This is no defense. Parents should be aware of what their kids are doing (and yes I am a parent). Being a stupid, clueless person has never been a defense. Frankly, these parents are doing their children an injustice if they are allowing them unsupervised access to the world (be it via the internet, or the video arcade on the corner).
IANAL, but you have to defend your copyrights/trademarks/etc. if you do not want them to fall into such widespread use they become part of the language and thus cause you to lose said copyright/trademark/etc.
Absolutely. I've been doing this since I started using Unix in 1986 (SCO Xenix back then:-)). I've found the GNU software to be far superior to the tools provided by the OS vendor (GNU tar for example).
Having been an officer in the U.S. Army I have to take exception to your example.
An order to kill a civilian would probably be an unlawful order. Therefore, said officer is duty bound (by his oath of office and the Uniform Code of Military Justice) to not follow the order. Therefore, his behavior would be both legal and ethical.
I do not disagree with your general premise though.
I think the way to look at this is like Solaris. Solaris is an operating environment. The kernel is still SunOS.
In GNU/Linux, Linux, or whatever you want to call it: Linux is the kernel, GNU/GNOME/KDE/XFree86 is the operating environment. It is all semantics, but when it comes to the legal system semantics are everything.
I switched to RedHat 8 last year on my company laptop (I'm a field consultant). Crossover Office was the enabler (as I have spreadsheets with macros in them I have to use). My company uses Exchange but runs IMAP/POP on the Exchange servers. I use Mozilla for mail (it's LDAP gets my directory info from Exchange).
I loaded RedHat 9 on my new Latitude C840 and continue to Crossover Office (and Plugin). I use VMware to run a Siebel application we use.
See my other posts for the location of the GTK2 nightly experimental builds. That will give you antialiased (i.e. xft) with RH9. RC1 is there now, but I expect RC2 will be available within a week or so.
I posted the location already, but I'll repeat it here. I also run RH9. This location is for GTK2 builds which will get you antialiased fonts and looks great.
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I've got RH9 and loaded the latest java beta (that was compiled with gcc 3.2). It works fine with the Mozilla 1.4RC1 (and I have the gtk2 version which is gorgeous on my Latitude C840's Ultrasharp 1600x1200 LCD).
Sun reminds me of DEC. DEC had great hardware, impeccable service and Ultrix rocked. However, they couldn't market. Look where it got them.
I see the same thing with Sun. They are too busy trying to be Microsoft, stabbing their partners in the back, and I've seen service that is not of the usual high caliber.
I predict they will be gone in 5 years (bought by someone else, or just plain out of business).
On a recent American Airlines flight while taxiing in to the gate the pilot had to get on the intercom and tell people to turn their cellphones off. He said it was interfering with the radios.
I too, used to think it was a sham, but after hearing that announcement believe it. I have a feeling that if we were still in the air, there would have been some federal agents waiting to take the offender away for not following crew orders. He sounded a little p*ssed off.
Something like turnabout with a civil or criminal RICO case. I say RICO, because the RIAA seems nothing but an extortion vehicle for it's clients (the recording industry). To my lay mind this defines a "Racketeering Influenced Corrupt Organization."
That they know of. Have they done NDST and checked for internal damage on the rest of the fleet?
Last week in US Today there was an article on Airbus tail assemblies. Prior to the catastrophic failure of tail assembly on the American Airlines flight, there was another instance of an American flight (a year or two before) where drastic movements of the rudder were used. Upon visual inspection it appeared fine. After the loss of the Airbus, that other plane was checked and was found to have cracked mounts. Airbus replaced the tail assembly.
Never assume anything. I wouldn't be surprised if the rest of the shuttle fleet has major internal damage from foam hits.
IANAL, but I wonder if IBM couldn't bring a civil RICO (Racketeering Influenced Corrupt Organization) against SCO. I would ROFL if they could do one better with a criminal RICO suit. It seems to me that SCO's business line is now extortion, which to me seems to qualify it as a corrupt organization.
Personally, I think IBM needs to squash them for the annoying insect that they have become.
I wonder why they don't use the non-routable address spaces and NAT.
Let's also remember (since I detected some trolling in the article) that Asia was a backwater for the Internet 20 years ago when address blocks started to be doled out, so naturally the U.S. and to a lesser extent Europe got the bulk of the blocks.
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This is no defense. Parents should be aware of what their kids are doing (and yes I am a parent). Being a stupid, clueless person has never been a defense. Frankly, these parents are doing their children an injustice if they are allowing them unsupervised access to the world (be it via the internet, or the video arcade on the corner).
IANAL, but you have to defend your copyrights/trademarks/etc. if you do not want them to fall into such widespread use they become part of the language and thus cause you to lose said copyright/trademark/etc.
Absolutely. I've been doing this since I started using Unix in 1986 (SCO Xenix back then :-)). I've found the GNU software to be far superior to the tools provided by the OS vendor (GNU tar for example).
