I'll pass on food. Climate is not that bad compared to most of Canada, and I know some really attractive British Expatriots. That having been said, I think that it's German and Persian women who really make me melt -- especially Persian.
What are *you* reading? The post doesn't refer to the failing ones, it refers to the 7 that got a D+.
My reading is that
"The
overall security of computer systems inside the largest U.S. government agencies . . . . still merits only a D-plus on the latest progress report from Congress. "
(first sentence -- emphasis and elipsis mine).
My guess is that the seven that are below average got "F"s.
Now on to the last sentence.....
Industry groups have argued that the government needs to improve its own computer security before requiring businesses to make such changes.
At some point you have to point the bullet and say that "everyone has to improve things -- including us." Sometimes, it's a lot easier to respect a leader who's willing to jump into the same foxhole as you're in..
This ties in in with the comments of Richard Clarke Ripping into Microsoft's purported security. I think that the Department of Homeland Security just recently signed a sole-source contract with Microsoft. In short: They're doomed.
Friends of Mr. Bush might be happy to point out that Clarke is a former member of the Bush cabinet who left under unhappy conditions. For me, this would complete my proof.
It's not the metric system which messes things up. It's the English system (which is pretty much not being used in England any more). If it wasn't for the US Media always throing out English measurements, I'd probably know just how tall 183cm was.
Depleted uranium doesn't have much of a 'dirty bomb' problem... Just a general chemical problem -- not that much different from what you'd get from burning lead, nickel, or cobolt. Plutonium is more like arsnic with heavy cancer causing problems added in.
Technical superiority is not nearly as essential as freedom. Having technical superiority without freedom is somewhat like having sex with a fabulous gal... by forcing yourself on her.
No. It's more like having a really gorgeous girlfriend with a locked vanity belt and 7 nasty Venereal diseases. You can look, and even touch a little bit, but you can't get into the really interesting stuff without a lot of work -- and even then, you'll be worried about how messed up you'll be in the aftermath.
Actually, this just reminded me of a story my mother told me (seriously!) about a beautiful woman in France, during WWII who earned the dislike of all her neighbours by sleeping around with any German soldier who would have her (read: lots).
The people treated her with extreme distaste because of her activities, until after she died -- from the various venereal diseases she had been passing on to the German soldiers.
Moral of the story: If you're sleeping with the enemy, you'd be well off to figure out why they're sleeping with you.
Sun has shown itself to be a very fickle friend of the Open Source community, and has recently allied itself with Microsoft -- The FLOSS community's most obvious and biggest enemy. You can sleep with them if you like, but don't come running to me if you suddenly find parts falling off.
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Have you even read the liscence? It says SUN will not protect even their 'trusted parters' for 3rd party patent infringement that might be in the code SUN itself is relasing. Thats part of the problem.
In other words, Sun could release code that is Patented by Microsoft, have you improve on it, and then let Microsoft sue you for using it. At that point, they would be free to use your code (because of the cross-licensing agreement), but you'd have to pay a million dollars to (chose at least one of) Microsoft, Sun and/or your lawyers to get the rights to use the code that you gave them for free.
The part of the mozilla license that sun removed is the one that requires contributors to indicate if they are aware of patents that apply to the code being contributed.
On the upside(?), I guess that someone else could do the same thing to SUN...
My question for the creationists is: How long was god's first day?? He didn't create the sun until day 4. Even then, there was no need for a day to be 24 hours long.
For all we know, day 1 could have been 4 billion human years.
Knoppix knows that it's gonna be booted on lots of random devices, so it has to find everything all the time (and does a good job of it). Something like Mandrake expects that it's usually on the same machine, so the process of locating hardware is a bit less robust (it expects that it was done in the initial install).
When I doubt, I'd bring along your boot HD and a spare knoppix CD... That way, if your mandrake box gets confused about things, you can use knoppix to 'set it right' (It's likely to be something relatively minor). You should even be able to set it up so that the knoppix disk can be used just for the syslinux boot to get a box that doesn't otherwise know how to boot from USB/firewire to do that.
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Almost easier than that, if you have a second computer available:
Boot the second computer in Knoppix, and start the Knoppix Terminal Server.
