There's a much better solution that doesn't involve taking up your phone line. At a crisis line, we'd regularly get obscene phone calls. The solution? An airhorn blasted into the telephone, followed by a quick hangup.
Remember, a telemarketer has to be able to hear in order to take orders. If you remove their hearing (even temporarily), you've wasted a good amount of their time, without even having to be on the line.
You missed the second part of the allegation. Not only were Linux kernel function names found in the binary, but after making several insignificant changes to the Linux source, the resulting binaries were identical to Castle's ROM code.
There's more than one way to skin a cat, but when you get binary-equal results, it's highly likely that somebody copied.
Any program that uses the GPL'd code HAS to be available for free in both binary and source form?
No, if the binary is distributed for a fee, then the source must be available, even if it's for a nominal fee. Charging you for the media and shipping is perfectly acceptable. However, charging you $40 for the binaries and $200 for the source is NOT acceptable, as the source fee is clearly not reasonable, compared to the charge for the binaries.
Charging for GPL code is not forbidden. You only need to provide the source.
A credit check counts against you and your credit score.
Only if you've had about 10 credit checks in under a week or so. One or two credit checks every now and then has absolutely zilch effect on your credit score.
And actually, it has NO effect on your credit score. When companies start seeing that many credit checks, they may use that as a basis for denying you credit (on the belief that you may be trying for a run on credit!) and therefore deny you additional credit. THAT (a credit denial) is what would affect your credit score.
It has been fairly obvious that Mandrake did a fine job of shooting themselves in the (collective) foot by shipping 9.0 with a broken gcc, despite REPEATED WARNINGS from the gcc developers that 3.2 was not ready for production systems.
Had they stuck with the tried-and-true gcc 2.95, they would probably be selling their retail packages in the stores now and have income a-plenty.
Truly, they took a risk, and they are now paying for it. What would a bailout prove? That they can majorly screw up their distribution and people will contribute money for nothing? You think that they would learn their lesson and NOT take enormous risks when their butts are on the line.
As much as I like Mandrake as a distribution and as much as I abhor the thought of less choice when it comes to selecting a distribution, the only reasonable course of action is to allow this mismanaged company to go bankrupt. It's the only way that these business people will learn not to abuse their user community.
Well, if you look in the WHOIS database, part of the settlement is listed there. Looks like MySQL AB now owns the domain mysql.org and not NuSphere anymore.
Uh, that's nice, but Krushchev didn't say, "We will bury you," either. That was the most popular mistranslation of the day. The more accurate translation was, "We'll be at your funeral," which implies more of a meaning of outlasting, rather than actively putting their adversary there.
You gotta love how the zealots translate the words of their enemies into more inflammatory phrases than what they actually have said. Has anything really changed in the past 40 years? Apparently not.
Believe it or not, there are actually some email viruses which have the ability to transmit via sources other than email. One such example is infecting network drives, which in turn infects others who use files on those drives.
Hence, email viruses are usually transmitted by email (but not always).
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No you classified it as terrorism to evoke the visceral reaction to the word and associate their deet with a more heinous crime thereby exploiting the deaths of thousands murdered by real terrorism. We know what terrorism is. We don't need self serving nuts to hijack the word and present bad company behaviour as something worse than it is. They did what they did, what they did was not terrorism in any form.
Oh, you mean like Congress, which came up with the term digital terrorism to describe criminal hacking, even though no person is ever physically harmed?
Congress and your local law enforcement agency has already coopted the term terrorism. Deal with it. I see absolutely nothing wrong with the term consumer terrorism to describe what Best Buy did.
While it didn't happen exactly the way you put it, something along these lines did in fact happen to a very prominent open source operating system about 10 years ago.
A large software company decided to sue these developers, because they believed the developers illegally used their source code. While there was some code which was borrowed (and it was subsequently rewritten to exclude that code), during the discovery phase of that trial, it was discovered that the commercial company had borrowed a great deal of code from the open source developers.
The case was eventually settled and the code is still available.
Guess which codebase? This was 4.4BSD vs the commercial System V Unix. The open source developers won this one, thanks to the fact that the commercial software developers couldn't keep their hands off the open source (obviously being of better quality).
As for the hate crimes, why should any segment of the population, either homosexuals, blacks, hispanics, jews, christians or penguins deserve any special protections under the law. All crimes are hate crimes. Not just those directed at people because they belong to a certain group.
