The subsidiary of Carnival Corp. was investigating whether the weapon was successful in warding off the pirates, he said. The ship's captain also changed its course, shifted into high speed and headed out into the open sea to elude the pirates, who were in two small boats, he said. He had no further details.
There is nothing there that says the attack was thwarted. The fact that it was still be investigated may suggest it was not. If their last radio transmission was that they were using their LRAD and they headed out to deep sea, maybe the pirates caught up to them shortly after. Since there were two pirate boats they could just come out on both sides of the ship. Unless they had two LRADs, it could only be used on one pirate ship at a time.
At eight years old Song is already talking about building flying cars and defying Newton's law of gravity while others his age are attending the first grade.
Well, when I was eight and in the second grade, I was thinking about flying cars and defying gravity too!
Microsoft is anticompetitive and monopolistic. You liked Netscape? Tough. You couldn't buy a computer with Netscape installed because Microsoft wouldn't let computer dealers install it if they wanted to keep their discounts. You prefer a different movie player to Windows Media Player? Same thing. Want to have an open office document format? Well there is one, but if you don't buy MS office anyway (which chooses not to support it), you won't be able to read documents created by most others. It's not that Microsoft is everywhere, it is that they know they are everywhere and do nasty things to keep being everywhere, stifling innovation.
Google has it right in their incorporation papers, they pledge to do the right thing. They are very open, letting others work with Google Maps and GMail for instance, not to mention Google Search.
If your security is to protect copyrighted content that you own, and Sony is using their rootkit to bypass that security to access your copyrighted content, then I would say yes. I am not a lawyer however, and those are big ifs.
Vintners expect an explosion in the sale of fine wines next year when changes in pension regulations will enable people to invest their savings in claret.
So they get to write off a loss on their investment when they drink the wine in their cellars, or is there some protection against that?
I assume they are talking about VOIP? I hadn't heard Google was interested in that. Maybe they are just talking about any internet use? Either way, the CUSTOMER is the one using the pipe, not the service the customer is contacting. If you want to limit the bandwidth or services your own customers can use their internet connections for, I guess that is up to you. They usually have the choice of going with a different internet provider. How exactly do you plan to make Google or Vonage pay for YOUR customers using THEIR broadband connections? Legislation? I wouldn't be surprised if it got passed with your deep pockets and campaign contributions...
Well it doesn't give you an alibi at all, although it would give the police reason to think your friend was in the area. That is only if they had enough other evidence against your friend to get a subpoena for his phone records...
"leave your phone turned on at home but with the ringer off" sure sounds like you mean to leave your phone on at your house, sorry if I misunderstood.
If this trend continues, only the religiously faithfull and monogamous will survive to carry on their genes and culture
Except for two things:
Faith is not hereditary. You do mention culture, but the survivors will not pass on "Christian" genes for instance to their decendants, who could turn out to be very promiscuous.
HIV likes to lie around in the body for a long time before killing a person. There's not a 100% chance that a mother will pass it on to her baby either (I think I heard it was 50%, does anyone know?). Given these facts there is plenty of time for someone with HIV to still procreate, and the ones that have the most sex are more likely to have more children. Granted they will be less likely to thrive without both parents though.
You don't specify who is going to be at your house to answer your cell phone. Leaving a 20 second voicemail when no one answers your cell phone which is sitting in your house isn't going to be a great alibi:). Not to mention if they are at home with someone else and will tell the police that they found their phone turned off when they woke up...
2. It is a known problem that OOo takes a while to start. Staroffice (at the point when Sun bought it) was made by a German company. Most of the internal functions are named in german, and use abbreviations that are not obvious. The fact is that each version of OOo has been getting smaller and faster. OOo 2.0 is the same. If you run OOo 1.1.4 and OOo 2.0 side by side on windows, the 2.0 version uses about 10MB less memory when both have nothing open.
