Journal Entry #1 February 1st, 2003 02:40:11PM PST
Woot! I just got this sweet new job. Finally, no longer uenmployed!:) I heard it's gonna be a long winter.:/ This JOURNAL service is awesome!
~Dave
Journal Entry #200 February 30th, 2003 17:55:16PM PST
Just wanted to say... happy 200th post to myself!:) I am the best employee, my company said! I heard I'm getting a bonus. The weather looks like it will improve... Until next time!
~Dave
Journal Entry #214 March 2nd, 2003 12:00:04PM PST
GOOD NEWS! that AOL just e-mailed me. My journal was selected to be automatically published in AOL Advertising when the service is launched in the summer. !!! I'm so excited! TTYL, I gotta oil the plants, water my hose.
Things couldn't be better! I'm so strung I'll probably end up pressing SUBMIT 1,000 times!:)
~Dave
Journal Entry #2,340 March 2nd, 2003 12:04:34PM PST
OMG! Haha Look that. Got it to 2,000 in four minutes. I'll try 10,000 and then submit bug report. OK anyway, oil the plants, water my hose.
~Dave
Journal Entry #11,699 July 11th, 2003 15:22:56PM PST
It has been hell. The outfall shows no signs of ceasing in the near future. I am writing this from beneath the downpour. This could be my final entry. I don't know how much longer I can cope. I am conserving the battery as much as I can. I'm out.
~Dave
Journal Entry #11,700 July 12th, 2003 00:26:32PM PST
Still holding in there. I thought checking off "mail a copy of each journal entry to me" would be in e-mail form. How I was wrong. My hand is slowly immobolized. My BACK is hurting (the discs are a pain in the ass.)
~Dave
Journal Entry #11,725 July 12th, 2003 14:20:20PM PST
DAMMIT! Can't anybody see me type? HEELP!!
Journal Entry #11,740 July 13th, 2003 23:59:44PM PST
I'm losiong cohersion. The postman visited today. They just won't stop. Turn on the light! Cant.. handle... the weigh.......
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Such a sad day for the company. They just lost an agreement with the biggest CD distributor in the country.
But this will be better!
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Everybody knows Amazon will be done for. For, with every AOL STORE CD purchase, you get two CDs free of AOL's own choice!
Even before you make a purchase!
If you know what I mean... When you look at it this way, AOL is already the biggest CD distributor already, with the most CD's in the most homes (and trash cans.)
Do Europeans know where the fifty states are? By god, they don't make Europeans remember the names and capitals of the States? Well, they do teach both that AND european countries in geography in middle school in the US.
Since there's no reason to think about other countries, the only time we give Europe a thought is when we are at war and a country's map is on the TV (totally serious.) There is absolutely no reason for us to ever give one thought about Europe.
The only countries I suspect an average American knows is USSR/Russia, France, Italy, and England. And Australia, I suppose. And for good reason. There is not one good thing from knowing where a European country is if one doesn't care.
Fact is, Europe can't hold a stick to the opportunities an educated person has in the US. Europeans would snob at many business owners' attempts unless they fit the look of their country. But here, all diverse groups are putting their heads together and there is virtually no discrimination like an Irish person being in England, I suppose.
Europe's time has passed. The 'in' thing is the United States. Only dumb asses would avoid the U.S.. Granted, if you come from a long family history and you have inherited shit loads of land from the 1400's and go skiing every day in your European country, then maybe that's good for you. But for the majority of people, almost everybody who isn't held back by commitments to their current country, the best choice is the United States.
If National Geographic found that 90% of Americans can't find it on a map, then it's a statistic. Not a stereotype. A stereotype is when you assume things about an INDIVIDUAL based on observations OR commonly repeated false statements based on the GROUP that they are from. Judging an individual based upon your perception of the group and not on his own merit is acting upon a stereotype.
Secondly, as explained by linguist Steven Pinker in his book "The Language Instinct" (HarperCollins, 1994), "doctor" and "their" in our sample sentence aren't really an antecedent noun and its pronoun -- they are a "quantifier" and a "bound variable," respectively, and don't have to agree in number. Pinker's explanation of the difference is lucid, fascinating, and much too long to go into here, so buy go the book. Yes, it's in paperback.
Buy go the book? And this guy is supposed to be an authority on grammar?