Many new computers now have the capability to boot from the net via pix. For those that don't you can create a boot floppy or CD via rom-o-matic.
Boot off of the net
If you used a net boot CD, you can now remove it (or just re-use it if it is a cd/dvd-rw)
write your data to your CD
No need to install a second CD, as long as you have a built-in CD-RW. When you're done, you can reboot the Knoppix Terminal server, and nobody's gonna know the difference.
One thing to note is that this setup starts a DHCP server... If you already have a DHCP server on the 'net then you'll have to either disconnect your boxes from the existing DHCP server, or copy the DHCP info to official server. When your box is fixed, this won't cause a problem with regular boots. It just provides extra info for net boots.
Why not have an editor which edits text like emacs, and when you hit escape, enters a command mode like vi ?
vim (ViIMproved) is kinda close to that, although it starts in command mode (ie: You can move around the text in insert mode and do limited editing).
Hitting the ESC key to go from EMACS to vi would cheat you of most of the functionality of emacs. For a lot of people, emacs isn't so much an editor as it is an editing environment. People can live their entire lives inside of EMACS. I don't think you can say that of VI. For some this is the joy of emacs, for others it's its bane.
( kinda like my saying "Everybody agrees that pot should be burnt -- that's where the trouble starts." )
Part of the reason why I walked away from emacs is that I learned it on a VAX 780 (16M of ram and a 2MIPS processor shared between an entire department). Late at night when there was (almost) nobody else on the system, EMACS would get paged out of RAM, so when I started it up, It'd actually have to load -- this took a few seconds. VI always loaded immediately (because it was so small).
Then I went out into the real world, and found that you could find VI on Just about ANY UNIX box (other than AT&T's 3B2 computers). Upshot: I don't dislike emacs, I just don't use it (but I respect it for what it is).
Great: We're getting rid of Ashcroft, but remember that bush is going to replace him with someone he likes more.
God only knows what he'll be like (Or is that Belzabub? We really don't know who he's listening to at night.)
The fact that the next leader of the freaking world can be predicted by a game of something is just as disturbing as
No. The fact is that it has been predicted by a game... This confirms it as a statistical anomaly, but does not indicate an actual causal relationship
As much as I'd like Dean to win, what this means is that I'll be hoping for the anomaly to hold, causal or not.
On the other hand, Statistically, there's a 50/50 probability that the anomaly will hold... about equivalent to Dean's currently predicted chances. There's no way that I'd bet against the anomaly holding.
(( Grr... Miss an angle bracket, and the whole article disappears )) When that number of people agree that the convicted person must die based on the evidence presented to them,
The courts can play alot with what is and isn't allowed in front of them. Alot depends on how good your lawyer (team) is.
That's fine for people who can afford a good defence team (e.g. OJ), but for the poor and especially poor and uneducated or mentally handicapped, they often don't have the capability to put up (or even recognize) a real defence. I could probably defend myself better than some of the worst (and most overworked) Public Defenders that get assigned to some of those people -- but they don't know any better. They lived their entire lives happy to do what people in power tell them to, and then they're surprised when the jury comes back with a 'guilty' verdict.
As for GW's claim that he never signed off on a guilty person -- Pure Semantics. The courts declared them guilty, so they were guilty. Whethere or not they actually did the the crime is an entirely different question.
"The legal System has nothing to do with justice." Just ask Microsoft and SCO.
When that number of people agree that the convicted person must die based on the evidence presented to them,
The courts can play alot with what is and isn't allowed in front of them. Alot depends on how good your lawyer (team) is.
As for GW's claim that he never signed off on a guilty person -- Pure Semantics. The courts declared them guilty, so they were guilty. Whethere or not they actually did the the crime is an entirely different question.
"The legal System has nothing to do with justice." Just ask Microsoft and SCO.
Where the fuck do you live that there is a local shop that custom builds laptops?
Try Living in Vanocuver, BC. The local computer magazines regularly carry adds for places that specify really low prices with provisos like "Windows XP $95 extra".
Atic Computers is the benchmark for low price (but they're not rumored to be all that hot on after-sales support)
Even my corner computer store (literally, 2 doors down) has laptop with and without included OS. They also sell MS-free desktops for as little as $285CDN. (apx $220US) not including monitor.
