we do not care, as this should be done through pam with the merged
efforts for 2.6.12
Understood. Now please understand that many of us "do not care" about Debian anymore having been subject to such asshattery by maintainers and zealots. How would you like to take such a response to your boss on an issue after fighting tooth and nail to have Debian placed on your production servers? It could be what we call a Career Limiting Event. Certainly MS declines to fix bugs, but they at least are polite about their announcements.
While this attitude remains in the community it is really hard to take Debian as anything more than a hobbyist's toy. If that's what you want, that's fine, but do not sing to me its praises as an enterprise alternative. I'll stick with a distro that has a professional organization behind it instead.
Furthermore, someone actually referred to the patch as being Open Source, so now Debian isn't going to package it. They're busy working on the Free Software driver for punchcard readers.
This was basically the first step in electricity de-regulation, the next being that the same company cannot provide the generation, transmission, and load service, because having all three can lead to price fixing, market power, undercutting, and makes it much too easy to be anti-competative.
And the one after that was Enron, proving that this free market gospel is so much bunk. It has as much value in the real world as the writings of Marx. Ideals don't work in reality. Just look at the libertarian small government situation in Somalia.
To commit treason someone has to overtly and willfully cooperate with an enemy, to overthrow the gov't.
To emphasize that, here is the text of Article III, Section 3:
Section 3. Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort. No person shall be convicted of treason unless on the testimony of two witnesses to the same overt act, or on confession in open court.
The Congress shall have power to declare the punishment of treason, but no attainder of treason shall work corruption of blood, or forfeiture except during the life of the person attainted.
I had a similar experience with a friends' Dell Dimension. After speaking to India for a week, I finally froze the drive and was able to use Ghost to transfer everything to the new drive. I'm not sure the "recovery" partition actually works, but fortunately the old drive had no bad sectors, just a wonky motor or a cracked solder joint on the controller. My friend got lucky.
Oh, and Dell outsourcing in India outsources its weekend support lines to Costa Rica apparently. That, or "Maria" was lying to me.
If Edison really had used that egg trick as a patent defense, he would've been a complete asshat for doing so (although, from what I've heard of him, he was a complete asshat nonetheless).
True, but it seems some asshatishness is often necessary to get things done. I can think of Edison, Marconi, both Roosevelts, and in more modern times both Bill Gates and Richard Stallman as individuals who can be extraordinarily difficult to deal with.
A further caveat: red-light cameras are not good enough at assuring who was actually behind the wheel at the time of the offense, so I have no trouble with only issuing a citation and fine to the registered owner of the car for allowing it to be used in a reckless manner. My draconian penalty for red-light running would only apply when an officer personally witnessed the offense and was willing to testify at a license suspension hearing.
Furthermore, if this were the penalty, I think that after a few months and a few suspensions, people would get the idea that cheating a red light simply isn't worth it, which is the desired outcome.
I'd also like to hear more about your experience with the 770. Is it all useful in a PDA/Notetaking role, or is it pretty much a portable web browser and media device only?
Note - since the rise of cameras at intersections accidents have nearly doubled in some cases as people slam on the brakes in time for the person behind them to collide with them. But remember - it's safety - not revenue.
I remember reading this was true with an incredibly important caveat: the number of injuries and fatalities from red light running is way down. You're getting more fender benders as people belatedly obey the fscking law instead of body bags when they flagrantly flaunt it.
Personally, I think the fine for running a red light should be a 90 day license suspension on the first offense, increasing exponentionally with each subsequent. Then again, I was nearly run down at the intersection of Vermont and K by a SUV last week, so I may be a bit biased in this respect.
No, but they have a staff, and they pay impartial experts to explain things to them, where necessary.
Damn. That's the funniest thing I've read in a while. I'd call you hopelessly naive about how the Congress works, but that would be an insult to hopelessly naive people everywhere. Trust me, no Congresscritter is going to pay for an expert opinion when a lobbyist will pay for it and give him/her/it a free dinner at The Palm or Galileo to boot. Never mind that that opinion will be about as impartial as a Redskins fan's about the Dallas Cowboys.
Call me jaded, but I live and work in this town. I know what I have seen with my own two eyes and the discussions I've overheard on the Metro around the Capital. It disabuses you of a lot of illusions. Fast.
Perhaps it is because in the developed world our "ideal" standard is something developed by consensus, whereas in China the "ideal" standard is to do what the government tells you and shut up already? That would lead to two competing styles of negotiation, one where differences are worked out, and another where, in the absence of an ability to simply arrest everyone who disagrees with you and use them for spare parts in your state run organ farms, the only option is to walk out in a huff?
And yes, it worries me that the US is sliding more and more toward the Chinese ideal.
Actually, Google is only bound to do what the majority shareholders want, as they can replace senior management. Since I believe the founders still control the company, Google can do whatever they like and if the other shareholders don't like it, their only recourse is to sell, as long as the majority is perfectly open about what it plans to do.
