The green ground wire is a safety connection, not a current-carrying one. If disconnecting ground before the line and/or neutral fries your equipment either it is defective or your building is dangerously miswired.
> When I referred to new segment, I meant (though I > did not type it) older (55+) non-technical, > "average" people. I was not intending to cause > offense.
Sorry. I get a little grumpy sometimes about the almost universal assumption that everyone involved with Free Software is under thirty and that all of us who are over fifty are befuddled geezers who _might_ be able to just barely cope with a Mac given lots of patient coaching from our grandchildren.
> Most users ultimately decide based on personal > experience...
With that "experiece" consisting mostly of "what are the people around me doing?" Reason enters into human decision making only at the margin. Think of things like the switch from IE to Firefox as phase-change phenomena.
> And, she would clearly represent a new (and > growing? hopefully) segment of people recognizing > the benefits of and adopting tools such as Linux > and other FOSS.
New? I'm 58 and have been a Debian maintainer for seven years and a Linux and Free Software user for much longer.
All lies are not libel. Note that she was careful not to accuse PJ of being a criminal or a drug user or a spammer or anything else clearly actionable.
Yes, but calling her a stalker implies that she has actually located the real PJ (or at least attempted to do so). If, as seems likely, she made the whole thing up, she's just a liar.
>...there is this wonderful site which is helping > the demolition of SCO's absurd case, and it seems > unlikely that a single individual could possibly > run it all on her own.
She doesn't. It is no secret that many Groklaw members assist her.
Some people here appear to be assuming that there is some truth in the O'Gara article. It seems much more likely that everything in it originated in her imagination.
It's barely possible that she investigated a Pamela Jones: the wrong one.
> If the universe were to continue to expand > forever, giving it an infinite timespan, isn't > it statistically impossible that we would exist > to observe it a non-infinite time period from > its birth?
If space is infinite the distance from me to the end of the universe is infinite. Isn't it then statistically impossible that you would exist at a non-infinite distance from me?
> Extrapolating this, can't we make some > probabilistic prediction as to the future age of > the universe?
You can do no statistics with a population of one. Find a few hundred other universes and then we'll talk.
For a universe in which time travel is possible and the past can be altered by time travelers the only stable state is one in which time travel is never invented. Work it out.
> I wonder why something like this isnt inherently > unprotectable
The data itself was never protected in any way: you've always been free to read your own DNA. The database that Celera owned was protected as a trade secret. You could only look at it after signing a contract in which you agreed not to disclose what you saw.
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My fingers are programed to do 'sync;sync;. Looks like I need to replace the ';'s with newlines.
The green ground wire is a safety connection, not a current-carrying one. If disconnecting ground before the line and/or neutral fries your equipment either it is defective or your building is dangerously miswired.
> I'm sure putting your ID in an anti-static bag
> to prevent reading will not be very popular with
> 'the man.'
An antistatic bag won't do the job. You really do need tinfoil.
And it led to this. Automatic installation of software should _never_ be enabled by default. Even then, it should use a seperate mechanism.
> When I referred to new segment, I meant (though I
> did not type it) older (55+) non-technical,
> "average" people. I was not intending to cause
> offense.
Sorry. I get a little grumpy sometimes about the almost universal assumption that everyone involved with Free Software is under thirty and that all of us who are over fifty are befuddled geezers who _might_ be able to just barely cope with a Mac given lots of patient coaching from our grandchildren.
"apt-get install mozilla-firefox" works for me.
> Most users ultimately decide based on personal
> experience...
With that "experiece" consisting mostly of "what are the people around me doing?" Reason enters into human decision making only at the margin. Think of things like the switch from IE to Firefox as phase-change phenomena.
> The only default whitelisted site is the
> update.mozilla.org...
Why is there _any_ default whitelisted site?
> And, she would clearly represent a new (and
> growing? hopefully) segment of people recognizing
> the benefits of and adopting tools such as Linux
> and other FOSS.
New? I'm 58 and have been a Debian maintainer for seven years and a Linux and Free Software user for much longer.
All lies are not libel. Note that she was careful not to accuse PJ of being a criminal or a drug user or a spammer or anything else clearly actionable.
Yes, but calling her a stalker implies that she has actually located the real PJ (or at least attempted to do so). If, as seems likely, she made the whole thing up, she's just a liar.
> That is exactly what i was thinking , she is .
> stalking the woman
You presume that O'Gara has actually located PJ and not simply fabricated the whole thing.
> ...there is this wonderful site which is helping
> the demolition of SCO's absurd case, and it seems
> unlikely that a single individual could possibly
> run it all on her own.
She doesn't. It is no secret that many Groklaw members assist her.
> it appears that Maureen O'Gara would be more
> qualified; after all, PJ hasn't published MOG's
> home address and that of her mother.
We have no reason to believe that the addresses (or anything else) in the O'Gara article have any connection whatever with PJ.
Some people here appear to be assuming that there is some truth in the O'Gara article. It seems much more likely that everything in it originated in her imagination.
It's barely possible that she investigated a Pamela Jones: the wrong one.
> It seems likely that Maureen O'Gara (or someone)
> employed a private detective to investigate
> Pamela Jones.
It seems much more likely that O'Gara made the whole thing up. There is no reason to believe that a single word of it is true.
com.net, net.com, etc should be reserved.
> Sure, maybe this guy can type in morse code
> faster than the teen, but how long does it take
> for the other guy to translate it?
The other guy "translates" it in real time as it is sent.
> You can also just download the iso from
> somewhere.
But for most people it is silly to do so when they can install directly from the Net.
> While it is true that building it there might be
> more economic, consider that this thing is being
> built where the astronomers are.
We have this thing called the "Internet". Astronomers have not found it necessary to be near their telescopes for many years.
I suspect that, like most large government-funded projects, it is being built where the constituents are.
> Actually I think the wavelengths used here are ;)
> large enough to just ignore rusty fence wire
How do you figure that when such pieces of wire are often meters to kilometers in length?
You are correct in that such spurious radiation won't be a serious problem, though.
> If the universe were to continue to expand
> forever, giving it an infinite timespan, isn't
> it statistically impossible that we would exist
> to observe it a non-infinite time period from
> its birth?
If space is infinite the distance from me to the end of the universe is infinite. Isn't it then statistically impossible that you would exist at a non-infinite distance from me?
> Extrapolating this, can't we make some
> probabilistic prediction as to the future age of
> the universe?
You can do no statistics with a population of one. Find a few hundred other universes and then we'll talk.
For a universe in which time travel is possible and the past can be altered by time travelers the only stable state is one in which time travel is never invented. Work it out.
> I wonder why something like this isnt inherently
> unprotectable
The data itself was never protected in any way: you've always been free to read your own DNA. The database that Celera owned was protected as a trade secret. You could only look at it after signing a contract in which you agreed not to disclose what you saw.