This may seem good in the short term, but when your beloved GPL application turns up in a Brazilian program designed to create and share child pornography you won't exactly be laughing.
FBI: You Tried to launder money to the Soviets, didn't you?
Person: No. I didn't.
FBI: Then how do you explain this encryption software on your computer. You obviously have something to hide.
Person: No. And if I did, that would be none of your business
FBI to jury: Yup. He's guilty.
You might as well say that "The fact he knew that what he was doing was wrong was supported by the fact that he didn't tell anyone about it." A right to privacy should be guaranteed. I shouldn't have to defend my use of tools which help ensure my privacy
e=mc^2 is an equation. Ditto for the pythagorean theorem. Calculus is a branch of math. None of those are algorithms. Patents SHOULD be given for novel algorithms or novel applications of algorithms (i.e. compression, pagerank, crypto). A dozen years should be enough, though. Once the patent expires then it should go into the public domain.
The problem is that we have too many patents for ideas which are NOT truly novel, and are a result of being a market leader. Small/obvious innovations do NOT deserve a 14 year term to collect royalties. The patent office is too lenient.
This is the origin of the "Microsoft Tax": Since there is (practically) no market for computers without Windows, you need to pay MS it's fee to buy a computer (from a major manufacturer)
Also, I definitely do not want to risk exposing my static IP to anyone, especially in a way that involves new technology that may be quite exploitable, just by clicking on a PDF link on google
Wait a minute... clicking on ANY link on Google exposes your static IP to the content provider anyway.
A significant plus for electricity is that it is cleaner at the point of consumption. Even if the electricity is generated by burning oil, burning the oil in one place to make electricity to distribute to thousands of people means you have a single place where you can apply all your pollution control, as opposed to having thousands of people burn that oil, requiring pollution control at thousands of places.
And a significant minus for electricity is that by the time that you factor in (a) energy transfer loss at the plant, (b) distribution, and (c), energy transfer loss at the car, the few BIG places suddenly start to look just a bit worse
It seems that the root cause of identity theft is NOT that personal data is available, but that businesses trust that data so much. For instance, I recently had to reset my online banking password. I did this over the phone. All I needed was my Social Security Number, my username, my city of birth, and my high school. Let's see here... my high school is on the internet due to interscholastic competitions, my city of birth isn't something I would keep from my friend and my soc number is known to any number of government employees and my employers.
Now if a soc # is not really secure, and all of the others are pieces of information that shouldn't need to be held confidential, then identity theft will be an issue until we find a way to verify identity not based just on faith.
How are all GPL versions automatically compatible with newer versions. What does this statement even mean?
If file 1 is licensed only with GPL v2 and file 2 is licensed only with GPL v3, unless GPL v3 says that you can redistribute under either the terms you received or a previous version, then you must distribute one file with one license and the other with the other license. Adding in "or any newer version" is dangerous. What if the FSF somehow gets taken over by Microsoft? Then MS can do whatever they want with your code.
Tell me this, though.
How do you build a windows service (that's a daemon for you unix folks but it needs to be specifically built and installed to work properly), have it run as an unprivileged user (i.e. *not* the system account) and have it start when the system boots *without* the user it is supposed to run as logging in at the console?
If it's possible, then it is *very* fucking new.
Administrative Tools->Services. Select the service. properties, Log on tab, this account, fill in the account's details. general tab, startup type, automatic.
Not that complex actually. And it's been in since at least XP's release (maybe 2000, but I haven't used that much).
you misunderstand me. You were arguing that being required to carry a second form of ID invades your privacy. My point was that you are already identified by the credit card. The photo ID serves to verify this identification. The only time that it is actually an invasion of privacy is when someone other than the card holder tries to use the card.
Personally, we don't live in a police state YET, and I don't want to show ID every time I make a purchase. When I come to a store that requires this, I report them to MasterCard, who usually gets the merchant back into compliance with their agreement. Sorry if you don't like that.
It would have expired over 10 years(xerox invented the gui in mid 70's) ago back in 95 the same year windows95 came out.
