Theo admits if he is wrong straight away WHAT!??!?!
When Theo is wrong, he *immediately* launches personal attacks, never once admitting the reality of the situation. (Linux devs were "inhuman" because they posted a GPL violation in a *public* repo to that repo's mailing list.)
"Microsoft has to program for more then one country you know."
And it's *SO* difficult to write code to conditionalize behaviour based on locale, right? It's not like there's something in the OS that tells the computer which country it's in.
"In Canada we see shows being blocked from recording using that flag all the time. Yes, its ok for a broadcaster here to stop us from recording a program."
Reference please, or I'm gonna have to call bullshit.
Google returns a ton of old references about Canada *thinking* about talking about it, but not a single instance that it's actually in use, but no reference to any law that was passed regarding it.
Your MS apologism suggests that the US is on the lenient side of what's required, when in fact it's on the strict side.
When do two wrongs make a right? What's wrong with a consumer having rights, and not being forced to buy something they don't want because it's tied by a convicted monopolist to something they *do* want?
The *real* second wrong here is that the person had to go to court to get what they should have been able to buy in the first place.
I'd rather live in a place where people can shout fire in a crowded theatre and deal with those consequences than live in a place where there's any restriction on free speech and the consequences that entails. Sorry, but this sentence contradicts itself.
This guy did "shout fire". He's now dealing with the consequences.
Put another way, the consequences of "shouting fire" are the restrictions.
It must be easier for some people to mod you a troll then to accept the possibility that you may be right. I think whoever modded that 'troll' probably won't change their mind as you suggest.
But I'm wondering what you think it's easier for people to waste mod points rather than thinking about things first.
Don't forget you need 2 lines for 128kbps ISDN No, you don't. A single ISDN BRI provides 128Kbps data rate (that is, two 64Kbps data channels, and a 16Kbps signalling channel.)
Then why is the spam problem so much bigger than the telemarketer or junk fax problem? Because we have laws regulating them, which (amazingly enough) is how society deals with social problems.
There are trivial technical solutions for the spam problem if only we could get rid of SMTP. No, there aren't.
Spam exists because there are sociopaths who want to steal resources from others. There is *NO* technical solution to this. If your SMTP replacement allows anyone to contact anyone else, it will allow spammers to contact anyone.
Spam is a social problem, not a technical one. There is no such thing as a technical solution to a social problem.
when there is no one going to sleep hungry, when there is no one sleeping in the streets and no ones constitutional rights (and i mean all of them, not just the ones that two certain big parties find noble while shitting on the others) are being threatened can you even BEGIN to think resources should be taken away to prosecute someone who downloads ac-dc albums.
I've been doing that for years on my SanDisk MP3 player: downloading the.FLV videos from YouTube and converting them to SanDisk compatible videos. So now you can't do that on the Zune? No, I think the summary is misleading and people are misinterpreting it. Nowhere did they say "uncopyrighted videos will be squelched." Please show where the part you quoted said *ANYTHING* about "uncopyrighted" content.
If you're trying to imply that content on youtube is not copyrighted, then you either have no idea what youtube is, or you don't know what copyright is. Either way, you're completely and totally wrong.
Almost everything on youtube is copyrighted by *SOMEONE*.
Honestly, did you read what you wrote?
The amperage on a Taser is too low by a few orders of magnitude to cause death by electrocution. Please put your straw man away. Nobody is saying that death by Taser is electrocution.
I've been shot with a Taser. Not a stun-gun, a full-fledged Taser with the barbed prongs and ranged shot. And unless you did this while you were being arrested, you did this as part of a *training excercise*. Which makes it pretty much irrelevant.
As a police officer, I've had six situations where using the Taser has saved me from serious bodily injury. In all but one case, the defendant was immediately back on his feet after I helped him up, and quickly back in good spirits. Really? In good spirits?!?!?! You're saying you were being threatened by someone, you hit them with the taser, they went down screaming, then you helped them up, and they said "wow, thanks - I feel much better now!"
Pull the other one.
