The MS Office for Windows EULA states that it may only be run under Microsoft operating systems.
Please show me where, because I don't see it mentioned ANYWHERE in the standard M$ Orifice EULA. To summarize, Office EULA does not bind users to a Windows OS.
Your comment, sadly, demonstrates common misconceptions and a lack of knowledge on the issue. The "missing disks" witch hunt was instigated as a part of a gambit to strip the University of California of its contract to manage the Los Alamos National Laboratory and to give the contract to the Univiersities of Texas system. Now that the Universities of Texas regents have stated "they are not interested," the disks suddenly have never existed.
Director Nanos single-handedly dealt an enormous blow to the American and world science by shutting down the operations at Los Alamos for MONTHS - all for nothing more than dominance games. If the Cold War were still on, I would suspect him of being a Russian mole.
Let me state that the knowledge of the total absurdity of the lleged "security breach" in Los Alamos is nothing new. Larry Barker of KRQE News reported that the scandal was fake in August 2004.
Read the August 11, 2004 artile from
Santa Fe New Mexican.
To conclude,
I am much saddened by the mindless regurgitation of the official lies in this thread.
The selection of articles that are published all seem to have a lot to do with things that Bush did bad.
It's not like there is an abundance of articles that have to do with things that Bush did well (unless one is to consider reports from alternate reality delivered by fearless crosstime travellers reporting for Murdoch-owned media). For crying out loud, the only thing this guy is proficient in is pratfalls - falling of a Segway, fainting
after choking on a pretzel, getting hit by a garbage truck...
The Confucian point of view endows a
righteous ruler with a Mandate of Heaven. In this context, incidents similar to the ones
listed above would strongly indicate the displeasure of the Divine with the ruler and necessitate his immediate removal.
This notwithstanding, I have to agree with the parent message: the NYT article should not be
linked from Slashdot. Not for reasons of bias -
the notion that Iraq war was based on a number
of poorly concocted lies and misrepresentations is simply not news.
Moore is a clown, granted. There is a difference between a clown and a fool, however. One "who wouldn't know a fact..." you refer to would be a fool. And, in the context of Fahrenheit 911, I would leave naming the examples of wilful and persistent ignorance of facts to the reader.
Ironically, what he REALLY said was more along the lines of "When you die of old age, we'll attend the funeral," which in turn refers to an even more
impenetrable Karl Marx quote "Proletariat is the gravedigger for the bourgeoisie..."
BTW, the shoe incident with old Khroo happened during a different speech, in which he said wonderful things such as "You are a jerk, a stooge, and a lackey of the imperialism" to somebody whose name the history does not remember.
Juicy details of the whole mess were printed in
New Statesman a couple of years ago.
On the Atlantis subject, I am surprised that nobody explicitly mentioned the Atlantis - South American civilizations connection yet, with all the speculation that the Mayan calendar cycle started with the sinking of Atlantis. And, while the noteworthy contributions of H.P. Lovecraft
to the lore of lost civilizations were mentioned, Robert Howard and his Atlantean exile (Kull) deserve a note as well.
Speaking a bit more seriously, I suspect that the Atlantis myth as narrated by Plato actually confuses several stories about natural disasters, thus there is no "real" Atlantis (or perhaps several ones).
Apparently, so are the facts that the rocket in question was retired in 1978, not to mention that R-16 that blew up that day WAS NOT A PART OF THE SOVIET SPACE PROGRAM IN ANY WAY, SHAPE OR FORM (sorry for yelling) - it was a bloody ICBM. Well, one should never let the facts stand in the way of an ill-informed opinion...
A lot of the deaths in the Soviet space program were not publicised. I saw a documentary that mentioned a rocket blowing up during a PR event that killed over 100 people, many civilian.
Kindly substantiate or retract. The only large-scale launchpad disaster I know of (and dollars to donuts, I've forgotten more about the Soviet space program than what you'll ever know) was the R-16
accident. That happened in 1960. Stop proliferating urban myths.
