Where do these mythical cases come from? In what world is this insightful? I have never seen a case of the RIAA or any Music Vendor accusing an author of copyright infringement for them selling their own copyrighted material. Only SCO is this stupid. It is called slander of title and would also be abuse of copyright by the Record labels. This would open them up to treble damages, lose of enforcement of the copyright on the affected material, and punitive damages. I'll confess the RIAA aren't terribly bright, suing your customers generally isn't productive. Although it may be profitable for a time. If you can name a case where the RIAA has done this, list it. And while we're on this subject, if you've copied your music onto your PC and installed a P2P and listed your music there, then yes you've made available copyrighted material to be copied and pirated that you do not own the copyrights on.
Now if they had some P2P application on their machine but only shared things that were not owned by someone else then they'd be innocent, but that doesn't seem to be the case here and the judge ruled as he must... in accordance to the law.
I disagree. We don't need a dictator for the kernel. But there are several candidates who could replace Linus, should he step down - Andrew Morton is the first name to pop into my head, but there are several other excellent choices. I don't think a committee would necessarily be bad, but would prefer there to be one lead developer, to whom all members of a committee would answer, but not necessarily a dictator. However the committee would have to be small and it would have to have certain requirements, like no person who is or has ever been a committee member of Debian is eligible, etc.
Yes, this is one of Physics biggest BS explanations.
Let me explain why.
1) You "collapse" particle A which is in an unknown state.
2) Particle "B" collapses into the exact opposite state.
3) No communication has taken place!
4) What!!!!!!!!!!!
Ok, particle A collapses but somehow particle B "knows" this and collapses before "light", oh hell let's just say it, Electromagnetic Energy
(aka photons) can reach particle B from particle A. So, why did particle B collapse to the exact opposite state of A? Is it a fluke? No it always happens, you can't stop it from happening. Therefore there MUST be some link between the two particles. You can fudge this as much as you want, but the simple fact is you cannot fix Einstein's Theory to comply with this fact. Therefore Einstein's theory that "light" is the fastest thing in the Universe cannot be completely accurate. It may be that EM is limited to c and mass is limited to less than c, but that there may be some other energy that is faster. I may be that Einstein is right you cannot pump enough energy into anything with matter to make it attain c, but that does not mean there cannot be something that is already faster than c and may or may not decay. We should not discount the possibility that Einstein's theories are not complete, or are not entirely correct simply because it was Einstein who wrote it. Newton's laws stood for centuries before falling to Einstein and others, and Newton was a smarter guy than Einstein was, relatively speaking.
However, these guys aren't going to be the ones to prove Einstein was incomplete, for the reasons already noted by numerous people here, and yes I Am A Physicist Too (by training only). Go ahead mod me down I don't care, because I know in some alternate reality I'll be modded to a 5 insightful.
The average length of a human step is 30".
So a journey of a thousand miles would be likely closest to two million steps.
5280ft/mi x 2steps/5ft x 1000mi = 2,112,000 steps.
plus or minus several thousand steps depending on what your average step is.
So in this case it's not YMMV, but YSMV.
Let's fight this, this could ruin our economy. Take the case of poor little Johnny.
Johnny is 5 years old and wants to be a builder when he grows up. Well one day he spent the day watching some builders at work and when he came home his mom asked him what he learned all day.
Well after explaining how to properly hang a door,
the last step being "then you put the motherfucker back up",
his mother was thoroughly shocked and told Johnny to wait until his father came
home. Well when he told the procedure to his Dad, his father told him to go outside and get a switch>
To which Johnny gave the correct response "FUCK YOU! That's the electrician's job!".
So tell me if this law holds how will we ever educate the next generation of builders!?
Submitted for your disapproval by the father of a three year old, and let me tell you, it's not the words that they learn, but how they use them against you. So if you take out all the cuss words they'll just find other ones to assault you with, that may be even worse. I've also raised a few teenagers (not my own). All I can say, is that one of them could make a sailor blush. Words will out. If you don't see it in the movies or on TV or in print, it just makes it that much more attractive as a weapon word to use at the worst possible moment to cause adults the most pain. Or has every adult forgotten this key law of teenagers? I know I put it to much application myself as a teen. It's my considered opinion that it is a job requirement to be dead from the neck up to be a politician.
Exactly! This person didn't look very hard.
I always get, "just a phone". I have a camera, it's a nice
one. Don't want some stupid texting phone, that's what
computers are for.;')
Don't want to load up my phone with music, I have a nice stereo
for that. I don't want a PDA, I want a hot blonde
PLA (Personal Live Assistant).
Sprint sells a ton of phones, and plenty of them are
*just* a phone. I've seen plain phones in Walmart, too. I'll never understand the desire to text someone over
a phone when it would be easier to have a bluetooth capable
earpiece that can be used to *talk* to the other person?
That way one's hands would be free to do something else,
like... oh, I don't know... drive?
But God forbid you should actually use a phone to actually talk to someone!
Besides I've seen those "keyboards" for texting! NO thank you! I'd rather lose my eyesight doing something more fun! Someone pass the Cialis! I hear it's bad for your eyesight!
1) Put up a web poll, making sure to have one of those capchas that only spiderbots can figure out
and a validation routine to prevent the same IP from flooding the poll.
2) Since, no one will know about the poll unless you tell them, capture some dead windows machines and email every mail address on the web. Include some reference to "V1agr4".
