I mean, what exactly did Microsoft do that is in any way related to bringing down this botnet? From the description it looks like Kaspersky Labs did everything, and Microsoft just beaten its chest really hard.
But once proven that patents are invalid or that Microsoft did not spell out actual patents in "licensing agreements", Microsoft can be proven to be acting in bad faith or even fraud.
Now if only they will bring back Maemo's Debian-based package management and properly maintained Qt support to their native applications, and it will be back to the direction where Maemo was supposed to be heading before Nokia fucked up.
Making it possible to merge at least some things that are now maintained in Maemo Community SSU (last updated September 7 2011 if anyone did not notice), would be nice, too, however there certainly will be incompatibility with that.
1. Don't link to other comments in the same thread if you are not responding to something relevant. 2. Most open source projects report every bug as a security bug if there is no immediate evidence that it is not a security bug. Usually it's easier to fix a bug rather than go on a chase for a proof that it can't be exploited.
Italy has incompetent government officials who couldn't possibly get into their positions without corruption. Ireland has flammable people.
All we need to complete a full set for this week is some outrageous murder in US, more outrageous murder in Mexico, crooks taking over something large and valuable in Russia, some kind of violence in the Middle East, and chavs or soccer hooligans breaking stuff in UK!
For live preview, you'll need LyX and that needs X11.
[La]TeX source does not specify exact layout, and its user should not rely on previews, tweaking the output by issuing random formatting commands until the output looks "right". X and frontends are useful for other purposes, for example, to avoid wasting paper when checking for mistakes in formulas, but this has nothing to do with running a WYSIWYG wordprocessor or imitation of one.
I think, we all went through this discussion when every moron used WYSIWYG HTML generators, and web pages looked like someone vomited markup over a block of text, unless user happened to have exactly the same 800x600 screen and fullscreen IE4 running on it, that "web artist" happened to have.
Which for some users would require them to buy a router supporting telnet, as opposed to a home gateway appliance supporting only HTTP.
All OS used on routers support command line interface. If router does not have command line interface, it was intentionally crippled by manufacturer.
A woman eating a corset would probably eat less, which would lead to skinnier kids and grandkids.
It won't, because as far as we know, eating habits changes do not by themselves affect anything inheritable specifically into direction that reinforces those habits. Kids would not act as if they wear a corset if they actually don't -- they may be influenced by the parent when they are raised, so they will be accustomed to eating less, or even to wear a corset. But this is not biological evolution or inheritance, this is culture.
Look, as I've said repeatedly, I'm not saying that Lamarck was right (by any stretch of the imagination) - just that there are some cases of inheritance of acquired traits, which is another name for what we call Lamarckism.
What Lamarck claimed, has absolutely nothing to do with it. His hypothesis specifically relies on specifically beneficial traits appearing as a result of interaction with the environment and those traits being inheritable. The mechanism he proposed would never work without a bias toward beneficial traits acquired through "exercise" or without those specific traits being inheritable. The traits that are actually inherited are acquired through variation of biochemical mechanisms, completely unrelated to development of beneficial traits through environment or exercise. They are not in any way directed toward being beneficial, therefore Lamarck's hypothesis was completely wrong.
As I have mentioned before, at the time of Lamarck, what is and what is not inheritable was completely unknown. Lamarck's belief that stretched giraffes' necks may be inheritable is not specific to his theory any more than some ignorant peasant's belief that cutting his dogs' tail will eventually allow him to breed dogs with shorter tails. Does it mean, we should name theories after ignorant peasants? After all, it could happen that by some strange coincidence tails contained glands that through some convoluted chain of influence, caused genes responsible for long tails to be expressed.
The only profitable ones are Microsoft, Oracle, Adobe and a few antivirus/bullshit ankle biters like Symantec and McAfee. Everyone else is either unprofitable, got out of software business, bought out by former clients, or combined software it with hardware and services.
Do they? Did they ever? Teachers, just like many other professions, are based on a person taking his work as being personally important to him. Students need teachers interested in their personal development. If they don't get ones, they have to deal with "friends" that make Lord Of The Flies look like a healthy environment.
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5% per month interest!!
That's 80% interest per year -- such a loan is impossible to pay unless someone is selling drugs.
american standards, where the poor are few enough to hide in the ghettos.
lol wut
Absolutely! Microsoft will just claim that all patents are covered, so Samsung won't expect another extortion letter tomorrow.
I mean, what exactly did Microsoft do that is in any way related to bringing down this botnet? From the description it looks like Kaspersky Labs did everything, and Microsoft just beaten its chest really hard.
...what exactly?
Other than writing a vulnerable OS, I mean.
And, of course, user-defined window manager. Seriously, how do those people expect anyone to use this?