It is standard practice in the English language to use "their" instead of "his" or "her", and "one" instead of "he" or "she". In fact, not only is this standard, doing this is considered *more* correct. You are not supposed to write "he" or "she" unless you are referring to a man or woman. If you are referring to a general person, an individual, etc., they are sexless and should not have a "he" or "she" attached (See how I just did that myself--I said "they" instead of "he/she"?)
To avoid saying "he/she", you are supposed to say "one" or "they".
By the way, even if you are talking about a profession like programmer, which is mostly male, you should still not use "he" when referring to a programmer. You should still refer to a person of that professional title in a way that avoids having to say "he/she"; and, when you can't avoid it, use "they."
Of course it doesn't mean they're killing it off... They just currently have no plans to develop IE further anyways for any platform! Which is exactly what I said!
They'll resume when they want to resume, doesn't mean they're KILLING IT OFF just because they AT THIS MOMENT have no plans to keep developing IE version 6. The other flaw with your misunderstanding of my words is that software doesn't need to be 'fed' like a mammal--you can have a binary and not update it for years. So even if had they not made an announcement, but didn't keep updating IE, IE would still exist since it can't be KILLED OFF. IE will continue existing as IE until MS decides to change it. It doesn't mean they KIll iT OFF just because they decide not to mess with it for a while.
It just means it's on hold! Not hard to understand.
What he said is bullshit. I did not say that MS were killing off IE on Windows. I just said they were going to stop updating the Internet Explorer as we know it today, and I provided a link for people to visit to get full details. It's not like I mislead anybody.
And another thing - I do remember reading that Mac IE is made by another team, but who would concern themselves with remembering that? Microsoft covered their ass already as far as the non-geek population is concerned. They aren't obliged to license for free any software including mac IE.
Of course Microsoft would want more web browser competition, that's what they need right now to keep the states off their back..... But the web browser doesn't even compete with them since it's on the mac, and ms was making the software for free for the mac anyway... So now it's a great situation for MS, as almost everything it does is. And they put the focus on Apple for doing exactly what MS was accused of doing. HAHAHAHA. Sucks for Apple. And Apple users, too. For some reason, Everybody wants choice on Windows but in the mac world, everybody gets just one choice per application category? What the hell? How can just having safari be good for the mac? Isn't competition good? Now the direct competition is Windows versus Apple. We are right back to the pre-web browser era (or soon will be.) Except that Windows just like back in 1990, is installed in more computers than Apple. HAHAHAHA. Ya this is really good for Apple. One web browser. Hidden API. IT is much better for MS when it's biggest os competitor ( a non-competitor ) is accused of the same stuff as it is... ha! This is not good for macs. (As an operating system)
You should always read slashdot articles cynically...
This is the most recent example of this. Microsoft, in a previous slashdot story two weeks ago, announced IE 6 SP1 or whatever will be their last update ANYWAYS even for WINDOWS.
Conclusion? 1) MS has no plans to develop IE further anyways for any platform, AND 2) MS therefore couldn't care less about Apple
Of course, Apple will say MS made that announcement because they were gonna be faced with stiff competition, or that MS will still develop the browser in secret (for all platforms), but let's face it. MS covered their ass already.
Just click on TOPICS and then INTERNET EXPLORER. It's the top article!!! Here's the link: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/31/165020 6&mode=thread&tid=113&tid=126&tid= 95
..unless Google hosts because Puzzles.com fell to DoS! We can't get to the password for the encrypted contest pdf!
I just downloaded the contest pdf at 2kb a second, and the password is still not up! At one point, the site said there was no web site configured at that address....
The documentation in the rulebook said They did not expect to have any technical problems during this event. Hahaha.
Being an employee of the company is by definition DOING WHAT THE EMPLOYEE TELLS YOU TO DO AND NOT DOING WHAT HE TELLS YOU NOT TO DO. Only few people, Salespeople, Customer Service Reps, have jobs to ACT on BEHALF of the COMPANY.
Yes, anything you do as an employee could reflect badly on the employee's place of employment. But it doesn't mean you become boss to do whatever the hell you want.
Being an employee at work means the company OWNS whatever you do on it's time. So if you write source code for your company, the company owns it.
