You can get discarded radioactive materials from places like junkyards. There are even incidents of people PLAYING with radioactive materials they find in old medical equipment.
"Radioactive" does not necessarily mean "fissile".
Well, I for one am not the least bit worried about New York City or San Francisco being vaporized. I live in the Mid-West. In neither case would the fallout drift overhead.
Are you worried about the impact on your life, livelihood, financial security, freedom (i.e. after martial law is imposed in the US), etc. that the loss of New York City would entail? You should be.
Generally, something "arm twisting" like this is commonly considered "racketeering", meaning "if you don't do what we/I want, 'something bad' is going to happen".
That depends on whether the "something bad" is illegal. If it's "we're going to set fire to your pizzeria in the middle of the night", that's clearly racketeering. If it's "we're going to close this company which we own", that's different. It's still objectionable and repugnant, but it's not really illegal.
I really have no idea what the point of p4 edit is except that it allows Perforce to know who all is editing a file and it can warn you if you p4 edit a file that someone else has opened. But it's just a warning, there is nothing preventing two people from p4 editing the same file at the same time.
Why is this story on Slashdot? Because this is big news in USA? Outside USA this is not as big as The South-east Asian Tsunami or the USA World Trade Center crashes.
Um, I'll bet there are some folks in South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, etc. who are at least mildly interested to know that the neighboring poor country run by the lunatic dictator now claims to have nukes. I mean, it certainly would interest me, but hey, I could be wrong.
I dare you to set up and install WordPress (and the required components) on a Windows machine then. I betcha it'll be at least five times harder.
What, Apache, PHP, MySQL? How hard is that? I've done it on both Linux and Windows machines, and it isn't any harder on Windows, never mind five times harder.
Funnily enough, the BMW Mini One can be 'overclocked' too. Like the CPU in the two Mac Mini models, both the One and the Cooper have the same 1.6 litre engine, the only difference being the engine management software.
We don't get the Mini One in the US; I had to look it up. 90 horsepower? You poor bastards.
Don't bother calling me "sir"; after an insult like that, I'm certainly not going to call you "sir". I'd love to hear you say this to my face, when you're not wearing your "Slashdot muscles".
Why do you think the US is a democratic republic?
Do you remember how Jefferson defined "democracy"? I seem to remember something in there about "the rights of the minority". And we are each of us a minority. Democracy is not unlimited mob rule.
The government's "job" is to represent the will of the people.
That's your opinion. In mine, the government's job is to protect the rights of the people. If the people want to express their will, I don't see why they need the government to do it.
The contract between the website's owners and the hosting company does place exactly such a duty on the hosting company (subject to any terms in that contract regarding what content may be put on the website.)
Yeah? And how do you know their contract didn't include language like "Host reserves the right to remove any and all of Client's posted content, at any time, for any reason"?
You my friend have never been to Quebec. And I'm not talking about Montreal. Try small-town Quebec. That's where real french is spoken.
There's no Canada like French Canada, It's zee best Canada in zee land, Zee other Canada is a bullshit Canada, If you lived here for a day you'd understand!
We constantly hear about computer manufacturers "closing the gap" between laptops and desktops. this will never happen. At least for me, the two serve completely different purposes. My desktop is the workhorse, does all the compiling for both computers (both run linux), and is my general use machine. My laptop is low powered, and only used for work on the road. Last time i shopped for a laptop, most models were trying to do everything and more, while i just want a cheap laptop, no glitz except maybe wireless, with a long battery life. That's it. No 4 ghz 512 mgs ram monsters. I don't need 64 Bit processing. Keep it simple stupid.
That's what you want. Not everyone is you. I don't want to have to bother with a desktop machine and a mobile machine, and having some stuff on one and some on the other, or having to sync between them - I want one machine that does it all, that I can use on my desk for "real" work, then pick up and take to a LAN party, or out on the road for field work. Plus, I've given up on desktop machines 'cause they're always too noisy. I tried a "fanless" mini-ITX machine (no fan on the VIA mobo, but still needed a small case fan) and that's too noisy. (It's like any other aspect of your computer - once you get used to an improvement, you don't want to go back.) I want a notebook that's fast, CPU-wise, video-wise, and I/O-wise, has a top-notch display (my current is 15", 1600x1200), and silent. And I'm sure I'm not the only one in this boat.