Not all crimes are hate crimes. Most crimes committed are done for a tangible benefit of the committer of the crime. For example, a bank robber robs a bank for the tangible benefit of the money achieved. OTOH, people who commit hate crimes have no tangible benefit to themselves; the sole purpose of a hate crime is to denigrate the target of the action.
The so-called "clean water protections" were woefully inadequate and ill-structured and it has been shown any number of times that the pitiful efforts to roll back greenhouse gas emissions will do nothing to stop the purported global warming.
"any number of times" == 0. You are confusing the statement of "inconclusive evidence" with "no effect". There are any number of studies which conclude that there is insufficient evidence to show that cleaning up the air supply will decrease the emission of greenhouse gases. However, you don't need to live in a densely populated, industrial area to know that polluted air causes health problems.
Why on earth should the Government be funding the National Endowment for the Arts? Why should my money be forced to pay for something that a very small portion of the population appreciates?
You're so right. While we're decreasing the budget for the NEA, let's cut out all those subsidies for tobacco farmers. After all, most Americans don't smoke. And let's kill those bailouts for the airline industry. After all, in the wake of the terrorist attacks, most Americans don't fly. And let's cut out funding for the CDC and NIH while we're at it -- most Americans aren't threatened by public health problems; it's just a minority, right? And let's start charging ranchers market prices for grazing on public lands; ranchers are a minority in this country.
If you let me know where you live, I'm sure I could come up with some more specific examples that benefit your community, but don't benefit the majority of Americans. Shall we start cutting all those programs, too?
This guy gets to be attorney general because the representatives of the majority of Americans decided he was suitable for the job.
Get real! Congress pays more attention to corporate checks than they do to the voters who have a choice between Tweedledee and Tweedledum.
<sarcasm>Hey, if you're on the street and you're going somewhere, I've got a "reasonable" suspicion that you're going to do something illegal. Therefore, I can search you. If you're in your own house and you leave for work one minute late, I've got a "reasonable" suspicion that you're destroying evidence. If you travel to work using anything other than your usual route, I've got a "reasonable" suspicion that you're hiding something. </sarcasm>
Careful, but if you aren't applying a rigorous interpretation of "unreasonable", you're opening the door to a police state.
And yes, all of those searches did in fact happen in the former USSR, a police state. It was considered completely reasonable if you diverted one iota from your normal schedule.
Most of the government web sites I've had to deal with don't use huge images, large text pages, etc., as per the general recommendations. That's all good.
However, I've found that the most problematic area of most sites is making stuff findable. That means a couple of things. First, a site index. Obvious, I suppose, but many of them subdivide by departments which have access to post information on the web server. Rather, it should be the logical division of the departments within the organization.
The biggest part of making stuff findable, however, is a search. Two main things about this. First, the search box should DEFAULT to searching ONLY YOUR WEB SITE. Too many sites out there have genericized search engines that search the entire friggin Internet. Your site is not a portal. Don't try to make it into one. People came to your site for the information on your site, not so they could be redirected to Excite.
The second part of the search is granularity. It should search for EXACT PHRASES, but not ONLY exact phrases. You should also have the ability to search for KEYWORDS, but in the case of a general search, only after you've done the exact phrase search. And finally, SPELLCHECK the search. In summary, do your search several times, if necessary, over an ever widely increasing search parameters.
Easiest solution would be to for FreeBSD to change partition numbers. Problem solved. FreeBSD is small beer in the OS marketplace, so if the mountain won't come to Mohammed, maybe Mohammed should go to the mountain.
That's an extremely slippery slope. What happens the next time IBM or another company decides to use the new partition number allocated? Change again? Introduce more problems and incompatibilities?
Really, what should happen (at the bare minimum) is for IBM to fire the engineering team that made that foolish decision not to consult the standards for partition entry and to pledge to the entire software community that they won't let it happen again. A better solution (though unlikely) would be for IBM to provide an upgrade to their BIOS to use any one of several STANDARD partitions (such as 0xA0) for their sleep disk.
Whole milk: Clogs your arteries. Drink 1% or skim instead.
Fluoridated water: Every time we've found fit to add an additive to our gasoline (lead), spray our crops (DDT), or do something else completely unnatural to our food, water, or
air supply, we've completely screwed it up. Mmmmm, taste that cancer water.
