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  1. Re:An alternative on New Zealand Police Act Wiki Lets You Write the Law · · Score: 1

    Short answer: Yes.

    Long answer: Yes, the size of Parliament is prescribed by law at exactly 120 seats, plus any electorate seats won by parties that didn't get enough votes for one seat proportionately (so the maximum possible size after the next election is 190, if every electorate is won by a candidate of a party receiving no votes; the minimum is always 120).

  2. Re:May be a mere aggregation on Linux Devicemaker Sued In First US Test of GPL · · Score: 1

    Yes and no. For noncommercial distribution of binaries, all you have to do is provide them "with the information you received as to the offer to distribute corresponding source code". You can also either a) provide them with the source code, ending your obligation, or b) provide a written offer, valid for at least three years, to provide the code at no more than cost. If you distributed it by "offering access to copy from a designated place" (e.g., a local network server), then all you have to do is put the code beside it. For the actual case of downloading it for a friend, you don't really need to do anything, since nobody's going to do anything about it. If you're doing it commercially, you do need to provide that written offer or the source itself.

  3. Re:Free Speech Vs. NZ? on NZ MPs Outlaw Satire of Parliament · · Score: 5, Informative

    It's not even the courts - it's treated as a contempt of Parliament, so it goes before the Privileges Committee (i.e. a select committee of MPs).

    That said, it's very unlikely that anything of the sort will come of it. It's just not worth the trouble for them, especially since the media are so pissed about it now.

  4. Young is a representative, not a senator on "Tubes" Senator Being Investigated For Corruption · · Score: 5, Informative

    The other Congressman under a cloud is Rep. Don Young (R), not the other Alaskan senator (Lisa Murkowski (R)), who isn't yet being investigated for corruption.

  5. Re:Screw that on GoboLinux Compile -- A Scalable Portage? · · Score: 1

    gobo@localhost ~]echo $PATH /System/Links/Executables
    gobo@localhost ~]echo $LD_LIBRARY_PATH /System/Links/Libraries
    gobo@localhost ~]ls -l /bin
    lrwxrwxrwx 1 gobo gobo 25 2003-09-18 07:02 /bin -> System/Links/Executables/
    gobo@localhost ~]ls -a /
    . .. Depot Files Mount overlay Programs System Users
    gobo@localhost ~]which gaim /Programs/Gaim/0.78/bin/gaim

    You were saying? It works quite well, really.

  6. Re:Screw that on GoboLinux Compile -- A Scalable Portage? · · Score: 1

    This is what GoboHide is for. Libraries, for example, are merged (multiple versions can perfectly happily coexist so long as they have different filenames) into /System/Links/Libraries, symlinked from /lib, which is invisible. That means PATH=/System/Links/Executables, LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/System/Links/Libraries, etc.

    The "two line" files work simply because there are wrappers to handle the system already -- running CompileProgram gaim-0.78.tar.bz2 will unpack and call ./configure --prefix=/Programs/Gaim/0.78 [...] -- the recipes simply allow for greater definition of what needs to be done. It's no more "writing exceptions" than needed any other time to deal with programmes that inist on installing themselves in /bin, except it only needs to be done once.

  7. Re:Non-issue on GoboLinux Compile -- A Scalable Portage? · · Score: 1

    Try reading the site next time, mmmkay?
    gobo@localhost ~]ls -a /
    . .. Depot Files Mount overlay Programs System Users
    gobo@localhost ~]ls /usr
    bin include lib local man portage sbin share X11R6

    It makes use of a simple kernel patch called "GoboHide" which hides the legacy tree from view unless you explicitly ask for it.
    dufus@localhost ~]gobohide -l dufus
    Hidden directories list for user dufus: /sys /dev /proc /usr /var /tmp /sbin /lib /etc /bin

    It's very convenient too.