Although you do bring up an interesting point. Where was RMS when Dmitry was in jail? Was he lobbying the government to release him? Was he rallying the troops over the injustice?
Actually, he was. I heard him at least once on NPR talking about Dmitri's case and decrying the same.
HR and Legal swatted away people's concerns by letting us know that they knew what she was doing, and if she weren't so "protected" she would have been fired long ago.
Being a member of a protected class does not prevent termination for cause. And I speak as a manager who has terminated individuals from "protected classes". If your managers are so blind and/or spineless as to not be able to justify the firing of this individual, I think they (and your company) have larger problems than anti-discrimination laws.
Most likely you'll need a license and insurance in order to operate these things.
Your license and insurance does me no good when I am dead. I do not want to have your average idiot who ha senough trouble in 2-D trying to navigate in 3-D. I would assume that these vehicles would also require changes in aviation laws such that they'd not be allowed in dense residential ares - after all, we don't have interstates right up against residential areas without noise and collision barriers anymore.
You look for shipping boxes to live in? Most of the ones that FedEx and UPS use are too small for that. You have better luck in the dumpsters in back of appliance stores...
Whatever happened to tolerance for opposing views?
OK. Show me where you get "opposing views" from the Sinclair's spouted over the airwaves evey night in the seventeen or so states that they broadcast in. And, no, I don't count CNN or broadcast news as "opposing views".
BTW, in case you haven't noticed, these guys are the establishment now. Playing the "poor little stomped on me" card is getting old really quicly. And guess what? Being in control just makes them suck more.
I would assume they cut a deal with one of the uni's that had attachment to it. Maybe they agreed not to sue one of them if they (a) shut down the FS network the found on their campus and (b) allowed them to gateway into I2 for a while. That's probably all it took to get one of the institutions to cave.
I don't know, but these words sound plenty dirty to me! Next thing you know, they'll be tryin' pseudomorphic homojunctions and be destroyin' electronic values ever'where! We got to stop 'em before they move in with their homojunctional agenda! Maybe we can examine tenure for them dang lib'ral perfessers.
I think lower wages is also a reason for the Japanese to assemble cars in the United States.
It may be now. It wasn't when they agreed to build the plant. Once the sunk cost was there, though, the marginal cost of operation was low enough to keep it going. The rise in Japanese wages (and the fall of American) was simply a lucky break. If the US government had not stepped in at that time, it is likely that the auto would have been produced in Mexico and shipped to the US.
So I can take a GPLd piece of software, figure out how the innards work, then use that knowledge to create something that does the same things, and not release it under the GPL?
In a word, "Yes". Just don't copy the source code, or people might get a bit irritated.
Best case scenario is that he had a friend triggering client-server actions for him that he captured and analyised the packets.
You don't need a "friend" if you work in an active development environment. Just snoop a common network segment in promiscuous mode. Tridge should not be penalized because BitMover doesn't sufficiently obfuscate the messaging between their server(s) and clients. He did *nothing* wrong, illegal, or immoral.
The only solution is to drive developement where they can't go yet. Biotech/nanotech.
You are aware that both China and India are already ivesting in these areas, as well? China is already the main place for siting MEMS foundaries and India's pharmaceutical companies are providing a lot of the drugs for the third world already. R&D in these areas are being done by Indian and Chinese nationals, even in the US. Why do you think that we have some advantage in this area?
Heck, I even drive a Honda: it was made in Kentucky.
You are aware that the only reason it was "made in Kentucky" was due to the "bureaucratic masterminds" in our country that placed import quotas on Japanese cars in the late seventies and early eighties? I find your faith in the power of free thoughts and markets in opposition to that of unbridaled economic power to be touching - naive, but touching. Power begets a desire for more power. Why do you think that econimic power is any different? In reality, unless free-thinking people band together to reign in economic power early via some sort of organized effort (like... let's say... a government?), they will have no choice but to reign it in later, when the price paid to do so will be much greater and generally involve much more blood.
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BK is tired of people trying to reverse engineer their software...
Uh, last I heard, that's neither illegal, immoral, or unexpected when you release a product to the world. I'm sorry they're unhappy about it, but it seems a bit naive to think that it won't happen and a bit stupid that they'd PO one of their most visible references over it.
Now granted I consider myself a top notch linux admin but I don't make any more money that anyone else.
And that's the problem! Here you are taking the jobs away from five or six Windows administrators that are now panhandling or something! Good God, man! You're single handedly destroying the entire IT economy as we sit here! Have you no shame?!?!!
...will/volition/motive (aspects of the same grey area) pose such a fundamental problem to AI...
Not surprising. Some mornings they're a fundamental problem for me! This often happens after an intersection the previous night of myself and quantities of alcohol. It also happens at the confluence of various mornings and the idea of going to work. Of course, this just might mean that my intelligence is limited...
