Sure, in most places you can stop a shoplifter. Or someone you've seen commit many other crimes.
But if you screw a citizen's arrest up you're liable for a world of hurt. Unlawful detention, unlawful search, assault, defamation, etc.
Not to mention the fact that if you grab someone and try to detain them and don't properly perform a legal citizen's arrest, they can legally beat you to death with a stick in most parts of the world. Stopping only when you've gone limp and let go. Self-defense for the crimes they find being committed against themselves.
There's a reason why smart stores tell the guard to just follow the suspected thief with a cell-phone even if they have video evidence. The chance of getting the item back a bit earlier isn't worth having your store and management sued for a few million dollars for telling security guards to tackle people.
If they said on the entryway "You will be search upon leaving" it would be legal. Saying it after they've already accepted your offer (of a sale) is bait and switch.
Do I have a right to search you when you leave my house? Arguably a far more likely place for you to steal things because I don't have an RFID system by the door. Nobody would agree to this though. But for some reason a store is different. More people, more stuff, but how does that change the individual cases?
Personally, I'm waiting for someone to step in front of someone and detain them, refuse to move when they're notified they're breaking the law (unlawful detainment of some sort) and be kicked within an inch or their life as the marine they stopped walks out of the store over them. And as the guards get charged, not the customer. The only thing funnier would be if the manager (like in this scenario) involved himself.
I think it's safe to say that MS are *totally* against the possibility of ever letting anyone's software open an MS format as well as MSOffice. I mean, his words say as much, but that he says that DAV is bad (in the memo) implies that Office was going open, could be open, before he stepped in.
Microsoft can author an incomplete 6000 OOXML spec, but they can't be bothered to properly follow the 37-page DHCP RFC...
Psst: I don't think they really want us to succeed!
Read this memo from Bill Gates. I think this explains Microsoft's position on document converters.
And Bill's personality.
Consequently, why we can't rest until MS's stock is worth pennies. Gates and Balmer are doing everything they can to ruin free computing.
Because of this you won't find a lot of open source for Windows. Everyone has a very mercenary angle as compared to FOSS people. To a Microsoftie, everyone is a bit of an enemy. Why would you share much code, or explain much?
Second Life is the same way. A culture totally in the mindset of paying for a three-line program.
Both Second Life and Windows are similar. They're very restricted, there's one way to do *it* and if that doesn't work, you're screwed. If you don't like the word processor in Windows (write.exe), shell out $500 to get one. If you don't like the games (solitaire), shell out more, if you want a development environment, shell out again. To have a full Windows station where you could work, relax, and play would cost a fortune!
So yeah, it'll be a while before much of a sharing culture picks up over there.
It's amazing how someone like you with so little understanding of an issue can tell me that *I'm* off topic.
Pray tell, how does the issue of following specs not relate? No, actually, don't worry your pretty little head over it. Other people have done a much better job of addressing it than you.
And, btw, who pays testing and deploying all these patches? Elves? No!? Well, then that's going to cost the company a fortune! They're going to have to watch all the patches for all vendors to make sure nobody breaks anything one of their customers uses.
Frankly, you're the dumbest box of rocks I've talked to on here. "I follow HTML strict...but if I have to break it". Then it's not very strict, you moron. Strict means *always* doing it right, not just when you feel like it.
It's obvious to everyone but you that Microsoft intended this. They got it right with their earlier OSes, refused to fix it when notified, and refused to help customers work around it. So, if you can find an easier explanation than Bill Gate's own words saying that they must find all opportunities to destroy the competition by breaking standards....
They expect other companies to follow a half-defined 6000 page spec, but they can't be bothered to follow a 37 page one. Incompetence, or Intent?
I suggest you re-read my message, especially the part where the ISP should try to work with Microsoft.
I suggest you re-read the article. They did try to work with Microsoft. They and their customers both got poor treatment and no real help.
What if their router explodes and burns the bulding down? Don't be inane.
I think untested software patches in a diverse environment are fairly likely to break things. But then I've only been a programmer for years, so whatever.
It's directly because of people like you that the html coding standards on the web suck so much. Microsoft can author a 6000 page OOXML spec, they can surely find time to figure out the 37-page DHCP RFC.
