One of the biggest arguments against the GPL is that if you use it in your own code, you have to agree to its terms.
How is that an argument against the GPL? In most other cases, even getting the code will violate several laws, and you have no right to use it in your product. Seems the GPL gives you more than most. If you just want a library, the choice is simple - make your stuff GPL or don't use the library (with some exceptions).
The financial details of the transaction often don't fully clarify its purpose, that's why DHS has to sometimes go knock on doors and send letters demanding explanations.
Since when is that any of there business? Unless they have proof of wrongdoing, they have no right to demand I prove my innocence.
I got a business account after that - but occasionally, credits to the account are routinely frozen, especially if I'm dealing with a new client who hasn't wired in anything before.
If it were me, I'd be going down to my branch and telling them to "unfreexze my account, you fuckers!" with some regularity.
Yeah, but in the other ditch is a bunch of Civil Servants getting their faces ripped off for letting a score of thugs strongly interested in parking jets in large builds into the country.
Bitch, bitch, whine. I'd rather die by the hand of a foreign attacker than be subjected to persecution by my own government.
Low Email storage limits are another reason why IT's reputation continues to worsen.
And yet nobody's willing to pay for more storage (I'd wager). Even if they did, that just means employees would let more crap accumulate, then they'd bitch some more (And cost more money to boot). Bloody lusers - can't live with them, can't please them, and if you shoot one, you get fined for littering.
I'm no lawyer, but it seems to me that it wouldn't be legal (or ethical?) for a public company to get rid of old email.
Why's that? If it's a normal part of policy, it's just housekeeping.
It is also handy to have old email around to cover your ass on old communication because you will always have a record of past descisions. Getting blamed for doing something questionable? Just point to the old email that states that your boss instructed you to do it over your objections, etc
No, for that, you would print it out and store a copy at home.
I applaud your height and weight, and no I don't think you look fat. But I do suggest that when you shop for a beachfront condo, you limit yourself to looking at suites above the 15th floor.
Beach? Sorry, but beaches take a while to form. On the bright side, most of Florida is 2ft above sea level, so that'll go away.
I predict a large benefit for those who invest early in snowmobile companies and ski equipment manufacturers
Oh good, I was worried Ski season would get shorter.
Measurements over a three year period or even a three hundred year period are meaningless to a 4.5 billion year old planet. Until we have a model showing cause and effect predictions accurately, its all scare mongering, FUD and an effort to introduce social change to placate uneducated fears. Chicken Little, thy name is Global Warming.
How about CO2 levels exceeding anything found in the last 5 ice age cycles? Because that's what we've got.
Half of the brightest students are Chinese, and they take their doctorates and fantastic brains home with them.
Don't confuse education with smarts - I've had the displeasure to interview lots of people with advanced degrees, and they're more or less the same as the ones I work with that have undergrad degrees. I'd place myself at the 60th percentile or better of people with MS degrees in my field and I have an undergrad - it's just a piece of paper.
First parsed as suicide - poor spelling gets in the way of you point. Anyway, your points about paying for talent and communicating are valid, but most of the fuckups I've seen are because the people paying don't know what the hell they want.
I've never worked anywhere where IT policies like "no unauthorized software" were actually enforced. Hell, I've had HR people tell me they "won't" back terminations based on those policy violations because they're not severe enough. And if you're not firing people, you're not enforcing anything.
Ever work in a bank? How about with classified data? I would expect them to do it if anyone is. I have worked for USPS, which had such a policy, but developers were exempt because a) we needed the stuff to function and b) we weren't irresponsible assholes.
So, this apparently could hold true for radio? RIAA agents with guns...yipee.
Look on the bright side: The RIAA loves to behave like jackbooted thugs, but if you shoot one while he's serving a no-knock raid on your house, you won't go to jail.
FairPlay goes bad all the time. Why just two days ago an MP3 Player owner contacted me and asked why they couldn't get ACC files they created with ITunes to work on their player. Turns out of course that ACC isn't supported on that player, and if the files have FairPlay built into them, then good luck converting to any other format [besides the lossy problem]. They have to start again from scratch ripping using CDex which I also showed has CDdb that means they don't have to type in artists and track names.
Your buddy ripped the wrong format to AAC, so this isn't a DRM problem. AAC is just a container that accepts a bunch of different stuff, Fairplay crippled stuff being one of them.