I think that part of the reason may be that there are a LOT of people in Vancouver who go to (and work with) the far east on a regular basis, so it'd be pretty easy to buy an OS-free PC in Hong Kong and bring it back with you on your next trip (or have a friend do so). The small suppliers here have to compete with that (and can also take advantage of that availability for parts).
There's also the fact that Canada's anti-monopoly laws are a bit different. The difference may preclude Microsoft from the tight bundling of machine and OS.
"I've got 500Megabit wireless on my laptop!"
"So then why are you carrying around that long ethernet cable?"
"It doesn't go to the laptop, it goes to the transmitter -- It's only got a 6 inch range.
(something like that actually happened at one computer lab where I worked.. They tried getting a cordless phone to use in the lab, but all of the computers generated so much interference that it only had a 3 foot range, so we ended upsing a regular phone with a 40 foot extension cord)
In this case, I realize it's probably better than that, but it twigged a memory.
7. "Code was not stolen verbatim, and it clearly was not an act of malice on anyone's part."
-- Not quite sure what Jem is getting at here. It seems that his argument is that if one only slightly misappropriates... and with a good attitude... well, that's okay.
Need we read much further?? Connoley is essentially saying: "I'm making a copyright complaints and the law is irrelevant!"
Sourceforge says that Sakic effectively taunted Connoley and Connoley's lawsuit is based on that taunting. AFAICT (IANAL) Taunting is not cause for a lawsuit -- certainly, not against innocent third parties. To the extent to which Connoley depended on Sakic's taunts, he may have a suit against Sakic, but not against anybody else. In any event, basing a lawsuit on feelings rather than facts isn't going to get anybody anywhere.
One last point: Connoley went to SCO for advice on this. In my world, going to SCO for advice on (so called) copyright violation cases is like asking Captain Ahab (of Moby Dick fame) how best to capture a whale.
Previous to his, my understanding is that Connolley had announced an agreement with one of the companies that he had been directly threatening. My understanding is that they agreed to pay him for the use of 'his' code. Those people are now in legal possession of that code -- whether it is his code or not.
If it is properly copyright by Furthermore, he has now effectively distributed it, and the legal recipients have the rights to redistribute it under the GPL.
If it is not properly copyright furthermore then he never had the right to sue people for using it in the first place.
In either case, the code is now free and open GPL code.
While it's a popular thing to say on Slashdot, when the one using your time is...you, I have a difficult time seeing how it is not free.
Lemme see: 2 hours with G/F or building a firewall that really doesn't turn my crank????
For people who like playing with firewall rules, the DIY solution is (or should be, until MS makes it illegal) always going to be available.
For anybody else who judges the off-the-shelf product adequate and isn't up to building something better, then I'd say 'go for it'.
Time spent is time spent -- whether it's building a router, necking with your SO, sweping the floor, posting to slashdot or playing with 'the kid'. Choose and spend.
No refunds allowed.
Which reminds me: I've got other things to do now.
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I'll pass on food. Climate is not that bad compared to most of Canada, and I know some really attractive British Expatriots. That having been said, I think that it's German and Persian women who really make me melt -- especially Persian.
My reading is that
(first sentence -- emphasis and elipsis mine).My guess is that the seven that are below average got "F"s.
Now on to the last sentence.....
At some point you have to point the bullet and say that "everyone has to improve things -- including us." Sometimes, it's a lot easier to respect a leader who's willing to jump into the same foxhole as you're in..Friends of Mr. Bush might be happy to point out that Clarke is a former member of the Bush cabinet who left under unhappy conditions. For me, this would complete my proof.
It's not the metric system which messes things up. It's the English system (which is pretty much not being used in England any more). If it wasn't for the US Media always throing out English measurements, I'd probably know just how tall 183cm was.
I'd buy Apple computers, and Micorosft shares -- or maybe SGI and SUN (I might not make as much, but I'd feel a lot better about it).
Depleted uranium doesn't have much of a 'dirty bomb' problem... Just a general chemical problem -- not that much different from what you'd get from burning lead, nickel, or cobolt. Plutonium is more like arsnic with heavy cancer causing problems added in.
Let's not go ballistic, here.