This memo pretty clearly indicates what Microsoft intends to do with these changes. If not they'd fix these bugs.
Not true. A corporation that the workers own stock in qualifies, and is not manipulative by nature.
Personally I can't see why you'd work somewhere long-term without the ability to buy stock in it. But that is for the market to decide.
As for government control, you need look no further than the FDA for the arguments for and against. Against is that is slows the free market. For is that people don't get killed by frauds until "markets correct".
In the end, even having voluntary trade organizations that sue frauds in civil court is still relying on the government monopoly on force...
I think they could defeat the peasants. They could probably defeat all non-microbial life in the area, if they were told to.
Their orders are a bit messier though. "Go there and shoot only the guilty - they look just like the innocent. Make everyone love us!"
I'd hate to be in the army now. It's an essential service, but it's being pissed away on a mission that it can't win by people who don't respect the use of the institution or the sacrifice made by those who serve.
The only time the "hearts and minds" of Iraq were available might have been directly following Gulf War 1, if we (the world) had removed Saddam. Everyone who would have helped in GW2 had been executed after GW1.
I see. The ISP should develop, test, and roll-out a third-party patch to their DHCP server, to work around a problem on some misconfigured client machines. In their no-doubt free time.
What if they screw up the connections of the 90% of people who aren't using Vista while doing this?
Why don't you just insist that Microsoft fix its software, to allow their customers to use the service they pay for... You know, that sounds familiar.
Silly troll. Vista would be fine if it worked as well as or better than its predecessors. Vista's DHCP is non-standard, in a way the RFC doesn't make mandatory, if Microsoft chooses to rely on a non-standard response... well that's how we got here.
The Internet isn't run by Microsoft, so Microsoft can't control all the software out there. If they want Vista to work, they'll have to work with it.
Do you see? The internet is bigger than Microsoft, *much* bigger than Vista.
You're the one arguing in favor of your two-bit proprietary system. You sound like an Atari ST user from the late 90s. Face it, the company you shill for simply can't keep up with the world at large and no matter how much you bitch you can't change the facts. 90s tech, too late for the party.
The thing is that there's as much proof of a deity, any deity, as there is for the crazy concept of an invisible pink unicorn, space nazis, or literally any other fiction. Technically Star Trek might actually be a true story, cast backwards in time and disguised as just a TV show to avoid tipping off the klingons. But should we give that viewpoint equal weight in schools?
Eventually you must admit that it's common sense to say "If there's no evidence, it's likely not true" simply because of the infinite number of "it" that we could be talking about.
Atheism is just the common sense to say that because agnostics are right, and there can't ever really be any actual evidence, that any conclusions people draw are drawn without evidence and therefore worthless.
They are simply reserving the right to terminate the accounts that are more trouble than they are worth. if you are a paying customer [...]
That's just the problem, this is to paying customers. They don't have a right to terminate these accounts at all, considering their ToS changed after these users paid.
If these were just free accounts it would be expected.
Most of these local things are just traps on certain patterns of outgoing digits, not actual phone numbers. 911 (999?) for instance. I'm not sure of the specifics of the routing and I'm sure it differs on types of switches, but there's usually (always?) a proper local number that the short form routes to.
Just call the operator in the area and ask what the full number for that service is. I've done it for 911 when programming weird PBXes and such.
Consider _Coles Notes_ and other side-by-side with the original text, workbooks.
They use copyrighted and trademarked names with impunity, as long as they're referenced properly. In much the same way as a tour report of Disney would use similarly protected terms in an obviously allowable way.
Discussion of a work, at almost any detail, is just that. Breaking it down, showing how you would write the story/program, the methods the author employed, showing how it could be changed, etc... all fine. Even showing how the reader would go about producing more stories/programs themselves by making a few of these changes wouldn't be a copyright violation.
It's like a phone book. The numbers aren't copyrightable, like the actual statements in a mechanically generated header file. They're simply the simplest representation of certain facts.
However, the cover of the phone book, and any articles in it, would be copyrighted. As would the page layout and any other creative works.