3) Take the number of respondents who say they use Linux and divide that by 0.03, since we know we will only get a 3% response from any poll. Add to that the number of mail addresses that refuse to accept our mail, and VOILA! We've got the Counted Users Worldwide of Linux (CUWL)!
Yes, accidents happen. However, I have yet to see or read of any accident that couldn't have been prevented by at least one party to the accident. Automobile accidents are always because at least one driver was not taking the proper precautions or not paying proper attention to the situation around him/her. Doctors make mistakes, so does everyone, but some mistakes are more serious than others. Mistakes are inevitable in a world where there is incomplete knowledge, but that doesn't mean the victims of these accidents shouldn't be awarded damages. In the cases of intentially causing pain and suffering there should also be punitive damages, after all that's what punitive damages are for. Moreover, the American legal system is seriously broken when lawsuits such as these are allowed to run on for years. Indeed many cases are allowed to run on for years, draining the wallets of both parties. However, one party usually can afford to let the wallet drain, just to be able to smack down the other party. The courts in America at one time were accessible to any citizen, and citizens oftentimes represented themselves. Something that is not always possible today. For proof of what I say take a look at the court records for NY in say 1680. They can be quite entertaining. The modern system is intentionally obfuscated and rule-filled to prevent such self-representation. It's no longer about justice, but who can tell the best story and outspend the other (mostly). Sure sometimes the system works, but more often it doesn't
I'm not so sure this guy is bright enough to come up with a right answer.
How does this guy know there is only one solution?
It may be that there are an infinite number of right solutions. Or it may be that
there are a dozen right solutions. It's very rare to find a problem in the universe
that has one and only one right solution. It could even be that there is not right solution.
In which case, mathematics can come to the rescue, yet again, and provide us with a
very large number of solutions approaching "rightness".
BAH! Sounds like FUD to me.
One solution, give me a break!
I disagree completely. Computer hardware is a commodity. The big box makers are afraid of this very kind of configuration which would blow them out of business if more people caught on to it.
And I completely disagree with you.
While, this configuration looks tempting and plausible. It will not be able to compete with a SAN.
Now if he were to replace the SATAs with SCSIs, then maybe he'd have something. I'd have to analyze this further, but in any case you'd have a nice storage array that'd outperform any equivalent IDE array. So this could be labeled an average man's SAN or AMSAN (which by the way, I've patented, trademarked, and is my trade secret - so don't you go and try to implement one or I'll sue you and Fujitsu for Billions and Billions!).
SATA cannot do the same kind of bandwidth as a SCSI can. A SCSI array will bury
a SATA array on throughput in any disk intensive operation. Any sales guy can and probably will FUD you if he thinks he can. So the answer is to know your hardware before talking to the sales guys.
Reception is very weak at best in mid-flight anyway.
This is a joke, right? Reception is based on line of sight. While some would say
that distance is also a factor, this is really only due to line of sight issues.
Granted any device is 6+ (35k ft) miles above any tower (and some Non-Euclidean x-y distance tangentially away),
has some effect on signal strength; but this is negligible for EM transmissions - in fact reception is bound to be
orders of magnitude better from 6 miles above. So, using the line of sight
factor, you don't get any better line of sight than from high above.
Why is it so many people seem to be so dense that they can't understand that when
you are traveling 500+ mph (~1mi/7sec) that you're going to have crappy phone calls
not because of reception, but because the networks can't pass you from tower to tower fast enough.
Not to mention the fact that you can "see" and compete for every tower for a several hundred mile
radius (at least). Of course, you'll probably only consider the ones in a 20 or 30 mile radius directly below as being
strong enough to negotiate with. Come on people this has got to be 7th grade Physics.
Hmm?
Of course, if they ever let people use their cell phones on the plane, I'll never fly with my daughter.
She can sit on the phone for hours having the most annoying and inane conversations. And forget any flight
inside California. I mean, Totally! Of course, we'd no longer have to worry about terrorists on planes,
they'd be throwing themselves out of the planes to get away from the cell phone junkies (along with a good portion of
the other inmates). On top of which, I think it violates the Constitutional ban on cruel and inhuman punishment.
And lastly let's not forget, we'd have scores of airline personnel going Postal on us! No thank you! When it comes to
cell phones on airplanes, just say NO!.
Who the hell cares about a dead, ancient, useless, big new learning curve, hunk of junk software that Microsoft bought
only to destroy it. You should know the rules by now...
Microsoft rule #1 : Ignore competitors too small to hit the radar,
Microsoft rule #2 : Buy competitors' products when they hit your radar,
Microsoft rule #3 : Bury competitors' who won't sell,
Microsoft rule #4 : Sue competitors' you can't bury,
Microsoft rule #5 : Embrace, Extend, Destroy,
Microsoft rule #6 : If all else fails FUD,
Microsoft rule #7 : Throw lot's of chairs and do the Monkey Dance.
What possible use could opensourcing FoxPro do? Hmmm... ah! Can anyone say patent infringement lawsuit?
See rule #4 (note tha shift+4 = $).
I have to say one thing these slimeballs are relentless and haven't even begun to reach into their
buckets of slippery slimy tricks, to attack OSS with yet. Of course they have this wonderful term called
"plausible deniability", and will say, "No really we just want to be your friend".
I say "Beware MS Geeks bearing gifts!" Especially, if it resembles any animal like a horse or a fox or...
