"Police said the officer saw Kelly had a camera in his lap..."
Doesn't that mean the officer knew he was being recorded and therefore the recording wasn't illegal? It seems like it would only be illegal if the officer *didn't* see the camera and somehow found out later that he was being recorded. The law in PA says that all parties of a conversation need to be informed if it is being recorded. The very fact that the officer saw the camera implies that he was aware of the recording.
I RTFA. A secret bid is (essentially) no different from a no-bid because the outcome is the same: no independent verification of the process. For all we know, the "secret" bid process went like this:
"Ok, which company with 'Haliburton' in their name would like to open the bidding on this contract?"
"Anyone else? Any other company with 'Haliburton' in their name? No one? Ok, sold!"
Did it happen like that? Almost certainly not. But since it was secret bidding, neither you nor I can know that information. So on a practical level, no-bid == secret bid.
Second, all you are really doing is taking a quote from the blurb, spewing some crap about the possible cost of moving an oil tanker from kuwait to Baghdad, which is landlocked anyway, and using that to bash Pres. Bush for Haliburton being the low bidder on the rebuilding efforts.
FYI - Haliburton didn't have to bid on any of its contracts. They were all given to Haliburton by the Bush administration.
/me glances at his 10-foot pole and reaches for it. Then, he thinks better of it and walks away.
Nope, not even with a 10-foot pole
Re:So what happens if 2.4.99 is released?
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Nah, probably 2.4.100; the kernels start at x.x.0, not x.x.00, so it seems we're using the convention of just tacking the incremental version on without any worry about leading zeros...
This is correct. The 2.1 devel series went to well over 100, 2.3 should have but 2.3.99+ became "2.4.0-testX" for some reason, although it went for a number of months and some major changes were made.
Hmmm. I upgraded KDE from 2.2.1 to 2.2.2 on my system (Mandrake 8.1 x86) and now all of my KDE-related icons will not display at all. Icons for gnome apps are fine, but there is not a KDE one to be found. Any ideas?
Did you even read the interview? Sid spends a good chunk of it talking about how this new game will use tools like culture points and diplomatic victory to allow players to win. He even talks about how you can capture entire enemy cities without war by just using your culture rating alone. Perhaps reading the interview is in order before you denounce this game as stupid.
Wouldn't it have made more sense for Slashdot to wait for the entire 7 day series to be written and link to it all than to link to the first two articles? What's going to happen now, is Slashdot going to provide a link to each installment daily or revisit the story in a week when all 7 articles have been printed?
Bah. You know that if they had just posted it in a week a dozen people would be complaining about how stupid CmdrTaco was for linking to old news. It happens pretty much every time he puts a news story up on the front page, anyway.
I think people are missing the point behind this new issue. For the DMCA, at least there was a tune that went with it pretty well: YMCA by the Village people. What are we going to do for this one?! I'm scared.
Is that the new euphemism for what we do when pictures of a naked Tux get us far more excited than we should be? Just pick up a linux magazine at the local computer store and ask to use their bathroom for a few minutes. I can see it now...
Couldn't someone could write some kind of jingle to the tune of "YMCA" by the Village People that would just end this DCMA garbage once and for all? I can hear it now...
"It's fun to sue with the...D M C A..."
Slashdot Mirror
For those sarcastically challenged.
Good thing you helped me out there - my sarcasm detector tends to give false positives.
FTFA:
"Police said the officer saw Kelly had a camera in his lap..."
Doesn't that mean the officer knew he was being recorded and therefore the recording wasn't illegal? It seems like it would only be illegal if the officer *didn't* see the camera and somehow found out later that he was being recorded. The law in PA says that all parties of a conversation need to be informed if it is being recorded. The very fact that the officer saw the camera implies that he was aware of the recording.
I RTFA. A secret bid is (essentially) no different from a no-bid because the outcome is the same: no independent verification of the process. For all we know, the "secret" bid process went like this:
Did it happen like that? Almost certainly not. But since it was secret bidding, neither you nor I can know that information. So on a practical level, no-bid == secret bid.
