It may seem off topic but a very relavant example is the War Powers Act that says Congress can Call Back Troops after 60 days if they havn't voted to Declare War, this Act is completly unconstitutional as the constitution it specifically states that the President is the Commander in Chief. If Congress ever tries to call back troops they would be violating the seperation of powers.
The Constitution gives Congress the authority to declare war. Doesn't that imply that they can declare that we are not at war as well?
You can't use a Sprint phone on the Verizon network can you?
Yes, if I'm willing to pay the ridiculous roaming fees. And don't even get me started on the "additional minutes" fees.
My Sprint plan costs $40 for the first 2500 minutes, and $1000 for the next 2500. No, that third 0 is not a typo.
Oh, and did I mention that when you check how many minutes you've used, everything except your final bill is just an "estimate", and probably an underestimate designed to lure you into a $6, 15 minute phone call when you don't realize you've gone over? Bastards.
In fact, none of my computers have American parts.
Really? What kind of CPU does it have? Perhaps we just have different definitions of "American". When a CPU is designed in the United States and fabricated in Germany (for one possible example), I consider this to be an "American" CPU.
Sure we haven't. Getting a cell phone here with unlimited local calling time costs about 6 work-hours (at McDonalds' cook wages, after taxes). If there's lower cell phone penetration in the US, it's not for lack of opportunity, and certainly not for lack of technology. Mobile phones aren't rocket science.
What is "rocket science", on the other hand, is (wait for it...) rocket science! Put anyone in orbit lately?
Of course, that's straying from the consumer technology you seem to care about. How about these computers you're writing on? Which of these sentences sounds ridiculous: "My computer has no Norwegian parts.", or "My computer has no American parts."
Nice troll, though. I'd feel bad about responding, but it looks like you hooked a lot of people besides me.
They can't sell one copy of MSLinux; they have to sell *every* copy that Microsoft resells. If they sold only one copy, then Microsoft would have to duplicate it, and would have to agree to the GPL to do so legally.
Microsoft can still do all the development on MSLinux, though: they just have to then distribute it to their collaborator, who copies it and distributes it back to them.
It would be hard for any large company like Microsoft to pull this off, though - all they would need would be one employee who thinks they're being immoral and decides to redistribute MSLinux himself. They'd be able to fire him, of course, but not to sue him... and since he'd have received a Microsoft-made copy, they'd have to give him (and by extension anyone he redistributes to) GPL rights to the software plus modifications or be breaking the law themselves.
This is really a thought experiment more than anything else; I can't imagine anyone trying to do this in practice.
B didn't make any copies. A made all the copies, abiding by the terms of the GPL in order to be allowed to do so. A then distributes all the copies, one by one, to B, who sells each of them without making any more copies himself. Since B is only reselling the software, not copying it, he doesn't need any rights that copyright law does not provide and thus he does not need to agree to the GPL.
And that one was in your fact column, too! Does this mean I can hold you liable for all the time I wasted writing csh scripts? I wonder what kind of hourly damages I can collect...
Person A downloads the GPLed software, makes whatever changes he wants to. He sells this software to Person B, along with the full source code; thus he is complying with the GPL. He doesn't have to give the source code to anyone but person B, because he's not distributing binaries to anyone but person B.
Person B then resells each copy of the software, without source code. He is not complying with the GPL, but that's okay, because he didn't agree to it. He is just exercising first sale rights that copyright law gives him.
The end result? Both people make money, both are obeying the law... but the spirit of the GPL gets raped.
I am (obviously) not a lawyer, but it seems like a legitimate scam to me.
According to the American Library Association, Harry Potter has been the most challenged book a couple years, including this one.
There's a subtle distinction, though: "Most challenged" means there have been the most attempts to get it removed from schools and libraries. "Most banned" would seem to imply that Harry Potter has been successfully removed from public access, which is so far from the truth it's scary.
If you haven't looked lately, "China" is a collection of over a billion different people, not some easily anthropomorphized overmind. And if the minority of those people who hold power think they should be preventing the majority of those people from freely accessing "disruptive" ideas, claiming that that is what "China thinks" is ridiculous. If "China thinks" that foreign culture shouldn't be examined, then nobody in China would be trying to examine it and so internet filters wouldn't be necessary!
