The wiki from TFA says: "we are not interested in partially working drivers, contact their developers". I have "MSI TV@nywhere Plus" TV card working with saa7134 - but the remote control for this card does not work. There were some attempts there are some patches floating around (for more than a year) based on work of Henry Wong but they do work some people, do not work for others. Why not give a hand to drivers where the developers have problems get the things working?
Another device that I've run across and needs driver is fingerprint sensor on Fujitsu Siemens Celsius H240 notebook - does anybody know whether that belongs to kernel or userspace?
I never said spammers should go unpunished, just that subjecting them to torture for the rest of their (artificially extended) lives is a pretty fucked up punishment, and in no way "fair" or "just".
In the same way - most people here don't really want torture them by red-hot iron, or pins under nails. The torture in form of having to read their own spam continuously for 20 years would be quite OK;-) If you have a business relying on ability to communicate with your customers and that goes down because your mailbox is flooded with spam, your business goes down because you miss important message... Don't pretend that spam is just annoyance. It is pretty big business profiting by harming everyone a little (or big in some cases). The bigger the network you manage (and thus the bigger absolute spam numbers) the more you would understand this.
This is slashdot: people here boo when the MPAA or RIAA sues people for illegally distributing their copywritten content on P2P networks, and cheer when they fail to enforce their rights to that content. Why?
No. People here boo because MPAA and RIAA are suing people left and right, often without good (or any) evidence and they throw their money to get the law slanted their way. That is immoral and that is what people here protest.
Partly because for each of those people it's a much smaller burden than that
The purpose of crime punishment is to protect the society from undesired behavior and deter others from committing the same. Do you believe that the society suffered from acts for the spammer? Did the society experience significant loss? Would the society suffer if others did the same?
If I was working on a bank software and I "taxed" 0.01 cent of each of billions of transactions, do you believe that I would be let go unpunished?
(Almost) nobody here wants death penalty for spammers because of spam in his specific mailbox. However the combined loss of all of us is significant. And the punishment should reflect that.
Would you mind to share your thoughts on the standardization process too?
A very nice article (unfortunately in Czech, but with links) says basically this:
Portugal - had not committee so they created one just to able to vote on OOXML - chaired by MS guy. IBM and Sun were not allowed to vote.
Germany - committee chaired by guy from Frauenhoffer institute that has close relations to MS. Google and Deutche Telecom were not allowed to vote.
Norway - the problems pointed out were dismissed by MS with simple "that's not true!". At the end Norway admitted themselves that the standard is crap.
Sweden - the committee got 20 new members just before voting. They all voted "yes" because they were bought.
Czech - 50 companies attempted to influence the voting.
Poland - committee voted "no". A new committee was created and the vote become "yes".
Hungary - the 1st and 2nd voting were screwed up (voting rules changed just prior voting, the invitations were sent late) and so Hungary did not vote at all.
Italy - just before voting the committee was extended from 5 to 83(!)members.
what if the government managed to... um... keep a secret secret
As we know, there are secret secrets. There are things we classify as secrets. We also classify things as unclassified secrets. That is to say, we also keep secret some things, we do not admit that they are secret. But there are also secret secrets, the ones we don't classify that we classified them.
Let me extend that statement. A few weeks ago I saw him in news, where he basically expressed strong believe that "free market will solve it". He believes that environmentally unfriendly companies will not be successful in the market. And thus the problem will take care of itself.
Perhaps he knows a lot about economy - I don't argue that. But there are various schools in economy - with rather opposite opinions on some matters. And thus I'll prefer to believe climatologists rather than an economist on matters of global warming. Of course the proposed restrictions on greenhouse gases do influence economy. And the state should impose those restrictions. Because business is not interested in clean and healthy environment. It is interested in profit. If state does not do it, business won't do it either.
Well, the "spirit" has no weight in a court of law.
Spirit may not be a keyword used in law. However court is there to serve Justice. And Justice is not the same as Law. I also believe that law does not (and cannot) always describe all possible situations of real live. And in such case it is up to the court to decide whether something violates the spirit of law or not.
