Anything that prevents the possibility of another SCO-type BS lawsuit is a Good Thing.
Hopefully it can avoid patent issues too. If something goes into Linux and later some company (Microsoft?) files a patent lawsuit, there may be evidence of prior art if the code was "certified" on a certain date.
On the reverse side, it can provide exactly who contributed the code (which can already be done mind you), but this time, they certified it for use, which can possibly cause more legal troubles.
I'd hope that the EU Parliment votes the way it should and not approve the new resolution. From what that article says, it seems that opponents of the new draft have an arduous task ahead of them.
Try reading this then. I play golf occasionally, and when it's obvious that the dimples do something. If you're ever hit a good shot off the tee you'll notice that the ball trajectory isn't parabolic, it curves up before coming back down.
I get alot of pump-and-dump stock scams from OptInRealBig (which IMO is a dumb ass name for a company... sounds retarded) like "WATCH THIS STOCK!" or whatever. He probably contracts out to "third parties" owned by his friends or even himself under different aliases, knowing what a sleeze-bag he is.
Those bastards were the same ones who were sending email spam forging it to look like it was from me. I found out after I got some bounce messages from non-working AOL addresses. I submitted them to their ISP. At the time I didn't have any company address information to sue them for impersonation, just where the spam was advertising. Haven't had any bounced in a while.
I think your comment about "fanning the fire" is dead on. One of our students was a football player with scholarships waiting in the wings and all that, until he blew out his knee. He came to a team meeting last year (before I joined but I've gotten to know alot of the students since I joined) and decided to persue engineering as a career. And this kid is sharp. A bit of a jokester but quite bright. It will be good to have him in the engineering field.
And as an indirect response to the grandparent, the amount of work done directly by the students varies according to the team. The work done by the team at the high school I graduated from was mostly done by the engineers. At the team I'm on now (through the company I work for), we encourage (and sometimes force) the students to do work.
Of course, there are restrictions like you have to be 18 to be in the machine shop, we had to have a company weld some sprockets for our arm, and the drivetrain internals were engineer designed (but student concept), but our robot is of a majority student design and construction.
My team seeded 4th and made it to the regional semi-finals.
We had a good event even if we didn't win. Was kind of disappointing to not even get an honorable mention for the Chairman's Award though. (For those that don't know, the Chairman's Award is the highest award at any FIRST competition) We had a good last match, and we're proud of what we accomplished.
Congratulations to any mentors (or even students) who's team participated in the competition. This being my rookie year, it's much more involved then it looks from the outside. But I'll definately be back next year:-D
For those that don't know, FIRST stands for: "For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology." The founder gave an awesome speech on "outsourcing" through history and how people shouldn't be worried about it impacting our lives now, since we always have done it through the years and moved on to better things.
I'm dealing with an issue like this at work. We have to qualify all software we use. Since we run mostly DOS and Windows on some stuff, we don't have to qualify that because its an off the shelf (OTS) product. However, when the subject of Linux comes up, they don't want to touch it because 1. How do you qualify it and 2. How are you sure it doesn't change. Since the source is open, technically I, having the root password, can compile a new kernel or something else and skew results (forgetting for a moment there's no real incentive for me to do so).
I'm trying to make the point that because something is open source doesn't mean it can't be qualified. There are vendors who will sell Linux as OTS... I guess they're Microsoft's bitch* and don't want to listen, so its a convienant excuse.
* They are... they're buying much more expensive 1553 cards with buffers on them so they can use Windows (and their licensing scheme) and now have to worry if they can't get to the bus in a real-time fashion. There's a reason people make real-time operating systems!
I've been getting alot of spam recently that have images of the spam text itself, and include a "post-modern story of the day" at the bottom in plain text in order to trick/reduce effectiveness of Bayesian filters.
Or some will do the same and just have a collection of random words (like "baseball sports espn issue meeting car subaru" etc).
If you haven't seen someof the (at the end they have some games to play) othergames they have on their website, they make them in old skool Atari look... blocky graphics, 8-bit sound, the whole 8 yards...
Just a natural extension. I think it's cool, but my Atari probably doesn't work anymore.
Unfortunately I had deleted it no more then an hour before I noticed this Ask Slashdot with related comments, and being spam I didn't read it (was sent to my spam folder @Yahoo).
I used TaxAct this year, but now as we get closer to April 15, I've started receiving spam pimping their product (NOT based on the fact I used their product this year, I've seen it last year too).
I'm not sure if I can support a company that uses spam to advertise their product. I doubt I'll be using it next year if they continue.
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A computer parts e-tailer has a special where you buy an audio cable for cd-rom drives and Microsoft OEM software/hardware, and get an instant rebate on the audio cable that makes it essentially free.
Actually, if you type www.slashdot.org into your browser, it forwards you in a way to slashdot.org. So it would seem that Slashdot's real URL is slashdot.org!
If at each stop they have a giant plaque of facts about the planet (or comet or whatever) you're looking at, then it would be at least educational. Stuff like mean distance from the sun, how long a "year" is on that planet, average temperature, weather, etc.
But now the US needs to get in on the act... we have a wide country, we probably could do this. Or even do it diagonally , arranging it so Pluto is in Alaska;-)
Well, NT4 is build 1372 (I think), and I believe that Win2k is in the build number 2000-something... It seems to be the build number for the NT kernel itself.
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Anything that prevents the possibility of another SCO-type BS lawsuit is a Good Thing.
Hopefully it can avoid patent issues too. If something goes into Linux and later some company (Microsoft?) files a patent lawsuit, there may be evidence of prior art if the code was "certified" on a certain date.
On the reverse side, it can provide exactly who contributed the code (which can already be done mind you), but this time, they certified it for use, which can possibly cause more legal troubles.
