Let's have them handle all transportation: it's a "public good". Let's have the government take over all communications, too. And agriculture and housing. In fact, let's have them take over the entire economy. After all, it worked so well for the USSR...
BTW, whose military did you have in mind? You do know that very few freighters are US registered, don't you?
Are you asking about a "default" password that you want to have available immediately at installation? Generate it on the fly during the installation. This works well (all one line, of course):
>...and since when is TOR a bad thing? since when is anonymizing your computer > a crime?
Who said it was? If you are using TOR you must be doing so for some reason and therefor should be interested in evidence that it is not as anonymous as you though it was.
> The support for the claim is linked directly from the post, but here it is > again [blogspot.com].
That merely explains how to file a trademark complaint with Google.
> If you'd actually like to verify the claim yourself, go to AdWords right now, > try to create a U.S. ad containing "Picasa", and read the resulting error > message.
You've done this? What happens when you do it with "Kodak"?
> While it's generally believed that small startups are better at building > efficient solutions, the leaders of the MIT Technology Review are all sites > built by Internet giants -- Yahoo! Answers, MSN Live Q&A and Amazon Askville > all ranked above the competing sites....if I ever need answers to trivial questions that any educated person should not need to ask. I suppose that these sites are probably pretty good for useless crap such as sports and celebrity trivia, too.
>...the litigation firm currently in dispute with, among many, IBM, over > supposed copyright infringing code in Unix...
Incorrect. It's a contract case. The only copyright infringement claim The SCO Group is making has to do with IBM continuing to distribute AIX after TSG supposedly terminated IBM's irrevocable, perpetual, fully paid up SysV license.
> -- has quietly asked the courts to reconsider IBM's request to toss the case > out.
Incorrect again. They have asked the court to reconsider its decision to toss most of TSG's evidence.
They will still "segment the market". The chips will all be identical but the low-end ones will be crippled by on-chip fuses, reduced pin-out, or some other method.
> Vista will increase the barrier of entry for programs, meaning 100,000 new > jobs will be created just to be able to support it, even in the absence of > new features.
Exactly it will "create new jobs" the same way that smashing every pane of glass in the city of Chicago would.
> Everyone seems to think the choice is protected content or unprotected > content, but it's not - it's protected content or NO content. Fighting the > protected content is not going to get you what you want.
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> As for starting it, If I remember correctly, they use some kind of compressed
> air starter.
The usual method is to run compressed air into one of the cylinders.
> ... would one go about starting that thing?
With compressed air, most likely.
Let's have them handle all transportation: it's a "public good". Let's have the government take over all communications, too. And agriculture and housing. In fact, let's have them take over the entire economy. After all, it worked so well for the USSR...
BTW, whose military did you have in mind? You do know that very few freighters are US registered, don't you?
> ...I'm curious if perhaps it's time to switch to nuclear.
Long past time, but for politics.
> But why are 2-strokes particularly desirable?
Smaller and lighter.
> Are two stroke diesels as dirty running as two stroke gas engines?
No, and it is quite possible to design clean-running two-cycle gasoline engines.
Are you asking about a "default" password that you want to have available immediately at installation? Generate it on the fly during the installation.
/dev/urandom | tr '\0-\377' 'a-zA-Z0-9a-zA-Z0-9a-zA-Z0-9a-zA-Z0-9@@@@####'`
This works well (all one line, of course):
PASSWORD=`head -c 8
Stick in a configuration file with restricted permissions and mail the location of the file to root so that the admin can change it.
> ...and since when is TOR a bad thing? since when is anonymizing your computer
> a crime?
Who said it was? If you are using TOR you must be doing so for some reason and therefor should be interested in evidence that it is not as anonymous as you though it was.
One can add systematic skew as well as noise.
> Operating systems and platforms simply cannot advance as quickly as they want,
> and leave software behind.
Which is why Linux is way ahead of Microsoft on 64 bit hardware.
> The support for the claim is linked directly from the post, but here it is
> again [blogspot.com].
That merely explains how to file a trademark complaint with Google.
> If you'd actually like to verify the claim yourself, go to AdWords right now,
> try to create a U.S. ad containing "Picasa", and read the resulting error
> message.
You've done this? What happens when you do it with "Kodak"?
> Google can make a Picasa ad say "Easier to use than Kodak," but Kodak cannot
> create an ad that reads "Easier to use than Picasa."
Where is the support for this claim? Neither would be trademark infringement.
> While it's generally believed that small startups are better at building ...if I ever need answers to trivial questions that any educated person should not need to ask. I suppose that these sites are probably pretty good for useless crap such as sports and celebrity trivia, too.
> efficient solutions, the leaders of the MIT Technology Review are all sites
> built by Internet giants -- Yahoo! Answers, MSN Live Q&A and Amazon Askville
> all ranked above the competing sites.
> The original experiment was deemed unethical because of the result to the
> person doing the shocking.
Besides, it told us things about ourselves that we don't want to know.
> ...just make sure they can read and speak reasonably clear English. Although
> that particular "test" would probably break the law...
That would be entirely legal in the US.
> Some paper has lasted 2000 years.
No paper has lasted 2000 years. A very small amount of papyrus and vellum has, due to fortunate circumstances. It is in very poor condition.
> No electricity nor toxic chemicals required.
You might want to read up on paper making.
My wife (a retired library science professor) wanted to do this 25 years ago. No one was interested.
> ...the litigation firm currently in dispute with, among many, IBM, over
> supposed copyright infringing code in Unix...
Incorrect. It's a contract case. The only copyright infringement claim The SCO Group is making has to do with IBM continuing to distribute AIX after TSG supposedly terminated IBM's irrevocable, perpetual, fully paid up SysV license.
> -- has quietly asked the courts to reconsider IBM's request to toss the case
> out.
Incorrect again. They have asked the court to reconsider its decision to toss most of TSG's evidence.
> Thirty to 40 years ago, there was a watchmaker at every jewelry store.
This is utter nonsense. Jewelry stores had watch repairmen, most capable of no more than cleaning, adjusting, and replacing movements.
They will still "segment the market". The chips will all be identical but the low-end ones will be crippled by on-chip fuses, reduced pin-out, or some other method.
> They are this way decreasing the workload of hackers/exploiters...
No, they are increasing the workload. So many possibilities, so little time!
And the class-action suits will brick Samshiba, along with the player manufacturer and the publishers of the CRL-infected disks.
> Microsoft is just stuck between a rock and a hard place with content
> providers, or more specifically the RIAA and MPAA.
Why does Microsoft have to do their bidding?
> Vista will increase the barrier of entry for programs, meaning 100,000 new
> jobs will be created just to be able to support it, even in the absence of
> new features.
Exactly it will "create new jobs" the same way that smashing every pane of glass in the city of Chicago would.
> Everyone seems to think the choice is protected content or unprotected
> content, but it's not - it's protected content or NO content. Fighting the
> protected content is not going to get you what you want.
They have nothing I want, and never will.