Look, the guy is in a vaguely (in)famous punk band (now re-formed).
Of course he is going to hide the fact that he has soap in his luggage.
What has happened now is exactly what he would have feared. A drug bust would have been par for the course, in tune with the image... but now he is all over the media for being busted with _soap_. Gonna need some serious PR to rebuild his image after that.
Regardless, anyone who gets a subpoena from the RIAA should be smart enough to ...remember that intentionally destroying evidence is a _criminal_ offence (most places), and people get jailed for it.
You might also vaguely remember a large accounting firm called Andersen, now dead and gone, and that what killed them was not being involved in fraud at Enron (which they were never prosecuted for IIRC) but destroying the evidence.
Actually, they kind of did that - the VW Lupo 3L (now out of production) was a 4-passenger production model that did close to 100mpg (imperial - 80 US).
I'm not saying they're right but I can understand that they might have a reasonable oppposition. Actually I didn't RTFA so I don't know what their position is.
Their position is basically that it is legal for US-based organisations to offer online gambling, but foreign organisations are illegal.
That is what puts them in breach of WTO obligations, rather obviously, really.
This worked because the desk phone was isolated from the network and system resources to which you were being given access
Sounds like someone missed the digital PBX, VOIP, convergence etc. - in short almost a decade of telcoms change. Whoever wrote that probably thinks callerID is reliable as well.
For at least the last 7 years _all_ the desk phones I've had at various jobs have been digital (and most have been VOIP). The desk phone system is _not_ isolated from the rest of the network, or in any way reliable for security / location ID purposes.
Well, typically only really big places use it since it costs millions and takes years (and more $$$) of consultancy and configuration to roll it out.
When you finally get it, the UI is an excercise in how many good UI design principles can we possibly break on one screen. Response to comments on the UI ? - "Vee are the third largest softvare company in zee vorld" (or in other words, they're so successful they must be right).
Both turbocharging and direct injection are preexisting technologies, and neither looks particularly impressive... by combining them
How the heck is that new ?
WTF do they think "TDI" stands for ? (hint - something to do with Turbo and Direct and Injection perhaps ?)
Oh, wait it's MIT, they're American - that place where fleet average fuel economy is currently going DOWN and heading for less than half that of the EU and Japan. Probably they think the D stands for Diesel (wrong), and every good US auto maker knows you can't build a diesel vehicle with anything less than 18 wheels...
These folks really do need to get out more, and then come up with something new - claiming that combining turbo and direct injection is new is just laughable.
I can't even look at the fucking libraries that come with the compiler that I paid for, because they're binaries! We just have to take their word that their documentation is correct. Why obfuscate it? It's a fucking C library!
Try paying for a better compiler - or downloading one, I think there is even a limited "free" (beer) MS compiler now.
MS provides source for the C library (and MFC), always has (well, for at least a decade IIRC).
You don't get rights to redistribute modified versions (actually, you can even get that with MFC) but you absolutely do get to see the source and debug into it and see whether it does what it says on the tin.
But the real question is, should systems be shiped with telnet enabled? Obviously the answer is "no", but vendors seem to be slow to get this message.
This is Sun. Remember "+" in hosts.equiv ? They deliberately shipped with a known insecure default config in order to reduce support costs / complaints ("ease-of-use" was allegedly considered more important than security).
In fact, it would appear that RMS didn't believe community-based development was possible, at least in some areas:
The kernel will require closer communication and will be worked on by a small, tight group
That was the Hurd cathedral (with the modular micro-kernel, which you would have thought would be more amenable to distributed development).
The Linux bazaar proved him wrong - kernels, even old-fashioned big monolithic ones, _can_ be developed by loose, widespread communities, and a lot faster.
Exactly. There are plenty of examples of open source projects that are proprietary, and that may not be redistributed; e.g. Pine, Cedega.
then they are not Open Source, since they don't meet the open source community's definition. They are other things (by our definition) calling themselves open source.
Does this mean that Open Source is only about viewing the code ?
