Excuse me? Like the US didn't help Iraq build its military and WMD capabilities.
One could argue that it's a matter of proportion. After all, one can very easily find a chart that shows who gave how much to Iraq during Hussein's rule quite easily. Hmmm... US: 1%, France: 13%. Heck, Brazil gave Iraq more (2%)!
So, yes, the US gave Hussein some weapons during a limited period of time. France, however, profited from Saddam and his brutal regime much more.
What about computers sold by i.e DELL that is bundled with this? I remember that XP Pro didn't require me to activate it.
I know that with XP, there is an OEM version, that the OEM uses to install the program. They are given a code (like Win 95-2k) to enter during the install (at least, our OEM version here worked that way). I'm sure Symantec is going to have an OEM version of NAV2004. I know that here where I work, if we have to do activation, we're going to have to cancel our site licence.
I don't understand the "how" of this dog ever catching a mouse -- this guy would pursue any prey barking and with floppy ears flapping
Our Cocker Spaniel would usually do the same, but occasionally he'd stop and stalk something. I think it's a difference between 2 ends of pack behavior - flushing and catching. Cocker's are bird dogs so they've been bread to be mostly flushing dogs, but the stalking catching part is still there.
Either that, or the mouse was dead when he found it.
hey had the patch ready months before a potential exploit became reality - the idiot system administrators who do not read security advisories are to blame.
Unless the patching system just checks to see if the program that installs the patch has run once, not if the patch was actually installed (ran out of memory, crash, power issues). Lots of people went to WU, got the patch, had a failed install, and then WU said that it was installed.
Also, many places require a lot of checking on patches before they're installed. Because you can't see what a patch actually does in a closed system, you need a lot of time to test it. In an open system, you at least can check out the code to see what it may effect.
"Preemption with respect to other laws". LAWS not LISCENCES.
It gets even sillier. The Copyright Law says you can't do certain things without the permission of the copyright holder. The GPL says "as the copyright holder, I give you permission to do certain things you ordinarily wouldn't be allowed to do, as long as you follow certain rules."
The question isn't if the GPL is valid, or anything like that, it's if the SCO case can be thrown out because of the GPL. A judge could argue that it isn't valid if you didn't know your stuff was in there. It's not about GPL validity (which SCO seems to think it is) but GPL applicability in this case.
From my experience, MSN is far more popular than AIM, every person I know in "real life" is on MSN.
Well, from my experience MSN is a baren wasteland where there is nobody except maybe Bill Gates. I don't know anybody on MSN. Well, a few people who are on that and AIM (or Yahoo! Messenger, or ICQ).
It tends to run in groups. One group of freinds is all AIM, another ICQ, another Yahoo! Heck, even people with hotmail accounts for email use something else for IM.
Who really has a use for a 486 now? Sure you can use it for a print server, or a mail server, or whatever. By why? Your new 2Ghz will do this just as well, and won't skip a beat while doing it.
You are making the assumption that I have a new 2Ghz computer. Or that I could afford to buy one. The only reason I have a P3 is because a friend sold me their old one cheep. Did I throw out my old Pent100? Nope, I still have it around. That old computer did what I needed it too, and did it well. I only got the new one for games.
For somebody whose job is filling out forms all day, invoicing and exporting, why do they need a Web browser?
because otherwise they will go insane with boredom, you insensitive clod!
Umm... what did people do before there were web browsers at work? Oh, yeah, they did THEIR JOB. The fact that some managers have decided that they want their employees to, in fact, work, shouldn't be considered bad.
(Of course, I'm thankfull that my boss isn't one of these, as I'm posting this from work)
It is a hell of a lot more efficient to send energy through power lines then to store it as H2 and ship or pipe it around.
How efficent is our current gasoline transmission system. How much energy is put into getting crude out of the ground, shipping it, transforming it into gasoline, shipping it again, pumping it into cars, and then have the cars burn it for fuel.
How efficent would a solar/grid powered hydogen reformer at every gas (H2) station be?
Once we use less energy to get H2 into vehicle motion than gasoline into vehicle motion it would be better to do a mass movement to H2 vehicles. Both would be needed side-by-side for a while - but eventually H2 is going to be a great source of power for cars.
As far as for homes, if it's used to store the excess power that solar or another power source at the home, it may very well be better than large batteries that need to be replaced.
So, yes, it is better to transmit power over lines than to pipe or ship H2 - but that doesn't mean that H2 doesn't have a lot of very good places to be!
The point is that even if the GPL is valid the end user is still responsible for any infringement.
So, what they are saying, is even if you didn't know that you were using infringing code, you are still liable for using it?
If this is true, then if you are distributing infringing code, and don't know that you are distributing infringing code, you are still liable for distributing it.
