No fair! You can't leave it lying just like that!
What the hell was the problem????
OT: I once worked on a proprietary system, where the best way to crash the box was to leave it alone for 6 hours (there was an error in the timer logic -- we fixed as soon as we found it).
Who cares about HP's PC business? What Carly & Co. should be shot for is letting the crown jewels go to hell in a handbasket. I'm talking about the PRINTER business.
HP printers used to have the reputation of being built like tanks, and quite rightly (I personally saw a LJII that fell off a 4 foot table in the Northridge quake. After it was picked up and the toner reseated, it worked just fine.).
folks we're supposed to be innocent until until without a shadow of a doubt their is no evidence to prove that you are not guilty
Sorry, dude, but (at least in CA) it's "beyond a reasonable doubt", not "beyond a shadow of a doubt". And also, that's only for CRIMINAL cases. For civil cases (cheating would be such), it's merely "the preponderance of evidence.
Hope you never get in trouble with the law in CA...
Cuz remember programmers: in the real world you are fired if you consult with a co-worker
But remember, College ISN'T the real world. The point of College is not to get the job done, but to learn stuff. If you just copy somebody else's stuff, you won't learn anything, and you'll be pretty useless in the "Real World"(tm).
Disclaimer -- when I was grading programs (back in '83/'84) I busted a few people for copying...
Would you demand that you be given your own Fusion Reactor because you contributed funding?
No, but I'd want to be able to build my own Fusion Reactor without having to pay any royalties of license fees on the design. Since software seems to be treated as IP rather than physical property, it would seem to fall under this sort of demand, rather than yours.
You forgot that you should use disk encryption software, so that when they try to break the disk crypto, they're in violation of the anti-circumvention clause. Surely, you've written something (a letter even), and stored on your encrypted filesystem, haven't you?
OK, let's say you steal $50,000 from the bank, and the police come to your house and say "Give us the $50,000 or we'll throw you in jail." Is that extortion? Hardly.
Except, it's the bank manager knocking on your door (with police officers behind him) saying, "I think you stole $50,000, prove you didn't, to my satisfaction, or pay me the $50,000 no questions asked, or these cops will throw you in jail".
Well, let's see... most/.'ers probably live outside the greater L.A. area, and would read other papers. Me, I read the LA Times, but it's the dead tree version, and their website doesn't make it easy to find the corresponding article at times...
That's it! Settle for $1Billion Cash. To be divided equally amongst all plaintiffs. Bill Gates should personally have to write out (by hand) and sign (by hand) each check. No computer printing or rubberstamping of either signatures, amounts or payees.
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True fact. Demo sport for Salt Lake 2002: Bridge.
I kid you not, and as a card-carrying member of the American Contract Bridge League, I'm ashamed that this travesty ever occurred.
In my case, I meant the timer *software* logic... actually, it was in the timer queue allocator/deallocator.
No fair! You can't leave it lying just like that!
What the hell was the problem????
OT: I once worked on a proprietary system, where the best way to crash the box was to leave it alone for 6 hours (there was an error in the timer logic -- we fixed as soon as we found it).
They are not gonna put restrictions on exporting prime numbers, are they? :)
:-P(IIRC, a certain prime number can be trivially turned into DeCSS).
Nah, they'll just bust you under the DMCA
Speaking for myself only...
Who cares about HP's PC business? What Carly & Co. should be shot for is letting the crown jewels go to hell in a handbasket. I'm talking about the PRINTER business.
HP printers used to have the reputation of being built like tanks, and quite rightly (I personally saw a LJII that fell off a 4 foot table in the Northridge quake. After it was picked up and the toner reseated, it worked just fine.).
Nowadays, they're cheap flimsy plastic crap.
folks we're supposed to be innocent until until without a shadow of a doubt their is no evidence to prove that you are not guilty
Sorry, dude, but (at least in CA) it's "beyond a reasonable doubt", not "beyond a shadow of a doubt". And also, that's only for CRIMINAL cases. For civil cases (cheating would be such), it's merely "the preponderance of evidence.
Hope you never get in trouble with the law in CA...
Cuz remember programmers: in the real world you are fired if you consult with a co-worker
But remember, College ISN'T the real world. The point of College is not to get the job done, but to learn stuff. If you just copy somebody else's stuff, you won't learn anything, and you'll be pretty useless in the "Real World"(tm).
Disclaimer -- when I was grading programs (back in '83/'84) I busted a few people for copying...
You're right. I had always thought it was Calley at My Lai.
.sig!
Damn! Now I'm gonna have to figure out a new
Sorry, dude, but they didn't *CRASH* NEAR into Eros, they Soft Landed it.
If a comet couldn't do it, I doubt that a dinky little space probe could...
I mean, come on... Galileo has a hell of a lot less mass, and a hell of a lot less velocity than a cubic mile of cosmic Hot Fudge Sundae!
That's because:
1) the book was better
2) there was no silly coldwar stuff in the book
Obviously you've never read CACM, JACM, or any of the other peer-reviewed journals for software development and research.
Would you demand that you be given your own Fusion Reactor because you contributed funding?
No, but I'd want to be able to build my own Fusion Reactor without having to pay any royalties of license fees on the design. Since software seems to be treated as IP rather than physical property, it would seem to fall under this sort of demand, rather than yours.
Actually windows will do an OOM kill.. I've seen it.
So have I. It's called "Blue Screen of Death".
Oh, I agree. I was just converting the OP's argument to what the BSA *ACTUALLY* does.
You forgot that you should use disk encryption software, so that when they try to break the disk crypto, they're in violation of the anti-circumvention clause. Surely, you've written something (a letter even), and stored on your encrypted filesystem, haven't you?
OK, let's say you steal $50,000 from the bank, and the police come to your house and say "Give us the $50,000 or we'll throw you in jail." Is that extortion? Hardly.
Except, it's the bank manager knocking on your door (with police officers behind him) saying, "I think you stole $50,000, prove you didn't, to my satisfaction, or pay me the $50,000 no questions asked, or these cops will throw you in jail".
[sorry about that... stupid machine hit enter by accident]
The Boy Scouts are really getting agressive, aren't they! I promise I'll finish that merit badge, it's only been 25 years!
You might want to look at Fibre Channel.
(guess no one reads the LA Times)
/.'ers probably live outside the greater L.A. area, and would read other papers. Me, I read the LA Times, but it's the dead tree version, and their website doesn't make it easy to find the corresponding article at times...
Well, let's see... most
Would that make the GPL the "General Pr0n License"?
That's it! Settle for $1Billion Cash. To be divided equally amongst all plaintiffs. Bill Gates should personally have to write out (by hand) and sign (by hand) each check. No computer printing or rubberstamping of either signatures, amounts or payees.
CA has the fifth largest economy in the world (Up from 7th -- it passed France and Italy).
I suspect that it can hold out for a while.
Yeah, but the column is labelled "Advertisement".
Star Wars Episode II - Attack of the Drones!
or...
Can you imagine a Beowulf cluster of drones?