No it does not. Plenty of free-as-in-beer software calls itself "free software" - does this mean that "free software" is only about free-as-in-beer ? No.
If I remove the BIOS chip and hard disk from my computer, and plug it into a different computer with the same components...
With Vista you will most likely need to reactivate - which is what MS wants.
If you activate on a virtual set of components then you can move to a new physical set of components at will, without reactivation - which is what MS doesn't want.
MS has (half) an argument that virtualisation could subvert the activation stuff (and some of the DRM stuff). The flaw is not in that argument but in the fact that the whole activation-tied-to-hardware thing is fundamentally flawed.
Not so much can't be bothered as can't see how. For me (and many others who live with on-street parking) I'm lucky to get my car within 50yds of the house when I get home at night.
Sure, I could buy a really long extension cable and run it down the street. Wonder how much I'll get sued for when someone trips over it ? Probably won't last that long though - the passing drunks who usually swing on wing mirrors will find it far too tempting...
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Then we pier review our code.
ROFL.
You might want some peer review on your comments as well as the code...
none, because on windows you'd just do:
ren *.whatever *.whateverelse
without having to write a separate script for it (and without needing powershell actually).
Shoot up couples that have been in a relationship for a long time. If they pass the other psychological tests
Relationships can break up. Affairs can start. People can go off the rails as a result.
Astronauts (who've passed the tests) still seem to have have this problem (eg. Novak).
Not many fish are going to have spent half their life watching videos of deserts...
it is not possible to know beyond reasonable doubt that the defendant is guilty.
Irrelevant - this is not a criminal case. They only need to show balance of probability (or whatever the similar phrase is in that jurisdiction).
Look, the guy is in a vaguely (in)famous punk band (now re-formed).
Of course he is going to hide the fact that he has soap in his luggage.
What has happened now is exactly what he would have feared. A drug bust would have been par for the course, in tune with the image... but now he is all over the media for being busted with _soap_. Gonna need some serious PR to rebuild his image after that.
Regardless, anyone who gets a subpoena from the RIAA should be smart enough to ...remember that intentionally destroying evidence is a _criminal_ offence (most places), and people get jailed for it.
You might also vaguely remember a large accounting firm called Andersen, now dead and gone, and that what killed them was not being involved in fraud at Enron (which they were never prosecuted for IIRC) but destroying the evidence.
turn into a liquid when squeezed under pressure, flow into cracks, and then harden to form a solid material
I can see that being really helpful when you're trying to drill into the wall...
Actually, they kind of did that - the VW Lupo 3L (now out of production) was a 4-passenger production model that did close to 100mpg (imperial - 80 US).
I'm not saying they're right but I can understand that they might have a reasonable oppposition. Actually I didn't RTFA so I don't know what their position is.
Their position is basically that it is legal for US-based organisations to offer online gambling, but foreign organisations are illegal.
That is what puts them in breach of WTO obligations, rather obviously, really.
On a brighter note, it looks like Slobodan Milosevic won't be getting a car loan here in the states any time soon:
Since he's _dead_, getting a loan in his name would come under another entirely different statue (ie. fraud).
This worked because the desk phone was isolated from the network and system resources to which you were being given access
Sounds like someone missed the digital PBX, VOIP, convergence etc. - in short almost a decade of telcoms change. Whoever wrote that probably thinks callerID is reliable as well.
For at least the last 7 years _all_ the desk phones I've had at various jobs have been digital (and most have been VOIP). The desk phone system is _not_ isolated from the rest of the network, or in any way reliable for security / location ID purposes.
Well, typically only really big places use it since it costs millions and takes years (and more $$$) of consultancy and configuration to roll it out.
When you finally get it, the UI is an excercise in how many good UI design principles can we possibly break on one screen. Response to comments on the UI ? - "Vee are the third largest softvare company in zee vorld" (or in other words, they're so successful they must be right).
Be thankful you've never had to use it.
> Third; how much would a brain damaged BOFH cost you?
Dunno, are you assuming a brain damaged beyond the capability to enact revenge (which is pretty low-level wiring in the BOFH brain), or not ?
