I just tried editing and saving an OO.org calc file stored on a smb share, and everything worked correctly. Either that bug has been fixed, or something was wrong with your setup.
The following is taken from Star Locke's site at: http://www.starovertexas.com/family_security_and_p rotection_act.html (NSFW: dead baby picture) Interestingly, the relevant sections do not parse. I beleve that the bolded section provides for just doubling the sales tax: This COMMISSION shall levy a 100% of price sales cost tax for the sale on all item listed below:
THE FAMILY SECURITY & PROTECTION ACT
An act promoting family security and safety by putting certain dangerous actions and dangerous products out of the reach of children thereby keeping our most precious blood--our children out of "HARMS WAY." Further this act put certain items out of the reach of government. By using a tool given to us by our founding fathers we hereby effect or families and their security. James Madison taught us, "the power to tax is the power to destroy". By utilizing this tool handed down to us by our founding fathers, we strive to promote the general welfare and protect our future security for ourselves and our posterity.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE UNITED STATES:
SECTION 1.
[a] The FAMILY HOME SECURITY COMMISSION is established which duty it shall be to carry out and implement this ACT.
[b] The COMMISSION shall establish the FAMILY HOME SECURITY ACCOUNT with funds coming from the EDUCATORS ACCOUNT under the authority of THE DEPOSIT AND RECYCLE ACT.
SECTION 2.
[a ] THE TEXAS ALCOHOLIC AND BEVERAGE COMMISSION IS HEREBY CLOSED and the enabling legislations is hereby rescinded.
[b] The FAMILY HOME SECURITY COMMISSION shall take over all existing facilities presently owned or leased by the T.A.B.C. and shall make its own determinations as to any future facility location needs.
[c] All TAX ON PRIVATE PROPERTY in TEXAS is hereby rescinded and repealed.
RICK PERRY supports 3% tax increase annually
10yrs = 30% over 30 year mortgage = 90% !!
[d] The Annual renewal fees and/or taxes on already licensed vehicles, equipment, trailers and/or instruments of transportation of humans or goods is hereby rescinded and repealed.
SECTION 3.
[a] The TEXAS ATHLETIC BOARD shall be established within this commission and consist of 10 members appointed by the GOVERNOR with their terms running concurrently with the Governors term in office and who's duties it shall be to establish and operate a CODE OF EXCELLENCE for health and fitness requirements for all TEXAS SCHOOLS.
[a] The ATHLETIC BOARD shall set minimum Physical fitness work out programs for all TEXAS SCHOOLS with 2 hour minimum P.E. daily classes for all students.
[b] The ATHLETIC BOARD shall establish a High Protein Diet Nutrition Program that shall be instituted in all TEXAS Schools with the goal to [a] promote the physical fitness in each student. [b] to eliminate OBESITY and addictive behaviors in children and staff.
[c] The ATHLETIC BOARD shall work with existing School Boards to implement the goals of this act.
SECTION 4.
[a] This COMMISSION shall levy a 100% of price sales cost tax for the sale on all item listed below:
1 . any video game containing any form of human violence..
2. any machine, toy, or cd that uses or includes bodily harm of any human or human image its function or goa
Actually, how hard would it be to take the DNA, and use cloning to bring them back? Maybe not as a food item, (though that could create funding...) but just as a "sorry about wiping out your species" present.
Granted, I'm oversimplifying tremendously, but is this a semi-reasonable explanation of why quantum entanglement has nothing to do with instantaneous communication, or do I just need to get to sleep?
Looking at the article, I'm thinking Windows-only, WMP or propriatary program-only, low quality, only offering renting options, at a higher price than Blockbuster.
It will be used to show that online distribution of movies does not work, in preparation for pushing another anti-P2P law through congress.
I wonder what would happen if somebody introduced one of you US-American conservatives to a real live 24 carat way-left-of-center Socialist, never mind an acutal honest to goodness die hard Communist like we have them over here in Europe? My pet theory is that you would go red in the face, then steam would shoot out of your ears and your eyes would bulge out followed by a massive bang as your head explodes.
Well, if it already uses SDL/OpenGL, it should just be a recompile to get a Linux version. Of course, it's never that easy, but a port wouldn't be very hard.
Wow, imagine that, google needing to know which page you're viewing so it can 1) show you a cache of that page, 2) show links to the current page, or 3) show pages related to the one you're viewing.
How on earth could they do this without knowing what page you're viewing?
By sending you the information for every page on the Internet, then allowing you to pick the page you want client-side, of course.
