In Vogonic Russia, poems read you! This gives a whole new meaning to the Blue Poem Of Death. In Korea, only old Vogons throw people out of space ships. Does Marvin run Linux? Imagine a Beowulf cluster of depressed robots! I don't have a Heart of Gold, you insensitive clod! I for one welcome our new Vogon overlords. It's not a moon. It's a Vogon constructor fleet.
Help! There's an infinite number of monkeys who want to speak with me about how to get their new Shakespeare script through Slashdot's lameness filter! Improbability level of one hundread and twenty-three million, four hundred and fifty-six thousand, six hundred and eighty-nine to one, falling.
In theory, yes. In practice, there's no incentive for MS to do so. BSD isn't a threat to MS because it's not used enough. Moreover, BSD offers a great ressource of code which MS is free to take and add to their own proprietary software without any licensing problems. MS would be stupid to kill that ressource while it's not a threat to them.
The "nice" thing about patents is that MS doesn't need to put in that code themselves. The idea is more like this: OSS developers working on Novell/SUSE stop being cautious about MS patents (after all, MS has agreed not to sue, right?). Therefore some patent-violating code slips in which would not have slipped in otherwise. Then the no-sue period ends, and MS sues (AFAIU it is not a patent license, but only an agreement not to sue during the contract period).
All of these technologies will be improved upon during the 5 years of the agreement [...]
So I conclude the agreement lasts only 5 years. And after that? If this agreement encourages adding MS-patented stuff to Linux, and there's no extension after those five years, then Linux will make a perfect target for future MS lawsuits.
Ok, so how do you make sure that the online list contains only votes from actual voters? Looking on the online list you can make sure that
your own vote is on the list and stored correctly, and
the published statistics agrees with the statistics of the list.
If no one complains that his vote isn't recorded accurately, you can also be pretty certain that real votes were not removed or manipulated. However how do you make sure that no fake votes are added? Since those fake votes would not have the number of any real person, no single person could complain about those votes being inaccurate.
So in short, now Novell/SUSE buyers will pay a Microsoft tax as well.
Indeed, with this deal it probably is in Microsofts interests for Novell to gain market share of sold versions (not in replacing Windows, of course, but in replacing other Linux distributions, and in replacing Unix machines and Macs). Maybe MS will even offer Linux versions of some MS software exclusively through Novell, or something like that. This way they can at the same time demonstrate their "openness" (cooperation with a Linux vendor), fill their pockets (since every Novell/SUSE user also pays to MS) and increase vendor lock-in (through the exclusive software).
Put it on the moon. Ok, this will also diminish the probability that it will be found by future archaeologists, but it surely will help the survival of the information. And you can be sure that if a future astronaut finds a piece of amber on the moon, it certainly will be investigated.
Well, it's the exploding of the million spelling and grammar Nazi. The million spelling and grammar Nazi differs (or differed; after all, since he exploded he doesn't exist anymore) from a normal spelling and grammar Nazi by the fact that the only spelling he cares about is the spelling of the word "million".
Given that universaltube.com is older than utube.com, it's more likely the company running universaltube.com who could sue. Maybe a good strategy for YouTube/Google would be to offer universaltube.com to pay legal expenses if they sue utube.com...:-)
But in general, it will be sufficient to re-count the results of some small random sample of the voting machines (which of course may not be determined before the voting ended) to exclude with high probablity that fraud is going on. Note that 100% certainty cannot be achieved with paper voting either. The goal is to get that probability low enough that it can be practically neglected. If you make the paper trail ballots machine-countable as well, even recounting shouldn't be too hard. Manual recounting would be done on an even smaller subset of counts in order to guard against manipulation of both machines at the same time. And of course if the electronic count and automatic ballot count differ (because that's an indication that one of them is manipulated). One could make a law that both counting machines should come from different companies, in order to avoid one company being able to manipulate the results.
If you just use/home the user will be quite confused as to why all that new space they jsut bought isn't showing up.
Hmmm... maybe this could be automated by using lvm and a script detecting a new drive (i.e. a drive not yet found in/etc/fstab), and automatically asking if the space should be added to/home, or if the drive should be mounted to a specific directory (or optionally doing nothing at all, so you can manually partition/mount it). Probably it should first check if there's any data on that drive:-)
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For tea, too. Or something like that.
Obviously 999999.
If Groupwise was able to overwrite memory of the Intel graphics driver, then there was more wrong with those computers than just Groupwise.
I don't think you want that g after the final slash ... unless there's a meaning to "fuod" which I don't know yet.
