Simple this is going to be the long term support version. Firefox2 is close to being at the end of it's life. Ubuntu doesn't like to update major version during the life of the release so this makes sense. I really like FF3. I think it is much better than FF2. As to the problem with plugins... Well that is up to the plug in authors.
Okay but. It does appear that they where posting data to a social networking site. Sorry but right there I say even if it is marked private it isn't really all that private. Also it does look like they where guilty of the crime. Sorry but child abuse isn't exactly the crime-du-jour. Kiddie porn has been an issue for a while and so child molestation. I am trying to see just what is wrong here? It isn't like Google was handing over bloggers that where pushing for democracy. It looks like Google turned over data of people that where systematically molesting children. Sorry but this seems like a whole lot of getting bent over nothing. BTW a judge can order a search on suspicion as long as the suspicion is good enough that it reaches probably cause. A good example would be if your wife is missing. The night before people heard you fighting with her. I can see a judge giving a search warrant based on that suspicion. I think most people could. And that is mere suspicion.
I am afraid that I have to agree. The X86-32 ISA is just downright nasty. The X86-64 is better but to use the extra registers you have to have the overhead of running in 64-bit mode. The X86 is a pig. Thanks the the huge amounts of money and talent that Intel and AMD have thrown at it the X86 one very fast and cheap pig but a pig none the less.
I can live with it but I hope that the Atom never displaces the ARM.
No lack of DRM isn't a problem if your an artist or copyright holder. Piracy is a problem if your an artist or copyright holder. The thing is that DRM has never stopped piracy. It only effects honest users that buy the material. It is a terrible solution the to the problem of piracy. It is totally ineffective AND it punishes the honest consumer. It is the wost of all possible worlds.
Unlike some people I am not pro piracy at all. I do think it is theft. But I will not have my rights stepped on by a big company just because they feel that they are getting cheated out of that new private island. I don't pirate and I do not tolerated being treated like a thief.
Your logic is at best flawed if not totally none existent. News reporting acts that happen including crimes. It would be illegal to rob a bank, set fire to a forest, or any number of other actions to make a movie. It is not illegal to show those things on the news. As a society the majority have decided that crimes of a sexual nature involving children are so abhorrent that they deserve extreme penalties. Just as society has put a higher penalty on committing a crime with a weapon vs not having a weapon or one involving sexual assault vs one with just physical assault. That is how a democracy works. Your logic just isn't and your rhetoric is a bit silly. Got to love the miss mash of antiwar, anti religion and anti media all in one when none of that has anything to do with it. If you really believe that kiddie porn is no worse than a Rambo movie than I suggest you try and get people to vote to change the law. I think you will find that majority will not agree with your stand.
Maybe somethings shouldn't be COTS? Maybe Cisco should open a factory in the US and sell a line of super secure routers. You can only buy them from Cisco and they are shipped right from Cisco to the buyer. Or maybe some other company should do that.
I am just waiting for some group to slip some bot code into all those linksys/netgear home routers. Now that would be a bot net that would be hard to even detect. Who runs malware detection on their router?
Because it means that he support Clinton and or McCain. "Hawking compared people who don't want to spend money on human space exploration to those who opposed the journey of Christopher Columbus in 1492." Of course some Native Americans my feel otherwise. BTW I am part Native American so please keep you self loathing indignation to yourself.
Yes but the F-110 got a new number, F-4 to match the Navy number F-4. Since the F-4 was an older plane that always confused me. The Navy did build two F-111b but the problem was an Air Force long range strike air craft makes a pretty poor carrier based interceptor. Throw in the weight gain, landing gear problems, inlet problems, and cost over runs the Navy went for the F-14 instead. So what your saying is that the USAF kept the old number with the exception of the F-110/F-4 while the Navy had to renumber everything. Okay that is a little logical.
Which makes you wonder about the F-111 which never seemed to get a new number. While the F1J Fury became the F-1... I really like the Navy's way since it almost had the entire history of the plane in the name.
Also notice the number. All fighters after a certian date got renumbered. The F-117 was much newer than the F-4, the F-15, and F-16. The Air Forced used the nunbers above 112 (I think) for Soviet aircraft that we managed to acquire during the cold war. By putting calling the Nighthawk the F-117 it might have confused the soviets into thinking it was a Mig, SU, or Yak we happened to pickup. Of course we kept them under security so it was even more deceptive.
Place blame is what is wrong. Unless Bolivia has never used fossil fuels they are every bit as responsible.