What are you talking about "leaves" for? Do you know what "leaves" means? I majored in college for botany. Leaves doesn't mean what you think. Go do a Google search for leaves. Come back to me when you know what even basic English.
"Leaves" is 3rd person singular form of a verb. That is what I know as non-native English speaker. Apparently they did not teach you that in your botany classes.
With that said; Your comment about ONE developer/package maintainer "leaving" Linspire is total crap. Who freaking cares about Linspire or the other binary-only-charge-you-money-to-build-a-package distro
With the size of Linspire they obviously do not care about having one developer/package manitainer more or less, do they?;-)
Just what multiplayer games are not about defeating the enemy? Does chess count as violent? Is Battle for Wesnoth violent? What about Lemmings (poor, little buggers), Liquid Wars,... ? Are the kids going to be stuck with Tetris?
If you mean whether it's curly braces or brackets or none at all and the syntax of basic control flow, then yes. If you mean being familiar with the standard library, the development tools and all the specific bits (Java generics, C++ templates, take your pick)? No.
You don't need to go that far. C/Java might be similar to Delphi, but it entirely different thing than Lisp or Prolog or ObjectStar.
Would you submit to fingerprinting, blood tests and who knows what else (financial, genetic code, and so forth) for a programming position?
While most other slashdotters concentrated on fingerprinting, let me remind me of something else: a DNA sample may hint the employer on risk of future health problems. What if the company refuses to hire you, because you have higher risk of cancer within next 10 years then the other candidate? Even if it may not be technically possible/feasible today, it may happen in a few years. They pull your DNA profile from archive and guess who will be layed off first?
But the problem I see is compatibility with the "Windows" world.
Right. I also curse "Windows world" for not being compatible with my "Linux world";-) I wonder how can they survive with so many problems. Actually no. I don't. I know that it only about marketing power of Microsoft.
But keeping to the point, please list the cool stuff newbie's would like to know?
My personal reasons are: because the system does not treat me as an idiot. I can find out how things work. If I want to get something working my way, then eventually I will. I can automate any tasks easily. If something is broken I can identify it to the lowest level, report it, fix it. All that while having secure and reliable system that does not deteriorate with time/updates.
I can very easily just reboot into Windows at any time. If I drive my car somewhere, I can't just hop into my old car and drive home.
Right. So the situation with Linux is better than with a car. That's good.;-)
Or are you saying that I need to do hours and hours of research before I can chat with my friends using Linux?
No. I'm saying that there are choices. You don't have to research them. You can throw a dart and take whatever you hit. Just like with a car. However, without research you risk, that after month of using new OS/car you may find out that some features do not suit you. That is still OK. The point is that this should not discourage you from considering new OS/car at all, because there are variants that do have the features that you like and don't have features that you don't like.
I learned Windows by using it and reading the help files and webpages that provided me with information on Windows. I prefer to learn about what I can do with Linux while running Linux.
Very well. Unfortunately lot of people view Linux as free (as in beer) Windows. It is not. In some areas it is more, in some areas it is less and in others it is simply different. And people are often not willing to invest time into discovering these differences.
but I don't want to spend 5 minutes searching for everything "new" in *nix, because, well, EVERYTHING is new to me!
Right. And when your old Dodge gives up, you go to the shop and it goes like this:
You: "I want to buy a car!"
Car dealer: "Very well, sir. What kind of car?"
You: "I don't know, just some car. I had a dodge and it's no good anymore, so I want a new car."
Car dealer: "Ok. A diesel or gasoline?"
You: "I don't know, just some car."
Car dealer: "Erm... look, we have a nice Honda here. Has ABS, ESC...
You: "Crap! I've no idea what you talk about! Can't you just sell me a car?" ...
Look. I know you were first to get it, but I have a great business idea with perfect ROI. All I need is the number - that you own. So... how much do you want for your "5D 09 7F B4 60 B8 FB BD D0 2B 6A A3 F2 F6 AB CA" ?