Elvis: Elvis was a drug addict, killed by his own overdose. Give it up. The guy simply does NOT deserve to be idolized or memorialized on a stamp.
Sure! Gore (as of 8:00 am Eastern) is ahead in the popular vote (which means total voters), while the Electoral College (the means of which presidents are actually elected, as determined by the framers of the Constitution) is in a statistical dead heat with Gore at 260 Electoral College votes and Bush at 246. If Florida goes to Bush, it'll be the second time in US history that the popular vote went one way and the electoral college went the other (first time was with Grover Cleveland).
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Remember, a telemarketer has to be able to hear in order to take orders. If you remove their hearing (even temporarily), you've wasted a good amount of their time, without even having to be on the line.
You missed the second part of the allegation. Not only were Linux kernel function names found in the binary, but after making several insignificant changes to the Linux source, the resulting binaries were identical to Castle's ROM code.
There's more than one way to skin a cat, but when you get binary-equal results, it's highly likely that somebody copied.
No, if the binary is distributed for a fee, then the source must be available, even if it's for a nominal fee. Charging you for the media and shipping is perfectly acceptable. However, charging you $40 for the binaries and $200 for the source is NOT acceptable, as the source fee is clearly not reasonable, compared to the charge for the binaries.
Charging for GPL code is not forbidden. You only need to provide the source.
Only if you've had about 10 credit checks in under a week or so. One or two credit checks every now and then has absolutely zilch effect on your credit score.
And actually, it has NO effect on your credit score. When companies start seeing that many credit checks, they may use that as a basis for denying you credit (on the belief that you may be trying for a run on credit!) and therefore deny you additional credit. THAT (a credit denial) is what would affect your credit score.
Had they stuck with the tried-and-true gcc 2.95, they would probably be selling their retail packages in the stores now and have income a-plenty.
Truly, they took a risk, and they are now paying for it. What would a bailout prove? That they can majorly screw up their distribution and people will contribute money for nothing? You think that they would learn their lesson and NOT take enormous risks when their butts are on the line.
As much as I like Mandrake as a distribution and as much as I abhor the thought of less choice when it comes to selecting a distribution, the only reasonable course of action is to allow this mismanaged company to go bankrupt. It's the only way that these business people will learn not to abuse their user community.
Why don't you check?
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Sure looks like Apache on FreeBSD to me.
Use the friggin' Preview button.
That's what it's there for.
Is it your implication that:
If the second, you are most assuredly wrong:. hotmail.com
http://uptime.netcraft.com/up/graph?site=ad.law10
Well, if you look in the WHOIS database, part of the settlement is listed there. Looks like MySQL AB now owns the domain mysql.org and not NuSphere anymore.
You gotta love how the zealots translate the words of their enemies into more inflammatory phrases than what they actually have said. Has anything really changed in the past 40 years? Apparently not.
ZDNet and CNet share stories. It's nothing new. Read the friggin' past two days' stories before you post something new, PLEASE.
It has replication. Has had it for quite some time. Works quite well, too.
Hence, email viruses are usually transmitted by email (but not always).
Oh, you mean like Congress, which came up with the term digital terrorism to describe criminal hacking, even though no person is ever physically harmed?
Congress and your local law enforcement agency has already coopted the term terrorism. Deal with it. I see absolutely nothing wrong with the term consumer terrorism to describe what Best Buy did.
A large software company decided to sue these developers, because they believed the developers illegally used their source code. While there was some code which was borrowed (and it was subsequently rewritten to exclude that code), during the discovery phase of that trial, it was discovered that the commercial company had borrowed a great deal of code from the open source developers.
The case was eventually settled and the code is still available.
Guess which codebase? This was 4.4BSD vs the commercial System V Unix. The open source developers won this one, thanks to the fact that the commercial software developers couldn't keep their hands off the open source (obviously being of better quality).
How is this any different?
Not all crimes are hate crimes. Most crimes committed are done for a tangible benefit of the committer of the crime. For example, a bank robber robs a bank for the tangible benefit of the money achieved. OTOH, people who commit hate crimes have no tangible benefit to themselves; the sole purpose of a hate crime is to denigrate the target of the action.
The so-called "clean water protections" were woefully inadequate and ill-structured and it has been shown any number of times that the pitiful efforts to roll back greenhouse gas emissions will do nothing to stop the purported global warming.