It doesn't say anything about it on the web page, but it seems like that would be an obvious feature that they're 90% of the way to providing anyway.
And *that* would be sweet: having essentially my entire music collection on one disc. I couldn't squeeze everything onto 5 CDs without compressing well past the point where I start to notice artifacts.
Predicted (in 1941) the development of atomic weapons, and the order of magnitude difference between conventional and nuclear warfare.
The weapons predicted in the story, however, were dust made from radioactive isotopes and then spread by conventional means to render a city uninhabitable. That part's not science fact yet, but it is one of our biggest fears from terrorists who probably can get their hands on nuclear materials but probably can't construct a working fission bomb.
Would you care to share some of that overwhelming evidence? I haven't seen it.
I simply haven't seen much data to make me worry about any of this. In the time I've used Linux, I've seen one friend's ext2 partition get corrupted beyond repair, and I've not seen anyone's RPM database get corrupted at all.
So, you backup everything each time you install a new package, do you ? (Because if you don't, you'll loose track of some of your/usr/bin files)
Why would I frequently back up files I already have a pristine source of? Those new/usr/bin/ files came from some package, and can be restored by reinstalling the same package. I back up/usr/local/,/etc/,/home/,/var/, and "rpm -qa". Maybe I'm missing something and this is going to bite me in the ass when I restore, but like I said, I've never had the chance to find out.
And you pretend you have a clean structure of your redhat and never got the need to fix things by hands after 8 updates ?
8 version updates, passing through at least 4 hard drives, 5 motherboards, and far, far too many Windows reinstalls.
And I've never had to fix anything by hand after an official upgrade. I installed a broken version of RPM itself from Rawhide once, and having to use a binary tarball to regress to the previous one, but the database wasn't lost. And I seem to remember having to run "rpm --rebuilddb" once, but I don't remember why.
Stop kidding people, your post is not beleivable.
Oh, no, Anonymous Coward is lecturing me on internet credibility! How shall I ever recover?
Is the government just as guilty of censorship for not allowing Penthouse magazine on the racks in a public library?
If censorship to impose "community standards" in public places is okay, why do we need federal laws to do it? Doesn't that defeat the entire idea of "community"? Is it really so implausible that there might be one town, somewhere in the USA, where most people don't believe naked girls are Satan's fifth column? Is it really so horrible that such people might get the same funding for public libraries as the rest of us?
And what happens when your package database gets corrupted?
I would restore it from a backup, just as if a directory in my filesystem got corrupted or if my hard drive fried. However, I installed Red Hat 4.1 in 1997, and have upgraded through 4.2, 5.0, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 6.2, 7.0, 7.1, and 7.2 (without reinstalling) in the meantime, and I've never had either failure occur.
After it's renamed and loaded with the ATI drivers, PGP will encrypt things twice as fast, but side-by-side inspection will reveal it's algorithm to have switched to XOR.
We don't really know; he's never been given the chance. Anyone who knocks his performance in Star Wars should first be required to do a convincing "Yippee!" themselves...
"I saw XP benchmarks at Tom's Hardware and was not impressed. Damned if I know why, but it gets 25-50% lower 3D framerates at the same games with the same (ATI & NVidia) hardware."
Granted, if it's really as stable as Microsoft promises this time (and about half of the Windows 2000 users I know didn't have any stability problems), then that may be worth it. I get similarly curtailed framerates in Linux by making the same tradeoff, and I think it's worth it... but I'd like to know how many game players who went out to buy XP were making a conscious decision for stability over speed.
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It may seem off topic but a very relavant example is the War Powers Act that says Congress can Call Back Troops after 60 days if they havn't voted to Declare War, this Act is completly unconstitutional as the constitution it specifically states that the President is the Commander in Chief. If Congress ever tries to call back troops they would be violating the seperation of powers.
The Constitution gives Congress the authority to declare war. Doesn't that imply that they can declare that we are not at war as well?