There is no more legal options than that. As long as management does not deliberately mislead the shareholders and a majority of those shareholders agree, then everything is legal. As a furhter example, Costco gets grief from the street all of the time because it does not maximize shareholder revenue by offering a WalMart level health plan, instead choosing to pay a higher percentage of its employees' costs. Since senior management still owns the majority of the shares, they tell the street to go play with itself and no laws are broken.
Property is what we say it is, period. Ownership is defined by humans not physical laws. I happen to agree with your take on physical versus intellectual property, but I also recognize that if the majority decides otherwise, well then that's what it is. For a time, at least (c.f. chattel slavery)
The real problem is that unlimited property rights tend to clash with unlimited personal liberties. The correct solution is to find a balanced approach, not to cite utopian libertarian principles as if they would actually work in the real world, which is what the original poster seemed to be doing. Pure libertarianism is as misguided and divorced from reality as pure Marxism and the proponents of both views are equals dangers to the public good.
Cutting staff is never a good sign and reflects a colossal amount of stupidity on the part of management. In this case, it means "we couldn't figure out how to make money with these 5,000 people". Unless it's 5K worth of mouth-breathing middle-management, it's a sad statement on the company vision & direction from the top and the lack of grasroots channels to communicate from below. Nothing worthwhile coming from the top, nothing able to break through from the bottom....
Or perhaps hiring them in the first place was the mistake? When times are good, it is easy for people to say "I'm overworked" and for incompetent management to fix the problem by simply throwing bodies at it. It is almost always better to improve productivity by adopting new technologies or by cutting bullshit internal inefficiencies and only hire as a last resort. You don't want to strangle your growth, but I have worked for companies that went under because they simply staffed up without any plan.
I would assume then that by your arguments you are also quite in favor of the MPAA and RIAA's stance on intellectual property. To wit:
a) Property either means something, or it does not
b) The recording industry does not run its business to give away its property for free
c) Music is created by people, and as such those people who create them must distribute them
Or are you ready to admit that vague philisophical arguments of this nature can be applied to justify just about anything and therefore don't mean much?
And don't worry, I'm not planning to invade New Hampshire any time soon. Though I am for depriving it of its place as the location of the first Presidential primary, as every state should have the liberty to schedule theirs on the exact same day if they so choose.
Your grandfather probably helped fight for it in World War 2, only for you to belittle it.
I think you are misunderstanding the situation: it is perfectly fine to belittle a situation that you find stupid, although it often reflects more on the person making the comment than on the subject. That is one of the rights that my grandfather certainly fought for. He is not belittling France's right to self-determination, only the decision they came to. If that is forbidden ground, then the rest of the world needs to STFU about our Idiot in Chief, as we sadly elected him to a second term, Bob help us.
Not to scare you or anything, but is it also not possible that Avast found a false positive on your recovery partition and has now mangled it so that it cannot perform its needed tasks? Have you run a system recovery from that partition to test that scenario, or are you blindly accepting Avast's diagnosis of the problem?
In all likelihood, Avast is correct and Norton missed something, but I just want to raise the possibility that the error here is in Avast, not Norton, and without further testing, you don't know which case is correct.
Rats?!? You lucky stiff! We had to grind up the cockroaches and ferment their remains in the open sewer we lived in. And then the upper classmen would come and take our cockroach wine and force us to clean the sewer with naught but an old toothbrush and a broken drinking straw.
And you tell that to kids today, and they won't believe you.
My point was that the other person was also only 1 in 300 million so his story also proved nothing. There are bad public schools, but there are also bad private schools that cruise on their exclusive reputations while producing mediocrities as well.
Furthermore, it might be better to emerge ignorant from the public schools, yet with some education on real life, than to emerge ignorant and privileged like the Duke Lacrosse team or our President seem to have. Ignorance is correctible. It appears that arrogant contempt for your "lessers" may not be.
Yes, we should do our best to have as little state intervention as possible, after all lack of government interference has turned Somalia into the Libertarian Free Market Paradise that it is today. Now if only all of the Randroids would move there and leave us alone.
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Certainly, because the computer could generate an infinite number of incoming missiles at zero cost. Can any likely opponent do the same?
we do not care, as this should be done through pam with the merged efforts for 2.6.12
Understood. Now please understand that many of us "do not care" about Debian anymore having been subject to such asshattery by maintainers and zealots. How would you like to take such a response to your boss on an issue after fighting tooth and nail to have Debian placed on your production servers? It could be what we call a Career Limiting Event. Certainly MS declines to fix bugs, but they at least are polite about their announcements.
While this attitude remains in the community it is really hard to take Debian as anything more than a hobbyist's toy. If that's what you want, that's fine, but do not sing to me its praises as an enterprise alternative. I'll stick with a distro that has a professional organization behind it instead.
And while you're at it, you'd probably like a pony. Or are you willing to pay $7,500 or more a unit for such a device?