China is not bound by US copyright laws, however it is probably bound by international treaties - so let's be specific: in this case it is Berne Convention that says: "50 years after author's death". Or 50 years after going public in case of anonymous or pseudoanonymous works. It is not clear to me what happens if the IP owner is a corporation. How does it die? (or is there some other article describing such case?) Anyway the important point is that the time period given in the treaty might not be the same as the one in US laws.
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Another device that I've run across and needs driver is fingerprint sensor on Fujitsu Siemens Celsius H240 notebook - does anybody know whether that belongs to kernel or userspace?
If I was working on a bank software and I "taxed" 0.01 cent of each of billions of transactions, do you believe that I would be let go unpunished?
(Almost) nobody here wants death penalty for spammers because of spam in his specific mailbox. However the combined loss of all of us is significant. And the punishment should reflect that.
Mozilla beats them there too: chrome://browser/content/browser.xul
Yeah, I confirm sightings in Central Europe.
- Portugal - had not committee so they created one just to able to vote on OOXML - chaired by MS guy. IBM and Sun were not allowed to vote.
- Germany - committee chaired by guy from Frauenhoffer institute that has close relations to MS. Google and Deutche Telecom were not allowed to vote.
- Norway - the problems pointed out were dismissed by MS with simple "that's not true!". At the end Norway admitted themselves that the standard is crap.
- Sweden - the committee got 20 new members just before voting. They all voted "yes" because they were bought.
- Czech - 50 companies attempted to influence the voting.
- Poland - committee voted "no". A new committee was created and the vote become "yes".
- Hungary - the 1st and 2nd voting were screwed up (voting rules changed just prior voting, the invitations were sent late) and so Hungary did not vote at all.
- Italy - just before voting the committee was extended from 5 to 83(!)members.
Something smells here. Horribly.Or something like that.
Perhaps he knows a lot about economy - I don't argue that. But there are various schools in economy - with rather opposite opinions on some matters. And thus I'll prefer to believe climatologists rather than an economist on matters of global warming. Of course the proposed restrictions on greenhouse gases do influence economy. And the state should impose those restrictions. Because business is not interested in clean and healthy environment. It is interested in profit. If state does not do it, business won't do it either.
Just what multiplayer games are not about defeating the enemy? Does chess count as violent? Is Battle for Wesnoth violent? What about Lemmings (poor, little buggers), Liquid Wars, ... ? Are the kids going to be stuck with Tetris?
Did you manufacture/install/spread them?
They watched Three days of Condor and got great idea on how to get new great ideas ... head explodes.
"If you have no proofs of my wrongdoing, what is your reason for bothering me?"
Well, it starts by renaming enemy "soldiers" and "prisoners of war" to "combatants" and going downhill from there.
Yes. I'm paranoid. Why do you ask?
My personal reasons are: because the system does not treat me as an idiot. I can find out how things work. If I want to get something working my way, then eventually I will. I can automate any tasks easily. If something is broken I can identify it to the lowest level, report it, fix it. All that while having secure and reliable system that does not deteriorate with time/updates.
You: "I want to buy a car!" ... look, we have a nice Honda here. Has ABS, ESC ...
...
Car dealer: "Very well, sir. What kind of car?"
You: "I don't know, just some car. I had a dodge and it's no good anymore, so I want a new car."
Car dealer: "Ok. A diesel or gasoline?"
You: "I don't know, just some car."
Car dealer: "Erm
You: "Crap! I've no idea what you talk about! Can't you just sell me a car?"
China is not bound by US copyright laws, however it is probably bound by international treaties - so let's be specific: in this case it is Berne Convention that says: "50 years after author's death". Or 50 years after going public in case of anonymous or pseudoanonymous works. It is not clear to me what happens if the IP owner is a corporation. How does it die? (or is there some other article describing such case?) Anyway the important point is that the time period given in the treaty might not be the same as the one in US laws.
The reports that XP offers to send to Microsoft, when an application crashes, do not count.