He didn't represent himself. He took the stand in his own defense.
Personally I am blown away by the incompetence of the defense attorney. Clearly he must have understood Reiser (guilty or not) would not help his case by testifying. He should never have been put on the stand.
Yes, gosh darn it, the UK should shake of the shackles of the EU bondage, re-appropriate their money and put it to good use by the people!... like in Iraq or Afghanistan say, or wherever the US government thinks additional UK funds may be needed.
I've had Comcast for several years (in the Seattle area). I had 3 incidents where Comacast accidentally disconnected my cable and I was down for 2-3 days (until I went down to the box with the Comcast guy and he let me label it 'never disconnect'). A few months later Comcast sent around a client relationship rep to ask if I was happy with their service. When I complained about the downtime she upgraded my connection for life for free (even if I move). I now enjoy 26 mb down and 3 mb up (as per speedtest) with 26 ms latency (as per WoW) for the cost of the basic service. I've never had any P2P issues although I admit I am not a big P2P'er.
I dare say I am quite happy with Comcast and would probably recommend them as a service. I appreciate there are many horror stories but it's worth noting these guys are by no means all bad.
The copyright is owned by Microsoft. The consumer owns the copy.
No. The consumer owns the media possibly, but certainly they do not own 'the copy'. Microsoft products are never sold, they are only licensed, the end user therefore has a license to use their copy of the software but that is not the same thing as saying they own the copy. The consumer owns nothing.
Do you realize the amount of wasted time the operators of some websites will spend, processing the trash data that doing this will create?
If any forms which feed your DB are GET style, aren't user authenticated and/or don't use a CAPTCH then you already have a huge trash data problem. At least the googlebot won't offer to enlarge your penis.
You need to get a grip and possibly read for yourself what this is.
Sun is saying that they may (not yet decided) offer some add on components to mySQL backup that may (not yet decided) use a license other than GPL. The add on in question will be integrated through a backup API mySQL has for exactly this purpose (to enable 3rd party extended backup solutions).
What exactly do see wrong with that? First, nothing precludes building open source backup solutions for this API and nothing precludes other 3rd parties from building other solutions. Why should Sun not have the same right?
Which, like the 787 is a composite carbon fiber aircraft. Airbus claims considerable efficiencies above the 787. Boeing has 930 orders for the 787 while Airbus has 580 orders for the A350 so this delay is likely to have an impact on Boeing by pushing more customers to Airbus.
Well, a quick search of dice.com, tells me that in the Seattle area (where Microsoft is located) there are currently 438 job postings for C and C++ (which is what most of Microsoft's software is written in) so, at the moment at any rate, there is no danger of that.
I should also tell you that, as I live in the Seattle, I happen to know that Microsoft pays very well and that their benefits are the best in the area, and they have pretty cool toys and games to play in their common areas, and they take great care to ensure you have a good work/life balance.
I've never worked at Microsoft and I never plan to because nothing their doing is very exciting, and their egocentric meeting oriented culture is totally unappealing but if you want a job that pays well and has decent perks then Microsoft is not going to let you down.
I am not sure where you live or what you do but...
I did a search for IT jobs within 40 miles from my house (the Seattle area) on Dice.com and I found 2500+ jobs. I narrowed the search to some development languages I know like C, C++, Java, Ruby which gave me 1000+ hits.
I looked at the first job (which happen to be Linux related) and they claimed to be offering 'great compensation' and they were willing to pay for full relocation.
It's hard to find the pay rates given a cursory examination like this but the last time I looked pay scales for developers in this area they were (for full time roles which offered benefits, vacation, etc) ~40k no experience, ~80k 5 years experience, ~120k 10+ years experience. In my company we pay Ruby contractors with 2+ years of commercial Ruby experience and 5+ years of development experience 100k+.
I have to tell you that I think, if your willing to relocate, your experience in not finding a well paying job is an anomaly. I will add that experience is king. Just because you studied for 4-6 years does not mean you'll jump into a 60+k job having never set foot in an actual office building (although that does happen, it's pretty rare). ]{
The device you speak of (which I happen to actually use for one of my bank accounts) includes an additional step which is the challenge code.