In Vogonic Russia, poems read you!
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This gives a whole new meaning to the Blue Poem Of Death.
In Korea, only old Vogons throw people out of space ships.
Does Marvin run Linux?
Imagine a Beowulf cluster of depressed robots!
I don't have a Heart of Gold, you insensitive clod!
I for one welcome our new Vogon overlords.
It's not a moon. It's a Vogon constructor fleet.
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Ok the last one wasn't exactly a one-liner
Help! There's an infinite number of monkeys who want to speak with me about how to get their new Shakespeare script through Slashdot's lameness filter! Improbability level of one hundread and twenty-three million, four hundred and fifty-six thousand, six hundred and eighty-nine to one, falling.
You don't like to be guided by Hitchhackers? :-)
No, the answer is, of course, in base 13.
In theory, yes. In practice, there's no incentive for MS to do so. BSD isn't a threat to MS because it's not used enough. Moreover, BSD offers a great ressource of code which MS is free to take and add to their own proprietary software without any licensing problems. MS would be stupid to kill that ressource while it's not a threat to them.
The "nice" thing about patents is that MS doesn't need to put in that code themselves. The idea is more like this: OSS developers working on Novell/SUSE stop being cautious about MS patents (after all, MS has agreed not to sue, right?). Therefore some patent-violating code slips in which would not have slipped in otherwise. Then the no-sue period ends, and MS sues (AFAIU it is not a patent license, but only an agreement not to sue during the contract period).
Make a binding agreement, not limited in time or target, to never use any of their patents against any open source project.
So I conclude the agreement lasts only 5 years. And after that? If this agreement encourages adding MS-patented stuff to Linux, and there's no extension after those five years, then Linux will make a perfect target for future MS lawsuits.
- your own vote is on the list and stored correctly, and
- the published statistics agrees with the statistics of the list.
If no one complains that his vote isn't recorded accurately, you can also be pretty certain that real votes were not removed or manipulated. However how do you make sure that no fake votes are added? Since those fake votes would not have the number of any real person, no single person could complain about those votes being inaccurate.So in short, now Novell/SUSE buyers will pay a Microsoft tax as well.
Indeed, with this deal it probably is in Microsofts interests for Novell to gain market share of sold versions (not in replacing Windows, of course, but in replacing other Linux distributions, and in replacing Unix machines and Macs). Maybe MS will even offer Linux versions of some MS software exclusively through Novell, or something like that. This way they can at the same time demonstrate their "openness" (cooperation with a Linux vendor), fill their pockets (since every Novell/SUSE user also pays to MS) and increase vendor lock-in (through the exclusive software).
Indeed. If there were no difference, world hunger could be easily resolved by describing our food to the starving people.
You know what the history tab is used for?
Put it on the moon. Ok, this will also diminish the probability that it will be found by future archaeologists, but it surely will help the survival of the information. And you can be sure that if a future astronaut finds a piece of amber on the moon, it certainly will be investigated.
Well, it's the exploding of the million spelling and grammar Nazi. The million spelling and grammar Nazi differs (or differed; after all, since he exploded he doesn't exist anymore) from a normal spelling and grammar Nazi by the fact that the only spelling he cares about is the spelling of the word "million".
Of course, Cisco routers don't power the internet. Unless they now make routers with integrated power plants. :-)
But they have qualified their name, by putting 'yo' in front of it. Is it their fault that people don't speak that 'yo' if they refer to the site? :-)
Given that universaltube.com is older than utube.com, it's more likely the company running universaltube.com who could sue. ... :-)
Maybe a good strategy for YouTube/Google would be to offer universaltube.com to pay legal expenses if they sue utube.com
Only read? What about editing? Anonymous, of course! :-)
Since it's Linux, they measure in Bogoparsecs.
But in general, it will be sufficient to re-count the results of some small random sample of the voting machines (which of course may not be determined before the voting ended) to exclude with high probablity that fraud is going on. Note that 100% certainty cannot be achieved with paper voting either. The goal is to get that probability low enough that it can be practically neglected.
If you make the paper trail ballots machine-countable as well, even recounting shouldn't be too hard. Manual recounting would be done on an even smaller subset of counts in order to guard against manipulation of both machines at the same time. And of course if the electronic count and automatic ballot count differ (because that's an indication that one of them is manipulated).
One could make a law that both counting machines should come from different companies, in order to avoid one company being able to manipulate the results.
But then he could get the impression that Linux is full of bugs!
Hmmm