>ls You see here oriental.rug, elvish.swd, and brass.lnt. >chown adventurer * elvish.swd: Taken. brass.lnt: Taken. oriental.rug: Insufficient disk space. >mv oriental.rug With great effort, you mv the rug, revealing.trapdoor/. >cd.trapdoor/ The.trapdoor/ is closed. >chmod +x.trapdoor/ The directory reluctantly opens to reveal a rickety staircase descending into the filesystem. >cd.trapdoor/ You have entered a d-wx-wx-wx place. You hear someone chmod -x $OLDPWD. >
...And meanwhile all the geeks adopt Open Source tactics, each pitching in with their LART of choice whenever one of the aforementioned targets passes nearby.
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Nice article, but it appears that whoever wrote it did a rather lamenTABLE cellspacing=5 cellpadding=5 job of proofreading after running a search-and-replace.
You're missing the point. If the argument they're making is upheld, then not only is the GPL invalid, but all other copyright licenses are as well - Apache, BSD, Creative Commons, shareware... It'll be public domain or nothing. And that's not a good thing.
Ah, but what else could a "thought process of the computer" be, if not "some kind of if statements" at some level of complexity or another? At what point would you draw the line? You'd trust a computer that was programmed with simple "if statements", but not one with more complex programming? Not even one as sophisticated as a human within its realm of expertise? And in that case, why should you trust a human? Isn't pilot training simply instruction in a complex set of "if statements"?
It seems that my ISP is against the RIAA's actions, and is trying to convey this fact to its users without officially taking a stance against it. This was in their newsletter:
According to this press release from the RIAA (Recording Industry Artists of America), there will be some major crackdowns on music piracy on the Internet. The RIAA plans to launch a massive investigation on peer-to-peer networks. Peer-to-peer network is the term for the networks that power such software as BearShare, Limewire, Gnutella, Morpheous, and of course the now-defunct Napster. They will be targeting users that are sharing copyrighted files and collecting evidence. This evidence will be the basis of hundreds of lawsuits they have planned, which are scheduled to start as early as August.
Under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, The River is required to assist the RIAA, MPAA, or anyone else with copyright concerns. We can be subpoenaed for information on our customer's full names, addresses and other information, should the copyright holder prove a valid suspicion that the account in question has been distributing copyrighted materials.
On a related note, a recent statement by the Chairman of the Senate Judiciary Committee Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) espouses destroying computers suspected of illegal behavior remotely. You may read the AP article here.
As always, we will do our best to protect your privacy within the constraints of the law and keep you educated on what you need to know to stay safe.
Interesting, huh? It sounds to me that they're basically saying "We're resisting as well as we can, but we can only do so much when the law's on their side, and in the meantime you might want to pay a bit more attention to politics 'cause there's this senator that wants to blow up your computer if anyone even suspects you're doing something that might be illegal."
No, because the laser that's being bounced around isn't completely focused until it hits the missile. That's why they have separate beams for ranging and identification -- it's really important to get the focal distance right, otherwise you just have a slightly warmer missile that's still headed for its target.
Actually, since the transformation is "*us"->"*i", shouldn't it be "virus"->"viri"? Unless you're trying to pluralize "virius". By the same transformation, "genius" -> "genii", because it already has an "i" before the "us".
Oh, and the plural of "octopus" is "octopodes", because it's Greek.
...boring machines, shift of bored rock formations, etc.
Actually, I think that if I were a rock formation, I'd be pretty bored too. Even if the machines weren't boring.
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Um, I think he said libertarian, not Libertarian.
This can, unfortunately, render some badly-designed websites illegible (such as IGN).
http://spellchecker.mozdev.org/ ?
>ls .trapdoor/. .trapdoor/ .trapdoor/ is closed. .trapdoor/ .trapdoor/
You see here oriental.rug, elvish.swd, and brass.lnt.
>chown adventurer *
elvish.swd: Taken.
brass.lnt: Taken.
oriental.rug: Insufficient disk space.
>mv oriental.rug
With great effort, you mv the rug, revealing
>cd
The
>chmod +x
The directory reluctantly opens to reveal a rickety staircase descending into the filesystem.
>cd
You have entered a d-wx-wx-wx place.
You hear someone chmod -x $OLDPWD.
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It's to avoid overwriting the stuff already stored in WOM, of course.
, anyone?
Except that the code that SCO claims is theirs would be just as "out there", so it should be public domain too.
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...And meanwhile all the geeks adopt Open Source tactics, each pitching in with their LART of choice whenever one of the aforementioned targets passes nearby.
Nice article, but it appears that whoever wrote it did a rather lamenTABLE cellspacing=5 cellpadding=5 job of proofreading after running a search-and-replace.
You're missing the point. If the argument they're making is upheld, then not only is the GPL invalid, but all other copyright licenses are as well - Apache, BSD, Creative Commons, shareware... It'll be public domain or nothing. And that's not a good thing.
Not if the game was created after Mickey Mouse was.
Ah, but what else could a "thought process of the computer" be, if not "some kind of if statements" at some level of complexity or another? At what point would you draw the line? You'd trust a computer that was programmed with simple "if statements", but not one with more complex programming? Not even one as sophisticated as a human within its realm of expertise? And in that case, why should you trust a human? Isn't pilot training simply instruction in a complex set of "if statements"?
People keep hacking them.
When do we get glowing coffee and decaffeinated fish?
Low Speed = ~1.5Mbps
Full Speed (USB 2.0) = ~12Mbps
High Speed (USB 2.0) = ~480Mbps
If we need a generic term, why don't we just call it Kleenix?
Someone wasn't oroofreading oroperly...
No, because the laser that's being bounced around isn't completely focused until it hits the missile. That's why they have separate beams for ranging and identification -- it's really important to get the focal distance right, otherwise you just have a slightly warmer missile that's still headed for its target.
No problem, as long as you don't need to boot your computer.
Actually, since the transformation is "*us"->"*i", shouldn't it be "virus"->"viri"? Unless you're trying to pluralize "virius". By the same transformation, "genius" -> "genii", because it already has an "i" before the "us".
Oh, and the plural of "octopus" is "octopodes", because it's Greek.
But very good news for owners of Rambus stock!
Yeah, just like Tetris is a rip-off of Tetris is a rip-off of Tetris is a rip-off of Tetris...
...boring machines, shift of bored rock formations, etc. Actually, I think that if I were a rock formation, I'd be pretty bored too. Even if the machines weren't boring.