You slot in your smart card, enter your pin into the device, followed by the challenge code, and it returns the response code which you must transcribe into the site. It is something that works on the internet but it probably would not work well for commercial transactions because most users would consider it too cumbersome.
In any case there is a pretty straightforward way to bypass this security. You spoof the bank site and, in real time, interact with the real site sending the user the real challenge code so they provide the real response code and then, once your in, you transfer the funds from the users account to some other account (which you presumable set up under an assumed name). If you are a reasonable competent crook this actual transfer process is automated and once you've completed the transfer you change the users pin code so they cannot see the transaction for the X days it takes them to order a new pin code from the bank.
The issue at hand is not the bank's security. It is the security of the consumers account.
In any case, do you really want the bank to be responsible for the security of your system? Because, honestly, I REALLY DO NOT want the banks 'staff of professionals' ensuring my security by requiring I install some type of custom 'security' software.
Should end users be ultimately responsible for the state of their systems?
The Microsoft Windows OS is not the property of the consumer using it. It is the property of Microsoft used under a license from Microsoft. If the usage of the OS complies with the license then surely any inadvertent behavior on the part of the OS is the responsibility of the owner (Microsoft) and not the license holder (the end user).
All animals (including humans) are intelligent to one degree or another. It is for you as a moral individual to determine at which point in the scale of intelligence you consider killing and or other abuses to be unacceptable.
We have every right to deem it unacceptable for any individual, group or nation to kill animals we consider intelligent much as we have every right to to deem it unacceptable for humans to abuse or kill other humans (especially in cases where the perpetrators 'make their living out of them').
I am not sure which country you are in but over here in the US our next likely president (Barack Obama) would like to 'defer' manned space flight for 5 years to pay for additional education programs.
I used to have Verizon before I moved. I never had any serious problem with it. We had perhaps 3-4 days downtime in the year we lived there.
I am now on Comcast. I have had perhaps 10 days of downtime in 2 years as they never labeled my connection at the terminal box and kept disconnecting it until I finally went down with the Comcast guy and he let me write 'never disconnect' on a little piece of paper attached to the cable. Anyway, a Comcast rep came around to ask if I was happy a while back, and when I told her about the problem she gave a free upgrade to their maximum performance for the life of my connection (even if I move!). I've also never had any issues with BT on Comcast.
I cannot think of anyone I know who has had serious issues with their connection with the sole exception of a friend who got a cease and desist letter from his ISP because he was using BT to grab pirated movies.
Anyway, the point I am trying to make here is that, by and large, these companies do a good job. Yes, occasionally there are problems, but this is not, IMHO, endemic to their company and certainly not to the industry as a whole.
I don't know about first person shooters but I must say that in WoW I get a certain satisfaction from dying 'in the name of the cause', like causing an alliance wipe in AV on Galv with a last ditch fear or dropping from the cliff onto the GM to keep the flag from getting capped.
You would have to argue that you don't every buy music because for this $5 you would, in essence, have legitimate access to all digital music at no additional cost.
If you buy 4-5 CD's a year, you would still break even by downloading and burning your own. Alternatively this would be like buying 5 iTunes tracks per month except you don't need to worry about DRM and you will no doubt be able to get better quality.
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The most interesting aspect of this is that it's still up.
If it were targeting US audiences a judge would have served a take down notice long ago.
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The sad truth is he is 'weird' and should never have been permitted, by his attorney, to take the stand.
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He didn't represent himself. He took the stand in his own defense.
Personally I am blown away by the incompetence of the defense attorney. Clearly he must have understood Reiser (guilty or not) would not help his case by testifying. He should never have been put on the stand.
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By the same token ... 'it is so sad that it is necessary to have that may [operating system kernels] pretty much doing the same thing'.
Personally I think diversity is good! No single organization or country should control a critical piece of technology.