I would willingly be shot with a Taser again in a training exercise. This is the main thrust. Being tasered in a controlled setting, where the subject is fit, not under the influence of any drugs (legal or illegal), calm, not under stress, and is aware it's going to happen and can prepare for it *is completely different* than when it's used in an adversarial situation, with people who might have medical conditions, or are otherwise not cops in training.
Slackware is a distro for people who have plenty of time to waste. No, it's the exact opposite. Slackware is a distro for people who know what they're doing and don't have plenty of time to waste.
However I also don't see the harm in pointing out in the science class that "while evolution is the current leading scientific theory by a landslide, there are other non-scientific theories out there. I *DO* see the harm - specifically the term "non-scientific theory" - a theory is *by definition* scientific.
Seriously, 90% of the problem here is that the average person doesn't know what a theory really is.
Propagating the misunderstanding of a science term in science class is where a lot of the harm starts.
Why do people automatically assume Evolution is true just because they don't understand what other theories actually mean? Which other theories? Nobody has presented any other theory at all.
In order for something to be a theory, it must be testable and falsifiable. "My invisible friend did it" is *not* a theory.
"Monty Haul" problem is simple: in a game you get to pick from one of three boxes, inside one of which is the prize. No, the "Monty Haul" problem is when you're in a MMORPG where the monsters drop more loot than you can carry back to town before other players show up.
I think you're thinking of the "Monty Hall" problem.
Let me repeat that: they are required to unconditionally accept mail for the domain. Bull. Fucking. Shit.
Please show me the RFC that states you must accept email for addresses that you know are invalid.
There is *NO* such rule. If your backup MX blindly accepts mail for every address, then it is broken. Backup (actually *any*) MX should only accept mail that it knows (or has good reason to assume) it can deliver.
If I'm wrong, or I've missed something, please by all means correct me. Please consider yourself corrected.
Since when is it considered bad form to send a NDR? Mu. It's bad form to send an NDR when you shouldn't have accepted the mail in the first place - which is the problem here.
If you send it for invalid ones, then I can assume that when you don't send it, it's a legit account. That's absurd logic.
got a tip for you:
spammers don't care if the addresses are valid or not
What you describe is called a 'rumplestiltskin' attack - it's well known, and nobody has ever suggested that the best way to counter it is to start spamming people with backscatter.
panzer already is german for "tank" As others have already pointed out, this is not true. But I have to reply about your correction.
you either say "german tank" or "german panzer" If "panzer" really was German for "tank", then wouldn't "German panzer" also be redundant?
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The sport of pointing out redundancies, errors, and speling mistakes is a wonderful sport I think you mean that the sport of pointing out redundancies, errors, speling mistakes, and redundancies is a wonderful sport.:)
The "before" pictures are an *ACCURATE* representation of the "perceived value" of the house at the time they were taken.
By definition, that cannot lower that value.
If you fix up your property afterwards, and you care about photos taken by other people, then it's your responsibility to track them down - as someone else posted, what about the county's photos of the property? Why do Google's photos "reduce the value", but not those ones?
If you look at Google maps, you can see quite clearly that their house is at the end of a private road. No. I looked at Google maps, and all I can see quite clearly is that the house is at the end of a road. There is no indication that it's private at all.
A road sign clearly indicated that this was a private road. Really? I couldn't see that sign from the link you provided.
This really does amount to trespass and invasion of privacy. You haven't proven that, but assuming that there is a sign, and the mappers were guilty of tresspassing, how the hell do you explain the absurd charges?
If this really was about tresspassing, you'd think that the property owners would have sued for that, instead of this "mental anguish" and "reduced property value" bullshit.
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When Theo is wrong, he *immediately* launches personal attacks, never once admitting the reality of the situation. (Linux devs were "inhuman" because they posted a GPL violation in a *public* repo to that repo's mailing list.)
What colour is the sky in your world?
"Microsoft has to program for more then one country you know."
And it's *SO* difficult to write code to conditionalize behaviour based on locale, right? It's not like there's something in the OS that tells the computer which country it's in.
