORY to re-cap it. Even then it is a wasteland for thousands of years.
I was all for the space race, but we should be making the trip to Mars mean something
Any program that is complex enough to have user input and system/user output is going to be possibly exploitable.
So yes, I believe it may be possible to exploit Mozilla.
But I also believe that the exploit will be known almost as soon as it hits the streets rather than being kept quiet until the devs get around to fixing it.
And if the devs don't quickly fix it I trust that the community will, because it is in their own interests.
The last 2 paragraphs are because Mozilla is open, IE is closed, plain and simple.
Not to mention that I don't believe that Mozilla is -as- vulnerable to exploits as IE nor will such exploits be as serious due to purposeful lack of OS integration.
Maybe, but I often find as a user when trying to compile a package that has a .pc pkg-config file requirement for another package that that other package often forgets to leave it's .pc file around.
.pc files, meaning that even though I had the development libraries, Evo couldn't find them.
For instance, when compiling Evo from fresh source on a version of SuSE awhile back, I installed the various -devel RPMs that were required and yet those -devel RPMs left out their
Not saying pkg-config may not be useful, but it needs to be standardized on like autoconf used to be before it becomes truly useful to the power user.
Personally, I don't care which is used (pkg-config or a fixed autoconf) so long as it works well with others and is consistent.
This is exactly my experience. About a year ago I decided to unsub from SPAM whenever it came in.
After about a month of effort, I reduced my SPAM by more than 1/2 for a short while. Within 3 months I was at a higher level than before.
Just because you unsub from the SPAM source doesn't mean your address is removed from the databases / CDs that the SPAM source purchased. It is the harvesters that are truly evil.
And I have a number of addresses that have never been published and yet occasionally show up with SPAM. I wouldn't be surprised if the harvesters are making use of Outlook addressbook exploits to further harvest.
Exactly. And as hinted a couple of nodes above yours, having JJ broach the whole "emergency powers" thing actually de-emphasizes the dastardliness of that act because we -know- he's a good. Had someone who was not a goof but who instead was bullied into it, it would have emphasized the evilness behind it and Palpatine.
But seriously, there are so many other flaws with ep1 and ep2 that this is a minor contention. I want to see JJ and Palpatine fall in love, retire to Tattoine, and end the movie by having Yoda wake up from a dream where he imagines ep 4-6 as what would have happened if Palpatine had not retired from the Senate. Then Lucas' destruction of the fun in ep4-6 will be complete.
Face it, the reason we hate ep1 and ep2 so much is not because they truly suck (which they do from so many levels) but because they seem to suck purely in -spite- of ep4-6. If ep4-6 had never happened (and if somehow ep1 and ep2 had still gotten funding on their own merits) then we would dismiss them as crap that isn't worth mentioning instead of railing against them.
While it -might- not work, it would be interesting to plug this into Google with a regex like:
:) had matches
(D|d)[^ ]*\ (O|o)[^ ]*\ to see if any web site (besides this thread
Altavista used to have something almost like Regex (they allowed grouping and some operators but not all). Honestly, this could probably have been done with Altavista's old version of "Advanced Search".
I understand it had some intense computing behind such a search, and I wouldn't expect immediate results, so to offset the impact allow people to submit regex to a queue and email them when finished.
And yeah, I've submitted this as a request a couple of times and been ignored. I'll try again, maybe post-IPO they'll have the resources to work a bugger like this.
Anyone know of a search service or search meta-service that accepts regex?
Probably not in the case of physical property as what the owner can sue for is loss (which was caused by the initial burgle) and possibly for damages if caused during the burgle.
.sig would say IANAL if I hadn't used all of the characters already.
Only if the 2nd burglar used the property in a manner to additionally damage the owner (perhaps the first burglar stole personal information, and the 2nd used said information to steal the owner's identity).
PS. My
There's a little difference ... if you want to use a burglar analogy, then use the analogy of a burglar stealing property from another burglar that stole it from the owners.
Both are illegal, both are prosecutable, but the "victim" burglar can't sue for loss of property from the 2nd burglar because the property belongs to the original owner.
"Horserace" is my guess.
