Living in the shadows means most people do not read it, so the authorities can safely ignore it. It will not change society - its hardly a serious challenge to the Chinese.
Basic does not necessarily mean easier to read for a literate audience. A longer sentence may be better constructed, or link related ideas more naturally. Long words may allow more concise writing or be more precise.
This is an OS that does not have that many users, so not many eyes, and this is something that has been audited, so if anything it shows the weakness of audit.
I really doubt it would be difficult for the FBI to find people willing to cooperate in any large American company, possibly even the management: that covers most OSes.
Your treating "OSS" and "company developed" as opposites is silly as most OSS is company developed: by far the best way to get something like this into the Linux kernel would be to get the cooperation of someone at IBM or Red Hat.
Why should you have to edit a config file at all? Isn't that what you always complain of? Mandriva provides a hosts GUI.
Also, open as admin, then drag and drop is not obvious, and the location of the hosts file is not either (it varies between XP, Vista and 7). Why can you not have an "edit as admin" on right click like Linux?
It took me quite a long time to edit the hosts file on Vista, so I know exactly what he is talking about.
Usually wi-fi and everything else works you of the box with Linux, and there is no hunting around for drivers (because they are all either pre-installed or are in the repos and auto-installed when your hardware is detected). Any OS can have installation problem: the way to avoid them is to buy a PC with it pre-installed.
One of the articles on the subject it is a crime in Sweden to use emotional pressure to get someone to have sex. If that was rigorously enforced in most countries the prisons would be REALLY full.
To put it another way, IBM were clever and came up with a business model that works, Sun were stupid and thrashed around trying things and the ex-CEO is now using open source as a scapegoat.
Red Hat have a pretty successful open source model as well.
That Iraq and Afghanistan are on this list, when they are countries that the US has spent a huge amount of effort bringing them into its sphere of influence is a triumph for China.
There are also parallels with US diplomacy in the past: organising the Olympics boycott over Afghanistan, and getting support for the Iraq war with promises for a share of the loot.
Economic influence usually trumps political and military.
Its perfectly reasonable for a company to decide that they do not want to distribute porn, or profit from it. I would not want to be in that business either.
On the other hand, people should have the right to install this software if they want it.
The simple solution is to allow third party app stores. Ideally people could enter the details of whatever app store they liked, and then it would "just work". I heard that there is an OS that does that, and all the apps are free as well.
I thought it was called the American Way? That's what the RIAA, BSA etc. would have you think. Of course that argument is, oddly enough, not used by their counterparts in the rest of the world.
Its not in some people's genes. A propensity is genetic. Lots of people do not have the propensity and behave them same, others will have the gene and still not.
Any significant trait is sure to have a genetic component - otherwise how could it have evolved?
I do actually agree with the GP comment. At some point you would have to protect yourself (and possibly your kids) from the consequences of their behaviour.
Are there any similar organisations that will be willing to donate stuff to schools in the third world? A private school but with low fees and doing a lot of good for the town its in.
A number of the writers of the New Testament were executed (rather horribly) for professing belief in what they wrote. Although the authorship of some things is disputed, I think enough is established historical fact to say that they were willing to die to spread what they wrote - something that I doubt is likely to be true for an author of fiction, even one as eccentric as Tolkein.
Its also interesting that a many authors of fiction (who have some skills to judge it) do not believe that the New Testament is a work of fiction: Tolkein himself is one example, but Graham Greene's comments on the Gospel of St John (In an interview with John Mortimer - I have the book somewhere) are the best example.
The same is true of other religions. We know Mohammed wrote the Koran, and his behaviour was entirely consistent with believing it. The Buddha also followed his own teachings as far as we know.
That said, I think there is still a whoosh factor because the Biblical literalists fail distinguish between :
1) Written recordings of existing stories. 2) Allegories and metaphors 3) Recordings of historical events.
Of course there are overlaps.
They also fail to understand that the Bible is a collection of books by different authors, from different periods of history (at least over a millennium), with different intentions. You cannot really treat them as a single work.
To be fair some atheists (only stupid ones, but past comments show that we are not short of them on Slashdot) do exactly the same by treating it all as just mythology.