Compared to the risk cutting CO2 seems like the low risk option. The simple truth is unless India and China start cutting it really doesn't matter what the US and the EU does at this point. But that is a matter of opinion since I don't have the hard data to back it up.
Funny but every post I have seen from you is about how the morality of piracy. "I don't feel that they are worth the price they are asking" "I wouldn't have paid for it anyway" "It isn't stealing" "It's cheating no stealing" Yes this is all about morality. The morality of the RIAA and MPAA and the morality of the pirates.
But if want it in practical terms I will lay it out for you. Everytime somebody pirates it is more ammo for the the RIAA and MPAA to push for draconian laws and manditory DRM. It also helps the to diminish the idea of fair use.
Okay. Thanks for providing a great example of BAD SCIENCE.
I am skeptical about evolution. The thing is that right now the majority of evidence is that evolution is real and explains a lot about how life has changed over the history of the planet. I am skeptical about creationism. So far every talk I have listened to on creationism has had more error in science than I can shake a stick at.
If you are not skeptical then it isn't science. If you are not open to the possibility that you are wrong then it isn't science.
As far as global climate change from human CO2 production. Yes I am very skeptical. I don't think they have nearly enough data to prove it. The way the climate change faithful keep saying this or that disaster or storm was caused by global warming really doesn't help. Snow in Bagdad this winter and record cold and snow in many places this winter also are interesting data points. Heck I am even for cutting CO2 production just in case because frankly as the old saying goes "It can't hurt". But the people that claim that Man made global warming is a proven fact are also spouting off bad science. Being skeptical is a good thing and good science.
It is justification. That is all. You are doing something that you feel is wrong so you minimize it by calling it cheating and not stealing. But the end result is the same. Every pirate builds the RIAA and MPAAs case for more laws, more investigations, and more DRM. Those that they an pretend that they are "Sticking it to the man" are doing nothing but taking stuff they want without paying for it.
"So is it immoral? Maybe. Probably. But is it stealing?" It is breaking the law. I like you comment that it maybe immoral. If you feel that it may be immoral then maybe you shouldn't do it. As I said just because you don't think it is worth the price they are asking doesn't give you the right to just take it. You have the right to not watch or pay for it. Buy just taking it you are giving the MPAA and RIAA every excuse to push for stronger laws and more DRM. If you don't think it is worth the price then just don't indulge. I can tell you that more than one author feels that downloading scanned copies of their books is stealing form them. The fact that you don't feel that it is stealing is interesting since you are the person pirating the media and not creating it.
"But watching a movie you were never planning on buying anyways is NOT stealing." If it isn't worth paying for is it worth watching? Sorry but that just justifying it. I don't think people have the legal right to take it for free because they don't think it is worth the price the owners want.
And yes I can oppose the RIAA and MPAA and the media companies left right and sideways and still support the idea that people shouldn't pirate stuff. The RIAA and MPAA are trying to take away peoples rights. I really don't like that but the real truth is downloading a torrent of a movie IS NOT fighting the abuses of the RIAA and MPAA. It is just pirating a movie you want to see but don't want to pay for.
Well I have to disagree with you. I think the massive piracy I see is thievery. But like a lot of things that I consider to be stealing it should be a civil matter and not a criminal one. Just because I am not for piracy doesn't mean I like to see peoples rights abused or the court system twisted to serve commercial interests and or destroy the concept of fair use. Also just because I am for a fair and just legal system doesn't mean that I think that I have the right to download everything I can get a network connection too.
Hey this sounds great. You need the program to write a paper you just rent it for a while. The Security thing is a little bit more annoying but all virus checkers seem to be going for this system. If Microsoft put in anti-virus software for free then people would be having a fit cow over unfair practices.
Of course you could just get OpenOffice and Linux or you could pick up a Mac.
But after seeing just how wonderful Vista really is why would anybody play with a toy like Linux or OS/X.
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Simple this is going to be the long term support version. Firefox2 is close to being at the end of it's life. Ubuntu doesn't like to update major version during the life of the release so this makes sense.
I really like FF3. I think it is much better than FF2.
As to the problem with plugins... Well that is up to the plug in authors.
Okay but.
It does appear that they where posting data to a social networking site. Sorry but right there I say even if it is marked private it isn't really all that private.
Also it does look like they where guilty of the crime. Sorry but child abuse isn't exactly the crime-du-jour. Kiddie porn has been an issue for a while and so child molestation.