But once proven that patents are invalid or that Microsoft did not spell out actual patents in "licensing agreements", Microsoft can be proven to be acting in bad faith or even fraud.
Because you:
1. Make absolutely no sense.
2. Support Microsoft while doing so.
Now go, die in a fire.
Microsoft marketing people sure are busy today.
Now if only they will bring back Maemo's Debian-based package management and properly maintained Qt support to their native applications, and it will be back to the direction where Maemo was supposed to be heading before Nokia fucked up.
Making it possible to merge at least some things that are now maintained in Maemo Community SSU (last updated September 7 2011 if anyone did not notice), would be nice, too, however there certainly will be incompatibility with that.
1. Don't link to other comments in the same thread if you are not responding to something relevant.
2. Most open source projects report every bug as a security bug if there is no immediate evidence that it is not a security bug. Usually it's easier to fix a bug rather than go on a chase for a proof that it can't be exploited.
...I mean really, Microsoft vs. spammers and thieves, both sides are equally disgusting.
With those CEOs, there are plenty of people who would kill them for free.
Italy has incompetent government officials who couldn't possibly get into their positions without corruption.
Ireland has flammable people.
All we need to complete a full set for this week is some outrageous murder in US, more outrageous murder in Mexico, crooks taking over something large and valuable in Russia, some kind of violence in the Middle East, and chavs or soccer hooligans breaking stuff in UK!
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What do they communicate with, their DLLs? That's not interprocess communication.
This is going to SUCK.
It's like twitter, except for birds instead of twits.
For live preview, you'll need LyX and that needs X11.
[La]TeX source does not specify exact layout, and its user should not rely on previews, tweaking the output by issuing random formatting commands until the output looks "right". X and frontends are useful for other purposes, for example, to avoid wasting paper when checking for mistakes in formulas, but this has nothing to do with running a WYSIWYG wordprocessor or imitation of one.
I think, we all went through this discussion when every moron used WYSIWYG HTML generators, and web pages looked like someone vomited markup over a block of text, unless user happened to have exactly the same 800x600 screen and fullscreen IE4 running on it, that "web artist" happened to have.
Which for some users would require them to buy a router supporting telnet, as opposed to a home gateway appliance supporting only HTTP.
All OS used on routers support command line interface. If router does not have command line interface, it was intentionally crippled by manufacturer.
eating a corset
I assume, it meant wearing a corset. Eating corsets would likely cause various harmful and mostly non-inheritable changes.
A woman eating a corset would probably eat less, which would lead to skinnier kids and grandkids.
It won't, because as far as we know, eating habits changes do not by themselves affect anything inheritable specifically into direction that reinforces those habits. Kids would not act as if they wear a corset if they actually don't -- they may be influenced by the parent when they are raised, so they will be accustomed to eating less, or even to wear a corset. But this is not biological evolution or inheritance, this is culture.
Look, as I've said repeatedly, I'm not saying that Lamarck was right (by any stretch of the imagination) - just that there are some cases of inheritance of acquired traits, which is another name for what we call Lamarckism.
What Lamarck claimed, has absolutely nothing to do with it. His hypothesis specifically relies on specifically beneficial traits appearing as a result of interaction with the environment and those traits being inheritable. The mechanism he proposed would never work without a bias toward beneficial traits acquired through "exercise" or without those specific traits being inheritable. The traits that are actually inherited are acquired through variation of biochemical mechanisms, completely unrelated to development of beneficial traits through environment or exercise. They are not in any way directed toward being beneficial, therefore Lamarck's hypothesis was completely wrong.
As I have mentioned before, at the time of Lamarck, what is and what is not inheritable was completely unknown. Lamarck's belief that stretched giraffes' necks may be inheritable is not specific to his theory any more than some ignorant peasant's belief that cutting his dogs' tail will eventually allow him to breed dogs with shorter tails. Does it mean, we should name theories after ignorant peasants? After all, it could happen that by some strange coincidence tails contained glands that through some convoluted chain of influence, caused genes responsible for long tails to be expressed.
Software companies make money? Which ones?
The only profitable ones are Microsoft, Oracle, Adobe and a few antivirus/bullshit ankle biters like Symantec and McAfee. Everyone else is either unprofitable, got out of software business, bought out by former clients, or combined software it with hardware and services.
...Microsoft still can't come up with usable interprocess communications mechanism.
shouldn't teachers have private lives?
Do they? Did they ever? Teachers, just like many other professions, are based on a person taking his work as being personally important to him. Students need teachers interested in their personal development. If they don't get ones, they have to deal with "friends" that make Lord Of The Flies look like a healthy environment.
Actually no. Copyrights are for distribution.