True, but a lot of the previous work that led to win95 wouldn't have happened. Lisa? nope. Macintosh? try again. Windows 1-3.11? Not a chance. The landscape would have been delayed a significant amount
The price of goods that you purchase have an embedded tax in them of about 20%
Hmmm... what tax are you alluding to? Corporate income tax? hah! Excise taxes? If you get rid of those you'll need a bit more than 20%.. Anyway what I'm referring to is the same idea that corporations are using. They are now based in the Caribbean, so they don't pay much US Income Tax. Now those with the means will be able to purchase stuff in low-tax areas, and then bring it back to the US.
Except the borders play havoc with this. Suppose I'm rich. I can buy a car in Canada, or I can buy it in New York. One place I pay a big FairTax, the other I don't. Congratulations. You've killed big-ticket retail near the border. Also, for the rich, a tax on spending would cripple the economy, as prices would take a large jump due to this. Finally, the paycheck from the government seems like a nice idea, but it still hurts. A progressive tax on income works, but our definition of income is now riddled with incentives for certain actions (i.e. home-buying, holding stock [why IS the CG tax less than the income tax, anyway?], and even more for businesses).
Imagine if the world had had your views during world war 2: "I think the torture and murdering of jews is wrong, but maybe the people in germany don't. We should just them sort out their own problems"
That's basically the mindset the world had. Who fought against Germany in WWII? The Russians, who were invaded. The British, whose close ally, the French, were invaded, and the Americans, who were invaded by Germany's ally, Japan.
Also, sometimes getting rid of one bad thing (aka Saddam) is not a good thing, for it can lead to something worse (aka Al Sadr or his ilk)
The point of programs is that they help the user, I could make the most secure hello world program in the world, and it would still be worthless compared to windows, because it is absolutely worthless
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If a computer breaks and you're in the room and you're known as a geek, you're probably fucked.
Alternately, you get asked to fix it. It depends on if you're known as a white hat or a black hat.
PLEASE! Won't someone just think of the CHILDREN?
By writing a Perl script, and piping the output through the php command, of course!
What about track/field? With the exception of shotput, no track/field events have any of those three conditions.
Right. 75 dollars is the 50 pounds mentioned in TFA
FBI: You Tried to launder money to the Soviets, didn't you?
Person: No. I didn't.
FBI: Then how do you explain this encryption software on your computer. You obviously have something to hide.
Person: No. And if I did, that would be none of your business
FBI to jury: Yup. He's guilty.
You might as well say that "The fact he knew that what he was doing was wrong was supported by the fact that he didn't tell anyone about it." A right to privacy should be guaranteed. I shouldn't have to defend my use of tools which help ensure my privacy
e=mc^2 is an equation. Ditto for the pythagorean theorem. Calculus is a branch of math. None of those are algorithms. Patents SHOULD be given for novel algorithms or novel applications of algorithms (i.e. compression, pagerank, crypto). A dozen years should be enough, though. Once the patent expires then it should go into the public domain.
The problem is that we have too many patents for ideas which are NOT truly novel, and are a result of being a market leader. Small/obvious innovations do NOT deserve a 14 year term to collect royalties. The patent office is too lenient.
This is the origin of the "Microsoft Tax": Since there is (practically) no market for computers without Windows, you need to pay MS it's fee to buy a computer (from a major manufacturer)
I believe they stop updating the score sheet with about half an hour to an hour remaining in order to keep the suspense there for the awards ceremony.
I'd trust the link given by the submitter.
Also, I definitely do not want to risk exposing my static IP to anyone, especially in a way that involves new technology that may be quite exploitable, just by clicking on a PDF link on google
Wait a minute... clicking on ANY link on Google exposes your static IP to the content provider anyway.
A significant plus for electricity is that it is cleaner at the point of consumption. Even if the electricity is generated by burning oil, burning the oil in one place to make electricity to distribute to thousands of people means you have a single place where you can apply all your pollution control, as opposed to having thousands of people burn that oil, requiring pollution control at thousands of places.
