The U.S. has a similar process, but it is almost NEVER used. I remember 60 Minutes (a T.V. news show) covering a case of this, once. Some woman had filed several hundred lawsuits. Things like suing the neighbor kids for bouncing their basketball after 5:00 p.m. and causing her distress from the noise, etc.
She finally had pissed off enough judges to have her right to sue stripped.
I thought by pointing out the "controlled hardware environment", I'd bypass some of these types of argument.
This means you don't have to worry about drivers, because you supply the hardware. End-users don't have to config anything, as it comes set up out of the box.
While many OSS projects are in some state of partial completion, there are others that are polished gems. KDE is one that comes to mind for this project. Preconfigured with things like extra (AA) fonts, media codecs, Java, PDF and Flash and it is a wonderful setup for this target.
The funding part though... that may be a real big hook.
Considering cost is a *major* factor in this project, and every dollar counts, why the hell did he put Windows on it? Granted, he seems to have worked out a deal with Microsoft for a "reduced price, stripped" copy of Windows, still... $0 is always less than Windows.
In this case -- a controlled hardware environment -- Linux would have been perfect. And free (as in beer).
I sign my wife's name all the time, and she sometimes signs mine. All perfectly legal, as long as neither one disputes it.
Simply claim you have power of attorney from your spouse. If, when asked, your spouse says "yes, I gave my permission", you're clear.
Of course, you better be DAMN SURE your spouse is going to back you up.
"yes, he did. Same way he gave me permission to sign his name on the check buying the mink coat..."
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I have a Sendmail book that you can use to bore the demons to death.
aka The Codex of Obfuscation? Combine that with a DVD copy of "Glitter" or "Gigli" and William Shatner's Greatest Hits and you have the perfect tools to convince the demons that this is ALREADY Hell, and they can just go home.
My implied point was that the surveillance system and the pervasive monitoring will be there LONG after the Olympics and even the terrorist threat is gone.
Now that it is in place, one excuse after another will be found not only to keep it, but to upgrade and enhance it.
This sort of thing will become pervasive. In the 50s it was the Red Scare and "commies". This time around it is "terrorists". "Homeland security" will be used as an excuse to futher the Orwellian state.
The only hope is to accept it and subvert it from the inside. The more digital this stuff gets, the easier it is to fuck with it.
It is also important to remember that there was no provision for a standing army in the Constitution, as well.
Correct, and this was done on purpose. Jefferson, for one, wanted a provision to PROHIBIT a standing army except in times of war. He was unable to convince the majority of others to go along with this, though.
However, it is an irrelevant point. An army is there for the Federal Gov't, whereas the militias were for the States. The rights of the PEOPLE to bear arms was given so that the people and States could have an adequate defence against the Federal Gov't as well as foreign enemies. Trust of central gov'ts was not high considering the recent history of Revolution.
This is why all the arguments about protecting yourselves from criminals; guns for hunting; etc. are irrelevant. The 2nd Amendment is there exclusively to give the people the power to protect themselves from the Gov't, if necessary.
Just a tidbit to keep in mind. When the 2nd Amendment was written, the militias of many States were comprised of every able bodied male over the age of 12.
The idea was to have EVERYONE owning a firearm and trained in its use, in case the need arose for a conscription base that wasn't totally green.
Yes, you are correct, but if the vehicle you are driving is abnormally dangerous to ME, then I can use your argument, too. Your argument is just as valid for either viewpoint, unless you are being hypocritical.
"Normal" means "average", or, what everyone else is doing. Considering SUVs and big vehicles are so popular, they can be considered close to average and thus "normal". Ergo, they are not "abnormally dangerous" to you. It is all the small care that are "abnormally non-dangerous".:-)
Okay, how about this. Since file sharing companies would be liable for their users actions under Sen. Hatch's proposed law, how about extending that to other markets.
Roads come to mind. I want the owners of the roads held liable everytime they are used for criminal purposes. If someone drives drugs from Miami up I-95, I think the owners of I-95 should be liable! The same goes for roads used during robbery get-a-ways and the like.
Networks are INFRASTRUCTURE, like the road system. They are not enclosed locations like retail stores or private businesses or buildings.