Furthermore, someone actually referred to the patch as being Open Source, so now Debian isn't going to package it. They're busy working on the Free Software driver for punchcard readers.
And the one after that was Enron, proving that this free market gospel is so much bunk. It has as much value in the real world as the writings of Marx. Ideals don't work in reality. Just look at the libertarian small government situation in Somalia.
To emphasize that, here is the text of Article III, Section 3:
Oh, and Dell outsourcing in India outsources its weekend support lines to Costa Rica apparently. That, or "Maria" was lying to me.
True, but it seems some asshatishness is often necessary to get things done. I can think of Edison, Marconi, both Roosevelts, and in more modern times both Bill Gates and Richard Stallman as individuals who can be extraordinarily difficult to deal with.
Furthermore, if this were the penalty, I think that after a few months and a few suspensions, people would get the idea that cheating a red light simply isn't worth it, which is the desired outcome.
He was probably in a high end raiding guild. Machine explosion would not be a valid excuse for bailing in the middle of Blackrock Spire.
I'd also like to hear more about your experience with the 770. Is it all useful in a PDA/Notetaking role, or is it pretty much a portable web browser and media device only?
I remember reading this was true with an incredibly important caveat: the number of injuries and fatalities from red light running is way down. You're getting more fender benders as people belatedly obey the fscking law instead of body bags when they flagrantly flaunt it.
Personally, I think the fine for running a red light should be a 90 day license suspension on the first offense, increasing exponentionally with each subsequent. Then again, I was nearly run down at the intersection of Vermont and K by a SUV last week, so I may be a bit biased in this respect.
Damn. That's the funniest thing I've read in a while. I'd call you hopelessly naive about how the Congress works, but that would be an insult to hopelessly naive people everywhere. Trust me, no Congresscritter is going to pay for an expert opinion when a lobbyist will pay for it and give him/her/it a free dinner at The Palm or Galileo to boot. Never mind that that opinion will be about as impartial as a Redskins fan's about the Dallas Cowboys.
Call me jaded, but I live and work in this town. I know what I have seen with my own two eyes and the discussions I've overheard on the Metro around the Capital. It disabuses you of a lot of illusions. Fast.
And yes, it worries me that the US is sliding more and more toward the Chinese ideal.
There is no more legal options than that. As long as management does not deliberately mislead the shareholders and a majority of those shareholders agree, then everything is legal. As a furhter example, Costco gets grief from the street all of the time because it does not maximize shareholder revenue by offering a WalMart level health plan, instead choosing to pay a higher percentage of its employees' costs. Since senior management still owns the majority of the shares, they tell the street to go play with itself and no laws are broken.
The real problem is that unlimited property rights tend to clash with unlimited personal liberties. The correct solution is to find a balanced approach, not to cite utopian libertarian principles as if they would actually work in the real world, which is what the original poster seemed to be doing. Pure libertarianism is as misguided and divorced from reality as pure Marxism and the proponents of both views are equals dangers to the public good.
Or perhaps hiring them in the first place was the mistake? When times are good, it is easy for people to say "I'm overworked" and for incompetent management to fix the problem by simply throwing bodies at it. It is almost always better to improve productivity by adopting new technologies or by cutting bullshit internal inefficiencies and only hire as a last resort. You don't want to strangle your growth, but I have worked for companies that went under because they simply staffed up without any plan.
a) Property either means something, or it does not
b) The recording industry does not run its business to give away its property for free
c) Music is created by people, and as such those people who create them must distribute them
Or are you ready to admit that vague philisophical arguments of this nature can be applied to justify just about anything and therefore don't mean much?
And don't worry, I'm not planning to invade New Hampshire any time soon. Though I am for depriving it of its place as the location of the first Presidential primary, as every state should have the liberty to schedule theirs on the exact same day if they so choose.
You are obviously not the typical Slashdot reader.
I think you are misunderstanding the situation: it is perfectly fine to belittle a situation that you find stupid, although it often reflects more on the person making the comment than on the subject. That is one of the rights that my grandfather certainly fought for. He is not belittling France's right to self-determination, only the decision they came to. If that is forbidden ground, then the rest of the world needs to STFU about our Idiot in Chief, as we sadly elected him to a second term, Bob help us.
In all likelihood, Avast is correct and Norton missed something, but I just want to raise the possibility that the error here is in Avast, not Norton, and without further testing, you don't know which case is correct.
And you tell that to kids today, and they won't believe you.
Furthermore, it might be better to emerge ignorant from the public schools, yet with some education on real life, than to emerge ignorant and privileged like the Duke Lacrosse team or our President seem to have. Ignorance is correctible. It appears that arrogant contempt for your "lessers" may not be.
Yes, we should do our best to have as little state intervention as possible, after all lack of government interference has turned Somalia into the Libertarian Free Market Paradise that it is today. Now if only all of the Randroids would move there and leave us alone.
Yep. Fire the QA department and just ship it. Voila, no known defects!