Look. If you work at the cash register and people tell you to take a shower because how you look is how people will see the supermarket, doesn't mean you are acting on behalf of the company. Doesn't mean you can go around thinking you can do business for the company just because you're the mailroom clerk. As a temporary employer to wax your car, can a guy go and... legally sell it on your behalf without your authorization? No. And selling software under the GPL (for free of course) is what some guy did.
Unless this was authorized by top management, I don't think court would find this an act of the company. And even if they did, do you have paperwork that you walked up to a guy in a suit and say "Hey can I do whatever the hell I want, including to upload internal software on the internet?" "Oh , sure, go have a go at it kid." Right.
What if I work at Microsoft and I release Microsoft Bob source code to GPL? Same deal here. I do not have the right to do it.
In the same way, it seems a human at nullsoft posted internal files online [Waste was used like their own intranet file sharing app]. Just because he had 1) the source code to release it, and 2) nullsoft web site FTP password, doesn't mean he has the ownership of it to declare it GPL.
Who would own the project? Well, since it is used internally in Nullsoft, it was probably one on Nullsoft's own projects, in which case the company owns it. But even if an employee wrote it during his free time at the company, if he was paid during 'free time' then the company still owns it by default (unless his employee contract says anything he does at work he keeps rights to.)
Whether stuff was posted discretely by a disgruntled programmer or whether the process of approval of distributing this online was followd to the letter, the ultimate bosses at AOL apparently don't like this so they will have some heads rolling. And by doing that, they will blame those people responsible for it and say, whether there is 1 person found or 800, that those people were not acting on behalf of the company and that the company never wanted the files online. Which.. is exactly what it says on the site now! Only time remains for public 'humiliation' of the people judged responsible by AOL.
AOL's goal will be showing how an employee was not authorized to distribute those files on behalf of the company.
Since this will be pretty easy to do as I've described above, we can safely conclude that the files were distributed illegally and posessing and modifying the code is a federal offense. NOT GPL at all.
I hope people on this site will denounce the GPL of WASTE to show that we are fairness loving people. It seems though, people will instantly assume it's GPL so it's GPL because it suffices their selfishness.
By treating the code as if it IS GPL, you are denouncing everything slashdot says for excuses that people want fairness and how the goverment is bad. Yeah people will really take slashdot posters seriously on other issues now: FILE SHARING -- people use it for legal uses! [Fact: illegal trading] PRIVACY -- The government will be spying on me! [Fact: you just don't want to get ticketed]
Everyone will no longer believe any excuses slashdot crowd makes, since/. make judgement 100% for selfish reasons. There will be no way to justify your selfish actions in those fields and others when you just want to claim that it's GPL even though you know it's not.
When, to refill all the toilets in your big ass house, you need to sell off $1 billion dollars in stock every 3 years to get 100 million hundred dollar bills to have something to wipe your ass with.
Why bother buying and disposing toilet paper, when money is so durable and comforting for billionaires:)
"After the Columbia was lost, NASA officials said that just one missing tile could mean that safety blanket could be compromised."
One of a billion mishaps could kill people. But consumer hardware, let alone software, is pretty safe...
"One hundred forty four manned flights in space and only two failures," he said in an ABC interview about the shuttle program. "That's a pretty amazing safety record."
That's a quote by John Glenn. He forgot to account for the failure of apollo. Imagine if 1 in every 48 times you used a computer it blew up? Now imagine a billion computers being turned on and off simultaneously. About 48 every month. Still, no accident!
So even a software catastrophe on a personal computer is no big deal (E.G. hard drive crash) and is preventable in many ways from physical and online backups to multiple hard drives with RAID configurations.
However, that 1 in 48 figure is for EXPLOSIONS.
Minor things happen in software that are just annoying, that you wouldn't know about if they did on a space shuttle.
Maybe a velcropad is missing, etc. Minor annoyances must happen. A repetative annoyance in Windows, noticed by millions of users, would be public, even if it's a minor thing like a spelling mistake. But a job-slowing mistake on a space shuttle would be a fact of life for the 5 astronauts, wouldn't it? You would never know about it. So space shuttles are extremely dangerous and failure prone. They are more likely to break down than personal computers, not less.
SAT tests how much work you put into the SAT which shows how much work you would put in once you ARE in college. The MCAS tests KNOWLEDGE you're supposed to have learned in your previous 10 years of life. Only knowledge will get you a high grade here.