Off-topic a bit, but this is how I removed Aurora:
1: Run regedit. Navigate to the key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\winlogon\Shell and change it to "Explorer.exe" (ie, delete the Nail.exe part.) 2: Reboot into safe mode. 3: Now, open C:\Windows\Nail.exe in Notepad. (Yes, I just told you to open an executable file in notepad) Once open, hit Ctrl+A, Backspace, Ctrl+S. This leaves Nail.exe as a 0-length file. (Deleting the file doesn't work, by the way. It gets replaced immediately by the normal file.) 4: Reboot into safe mode. (You should get the message "C:\WINDOWS\Nail.exe is not a valid Win32 Application.") 5: Remove the randomly named exe file from msconfig, and remove nail.exe from the registry again. Reboot into safe mode. 6: Remove all the randomly named files from C:\Windows (They should all be the same size. 71.5KB over here.) and reboot into normal Windows. Check msconfig, the Task Manager, regedit, and look for popups. If no signs appear, you should be fine.
That would work. The one I was thinking of let copyright work for 50 years from publication (needed due to the Berne convention or something) then required registration for a small fee ($20 or so every 5 years or so.) and a copy of the work to be placed in the Library of Congress.
This has several benefits. First, the copy in the LoC would prevent lost works. Secondly, the required fee would require copyright holders to actually examine the profitability of a work. (If something is unlikely to make more than $20 in the next 5 years, give it back to the people.) Thirdly, having a name/address on file for each copyrighted work would help people looking for reprint rights or something, or, by its absence, let people know that something is public domain.
Of course, the dollar and year variables can be tweaked as needed.
For example, many people complain about the extension of copyrights in citing Disney's efforts to retain the copyright to Mickey Mouse. Well, why shouldn't the Disney Corporation retain those rights?
Because, in retaining those rights, they have prevented any other works from the same period from falling into the Public Domain. Books (and music, and movies) do not last forever, and 80 years is already pushing the limit for cheaply made materials.
When combined with unpopular works, or works to which the copyright holders cannot be found, (a few bankruptcies will take care of that) it is almost certain that a large number of works from that time will be lost forever by the time they enter the public domain.
Quite frankly, Disney can retain the rights to Mickey 'till the end of time for all I care; just as long as the other works from this time period are placed in the public domain. (By the way, there are a few copyright schemes that do have this effect, so this is not impossible.)
Didn't someone name a new species of beetle after DNA a year or so ago?
Googling turned up: Erechthias beeblebroxi Robinson & Nelson, 1993 (tineid) with a false head; after Zaphod Beeblebrox, two-headed character from Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
By the way, this page has an hscroll at 1024x768. While this is a direct consequence of the wider-than-normal article, it messes up the comments. Slashcode would benefit from the ability to deal with this. I suggest sizing the comments seperately from the article.
Wheher BitTorrent was designed with copyright infringement in mind is completely irrelevant. It's seeing many useful legal purposes. I use it for completely legal downloads all the time.
Incidently, BT *was* designed for legal purposes. There is a distinct lack of anonymity in the application, making it easy to see who to sue. This, of course, is not usually a problem in legal sharing.
Either that or simply allow the user to set a maximum cookie retention time. What I'd REALLY like is a browser that doesn't save cookies for sites I haven't bookmarked, or combine the ideas- cookies for sites not bookmarked aren't saved very long.
Mozilla already lets you set a max lifetime for cookies. (Mine is set at two weeks.) However, the link to the bookmarks idea is even better.
Seriously, did they break into people's computers and do searches? Did they use P2P searches (which are about as reliable as a slashdot poll)? Did they run around a small part of the US looking for information? No, the story says "analysts" and "researchers", without naming names as far as I read.
The researchers are the NPD group. They provide a client that can be voluntarily downloaded and used, that keeps track of these things. It is safe to say that most people running this client know about it.
Of course, this still retains the problem of sample bias. People tend not to do illegal things when other people are watching, and the recent lawsuits may have provided a reason to clean up some computers.
The big question here is how you can possibly build customer loyalty if you outsource the business unit which is in charge of customer relationships. This doesn't sound like a wise idea to me.
It should still work; just remember that the reason for outsourcing is not to save money, but to remove the administration overhead. I.e, don't pick the lowest bidder.
Slashdot Mirror
I just tried editing and saving an OO.org calc file stored on a smb share, and everything worked correctly. Either that bug has been fixed, or something was wrong with your setup.