You can't use a Sprint phone on the Verizon network can you?
Yes, if I'm willing to pay the ridiculous roaming fees. And don't even get me started on the "additional minutes" fees.
My Sprint plan costs $40 for the first 2500 minutes, and $1000 for the next 2500. No, that third 0 is not a typo.
Oh, and did I mention that when you check how many minutes you've used, everything except your final bill is just an "estimate", and probably an underestimate designed to lure you into a $6, 15 minute phone call when you don't realize you've gone over? Bastards.
Okay, I'm done ranting now.
In fact, none of my computers have American parts.
Really? What kind of CPU does it have? Perhaps we just have different definitions of "American". When a CPU is designed in the United States and fabricated in Germany (for one possible example), I consider this to be an "American" CPU.
Sure we haven't. Getting a cell phone here with unlimited local calling time costs about 6 work-hours (at McDonalds' cook wages, after taxes). If there's lower cell phone penetration in the US, it's not for lack of opportunity, and certainly not for lack of technology. Mobile phones aren't rocket science.
What is "rocket science", on the other hand, is (wait for it...) rocket science! Put anyone in orbit lately?
Of course, that's straying from the consumer technology you seem to care about. How about these computers you're writing on? Which of these sentences sounds ridiculous: "My computer has no Norwegian parts.", or "My computer has no American parts."
Nice troll, though. I'd feel bad about responding, but it looks like you hooked a lot of people besides me.
They can't sell one copy of MSLinux; they have to sell *every* copy that Microsoft resells. If they sold only one copy, then Microsoft would have to duplicate it, and would have to agree to the GPL to do so legally.
Microsoft can still do all the development on MSLinux, though: they just have to then distribute it to their collaborator, who copies it and distributes it back to them.
It would be hard for any large company like Microsoft to pull this off, though - all they would need would be one employee who thinks they're being immoral and decides to redistribute MSLinux himself. They'd be able to fire him, of course, but not to sue him... and since he'd have received a Microsoft-made copy, they'd have to give him (and by extension anyone he redistributes to) GPL rights to the software plus modifications or be breaking the law themselves.
This is really a thought experiment more than anything else; I can't imagine anyone trying to do this in practice.
B didn't make any copies. A made all the copies, abiding by the terms of the GPL in order to be allowed to do so. A then distributes all the copies, one by one, to B, who sells each of them without making any more copies himself. Since B is only reselling the software, not copying it, he doesn't need any rights that copyright law does not provide and thus he does not need to agree to the GPL.
And that one was in your fact column, too! Does this mean I can hold you liable for all the time I wasted writing csh scripts? I wonder what kind of hourly damages I can collect...
And here's how:
Person A downloads the GPLed software, makes whatever changes he wants to. He sells this software to Person B, along with the full source code; thus he is complying with the GPL. He doesn't have to give the source code to anyone but person B, because he's not distributing binaries to anyone but person B.
Person B then resells each copy of the software, without source code. He is not complying with the GPL, but that's okay, because he didn't agree to it. He is just exercising first sale rights that copyright law gives him.
The end result? Both people make money, both are obeying the law... but the spirit of the GPL gets raped.
I am (obviously) not a lawyer, but it seems like a legitimate scam to me.
What does the FBI need to do to keep American computers secure from terrorists?
Keep "Magic Lantern" out of the hands of criminals.
How does "Magic Lantern" work?
The FBI sends it to criminals.
Is this actually true?!?!
According to the American Library Association, Harry Potter has been the most challenged book a couple years, including this one.
There's a subtle distinction, though: "Most challenged" means there have been the most attempts to get it removed from schools and libraries. "Most banned" would seem to imply that Harry Potter has been successfully removed from public access, which is so far from the truth it's scary.
If you haven't looked lately, "China" is a collection of over a billion different people, not some easily anthropomorphized overmind. And if the minority of those people who hold power think they should be preventing the majority of those people from freely accessing "disruptive" ideas, claiming that that is what "China thinks" is ridiculous. If "China thinks" that foreign culture shouldn't be examined, then nobody in China would be trying to examine it and so internet filters wouldn't be necessary!