I am trying to see just what is wrong here? It isn't like Google was handing over bloggers that where pushing for democracy. It looks like Google turned over data of people that where systematically molesting children.
Sorry but this seems like a whole lot of getting bent over nothing.
BTW a judge can order a search on suspicion as long as the suspicion is good enough that it reaches probably cause.
A good example would be if your wife is missing. The night before people heard you fighting with her. I can see a judge giving a search warrant based on that suspicion. I think most people could. And that is mere suspicion.
I bet you have also calculated the thrust to weight ration of a TIE fighter.
Yea like I am going to make the effort to think all the way across the room when I could just think at the remote next to me.
I am afraid that I have to agree. The X86-32 ISA is just downright nasty.
The X86-64 is better but to use the extra registers you have to have the overhead of running in 64-bit mode.
The X86 is a pig. Thanks the the huge amounts of money and talent that Intel and AMD have thrown at it the X86 one very fast and cheap pig but a pig none the less.
I can live with it but I hope that the Atom never displaces the ARM.
No lack of DRM isn't a problem if your an artist or copyright holder. Piracy is a problem if your an artist or copyright holder.
The thing is that DRM has never stopped piracy.
It only effects honest users that buy the material. It is a terrible solution the to the problem of piracy. It is totally ineffective AND it punishes the honest consumer.
It is the wost of all possible worlds.
Unlike some people I am not pro piracy at all. I do think it is theft. But I will not have my rights stepped on by a big company just because they feel that they are getting cheated out of that new private island.
I don't pirate and I do not tolerated being treated like a thief.
Well then maybe some other company should.
Backwards I am afraid.
DRM isn't a problem if your a pirate. It is only a problem if you are customer.
Your logic is at best flawed if not totally none existent.
News reporting acts that happen including crimes.
It would be illegal to rob a bank, set fire to a forest, or any number of other actions to make a movie.
It is not illegal to show those things on the news.
As a society the majority have decided that crimes of a sexual nature involving children are so abhorrent that they deserve extreme penalties. Just as society has put a higher penalty on committing a crime with a weapon vs not having a weapon or one involving sexual assault vs one with just physical assault. That is how a democracy works. Your logic just isn't and your rhetoric is a bit silly. Got to love the miss mash of antiwar, anti religion and anti media all in one when none of that has anything to do with it. If you really believe that kiddie porn is no worse than a Rambo movie than I suggest you try and get people to vote to change the law. I think you will find that majority will not agree with your stand.
Would you find somebody defending child pornography.
BTW movies where where they muder people are illegal last time I checked.
Maybe somethings shouldn't be COTS?
Maybe Cisco should open a factory in the US and sell a line of super secure routers. You can only buy them from Cisco and they are shipped right from Cisco to the buyer.
Or maybe some other company should do that.
I am just waiting for some group to slip some bot code into all those linksys/netgear home routers. Now that would be a bot net that would be hard to even detect. Who runs malware detection on their router?
Because it means that he support Clinton and or McCain.
"Hawking compared people who don't want to spend money on human space exploration to those who opposed the journey of Christopher Columbus in 1492."
Of course some Native Americans my feel otherwise.
BTW I am part Native American so please keep you self loathing indignation to yourself.
I do understand but there was record cold all over the place. I say that we don't have enough understanding of climate to say that it is or is not happening.
Here is one post http://www.dailytech.com/Temperature+Monitors+Report+Widescale+Global+Cooling/article10866.htm
that seems to have valid data.
And another
http://www.dailytech.com/Researcher+Basic+Greenhouse+Equations+Totally+Wrong/article10973.htm
But I will also state that I am not 100% confident in those stories or data. I am afraid that they outside my areas of knowledge.
Yes but the F-110 got a new number, F-4 to match the Navy number F-4. Since the F-4 was an older plane that always confused me. The Navy did build two F-111b but the problem was an Air Force long range strike air craft makes a pretty poor carrier based interceptor. Throw in the weight gain, landing gear problems, inlet problems, and cost over runs the Navy went for the F-14 instead.
So what your saying is that the USAF kept the old number with the exception of the F-110/F-4 while the Navy had to renumber everything. Okay that is a little logical.
Which makes you wonder about the F-111 which never seemed to get a new number. While the F1J Fury became the F-1...
I really like the Navy's way since it almost had the entire history of the plane in the name.