The following is taken from Star Locke's site at:
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http://www.starovertexas.com/family_security_and_p rotection_act.html (NSFW: dead baby picture)
Interestingly, the relevant sections do not parse. I beleve that the bolded section provides for just doubling the sales tax:
This COMMISSION shall levy a 100% of price sales cost tax for the sale on all item listed below:
THE FAMILY SECURITY & PROTECTION ACT
An act promoting family security and safety by putting certain dangerous actions and dangerous products out of the reach of children thereby keeping our most precious blood--our children out of "HARMS WAY." Further this act put certain items out of the reach of government. By using a tool given to us by our founding fathers we hereby effect or families and their security. James Madison taught us, "the power to tax is the power to destroy". By utilizing this tool handed down to us by our founding fathers, we strive to promote the general welfare and protect our future security for ourselves and our posterity.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE UNITED STATES:
SECTION 1.
[a] The FAMILY HOME SECURITY COMMISSION is established which duty it shall be to carry out and implement this ACT.
[b] The COMMISSION shall establish the FAMILY HOME SECURITY ACCOUNT with funds coming from the EDUCATORS ACCOUNT under the authority of THE DEPOSIT AND RECYCLE ACT.
SECTION 2.
[a ] THE TEXAS ALCOHOLIC AND BEVERAGE COMMISSION IS HEREBY CLOSED and the enabling legislations is hereby rescinded.
[b] The FAMILY HOME SECURITY COMMISSION shall take over all existing facilities presently owned or leased by the T.A.B.C. and shall make its own determinations as to any future facility location needs.
[c] All TAX ON PRIVATE PROPERTY in TEXAS is hereby rescinded and repealed.
RICK PERRY supports 3% tax increase annually
10yrs = 30% over 30 year mortgage = 90% !!
[d] The Annual renewal fees and/or taxes on already licensed vehicles, equipment, trailers and/or instruments of transportation of humans or goods is hereby rescinded and repealed.
SECTION 3.
[a] The TEXAS ATHLETIC BOARD shall be established within this commission and consist of 10 members appointed by the GOVERNOR with their terms running concurrently with the Governors term in office and who's duties it shall be to establish and operate a CODE OF EXCELLENCE for health and fitness requirements for all TEXAS SCHOOLS
[a] The ATHLETIC BOARD shall set minimum Physical fitness work out programs for all TEXAS SCHOOLS with 2 hour minimum P.E. daily classes for all students.
[b] The ATHLETIC BOARD shall establish a High Protein Diet Nutrition Program that shall be instituted in all TEXAS Schools with the goal to [a] promote the physical fitness in each student. [b] to eliminate OBESITY and addictive behaviors in children and staff.
[c] The ATHLETIC BOARD shall work with existing School Boards to implement the goals of this act.
SECTION 4.
[a] This COMMISSION shall levy a 100% of price sales cost tax for the sale on all item listed below:
1 . any video game containing any form of human violence.
2. any machine, toy, or cd that uses or includes bodily harm of any human or human image its function or goa
Actually, how hard would it be to take the DNA, and use cloning to bring them back? Maybe not as a food item, (though that could create funding...) but just as a "sorry about wiping out your species" present.
Granted, I'm oversimplifying tremendously, but is this a semi-reasonable explanation of why quantum entanglement has nothing to do with instantaneous communication, or do I just need to get to sleep?
Yes.
(ah... Nothing quite like boolean algebra.)
It's the daemonic counterpart of Bit from the movie Tron.
So does that make it the Evil Bit?
By simply placing all coins on edge, you can be assured that both piles have exactly 0 heads.
Looking at the article, I'm thinking Windows-only, WMP or propriatary program-only, low quality, only offering renting options, at a higher price than Blockbuster.
It will be used to show that online distribution of movies does not work, in preparation for pushing another anti-P2P law through congress.
I wonder what would happen if somebody introduced one of you US-American conservatives to a real live 24 carat way-left-of-center Socialist, never mind an acutal honest to goodness die hard Communist like we have them over here in Europe? My pet theory is that you would go red in the face, then steam would shoot out of your ears and your eyes would bulge out followed by a massive bang as your head explodes.
I'll take twelve. Do you ship to DC?
Well, if it already uses SDL/OpenGL, it should just be a recompile to get a Linux version. Of course, it's never that easy, but a port wouldn't be very hard.
In reply to your sig:o ld=1&commentsort=0&tid=192&mode=thread&cid=1100000 0
http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=131716&thresh
Wow, imagine that, google needing to know which page you're viewing so it can 1) show you a cache of that page, 2) show links to the current page, or 3) show pages related to the one you're viewing.
How on earth could they do this without knowing what page you're viewing?
By sending you the information for every page on the Internet, then allowing you to pick the page you want client-side, of course.
(Note: may not be practical.)
Off-topic a bit, but this is how I removed Aurora:
1: Run regedit. Navigate to the key HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\winlogon\Shell and change it to "Explorer.exe" (ie, delete the Nail.exe part.)
2: Reboot into safe mode.