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I'd hope that the EU Parliment votes the way it should and not approve the new resolution. From what that article says, it seems that opponents of the new draft have an arduous task ahead of them.
Turn off the trails in the video settings. For some reason they're on by default, and they give me a headache.
Try reading this then. I play golf occasionally, and when it's obvious that the dimples do something. If you're ever hit a good shot off the tee you'll notice that the ball trajectory isn't parabolic, it curves up before coming back down.
I get alot of pump-and-dump stock scams from OptInRealBig (which IMO is a dumb ass name for a company... sounds retarded) like "WATCH THIS STOCK!" or whatever. He probably contracts out to "third parties" owned by his friends or even himself under different aliases, knowing what a sleeze-bag he is.
The English language and how to use it is not going to be a strong point for him
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Those bastards were the same ones who were sending email spam forging it to look like it was from me. I found out after I got some bounce messages from non-working AOL addresses. I submitted them to their ISP. At the time I didn't have any company address information to sue them for impersonation, just where the spam was advertising. Haven't had any bounced in a while.
BTW they were running IIS (hah).
Then use a BitTorrent link to download it.
I think your comment about "fanning the fire" is dead on. One of our students was a football player with scholarships waiting in the wings and all that, until he blew out his knee. He came to a team meeting last year (before I joined but I've gotten to know alot of the students since I joined) and decided to persue engineering as a career. And this kid is sharp. A bit of a jokester but quite bright. It will be good to have him in the engineering field.
And as an indirect response to the grandparent, the amount of work done directly by the students varies according to the team. The work done by the team at the high school I graduated from was mostly done by the engineers. At the team I'm on now (through the company I work for), we encourage (and sometimes force) the students to do work.
Of course, there are restrictions like you have to be 18 to be in the machine shop, we had to have a company weld some sprockets for our arm, and the drivetrain internals were engineer designed (but student concept), but our robot is of a majority student design and construction.
My team seeded 4th and made it to the regional semi-finals.
:-D
We had a good event even if we didn't win. Was kind of disappointing to not even get an honorable mention for the Chairman's Award though. (For those that don't know, the Chairman's Award is the highest award at any FIRST competition) We had a good last match, and we're proud of what we accomplished.
Congratulations to any mentors (or even students) who's team participated in the competition. This being my rookie year, it's much more involved then it looks from the outside. But I'll definately be back next year
For those that don't know, FIRST stands for: "For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology." The founder gave an awesome speech on "outsourcing" through history and how people shouldn't be worried about it impacting our lives now, since we always have done it through the years and moved on to better things.
I'm dealing with an issue like this at work. We have to qualify all software we use. Since we run mostly DOS and Windows on some stuff, we don't have to qualify that because its an off the shelf (OTS) product. However, when the subject of Linux comes up, they don't want to touch it because 1. How do you qualify it and 2. How are you sure it doesn't change. Since the source is open, technically I, having the root password, can compile a new kernel or something else and skew results (forgetting for a moment there's no real incentive for me to do so).
I'm trying to make the point that because something is open source doesn't mean it can't be qualified. There are vendors who will sell Linux as OTS... I guess they're Microsoft's bitch* and don't want to listen, so its a convienant excuse.
* They are... they're buying much more expensive 1553 cards with buffers on them so they can use Windows (and their licensing scheme) and now have to worry if they can't get to the bus in a real-time fashion. There's a reason people make real-time operating systems!
Lindose? Besides from sounding like some kind of sleeping medication, it pronounces the same, but its spelled different!
I've been getting alot of spam recently that have images of the spam text itself, and include a "post-modern story of the day" at the bottom in plain text in order to trick/reduce effectiveness of Bayesian filters.
Or some will do the same and just have a collection of random words (like "baseball sports espn issue meeting car subaru" etc).
Don't forget about the evil bit last year... Althought it was funny that they kept posting the same story reworded a bunch of times...
If you haven't seen some of the (at the end they have some games to play) other games they have on their website, they make them in old skool Atari look... blocky graphics, 8-bit sound, the whole 8 yards...
Just a natural extension. I think it's cool, but my Atari probably doesn't work anymore.
Unfortunately I had deleted it no more then an hour before I noticed this Ask Slashdot with related comments, and being spam I didn't read it (was sent to my spam folder @Yahoo).
I used TaxAct this year, but now as we get closer to April 15, I've started receiving spam pimping their product (NOT based on the fact I used their product this year, I've seen it last year too).
I'm not sure if I can support a company that uses spam to advertise their product. I doubt I'll be using it next year if they continue.
A computer parts e-tailer has a special where you buy an audio cable for cd-rom drives and Microsoft OEM software/hardware, and get an instant rebate on the audio cable that makes it essentially free.
It's made of MONEY!
(The Ob-PA reference related to the title).
If we are trying to get people to move away from MD5 sums, what do we use? CRC?
Actually, if you type www.slashdot.org into your browser, it forwards you in a way to slashdot.org. So it would seem that Slashdot's real URL is slashdot.org!
The same old discussion, with no implementation in site
;-)
Maybe it was Hemos's attempt at a bad pun
If at each stop they have a giant plaque of facts about the planet (or comet or whatever) you're looking at, then it would be at least educational. Stuff like mean distance from the sun, how long a "year" is on that planet, average temperature, weather, etc.
;-)
But now the US needs to get in on the act... we have a wide country, we probably could do this. Or even do it diagonally , arranging it so Pluto is in Alaska
Yeah? I have cable and I was getting those scrolling messages... how 'bout them apples?
And to be fair, that link posted in the story didn't provide much information about the scope of the suit either...
Well, NT4 is build 1372 (I think), and I believe that Win2k is in the build number 2000-something... It seems to be the build number for the NT kernel itself.