Having been an officer in the U.S. Army I have to take exception to your example.
An order to kill a civilian would probably be an unlawful order. Therefore, said officer is duty bound (by his oath of office and the Uniform Code of Military Justice) to not follow the order. Therefore, his behavior would be both legal and ethical.
I do not disagree with your general premise though.
I don't disagree with your statement.
I think the way to look at this is like Solaris. Solaris is an operating environment. The kernel is still SunOS.
In GNU/Linux, Linux, or whatever you want to call it: Linux is the kernel, GNU/GNOME/KDE/XFree86 is the operating environment. It is all semantics, but when it comes to the legal system semantics are everything.
I neglected to mention the Siebel app must run from Windows.
I switched to RedHat 8 last year on my company laptop (I'm a field consultant). Crossover Office was the enabler (as I have spreadsheets with macros in them I have to use). My company uses Exchange but runs IMAP/POP on the Exchange servers. I use Mozilla for mail (it's LDAP gets my directory info from Exchange).
I loaded RedHat 9 on my new Latitude C840 and continue to Crossover Office (and Plugin). I use VMware to run a Siebel application we use.
I see no need to run Windows as my host OS.
See my other posts for the location of the GTK2 nightly experimental builds. That will give you antialiased (i.e. xft) with RH9. RC1 is there now, but I expect RC2 will be available within a week or so.
I posted the location already, but I'll repeat it here. I also run RH9. This location is for GTK2 builds which will get you antialiased fonts and looks great.
/pub/mozilla/nightly/experimental/gtk2
You can find these in /pub/mozilla/nightly/experimental/gtk2.
RC2 isn't available yet, but probably will within a week or so. In RedHat 9 this will give you antialiased fonts (I run RC1 and it is beautiful).
Not to be totally off-topic since I am asking a wireless related question...
What is the state of WPA for Linux (in particular RedHat 9)? Any projects I should look at to be able to use it? I've got a Proxim 802.11b Gold card.
Minor nit... It is OSDL, or Open Source Development Lab.
I believe a "regime change" is needed then. :-)
I've got RH9 and loaded the latest java beta (that was compiled with gcc 3.2). It works fine with the Mozilla 1.4RC1 (and I have the gtk2 version which is gorgeous on my Latitude C840's Ultrasharp 1600x1200 LCD).
Sun reminds me of DEC. DEC had great hardware, impeccable service and Ultrix rocked. However, they couldn't market. Look where it got them.
I see the same thing with Sun. They are too busy trying to be Microsoft, stabbing their partners in the back, and I've seen service that is not of the usual high caliber.
I predict they will be gone in 5 years (bought by someone else, or just plain out of business).
I would gladly use OO if Excel macros worked. I have a worksheet from work that I use that has macros. Until then, Crossover Office takes care of me.
On a recent American Airlines flight while taxiing in to the gate the pilot had to get on the intercom and tell people to turn their cellphones off. He said it was interfering with the radios.
I too, used to think it was a sham, but after hearing that announcement believe it. I have a feeling that if we were still in the air, there would have been some federal agents waiting to take the offender away for not following crew orders. He sounded a little p*ssed off.
Something like turnabout with a civil or criminal RICO case. I say RICO, because the RIAA seems nothing but an extortion vehicle for it's clients (the recording industry). To my lay mind this defines a "Racketeering Influenced Corrupt Organization."
That they know of. Have they done NDST and checked for internal damage on the rest of the fleet?
Last week in US Today there was an article on Airbus tail assemblies. Prior to the catastrophic failure of tail assembly on the American Airlines flight, there was another instance of an American flight (a year or two before) where drastic movements of the rudder were used. Upon visual inspection it appeared fine. After the loss of the Airbus, that other plane was checked and was found to have cracked mounts. Airbus replaced the tail assembly.
Never assume anything. I wouldn't be surprised if the rest of the shuttle fleet has major internal damage from foam hits.
ROFL!!!!
If I had mod points I'd mod this and your original as funny.
Be sure and cluster it for high availability (not Beowulf) in case you drop/lose/get_stolen. :-D
Bah! I wrote my papers in nroff using vi.
It works on both W2K Pro and WinXP Pro. My source is the MS website for SFU (sorry don't have link handy).
IANAL, but I wonder if IBM couldn't bring a civil RICO (Racketeering Influenced Corrupt Organization) against SCO. I would ROFL if they could do one better with a criminal RICO suit. It seems to me that SCO's business line is now extortion, which to me seems to qualify it as a corrupt organization.
Personally, I think IBM needs to squash them for the annoying insect that they have become.
I wonder why they don't use the non-routable address spaces and NAT.
Let's also remember (since I detected some trolling in the article) that Asia was a backwater for the Internet 20 years ago when address blocks started to be doled out, so naturally the U.S. and to a lesser extent Europe got the bulk of the blocks.