did you totally blank out on the first line of that amendment? The Right of the People to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects...
yes, you are protected in your house... you are also protected in your workplace, in your car, in the movie theater, in your church... need i go on?
... and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probably cause, supported by Oath or affirmation...
which part of that clause did you miss? the BSA, if we go by the letter of the constitution, would have to have definite knowledge of infringement to be able to swear an oath to it--in EVERY CASE, they have none (else why would they need to do an audit?).
its high time the constitution started working for US, not for microsoft.
Not so... a candidate (at least in every state i've ever voted in) is distinguished by whether they complete the proper paperwork announcing their candidacy and turn it in to the voting commission; they are not "chosen" by the state. This is a purely democratic process--no one is excluded. Some states require a certain number of signatures to become a candidate--again, this isn't something that requires government approval. once the paperwork is turned it, its automatic. All government funding would do is level the playing field so that alternative political parties compete on the merits of their candidates and platforms, not party pocketbooks.
I would really like to see someone challenge these search warrants in court on a violation of the unreasonable search and seizure clause of the bill of rights.
Yes, the BSA is going to court to get these subpeonas and search warrants, but said warrants are being issued based on what? the BSA's say-so that because we didn't want to talk to them that we're obviously using pirated software? I'm sorry, but in this country that's just not enough to have federal marshalls come knocking on your door. Its as if all of a sudden pointing the finger and yelling "rape" has all the force of a judge, jury, and executioner.
if they ever come knocking on my door, you bet your ass i'm going to fight them tooth-and-nail. no settling, no negotiating. maybe i'll lose, but maybe i'll win. the chance to kick mud in their face once and for all is enough to risk it.
ok, this is too friggin' much. One has to wonder if they actually believe the bile that spews forth from their own lips.
They want their own IP police? More like federally-funded thugs. What ever happened to citizen equality under the law? Why can't we all have our own police forces? Because its a stupid idea and unconstitutional, that's why.
I think its high time we actually started living by the "one man, one vote" credo in US politics. the current situation is this: each citizen has one vote, ostensibly; but with money and power, you get immeasurably more votes and influence through corporations. So the "votes" of the top.01% of the power holders in the country count for more than everyone else's put together (i.e., the financial interests of people like Hilary Rosen, the Enron chairmen, etc). We should end this now by banning corporate campaign contributions, period. No soft money, individual contribution limits, and government subsidies to ALL political candidates, not just republicans and democrats.
And above all, we have to be active as citizens. One reason the PACS and corporate interests have congress in their pocket is because individuals like us don't take the time to call their congressman's offices and write HAND_WRITTEN (or at least, non-form) letters, so they know that there ARE people voting who aren't members of a union or special interest.
Of course, the irony of that is that paying the MS tax ensures that the computer will be obsolete and unusable much sooner than if it was running linux, thereby increasing the probability that it will end up on the scrap heap within three or four years. Whereas with linux you can easily get another four or five years of fileserving or routing out of a box, or even some kind of diskless workstation after the hd craps out.
Personally, I have no problem with this, as long as recycling centers are widely and easily available. I have half a dozen cases and a few boxes worth of broken parts I can't do anything with (and yes, I've tried donating them to a school or non-profit--they are even less able to use them than me) but I can't throw away because its unsafe for the environment. I would gladly pay an extra 20-30 dollars to finance being able to take this crap somewhere and forget about it and not have to worry about poisoning drinking water or wildlife. Look at it this way: at least microsoft (probably) won't see the money.
Something I'd like to see is a page with the rejected story submissions on it, a la' totalFark. That way we could see for ourselves what kinds of stories we're missing out on, instead of waiting to hear about them in the troll comments.
You're a little mixed up here... the phrases "beyond a shadow of a/reasonable doubt" and "preponderance of the evidence" are STANDARDS of proof. The BURDEN of proof always lies with the side making the accusation--in civil litigation this is the plaintiff; in crimnal cases its the prosecution. You are correct in saying that the standards of proof are more relaxed in civil litigation, but the plaintiff must still prove their case.
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Out of curiosity last night, I attempted an install of M$ office under both winex2 and crossover (not crossover office--just the plugin version); the crossover version of wine aborted the install about a third of the way through copying files, which tells me there's some pretty important fixes in the crossover office that didn't make it into the plugin version of their quite excellent product. WineX, on the other hand, fully installed office, but there were a lot of problems with it; no pixmaps on the buttons for instance, fonts sucked a fat one (might not have been winex's fault, i didn't investigate my options there, although i do have plenty of good fonts installed that work fine with other apps on my system), and a few other assorted problems. i think outlook crapped out as well, and i really only tested Word.
all things considered however, i think both ventures are worth places to spend my money, if only to support open-source software.