:)
Think of this situation as the mirror of an Angel Investor with an up and coming company. The Angel might invest in 10 startups and have 9 of them die before going public and yet still make a fortune.
In this case, if they can buy 10 failing companies $100M each, each having a $1B+ lawsuit in process, only 1 of those guys has to win their lawsuit for BayStar to make their money back and then some.
What is the best chance that BayStar has for SCO to win? SCO has to focus EVERYTHING on winning (even though by doing so they almost certainly will disappear after the win anyway).
Perhaps this should be the defition of a "Devil Investor"?
I wouldn't be at all surprised if SCO hinted that they would do just this, but they probably din't -commit- to it.
Of course we all know that some times 10 companies out of 10 fail, so BayStar could screw themselves out of the cash, which is why they put pressure on their investments to do the burn-out legislation in an all-out attempt to win.
And I'm with you, I would smoke hundreds of millions of dollars if someone gave me billions to do so
No, it's not spread over 50 years, because after 50 years we are still not even close to having migrated, and have either lost business or paid more to gain it (which economically has the same result) in the meantime.
... but it should have at least started by now. Unless we happen to think the rest of the world will someday realize their "mistake" and convert back (I would put a smiley here, but I have heard people make this argument before).
At this rate the gradual change over time will happen when? Never, because it hasn't started happening yet, we continue to use a co-existence model. So to be pendantic, the cost of the current method is infinitely higher than a conversion.
And I don't expect a conversion to happen over 1 year or less
Assuming each patty being identical mass, each patty is 1/3rd of a Kg.
How much is that? Obviously it is 333 grams.
I've lived in the U.S. all my life, but I still don't find the above any harder to imagine than trying to remember that a pound is 16oz, and therefore those 6 patties from the pound are a confusing 2.66~ ounces.
Dividing in fourths might have been better for your example.
However, since my kitchen scale switches between ounces and grams on the fly, it wouldn't make my cooking any hard.
Ease of measurement is based on experience. The longer you work in a system, the easier it is to relate to it. I work in U.S. measurements almost all the time and yet I still find metric more logical and easier to process.
It was a wake-up call. News? Not really, but the motto notwithstanding, /. has always been as much of a technology activist site as it has a News site.
There is always a cost involved in migration.
Over time the cost of migration is regained by increase in productivity and interoperability.
It applies here, just as it does to international character sets (it cost to transition to double-byte character sets, but it paid off tremendously by opening foreign markets), operating system migrations, etc.
The unit has been slowly creeping in for -decades- (I own 2 20 year old motorcycles from Japan, guess what kind of wrenches I need?) and it just makes it -worse-. The cost of maintaining 2 distinct sets of tools (paper would be a "tool", the factory that has to produce different sizes to export to foreign countries is a "tool", wrenches are "tools", etc) for 50 years and going would, if I guess correctly, be much higher than the cost of converting once and for all.
The government doesn't have the authority to force everyone to go out and buy a metric ruler for their next art project (though most rulers do both, maybe a bad example) but they sure could force all government agencies and -contractors- to move, which would force a much faster transition.
Either that was tongue-in-cheek, which I respect, or you are under the age of 30.
... I was in elementary school at the time. I agree, metric makes a lot more sense in -all- manner of implementation. Unfortunately by the time I left elementary school (lets see ... 1982?) they had all but given up.
They did try
It definitely makes international travel interesting. It is bad enough when you have to explain your country's politics, but explaining your measurement system (especially in the areas where said system originated) is plain frustrating.
I know what you were responding to, and if you think child support counts as "anything for a buck", it is obvious you don't have kids (with you or not).
I am from here as well, and while I might agree with you that money is too important here, you are attacking the wrong subject to prove your point.
Take a look back through history and I think you'll find the "do I feed my family or do I live with my ideology" is a -tantamount- question of the human experience.
Although this does open up a whole new way of distributing child porn or other illegal materials. Load up the computer, sell it on Ebay for cash-only, mail with a fake return address ... the receiver can prove -they- didn't put the stuff on there (wouldn't be too hard, timestamps from before the sale) ... the seller can charge a premium for the added insurance.