Yes. The SAT does test "How good you will do in college". BUT INDIRECTLY. The SAT's actually put the question "how much work is this person going to put towards this test just to pass it?" YOu see, someone who puts a lot of time just for the SAT is very likely to put a lot of effort into college work.
Colleges know this and don't care whether your 1400 was achieved through knowledge OR support (money, family, tutors, etc.) OR cheating/deduction--they know that either way if you did great on the SAT you would do great here by testing MOTIVATION.
That's why SAT scores mean jack shit in terms of knowledge. I mean, there's businesses revolving around teaching techniques to improve your SAT score.
So, the MCAS shows how much you know and if you have the patience to do the whole test out (since you have unlimited time)--both are good traits! The SAT shows nothing specifically--you don't know whether that 1200 was with techniques or by brute force KNOWLEDGE. Plus SAT's are definitely not knowledge exams since they throw in answers that are easily removed and confuse no one.
So it does make sense. Plus, a friend has done high SAT's and pefect math mcas, too.
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(Note: a 'phrenologist' is a guy who studies the brain by the bumps on the skull.) -- "103. Phrenological examination of a Judge.
Points: (IQ of Judge) / 10, with IQ as determined by the phrenologist.
Double points if you have a licensed phrenologist."
First off, debaters debate other schools. In effect, they are like a sports team. I don't think you can compare a debate 'club' to a computer club.
Also, a computer club with no definite goal is just a bunch of people with excessive computer knowledge or experience. The club will probably end up a huge LAN gaming party:) What advisor will want that on their ass?
I have to agree with some other poster--Computer clubs made sense years ago, but not anymore. Even an Athletics club, when you already have a dozen high school sports, would make more sense.
I guess the Computer Club would be the generic name, but you will need a common theme to keep the students coming back... Sadly, this will end up probably being COMPUTER GAMES.
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Journal Entry #1
:) I heard it's gonna be a long winter. :/ This JOURNAL service is awesome!
:) I am the best employee, my company said! I heard I'm getting a bonus. The weather looks like it will improve... Until next time!
:)
February 1st, 2003 02:40:11PM PST
Woot! I just got this sweet new job. Finally, no longer uenmployed!
~Dave
Journal Entry #200
February 30th, 2003 17:55:16PM PST
Just wanted to say... happy 200th post to myself!
~Dave
Journal Entry #214
March 2nd, 2003 12:00:04PM PST
GOOD NEWS! that AOL just e-mailed me. My journal was selected to be automatically published in AOL Advertising when the service is launched in the summer. !!! I'm so excited! TTYL, I gotta oil the plants, water my hose.
Things couldn't be better! I'm so strung I'll probably end up pressing SUBMIT 1,000 times!
~Dave
Journal Entry #2,340
March 2nd, 2003 12:04:34PM PST
OMG! Haha Look that. Got it to 2,000 in four minutes. I'll try 10,000 and then submit bug report. OK anyway, oil the plants, water my hose.
~Dave
Journal Entry #11,699
July 11th, 2003 15:22:56PM PST
It has been hell. The outfall shows no signs of ceasing in the near future. I am writing this from beneath the downpour. This could be my final entry. I don't know how much longer I can cope. I am conserving the battery as much as I can. I'm out.
~Dave
Journal Entry #11,700
July 12th, 2003 00:26:32PM PST
Still holding in there. I thought checking off "mail a copy of each journal entry to me" would be in e-mail form. How I was wrong. My hand is slowly immobolized. My BACK is hurting (the discs are a pain in the ass.)
~Dave
Journal Entry #11,725
July 12th, 2003 14:20:20PM PST
DAMMIT! Can't anybody see me type? HEELP!!
Journal Entry #11,740
July 13th, 2003 23:59:44PM PST
I'm losiong cohersion. The postman visited today. They just won't stop. Turn on the light! Cant.. handle... the weigh.......
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Such a sad day for the company. They just lost an agreement with the biggest CD distributor in the country.
Everybody knows Amazon will be done for. For, with every AOL STORE CD purchase, you get two CDs free of AOL's own choice!
Even before you make a purchase!