If that's so, then SCO is liable for distributing their own code under the GPL.
Senator McCarthy: "In my hand, I have a list of members of the Communist party." SCO: "In this press release, we announce lines of offending code." In both cases, each respective list never was made public and the number of entires on each one changed as much as the weather.
Except that there actually were (and are) communists in the US, unlike SCO code in Linux.
The scientific consensus is strong. Perfect, no, but outside of right-wing talk show hosts and oil company shills, there is no real doubt that human activity is altering the climate.
Well, actually, while there is no debate that human activity alters the climate, there is a lot of debate on how much. (after all, Chaos Theory would say that butterfly activity has a huge effect on global climate too). This image shows a good graph on world temperatures based on boreholes. We also have learned in the last few years (after Global Warming because a huge issue) that one of the big assumptions made by many global warming people is that the sun is a constant brightness and it's not.
No, I believe that we should do our best to reduce green house gasses. I'm a very strong environmentalist. But, I think we should be scientifically honest in doing so.
The fault lies in those people who don't patch the operating system with the critical updates put out by its maker.
Unless you're trying to do a new install of XP in the middle of all of this.
1. Install XP 2. Go to WindowsUpdate 2. Start to download patch 3. Get infected 4. Computer restarts before patch downloads 5. (#*&$&$(* computer! 6. No Profit! 7. Goto 1
IBM's System V license seems to state that when they add code to their SysV (==AIX) that code has to be treated as the rest of the SCO owned SysV code.
However, IBM (and Sequent before them) has made very sure that they wrote up a general outline of how the process works, and then made an implementation on AIX (and Dynix/ptx). They then made a very similar implementation on Linux. As long as they can show that both implementations came from the general outline, there should be no problem.
Heck, they should be able to argue that they can copy their stuff from AIX to Unix as long as there is a general outline. They may be able to argue that as long as they wrote it, and nothing of Unix comes out to the public, that they're in the clear.
You mean the list of "Some Confusing or Loaded Words and Phrases that are Worth Avoiding." They aren't saying that you can't say them - just theat they are loaded and understood in certain ways that one must be aware of when talking to this community. It's quite common when people are using normal words with certain meanings to warn people about the understanding of those words in that community.
And, I think that PETA cares a lot about what you think. Of course, I prefer PETA but what do I know...
>The government concerns itself with the actual well-being of the citizens of the U.S.
And only of those
I'd be suspicious at any government that cared more about non-citizens than citizens. A government's primary responsibility is to it's citizens. Now, that doesn't mean that they should ignore the rest of the world (what effects the world is going to effect one's country - no matter how isolated you are).
the only way to actually be an "American" for the first 300-400 years in this country
Wow, did I enter a time warp or something? the US is over 400 years old now? I thought it was 227 years old.
made into slaves for being non white
Actually, just because you were non white didn't make you automatically a slave. There were non-white slave owners.
we never had a President who wasnt married
Besides James Buchanan, the 15th president. Many consider him the worst president ever.
Read a history book, how much do you see on the civil rights movement, the gay rights movement, the womens rights movement? You barely see any of it.
Well, most history textbooks around now in schools don't have the gay rights movement because the books are old and that movement is new.
please point out some history from the right which was great, what the fall of the soviet union? is that all?
The ending of slavery, the creation of the National Park System, National Wildlife Refuge System, lots of others I'm not thinking of off the top of my head.
Bill Oreilly can say you are a terrorist on national TV, and suddenly you are a terrorist, no trial, no hiring a lawyer, you are just captured and put somewhere on guantonimo bay and never heard from again.
Name one person who has been sent to Guantonimo because O'Reilly said they were a terrorist. Oh, and I've heard all sorts of people on the left go on about right-winged terrorists.
Just a few of your points. Think before you type, then we'll all be better off.
Past radical ideas like the end of slavery, female sufferage, social equality for non-whites, unionized labour, paid vacation and abortion rights?
So, you're comparing the end of slavery with killing unborn children? Not everyone sees 'abortion rights' as a good thing.
Even if you think so, it's not a good rhetorical move in this situation to do that comparision, because people will see that statement and have their proof right in front of them.
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Excuse me? Like the US didn't help Iraq build its military and WMD capabilities.
One could argue that it's a matter of proportion. After all, one can very easily find a chart that shows who gave how much to Iraq during Hussein's rule quite easily. Hmmm... US: 1%, France: 13%. Heck, Brazil gave Iraq more (2%)!
So, yes, the US gave Hussein some weapons during a limited period of time. France, however, profited from Saddam and his brutal regime much more.
I wonder if they'll let me register a legit copy from two different home computers?
From what I've read via work, you can activate up to 5 computers with the same code.