Er, no. The combustion will be higher pressure, which will give more NOx - just like TDI diesel engines.
From the site of company that invented it (see eg. here for history http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turbocharged_Direct_I njection) it clearly stands for Turbo Direct Injection:
l ossary/Pumpe_Duse
http://www.volkswagen.co.uk/new_cars/technology_g
Like I said, some people _think_ the D is for diesel, but it's not. People researching engine design ought to know that though.
How the heck is that new ?
WTF do they think "TDI" stands for ? (hint - something to do with Turbo and Direct and Injection perhaps ?)
Oh, wait it's MIT, they're American - that place where fleet average fuel economy is currently going DOWN and heading for less than half that of the EU and Japan. Probably they think the D stands for Diesel (wrong), and every good US auto maker knows you can't build a diesel vehicle with anything less than 18 wheels...
On the petrol side, seems like they missed the engine-of-the-year awards (for a couple of years) too: http://www.ukintpress.com/engineoftheyear/winners
These folks really do need to get out more, and then come up with something new - claiming that combining turbo and direct injection is new is just laughable.
I can't even look at the fucking libraries that come with the compiler that I paid for, because they're binaries! We just have to take their word that their documentation is correct. Why obfuscate it? It's a fucking C library!
Try paying for a better compiler - or downloading one, I think there is even a limited "free" (beer) MS compiler now.
MS provides source for the C library (and MFC), always has (well, for at least a decade IIRC).
You don't get rights to redistribute modified versions (actually, you can even get that with MFC) but you absolutely do get to see the source and debug into it and see whether it does what it says on the tin.
But the real question is, should systems be shiped with telnet enabled? Obviously the answer is "no", but vendors seem to be slow to get this message.
This is Sun. Remember "+" in hosts.equiv ? They deliberately shipped with a known insecure default config in order to reduce support costs / complaints ("ease-of-use" was allegedly considered more important than security).
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You forgot to add:
"and I never credit the original author whose work I copy"
Hugh Gallagher by the way. Look him up - he's a published writer now.
Freedom movements have dealt with the terminology for centuries.
And they've also had a habit of getting overly hung up on it and of having it cause infighting and splintering.
So we could have unambiguously: "liberated software", "Software Liberation Front", "League for Software Freedom".
I think you mean "People's Front of Software Liberation", as in:
"The People's Front of Software Liberation. Splitters!"
"We're the People's Front of Software Liberation"
"Oh. I thought we were the Popular Front."
"People's Front !"
"Whatever happened to the Popular Front?"
"He's over there"
"SPLITTER"
That was the Hurd cathedral (with the modular micro-kernel, which you would have thought would be more amenable to distributed development).
The Linux bazaar proved him wrong - kernels, even old-fashioned big monolithic ones, _can_ be developed by loose, widespread communities, and a lot faster.
Exactly. There are plenty of examples of open source projects that are proprietary, and that may not be redistributed; e.g. Pine, Cedega.
then they are not Open Source, since they don't meet the open source community's definition. They are other things (by our definition) calling themselves open source.
Does this mean that Open Source is only about viewing the code ?
No it does not. Plenty of free-as-in-beer software calls itself "free software" - does this mean that "free software" is only about free-as-in-beer ? No.
If I remove the BIOS chip and hard disk from my computer, and plug it into a different computer with the same components...
With Vista you will most likely need to reactivate - which is what MS wants.
If you activate on a virtual set of components then you can move to a new physical set of components at will, without reactivation - which is what MS doesn't want.
MS has (half) an argument that virtualisation could subvert the activation stuff (and some of the DRM stuff). The flaw is not in that argument but in the fact that the whole activation-tied-to-hardware thing is fundamentally flawed.
Not so much can't be bothered as can't see how. For me (and many others who live with on-street parking) I'm lucky to get my car within 50yds of the house when I get home at night.
Sure, I could buy a really long extension cable and run it down the street. Wonder how much I'll get sued for when someone trips over it ? Probably won't last that long though - the passing drunks who usually swing on wing mirrors will find it far too tempting...