How many volkswagon beatles lined up side by side would be needed to encircle the Earth 12 times as is needed to match the height of stacked A380 planes from here to the moon?
How many Libraries of Congress could fit inside one?
At my alma mater, tuition is now a hair under $25K per year. When I started there in 1987, it was $9500. Room & board can be as high as $9000/year (it was $2K/year for room only back when I was in school).
In almost all cases software is sold like anything else so yes, when you walk out of the store you have bought and hence own a copy of the software. In addition, selling licenses for software is almost like selling licenses to breeth, not muc point. A license is something you need so you can do something you would otherwise not be allowed to (for example a driving license since laws says you can't drive cars if you don't have it). There is nothing forbidding use of software, hence you don't need any license for it.
The laws of the US and other countries would beg to differ, like it or not.
If you bought a car, figured out some ways to break into YOUR OWN CAR, then published those ways to alert other consumers as to the lack of security the car has, should you still be arrested?
There's a difference - you own the car outright, whereas you (probably) bought a license for the software. That license (probably) does not entitle you to break into the software, whereas the auto maker can't stop you from breaking into your own car. If you don't like that, then perhaps you should stop paying for proprietary software.
...don't give a shit about case mods and flourescent lights and blinky RAM, just like how real car enthusiasts don't adorn piece-of-shit imports with stickers and tacky wings. It's all about what's under the hood, not how pretty it looks on the outside.
No, real nerds never keep the same hardware together inside the same box long enough to bother with making it pretty. Real real nerds never even bother to close up the case. (I used to be a real real nerd, but then I got old. I'm even typing this on... on a notebook! That I've never even opened! *Sob*)
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You can get discarded radioactive materials from places like junkyards. There are even incidents of people PLAYING with radioactive materials they find in old medical equipment.
"Radioactive" does not necessarily mean "fissile".
Well, I for one am not the least bit worried about New York City or San Francisco being vaporized. I live in the Mid-West. In neither case would the fallout drift overhead.
Are you worried about the impact on your life, livelihood, financial security, freedom (i.e. after martial law is imposed in the US), etc. that the loss of New York City would entail? You should be.
Generally, something "arm twisting" like this is commonly considered "racketeering", meaning "if you don't do what we/I want, 'something bad' is going to happen".
That depends on whether the "something bad" is illegal. If it's "we're going to set fire to your pizzeria in the middle of the night", that's clearly racketeering. If it's "we're going to close this company which we own", that's different. It's still objectionable and repugnant, but it's not really illegal.
Code the assignment in PPC assembly and hand that in. And insist PPC is a superior architecture to code for...
[sigh] Surely I'm not the only one who remembers back when Macs ran on 68K CPUs?
Tartar sauce is mayo and pickle relish.
...um, AKA "Russian dressing".
It's called a "law."
Yeah, a stupid law. (Don't worry, I'm not Eurobashing -- we have plenty of stupid laws over here, too.)
I really have no idea what the point of p4 edit is except that it allows Perforce to know who all is editing a file and it can warn you if you p4 edit a file that someone else has opened. But it's just a warning, there is nothing preventing two people from p4 editing the same file at the same time.
Locking is available in P4, but optional.
Why is this story on Slashdot? Because this is big news in USA? Outside USA this is not as big as The South-east Asian Tsunami or the USA World Trade Center crashes.
Um, I'll bet there are some folks in South Korea, Japan, Taiwan, etc. who are at least mildly interested to know that the neighboring poor country run by the lunatic dictator now claims to have nukes. I mean, it certainly would interest me, but hey, I could be wrong.
...but he's in the QA department, so I hope he still has a job in a year (after all, who really thinks that Microsoft tests anything, right?)
I dare you to set up and install WordPress (and the required components) on a Windows machine then. I betcha it'll be at least five times harder.
What, Apache, PHP, MySQL? How hard is that? I've done it on both Linux and Windows machines, and it isn't any harder on Windows, never mind five times harder.
maybe you could give an example of a word that when commonly misspelled has a meaning similar to the original word?
Well, the meanings of "effect" and "affect" are least related, if not actually similar...
Funnily enough, the BMW Mini One can be 'overclocked' too. Like the CPU in the two Mac Mini models, both the One and the Cooper have the same 1.6 litre engine, the only difference being the engine management software.
We don't get the Mini One in the US; I had to look it up. 90 horsepower? You poor bastards.