FYI - Haliburton didn't have to bid on any of its contracts. They were all given to Haliburton by the Bush administration.
Linky linky.Yeah, I saw both the Star Trek and LOTR previews, among others. They both looked pretty good, especially the Two Towers.
/me glances at his 10-foot pole and reaches for it. Then, he thinks better of it and walks away.
Nope, not even with a 10-foot pole
This is correct. The 2.1 devel series went to well over 100, 2.3 should have but 2.3.99+ became "2.4.0-testX" for some reason, although it went for a number of months and some major changes were made.
Hmmm. I upgraded KDE from 2.2.1 to 2.2.2 on my system (Mandrake 8.1 x86) and now all of my KDE-related icons will not display at all. Icons for gnome apps are fine, but there is not a KDE one to be found. Any ideas?
Such a program already exists for the TI-89. I use it on my calc all the time. Makes complex math that much easier.
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You'll find it here
http://www.perez-franco.com/symbulator/download/r
Did you even read the interview? Sid spends a good chunk of it talking about how this new game will use tools like culture points and diplomatic victory to allow players to win. He even talks about how you can capture entire enemy cities without war by just using your culture rating alone. Perhaps reading the interview is in order before you denounce this game as stupid.
Wouldn't it have made more sense for Slashdot to wait for the entire 7 day series to be written and link to it all than to link to the first two articles? What's going to happen now, is Slashdot going to provide a link to each installment daily or revisit the story in a week when all 7 articles have been printed?
Bah. You know that if they had just posted it in a week a dozen people would be complaining about how stupid CmdrTaco was for linking to old news. It happens pretty much every time he puts a news story up on the front page, anyway.
Somebody please explain to me how to lose four games and end up with the score being 8-0.
It did not say games, it said confrontations. Their first meeting out of four probably had eight games.
Or, I could be wrong...
I think people are missing the point behind this new issue. For the DMCA, at least there was a tune that went with it pretty well: YMCA by the Village people. What are we going to do for this one?! I'm scared.
all you can say is which is the joke most people find funny
This is true, which is why I prefer the musician jokes. Like these:
Two drummers walk into a bar. Funny, you'd think the second one would have seen it coming.
What do you call an accordian player with a pager?
An optimist. (Note: Almost any instrument can be subsituted for accordian in this one)
How do you make a trombone sound like a french horn?
Put your hand in the bell and miss all the notes.
How do you keep two piccolos in tune?
Shoot one of them.
It's 2:45am and I can't think of any more off the top of my head so yes, I know I missed a bunch.
Great. A whole bunch of proprietary software no one uses in one big package. With any luck both companies will be out of money in a year.
Hopefully they will open-source their office filters before they go, though.
No need to root my box now, all the script kiddies will just overload my power strip and fry my computer.
And you gotta know there's no patch for that exploit.
I think that they should keep this bug. Think about it. No more 'first post' losers popping up! By the time anyone could type in:
w00h00! I g0t th3 two b1ll10n, 0ne-hund3rd s3cond, thr33 hundred f0rty 3ight thou5and, s3ven hundr3d and f1r5t p0st!!!!
there would already be twenty or thirty posts. They'd stop trying after a while. Problem solved!
You can tune a banjo..
..but you still can't get that Dukes of Hazzard theme out of your head.
Make it stop!
I get dips on spanking the kernel!
Is that the new euphemism for what we do when pictures of a naked Tux get us far more excited than we should be? Just pick up a linux magazine at the local computer store and ask to use their bathroom for a few minutes. I can see it now...
Eew, that's dirty.
Great, now I can get fragged all over the place with a (GASP) new 3d engine!!
Man, I wish I didn't suck.
Couldn't someone could write some kind of jingle to the tune of "YMCA" by the Village People that would just end this DCMA garbage once and for all? I can hear it now... "It's fun to sue with the...D M C A..."