Last time I checked, New Mexico was not subordinate to Arizona legislature. snicker
The New Mexican idiocy is actually bipartizan, with greater responsibility to be put on the "Democrats" (the corrupt cronyist political prostitutes in the NM state legislature make a travesty of the name). The grandparent post, however, correctly identified the mechanisms underlying the acceptance of apparently idiotic bills as the means to extract $$.
"Crew would be dead before they got back, ISS doesn't have enough radiation shielding in its walls to protect the crew outside the protective shield of Earth's magnetic field."
You may be exaggerating a bit, to put it mildly. Assuming a two-year trip and ZERO radiation shielding (even the ISS would offer some), the dose would be on the order of 500 rad. For comparison, a single chemo treatment can give the patient a dose of 260 rad. Can such a dose mean cancer in 25 years? Possibly. Instant death? Naah.
The rest of your objections to the use of ISS as the core of the hypothetical Mars vessel are quite valid.
NASA is working from a miniscule 1% of the US federal budget.
Actually, now it's more like 0.5%. Even at the heyday of Apollo program (1964), it was 3.5%. You have also to consider the fact that out of this money, a disproportionalte share is spent on maintaining and flying the space shuttles on missions that could have been performed by Soyuz or similar spacecraft for 5-10% of the expense.
This means that, were the shuttle fleet to be scuttled and the ISS maintenance subcontracted to Glavkosmos, NASA would actually have some money for the R&D for the Mars mission.
However, if the pattern established by the Bush administration so far holds, loud announcement of an initiative is likely to lead to it being quietly killed by starvation.
I take strong exception to the declaration of
Zaporozhetz ZAZ 968M as one of the worst cars ever.
It had semi-decent reliability and was quite easy
(and dirt cheap) to fix. It also had high ground
clearance which, combined with its light weight,
made it very convenient for use on rough to non-existent roads. Strictly speaking, I should
not be talking of these little uglies in the past
tense - plenty of them still around.
A brief history of the Zaporozhetz marque
can be found here. One of the older Zaporozhetz cars, the ZAZ 965, has a cult following (links here and here).
On a somewhat related subject, David Brin publicly offered help to Lucas to save Episode Three (in Salon Magazine)- goes without saying, Lucas did not take the offer...
The comment above is as "insightful" as a crate
of rusty hammers. Simple. If the king does not appear to wear any clothes, there is a chance that he is really naked. The second and third installments of the Matrix theory have plot holes you can throw a rhinoceros through, and the "philosophy" spouted in the second movie does not add up to much. A much more profound look at the same problem (layers gradually peeled off perceived reality) was delivered decades ago by Stanislaw Lem in one of his Ijon Tichy stories. There exist many arguably better and subtler cinematographic adaptations of the same theme - Dark City, Existenz, 13th Floor... And it doesn't help matters that by the beginning of the second movie of their trilogy Wachowski brothers apparently lost all the sense of self-irony (if they ever had it), along with common sense. The final insult of the third movie was in the form of fighting machines with the operator all but crucified on the front armor plate.
N% of the people who watched the movie didn't get it - because there is nothing there to get. You can only pour out of a vessel what was poured into it. As for the % of the people who "got" the second and third movies - I would expect it to be higher: in Andersen's tale, almost all the people did claim to see the king's new clothes. Advocates of the last two Wachowski trilogy installments sadden me - trying so desperately to represent themselves as thinking people yet so afraid to think for themselves...
Quoting the article in CAIDA report...
Their Internet Service Provider (ISP) appears to have filtered all traffic destined for the web and ftp servers until they came back online at 5 PM PST.
To the best of my recollection, I connected to the SCO ftp servers some time in the late afternoon (~4pm Mountain time). The www2.sco.com server also was up all the time. You would have a hard time checking this with netcraft though - SCO Unix does not provide uptime information.
