I think your comparison is eminently sensible - a natural biological function that needs to be performed in order to continue survival and the use of a device that only serves to make human communication more convenient are clearly closely parallel situations.
When "hackers" get caught, it's not uncommon for the judge to ban them from using computers for a period of time. Ban the caller ID spoofers from using a telephone for a few years, either for business or personal use (with an emergency usage exception).
You know, I understand the colloquial American English use of the word, but in Germany, they reserve the term Nazi for a group of people who took over the country and murdered several million people. Maybe the word is better left to that usage.
Is that the one where the main character's gives his name to the Gestapo as Grzegorz Bry[something I have difficulty pronouncing despite speaking two other Slavic languages]?
Are you willing to pay the extra money for microchips? Do you think the market is willing to pay the extra money?
If the answer to either of those questions is NO, then it to be a heavily (government) subsidized effort or you can expect to pay at a lot more for computers than you do now. There's building Fabs here, there's the cost of labor, better environmental enforcement, taxation, etc, etc. That's a lot of setup cost and the companies aren't going to eat it.
That's not to say there's not a good reason to do it. There's the national security aspect, sure, but there's also economic reasons - that's more jobs here in the US and less knowledge transfer to current and future competition in the tech sector. And we're not just talking CPUs - drive controllers, GPUs, motherboard chipsets, network equipment, etc. etc. That's a lot of financial commitment.
The sentence makes perfect sense, if one is an educated, literate speaker of English. The noun, "excuse," means "an explanation offered as a reason for being excused." The verb "to excuse," means "to release from an obligation or duty."
To expand the sentence, in deference to your apparent inability fathom relatively simple English: "An aphorism isn't an [explanation offered as a reason for being released from the obligation or duty] [of] understanding what people are talking about." Note that in this example, the preposition "for," was exchanged with "of."
The psystar sound like the deck of an aircraft carrier. Even on the relatively crappy video I've seen so far, the first thing that jumped out was how damn loud the thing is.
Maybe not everything done to the program ought to be driven by user requests (I can think of a lot of structure and infrastructure type things that probably wouldn't/shouldn't get driven by user requests), but yeah.
That issue in a closed source development team would come up, and then someone would make a decision, and that would be it. And then the developers would go back to doing work on the project. And if the feature was unpopular with customers, the egomaniac programmer who insists it be the way he wants would either change his mind or have it changed by the guy who signs his paycheck.
Since there's nobody to fire you in open source, people have to behave like grownups. Grownups listen to other people - even when it involves something they love dearly.
I mean, sure, forking a project means that we now have fewer developers concentrating on a product than before, but it's for the best because now we'll have two IM clients that are nearly identical except for some minor things. All because some programmers are egotistical assholes!
The Open Source world needs to grow the fuck up. More options aren't always better - more good options are better, more options for the sake of having more options or because you can't learn to play nicely with the other kids are stupid.
Seriously, this is the least bullshit excuse the could come up with? If ANY corporation in the US tried this kind of thing, the wrath of SARBOX would rain down on them like you wouldn't believe.
Even given the staggering incompetence of the Bush administration in nearly all aspects, this just doesn't pass the laugh test.
Since the government's willing to bug communications, what's going another step and snagging the prisoner's password with a keylogger? Or snagging decrypted text from memory, or any one of a slew of things you could do with a lot of money, time, and complete access to one end of the connection.
Hell, they could just torture the password out of the prisoner - turns out that the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave does that kind of thing now.
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Are the cameras in Scotland, Wales, or the other parts of the United Kingdom any better at helping to solve street crime?
I think your comparison is eminently sensible - a natural biological function that needs to be performed in order to continue survival and the use of a device that only serves to make human communication more convenient are clearly closely parallel situations.
When "hackers" get caught, it's not uncommon for the judge to ban them from using computers for a period of time. Ban the caller ID spoofers from using a telephone for a few years, either for business or personal use (with an emergency usage exception).
But it's not an exact copy, and according to SCO's internal memos, there's no copyright infringement found in the Linux codebase.
Also, I hope something comes from SCO making false corporate filings - it'd be nice to see a few of them get some criminal penalties from this.
You know, I understand the colloquial American English use of the word, but in Germany, they reserve the term Nazi for a group of people who took over the country and murdered several million people. Maybe the word is better left to that usage.