Ok, I'll give you the ISBN/bar code bit, although I think its usefulness is probably hampered by the lack of widespread bar-code scanners; anybody got a spare cuecat laying around?
anybody think there'd be copyright issues in snagging the info from amazon?
I fail to see the usefulness of such a database, outside the traditional search engine uses. CDDB and freedb both serve a function in that they identify some electronic data for me so I don't have to--a CD i've inserted into my drive. DVD Profiler presumably performs a similar function (I've not used it so I can't say for certain). But books don't have an analogue in this area. If you had an electronic version of a book, presumably it would also have whatever index you needed with it. And if you wanted an index across titles, you would use some search engine like google. But there aren't enough of these kinds of titles to warrant such an application, and i'm afraid I don't see the advent of that time approaching. Between incompatible proprietary formats and the DMCA, I think it'll be quite a long time before we have a standard "book cd" format that is used in generic book appliances a la' Rocketbook.
in bright bold red that the plugin can overlay on all the websites that get reported to FAST (as in "hey watch me pull a FAST one over on the ACLU and EFF!")?
That still doesn't change the fact that driving is a privilege.
Driving is NOT a privilege. It is a right. It is not, however, a constitutional right. The same rationale that says driving is a privilege says that privacy is also a privilege.
In logic its known as the fallacy of "post hoc ergo propter hoc": after this and therefore because of this. "Heroin users started using heroin after using pot, therefore, they began using heroin BECAUSE of their pot usage." you can replace "pot" with nearly any common substance, such as air, water, alcohol, etc; and the statement SOUNDS true, no matter how ridiculous the conclusion is.
250 WPM is not uncommon among most commercial secretaries
uh, methinks you'd better check your sources; 80 WPM is considered a good speed for an experienced typist. Even with a dvorak layout you'd be hard-pressed to find someone capable of hitting 120WPM plus. 250 WPM is so ridiculously high that it calls into question the validity of the rest of your assertions.
Despite whatever nonsense the latest women's rag is spouting off...
BIGGER IS BETTER.
go for at least 19" and use 1280x1024 res... 21" would probably be better if you can afford it. I seem to be able to read better off my laptop if the text is antialiased properly (a big "if" on linux, unfortunately--the new kde is awesome for this), but i haven't had the chance to compare to a flat-panel monitor that was worth a shit. I think part of the laptop's appeal (aside from portability) is that the screen is much easier to tilt and has a wider range.
Just because something works with NN 6.x doesn't mean that moz i broken... for one thing, the user-agent strings are different. so if a website is implementing logic based on user-agent and doesn't leave an intelligent default handling, it won't necessarily work in other browsers but that does NOT mean that the browser in question is "broken". it means the web-designer in question isn't a good one or they aren't using standards.
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PGP never caught on *DESPITE* having a slick user interface--or else NAI wouldn't have dropped it. We'll end up doing the same thing we did circa pgp2.6... write our own guis to interface with the command-line... i think we'll probably do it even better now than we did then. some other company may even make a commercial product out of it and give pgp its just due. when all is said and done, this is hardly a death-knell for consumer encryption.
[reporter] do you have a privacy policy? [company A] why of course. It is the policy of this company that all personal and private information is jealously guarded with utmost secrecy from the time of collection *cough*until*cough*we*cough*cough*sellit*cough*hig hest*cough*bidder*. [company B] we collect no personal information on our website. we've found its much easier to buy mailing lists and any personal info we need off russian hackers whenever we need new credit cards^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h marketing prospects. besides, its quite simple to buy information from Company A Media Promotions, Inc.
While I agree with the danger of contaminating an entire crop of college graduates with respect to their ability to reverse engineer applications, I'm afraid I just don't see that many professors falling for the trap Microsoft is trying to set here. This is exactly the reason why OSS/free software is so popular in universities in the first place: the lack of license restrictions.
For a short time I worked on a research group investigating java threading and benchmarks and such, and we used kaffe specifically because we could have access to the source with no restrictions (blackdown hadn't come in vogue yet--this was still the 1.1 era). Sun would have given us the source easily enough, but with all of the encumbrances of non-disclousure, etc, it just wasn't workable, especially since this was all going to be PUBLISHED information.
I'm not sure how widespread it is across the product line as I just use them in my home, but HP's laptops seem to have good interchangeablility. I have an n6395, and my girlfriend has an XH-226 whose parts are largely interchangeable, most notably the power supply. of course, i don't think the floppy drives are because she has a cdrom and floppy in hers at the same time, while i have a single bay for both. so its not as good as dell's. who knows, perhaps i'm full of it this morning--i haven't had a full cup of coffee yet.:)
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did you totally blank out on the first line of that amendment? The Right of the People to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects ...