3: Now, open C:\Windows\Nail.exe in Notepad. (Yes, I just told you to open an executable file in notepad) Once open, hit Ctrl+A, Backspace, Ctrl+S. This leaves Nail.exe as a 0-length file. (Deleting the file doesn't work, by the way. It gets replaced immediately by the normal file.)
4: Reboot into safe mode. (You should get the message "C:\WINDOWS\Nail.exe is not a valid Win32 Application.")
5: Remove the randomly named exe file from msconfig, and remove nail.exe from the registry again. Reboot into safe mode.
6: Remove all the randomly named files from C:\Windows (They should all be the same size. 71.5KB over here.) and reboot into normal Windows. Check msconfig, the Task Manager, regedit, and look for popups. If no signs appear, you should be fine.
Lets end all these issues by calling OUR definition of free by a different word. Take their power away.
I usually use Free as opposed to free.
That would work. The one I was thinking of let copyright work for 50 years from publication (needed due to the Berne convention or something) then required registration for a small fee ($20 or so every 5 years or so.) and a copy of the work to be placed in the Library of Congress.
This has several benefits. First, the copy in the LoC would prevent lost works.
Secondly, the required fee would require copyright holders to actually examine the profitability of a work. (If something is unlikely to make more than $20 in the next 5 years, give it back to the people.)
Thirdly, having a name/address on file for each copyrighted work would help people looking for reprint rights or something, or, by its absence, let people know that something is public domain.
Of course, the dollar and year variables can be tweaked as needed.
For example, many people complain about the extension of copyrights in citing Disney's efforts to retain the copyright to Mickey Mouse. Well, why shouldn't the Disney Corporation retain those rights?
Because, in retaining those rights, they have prevented any other works from the same period from falling into the Public Domain. Books (and music, and movies) do not last forever, and 80 years is already pushing the limit for cheaply made materials.
When combined with unpopular works, or works to which the copyright holders cannot be found, (a few bankruptcies will take care of that) it is almost certain that a large number of works from that time will be lost forever by the time they enter the public domain.
Quite frankly, Disney can retain the rights to Mickey 'till the end of time for all I care; just as long as the other works from this time period are placed in the public domain. (By the way, there are a few copyright schemes that do have this effect, so this is not impossible.)
Didn't someone name a new species of beetle after DNA a year or so ago?
Googling turned up:
Erechthias beeblebroxi Robinson & Nelson, 1993 (tineid) with a false head; after Zaphod Beeblebrox, two-headed character from Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
From Here
By the way, this page has an hscroll at 1024x768. While this is a direct consequence of the wider-than-normal article, it messes up the comments. Slashcode would benefit from the ability to deal with this. I suggest sizing the comments seperately from the article.
How did they taste?
The taste will blow you away.
Wheher BitTorrent was designed with copyright infringement in mind is completely irrelevant. It's seeing many useful legal purposes. I use it for completely legal downloads all the time.
Incidently, BT *was* designed for legal purposes. There is a distinct lack of anonymity in the application, making it easy to see who to sue. This, of course, is not usually a problem in legal sharing.
How about it has not effected me one bit. Just like how it has not effected 99.9% of Americans.
I am quite glad it has not effected you. To have acts of Congress spontaneously creating people would be quite worrying.
Either that or simply allow the user to set a maximum cookie retention time. What I'd REALLY like is a browser that doesn't save cookies for sites I haven't bookmarked, or combine the ideas- cookies for sites not bookmarked aren't saved very long.
Mozilla already lets you set a max lifetime for cookies. (Mine is set at two weeks.) However, the link to the bookmarks idea is even better.
Seriously, did they break into people's computers and do searches? Did they use P2P searches (which are about as reliable as a slashdot poll)? Did they run around a small part of the US looking for information? No, the story says "analysts" and "researchers", without naming names as far as I read.
The researchers are the NPD group. They provide a client that can be voluntarily downloaded and used, that keeps track of these things. It is safe to say that most people running this client know about it.
Of course, this still retains the problem of sample bias. People tend not to do illegal things when other people are watching, and the recent lawsuits may have provided a reason to clean up some computers.
They weren't told but its under the assumption that Italy protested about pictures of there police force shooting protestors at the G8 summit.
Just to avoid misunderstandings, that's shooting protestors with cameras, not guns.
The big question here is how you can possibly build customer loyalty if you outsource the business unit which is in charge of customer relationships. This doesn't sound like a wise idea to me.
It should still work; just remember that the reason for outsourcing is not to save money, but to remove the administration overhead. I.e, don't pick the lowest bidder.
While you may turn in any spammers you know about, the purpose of a bounty is to reward those that take a bit of time to actually track one down.
For example, a 6 figure bounty would be a good reward, even if it took a few months of full-time work to find the spammer.