Any specific header file could have comments in it, could be formatted manually, etc. That specific.h file *would* be protected, but like a phone book you could always just copy the data without worry.
My god, you're right. And not only do we not have a headscarf law, but our allies mostly don't either! Maybe the UN should enact some sort of global mandate requiring headscarf sensitivity laws and other good ideas.
Of course you have the right. Except in a few moralistic hold-overs (sex) you have the right to do anything for money that you would do for free or for yourself.
You can buy a book and scribble in the margins. Even resell it with these notes. So why not with software?
The limitation in this area is trademark and misrepresentation. If you're selling something that looks like X(tm), it had better be X(tm) or your customers are being mislead unless you carefully explain the differences.
Sure, a GUI with those options is great. But even in GUI programs most settings aren't user-visible. Firefox for example has thousands of settings in about:config, only 100 or so of those are in the GUI.
What I mean to say is that, because they are text files, you can do this [your plan]. If these settings were stored compressed in the registry you wouldn't be able to do this except via MS's API which requires the system to be booted and untrojaned.
And I still don't see why you have to dig through a man page to tweak a config file, but don't have to read the docs to change registry settings...
Really, it's just a choice between putting "foo = 7" into a file with a standard format (text) instead of a proprietary format (registry). You still need the name, the value, and the correct location. Occasionally syntax is an issue, but you can usually copy that from another line more easily than copying a registry tree.
It seems like the answer for that is a KDE-like Gnome theme, installed by default when you install KDE. Otherwise the different UI seems to suggest that the app is going to be different.
But people act like the technologies involved (Qt, etc) need to be pruned. IMHO they just need to be tweaked a little bit to look alike, where they'll be used together.
Ahh yes, because web services are so difficult to write.
If you were writing a 3d game, maybe. But even then, you'd be better off if there were more types of computers/OSes, that way there'd more likely be platform independent way to write the game. You know, like Quake manages to run on most anything...
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Sure, in most places you can stop a shoplifter. Or someone you've seen commit many other crimes.
But if you screw a citizen's arrest up you're liable for a world of hurt. Unlawful detention, unlawful search, assault, defamation, etc.
Not to mention the fact that if you grab someone and try to detain them and don't properly perform a legal citizen's arrest, they can legally beat you to death with a stick in most parts of the world. Stopping only when you've gone limp and let go. Self-defense for the crimes they find being committed against themselves.
There's a reason why smart stores tell the guard to just follow the suspected thief with a cell-phone even if they have video evidence. The chance of getting the item back a bit earlier isn't worth having your store and management sued for a few million dollars for telling security guards to tackle people.
Exactly. And there are a million ways a citizen's arrest can go wrong.
If they said on the entryway "You will be search upon leaving" it would be legal. Saying it after they've already accepted your offer (of a sale) is bait and switch.
Do I have a right to search you when you leave my house? Arguably a far more likely place for you to steal things because I don't have an RFID system by the door. Nobody would agree to this though. But for some reason a store is different. More people, more stuff, but how does that change the individual cases?
Personally, I'm waiting for someone to step in front of someone and detain them, refuse to move when they're notified they're breaking the law (unlawful detainment of some sort) and be kicked within an inch or their life as the marine they stopped walks out of the store over them. And as the guards get charged, not the customer. The only thing funnier would be if the manager (like in this scenario) involved himself.
Check out this memo about document converters by Bill Gates.
I think it's safe to say that MS are *totally* against the possibility of ever letting anyone's software open an MS format as well as MSOffice. I mean, his words say as much, but that he says that DAV is bad (in the memo) implies that Office was going open, could be open, before he stepped in.
Microsoft can author an incomplete 6000 OOXML spec, but they can't be bothered to properly follow the 37-page DHCP RFC...
Psst: I don't think they really want us to succeed!
Read this memo from Bill Gates. I think this explains Microsoft's position on document converters.
And Bill's personality.
Consequently, why we can't rest until MS's stock is worth pennies. Gates and Balmer are doing everything they can to ruin free computing.
Because of this you won't find a lot of open source for Windows. Everyone has a very mercenary angle as compared to FOSS people. To a Microsoftie, everyone is a bit of an enemy. Why would you share much code, or explain much?