... and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probably cause, supported by Oath or affirmation...
yes, you are protected in your house... you are also protected in your workplace, in your car, in the movie theater, in your church... need i go on?
which part of that clause did you miss? the BSA, if we go by the letter of the constitution, would have to have definite knowledge of infringement to be able to swear an oath to it--in EVERY CASE, they have none (else why would they need to do an audit?).
its high time the constitution started working for US, not for microsoft.
Not so... a candidate (at least in every state i've ever voted in) is distinguished by whether they complete the proper paperwork announcing their candidacy and turn it in to the voting commission; they are not "chosen" by the state. This is a purely democratic process--no one is excluded. Some states require a certain number of signatures to become a candidate--again, this isn't something that requires government approval. once the paperwork is turned it, its automatic. All government funding would do is level the playing field so that alternative political parties compete on the merits of their candidates and platforms, not party pocketbooks.
I would really like to see someone challenge these search warrants in court on a violation of the unreasonable search and seizure clause of the bill of rights.
Yes, the BSA is going to court to get these subpeonas and search warrants, but said warrants are being issued based on what? the BSA's say-so that because we didn't want to talk to them that we're obviously using pirated software? I'm sorry, but in this country that's just not enough to have federal marshalls come knocking on your door. Its as if all of a sudden pointing the finger and yelling "rape" has all the force of a judge, jury, and executioner.
if they ever come knocking on my door, you bet your ass i'm going to fight them tooth-and-nail. no settling, no negotiating. maybe i'll lose, but maybe i'll win. the chance to kick mud in their face once and for all is enough to risk it.
ok, this is too friggin' much. One has to wonder if they actually believe the bile that spews forth from their own lips.
.01% of the power holders in the country count for more than everyone else's put together (i.e., the financial interests of people like Hilary Rosen, the Enron chairmen, etc). We should end this now by banning corporate campaign contributions, period. No soft money, individual contribution limits, and government subsidies to ALL political candidates, not just republicans and democrats.
They want their own IP police? More like federally-funded thugs. What ever happened to citizen equality under the law? Why can't we all have our own police forces? Because its a stupid idea and unconstitutional, that's why.
I think its high time we actually started living by the "one man, one vote" credo in US politics. the current situation is this: each citizen has one vote, ostensibly; but with money and power, you get immeasurably more votes and influence through corporations. So the "votes" of the top
And above all, we have to be active as citizens. One reason the PACS and corporate interests have congress in their pocket is because individuals like us don't take the time to call their congressman's offices and write HAND_WRITTEN (or at least, non-form) letters, so they know that there ARE people voting who aren't members of a union or special interest.
Hey, I'm all for it. :)
Of course, the irony of that is that paying the MS tax ensures that the computer will be obsolete and unusable much sooner than if it was running linux, thereby increasing the probability that it will end up on the scrap heap within three or four years. Whereas with linux you can easily get another four or five years of fileserving or routing out of a box, or even some kind of diskless workstation after the hd craps out.
Personally, I have no problem with this, as long as recycling centers are widely and easily available. I have half a dozen cases and a few boxes worth of broken parts I can't do anything with (and yes, I've tried donating them to a school or non-profit--they are even less able to use them than me) but I can't throw away because its unsafe for the environment. I would gladly pay an extra 20-30 dollars to finance being able to take this crap somewhere and forget about it and not have to worry about poisoning drinking water or wildlife. Look at it this way: at least microsoft (probably) won't see the money.
Something I'd like to see is a page with the rejected story submissions on it, a la' totalFark. That way we could see for ourselves what kinds of stories we're missing out on, instead of waiting to hear about them in the troll comments.
You're a little mixed up here... the phrases "beyond a shadow of a/reasonable doubt" and "preponderance of the evidence" are STANDARDS of proof. The BURDEN of proof always lies with the side making the accusation--in civil litigation this is the plaintiff; in crimnal cases its the prosecution. You are correct in saying that the standards of proof are more relaxed in civil litigation, but the plaintiff must still prove their case.
Consumers today realized the sky is blue. Film at 11.
Out of curiosity last night, I attempted an install of M$ office under both winex2 and crossover (not crossover office--just the plugin version); the crossover version of wine aborted the install about a third of the way through copying files, which tells me there's some pretty important fixes in the crossover office that didn't make it into the plugin version of their quite excellent product. WineX, on the other hand, fully installed office, but there were a lot of problems with it; no pixmaps on the buttons for instance, fonts sucked a fat one (might not have been winex's fault, i didn't investigate my options there, although i do have plenty of good fonts installed that work fine with other apps on my system), and a few other assorted problems. i think outlook crapped out as well, and i really only tested Word.
all things considered however, i think both ventures are worth places to spend my money, if only to support open-source software.