The best AAC related solution I've heard of is to rip everything as AAC or whatever with a lossless codec, then bulk convert them to whichever format you like this year. When something better comes along, you can go ahead and rerun the conversion for that format without ripping anything, plus you also keep the CDDB info.
And what about mailing lists where the reply-to address is different for each mailing that goes out? Should the AOL users whitelist every member on the mailing list? Great idea.
Maybe they could look at the X-MailingList header or whatever it's called.
Ignore it and risk these users losing their messages as spam (which is the most likely choice).
Or warn them ahead of time that AOL is likely to bin their messages. Then some of the people who start losing email will show up with new gmail aliases.
"Get away with this"?!?! That's absurd. AOL owns the servers.
And their email is only useful if other people are willing to go along with AOL's scheme. Sure they can be anti-social, but that makes their stuff worth less. I'd like to see AOL get smacked down hard for this.
If they make it illegal to change the CID, I hope they are going to dedicate a ton of cash to making sure it's enforced. Otherwise it'll just be another bullshit law that most people ignore.
If they added an 'intent to deceive' clause, I'd be happy. What you describe is perfectly fine, but someone spoofing MBNA is probably up to no good.
The Consitution, for obvious reasons, can and does only apply to citizens of that country.
No it doesn't. Parts apply to citizens (voting) and parts apply to anyone on US soil (most of the bill of rights, for instance). Non-citizens can't own firearms, but they can't be stopped and searched on a whim.
But the simple fact is that there is *no* legal basis for interfering with another country.
Well, there is the argument that the other country poses an imminent threat, but that doesn't really apply to Chine (or Iraq, for that matter).
All I am saying is, "To think that someone could immerse themselves in violence and come away unaffected is idiocy." I didn't say ban anything.
You didn't, but a whole bunch of politicians might, and that's what we're afraid of - misguided laws that protect us from something that isn't really a problem for the great majority of us.
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One of the biggest arguments against the GPL is that if you use it in your own code, you have to agree to its terms.
How is that an argument against the GPL? In most other cases, even getting the code will violate several laws, and you have no right to use it in your product. Seems the GPL gives you more than most. If you just want a library, the choice is simple - make your stuff GPL or don't use the library (with some exceptions).
Three (tentative) cheers for a free press?
Hoo...ray?
Yeah, until you do them again tomorrow.
Unless you were, say, a communist in the 20s. Jesus christ, don't they teach history any more?
The financial details of the transaction often don't fully clarify its purpose, that's why DHS has to sometimes go knock on doors and send letters demanding explanations.
Since when is that any of there business? Unless they have proof of wrongdoing, they have no right to demand I prove my innocence.
I got a business account after that - but occasionally, credits to the account are routinely frozen, especially if I'm dealing with a new client who hasn't wired in anything before.
If it were me, I'd be going down to my branch and telling them to "unfreexze my account, you fuckers!" with some regularity.
He said "paid for in cash"
Which also includes checks. Cash as opposed to financing.
Yeah, but in the other ditch is a bunch of Civil Servants getting their faces ripped off for letting a score of thugs strongly interested in parking jets in large builds into the country.
Bitch, bitch, whine. I'd rather die by the hand of a foreign attacker than be subjected to persecution by my own government.
Low Email storage limits are another reason why IT's reputation continues to worsen.
And yet nobody's willing to pay for more storage (I'd wager). Even if they did, that just means employees would let more crap accumulate, then they'd bitch some more (And cost more money to boot). Bloody lusers - can't live with them, can't please them, and if you shoot one, you get fined for littering.
I'm no lawyer, but it seems to me that it wouldn't be legal (or ethical?) for a public company to get rid of old email.
Why's that? If it's a normal part of policy, it's just housekeeping.
It is also handy to have old email around to cover your ass on old communication because you will always have a record of past descisions. Getting blamed for doing something questionable? Just point to the old email that states that your boss instructed you to do it over your objections, etc
No, for that, you would print it out and store a copy at home.
I applaud your height and weight, and no I don't think you look fat. But I do suggest that when you shop for a beachfront condo, you limit yourself to looking at suites above the 15th floor.
Beach? Sorry, but beaches take a while to form. On the bright side, most of Florida is 2ft above sea level, so that'll go away.
I predict a large benefit for those who invest early in snowmobile companies and ski equipment manufacturers
Oh good, I was worried Ski season would get shorter.