Calc and Writer both open up in about 2 seconds for me... Excel opens up a bit faster and Word takes a bit longer (about a second). If I turn on Quickstart, the times are under a second... Maybe the last version of OpenOffice had that problem, but this one doesn't for me (Windows XP, 3.4ghz P4).
No way to tell that it is the famous CmdrTaco of slashdot fame, that is unless they run the hosting company for slashdot and have his credit card there.
It would be no fun to have to change names after 45 levels, but if you read the naming policy when you created your character, you would know your name was innappropriate. I'm assuming you knew that and thought you were home free after it slipped by their automated naming filters, but it caught up with you. 'CmdrTaco' doesn't pass muster for several reasons:
Consist of a string of letters which do not produce a pronounceable name (i.e. Asdfasdf, Jjxccm, Hvlldrm)
CMDRTaco can not be pronounced
Consist of any title prefix attached to a character's name be it fantasy-based or not (i.e. Kingmike, Presidentsanchez)
CMDR is an abbreviation for commander. It doesn't matter if it exists in game or not (although it does), it's not allowed.
Are references to very well known people, characters, places, or icons (i.e. Britneyspears, Austinpowers, Mcdonalds, Georgewashington, Newyork)
Granted it isn't your given name, but you are well known and known as CmdrTaco to a good number of people online. There is no way for Blizzard to validate that it is you and not some imposter, which you probably wouldn't want.
Are otherwise considered inappropriate for the game world
'Commander Taco' is not an appropriate name for the fantasy setting.
Don't forget NVidia made "optimizations" back in May '03 to detect 3DMark03 to improve performance by as much as 24% in the benchmark. That would have no impact on any game and could only have been used to mislead the public as to the performance of their cards. Extremetech found it using a BETA of 3DMark that didn't follow the standard benchmark, it would let you roam around the scenes. When flying around they would see things that didn't render correctly at all or missing objects. Now that is low... NVidia couldn't find the problem that gave them away because they didn't have access to the BETA 3DMark.
You can indeed distribute binaries licensed under the GPL without source code.
You can charge for the source code
Some comments are saying that they are breaking the GPL by doing these two things and that is not the case. There are limitations though, the binary-only distribution still must contain a copy of the GPL and instructions on how to get the source code. A reasonable fee can be assessed for sending the source code as well, to pay for the physical act of sending it.
It appears from the email on the FreeDOS site that DrDos does not include a copy of the GPL or instructions on how to get the source code. This would be a violation. If they charge an unreasonable fee for distributing the source code, that would also be a violation. However, once one person gets that source code, they can post it or distribute it however and to whomever they wish. Thus if DrDos had some enhancements to the GPL programs, they could be incorporated into the existing programs under the GPL. That is what the GPL is about, having people modify your programs and being able to incorporate those modifications into your own programs. It is about Free as in Freedom more than it is about Free as in beer.
They mention construction paper, but I'm not sure of that thickness. Common 20 bond paper you would use in a printer is 97 microns though on average. You're really 'splitting hairs' about it...
The difference is that "Dark Matter" is not any sort of model that allows them to make predictions. At this point, isn't it just extra numbers thrown into the equations to explain the observations?
At my company the IT department went about replacing 100 MS Office installs with OpenOffice. We had gotten audited by MS and apparently we had a few unlicensed copies running around and we were due for an update anyway. That all came crashing down when a Word document from an exec got sent out. In MS Word it looked fine to him, but the document had changes tracked that were hidden. When employees opened it up they found some quite embarassing comments that the exec had 'deleted'.
Anjuta and kdevelop are much better. So is eclipse. Of course, if EMACS was good enough to build opera & a lot of the GNU toolchain, I think it can manage to work for you too.
"kdevelop" is better than Visual Studio? I had trouble even getting it to compile a "Hello, world" app and it seemed a lot more difficult than VS. Maybe it's just because I've used VS a lot. "kdevelop" also seemed to be slower and more difficult to edit, but most apps seem like that to me in X Windows (on the same dual-boot computer).