What about computers sold by i.e DELL that is bundled with this? I remember that XP Pro didn't require me to activate it.
I know that with XP, there is an OEM version, that the OEM uses to install the program. They are given a code (like Win 95-2k) to enter during the install (at least, our OEM version here worked that way). I'm sure Symantec is going to have an OEM version of NAV2004. I know that here where I work, if we have to do activation, we're going to have to cancel our site licence.
And guess what our primary source of hydrogen is right now: natural gas
Well, at least the largest supplier of natural gas is Canada, not Middle East tyrants - that's a bonus, don't you think?
I don't understand the "how" of this dog ever catching a mouse -- this guy would pursue any prey barking and with floppy ears flapping
Our Cocker Spaniel would usually do the same, but occasionally he'd stop and stalk something. I think it's a difference between 2 ends of pack behavior - flushing and catching. Cocker's are bird dogs so they've been bread to be mostly flushing dogs, but the stalking catching part is still there.
Either that, or the mouse was dead when he found it.
hey had the patch ready months before a potential exploit became reality - the idiot system administrators who do not read security advisories are to blame.
Unless the patching system just checks to see if the program that installs the patch has run once, not if the patch was actually installed (ran out of memory, crash, power issues). Lots of people went to WU, got the patch, had a failed install, and then WU said that it was installed.
Also, many places require a lot of checking on patches before they're installed. Because you can't see what a patch actually does in a closed system, you need a lot of time to test it. In an open system, you at least can check out the code to see what it may effect.
"Preemption with respect to other laws". LAWS not LISCENCES.
It gets even sillier. The Copyright Law says you can't do certain things without the permission of the copyright holder. The GPL says "as the copyright holder, I give you permission to do certain things you ordinarily wouldn't be allowed to do, as long as you follow certain rules."
The question isn't if the GPL is valid, or anything like that, it's if the SCO case can be thrown out because of the GPL. A judge could argue that it isn't valid if you didn't know your stuff was in there. It's not about GPL validity (which SCO seems to think it is) but GPL applicability in this case.
From my experience, MSN is far more popular than AIM, every person I know in "real life" is on MSN.
Well, from my experience MSN is a baren wasteland where there is nobody except maybe Bill Gates. I don't know anybody on MSN. Well, a few people who are on that and AIM (or Yahoo! Messenger, or ICQ).
It tends to run in groups. One group of freinds is all AIM, another ICQ, another Yahoo! Heck, even people with hotmail accounts for email use something else for IM.
Who really has a use for a 486 now? Sure you can use it for a print server, or a mail server, or whatever. By why? Your new 2Ghz will do this just as well, and won't skip a beat while doing it.
You are making the assumption that I have a new 2Ghz computer. Or that I could afford to buy one. The only reason I have a P3 is because a friend sold me their old one cheep. Did I throw out my old Pent100? Nope, I still have it around. That old computer did what I needed it too, and did it well. I only got the new one for games.
because otherwise they will go insane with boredom, you insensitive clod!
Umm... what did people do before there were web browsers at work? Oh, yeah, they did THEIR JOB. The fact that some managers have decided that they want their employees to, in fact, work, shouldn't be considered bad.
(Of course, I'm thankfull that my boss isn't one of these, as I'm posting this from work)
It is a hell of a lot more efficient to send energy through power lines then to store it as H2 and ship or pipe it around.
How efficent is our current gasoline transmission system. How much energy is put into getting crude out of the ground, shipping it, transforming it into gasoline, shipping it again, pumping it into cars, and then have the cars burn it for fuel.
How efficent would a solar/grid powered hydogen reformer at every gas (H2) station be?
Once we use less energy to get H2 into vehicle motion than gasoline into vehicle motion it would be better to do a mass movement to H2 vehicles. Both would be needed side-by-side for a while - but eventually H2 is going to be a great source of power for cars.
As far as for homes, if it's used to store the excess power that solar or another power source at the home, it may very well be better than large batteries that need to be replaced.
So, yes, it is better to transmit power over lines than to pipe or ship H2 - but that doesn't mean that H2 doesn't have a lot of very good places to be!
The point is that even if the GPL is valid the end user is still responsible for any infringement.
So, what they are saying, is even if you didn't know that you were using infringing code, you are still liable for using it?
If this is true, then if you are distributing infringing code, and don't know that you are distributing infringing code, you are still liable for distributing it.
If that's so, then SCO is liable for distributing their own code under the GPL.
She said they've had to sell two or three of their (multi-million dollar) houses as a result of Enron's scandal
They had to sell 2 out of 3 (or was it 3 out of 4) of their homes in Aspen, CO.
Note that they had many other homes elsewhere, it was just a few of their homes in the same town!
I like the babelfish translation of the article, especially the phrase 'McBride still one drauf.'