There is nothing ironic about the ruling. What the judges ruled was that the government could neither favour or discriminate against any particular religion. Therefore the government was able to provide the same benefit to pupils of religious schools as was available to pupils of other schools:
we must be careful, in protecting the citizens of New Jersey against state-established churches, to be sure that we do not inadvertently prohibit New Jersey from extending its general state law benefits to all its citizens without regard to their religious belief.
The same appears to apply in this case. The park is entitled to subsidies because a non-religous theme park, or one established by a different religion, would get the same subsidies in the same circumstances.
A number of the writers of the New Testament were executed (rather horribly) for professing belief in what they wrote. Although the authorship of some things is disputed, I think enough is established historical fact to say that they were willing to die to spread what they wrote - something that I doubt is likely to be true for an author of fiction, even one as eccentric as Tolkein.
Its also interesting that a many authors of fiction (who have some skills to judge it) do not believe that the New Testament is a work of fiction: Tolkein himself is one example, but Graham Greene's comments on the Gospel of St John (In an interview with John Mortimer - I have the book somewhere) are the best example.
The same is true of other religions. We know Mohammed wrote the Koran, and his behaviour was entirely consistent with believing it. The Buddha also followed his own teachings as far as we know.
That said, I think there is still a whoosh factor because the Biblical literalists fail distinguish between :
1) Written recordings of existing stories. 2) Allegories and metaphors 3) Recordings of historical events.
Of course there are overlaps.
They also fail to understand that the Bible is a collection of books by different authors, from different periods of history (at least over a millennium), with different intentions. You cannot really treat them as a single work.
To be fair atheists (admittedly only stupid ones, but past comments show that we are not short of them on Slashdot) do exactly the same by treating it all as just mythology.
So you think that the problem with that system was hierarchical representation rather then the fact that the elections were rigged? How did you come to that conclusion?
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You should not do something you are ashamed of, but the government should not be stopping you from doing it either.
Noscript does a lot more than Opera's built in functionality.
It is not difficult to find the FF settings - no more clicks than with Opera.
Living in the shadows means most people do not read it, so the authorities can safely ignore it. It will not change society - its hardly a serious challenge to the Chinese.
Basic does not necessarily mean easier to read for a literate audience. A longer sentence may be better constructed, or link related ideas more naturally. Long words may allow more concise writing or be more precise.
You're right. Install Windows and your hardware should work fine.
That has DEFINITELY not been my experience of Windows.
You misunderstand journalistic: the priority is to get as many stories about celebrities out as quickly as possible.
This is an OS that does not have that many users, so not many eyes, and this is something that has been audited, so if anything it shows the weakness of audit.
I really doubt it would be difficult for the FBI to find people willing to cooperate in any large American company, possibly even the management: that covers most OSes.
Your treating "OSS" and "company developed" as opposites is silly as most OSS is company developed: by far the best way to get something like this into the Linux kernel would be to get the cooperation of someone at IBM or Red Hat.
Why should you have to edit a config file at all? Isn't that what you always complain of? Mandriva provides a hosts GUI.
Also, open as admin, then drag and drop is not obvious, and the location of the hosts file is not either (it varies between XP, Vista and 7). Why can you not have an "edit as admin" on right click like Linux?
It took me quite a long time to edit the hosts file on Vista, so I know exactly what he is talking about.
Usually wi-fi and everything else works you of the box with Linux, and there is no hunting around for drivers (because they are all either pre-installed or are in the repos and auto-installed when your hardware is detected). Any OS can have installation problem: the way to avoid them is to buy a PC with it pre-installed.
One of the articles on the subject it is a crime in Sweden to use emotional pressure to get someone to have sex. If that was rigorously enforced in most countries the prisons would be REALLY full.
To put it another way, IBM were clever and came up with a business model that works, Sun were stupid and thrashed around trying things and the ex-CEO is now using open source as a scapegoat.
Red Hat have a pretty successful open source model as well.
Except that would would hurt them would be attacking their payment processing sites, not their corporate PR site.
That Iraq and Afghanistan are on this list, when they are countries that the US has spent a huge amount of effort bringing them into its sphere of influence is a triumph for China.