Thanks. I did notice that when I get an unblocked ad on the right, the page renders properly. I sort of figured it was something being blocked that was screwing up the table spacing.
I saved a page to my hard drive and loaded it and it displayed fine. HOWEVER, if I keep hitting refresh it'll eventually mess up at least once. I didn't see anything that would reload from the server, but I wasn't that thorough in checking.
Except IBM could take all of the SuSE sources and make "IBM Linux" that was nothing more than a rebranded SuSE in a heartbeat. This is how Mandrake started -- as an enhanced Red Hat.
IBM could get the major vendors like BEA, SAP, Oracle and the like to certify on "IBM Linux" pretty darn quick.
Agreed. This is actually what I meant when I said "versioning". You just articulated it better. Thanks.
Being able to right-click on a file or folder and choosing "restore from..." then selecting "previous version, yesterday, last week, initial install" etc. would be fantastic.
I've had to deal with 2 disk crashes in the last 4 years. (One of which was last week -- a 3-year old IBM Deskstar:-) I can't even count the number of times I've had to deal with data loss due to viruses, worms, accidents or sheer stupidity. Not to mention installing a new program and it hosing 12 other things.
Well, to be honest, most of that was helping people on Windows systems. I have had a few accidents and sheer stupids on my Linux boxes.
Still, drive crashes are easy to avoid. Buy 2 and set up RAID-1.
Slashdot Mirror
Hmmm...now that this is on /., will the search for "Natalie Portman" stay on the Top 10 Declining Queries?
Inquiring minds want to know!
The U.S. has a similar process, but it is almost NEVER used. I remember 60 Minutes (a T.V. news show) covering a case of this, once. Some woman had filed several hundred lawsuits. Things like suing the neighbor kids for bouncing their basketball after 5:00 p.m. and causing her distress from the noise, etc.
She finally had pissed off enough judges to have her right to sue stripped.
I thought by pointing out the "controlled hardware environment", I'd bypass some of these types of argument.
This means you don't have to worry about drivers, because you supply the hardware. End-users don't have to config anything, as it comes set up out of the box.
While many OSS projects are in some state of partial completion, there are others that are polished gems. KDE is one that comes to mind for this project. Preconfigured with things like extra (AA) fonts, media codecs, Java, PDF and Flash and it is a wonderful setup for this target.
The funding part though... that may be a real big hook.
Considering cost is a *major* factor in this project, and every dollar counts, why the hell did he put Windows on it? Granted, he seems to have worked out a deal with Microsoft for a "reduced price, stripped" copy of Windows, still... $0 is always less than Windows.
In this case -- a controlled hardware environment -- Linux would have been perfect. And free (as in beer).
I sign my wife's name all the time, and she sometimes signs mine. All perfectly legal, as long as neither one disputes it.
Simply claim you have power of attorney from your spouse. If, when asked, your spouse says "yes, I gave my permission", you're clear.
Of course, you better be DAMN SURE your spouse is going to back you up.
"yes, he did. Same way he gave me permission to sign his name on the check buying the mink coat..."
I have a Sendmail book that you can use to bore the demons to death.
aka The Codex of Obfuscation? Combine that with a DVD copy of "Glitter" or "Gigli" and William Shatner's Greatest Hits and you have the perfect tools to convince the demons that this is ALREADY Hell, and they can just go home.
You won't get modded up for stating the blatantly obvious.
My implied point was that the surveillance system and the pervasive monitoring will be there LONG after the Olympics and even the terrorist threat is gone.
Now that it is in place, one excuse after another will be found not only to keep it, but to upgrade and enhance it.
This sort of thing will become pervasive. In the 50s it was the Red Scare and "commies". This time around it is "terrorists". "Homeland security" will be used as an excuse to futher the Orwellian state.
The only hope is to accept it and subvert it from the inside. The more digital this stuff gets, the easier it is to fuck with it.
Lets get to fucking.
It is also important to remember that there was no provision for a standing army in the Constitution, as well.
Correct, and this was done on purpose. Jefferson, for one, wanted a provision to PROHIBIT a standing army except in times of war. He was unable to convince the majority of others to go along with this, though.