If you know what I mean... When you look at it this way, AOL is already the biggest CD distributor already, with the most CD's in the most homes (and trash cans.)
Do Europeans know where the fifty states are? By god, they don't make Europeans remember the names and capitals of the States? Well, they do teach both that AND european countries in geography in middle school in the US.
Since there's no reason to think about other countries, the only time we give Europe a thought is when we are at war and a country's map is on the TV (totally serious.) There is absolutely no reason for us to ever give one thought about Europe.
The only countries I suspect an average American knows is USSR/Russia, France, Italy, and England. And Australia, I suppose. And for good reason. There is not one good thing from knowing where a European country is if one doesn't care.
Fact is, Europe can't hold a stick to the opportunities an educated person has in the US. Europeans would snob at many business owners' attempts unless they fit the look of their country. But here, all diverse groups are putting their heads together and there is virtually no discrimination like an Irish person being in England, I suppose.
Europe's time has passed. The 'in' thing is the United States. Only dumb asses would avoid the U.S.. Granted, if you come from a long family history and you have inherited shit loads of land from the 1400's and go skiing every day in your European country, then maybe that's good for you. But for the majority of people, almost everybody who isn't held back by commitments to their current country, the best choice is the United States.
If National Geographic found that 90% of Americans can't find it on a map, then it's a statistic. Not a stereotype. A stereotype is when you assume things about an INDIVIDUAL based on observations OR commonly repeated false statements based on the GROUP that they are from. Judging an individual based upon your perception of the group and not on his own merit is acting upon a stereotype.
Secondly, as explained by linguist Steven Pinker in his book "The Language Instinct" (HarperCollins, 1994), "doctor" and "their" in our sample sentence aren't really an antecedent noun and its pronoun -- they are a "quantifier" and a "bound variable," respectively, and don't have to agree in number. Pinker's explanation of the difference is lucid, fascinating, and much too long to go into here, so buy go the book. Yes, it's in paperback.
Buy go the book? And this guy is supposed to be an authority on grammar?
Well it just goes to show that you can lead a gift horse to water, but you cannot make him bite the hand that feeds him.
While staring him in the mouth.
It is standard practice in the English language to use "their" instead of "his" or "her", and "one" instead of "he" or "she". In fact, not only is this standard, doing this is considered *more* correct. You are not supposed to write "he" or "she" unless you are referring to a man or woman. If you are referring to a general person, an individual, etc., they are sexless and should not have a "he" or "she" attached (See how I just did that myself--I said "they" instead of "he/she"?)
To avoid saying "he/she", you are supposed to say "one" or "they".
By the way, even if you are talking about a profession like programmer, which is mostly male, you should still not use "he" when referring to a programmer. You should still refer to a person of that professional title in a way that avoids having to say "he/she"; and, when you can't avoid it, use "they."
Of course it doesn't mean they're killing it off... They just currently have no plans to develop IE further anyways for any platform! Which is exactly what I said!
They'll resume when they want to resume, doesn't mean they're KILLING IT OFF just because they AT THIS MOMENT have no plans to keep developing IE version 6. The other flaw with your misunderstanding of my words is that software doesn't need to be 'fed' like a mammal--you can have a binary and not update it for years. So even if had they not made an announcement, but didn't keep updating IE, IE would still exist since it can't be KILLED OFF. IE will continue existing as IE until MS decides to change it. It doesn't mean they KIll iT OFF just because they decide not to mess with it for a while.
It just means it's on hold! Not hard to understand.
What he said is bullshit. I did not say that MS were killing off IE on Windows. I just said they were going to stop updating the Internet Explorer as we know it today, and I provided a link for people to visit to get full details. It's not like I mislead anybody. And another thing - I do remember reading that Mac IE is made by another team, but who would concern themselves with remembering that? Microsoft covered their ass already as far as the non-geek population is concerned. They aren't obliged to license for free any software including mac IE.
GW were initials of a Gary Wozniak (I know, I know) or somebody else who wrote it. One of the founding members of Microsoft.