Sorry about the self-followup - forgot two
links of interest.
The Age reports that Cisco routers would block the SYN flood attack SCO claims to suffer from (I think there is some discussion of this on groklaw as well). Anyways, the guys at The Age appear to have a clue.
I think that the people reading this thread and possessing the necessary technical knowledge should store the evidence contradicting SCO's "explanations" of today's events in the case SCO claims that the information the judge demanded "got lost because of the vile Linux hacker attack."
Pinging www2.sco.com (216.250.128.33) produces a reply, and the corresponding website contains some seriously long-in-the-tooth (like, 2001) links to Caldera and Tarantella (what the bleep is that?) stuff.
www.caldera.com (216.250.128.12) proper does not respond to
pings or http requests, while
www2.caldera.com resolves to the same long-in-the-tooth site.
All this looks rather dodgy. Maybe they just hope to get slashdotted and then claim that this was the DDOS attack...
Actually, the 3rd movie is going to reveal
the true nature of the CGI abomination
as Darth Darth Binx (twice the Sith Lord,
the brain behind Palpatine and the true
progenitor of Luke and Leia).
Galileo did not "originally propose" the heliocentric model. The simple version (circular orbits) was described by Copernicus; the accurate version (elliptic orbits) was developed by Kepler. What Galileo should be credited for is confirmation of the model via astronomic observations and passionate (and risky, in the political atmosphere of the time) advocacy of heliocentrism.
I hope that this correction demonstrates the cluelessness of the sender of the parent comment sufficiently to disregard the rest of his|her|its rant. And whosoever moderated it as "insightful" should get into detox.
Dean (cannot vouch for the rest) knows enough to endorse open source. His website uses tweaked Drupal for content management, and all the tweaks are available for download here.
I have a question both to the AC who posted the original remark
and to the hapless moderator who rated it as
insightful: how does one assess the
completeness of an idiot?
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You lie.
Director Nanos single-handedly dealt an enormous blow to the American and world science by shutting down the operations at Los Alamos for MONTHS - all for nothing more than dominance games. If the Cold War were still on, I would suspect him of being a Russian mole.
Let me state that the knowledge of the total absurdity of the lleged "security breach" in Los Alamos is nothing new. Larry Barker of KRQE News reported that the scandal was fake in August 2004. Read the August 11, 2004 artile from Santa Fe New Mexican.
To conclude, I am much saddened by the mindless regurgitation of the official lies in this thread.
The Confucian point of view endows a righteous ruler with a Mandate of Heaven. In this context, incidents similar to the ones listed above would strongly indicate the displeasure of the Divine with the ruler and necessitate his immediate removal.
This notwithstanding, I have to agree with the parent message: the NYT article should not be linked from Slashdot. Not for reasons of bias - the notion that Iraq war was based on a number of poorly concocted lies and misrepresentations is simply not news.
Moore is a clown, granted. There is a difference between a clown and a fool, however. One "who wouldn't know a fact..." you refer to would be a fool. And, in the context of Fahrenheit 911, I would leave naming the examples of wilful and persistent ignorance of facts to the reader.
... before 2004 was 1956, it was Cousteau's "Silent world."
BTW, the shoe incident with old Khroo happened during a different speech, in which he said wonderful things such as "You are a jerk, a stooge, and a lackey of the imperialism" to somebody whose name the history does not remember.
Juicy details of the whole mess were printed in New Statesman a couple of years ago.
On the Atlantis subject, I am surprised that nobody explicitly mentioned the Atlantis - South American civilizations connection yet, with all the speculation that the Mayan calendar cycle started with the sinking of Atlantis. And, while the noteworthy contributions of H.P. Lovecraft to the lore of lost civilizations were mentioned, Robert Howard and his Atlantean exile (Kull) deserve a note as well.
Speaking a bit more seriously, I suspect that the Atlantis myth as narrated by Plato actually confuses several stories about natural disasters, thus there is no "real" Atlantis (or perhaps several ones).