"any number of times" == 0. You are confusing the statement of "inconclusive evidence" with "no effect". There are any number of studies which conclude that there is insufficient evidence to show that cleaning up the air supply will decrease the emission of greenhouse gases. However, you don't need to live in a densely populated, industrial area to know that polluted air causes health problems.
Why on earth should the Government be funding the National Endowment for the Arts? Why should my money be forced to pay for something that a very small portion of the population appreciates?
You're so right. While we're decreasing the budget for the NEA, let's cut out all those subsidies for tobacco farmers. After all, most Americans don't smoke. And let's kill those bailouts for the airline industry. After all, in the wake of the terrorist attacks, most Americans don't fly. And let's cut out funding for the CDC and NIH while we're at it -- most Americans aren't threatened by public health problems; it's just a minority, right? And let's start charging ranchers market prices for grazing on public lands; ranchers are a minority in this country.
If you let me know where you live, I'm sure I could come up with some more specific examples that benefit your community, but don't benefit the majority of Americans. Shall we start cutting all those programs, too?
This guy gets to be attorney general because the representatives of the majority of Americans decided he was suitable for the job.
Get real! Congress pays more attention to corporate checks than they do to the voters who have a choice between Tweedledee and Tweedledum.
<sarcasm>Hey, if you're on the street and you're going somewhere, I've got a "reasonable" suspicion that you're going to do something illegal. Therefore, I can search you. If you're in your own house and you leave for work one minute late, I've got a "reasonable" suspicion that you're destroying evidence. If you travel to work using anything other than your usual route, I've got a "reasonable" suspicion that you're hiding something. </sarcasm>
Careful, but if you aren't applying a rigorous interpretation of "unreasonable", you're opening the door to a police state.
And yes, all of those searches did in fact happen in the former USSR, a police state. It was considered completely reasonable if you diverted one iota from your normal schedule.
Silly math teacher. Everybody knows that pi is really 355/113.
<P>At least, that's what it was before FORTRAN did floating point.
Most of the government web sites I've had to deal with don't use huge images, large text pages, etc., as per the general recommendations. That's all good.
However, I've found that the most problematic area of most sites is making stuff findable. That means a couple of things. First, a site index. Obvious, I suppose, but many of them subdivide by departments which have access to post information on the web server. Rather, it should be the logical division of the departments within the organization.
The biggest part of making stuff findable, however, is a search. Two main things about this. First, the search box should DEFAULT to searching ONLY YOUR WEB SITE. Too many sites out there have genericized search engines that search the entire friggin Internet. Your site is not a portal. Don't try to make it into one. People came to your site for the information on your site, not so they could be redirected to Excite.
The second part of the search is granularity. It should search for EXACT PHRASES, but not ONLY exact phrases. You should also have the ability to search for KEYWORDS, but in the case of a general search, only after you've done the exact phrase search. And finally, SPELLCHECK the search. In summary, do your search several times, if necessary, over an ever widely increasing search parameters.
C:\PROGRA~1\OPERA\adprefs.ini
Change to
Problem solved.
Easiest solution would be to for FreeBSD to change partition numbers. Problem solved. FreeBSD is small beer in the OS marketplace, so if the mountain won't come to Mohammed, maybe Mohammed should go to the mountain.
That's an extremely slippery slope. What happens the next time IBM or another company decides to use the new partition number allocated? Change again? Introduce more problems and incompatibilities?
Really, what should happen (at the bare minimum) is for IBM to fire the engineering team that made that foolish decision not to consult the standards for partition entry and to pledge to the entire software community that they won't let it happen again. A better solution (though unlikely) would be for IBM to provide an upgrade to their BIOS to use any one of several STANDARD partitions (such as 0xA0) for their sleep disk.
Buchanan has said that it's quite obvious to him that he shouldn't have gotten that many votes, and therefore, something is quite obviously wrong.
Sure! Gore (as of 8:00 am Eastern) is ahead in the popular vote (which means total voters), while the Electoral College (the means of which presidents are actually elected, as determined by the framers of the Constitution) is in a statistical dead heat with Gore at 260 Electoral College votes and Bush at 246. If Florida goes to Bush, it'll be the second time in US history that the popular vote went one way and the electoral college went the other (first time was with Grover Cleveland).