However, it is an irrelevant point. An army is there for the Federal Gov't, whereas the militias were for the States. The rights of the PEOPLE to bear arms was given so that the people and States could have an adequate defence against the Federal Gov't as well as foreign enemies. Trust of central gov'ts was not high considering the recent history of Revolution.
This is why all the arguments about protecting yourselves from criminals; guns for hunting; etc. are irrelevant. The 2nd Amendment is there exclusively to give the people the power to protect themselves from the Gov't, if necessary.
Just a tidbit to keep in mind. When the 2nd Amendment was written, the militias of many States were comprised of every able bodied male over the age of 12.
The idea was to have EVERYONE owning a firearm and trained in its use, in case the need arose for a conscription base that wasn't totally green.
Yes, you are correct, but if the vehicle you are driving is abnormally dangerous to ME, then I can use your argument, too. Your argument is just as valid for either viewpoint, unless you are being hypocritical.
:-)
"Normal" means "average", or, what everyone else is doing. Considering SUVs and big vehicles are so popular, they can be considered close to average and thus "normal". Ergo, they are not "abnormally dangerous" to you. It is all the small care that are "abnormally non-dangerous".
Okay, how about this. Since file sharing companies would be liable for their users actions under Sen. Hatch's proposed law, how about extending that to other markets.
Roads come to mind. I want the owners of the roads held liable everytime they are used for criminal purposes. If someone drives drugs from Miami up I-95, I think the owners of I-95 should be liable! The same goes for roads used during robbery get-a-ways and the like.
Networks are INFRASTRUCTURE, like the road system. They are not enclosed locations like retail stores or private businesses or buildings.
Where's a cluebat when you need one.
Line, meet toes.
Thanks. I did notice that when I get an unblocked ad on the right, the page renders properly. I sort of figured it was something being blocked that was screwing up the table spacing.
Interesting...
I saved a page to my hard drive and loaded it and it displayed fine. HOWEVER, if I keep hitting refresh it'll eventually mess up at least once. I didn't see anything that would reload from the server, but I wasn't that thorough in checking.
Really odd...
-Charles
http://www.corespace.net/slashdot.jpg
That is what I see in Firefox 0.9.2 on Windows and Linux.
Change a URL from slashdot.org/... to it.slashdot.org for an example. You get about 3-4 pixels overlap on the left.
The sidebar overlaps incorrectly.
Also, check out Panasonic's Toughbook support website for a screaming example: http://tcc.toughbook.com/
I can name about a dozen others that are almost if not completely unusuable on Firefox (Linux or Windows).
In defense, they are most likely improperly coded, non-standard sites but still...
-Charles
Yes.
TCPDump & VOMIT
http://vomit.xtdnet.nl/
Next question.
1. Make oodles of faux cash in the Internet Bubble
2. Blow an obscene amount buying an overhyped buzzword (portal)
3. ??
4. Profit! Not!
Except IBM could take all of the SuSE sources and make "IBM Linux" that was nothing more than a rebranded SuSE in a heartbeat. This is how Mandrake started -- as an enhanced Red Hat.
IBM could get the major vendors like BEA, SAP, Oracle and the like to certify on "IBM Linux" pretty darn quick.
Sun *still* doesn't get it.
Agreed. This is actually what I meant when I said "versioning". You just articulated it better. Thanks.
Being able to right-click on a file or folder and choosing "restore from..." then selecting "previous version, yesterday, last week, initial install" etc. would be fantastic.
I've had to deal with 2 disk crashes in the last 4 years. (One of which was last week -- a 3-year old IBM Deskstar :-) I can't even count the number of times I've had to deal with data loss due to viruses, worms, accidents or sheer stupidity. Not to mention installing a new program and it hosing 12 other things.
Well, to be honest, most of that was helping people on Windows systems. I have had a few accidents and sheer stupids on my Linux boxes.
Still, drive crashes are easy to avoid. Buy 2 and set up RAID-1.
That Sony device looks real nice. And considering it runs "Sony Linux", I'll bet it could be hacked into a real useful e-book reader.
By "useful", I mean able to display raw text, HTML and PDF at least.