Measurements over a three year period or even a three hundred year period are meaningless to a 4.5 billion year old planet. Until we have a model showing cause and effect predictions accurately, its all scare mongering, FUD and an effort to introduce social change to placate uneducated fears. Chicken Little, thy name is Global Warming.
How about CO2 levels exceeding anything found in the last 5 ice age cycles? Because that's what we've got.
That's a Bad Thing, apparently. I've never been entirely sure why, perhaps some economics major can weigh in and explain it to me.
Because it's all about being patriotic instead of insisting on a good product that won't die before 100k miles.
Half of the brightest students are Chinese, and they take their doctorates and fantastic brains home with them.
Don't confuse education with smarts - I've had the displeasure to interview lots of people with advanced degrees, and they're more or less the same as the ones I work with that have undergrad degrees. I'd place myself at the 60th percentile or better of people with MS degrees in my field and I have an undergrad - it's just a piece of paper.
To make any kind of large scale project succede
First parsed as suicide - poor spelling gets in the way of you point. Anyway, your points about paying for talent and communicating are valid, but most of the fuckups I've seen are because the people paying don't know what the hell they want.
I've never worked anywhere where IT policies like "no unauthorized software" were actually enforced. Hell, I've had HR people tell me they "won't" back terminations based on those policy violations because they're not severe enough. And if you're not firing people, you're not enforcing anything.
Ever work in a bank? How about with classified data? I would expect them to do it if anyone is. I have worked for USPS, which had such a policy, but developers were exempt because a) we needed the stuff to function and b) we weren't irresponsible assholes.
So, this apparently could hold true for radio? RIAA agents with guns...yipee.
Look on the bright side: The RIAA loves to behave like jackbooted thugs, but if you shoot one while he's serving a no-knock raid on your house, you won't go to jail.
FairPlay goes bad all the time. Why just two days ago an MP3 Player owner contacted me and asked why they couldn't get ACC files they created with ITunes to work on their player. Turns out of course that ACC isn't supported on that player, and if the files have FairPlay built into them, then good luck converting to any other format [besides the lossy problem]. They have to start again from scratch ripping using CDex which I also showed has CDdb that means they don't have to type in artists and track names.
Your buddy ripped the wrong format to AAC, so this isn't a DRM problem. AAC is just a container that accepts a bunch of different stuff, Fairplay crippled stuff being one of them.
The best AAC related solution I've heard of is to rip everything as AAC or whatever with a lossless codec, then bulk convert them to whichever format you like this year. When something better comes along, you can go ahead and rerun the conversion for that format without ripping anything, plus you also keep the CDDB info.
The point is not that they should be disallowed from doing this, but that it's stupid and lessens their value proposition.
And what about mailing lists where the reply-to address is different for each mailing that goes out? Should the AOL users whitelist every member on the mailing list? Great idea.
Maybe they could look at the X-MailingList header or whatever it's called.
Ignore it and risk these users losing their messages as spam (which is the most likely choice).
Or warn them ahead of time that AOL is likely to bin their messages. Then some of the people who start losing email will show up with new gmail aliases.
"Get away with this"?!?! That's absurd. AOL owns the servers.
And their email is only useful if other people are willing to go along with AOL's scheme. Sure they can be anti-social, but that makes their stuff worth less. I'd like to see AOL get smacked down hard for this.
If they make it illegal to change the CID, I hope they are going to dedicate a ton of cash to making sure it's enforced. Otherwise it'll just be another bullshit law that most people ignore.
If they added an 'intent to deceive' clause, I'd be happy. What you describe is perfectly fine, but someone spoofing MBNA is probably up to no good.
No, he was having a pissing match with Tesla.
The Consitution, for obvious reasons, can and does only apply to citizens of that country.
No it doesn't. Parts apply to citizens (voting) and parts apply to anyone on US soil (most of the bill of rights, for instance). Non-citizens can't own firearms, but they can't be stopped and searched on a whim.
But the simple fact is that there is *no* legal basis for interfering with another country.
Well, there is the argument that the other country poses an imminent threat, but that doesn't really apply to Chine (or Iraq, for that matter).
All I am saying is, "To think that someone could immerse themselves in violence and come away unaffected is idiocy." I didn't say ban anything.
You didn't, but a whole bunch of politicians might, and that's what we're afraid of - misguided laws that protect us from something that isn't really a problem for the great majority of us.