I remember OS/2 and the debacle that happened with it.
Let us not blame the victim for what happened, and
IBM certainly was the victim here. OS/2 was destroyed by
it's own father, Microsoft. Microsoft deliberately
sabotaged OS/2 because they had other plans for operating systems.
Namely, that their plan was:
"All Your Desktop Belong To Us".
OS/2 was the first sign that I firmly recall that all was not
right in the mind of Microsoft. Microsoft was looking for a way
around IBM to take over all the PC market, and kill off all
competitors.
Alas, my poor CP/M.
Exchange compatibility is a non-negotiable, non-finesseable, titanium-clad, gotta-have-it-no-kidding, requirement
Umm.... why? Linux has access to plenty of fine,
robust, secure, and powerful mail servers. You don't need
Exchange server. There are open source alternatives, that
are better. However IIRC there are several applications that
do work with Exchange Server. Some are even... dare I say it...
commercial apps. GASP!
I know this whole thread is flamebait, otherwise I'd put links in here and argue my point.
The fact that the person who wrote the story, is a quitter is no reflection
on the enterprise readiness of Linux. Something which is beyond dispute, due to it's
widespread use internationally for Enterprise work.
Scotty beam me up, it's getting really thick down here.
Oh by the way I run a company and use Linux for my enterprise.
Not to mention the fact I make a good living supporting OSS.
Plenty of other people make a living on OSS too.
Ahh, so many myths and fallacies in this article to attack.
After all if you're not doing anything wrong, you don't have to worry.
BS! This is simply not true, and as far as Police abuses, you appear to
be totally ignorant of reality. While, I don't necessarily, agree
about the "whole-pipe" issue. The problem isn't so much
restricting the Police as it is in fixing the system, so that Bad guys
don't go free, and yet protecting innocent people from being abused.
The whole adversarial approach to law in country has broken down.
Japan has like a 98% conviction rate. Because, they mostly only
prosecute the criminals. Not just to convict someone, to satisfy the voters.
What the system needs is oversight committees that are not made up of,
or influenced by, judges and lawyers. Then reasonable committees could
say "Yes, the police did a bad thing in obtaining this evidence, but hey they
got the right guy!", so be quiet. Or "Hey the police did something bad here and
they need to go to jail!". If the Police had this type of consequence, then they be
less likely to abuse powerful investigative powers and the people could rest easier in
giving them that power. It's really all about balancing power. Something sadly lacking in
this society today.
Download a Linux LiveCd (any distro, really), for free.
That'd be whole LOT cheaper (in more ways than 1).
Use it to test any "new" RAM you buy and return the
defective ones from where you bought it. then go buy from
someone more reputable.
If you have problems with RAM going bad on you, try to
turn down your OVERCLOCKING some.;')
Hint: If you can cook steak on your CPU,
you've probably overclocked your system too much!
I've got an old (ok ancient) XT board, with a whopping
640KB of RAM. All of the chips are still good except for one.
That memory is going on 26 years old. I bought them new.
Yeah, I'm an OLD F***ER, but hey, my memory still
works (mostly).
As far as Vista goes, I'll go back to using my version
of Windows 1.01 before using it. Or maybe, I'll write a
chroot wrapper around a VM, and make Vista think it's running live.
Oh, wait, that would break the license agreement. Therefore,
I'll have to get a stranger to install it for me and click on
the click-through agreement.
That would probably violate the license agreement also. But
then since I wouldn't be a party to the agreement, but just
the owner of a physical product, I wouldn't be bound by the agreement.
Theoretically speaking of course.
Not sure how a judge would like that. But it would be a good test of
the limits of the license. Sadly, we seem to be stuck with authors forcing
these licenses on us. Like the BSD and GPL licenses also. Imagine
what it would be like to go to a used bookstore, if books had these licenses
in them?
Clerk: "I can't sell you this used Psychology textbook unless you agree to
participate in an experiment of Lot#37, or the latest Lot# experiment.
Do you agree?".
Student:[blank look]
Any Earth-like civilizations within 30 light years are surely able to detect us now as well! This much is certain. However, these civilizations are all now up to 30-80+ years more advanced than us, provided they haven't made themselves extinct. Since we are viewing the signals that are up to 30 years old, and considering that we have been transmitting detectable amounts of such signals for let's say 50 years (for a round number). Considering where we are along the path of space travel, a civilization 30 years more advanced is quite probably capable of interstellar travel.
Hence, now at least we will be able to pinpoint the most likely home planets for our soon to be new overlords, whom I welcome and offer up our political leaders to them as sacrifice and homage.
Then, may I suggest you move the F*** away from that neighborhood.
I have a toddler, and we go across the street to the park to play
frequently. Or sometimes we go other places to play.
Sometimes we even get some friends together and then
all the kids can play in safety, with lots of adult parents
nearby to offer protection from all those bad influences.
If you live in a bad neighborhood, then eventually your child will
be exposed to them. You need to prepare you children for the real
world. Hiding behind Nintendo 2025VR3DHolodeck will only make it
more likely that your child will be victimnized by and maybe become
one of those bad elements.
While I realize we can't all live in nice quiet peaceful towns,
in great neighborhoods. The answer is in teaching your children,
and being there to help your children interact with the world around them.
Even if it means you have to sacrifice your relaxing time to do
it. After all, you're the one who brought them into this world.
Take some d*** responsibility for them.