Second Life is the same way. A culture totally in the mindset of paying for a three-line program.
Both Second Life and Windows are similar. They're very restricted, there's one way to do *it* and if that doesn't work, you're screwed. If you don't like the word processor in Windows (write.exe), shell out $500 to get one. If you don't like the games (solitaire), shell out more, if you want a development environment, shell out again. To have a full Windows station where you could work, relax, and play would cost a fortune!
So yeah, it'll be a while before much of a sharing culture picks up over there.
It's amazing how someone like you with so little understanding of an issue can tell me that *I'm* off topic.
Pray tell, how does the issue of following specs not relate? No, actually, don't worry your pretty little head over it. Other people have done a much better job of addressing it than you.
And, btw, who pays testing and deploying all these patches? Elves? No!? Well, then that's going to cost the company a fortune! They're going to have to watch all the patches for all vendors to make sure nobody breaks anything one of their customers uses.
Frankly, you're the dumbest box of rocks I've talked to on here. "I follow HTML strict...but if I have to break it". Then it's not very strict, you moron. Strict means *always* doing it right, not just when you feel like it.
It's obvious to everyone but you that Microsoft intended this. They got it right with their earlier OSes, refused to fix it when notified, and refused to help customers work around it. So, if you can find an easier explanation than Bill Gate's own words saying that they must find all opportunities to destroy the competition by breaking standards....
They expect other companies to follow a half-defined 6000 page spec, but they can't be bothered to follow a 37 page one. Incompetence, or Intent?
I suggest you re-read my message, especially the part where the ISP should try to work with Microsoft.
I suggest you re-read the article. They did try to work with Microsoft. They and their customers both got poor treatment and no real help.
What if their router explodes and burns the bulding down? Don't be inane.
I think untested software patches in a diverse environment are fairly likely to break things. But then I've only been a programmer for years, so whatever.
It's directly because of people like you that the html coding standards on the web suck so much. Microsoft can author a 6000 page OOXML spec, they can surely find time to figure out the 37-page DHCP RFC.
This memo pretty clearly indicates what Microsoft intends to do with these changes. If not they'd fix these bugs.
Not true. A corporation that the workers own stock in qualifies, and is not manipulative by nature.
Personally I can't see why you'd work somewhere long-term without the ability to buy stock in it. But that is for the market to decide.
As for government control, you need look no further than the FDA for the arguments for and against. Against is that is slows the free market. For is that people don't get killed by frauds until "markets correct".
In the end, even having voluntary trade organizations that sue frauds in civil court is still relying on the government monopoly on force...
Do they have statistics for the German soldiers invading Russia?
I think they could defeat the peasants. They could probably defeat all non-microbial life in the area, if they were told to.
Their orders are a bit messier though. "Go there and shoot only the guilty - they look just like the innocent. Make everyone love us!"
I'd hate to be in the army now. It's an essential service, but it's being pissed away on a mission that it can't win by people who don't respect the use of the institution or the sacrifice made by those who serve.
The only time the "hearts and minds" of Iraq were available might have been directly following Gulf War 1, if we (the world) had removed Saddam. Everyone who would have helped in GW2 had been executed after GW1.
No, a troll is any tough question that the other side has already failed to address.
In other words, troll means roughly, "beating a dead horse to which I still have no good answer".
Until then it's flamebait.
Oh, and pointing out mistakes or inconsistencies in moderation, that's a troll.
I see. The ISP should develop, test, and roll-out a third-party patch to their DHCP server, to work around a problem on some misconfigured client machines. In their no-doubt free time.
What if they screw up the connections of the 90% of people who aren't using Vista while doing this?
Why don't you just insist that Microsoft fix its software, to allow their customers to use the service they pay for... You know, that sounds familiar.
Silly troll. Vista would be fine if it worked as well as or better than its predecessors. Vista's DHCP is non-standard, in a way the RFC doesn't make mandatory, if Microsoft chooses to rely on a non-standard response... well that's how we got here.
The Internet isn't run by Microsoft, so Microsoft can't control all the software out there. If they want Vista to work, they'll have to work with it.
Do you see? The internet is bigger than Microsoft, *much* bigger than Vista.