Also notice the number. All fighters after a certian date got renumbered. The F-117 was much newer than the F-4, the F-15, and F-16. The Air Forced used the nunbers above 112 (I think) for Soviet aircraft that we managed to acquire during the cold war. By putting calling the Nighthawk the F-117 it might have confused the soviets into thinking it was a Mig, SU, or Yak we happened to pickup. Of course we kept them under security so it was even more deceptive.
But record cold sure isn't.
Unless the global change is cooling.
There has also been record cold this year as well. But one year isn't enough data.
Place blame is what is wrong. Unless Bolivia has never used fossil fuels they are every bit as responsible.
Compared to the risk cutting CO2 seems like the low risk option. The simple truth is unless India and China start cutting it really doesn't matter what the US and the EU does at this point.
But that is a matter of opinion since I don't have the hard data to back it up.
Funny but every post I have seen from you is about how the morality of piracy.
"I don't feel that they are worth the price they are asking"
"I wouldn't have paid for it anyway"
"It isn't stealing"
"It's cheating no stealing"
Yes this is all about morality. The morality of the RIAA and MPAA and the morality of the pirates.
But if want it in practical terms I will lay it out for you. Everytime somebody pirates it is more ammo for the the RIAA and MPAA to push for draconian laws and manditory DRM. It also helps the to diminish the idea of fair use.
Okay. Thanks for providing a great example of BAD SCIENCE.
I am skeptical about evolution. The thing is that right now the majority of evidence is that evolution is real and explains a lot about how life has changed over the history of the planet.
I am skeptical about creationism. So far every talk I have listened to on creationism has had more error in science than I can shake a stick at.
If you are not skeptical then it isn't science. If you are not open to the possibility that you are wrong then it isn't science.
As far as global climate change from human CO2 production. Yes I am very skeptical. I don't think they have nearly enough data to prove it. The way the climate change faithful keep saying this or that disaster or storm was caused by global warming really doesn't help. Snow in Bagdad this winter and record cold and snow in many places this winter also are interesting data points.
Heck I am even for cutting CO2 production just in case because frankly as the old saying goes "It can't hurt".
But the people that claim that Man made global warming is a proven fact are also spouting off bad science.
Being skeptical is a good thing and good science.
It is justification. That is all. You are doing something that you feel is wrong so you minimize it by calling it cheating and not stealing.
But the end result is the same. Every pirate builds the RIAA and MPAAs case for more laws, more investigations, and more DRM.
Those that they an pretend that they are "Sticking it to the man" are doing nothing but taking stuff they want without paying for it.
"So is it immoral? Maybe. Probably. But is it stealing?"
It is breaking the law. I like you comment that it maybe immoral.
If you feel that it may be immoral then maybe you shouldn't do it. As I said just because you don't think it is worth the price they are asking doesn't give you the right to just take it. You have the right to not watch or pay for it.
Buy just taking it you are giving the MPAA and RIAA every excuse to push for stronger laws and more DRM. If you don't think it is worth the price then just don't indulge.
I can tell you that more than one author feels that downloading scanned copies of their books is stealing form them. The fact that you don't feel that it is stealing is interesting since you are the person pirating the media and not creating it.
"But watching a movie you were never planning on buying anyways is NOT stealing." If it isn't worth paying for is it worth watching? Sorry but that just justifying it. I don't think people have the legal right to take it for free because they don't think it is worth the price the owners want.
And yes I can oppose the RIAA and MPAA and the media companies left right and sideways and still support the idea that people shouldn't pirate stuff. The RIAA and MPAA are trying to take away peoples rights. I really don't like that but the real truth is downloading a torrent of a movie IS NOT fighting the abuses of the RIAA and MPAA. It is just pirating a movie you want to see but don't want to pay for.
Well I have to disagree with you. I think the massive piracy I see is thievery. But like a lot of things that I consider to be stealing it should be a civil matter and not a criminal one.
Just because I am not for piracy doesn't mean I like to see peoples rights abused or the court system twisted to serve commercial interests and or destroy the concept of fair use.
Also just because I am for a fair and just legal system doesn't mean that I think that I have the right to download everything I can get a network connection too.
Hey this sounds great. You need the program to write a paper you just rent it for a while. The Security thing is a little bit more annoying but all virus checkers seem to be going for this system.
If Microsoft put in anti-virus software for free then people would be having a fit cow over unfair practices.
Of course you could just get OpenOffice and Linux or you could pick up a Mac.
But after seeing just how wonderful Vista really is why would anybody play with a toy like Linux or OS/X.