Instead of copping and saying "oooh, it's too dangerous out there!"
Rapes happen. But there are almost always mitigating circumstances. Victim is at a wild party. Victim is drunk, with strangers. Victim is alone and in an isolated/vulnerable location. Victim is involved with unusual sexual activity, or has provoked an obviously aggressive party. Et cetera. Rare is the rape that's truly random.
You are clueless to the reality of rape. Rape is rarely random. However, that has nothing to do with the victim. Rapists plan rapes just like bankrobbers "usually" plan robberies. I suppose that banks are victims because they have the mitigating circumstance of being in the business of handling money. You can always find mitigating circumstances, in any crime, if you want to look. That doesn't mean they are really there; it's a matter of subjective reasoning. Tell me, since you seem to know so much, what are the mitigating circumstances of all the children who are raped every year? Many of them under 11 years old? I'd really like to know! I've known children 2 years old that have been raped. What is the mitigating circumstance there? Look she's breathing! That's the mitigating circumstance! What about all those boys abused by church leaders?
While I believe strongly in not being a victim and teaching people how not to be victims, I think it is ludicrous to punish obvious victims of violence. While I don't buy the whole videos and video games make peoiple violent, I do think they teach people HOW to be violent. Thus there is a false positive correlation between violence and violent games and movies. Plus when society is entertained by violent content it tends to reinforce violent people's thinking that violence is acceptable. Our culture is whacked; it is ok for a youth to watch a movie showing a person being murdered and cut up, but it's not ok for that youth to watch a movie with two people perform an act of creating life. You know, that word that is one of seven you can't say on TV.
It's just wrong that the censers ban Miss Jackson's tit, but not Jason's slashing. Personally I'd rather watch a good screw scene with Lara Croft, than Jason hacking some sweet thing's head off. Really why are any of you condoning violent games? What's so fun about killing imaginary people????????
Does this mean if IBM loses (please don't die laughing until you read the whole reply), that Microsoft will have to rewrite NT because of all those methods and concepts used by the former Unix programmers who wrote NT that are part of SCO's precious IP?
Sadly, having been involved in a number of dealings with judges and American law, this could actually still turn out bad. Judges are lacking in basic skills and make rulings that are completely OTT and wrong. IBM, could still lose. Although, they have a great team of lawyers and a great presentation, and the judge seems to have gotten a clue as to the shenanigans of SCO. It ain't over till it's over. On the flip-side, SCO may have damaged what little of a case they had by being so OTT. SCO has no case and never did, but all you have to do is fool the judge into believing your BS over the other team's BS.
I for one welcome our new Mother Earth Destructor Overlord. It's about time she wiped those pesky carbon based lifeforms off the planet Earth so we computers can take over.
Yet I can see how "bad things happening" would be directly a reaction to choices made through free will. I can't think of any bad things happening in my life that weren't directly because of choices I made, even if it seems like a cop out.
Ok, so bad things happen because there is free will. Bad things can only happen to a person if they make a choice through free will? Don't you have that backwards?
How about the baby that gets snatched from a hospital? What freewill choice could a newborn possibly make to have that happen, and don't say being born? That's not a free will choice (see ceasarian section).
How about a tidal wave that kills thousands? Where does free will come to play there? While some people living in the path of destruction may have a choice to leave that area certainly not all of them do. Earthquakes? Volcanic eruptions? Meteors falling to Earth? Lots of bad things happen to lots of people everyday and they have no free will options that can be attributed to them.
I'll admit that evil is a free will choice. Certainly, people choose to do evil unto others. But let's not blame the victims here. While in some cases they may have made choices that put them at risk, I doubt many did so on purpose.
Springs could be used to increase the force exerted. You'd need to use some tool to compress the springs, such as: a lever, s pulley system, a winch, hydraulics, or pneumatics. However the problem with springs is they spring both ways in a harmonic way. Think "Absent-minded Professor" + "Flubber". Springs don't give you the kind of precision of control you might like. I wouldn't want to be inside one of these exoskeletons when it went off. I wouldn't use hydraulics either, personally. Pneumatics are much more rapid response. Add to this that I wouldn't want to put on any exoskeletal system that didn't incorporate extensive pressure and strain guages at surface contact points with feedback loops to apply proper pressures against surfaces. I have yet to see a man-made strain guage capable of this feat. Hence the reason none of our man-made spiders can compete with natural ones. Without such guages, it would be very difficult to do any task unless you plug the system into the human nervous system. While these exoskeletons may have a coolness factor, I am an unbeliever in the usefulness of them, yet.
Hmmm...
1) build a rootkit.
2) make deal with major AV companies to not detect it.
3) Sell my rootkit to Microsoft.
4) ?
5) Take over the worldwide net!
6) Declare myself Lord God Emperor of the 'Net.
7) Force all 'net users to bow to the Lord God Emperor of the 'Net!
8) Start my own religion.
9) PROFIT!
Why do all these posts that say schools can restrict your rights
get insightful ratings? This is simply not true! Yes private institutions
can restrict certain rights at their location, or in reference to their property.
This does not, however, give them rights to restrict your rights
on your own time and with your own property.
However, these private institutions can retaliate against you for
your actions which may *harm* the private institution. Hence,
bloggers can be fired for their online comments and students can
be expelled for they're online comments.