Of course Microsoft would want more web browser competition, that's what they need right now to keep the states off their back..... But the web browser doesn't even compete with them since it's on the mac, and ms was making the software for free for the mac anyway... So now it's a great situation for MS, as almost everything it does is. And they put the focus on Apple for doing exactly what MS was accused of doing. HAHAHAHA. Sucks for Apple. And Apple users, too. For some reason, Everybody wants choice on Windows but in the mac world, everybody gets just one choice per application category? What the hell? How can just having safari be good for the mac? Isn't competition good? Now the direct competition is Windows versus Apple. We are right back to the pre-web browser era (or soon will be.) Except that Windows just like back in 1990, is installed in more computers than Apple. HAHAHAHA. Ya this is really good for Apple. One web browser. Hidden API. IT is much better for MS when it's biggest os competitor ( a non-competitor ) is accused of the same stuff as it is... ha! This is not good for macs. (As an operating system)
You should always read slashdot articles cynically...
0 6&mode=thread&tid=113&tid=126&tid= 95
This is the most recent example of this. Microsoft, in a previous slashdot story two weeks ago, announced IE 6 SP1 or whatever will be their last update ANYWAYS even for WINDOWS.
Conclusion?
1) MS has no plans to develop IE further anyways for any platform, AND
2) MS therefore couldn't care less about Apple
Of course, Apple will say MS made that announcement because they were gonna be faced with stiff competition, or that MS will still develop the browser in secret (for all platforms), but let's face it. MS covered their ass already.
Just click on TOPICS and then INTERNET EXPLORER. It's the top article!!! Here's the link: http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=03/05/31/16502
..unless Google hosts because Puzzles.com fell to DoS! We can't get to the password for the encrypted contest pdf!
I just downloaded the contest pdf at 2kb a second, and the password is still not up! At one point, the site said there was no web site configured at that address....
The documentation in the rulebook said They did not expect to have any technical problems during this event. Hahaha.
Being an employee of the company is by definition DOING WHAT THE EMPLOYEE TELLS YOU TO DO AND NOT DOING WHAT HE TELLS YOU NOT TO DO. Only few people, Salespeople, Customer Service Reps, have jobs to ACT on BEHALF of the COMPANY.
... legally sell it on your behalf without your authorization? No. And selling software under the GPL (for free of course) is what some guy did.
Yes, anything you do as an employee could reflect badly on the employee's place of employment. But it doesn't mean you become boss to do whatever the hell you want.
Being an employee at work means the company OWNS whatever you do on it's time. So if you write source code for your company, the company owns it.
Look. If you work at the cash register and people tell you to take a shower because how you look is how people will see the supermarket, doesn't mean you are acting on behalf of the company. Doesn't mean you can go around thinking you can do business for the company just because you're the mailroom clerk. As a temporary employer to wax your car, can a guy go and
Unless this was authorized by top management, I don't think court would find this an act of the company. And even if they did, do you have paperwork that you walked up to a guy in a suit and say "Hey can I do whatever the hell I want, including to upload internal software on the internet?" "Oh , sure, go have a go at it kid." Right.
What if I work at Microsoft and I release Microsoft Bob source code to GPL? Same deal here. I do not have the right to do it.
/. make judgement 100% for selfish reasons. There will be no way to justify your selfish actions in those fields and others when you just want to claim that it's GPL even though you know it's not.
In the same way, it seems a human at nullsoft posted internal files online [Waste was used like their own intranet file sharing app]. Just because he had 1) the source code to release it, and 2) nullsoft web site FTP password, doesn't mean he has the ownership of it to declare it GPL.
Who would own the project? Well, since it is used internally in Nullsoft, it was probably one on Nullsoft's own projects, in which case the company owns it. But even if an employee wrote it during his free time at the company, if he was paid during 'free time' then the company still owns it by default (unless his employee contract says anything he does at work he keeps rights to.)
Whether stuff was posted discretely by a disgruntled programmer or whether the process of approval of distributing this online was followd to the letter, the ultimate bosses at AOL apparently don't like this so they will have some heads rolling. And by doing that, they will blame those people responsible for it and say, whether there is 1 person found or 800, that those people were not acting on behalf of the company and that the company never wanted the files online. Which.. is exactly what it says on the site now! Only time remains for public 'humiliation' of the people judged responsible by AOL.
AOL's goal will be showing how an employee was not authorized to distribute those files on behalf of the company.
Since this will be pretty easy to do as I've described above, we can safely conclude that the files were distributed illegally and posessing and modifying the code is a federal offense. NOT GPL at all.