Better yet, delete the files on a recoverable filesystem or put them in a hidden directory so that the receiver has an even better excuse for not having seen them.
So even if this guys is innocent, the next time the defendant might not be.
Umm, yes, they had chemical weapons. Yes, they were willing to use them.
But do you really think that the U.S. Congress (or foreign governments) would have -ever- been willing to support a war if the only weapons we could "prove" existed were nerve gas launched from a SS-1 Scud missle (range of 700 miles or so)?
Plus you even bring up the possibility that they -did- destroy those weapons after Gulf War I. Gulf War II was sold on the premise that not only did they not do so but that they were in possession of even stronger weapons.
Was Husseing probably interested in sourcing larger weapons? Sure, but the point is he didn't from what every investigation has found. And by now some traces of nuclear devices and/or longer range missiles should have been found.
And if you do research into -why- those foreign countries thought Iraq had such weapons, you would find it was due to intelligence from the U.S. and G.B. that has proven to at least have been faulty if not fraudulent.
Should Hussein have been removed from power? Yep. But if the U.S. (of which I am a voting citizen) expects the rest of the world to behave in accordance to the U.N. and various treaties, we kind of need to lead by example. If GWB had been willing to wait another 6 months I believe he would have gotten the U.N. to throw in. And since there weren't significant WMD threats, the wait wouldn't have hurt the U.S.
Oh and don't forget the whole mess about going after Iraq because of 9/11, which has been proven to be tenuous if not plain wrong. If we wanted to take out the people who perpetrated 9/11 we should have gone to Saudi Arabia (Wahabism was the spark and support for Al-Qaeda) and the Phillipines (where Al-Qaeda cells are known to lurk and launch).
BTW, if you're going to say "Fuck you." it just proves that you're reacting from your own hatred, especially when you aren't willing to post from a logged-in account and have to be an AC.
Oh yeah, the U.S. is the world's only capitalist market where employees have children and little choice in jobs due to a supressed economy?
I don't disagree with the problems IP laws in the U.S. as mentioned by the parent of your post, but your post is implying something different.
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Not true.
... Internationalization / Localization are improved ... remote management of GNOME preferences (and Mozilla, Evolution, etc).
... but installing it and supporting it on thousands of boxes is a different story).
* GNOME
* Java is being tailored to work better on the desktop. Is it available for anyone who wants to download it, yes, but Java Desktop from Sun helps get those desktop requirements into Java.
* Java apps are specifically sought after, evaluated and when the quality meets or exceeds other components, included in Java Desktop
* Java is pre-installed and configured for various things like Mozilla and Star Office.
* In the background Sun is not just working to put more and more desktop functionality into Java, but is working to make it easier to code things like GNOME with Java. Again, yes you could get that without Java Desktop as a platform, but having the platform helps accelerate the process -and- for people who are concerned about such things helps them know that they will get as much Java as they can with a minimum amount of effort.
If the above doesn't matter for you, and it quite possibly doesn't, then you are not the Java Desktop target user. These features are targetted more at business desktop use, not home use (preinstalled JVMs may not mean much if you only have to install it on one box
But just because you don't want the features does not mean they are invalidated.
those were the -server- requirement (Control Station, Configuration Manager) not the desktop client itself.
I was just about braindead working on a presentation for a product launch tomorrow and was thinking about working up a set of -real- client distro tests for competitive review.
/. to get the glassiness out of my eyes and this was the first thing on the page. For a sec I thought I was still day(night)dreaming.
Then I started daydreaming about job burnout and possibly looking at becoming a reviewer.
Then just as I had the thought "I wonder what would be needed to write a really useful review" I paged over to
Anyway, I'm awake again, back to work.
Nah ... as a number of others have said I will never purchase a DVD of the "special edition" revisions. If he comes out with a DVD set of the original 3 episodes I'll go for it in a second.
Strangely I found ep1 MUCH more enjoyable when watching the DVD extended features. The pod race became as much about character as action on that DVD. But that doesn't change the majority of my problems with ep1 and ep2.
I will never buy ep1 and ep2 on DVD -never never never- unless they come out with a feature for me to edit away every scene where Annakin and Princess are along together. Tripe.