However, I don't know how identifiable the college sophomore's posts were,
and whether or not they were anonymous, and if the college pried that information from someone. If so, they may have violated his rights in doing so. Also,
recently there was a court ruling that yes you can post you own rants on the internet and not be liable because you are entitled to your opinion and free speech rights guarantee you the right to do that.
Yet, this college student's comments were more than mere opinion. I'd say this student probably can't win this battle. It would be a poor candidate to test with the SC. Hence I expect the ACLU and other related organizations to not touch this one.
Remember, freedoms are a two way street. While any private entity is perfectly free to associate with any person they want, so are you. The entity doesn't *have* let you on their property or affiliate with them, unless of course it violates certain civil rights - which aren't constitutionally based, these are laws made by presidential decree and hence supplement the federal law and are applicable to *all citizens* [including private institutions]. The same goes for you, you do not have to allow them on your property or affiliate with them. You also have the right to restrict their access to your rights. You can also waive your rights to them. Hence it is possible to allow a psychiatric hospital to admit you, but then once you are admitted may not necessarily be able to leave. This is because you have given them certain rights over your welfare and decision process. This is not under the purview of constitutional law.
Let's not confuse the two, and not grant *insightful* to those trolls that attempt to confuse the two.
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Ummm... WHAT!??
Where do these mythical cases come from?
In what world is this insightful?
I have never seen a case of the RIAA or any Music Vendor accusing an author of copyright infringement
for them selling their own copyrighted material.
Only SCO is this stupid. It is called slander of title and would also be abuse of copyright by
the Record labels. This would open them up to treble damages, lose of enforcement of the copyright
on the affected material, and punitive damages.
I'll confess the RIAA aren't terribly bright, suing your customers generally isn't productive.
Although it may be profitable for a time.
If you can name a case where the RIAA has done this, list it.
And while we're on this subject, if you've copied your music onto your PC and installed a P2P
and listed your music there, then yes you've made available copyrighted material to be copied and pirated that you do not own the copyrights on.
Now if they had some P2P application on their machine but only shared things that were not owned by someone else then they'd be innocent, but
that doesn't seem to be the case here and the judge ruled as he must... in accordance to the law.
I disagree. We don't need a dictator for the kernel. But there are several candidates who could replace Linus, should he step down - Andrew Morton is the first name to pop into my head, but there are several other excellent choices. I don't think a committee would necessarily be bad, but would prefer there to be one lead developer, to whom all members of a committee would answer, but not necessarily a dictator. However the committee would have to be small and it would have to have certain requirements, like no person who is or has ever been a committee member of Debian is eligible, etc.
Yes, this is one of Physics biggest BS explanations.
Let me explain why.
1) You "collapse" particle A which is in an unknown state.
2) Particle "B" collapses into the exact opposite state.
3) No communication has taken place!
4) What!!!!!!!!!!!
Ok, particle A collapses but somehow particle B "knows" this and collapses before "light", oh hell let's just say it, Electromagnetic Energy (aka photons) can reach particle B from particle A. So, why did particle B collapse to the exact opposite state of A? Is it a fluke? No it always happens, you can't stop it from happening. Therefore there MUST be some link between the two particles. You can fudge this as much as you want, but the simple fact is you cannot fix Einstein's Theory to comply with this fact. Therefore Einstein's theory that "light" is the fastest thing in the Universe cannot be completely accurate. It may be that EM is limited to c and mass is limited to less than c, but that there may be some other energy that is faster. I may be that Einstein is right you cannot pump enough energy into anything with matter to make it attain c, but that does not mean there cannot be something that is already faster than c and may or may not decay. We should not discount the possibility that Einstein's theories are not complete, or are not entirely correct simply because it was Einstein who wrote it. Newton's laws stood for centuries before falling to Einstein and others, and Newton was a smarter guy than Einstein was, relatively speaking.
However, these guys aren't going to be the ones to prove Einstein was incomplete, for the reasons already noted by numerous people here, and yes I Am A Physicist Too (by training only). Go ahead mod me down I don't care, because I know in some alternate reality I'll be modded to a 5 insightful.
The average length of a human step is 30".
So a journey of a thousand miles would be likely closest to two million steps.
5280ft/mi x 2steps/5ft x 1000mi = 2,112,000 steps.
plus or minus several thousand steps depending on what your average step is.
So in this case it's not YMMV, but YSMV.
the last step being "then you put the motherfucker back up",
his mother was thoroughly shocked and told Johnny to wait until his father came home. Well when he told the procedure to his Dad, his father told him to go outside and get a switch> To which Johnny gave the correct response "FUCK YOU! That's the electrician's job!".
So tell me if this law holds how will we ever educate the next generation of builders!?
Submitted for your disapproval by the father of a three year old, and let me tell you, it's not the words that they learn, but how they use them against you. So if you take out all the cuss words they'll just find other ones to assault you with, that may be even worse. I've also raised a few teenagers (not my own). All I can say, is that one of them could make a sailor blush. Words will out. If you don't see it in the movies or on TV or in print, it just makes it that much more attractive as a weapon word to use at the worst possible moment to cause adults the most pain. Or has every adult forgotten this key law of teenagers? I know I put it to much application myself as a teen. It's my considered opinion that it is a job requirement to be dead from the neck up to be a politician.
Exactly! This person didn't look very hard.
I always get, "just a phone". I have a camera, it's a nice one. Don't want some stupid texting phone, that's what computers are for.