"In Canada we see shows being blocked from recording using that flag all the time. Yes, its ok for a broadcaster here to stop us from recording a program."
Reference please, or I'm gonna have to call bullshit.
Google returns a ton of old references about Canada *thinking* about talking about it, but not a single instance that it's actually in use, but no reference to any law that was passed regarding it.
Your MS apologism suggests that the US is on the lenient side of what's required, when in fact it's on the strict side.
The *real* second wrong here is that the person had to go to court to get what they should have been able to buy in the first place.
This guy did "shout fire". He's now dealing with the consequences.
Put another way, the consequences of "shouting fire" are the restrictions.
But I'm wondering what you think it's easier for people to waste mod points rather than thinking about things first.
Did you read the link you posted?
Funny, I didn't know SELinux user-space utilites were part of the GNU project.
Someone might want to tell the folks who maintain savannah.gnu.org, because there's no mention of it anywhere on their site.
Thank you for illustrating my point.
Spam exists because there are sociopaths who want to steal resources from others. There is *NO* technical solution to this. If your SMTP replacement allows anyone to contact anyone else, it will allow spammers to contact anyone.
Spam is a social problem, not a technical one. There is no such thing as a technical solution to a social problem.
when there is no one going to sleep hungry, when there is no one sleeping in the streets and no ones constitutional rights (and i mean all of them, not just the ones that two certain big parties find noble while shitting on the others) are being threatened can you even BEGIN to think resources should be taken away to prosecute someone who downloads ac-dc albums.
There, fixed that for ya.
If you're trying to imply that content on youtube is not copyrighted, then you either have no idea what youtube is, or you don't know what copyright is. Either way, you're completely and totally wrong.
Almost everything on youtube is copyrighted by *SOMEONE*.
God, how the hell did you get modded up?
Pull the other one. I would willingly be shot with a Taser again in a training exercise. This is the main thrust. Being tasered in a controlled setting, where the subject is fit, not under the influence of any drugs (legal or illegal), calm, not under stress, and is aware it's going to happen and can prepare for it *is completely different* than when it's used in an adversarial situation, with people who might have medical conditions, or are otherwise not cops in training.
Sorry, he's citing lack of Flash as an example of open source failing?!??!
The reason they went with Gnash in the first place was because the Adobe Flash player needs more CPU power than the entire damn machine had available.
How is hell is MS's bloatware supposed to fix that?
Seriously, 90% of the problem here is that the average person doesn't know what a theory really is.
Propagating the misunderstanding of a science term in science class is where a lot of the harm starts.
In order for something to be a theory, it must be testable and falsifiable. "My invisible friend did it" is *not* a theory.
Or does the car thief know the whereabouts of stolen DVDs?
I'm unsure about your causality here - can you elaborate?
I think you're thinking of the "Monty Hall" problem.
Please show me the RFC that states you must accept email for addresses that you know are invalid.
There is *NO* such rule. If your backup MX blindly accepts mail for every address, then it is broken. Backup (actually *any*) MX should only accept mail that it knows (or has good reason to assume) it can deliver. If I'm wrong, or I've missed something, please by all means correct me. Please consider yourself corrected. Since when is it considered bad form to send a NDR? Mu. It's bad form to send an NDR when you shouldn't have accepted the mail in the first place - which is the problem here.
got a tip for you:
spammers don't care if the addresses are valid or not
What you describe is called a 'rumplestiltskin' attack - it's well known, and nobody has ever suggested that the best way to counter it is to start spamming people with backscatter.
What the fuck are you smoking?
The "before" pictures are an *ACCURATE* representation of the "perceived value" of the house at the time they were taken.
By definition, that cannot lower that value.
If you fix up your property afterwards, and you care about photos taken by other people, then it's your responsibility to track them down - as someone else posted, what about the county's photos of the property? Why do Google's photos "reduce the value", but not those ones?
If this really was about tresspassing, you'd think that the property owners would have sued for that, instead of this "mental anguish" and "reduced property value" bullshit.