You know how easy it is to catch a cold right? Well, SARS is like that, a cold. It's easy to catch. There's a damn good reason for all this hype. No one talked about SARS in china for months until it went totally out of control and people didn't realize that they should be taking basic precautions.
SARS would have absolutely no problem killing the same numbers of people if it managed to get 'free' of the quarantines and stuff
Also, Michael Mooor is a dumbass, and he has his math backwards. The more scared we are, the less we consume. SARS is death to tourism and the like in Asia, and it makes people stay home to avoid it.
The reason it's legally permissible to shoot an intruder is because there is a definite risk associated with someone if they break into your home, not because of some legal right to kill whoever you want on your property.
Sure, I don't have any problem with it. It's perfectly legitimate for organizations that practice discrimination along just about any lines they want to exist.
Well, you might not have a problem with it, but that dosn't mean anything at all.
If you'd read the artical, you'd see the quote from someone at the government agency responsible for implementing those regulations saying that what monster did is not required by the law.
Step 1) set up a porn site with an 'affiliate' program.
Step 2) convince spammers to sign up for affiliate acounts.
Step 3) turn them over to the government when they send out spam.
Step 4) profit!
I doubt it would really be that hard to frame someone for spamming, btw...
The bounties arn't paid for capturing people, but for identifying them. And the government isn't going to take some iliterate moron's word if they don't even understand that "From:" != actual sender.
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And so, now that the chips have them their float enignes are even fast. On intel chips, integer multiplication actualy uses the floating point hardware, IIRC.
I don't really understand what the problem is, you seem to believe for some reason that the only way to enforce copyrights is by using the DMCA. This isn't the case at all.
In fact, the DMCA only applies to eBay as far as actual copyrighted material in the listing, which they are now required to remove within 48 hours. EBay is also required to turn over the guy's personal info. Before the DMCA, you might have needed to get a court order if EBay felt like being uncooperative (which they probably wouldn't have).
(Other then that, Ebay might need to make sure no one was selling copyright circumvention devices, in the same way they police drugs and gun stuff).
So basically the only difference between now and then is that you might have needed to get a court order back then.
With paypal being charged under the PATRIOT-ACT, it's obvious this guy is just a terrorist. He probably just wants to fly his rocket ship up and drop a bunch of crap on people from space.
Space is for the government. private space exploration is an invitation to disaster. Hopefully Total Information awareness will keep in eye on these dangerous types.
So when it comes to development models, you're claiming the edge?
If you want a fix now, we may need to perform better, but you know where to go. There is nobody to turn to if you as a (Linux) customer says, 'I need this.' You can't turn to IBM. They don't write the thing. It's not like IBM can support Linux the way they support the mainframe operating system. They don't write the code for it. All they can say is, 'You can call us and ask us a question, but if you actually want something done we can't do it.'
Yeah, except you actualy can go to IBM and ask them to put that feature in. Or you can go to redhat, and ask them to do it. Or they could put it in themselves. Hell, they could have me do it if they were really desperate. That's what makes open source what it is. Anyone can make changes.
Linux itself is a clone of an operating system that is 20-plus years old. That's what it is. That is what you can get today, a clone of a 20-year-old system. I'm not saying that it doesn't have some place for some customers, but that is not an innovative proposition.
20+ years old hrm, Windows 1.0 was released on November 10, 1983, making windows just 6.5 months short of being 20 years old.
Of course, the internals are totally different now, but then so are the internals of Linux to the original UNIX code...
I think if you compared innovative new features that are part of 'windows' compared to the standard Linux install, he'd be right. Windows does have a lot of new, interesting features on the server end.
It's totally insecure, of course.
Otoh, one of the nice things about Open source and Linux is that you can pick and chose things you want to include on your server, and you can do it without upgrading to new versions of the software. Integration on windows is just irritating as fuck, everything is rolled up into one huge chunk that you have to pay for.
Or, something. I mean seriously, when was the last time you heard about one of these companies actually offering anything beneficial to anyone? They seem to only exist as local monopolies and to rip off the consumer and limit choice every time they get.
If you ask me, any kind of 'infrastructure' system should be run by the government, like the highway system, and companies should only be allowed access to things they can't have exclusive control over.
There are far, far more artistic sites then zombo.com. Geez.
Honestly I don't even see why this is a question, Certanly page layout on paper is art, why wouldn't it be so on the web? There are lots of beautiful sites out there, both informative, and simply done to be pretty.