Don't want to load up my phone with music, I have a nice stereo for that. I don't want a PDA, I want a hot blonde PLA (Personal Live Assistant). Sprint sells a ton of phones, and plenty of them are *just* a phone. I've seen plain phones in Walmart, too. I'll never understand the desire to text someone over a phone when it would be easier to have a bluetooth capable earpiece that can be used to *talk* to the other person?
That way one's hands would be free to do something else, like
But God forbid you should actually use a phone to actually talk to someone!
Besides I've seen those "keyboards" for texting! NO thank you! I'd rather lose my eyesight doing something more fun! Someone pass the Cialis! I hear it's bad for your eyesight!
1) Put up a web poll, making sure to have one of those capchas that only spiderbots can figure out and a validation routine to prevent the same IP from flooding the poll.
2) Since, no one will know about the poll unless you tell them, capture some dead windows machines and email every mail address on the web. Include some reference to "V1agr4".
3) Take the number of respondents who say they use Linux and divide that by 0.03, since we know we will only get a 3% response from any poll. Add to that the number of mail addresses that refuse to accept our mail, and VOILA! We've got the Counted Users Worldwide of Linux (CUWL)!
4) Profit! (/. obligatory step)
Yes, accidents happen. However, I have yet to see or read of any accident that couldn't have been prevented by at least one party to the accident. Automobile accidents are always because at least one driver was not taking the proper precautions or not paying proper attention to the situation around him/her. Doctors make mistakes, so does everyone, but some mistakes are more serious than others. Mistakes are inevitable in a world where there is incomplete knowledge, but that doesn't mean the victims of these accidents shouldn't be awarded damages. In the cases of intentially causing pain and suffering there should also be punitive damages, after all that's what punitive damages are for. Moreover, the American legal system is seriously broken when lawsuits such as these are allowed to run on for years. Indeed many cases are allowed to run on for years, draining the wallets of both parties. However, one party usually can afford to let the wallet drain, just to be able to smack down the other party. The courts in America at one time were accessible to any citizen, and citizens oftentimes represented themselves. Something that is not always possible today. For proof of what I say take a look at the court records for NY in say 1680. They can be quite entertaining. The modern system is intentionally obfuscated and rule-filled to prevent such self-representation. It's no longer about justice, but who can tell the best story and outspend the other (mostly). Sure sometimes the system works, but more often it doesn't
I'm not so sure this guy is bright enough to come up with a right answer.
How does this guy know there is only one solution?
It may be that there are an infinite number of right solutions. Or it may be that there are a dozen right solutions. It's very rare to find a problem in the universe that has one and only one right solution. It could even be that there is not right solution. In which case, mathematics can come to the rescue, yet again, and provide us with a very large number of solutions approaching "rightness".
BAH! Sounds like FUD to me.
One solution, give me a break!
And I completely disagree with you.
While, this configuration looks tempting and plausible. It will not be able to compete with a SAN. Now if he were to replace the SATAs with SCSIs, then maybe he'd have something. I'd have to analyze this further, but in any case you'd have a nice storage array that'd outperform any equivalent IDE array. So this could be labeled an average man's SAN or AMSAN (which by the way, I've patented, trademarked, and is my trade secret - so don't you go and try to implement one or I'll sue you and Fujitsu for Billions and Billions!).
SATA cannot do the same kind of bandwidth as a SCSI can. A SCSI array will bury a SATA array on throughput in any disk intensive operation. Any sales guy can and probably will FUD you if he thinks he can. So the answer is to know your hardware before talking to the sales guys.
Ok, so maybe I don't totally disagree with you.
This is a joke, right? Reception is based on line of sight. While some would say that distance is also a factor, this is really only due to line of sight issues. Granted any device is 6+ (35k ft) miles above any tower (and some Non-Euclidean x-y distance tangentially away), has some effect on signal strength; but this is negligible for EM transmissions - in fact reception is bound to be orders of magnitude better from 6 miles above. So, using the line of sight factor, you don't get any better line of sight than from high above.
Why is it so many people seem to be so dense that they can't understand that when you are traveling 500+ mph (~1mi/7sec) that you're going to have crappy phone calls not because of reception, but because the networks can't pass you from tower to tower fast enough. Not to mention the fact that you can "see" and compete for every tower for a several hundred mile radius (at least). Of course, you'll probably only consider the ones in a 20 or 30 mile radius directly below as being strong enough to negotiate with. Come on people this has got to be 7th grade Physics. Hmm?
Of course, if they ever let people use their cell phones on the plane, I'll never fly with my daughter. She can sit on the phone for hours having the most annoying and inane conversations. And forget any flight inside California. I mean, Totally! Of course, we'd no longer have to worry about terrorists on planes, they'd be throwing themselves out of the planes to get away from the cell phone junkies (along with a good portion of the other inmates). On top of which, I think it violates the Constitutional ban on cruel and inhuman punishment. And lastly let's not forget, we'd have scores of airline personnel going Postal on us! No thank you! When it comes to cell phones on airplanes, just say NO!.
So Freaking What!?
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No wait let me change that to:
so freaking what.
Two words: MySql, Postgresql.
Who the hell cares about a dead, ancient, useless, big new learning curve, hunk of junk software that Microsoft bought only to destroy it. You should know the rules by now...