Ok, I'll give you the ISBN/bar code bit, although I think its usefulness is probably hampered by the lack of widespread bar-code scanners; anybody got a spare cuecat laying around?
anybody think there'd be copyright issues in snagging the info from amazon?
I fail to see the usefulness of such a database, outside the traditional search engine uses. CDDB and freedb both serve a function in that they identify some electronic data for me so I don't have to--a CD i've inserted into my drive. DVD Profiler presumably performs a similar function (I've not used it so I can't say for certain). But books don't have an analogue in this area. If you had an electronic version of a book, presumably it would also have whatever index you needed with it. And if you wanted an index across titles, you would use some search engine like google. But there aren't enough of these kinds of titles to warrant such an application, and i'm afraid I don't see the advent of that time approaching. Between incompatible proprietary formats and the DMCA, I think it'll be quite a long time before we have a standard "book cd" format that is used in generic book appliances a la' Rocketbook.
in bright bold red that the plugin can overlay on all the websites that get reported to FAST (as in "hey watch me pull a FAST one over on the ACLU and EFF!")?
moderators, mod parent up...
That still doesn't change the fact that driving is a privilege.
Driving is NOT a privilege. It is a right. It is not, however, a constitutional right. The same rationale that says driving is a privilege says that privacy is also a privilege.
In logic its known as the fallacy of "post hoc ergo propter hoc": after this and therefore because of this. "Heroin users started using heroin after using pot, therefore, they began using heroin BECAUSE of their pot usage." you can replace "pot" with nearly any common substance, such as air, water, alcohol, etc; and the statement SOUNDS true, no matter how ridiculous the conclusion is.
250 WPM is not uncommon among most commercial secretaries
uh, methinks you'd better check your sources; 80 WPM is considered a good speed for an experienced typist. Even with a dvorak layout you'd be hard-pressed to find someone capable of hitting 120WPM plus. 250 WPM is so ridiculously high that it calls into question the validity of the rest of your assertions.
please mod parent up--and if you're feeling generous, me as well :).
Despite whatever nonsense the latest women's rag is spouting off...
BIGGER IS BETTER.
go for at least 19" and use 1280x1024 res... 21" would probably be better if you can afford it. I seem to be able to read better off my laptop if the text is antialiased properly (a big "if" on linux, unfortunately--the new kde is awesome for this), but i haven't had the chance to compare to a flat-panel monitor that was worth a shit. I think part of the laptop's appeal (aside from portability) is that the screen is much easier to tilt and has a wider range.
Just because something works with NN 6.x doesn't mean that moz i broken... for one thing, the user-agent strings are different. so if a website is implementing logic based on user-agent and doesn't leave an intelligent default handling, it won't necessarily work in other browsers but that does NOT mean that the browser in question is "broken". it means the web-designer in question isn't a good one or they aren't using standards.
PGP never caught on *DESPITE* having a slick user interface--or else NAI wouldn't have dropped it. We'll end up doing the same thing we did circa pgp2.6... write our own guis to interface with the command-line... i think we'll probably do it even better now than we did then. some other company may even make a commercial product out of it and give pgp its just due. when all is said and done, this is hardly a death-knell for consumer encryption.
[reporter] do you have a privacy policy?g hest*cough*bidder*.
[company A] why of course. It is the policy of this company that all personal and private information is jealously guarded with utmost secrecy from the time of collection *cough*until*cough*we*cough*cough*sellit*cough*hi
[company B] we collect no personal information on our website. we've found its much easier to buy mailing lists and any personal info we need off russian hackers whenever we need new credit cards^h^h^h^h^h^h^h^h marketing prospects. besides, its quite simple to buy information from Company A Media Promotions, Inc.
While I agree with the danger of contaminating an entire crop of college graduates with respect to their ability to reverse engineer applications, I'm afraid I just don't see that many professors falling for the trap Microsoft is trying to set here. This is exactly the reason why OSS/free software is so popular in universities in the first place: the lack of license restrictions.
For a short time I worked on a research group investigating java threading and benchmarks and such, and we used kaffe specifically because we could have access to the source with no restrictions (blackdown hadn't come in vogue yet--this was still the 1.1 era). Sun would have given us the source easily enough, but with all of the encumbrances of non-disclousure, etc, it just wasn't workable, especially since this was all going to be PUBLISHED information.
Does that explain why a dozen pints of guinness seems to amplify earths gravity to the point that I can't pick myself up off the bar or floor?
I'm not sure how widespread it is across the product line as I just use them in my home, but HP's laptops seem to have good interchangeablility. I have an n6395, and my girlfriend has an XH-226 whose parts are largely interchangeable, most notably the power supply. of course, i don't think the floppy drives are because she has a cdrom and floppy in hers at the same time, while i have a single bay for both. so its not as good as dell's. who knows, perhaps i'm full of it this morning--i haven't had a full cup of coffee yet. :)