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Yes, gosh darn it, the UK should shake of the shackles of the EU bondage, re-appropriate their money and put it to good use by the people! ... like in Iraq or Afghanistan say, or wherever the US government thinks additional UK funds may be needed.
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I've had Comcast for several years (in the Seattle area). I had 3 incidents where Comacast accidentally disconnected my cable and I was down for 2-3 days (until I went down to the box with the Comcast guy and he let me label it 'never disconnect'). A few months later Comcast sent around a client relationship rep to ask if I was happy with their service. When I complained about the downtime she upgraded my connection for life for free (even if I move). I now enjoy 26 mb down and 3 mb up (as per speedtest) with 26 ms latency (as per WoW) for the cost of the basic service. I've never had any P2P issues although I admit I am not a big P2P'er.
I dare say I am quite happy with Comcast and would probably recommend them as a service. I appreciate there are many horror stories but it's worth noting these guys are by no means all bad.
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The copyright is owned by Microsoft. The consumer owns the copy.
No. The consumer owns the media possibly, but certainly they do not own 'the copy'. Microsoft products are never sold, they are only licensed, the end user therefore has a license to use their copy of the software but that is not the same thing as saying they own the copy. The consumer owns nothing.
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Do you realize the amount of wasted time the operators of some websites will spend, processing the trash data that doing this will create?
If any forms which feed your DB are GET style, aren't user authenticated and/or don't use a CAPTCH then you already have a huge trash data problem. At least the googlebot won't offer to enlarge your penis.
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Thank you for taking the time to write a response.
It is a sad day when slashdot editors becomes first class purveyors of FUD.
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But this is pretty much the end.
You need to get a grip and possibly read for yourself what this is.
Sun is saying that they may (not yet decided) offer some add on components to mySQL backup that may (not yet decided) use a license other than GPL. The add on in question will be integrated through a backup API mySQL has for exactly this purpose (to enable 3rd party extended backup solutions).
What exactly do see wrong with that? First, nothing precludes building open source backup solutions for this API and nothing precludes other 3rd parties from building other solutions. Why should Sun not have the same right?
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Well,not quite ...
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus_A350
Which, like the 787 is a composite carbon fiber aircraft. Airbus claims considerable efficiencies above the 787. Boeing has 930 orders for the 787 while Airbus has 580 orders for the A350 so this delay is likely to have an impact on Boeing by pushing more customers to Airbus.
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Well, a quick search of dice.com, tells me that in the Seattle area (where Microsoft is located) there are currently 438 job postings for C and C++ (which is what most of Microsoft's software is written in) so, at the moment at any rate, there is no danger of that.
I should also tell you that, as I live in the Seattle, I happen to know that Microsoft pays very well and that their benefits are the best in the area, and they have pretty cool toys and games to play in their common areas, and they take great care to ensure you have a good work/life balance.
I've never worked at Microsoft and I never plan to because nothing their doing is very exciting, and their egocentric meeting oriented culture is totally unappealing but if you want a job that pays well and has decent perks then Microsoft is not going to let you down.
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I am not sure where you live or what you do but ...
I did a search for IT jobs within 40 miles from my house (the Seattle area) on Dice.com and I found 2500+ jobs. I narrowed the search to some development languages I know like C, C++, Java, Ruby which gave me 1000+ hits.
I looked at the first job (which happen to be Linux related) and they claimed to be offering 'great compensation' and they were willing to pay for full relocation.
It's hard to find the pay rates given a cursory examination like this but the last time I looked pay scales for developers in this area they were (for full time roles which offered benefits, vacation, etc) ~40k no experience, ~80k 5 years experience, ~120k 10+ years experience. In my company we pay Ruby contractors with 2+ years of commercial Ruby experience and 5+ years of development experience 100k+.
I have to tell you that I think, if your willing to relocate, your experience in not finding a well paying job is an anomaly. I will add that experience is king. Just because you studied for 4-6 years does not mean you'll jump into a 60+k job having never set foot in an actual office building (although that does happen, it's pretty rare).