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Maybe they can get together and fund the production themselves. After all, the idea worked so well for Enter... Uh, never mind.
Besides, I guess neither of the two remaining fans could scrounge enough money from the allowances they get from mommy and daddy.
Actually, he was. I heard him at least once on NPR talking about Dmitri's case and decrying the same.
Being a member of a protected class does not prevent termination for cause. And I speak as a manager who has terminated individuals from "protected classes". If your managers are so blind and/or spineless as to not be able to justify the firing of this individual, I think they (and your company) have larger problems than anti-discrimination laws.
That's probably the problem. Or reading Slashdot.
The looks on their faces: priceless.
You're lucky they didn't send you in for alteration...
Well, not at least until the Slashdotting is over...
Which distro is that? Some offshoot of Lindo^H^Hspire?
"It's dead, Ji...". OOPS, wrong story. Sorry.
Your license and insurance does me no good when I am dead. I do not want to have your average idiot who ha senough trouble in 2-D trying to navigate in 3-D. I would assume that these vehicles would also require changes in aviation laws such that they'd not be allowed in dense residential ares - after all, we don't have interstates right up against residential areas without noise and collision barriers anymore.
... "It's dead, Jim."
You look for shipping boxes to live in? Most of the ones that FedEx and UPS use are too small for that. You have better luck in the dumpsters in back of appliance stores...
OK. Show me where you get "opposing views" from the Sinclair's spouted over the airwaves evey night in the seventeen or so states that they broadcast in. And, no, I don't count CNN or broadcast news as "opposing views".
BTW, in case you haven't noticed, these guys are the establishment now. Playing the "poor little stomped on me" card is getting old really quicly. And guess what? Being in control just makes them suck more.
I would assume they cut a deal with one of the uni's that had attachment to it. Maybe they agreed not to sue one of them if they (a) shut down the FS network the found on their campus and (b) allowed them to gateway into I2 for a while. That's probably all it took to get one of the institutions to cave.
I don't know, but these words sound plenty dirty to me! Next thing you know, they'll be tryin' pseudomorphic homojunctions and be destroyin' electronic values ever'where! We got to stop 'em before they move in with their homojunctional agenda! Maybe we can examine tenure for them dang lib'ral perfessers.
It may be now. It wasn't when they agreed to build the plant. Once the sunk cost was there, though, the marginal cost of operation was low enough to keep it going. The rise in Japanese wages (and the fall of American) was simply a lucky break. If the US government had not stepped in at that time, it is likely that the auto would have been produced in Mexico and shipped to the US.
In a word, "Yes". Just don't copy the source code, or people might get a bit irritated.
You don't need a "friend" if you work in an active development environment. Just snoop a common network segment in promiscuous mode. Tridge should not be penalized because BitMover doesn't sufficiently obfuscate the messaging between their server(s) and clients. He did *nothing* wrong, illegal, or immoral.
You are aware that both China and India are already ivesting in these areas, as well? China is already the main place for siting MEMS foundaries and India's pharmaceutical companies are providing a lot of the drugs for the third world already.
R&D in these areas are being done by Indian and Chinese nationals, even in the US. Why do you think that we have some advantage in this area?
You are aware that the only reason it was "made in Kentucky" was due to the "bureaucratic masterminds" in our country that placed import quotas on Japanese cars in the late seventies and early eighties? I find your faith in the power of free thoughts and markets in opposition to that of unbridaled economic power to be touching - naive, but touching. Power begets a desire for more power. Why do you think that econimic power is any different? In reality, unless free-thinking people band together to reign in economic power early via some sort of organized effort (like... let's say... a government?), they will have no choice but to reign it in later, when the price paid to do so will be much greater and generally involve much more blood.
Uh, last I heard, that's neither illegal, immoral, or unexpected when you release a product to the world. I'm sorry they're unhappy about it, but it seems a bit naive to think that it won't happen and a bit stupid that they'd PO one of their most visible references over it.
And that's the problem! Here you are taking the jobs away from five or six Windows administrators that are now panhandling or something! Good God, man! You're single handedly destroying the entire IT economy as we sit here! Have you no shame?!?!!
Absolutely. These are gateway artists to harder stuff.
It's just a short hop from this music to Toni Tenille, Dean Martin, and Rick Springfield. Think of the children, for God's sake.
Well, if you'd stop driving 93 MPH this wouldn't happen as much.
Not surprising. Some mornings they're a fundamental problem for me! This often happens after an intersection the previous night of myself and quantities of alcohol. It also happens at the confluence of various mornings and the idea of going to work. Of course, this just might mean that my intelligence is limited...
No, silly person.
That's why we have Google.