No. It's more like having a really gorgeous girlfriend with a locked vanity belt and 7 nasty Venereal diseases. You can look, and even touch a little bit, but you can't get into the really interesting stuff without a lot of work -- and even then, you'll be worried about how messed up you'll be in the aftermath.
Actually, this just reminded me of a story my mother told me (seriously!) about a beautiful woman in France, during WWII who earned the dislike of all her neighbours by sleeping around with any German soldier who would have her (read: lots).
The people treated her with extreme distaste because of her activities, until after she died -- from the various venereal diseases she had been passing on to the German soldiers.
Moral of the story: If you're sleeping with the enemy, you'd be well off to figure out why they're sleeping with you.
Sun has shown itself to be a very fickle friend of the Open Source community, and has recently allied itself with Microsoft -- The FLOSS community's most obvious and biggest enemy. You can sleep with them if you like, but don't come running to me if you suddenly find parts falling off.
Have you even read the liscence? It says SUN will not protect even their 'trusted parters' for 3rd party patent infringement that might be in the code SUN itself is relasing. Thats part of the problem.
In other words, Sun could release code that is Patented by Microsoft, have you improve on it, and then let Microsoft sue you for using it. At that point, they would be free to use your code (because of the cross-licensing agreement), but you'd have to pay a million dollars to (chose at least one of) Microsoft, Sun and/or your lawyers to get the rights to use the code that you gave them for free.
The part of the mozilla license that sun removed is the one that requires contributors to indicate if they are aware of patents that apply to the code being contributed.
On the upside(?), I guess that someone else could do the same thing to SUN...
For all we know, day 1 could have been 4 billion human years.
When I doubt, I'd bring along your boot HD and a spare knoppix CD... That way, if your mandrake box gets confused about things, you can use knoppix to 'set it right' (It's likely to be something relatively minor). You should even be able to set it up so that the knoppix disk can be used just for the syslinux boot to get a box that doesn't otherwise know how to boot from USB/firewire to do that.
- Boot the second computer in Knoppix, and start the Knoppix Terminal Server.
- Many new computers now have the capability to boot from the net via pix. For those that don't you can create a boot floppy or CD via rom-o-matic.
- Boot off of the net
- If you used a net boot CD, you can now remove it (or just re-use it if it is a cd/dvd-rw)
- write your data to your CD
No need to install a second CD, as long as you have a built-in CD-RW. When you're done, you can reboot the Knoppix Terminal server, and nobody's gonna know the difference.One thing to note is that this setup starts a DHCP server... If you already have a DHCP server on the 'net then you'll have to either disconnect your boxes from the existing DHCP server, or copy the DHCP info to official server. When your box is fixed, this won't cause a problem with regular boots. It just provides extra info for net boots.
vim (ViIMproved) is kinda close to that, although it starts in command mode (ie: You can move around the text in insert mode and do limited editing).
Hitting the ESC key to go from EMACS to vi would cheat you of most of the functionality of emacs. For a lot of people, emacs isn't so much an editor as it is an editing environment. People can live their entire lives inside of EMACS. I don't think you can say that of VI. For some this is the joy of emacs, for others it's its bane.
( kinda like my saying "Everybody agrees that pot should be burnt -- that's where the trouble starts." )
Part of the reason why I walked away from emacs is that I learned it on a VAX 780 (16M of ram and a 2MIPS processor shared between an entire department). Late at night when there was (almost) nobody else on the system, EMACS would get paged out of RAM, so when I started it up, It'd actually have to load -- this took a few seconds. VI always loaded immediately (because it was so small).
Then I went out into the real world, and found that you could find VI on Just about ANY UNIX box (other than AT&T's 3B2 computers). Upshot: I don't dislike emacs, I just don't use it (but I respect it for what it is).
How about Bill's OS for IT -- BillOSIT...?
Great: We're getting rid of Ashcroft, but remember that bush is going to replace him with someone he likes more.
God only knows what he'll be like (Or is that Belzabub? We really don't know who he's listening to at night.)
No. The fact is that it has been predicted by a game... This confirms it as a statistical anomaly, but does not indicate an actual causal relationship
As much as I'd like Dean to win, what this means is that I'll be hoping for the anomaly to hold, causal or not.