It doesn't say anything about it on the web page, but it seems like that would be an obvious feature that they're 90% of the way to providing anyway.
And *that* would be sweet: having essentially my entire music collection on one disc. I couldn't squeeze everything onto 5 CDs without compressing well past the point where I start to notice artifacts.
Predicted (in 1941) the development of atomic weapons, and the order of magnitude difference between conventional and nuclear warfare.
The weapons predicted in the story, however, were dust made from radioactive isotopes and then spread by conventional means to render a city uninhabitable. That part's not science fact yet, but it is one of our biggest fears from terrorists who probably can get their hands on nuclear materials but probably can't construct a working fission bomb.
And if C goes away, then SDL is completely useless!
I knew I should have hit preview...
Would you care to share some of that overwhelming evidence? I haven't seen it.
I simply haven't seen much data to make me worry about any of this. In the time I've used Linux, I've seen one friend's ext2 partition get corrupted beyond repair, and I've not seen anyone's RPM database get corrupted at all.
So, you backup everything each time you install a new package, do you ? (Because if you don't, you'll loose track of some of your /usr/bin files)
/usr/bin/ files came from some package, and can be restored by reinstalling the same package. I back up /usr/local/, /etc/, /home/, /var/, and "rpm -qa". Maybe I'm missing something and this is going to bite me in the ass when I restore, but like I said, I've never had the chance to find out.
Why would I frequently back up files I already have a pristine source of? Those new
And you pretend you have a clean structure of your redhat and never got the need to fix things by hands after 8 updates ?
8 version updates, passing through at least 4 hard drives, 5 motherboards, and far, far too many Windows reinstalls.
And I've never had to fix anything by hand after an official upgrade. I installed a broken version of RPM itself from Rawhide once, and having to use a binary tarball to regress to the previous one, but the database wasn't lost. And I seem to remember having to run "rpm --rebuilddb" once, but I don't remember why.
Stop kidding people, your post is not beleivable.
Oh, no, Anonymous Coward is lecturing me on internet credibility! How shall I ever recover?
Is the government just as guilty of censorship for not allowing Penthouse magazine on the racks in a public library?
If censorship to impose "community standards" in public places is okay, why do we need federal laws to do it? Doesn't that defeat the entire idea of "community"? Is it really so implausible that there might be one town, somewhere in the USA, where most people don't believe naked girls are Satan's fifth column? Is it really so horrible that such people might get the same funding for public libraries as the rest of us?
And what happens when your package database gets corrupted?
I would restore it from a backup, just as if a directory in my filesystem got corrupted or if my hard drive fried. However, I installed Red Hat 4.1 in 1997, and have upgraded through 4.2, 5.0, 5.1, 5.2, 6.1, 6.2, 7.0, 7.1, and 7.2 (without reinstalling) in the meantime, and I've never had either failure occur.
What was your point again?
"See what really happens 'behind closed doors' when John Ashcroft and George Bush get together."
...
I was already getting ready to format my disk.
Don't you mean "already clawing my eyes out?"
After it's renamed and loaded with the ATI drivers, PGP will encrypt things twice as fast, but side-by-side inspection will reveal it's algorithm to have switched to XOR.
You're drunk right now, aren't you?!
I suppose it could, but you'd probably run into length limitations:
"French Government Online - Why Isn't the U.S.? Is It Because They Suck? It's Because They Suck, Right?"
We don't really know; he's never been given the chance. Anyone who knocks his performance in Star Wars should first be required to do a convincing "Yippee!" themselves...
"I saw XP benchmarks at Tom's Hardware and was not impressed. Damned if I know why, but it gets 25-50% lower 3D framerates at the same games with the same (ATI & NVidia) hardware."
Granted, if it's really as stable as Microsoft promises this time (and about half of the Windows 2000 users I know didn't have any stability problems), then that may be worth it. I get similarly curtailed framerates in Linux by making the same tradeoff, and I think it's worth it... but I'd like to know how many game players who went out to buy XP were making a conscious decision for stability over speed.