Is that the one where the main character's gives his name to the Gestapo as Grzegorz Bry[something I have difficulty pronouncing despite speaking two other Slavic languages]?
That's a funny one.
Das Wunderkind, die Wunderkinder. Lernen Sie Deutsch!
Oh, you mean the guy who had that fixation on some crazy Islamic fundamentalist group attacking on US soil?
Pffft. Crazy alarmists.
(note: sarcasm)
Yeah, I know. We don't have enough chip fabs to handle all the demand of moving ALL production for US computer components on-shore, however.
That sounds great.
Are you willing to pay the extra money for microchips? Do you think the market is willing to pay the extra money?
If the answer to either of those questions is NO, then it to be a heavily (government) subsidized effort or you can expect to pay at a lot more for computers than you do now. There's building Fabs here, there's the cost of labor, better environmental enforcement, taxation, etc, etc. That's a lot of setup cost and the companies aren't going to eat it.
That's not to say there's not a good reason to do it. There's the national security aspect, sure, but there's also economic reasons - that's more jobs here in the US and less knowledge transfer to current and future competition in the tech sector. And we're not just talking CPUs - drive controllers, GPUs, motherboard chipsets, network equipment, etc. etc. That's a lot of financial commitment.
The sentence makes perfect sense, if one is an educated, literate speaker of English. The noun, "excuse," means "an explanation offered as a reason for being excused." The verb "to excuse," means "to release from an obligation or duty."
To expand the sentence, in deference to your apparent inability fathom relatively simple English: "An aphorism isn't an [explanation offered as a reason for being released from the obligation or duty] [of] understanding what people are talking about." Note that in this example, the preposition "for," was exchanged with "of."
Twit.
Finally, something truly innovative! Finally, a patent I can heartily endorse!
Here's hoping it winds up locked in patent battles for the next 20 or so years.
The psystar sound like the deck of an aircraft carrier. Even on the relatively crappy video I've seen so far, the first thing that jumped out was how damn loud the thing is.
One, you don't make your point merely by pointing to Volkh (and you lose some credibility thereby). Two, the sarcasm wasn't the argument.
An aphorism isn't an excuse for understanding what people are talking about.
Maybe not everything done to the program ought to be driven by user requests (I can think of a lot of structure and infrastructure type things that probably wouldn't/shouldn't get driven by user requests), but yeah.
Please see a dictionary about the definition of the word "sarcasm."
That issue in a closed source development team would come up, and then someone would make a decision, and that would be it. And then the developers would go back to doing work on the project. And if the feature was unpopular with customers, the egomaniac programmer who insists it be the way he wants would either change his mind or have it changed by the guy who signs his paycheck.
Since there's nobody to fire you in open source, people have to behave like grownups. Grownups listen to other people - even when it involves something they love dearly.
More options are always better, right?
I mean, sure, forking a project means that we now have fewer developers concentrating on a product than before, but it's for the best because now we'll have two IM clients that are nearly identical except for some minor things. All because some programmers are egotistical assholes!
The Open Source world needs to grow the fuck up. More options aren't always better - more good options are better, more options for the sake of having more options or because you can't learn to play nicely with the other kids are stupid.
I hear the FBI was installing software to track Slashdot posters. Is that true?
Seriously, this is the least bullshit excuse the could come up with? If ANY corporation in the US tried this kind of thing, the wrath of SARBOX would rain down on them like you wouldn't believe.
Even given the staggering incompetence of the Bush administration in nearly all aspects, this just doesn't pass the laugh test.
That'd be great actually; they could give away promotional Unix licenses with the purchase of a large cup of coffee.
Fuck SCO for being SCO. Fuck Novell for their bullshit Microsoft patent deals.
Since the government's willing to bug communications, what's going another step and snagging the prisoner's password with a keylogger? Or snagging decrypted text from memory, or any one of a slew of things you could do with a lot of money, time, and complete access to one end of the connection.
Hell, they could just torture the password out of the prisoner - turns out that the Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave does that kind of thing now.
Confessed to killing 8 people, and she'd broken up with him before she disappeared.
I believe that tosses shit right back into the reasonable doubt category.
And she'd have you killed for that.