And a significant minus for electricity is that by the time that you factor in (a) energy transfer loss at the plant, (b) distribution, and (c), energy transfer loss at the car, the few BIG places suddenly start to look just a bit worse
It seems that the root cause of identity theft is NOT that personal data is available, but that businesses trust that data so much. For instance, I recently had to reset my online banking password. I did this over the phone. All I needed was my Social Security Number, my username, my city of birth, and my high school. Let's see here... my high school is on the internet due to interscholastic competitions, my city of birth isn't something I would keep from my friend and my soc number is known to any number of government employees and my employers.
Now if a soc # is not really secure, and all of the others are pieces of information that shouldn't need to be held confidential, then identity theft will be an issue until we find a way to verify identity not based just on faith.
How are all GPL versions automatically compatible with newer versions. What does this statement even mean?
If file 1 is licensed only with GPL v2 and file 2 is licensed only with GPL v3, unless GPL v3 says that you can redistribute under either the terms you received or a previous version, then you must distribute one file with one license and the other with the other license. Adding in "or any newer version" is dangerous. What if the FSF somehow gets taken over by Microsoft? Then MS can do whatever they want with your code.
Not that complex actually. And it's been in since at least XP's release (maybe 2000, but I haven't used that much).
Ugh. I've defended Microsoft. I feel dirty now.
Yeah, I suppose you COULD do it in one line, but I'd rather do the 2 lines of BASIC
you misunderstand me. You were arguing that being required to carry a second form of ID invades your privacy. My point was that you are already identified by the credit card. The photo ID serves to verify this identification. The only time that it is actually an invasion of privacy is when someone other than the card holder tries to use the card.
Personally, we don't live in a police state YET, and I don't want to show ID every time I make a purchase. When I come to a store that requires this, I report them to MasterCard, who usually gets the merchant back into compliance with their agreement. Sorry if you don't like that.
and the card that you use doesn't identify you?
It would have expired over 10 years(xerox invented the gui in mid 70's) ago back in 95 the same year windows95 came out.
True, but a lot of the previous work that led to win95 wouldn't have happened. Lisa? nope. Macintosh? try again. Windows 1-3.11? Not a chance. The landscape would have been delayed a significant amount
The price of goods that you purchase have an embedded tax in them of about 20%
Hmmm... what tax are you alluding to? Corporate income tax? hah! Excise taxes? If you get rid of those you'll need a bit more than 20%.. Anyway what I'm referring to is the same idea that corporations are using. They are now based in the Caribbean, so they don't pay much US Income Tax. Now those with the means will be able to purchase stuff in low-tax areas, and then bring it back to the US.
Except the borders play havoc with this. Suppose I'm rich. I can buy a car in Canada, or I can buy it in New York. One place I pay a big FairTax, the other I don't. Congratulations. You've killed big-ticket retail near the border. Also, for the rich, a tax on spending would cripple the economy, as prices would take a large jump due to this. Finally, the paycheck from the government seems like a nice idea, but it still hurts. A progressive tax on income works, but our definition of income is now riddled with incentives for certain actions (i.e. home-buying, holding stock [why IS the CG tax less than the income tax, anyway?], and even more for businesses).
Uhhh... he did quietly admit his liability to them, then they proceeded to publically sue him.
Yes, you're right. Britain and France came to the defense of Poland, not Britain coming to the defense of France. The point still stands, though.
That's basically the mindset the world had. Who fought against Germany in WWII? The Russians, who were invaded. The British, whose close ally, the French, were invaded, and the Americans, who were invaded by Germany's ally, Japan.
Also, sometimes getting rid of one bad thing (aka Saddam) is not a good thing, for it can lead to something worse (aka Al Sadr or his ilk)
And America's experience with our space station was much better. We couldn't even keep it in space!
The point of programs is that they help the user, I could make the most secure hello world program in the world, and it would still be worthless compared to windows, because it is absolutely worthless