Do you really think it is morally wrong? People aren't 'TAKING' things for free, they are COPYING them. Copyright is not a moral right of someone, it is a right established by the government to assist in the development of the useful arts. It is not 'PIRACY' or 'THEFT'. That means taking something, not copying it. Taking something is removing it from one place and putting it in your posession. Copying is not the same thing.
If someone copies something I did, it in no way diminishes what I have done. I could more easily argue that keeping knowledge from people is morally wrong than putting people in jail for sharing knowledge is wrong.
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and I'm sure that's all that's smuggled. No weapons or slaves...
To get more lonely slashdotters to click on the link hoping to see a picture of a female?
Google has it right in their incorporation papers, they pledge to do the right thing. They are very open, letting others work with Google Maps and GMail for instance, not to mention Google Search.
I don't see the utility of a plotline for a story. Things to be patented have to have utility.
If your security is to protect copyrighted content that you own, and Sony is using their rootkit to bypass that security to access your copyrighted content, then I would say yes. I am not a lawyer however, and those are big ifs.
I assume they are talking about VOIP? I hadn't heard Google was interested in that. Maybe they are just talking about any internet use? Either way, the CUSTOMER is the one using the pipe, not the service the customer is contacting. If you want to limit the bandwidth or services your own customers can use their internet connections for, I guess that is up to you. They usually have the choice of going with a different internet provider. How exactly do you plan to make Google or Vonage pay for YOUR customers using THEIR broadband connections? Legislation? I wouldn't be surprised if it got passed with your deep pockets and campaign contributions...
"leave your phone turned on at home but with the ringer off" sure sounds like you mean to leave your phone on at your house, sorry if I misunderstood.
Wouldn't getting a bone marrow transplant from someone with two copies of the gene let your body fight off the disease?
You don't specify who is going to be at your house to answer your cell phone. Leaving a 20 second voicemail when no one answers your cell phone which is sitting in your house isn't going to be a great alibi :). Not to mention if they are at home with someone else and will tell the police that they found their phone turned off when they woke up...
About #4: What "much less features" are you talking about?
No way to tell that it is the famous CmdrTaco of slashdot fame, that is unless they run the hosting company for slashdot and have his credit card there.
Audit report (PDF)
Breaking story
Some comments are saying that they are breaking the GPL by doing these two things and that is not the case. There are limitations though, the binary-only distribution still must contain a copy of the GPL and instructions on how to get the source code. A reasonable fee can be assessed for sending the source code as well, to pay for the physical act of sending it.
It appears from the email on the FreeDOS site that DrDos does not include a copy of the GPL or instructions on how to get the source code. This would be a violation. If they charge an unreasonable fee for distributing the source code, that would also be a violation. However, once one person gets that source code, they can post it or distribute it however and to whomever they wish. Thus if DrDos had some enhancements to the GPL programs, they could be incorporated into the existing programs under the GPL. That is what the GPL is about, having people modify your programs and being able to incorporate those modifications into your own programs. It is about Free as in Freedom more than it is about Free as in beer.
http://www.paper-paper.com/weight.html
The difference is that "Dark Matter" is not any sort of model that allows them to make predictions. At this point, isn't it just extra numbers thrown into the equations to explain the observations?
I'd rather work for a company where my boss throws a chair and says he's going to f***ing bury some guy because I want to switch jobs.
At my company the IT department went about replacing 100 MS Office installs with OpenOffice. We had gotten audited by MS and apparently we had a few unlicensed copies running around and we were due for an update anyway. That all came crashing down when a Word document from an exec got sent out. In MS Word it looked fine to him, but the document had changes tracked that were hidden. When employees opened it up they found some quite embarassing comments that the exec had 'deleted'.
If someone copies something I did, it in no way diminishes what I have done. I could more easily argue that keeping knowledge from people is morally wrong than putting people in jail for sharing knowledge is wrong.