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The device you speak of (which I happen to actually use for one of my bank accounts) includes an additional step which is the challenge code.
You slot in your smart card, enter your pin into the device, followed by the challenge code, and it returns the response code which you must transcribe into the site. It is something that works on the internet but it probably would not work well for commercial transactions because most users would consider it too cumbersome.
In any case there is a pretty straightforward way to bypass this security. You spoof the bank site and, in real time, interact with the real site sending the user the real challenge code so they provide the real response code and then, once your in, you transfer the funds from the users account to some other account (which you presumable set up under an assumed name). If you are a reasonable competent crook this actual transfer process is automated and once you've completed the transfer you change the users pin code so they cannot see the transaction for the X days it takes them to order a new pin code from the bank.
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The issue at hand is not the bank's security. It is the security of the consumers account.
In any case, do you really want the bank to be responsible for the security of your system? Because, honestly, I REALLY DO NOT want the banks 'staff of professionals' ensuring my security by requiring I install some type of custom 'security' software.
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Should end users be ultimately responsible for the state of their systems?
The Microsoft Windows OS is not the property of the consumer using it. It is the property of Microsoft used under a license from Microsoft. If the usage of the OS complies with the license then surely any inadvertent behavior on the part of the OS is the responsibility of the owner (Microsoft) and not the license holder (the end user).
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All animals (including humans) are intelligent to one degree or another. It is for you as a moral individual to determine at which point in the scale of intelligence you consider killing and or other abuses to be unacceptable.
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We have every right to deem it unacceptable for any individual, group or nation to kill animals we consider intelligent much as we have every right to to deem it unacceptable for humans to abuse or kill other humans (especially in cases where the perpetrators 'make their living out of them')
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I am not sure which country you are in but over here in the US our next likely president (Barack Obama) would like to 'defer' manned space flight for 5 years to pay for additional education programs.
http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2007/11/obama-pits-huma.html
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... most importantly it has a Javascript capable browser. A phone that does Web 2.0 is much more then a phone.
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I used to have Verizon before I moved. I never had any serious problem with it. We had perhaps 3-4 days downtime in the year we lived there.
I am now on Comcast. I have had perhaps 10 days of downtime in 2 years as they never labeled my connection at the terminal box and kept disconnecting it until I finally went down with the Comcast guy and he let me write 'never disconnect' on a little piece of paper attached to the cable. Anyway, a Comcast rep came around to ask if I was happy a while back, and when I told her about the problem she gave a free upgrade to their maximum performance for the life of my connection (even if I move!). I've also never had any issues with BT on Comcast.
I cannot think of anyone I know who has had serious issues with their connection with the sole exception of a friend who got a cease and desist letter from his ISP because he was using BT to grab pirated movies.
Anyway, the point I am trying to make here is that, by and large, these companies do a good job. Yes, occasionally there are problems, but this is not, IMHO, endemic to their company and certainly not to the industry as a whole.
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I don't know about first person shooters but I must say that in WoW I get a certain satisfaction from dying 'in the name of the cause', like causing an alliance wipe in AV on Galv with a last ditch fear or dropping from the cliff onto the GM to keep the flag from getting capped.
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what happens when (not if) the sun hits a more active solar cycle eliminating all of these satellites in one fell swoop
We launch more satellites, possibly with additional radiation shielding?
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Microsoft does not use their patents as a weapon because their revenue continues to surge despite the increase in the popularity of Linux.
If/when Linux becomes a significant threat to growth, you can be sure Microsoft will use all tools at its disposal, including parents, aggressively.
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If the NSA or the CIA wanted to these wires they would have done so without damage.
I expect the NSA already has taps on all these lines anyway.
You would have to argue that you don't every buy music because for this $5 you would, in essence, have legitimate access to all digital music at no additional cost.
If you buy 4-5 CD's a year, you would still break even by downloading and burning your own. Alternatively this would be like buying 5 iTunes tracks per month except you don't need to worry about DRM and you will no doubt be able to get better quality.