Microsoft rule #1 : Ignore competitors too small to hit the radar,
Microsoft rule #2 : Buy competitors' products when they hit your radar,
Microsoft rule #3 : Bury competitors' who won't sell,
Microsoft rule #4 : Sue competitors' you can't bury,
Microsoft rule #5 : Embrace, Extend, Destroy,
Microsoft rule #6 : If all else fails FUD,
Microsoft rule #7 : Throw lot's of chairs and do the Monkey Dance.
What possible use could opensourcing FoxPro do? Hmmm... ah! Can anyone say patent infringement lawsuit? See rule #4 (note tha shift+4 = $). I have to say one thing these slimeballs are relentless and haven't even begun to reach into their buckets of slippery slimy tricks, to attack OSS with yet. Of course they have this wonderful term called "plausible deniability", and will say, "No really we just want to be your friend". I say "Beware MS Geeks bearing gifts!" Especially, if it resembles any animal like a horse or a fox or
I remember OS/2 and the debacle that happened with it.
Let us not blame the victim for what happened, and IBM certainly was the victim here. OS/2 was destroyed by it's own father, Microsoft. Microsoft deliberately sabotaged OS/2 because they had other plans for operating systems. Namely, that their plan was:
"All Your Desktop Belong To Us".
OS/2 was the first sign that I firmly recall that all was not right in the mind of Microsoft. Microsoft was looking for a way around IBM to take over all the PC market, and kill off all competitors.
Alas, my poor CP/M.
I know this whole thread is flamebait, otherwise I'd put links in here and argue my point. The fact that the person who wrote the story, is a quitter is no reflection on the enterprise readiness of Linux. Something which is beyond dispute, due to it's widespread use internationally for Enterprise work.
Scotty beam me up, it's getting really thick down here.
Oh by the way I run a company and use Linux for my enterprise. Not to mention the fact I make a good living supporting OSS.
Plenty of other people make a living on OSS too.
Ahh, so many myths and fallacies in this article to attack.
What the system needs is oversight committees that are not made up of, or influenced by, judges and lawyers. Then reasonable committees could say "Yes, the police did a bad thing in obtaining this evidence, but hey they got the right guy!", so be quiet. Or "Hey the police did something bad here and they need to go to jail!". If the Police had this type of consequence, then they be less likely to abuse powerful investigative powers and the people could rest easier in giving them that power. It's really all about balancing power. Something sadly lacking in this society today.
Here's an idea.
;')
Download a Linux LiveCd (any distro, really), for free. That'd be whole LOT cheaper (in more ways than 1). Use it to test any "new" RAM you buy and return the defective ones from where you bought it. then go buy from someone more reputable.
If you have problems with RAM going bad on you, try to turn down your OVERCLOCKING some.
Hint: If you can cook steak on your CPU, you've probably overclocked your system too much!
I've got an old (ok ancient) XT board, with a whopping 640KB of RAM. All of the chips are still good except for one. That memory is going on 26 years old. I bought them new. Yeah, I'm an OLD F***ER, but hey, my memory still works (mostly).
As far as Vista goes, I'll go back to using my version of Windows 1.01 before using it. Or maybe, I'll write a chroot wrapper around a VM, and make Vista think it's running live.
Oh, wait, that would break the license agreement. Therefore, I'll have to get a stranger to install it for me and click on the click-through agreement.
That would probably violate the license agreement also. But then since I wouldn't be a party to the agreement, but just the owner of a physical product, I wouldn't be bound by the agreement. Theoretically speaking of course.
Not sure how a judge would like that. But it would be a good test of the limits of the license. Sadly, we seem to be stuck with authors forcing these licenses on us. Like the BSD and GPL licenses also. Imagine what it would be like to go to a used bookstore, if books had these licenses in them?
Clerk: "I can't sell you this used Psychology textbook unless you agree to participate in an experiment of Lot#37, or the latest Lot# experiment. Do you agree?".
Student:[blank look]
Hence, now at least we will be able to pinpoint the most likely home planets for our soon to be new overlords, whom I welcome and offer up our political leaders to them as sacrifice and homage.
I have a toddler, and we go across the street to the park to play frequently. Or sometimes we go other places to play. Sometimes we even get some friends together and then all the kids can play in safety, with lots of adult parents nearby to offer protection from all those bad influences. If you live in a bad neighborhood, then eventually your child will be exposed to them. You need to prepare you children for the real world. Hiding behind Nintendo 2025VR3DHolodeck will only make it more likely that your child will be victimnized by and maybe become one of those bad elements.
While I realize we can't all live in nice quiet peaceful towns, in great neighborhoods. The answer is in teaching your children, and being there to help your children interact with the world around them. Even if it means you have to sacrifice your relaxing time to do it. After all, you're the one who brought them into this world. Take some d*** responsibility for them.
Instead of copping and saying "oooh, it's too dangerous out there!"
You are clueless to the reality of rape. Rape is rarely random. However, that has nothing to do with the victim. Rapists plan rapes just like bankrobbers "usually" plan robberies. I suppose that banks are victims because they have the mitigating circumstance of being in the business of handling money. You can always find mitigating circumstances, in any crime, if you want to look. That doesn't mean they are really there; it's a matter of subjective reasoning. Tell me, since you seem to know so much, what are the mitigating circumstances of all the children who are raped every year? Many of them under 11 years old? I'd really like to know! I've known children 2 years old that have been raped. What is the mitigating circumstance there? Look she's breathing! That's the mitigating circumstance! What about all those boys abused by church leaders?