I'm not sure what a drauf is, but whatever it is, it doesn't sound nice.
Senator McCarthy: "In my hand, I have a list of members of the Communist party."
SCO: "In this press release, we announce lines of offending code."
In both cases, each respective list never was made public and the number of entires on each one changed as much as the weather.
Except that there actually were (and are) communists in the US, unlike SCO code in Linux.
I happen to live in BEAVERton, Oregon. Thank you very much! I have yet to see a living beaver walking around though.
You see them sometimes in Greenway Park (near where I grew up)
Hey, you been pr0ning again?
There's a verb for 'looking at porn' now? *sigh*
The scientific consensus is strong. Perfect, no, but outside of right-wing talk show hosts and oil company shills, there is no real doubt that human activity is altering the climate.
Well, actually, while there is no debate that human activity alters the climate, there is a lot of debate on how much. (after all, Chaos Theory would say that butterfly activity has a huge effect on global climate too). This image shows a good graph on world temperatures based on boreholes. We also have learned in the last few years (after Global Warming because a huge issue) that one of the big assumptions made by many global warming people is that the sun is a constant brightness and it's not.
No, I believe that we should do our best to reduce green house gasses. I'm a very strong environmentalist. But, I think we should be scientifically honest in doing so.
The fault lies in those people who don't patch the operating system with the critical updates put out by its maker.
Unless you're trying to do a new install of XP in the middle of all of this.
1. Install XP
2. Go to WindowsUpdate
2. Start to download patch
3. Get infected
4. Computer restarts before patch downloads
5. (#*&$&$(* computer!
6. No Profit!
7. Goto 1
(warning: goto considered harmful)
IBM's System V license seems to state that when they add code to their SysV (==AIX) that code has to be treated as the rest of the SCO owned SysV code.
However, IBM (and Sequent before them) has made very sure that they wrote up a general outline of how the process works, and then made an implementation on AIX (and Dynix/ptx). They then made a very similar implementation on Linux. As long as they can show that both implementations came from the general outline, there should be no problem.
Heck, they should be able to argue that they can copy their stuff from AIX to Unix as long as there is a general outline. They may be able to argue that as long as they wrote it, and nothing of Unix comes out to the public, that they're in the clear.
GNU's list of words you can and cannot say
You mean the list of "Some Confusing or Loaded Words and Phrases that are Worth Avoiding." They aren't saying that you can't say them - just theat they are loaded and understood in certain ways that one must be aware of when talking to this community. It's quite common when people are using normal words with certain meanings to warn people about the understanding of those words in that community.
And, I think that PETA cares a lot about what you think. Of course, I prefer PETA but what do I know...
>The government concerns itself with the actual well-being of the citizens of the U.S.
And only of those
I'd be suspicious at any government that cared more about non-citizens than citizens. A government's primary responsibility is to it's citizens. Now, that doesn't mean that they should ignore the rest of the world (what effects the world is going to effect one's country - no matter how isolated you are).
the only way to actually be an "American" for the first 300-400 years in this country
Wow, did I enter a time warp or something? the US is over 400 years old now? I thought it was 227 years old.
made into slaves for being non white
Actually, just because you were non white didn't make you automatically a slave. There were non-white slave owners.
we never had a President who wasnt married
Besides James Buchanan, the 15th president. Many consider him the worst president ever.
Read a history book, how much do you see on the civil rights movement, the gay rights movement, the womens rights movement? You barely see any of it.
Well, most history textbooks around now in schools don't have the gay rights movement because the books are old and that movement is new.
please point out some history from the right which was great, what the fall of the soviet union? is that all?
The ending of slavery, the creation of the National Park System, National Wildlife Refuge System, lots of others I'm not thinking of off the top of my head.
Bill Oreilly can say you are a terrorist on national TV, and suddenly you are a terrorist, no trial, no hiring a lawyer, you are just captured and put somewhere on guantonimo bay and never heard from again.
Name one person who has been sent to Guantonimo because O'Reilly said they were a terrorist. Oh, and I've heard all sorts of people on the left go on about right-winged terrorists.
Just a few of your points. Think before you type, then we'll all be better off.
Past radical ideas like the end of slavery, female sufferage, social equality for non-whites, unionized labour, paid vacation and abortion rights?
So, you're comparing the end of slavery with killing unborn children? Not everyone sees 'abortion rights' as a good thing.
Even if you think so, it's not a good rhetorical move in this situation to do that comparision, because people will see that statement and have their proof right in front of them.
(I know, "IHBT. IHL. HAND.")
And not a very well-read one that replied.
Or someone just saying that what that person posted was, in fact, stupid. Not the attempt-to-be-witty bottom, but the bulk of the article.