There are also parallels with US diplomacy in the past: organising the Olympics boycott over Afghanistan, and getting support for the Iraq war with promises for a share of the loot.
Economic influence usually trumps political and military.
Its perfectly reasonable for a company to decide that they do not want to distribute porn, or profit from it. I would not want to be in that business either.
On the other hand, people should have the right to install this software if they want it.
The simple solution is to allow third party app stores. Ideally people could enter the details of whatever app store they liked, and then it would "just work". I heard that there is an OS that does that, and all the apps are free as well.
I thought it was called the American Way? That's what the RIAA, BSA etc. would have you think. Of course that argument is, oddly enough, not used by their counterparts in the rest of the world.
Its not in some people's genes. A propensity is genetic. Lots of people do not have the propensity and behave them same, others will have the gene and still not.
Any significant trait is sure to have a genetic component - otherwise how could it have evolved?
I do actually agree with the GP comment. At some point you would have to protect yourself (and possibly your kids) from the consequences of their behaviour.
It might be bad phrasing, but you seem to be confusing the selfishness of the gene with a gene that causes selfish behaviour.
Saying "for Christ's sake" when telling them not to forgive someone is ironic. He said forgive even "seventy times seven" times.
Surely a backports repo does exactly that?
Are there any similar organisations that will be willing to donate stuff to schools in the third world? A private school but with low fees and doing a lot of good for the town its in.
A number of the writers of the New Testament were executed (rather horribly) for professing belief in what they wrote. Although the authorship of some things is disputed, I think enough is established historical fact to say that they were willing to die to spread what they wrote - something that I doubt is likely to be true for an author of fiction, even one as eccentric as Tolkein.
Its also interesting that a many authors of fiction (who have some skills to judge it) do not believe that the New Testament is a work of fiction: Tolkein himself is one example, but Graham Greene's comments on the Gospel of St John (In an interview with John Mortimer - I have the book somewhere) are the best example.
The same is true of other religions. We know Mohammed wrote the Koran, and his behaviour was entirely consistent with believing it. The Buddha also followed his own teachings as far as we know.
That said, I think there is still a whoosh factor because the Biblical literalists fail distinguish between :
1) Written recordings of existing stories.
2) Allegories and metaphors
3) Recordings of historical events.
Of course there are overlaps.
They also fail to understand that the Bible is a collection of books by different authors, from different periods of history (at least over a millennium), with different intentions. You cannot really treat them as a single work.
To be fair some atheists (only stupid ones, but past comments show that we are not short of them on Slashdot) do exactly the same by treating it all as just mythology.
There is nothing ironic about the ruling. What the judges ruled was that the government could neither favour or discriminate against any particular religion. Therefore the government was able to provide the same benefit to pupils of religious schools as was available to pupils of other schools:
The same appears to apply in this case. The park is entitled to subsidies because a non-religous theme park, or one established by a different religion, would get the same subsidies in the same circumstances.
A number of the writers of the New Testament were executed (rather horribly) for professing belief in what they wrote. Although the authorship of some things is disputed, I think enough is established historical fact to say that they were willing to die to spread what they wrote - something that I doubt is likely to be true for an author of fiction, even one as eccentric as Tolkein.
Its also interesting that a many authors of fiction (who have some skills to judge it) do not believe that the New Testament is a work of fiction: Tolkein himself is one example, but Graham Greene's comments on the Gospel of St John (In an interview with John Mortimer - I have the book somewhere) are the best example.
The same is true of other religions. We know Mohammed wrote the Koran, and his behaviour was entirely consistent with believing it. The Buddha also followed his own teachings as far as we know.
That said, I think there is still a whoosh factor because the Biblical literalists fail distinguish between :
1) Written recordings of existing stories.
2) Allegories and metaphors
3) Recordings of historical events.
Of course there are overlaps.
They also fail to understand that the Bible is a collection of books by different authors, from different periods of history (at least over a millennium), with different intentions. You cannot really treat them as a single work.
To be fair atheists (admittedly only stupid ones, but past comments show that we are not short of them on Slashdot) do exactly the same by treating it all as just mythology.
So you think that the problem with that system was hierarchical representation rather then the fact that the elections were rigged? How did you come to that conclusion?
No, he is a parent or a legislator.