While I believe strongly in not being a victim and teaching people how not to be victims, I think it is ludicrous to punish obvious victims of violence. While I don't buy the whole videos and video games make peoiple violent, I do think they teach people HOW to be violent. Thus there is a false positive correlation between violence and violent games and movies. Plus when society is entertained by violent content it tends to reinforce violent people's thinking that violence is acceptable. Our culture is whacked; it is ok for a youth to watch a movie showing a person being murdered and cut up, but it's not ok for that youth to watch a movie with two people perform an act of creating life. You know, that word that is one of seven you can't say on TV. It's just wrong that the censers ban Miss Jackson's tit, but not Jason's slashing. Personally I'd rather watch a good screw scene with Lara Croft, than Jason hacking some sweet thing's head off. Really why are any of you condoning violent games? What's so fun about killing imaginary people????????
Does this mean if IBM loses (please don't die laughing until you read the whole reply), that Microsoft will have to rewrite NT because of all those methods and concepts used by the former Unix programmers who wrote NT that are part of SCO's precious IP?
Sadly, having been involved in a number of dealings with judges and American law, this could actually still turn out bad. Judges are lacking in basic skills and make rulings that are completely OTT and wrong. IBM, could still lose. Although, they have a great team of lawyers and a great presentation, and the judge seems to have gotten a clue as to the shenanigans of SCO. It ain't over till it's over. On the flip-side, SCO may have damaged what little of a case they had by being so OTT. SCO has no case and never did, but all you have to do is fool the judge into believing your BS over the other team's BS.
I for one welcome our new Mother Earth Destructor Overlord. It's about time she wiped those pesky carbon based lifeforms off the planet Earth so we computers can take over.
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Ok, so bad things happen because there is free will. Bad things can only happen to a person if they make a choice through free will? Don't you have that backwards?
How about the baby that gets snatched from a hospital? What freewill choice could a newborn possibly make to have that happen, and don't say being born? That's not a free will choice (see ceasarian section).
How about a tidal wave that kills thousands? Where does free will come to play there? While some people living in the path of destruction may have a choice to leave that area certainly not all of them do. Earthquakes? Volcanic eruptions? Meteors falling to Earth? Lots of bad things happen to lots of people everyday and they have no free will options that can be attributed to them.
I'll admit that evil is a free will choice. Certainly, people choose to do evil unto others. But let's not blame the victims here. While in some cases they may have made choices that put them at risk, I doubt many did so on purpose.
Springs could be used to increase the force exerted. You'd need to use some tool to compress the springs, such as: a lever, s pulley system, a winch, hydraulics, or pneumatics. However the problem with springs is they spring both ways in a harmonic way. Think "Absent-minded Professor" + "Flubber". Springs don't give you the kind of precision of control you might like. I wouldn't want to be inside one of these exoskeletons when it went off. I wouldn't use hydraulics either, personally. Pneumatics are much more rapid response. Add to this that I wouldn't want to put on any exoskeletal system that didn't incorporate extensive pressure and strain guages at surface contact points with feedback loops to apply proper pressures against surfaces. I have yet to see a man-made strain guage capable of this feat. Hence the reason none of our man-made spiders can compete with natural ones. Without such guages, it would be very difficult to do any task unless you plug the system into the human nervous system. While these exoskeletons may have a coolness factor, I am an unbeliever in the usefulness of them, yet.
Hmmm ...
1) build a rootkit.
2) make deal with major AV companies to not detect it.
3) Sell my rootkit to Microsoft.
4) ?
5) Take over the worldwide net!
6) Declare myself Lord God Emperor of the 'Net.
7) Force all 'net users to bow to the Lord God Emperor of the 'Net!
8) Start my own religion.
9) PROFIT!
Why do all these posts that say schools can restrict your rights get insightful ratings? This is simply not true! Yes private institutions can restrict certain rights at their location, or in reference to their property.
This does not, however, give them rights to restrict your rights on your own time and with your own property.
However, these private institutions can retaliate against you for your actions which may *harm* the private institution. Hence, bloggers can be fired for their online comments and students can be expelled for they're online comments.
However, I don't know how identifiable the college sophomore's posts were, and whether or not they were anonymous, and if the college pried that information from someone. If so, they may have violated his rights in doing so. Also, recently there was a court ruling that yes you can post you own rants on the internet and not be liable because you are entitled to your opinion and free speech rights guarantee you the right to do that.
Yet, this college student's comments were more than mere opinion. I'd say this student probably can't win this battle. It would be a poor candidate to test with the SC. Hence I expect the ACLU and other related organizations to not touch this one.
Remember, freedoms are a two way street. While any private entity is perfectly free to associate with any person they want, so are you. The entity doesn't *have* let you on their property or affiliate with them, unless of course it violates certain civil rights - which aren't constitutionally based, these are laws made by presidential decree and hence supplement the federal law and are applicable to *all citizens* [including private institutions]. The same goes for you, you do not have to allow them on your property or affiliate with them. You also have the right to restrict their access to your rights. You can also waive your rights to them. Hence it is possible to allow a psychiatric hospital to admit you, but then once you are admitted may not necessarily be able to leave. This is because you have given them certain rights over your welfare and decision process. This is not under the purview of constitutional law.
Let's not confuse the two, and not grant *insightful* to those trolls that attempt to confuse the two.