You're the one arguing in favor of your two-bit proprietary system. You sound like an Atari ST user from the late 90s. Face it, the company you shill for simply can't keep up with the world at large and no matter how much you bitch you can't change the facts. 90s tech, too late for the party.
The thing is that there's as much proof of a deity, any deity, as there is for the crazy concept of an invisible pink unicorn, space nazis, or literally any other fiction. Technically Star Trek might actually be a true story, cast backwards in time and disguised as just a TV show to avoid tipping off the klingons. But should we give that viewpoint equal weight in schools?
Eventually you must admit that it's common sense to say "If there's no evidence, it's likely not true" simply because of the infinite number of "it" that we could be talking about.
Atheism is just the common sense to say that because agnostics are right, and there can't ever really be any actual evidence, that any conclusions people draw are drawn without evidence and therefore worthless.
They are simply reserving the right to terminate the accounts that are more trouble than they are worth. if you are a paying customer [...]
That's just the problem, this is to paying customers. They don't have a right to terminate these accounts at all, considering their ToS changed after these users paid.
If these were just free accounts it would be expected.
Most of these local things are just traps on certain patterns of outgoing digits, not actual phone numbers. 911 (999?) for instance. I'm not sure of the specifics of the routing and I'm sure it differs on types of switches, but there's usually (always?) a proper local number that the short form routes to.
Just call the operator in the area and ask what the full number for that service is. I've done it for 911 when programming weird PBXes and such.
Consider _Coles Notes_ and other side-by-side with the original text, workbooks.
They use copyrighted and trademarked names with impunity, as long as they're referenced properly. In much the same way as a tour report of Disney would use similarly protected terms in an obviously allowable way.
Discussion of a work, at almost any detail, is just that. Breaking it down, showing how you would write the story/program, the methods the author employed, showing how it could be changed, etc... all fine. Even showing how the reader would go about producing more stories/programs themselves by making a few of these changes wouldn't be a copyright violation.
So, I think the answer is, never.
You use the surviving license?
It's like a phone book. The numbers aren't copyrightable, like the actual statements in a mechanically generated header file. They're simply the simplest representation of certain facts.
.h file *would* be protected, but like a phone book you could always just copy the data without worry.
However, the cover of the phone book, and any articles in it, would be copyrighted. As would the page layout and any other creative works.
Any specific header file could have comments in it, could be formatted manually, etc. That specific
My god, you're right. And not only do we not have a headscarf law, but our allies mostly don't either! Maybe the UN should enact some sort of global mandate requiring headscarf sensitivity laws and other good ideas.
Of course you have the right. Except in a few moralistic hold-overs (sex) you have the right to do anything for money that you would do for free or for yourself.
You can buy a book and scribble in the margins. Even resell it with these notes. So why not with software?
The limitation in this area is trademark and misrepresentation. If you're selling something that looks like X(tm), it had better be X(tm) or your customers are being mislead unless you carefully explain the differences.
Sure, a GUI with those options is great. But even in GUI programs most settings aren't user-visible. Firefox for example has thousands of settings in about:config, only 100 or so of those are in the GUI.
What I mean to say is that, because they are text files, you can do this [your plan]. If these settings were stored compressed in the registry you wouldn't be able to do this except via MS's API which requires the system to be booted and untrojaned.
And I still don't see why you have to dig through a man page to tweak a config file, but don't have to read the docs to change registry settings...
Really, it's just a choice between putting "foo = 7" into a file with a standard format (text) instead of a proprietary format (registry). You still need the name, the value, and the correct location. Occasionally syntax is an issue, but you can usually copy that from another line more easily than copying a registry tree.
It seems like the answer for that is a KDE-like Gnome theme, installed by default when you install KDE. Otherwise the different UI seems to suggest that the app is going to be different.
But people act like the technologies involved (Qt, etc) need to be pruned. IMHO they just need to be tweaked a little bit to look alike, where they'll be used together.
Ahh yes, because web services are so difficult to write.
If you were writing a 3d game, maybe. But even then, you'd be better off if there were more types of computers/OSes, that way there'd more likely be platform independent way to write the game. You know, like Quake manages to run on most anything...