I just read about panasonic or fujitsu, one of those companies comming out with a 4 megapixel camera that could also do video, onto either mini-DV tapes or memory sticks.
What exactly would be wrong with a gigantiforous hard drive? This thing has 5 cards x 4 gigs each (max) for a max of 72 minutes.
It couldn't take as much rough handling. This camera should be able to take huge amount of shock due to it's total lack of moving parts.
Why not 60 gigs of HDD for 216 minutes? Or 120 for 432 minutes? For a consumer level camera, this seems more useful.
If you'd read the article, you'd see that you can swap out cards on the fly. Use up one card, it moves on to the next empty one, so there's absolutely no limit whatsoever on how much video you can record.
It's also not even close to a consumer level camera. I mean, just look at the pictures of the thing!
You can already record an hour or so of VHS/VCD quality video onto a memory stick with sound with the newer Sony digital cameras. This thing isn't being targeted to people wanting to film their kids, but rather professional cinematographers/TV people.
I think we should concentrate on trying to maintain equal rights and stuff for non-GM people living today. I doubt the discrimination faced by GM people would be any worse then discrimination based on race and other factors in most of the world today.
And the olympics are just an orgy of crass comercialism, anyway.
I know a lot of EULAs (and the GPL) have the claim that the software has no legal warranty to do anything, including the expectation that it's suitable for any purpose. Does XP have this clause as well?
Well, there's a big difference between allowing people to digitally sign binary builds of the kernel, and actually supporting DRM directly.
Personally, it seems almost irrational to want to keep people from signing copies of the kernel. It's almost a free speech issue, people should be able to sign whatever the hell they want.
I think the real issue is restrictions people place on others, the TCPA/Pallidum DRM systems of which code signing is only a small part. I think I would hate to see Pallidum style 'locks' on the runtime environment in the 'official' version of the Linux kernel. If that does happen, I'm sure it will fork like mad, though.
I guess what Linus is saying is that if some companies want to make locked up, DRM'd systems using the Linux kernel, it's OK with him.
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You know how easy it is to catch a cold right? Well, SARS is like that, a cold. It's easy to catch. There's a damn good reason for all this hype. No one talked about SARS in china for months until it went totally out of control and people didn't realize that they should be taking basic precautions.
SARS would have absolutely no problem killing the same numbers of people if it managed to get 'free' of the quarantines and stuff
Also, Michael Mooor is a dumbass, and he has his math backwards. The more scared we are, the less we consume. SARS is death to tourism and the like in Asia, and it makes people stay home to avoid it.
9/11 certanly didn't boost the economy.
The reason it's legally permissible to shoot an intruder is because there is a definite risk associated with someone if they break into your home, not because of some legal right to kill whoever you want on your property.
Sure, I don't have any problem with it. It's perfectly legitimate for organizations that practice discrimination along just about any lines they want to exist.
Well, you might not have a problem with it, but that dosn't mean anything at all.
If you'd read the artical, you'd see the quote from someone at the government agency responsible for implementing those regulations saying that what monster did is not required by the law.
Let's all DDOS SARS.
/Lame joke.
I suppose you think it's perfictly alright for a club keep out black people? or for a company not to hire mexicans?
Just because you own something dosn't mean you should be able to do whatever the hell you want on it.
Step 1) set up a porn site with an 'affiliate' program.
Step 2) convince spammers to sign up for affiliate acounts.
Step 3) turn them over to the government when they send out spam. Step 4) profit!
I doubt it would really be that hard to frame someone for spamming, btw...
The bounties arn't paid for capturing people, but for identifying them. And the government isn't going to take some iliterate moron's word if they don't even understand that "From:" != actual sender.
And so, now that the chips have them their float enignes are even fast. On intel chips, integer multiplication actualy uses the floating point hardware, IIRC.
It's not a violation of the GPL to rename something.
I don't really understand what the problem is, you seem to believe for some reason that the only way to enforce copyrights is by using the DMCA. This isn't the case at all.
In fact, the DMCA only applies to eBay as far as actual copyrighted material in the listing, which they are now required to remove within 48 hours. EBay is also required to turn over the guy's personal info. Before the DMCA, you might have needed to get a court order if EBay felt like being uncooperative (which they probably wouldn't have).
(Other then that, Ebay might need to make sure no one was selling copyright circumvention devices, in the same way they police drugs and gun stuff).
So basically the only difference between now and then is that you might have needed to get a court order back then.
The students the RIAA is suing are ones who wrote network search agents. One of them as a school project under an advisor.