... if you cannot connect to shop.sco.com. This is the number listed by SCO for inquiries about SCO product purchases. Be polite.
The New Mexican idiocy is actually bipartizan, with greater responsibility to be put on the "Democrats" (the corrupt cronyist political prostitutes in the NM state legislature make a travesty of the name). The grandparent post, however, correctly identified the mechanisms underlying the acceptance of apparently idiotic bills as the means to extract $$.
You may be exaggerating a bit, to put it mildly. Assuming a two-year trip and ZERO radiation shielding (even the ISS would offer some), the dose would be on the order of 500 rad. For comparison, a single chemo treatment can give the patient a dose of 260 rad. Can such a dose mean cancer in 25 years? Possibly. Instant death? Naah.
The rest of your objections to the use of ISS as the core of the hypothetical Mars vessel are quite valid.
This means that, were the shuttle fleet to be scuttled and the ISS maintenance subcontracted to Glavkosmos, NASA would actually have some money for the R&D for the Mars mission.
However, if the pattern established by the Bush administration so far holds, loud announcement of an initiative is likely to lead to it being quietly killed by starvation.
Sorry, my droog: it's the other way around.
Dead wrong. Hubble could have been launched with Proton - this option was even considered.
It had semi-decent reliability and was quite easy (and dirt cheap) to fix. It also had high ground clearance which, combined with its light weight, made it very convenient for use on rough to non-existent roads. Strictly speaking, I should not be talking of these little uglies in the past tense - plenty of them still around.
A brief history of the Zaporozhetz marque can be found here. One of the older Zaporozhetz cars, the ZAZ 965, has a cult following (links here and here).
On a somewhat related subject, David Brin publicly offered help to Lucas to save Episode Three (in Salon Magazine)- goes without saying, Lucas did not take the offer...
Wouldn't this be Darth Darth Binks?
N% of the people who watched the movie didn't get it - because there is nothing there to get. You can only pour out of a vessel what was poured into it. As for the % of the people who "got" the second and third movies - I would expect it to be higher: in Andersen's tale, almost all the people did claim to see the king's new clothes. Advocates of the last two Wachowski trilogy installments sadden me - trying so desperately to represent themselves as thinking people yet so afraid to think for themselves...
Quoting the article in CAIDA report...
Their Internet Service Provider (ISP) appears to have filtered all traffic destined for the web and ftp servers until they came back online at 5 PM PST.
To the best of my recollection, I connected to the SCO ftp servers some time in the late afternoon (~4pm Mountain time). The www2.sco.com server also was up all the time. You would have a hard time checking this with netcraft though - SCO Unix does not provide uptime information.
The Age reports that Cisco routers would block the SYN flood attack SCO claims to suffer from (I think there is some discussion of this on groklaw as well). Anyways, the guys at The Age appear to have a clue.
The second link is to the Google cache of the most recent SCO page. It takes forever to load (I wonder why), but examination of the source file reveals (surprise!) a link to Rob Enderle's anti-Linux propaganda from www.technewsworld.com...
I think that the people reading this thread and possessing the necessary technical knowledge should store the evidence contradicting SCO's "explanations" of today's events in the case SCO claims that the information the judge demanded "got lost because of the vile Linux hacker attack."
All this looks rather dodgy. Maybe they just hope to get slashdotted and then claim that this was the DDOS attack...
Actually, the 3rd movie is going to reveal the true nature of the CGI abomination as Darth Darth Binx (twice the Sith Lord, the brain behind Palpatine and the true progenitor of Luke and Leia).
I hope that this correction demonstrates the cluelessness of the sender of the parent comment sufficiently to disregard the rest of his|her|its rant. And whosoever moderated it as "insightful" should get into detox.
I have a question both to the AC who posted the original remark and to the hapless moderator who rated it as insightful: how does one assess the completeness of an idiot?