I hope people on this site will denounce the GPL of WASTE to show that we are fairness loving people. It seems though, people will instantly assume it's GPL so it's GPL because it suffices their selfishness.
By treating the code as if it IS GPL, you are denouncing everything slashdot says for excuses that people want fairness and how the goverment is bad.
Yeah people will really take slashdot posters seriously on other issues now:
FILE SHARING -- people use it for legal uses! [Fact: illegal trading]
PRIVACY -- The government will be spying on me! [Fact: you just don't want to get ticketed]
Everyone will no longer believe any excuses slashdot crowd makes, since
[Coincidentally, I had written a large amount of text just to support the parent comment, but /. and IE messed it up.]
When, to refill all the toilets in your big ass house, you need to sell off $1 billion dollars in stock every 3 years to get 100 million hundred dollar bills to have something to wipe your ass with.
:)
Why bother buying and disposing toilet paper, when money is so durable and comforting for billionaires
nthing here
"After the Columbia was lost, NASA officials said that just one missing tile could mean that safety blanket could be compromised."
One of a billion mishaps could kill people. But consumer hardware, let alone software, is pretty safe...
"One hundred forty four manned flights in space and only two failures," he said in an ABC interview about the shuttle program. "That's a pretty amazing safety record."
That's a quote by John Glenn. He forgot to account for the failure of apollo. Imagine if 1 in every 48 times you used a computer it blew up? Now imagine a billion computers being turned on and off simultaneously. About 48 every month.
Still, no accident!
So even a software catastrophe on a personal computer is no big deal (E.G. hard drive crash) and is preventable in many ways from physical and online backups to multiple hard drives with RAID configurations.
However, that 1 in 48 figure is for EXPLOSIONS.
Minor things happen in software that are just annoying, that you wouldn't know about if they did on a space shuttle.
Maybe a velcropad is missing, etc. Minor annoyances must happen. A repetative annoyance in Windows, noticed by millions of users, would be public, even if it's a minor thing like a spelling mistake. But a job-slowing mistake on a space shuttle would be a fact of life for the 5 astronauts, wouldn't it? You would never know about it.
So space shuttles are extremely dangerous and failure prone. They are more likely to break down than personal computers, not less.
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SAT tests how much work you put into the SAT which shows how much work you would put in once you ARE in college. The MCAS tests KNOWLEDGE you're supposed to have learned in your previous 10 years of life. Only knowledge will get you a high grade here.
Yes. The SAT does test "How good you will do in college". BUT INDIRECTLY. The SAT's actually put the question "how much work is this person going to put towards this test just to pass it?" YOu see, someone who puts a lot of time just for the SAT is very likely to put a lot of effort into college work.
Colleges know this and don't care whether your 1400 was achieved through knowledge OR support (money, family, tutors, etc.) OR cheating/deduction--they know that either way if you did great on the SAT you would do great here by testing MOTIVATION.
That's why SAT scores mean jack shit in terms of knowledge. I mean, there's businesses revolving around teaching techniques to improve your SAT score.
So, the MCAS shows how much you know and if you have the patience to do the whole test out (since you have unlimited time)--both are good traits! The SAT shows nothing specifically--you don't know whether that 1200 was with techniques or by brute force KNOWLEDGE. Plus SAT's are definitely not knowledge exams since they throw in answers that are easily removed and confuse no one.
So it does make sense. Plus, a friend has done high SAT's and pefect math mcas, too.
(Note: a 'phrenologist' is a guy who studies the brain by the bumps on the skull.)
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"103. Phrenological examination of a Judge.
Points: (IQ of Judge) / 10, with IQ as determined by the phrenologist.
Double points if you have a licensed phrenologist."
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First off, debaters debate other schools. In effect, they are like a sports team. I don't think you can compare a debate 'club' to a computer club.
:) What advisor will want that on their ass?
Also, a computer club with no definite goal is just a bunch of people with excessive computer knowledge or experience. The club will probably end up a huge LAN gaming party
I have to agree with some other poster--Computer clubs made sense years ago, but not anymore. Even an Athletics club, when you already have a dozen high school sports, would make more sense.
I guess the Computer Club would be the generic name, but you will need a common theme to keep the students coming back... Sadly, this will end up probably being COMPUTER GAMES.
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