IANAL, but doesn't the following mean that until UCITA is approved in TX, it's not (legally) kosher?
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His conclusion: The moral is obvious. You can't trust code that you did not totally create yourself... No amount of source-level verification or scrutiny will protect you from using untrusted code.
I'd love to dabble in lockpicking like in my college days, but in the Land of Lincoln possesion of lockpicks without a locksmith's license is, as far as I could tell, a felony.
As far as I could figure from the requirements for the license, it appears to be a sort of guild move. Most, if not all, other states don't have this kind of restriction.
Of course, the subjects of the article apparently weren't actually nailed according to the/. headline.....
....Reason taking a libertarian view that isn't just a coded form of "if it interferes with profit, it's bad," even when it's the profit of an 800lb gorilla sucking at the public -- not necessarily governmental -- teat. Witness some of the "libertarian" arguments against anti-trust actions.
One of the things that made me turn my back on US Libertarian Party, pwofit-is-your-fwend style libertarianism is how the word "coercion" gets applied only to guvmint, while private coercion doesn't exist -- it's "property rights" and "market forces." The increasingly important struggle over copyright is a beautiful example of freedom being not necessarily aligned with property rights.
It's also done in pretty much the rest of the industrialized world.
On Canada, here's a bit from from the FAIR website: http://www.fair.org/press-releases/limbaugh-deba tes-reality.html#canadian-physicians
If you dig around a bit there they do have Limbaugh's examples of wealthy folks coming down for medical treatment. What excellent healthcare for the rich does the rest of us cakeeaters, including the odd-20% without any insurance at all, is still mystery.
I lived in Germany and Czechoslovakia/Czech Republic for a while and I noticed that there wasn't much of a sense of "geekdom." There were certainly techies with all the traits we know and love, but I don't think there is even a pejoritave term for geek in either language. One German I asked had to search for the term "Electro-weakling."
The European high school culture that I saw seemed to be broken up more along traditional class and maybe political lines, like college-track vs. blue-collar. This was probably re-enforced by the way they have separate highschools for university and vocational school types.
I think there might have been an athelete clique, but nothing like the US, and it was scarcely supported by the schools. I think most Europeans find it surreal how much energy, time and money goes into sports in US schools and universities. I guess the English-speaking world in general is different in this respect.
If getting good grades got you singled out for punishment there, it was definitely not evident.
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A Big Purple Hat?
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I propose a new newsgroup abbreviation:
IYCSANDSAAA
...Tom Waits songs in a couple decades.....
Those who think open source is a security guarantee, even if you compile your downloads, should remember Ken Thompson's sublime hack:
Reflections on Trusting Trust
His conclusion: The moral is obvious. You can't trust code that you did not totally create yourself... No amount of source-level verification or scrutiny will protect you from using untrusted code.
...but not in Illinois!
I'd love to dabble in lockpicking like in my college days, but in the Land of Lincoln possesion of lockpicks without a locksmith's license is, as far as I could tell, a felony.
As far as I could figure from the requirements for the license, it appears to be a sort of guild move. Most, if not all, other states don't have this kind of restriction.
Of course, the subjects of the article apparently weren't actually nailed according to the /. headline.....
You know, they are linked in that MP3.com vs RIAA story....
....Reason taking a libertarian view that isn't just a coded form of "if it interferes with profit, it's bad," even when it's the profit of an 800lb gorilla sucking at the public -- not necessarily governmental -- teat. Witness some of the "libertarian" arguments against anti-trust actions.
One of the things that made me turn my back on US Libertarian Party, pwofit-is-your-fwend style libertarianism is how the word "coercion" gets applied only to guvmint, while private coercion doesn't exist -- it's "property rights" and "market forces." The increasingly important struggle over copyright is a beautiful example of freedom being not necessarily aligned with property rights.
For a second there I though the subject was whether to tax linux software!
It's also done in pretty much the rest of the industrialized world.
a tes-reality.html#canadian-physicians
On Canada, here's a bit from from the FAIR website:
http://www.fair.org/press-releases/limbaugh-deb
If you dig around a bit there they do have Limbaugh's examples of wealthy folks coming down for medical treatment. What excellent healthcare for the rich does the rest of us cakeeaters, including the odd-20% without any insurance at all, is still mystery.
At least Y2K might wipe out the equipment beaming those damned instructions into my molar. Th' ahn righ' erah.
I lived in Germany and Czechoslovakia/Czech Republic for a while and I noticed that there wasn't much of a sense of "geekdom." There were certainly techies with all the traits we know and love, but I don't think there is even a pejoritave term for geek in either language. One German I asked had to search for the term "Electro-weakling."
The European high school culture that I saw seemed to be broken up more along traditional class and maybe political lines, like college-track vs. blue-collar. This was probably re-enforced by the way they have separate highschools for university and vocational school types.
I think there might have been an athelete clique, but nothing like the US, and it was scarcely supported by the schools. I think most Europeans find it surreal how much energy, time and money goes into sports in US schools and universities. I guess the English-speaking world in general is different in this respect.
If getting good grades got you singled out for punishment there, it was definitely not evident.