On the other hand, Statistically, there's a 50/50 probability that the anomaly will hold... about equivalent to Dean's currently predicted chances. There's no way that I'd bet against the anomaly holding.
When that number of people agree that the convicted person must die based on the evidence presented to them,
The courts can play alot with what is and isn't allowed in front of them. Alot depends on how good your lawyer (team) is.
That's fine for people who can afford a good defence team (e.g. OJ), but for the poor and especially poor and uneducated or mentally handicapped, they often don't have the capability to put up (or even recognize) a real defence. I could probably defend myself better than some of the worst (and most overworked) Public Defenders that get assigned to some of those people -- but they don't know any better. They lived their entire lives happy to do what people in power tell them to, and then they're surprised when the jury comes back with a 'guilty' verdict.
As for GW's claim that he never signed off on a guilty person -- Pure Semantics. The courts declared them guilty, so they were guilty. Whethere or not they actually did the the crime is an entirely different question.
"The legal System has nothing to do with justice." Just ask Microsoft and SCO.
The courts can play alot with what is and isn't allowed in front of them. Alot depends on how good your lawyer (team) is.
As for GW's claim that he never signed off on a guilty person -- Pure Semantics. The courts declared them guilty, so they were guilty. Whethere or not they actually did the the crime is an entirely different question.
"The legal System has nothing to do with justice." Just ask Microsoft and SCO.
Try Living in Vanocuver, BC. The local computer magazines regularly carry adds for places that specify really low prices with provisos like "Windows XP $95 extra".
Atic Computers is the benchmark for low price (but they're not rumored to be all that hot on after-sales support)
Even my corner computer store (literally, 2 doors down) has laptop with and without included OS. They also sell MS-free desktops for as little as $285CDN. (apx $220US) not including monitor.
I think that part of the reason may be that there are a LOT of people in Vancouver who go to (and work with) the far east on a regular basis, so it'd be pretty easy to buy an OS-free PC in Hong Kong and bring it back with you on your next trip (or have a friend do so). The small suppliers here have to compete with that (and can also take advantage of that availability for parts).
There's also the fact that Canada's anti-monopoly laws are a bit different. The difference may preclude Microsoft from the tight bundling of machine and OS.
"So then why are you carrying around that long ethernet cable?"
"It doesn't go to the laptop, it goes to the transmitter -- It's only got a 6 inch range.
(something like that actually happened at one computer lab where I worked.. They tried getting a cordless phone to use in the lab, but all of the computers generated so much interference that it only had a 3 foot range, so we ended upsing a regular phone with a 40 foot extension cord)
In this case, I realize it's probably better than that, but it twigged a memory.
Sourceforge says that Sakic effectively taunted Connoley and Connoley's lawsuit is based on that taunting. AFAICT (IANAL) Taunting is not cause for a lawsuit -- certainly, not against innocent third parties. To the extent to which Connoley depended on Sakic's taunts, he may have a suit against Sakic, but not against anybody else. In any event, basing a lawsuit on feelings rather than facts isn't going to get anybody anywhere.
One last point: Connoley went to SCO for advice on this. In my world, going to SCO for advice on (so called) copyright violation cases is like asking Captain Ahab (of Moby Dick fame) how best to capture a whale.
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If it is properly copyright by Furthermore, he has now effectively distributed it, and the legal recipients have the rights to redistribute it under the GPL.
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If it is not properly copyright furthermore then he never had the right to sue people for using it in the first place.
In either case, the code is now free and open GPL code.Just be glad it wasn't written in Lisp.
It takes at least 3 people to make for a really good joke:
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One person to tell it
- One person to get it
- One perdon to laugh at for just missing the whole point.
#3 is a little bit less obvious when the joke telling is online.Lemme see: 2 hours with G/F or building a firewall that really doesn't turn my crank????
For people who like playing with firewall rules, the DIY solution is (or should be, until MS makes it illegal) always going to be available.
For anybody else who judges the off-the-shelf product adequate and isn't up to building something better, then I'd say 'go for it'.
Time spent is time spent -- whether it's building a router, necking with your SO, sweping the floor, posting to slashdot or playing with 'the kid'. Choose and spend.
No refunds allowed.
Which reminds me: I've got other things to do now.