Uh, Wernher von Braun ring any bells?
Uh, what about him? Did he recently start working for the Germans again? No? Then why bring him up?
You sir, are a sheep; an ignorant one at that.
Don't bother calling me "sir"; after an insult like that, I'm certainly not going to call you "sir". I'd love to hear you say this to my face, when you're not wearing your "Slashdot muscles".
Why do you think the US is a democratic republic?
Do you remember how Jefferson defined "democracy"? I seem to remember something in there about "the rights of the minority". And we are each of us a minority. Democracy is not unlimited mob rule.
The government's "job" is to represent the will of the people.
That's your opinion. In mine, the government's job is to protect the rights of the people. If the people want to express their will, I don't see why they need the government to do it.
The contract between the website's owners and the hosting company does place exactly such a duty on the hosting company (subject to any terms in that contract regarding what content may be put on the website.)
Yeah? And how do you know their contract didn't include language like "Host reserves the right to remove any and all of Client's posted content, at any time, for any reason"?
You my friend have never been to Quebec. And I'm not talking about Montreal. Try small-town Quebec. That's where real french is spoken.
There's no Canada like French Canada,
It's zee best Canada in zee land,
Zee other Canada is a bullshit Canada,
If you lived here for a day you'd understand!
How did Intel enforce it's "Linux on Centrino" ban? Isn't that unfair competition? It stinks of Microsoft collusion...
Intel is a big enough player to be able to strong-arm (no pun intended) system vendors all on their own, without any help from MS.
We constantly hear about computer manufacturers "closing the gap" between laptops and desktops. this will never happen. At least for me, the two serve completely different purposes. My desktop is the workhorse, does all the compiling for both computers (both run linux), and is my general use machine. My laptop is low powered, and only used for work on the road. Last time i shopped for a laptop, most models were trying to do everything and more, while i just want a cheap laptop, no glitz except maybe wireless, with a long battery life. That's it. No 4 ghz 512 mgs ram monsters. I don't need 64 Bit processing. Keep it simple stupid.
That's what you want. Not everyone is you. I don't want to have to bother with a desktop machine and a mobile machine, and having some stuff on one and some on the other, or having to sync between them - I want one machine that does it all, that I can use on my desk for "real" work, then pick up and take to a LAN party, or out on the road for field work. Plus, I've given up on desktop machines 'cause they're always too noisy. I tried a "fanless" mini-ITX machine (no fan on the VIA mobo, but still needed a small case fan) and that's too noisy. (It's like any other aspect of your computer - once you get used to an improvement, you don't want to go back.) I want a notebook that's fast, CPU-wise, video-wise, and I/O-wise, has a top-notch display (my current is 15", 1600x1200), and silent. And I'm sure I'm not the only one in this boat.
How many volkswagon beatles lined up side by side would be needed to encircle the Earth 12 times as is needed to match the height of stacked A380 planes from here to the moon?
How many Libraries of Congress could fit inside one?
At my alma mater, tuition is now a hair under $25K per year. When I started there in 1987, it was $9500. Room & board can be as high as $9000/year (it was $2K/year for room only back when I was in school).
And from the way it "bit" they could probably tell if it was AC or DC.
Yeah, but could they tell you if it was 50 Hz or 60 Hz? Huh??
In almost all cases software is sold like anything else so yes, when you walk out of the store you have bought and hence own a copy of the software. In addition, selling licenses for software is almost like selling licenses to breeth, not muc point. A license is something you need so you can do something you would otherwise not be allowed to (for example a driving license since laws says you can't drive cars if you don't have it). There is nothing forbidding use of software, hence you don't need any license for it.
The laws of the US and other countries would beg to differ, like it or not.
If you bought a car, figured out some ways to break into YOUR OWN CAR, then published those ways to alert other consumers as to the lack of security the car has, should you still be arrested?
There's a difference - you own the car outright, whereas you (probably) bought a license for the software. That license (probably) does not entitle you to break into the software, whereas the auto maker can't stop you from breaking into your own car. If you don't like that, then perhaps you should stop paying for proprietary software.
No, real nerds never keep the same hardware together inside the same box long enough to bother with making it pretty. Real real nerds never even bother to close up the case. (I used to be a real real nerd, but then I got old. I'm even typing this on... on a notebook! That I've never even opened! *Sob*)