Hopefully the judge in that case will look at the results of this case and throw those suits right the fuck out the window.
With paypal being charged under the PATRIOT-ACT, it's obvious this guy is just a terrorist. He probably just wants to fly his rocket ship up and drop a bunch of crap on people from space.
Space is for the government. private space exploration is an invitation to disaster. Hopefully Total Information awareness will keep in eye on these dangerous types.
So when it comes to development models, you're claiming the edge? If you want a fix now, we may need to perform better, but you know where to go. There is nobody to turn to if you as a (Linux) customer says, 'I need this.' You can't turn to IBM. They don't write the thing. It's not like IBM can support Linux the way they support the mainframe operating system. They don't write the code for it. All they can say is, 'You can call us and ask us a question, but if you actually want something done we can't do it.'
Yeah, except you actualy can go to IBM and ask them to put that feature in. Or you can go to redhat, and ask them to do it. Or they could put it in themselves. Hell, they could have me do it if they were really desperate. That's what makes open source what it is. Anyone can make changes.
Linux itself is a clone of an operating system that is 20-plus years old. That's what it is. That is what you can get today, a clone of a 20-year-old system. I'm not saying that it doesn't have some place for some customers, but that is not an innovative proposition.
20+ years old hrm, Windows 1.0 was released on November 10, 1983, making windows just 6.5 months short of being 20 years old.
Of course, the internals are totally different now, but then so are the internals of Linux to the original UNIX code...
I think if you compared innovative new features that are part of 'windows' compared to the standard Linux install, he'd be right. Windows does have a lot of new, interesting features on the server end.
It's totally insecure, of course.
Otoh, one of the nice things about Open source and Linux is that you can pick and chose things you want to include on your server, and you can do it without upgrading to new versions of the software. Integration on windows is just irritating as fuck, everything is rolled up into one huge chunk that you have to pay for.
Or, something. I mean seriously, when was the last time you heard about one of these companies actually offering anything beneficial to anyone? They seem to only exist as local monopolies and to rip off the consumer and limit choice every time they get.
If you ask me, any kind of 'infrastructure' system should be run by the government, like the highway system, and companies should only be allowed access to things they can't have exclusive control over.
There are far, far more artistic sites then zombo.com. Geez.
Honestly I don't even see why this is a question, Certanly page layout on paper is art, why wouldn't it be so on the web? There are lots of beautiful sites out there, both informative, and simply done to be pretty.
I just read about panasonic or fujitsu, one of those companies comming out with a 4 megapixel camera that could also do video, onto either mini-DV tapes or memory sticks.
What exactly would be wrong with a gigantiforous hard drive? This thing has 5 cards x 4 gigs each (max) for a max of 72 minutes.
It couldn't take as much rough handling. This camera should be able to take huge amount of shock due to it's total lack of moving parts.
Why not 60 gigs of HDD for 216 minutes? Or 120 for 432 minutes? For a consumer level camera, this seems more useful.
If you'd read the article, you'd see that you can swap out cards on the fly. Use up one card, it moves on to the next empty one, so there's absolutely no limit whatsoever on how much video you can record.
It's also not even close to a consumer level camera. I mean, just look at the pictures of the thing!
You can already record an hour or so of VHS/VCD quality video onto a memory stick with sound with the newer Sony digital cameras. This thing isn't being targeted to people wanting to film their kids, but rather professional cinematographers/TV people.
Geez, you didn't even have to read the whole artical, just look at the pictures and captions! (that's all I did and I knew the answer)
I think we should concentrate on trying to maintain equal rights and stuff for non-GM people living today. I doubt the discrimination faced by GM people would be any worse then discrimination based on race and other factors in most of the world today.
And the olympics are just an orgy of crass comercialism, anyway.
I know a lot of EULAs (and the GPL) have the claim that the software has no legal warranty to do anything, including the expectation that it's suitable for any purpose. Does XP have this clause as well?
Well, there's a big difference between allowing people to digitally sign binary builds of the kernel, and actually supporting DRM directly.
Personally, it seems almost irrational to want to keep people from signing copies of the kernel. It's almost a free speech issue, people should be able to sign whatever the hell they want.
I think the real issue is restrictions people place on others, the TCPA/Pallidum DRM systems of which code signing is only a small part. I think I would hate to see Pallidum style 'locks' on the runtime environment in the 'official' version of the Linux kernel. If that does happen, I'm sure it will fork like mad, though.
I guess what Linus is saying is that if some companies want to make locked up, DRM'd systems using the Linux kernel, it's OK with him.