This screenshot from the Wired article points to a disturbing problem with the 10.3 prereleases: move from 10.2.x to 10.3 and have your processor downgrade, your clock speed decrease by 600MHz, and your RAM decrease by 448 MB. Watch out!
Why are there so many "Red Hot Chili Peppers" results in that search?
The Chilli Peppers had a single called "Scar Tissue" a few years ago. So how is it connected with porno? Well, you're searching the internet. That's enough of a connection.
I can forsee a future where we will be virtual slaves unable to create anything new and are taxed for any utterance.
Right -- so we'll be "virtual slaves . . . taxed for any utterance" because of DRM software on Windows. I'll bet you US$20 that in, say, two decades time, there will exist at least some utterance that will remain untaxed. You willing to take that? Or are you willing to admit that for all your melodrama, it's really really trivializing to compare the holocaust with an optional patch that appears to be the thin edge of the wedge to making you (heaven forfend) pay for the music that you listen to on your computer?
Unless you're incredibly comfortable with Reich Emergency Protection Act ---- oops, make that the "Patriot" Act ---- it IS the apocalypse, and it's time to wise up and push back.
Hey, I know you were trying to be the first to bring the Nazis into a discussion about an optional operating system patch, but this asshole beat you too it. Better luck next time.
Requiring all Jews to be registered is just a minor thing.
If you can't figure out the difference between the holocaust and Microsoft's DRM strategy, then you need to stop and think about things for a good long time. But I'll give you a hand: the relevant dissimilarity between the two things you're trying to compare is that Microsoft's DRM strategy won't end up with anyone dead. Pull back, get some perspective. It's incredibly offensive to people who had family that were victims of the Nazis, and, for that matter, to any thinking people, for you to compare the inconvenience of DRM (that you have to opt into, for goodness sake -- buy a Mac) and the deportation, forced servitude and murder of an entire ethnic group. Next time think before you post.
But Grandad, didn't you try to fight them? No little one, it just seemed harmless at the time...
Chill out with the melodrama: requiring digital signing to play music or watch videos is annoying and obnoxious, yes, but cause for a revolution? No. If you don't want the patch, don't download it. And if you find windows overbearing, don't use it. It's not the apocalypse for goodness sake.
Which is of course an essential part of the balancing act between the judicial, legislative, and executive branches that makes our form of government so resistant to abuse.
So technically, the influence of this decision ends in the courtroom - no law was changed, after all. However, this case should help establish a precedent. Other courts with similar cases are likely to go by the same reasoning.
You're missing the point. The point isn't that Washington State's supreme court can only bind lower courts in Washington by precedent; the point is that the appeal was to a privacy provision in Washington State's Constitution, which (obviously) only has force in Washington State. If other states' constitutions contain parallel provisions (and the case law surrounding those provisions is sufficeintly similar) then, of course, this decision will be a factor (though not a controlling factor) in the judicial reasoning in those states. But the force of the Washington State Constitution ends at the border of Washington state, and thus so does the force of this decision, which depends on that law.
Were it only a jurisdictional issue, you'd be dead on, and having the Washington State precedent could be of some bearing in other states. The problem with appealing to this decision elsewhere is that the actions were found to be in contravention of a privacy guarantee in the Washington State Constitution, not the search and seizure provisions of the fourth amendment to the U.S. Constitution. So unless other states have similar language in their constitutions (and a similar case-law interpretation of that provision), this still isn't very useful outside the Pacific Northwest.
The controlling law here is the Washington State Constitution, not the United States Constitution. Indeed, from the decision:
Jackson does not claim or suggest in his petition for review that the Fourth Amendment was violated. Accordingly, there is no issue before us under the Fourth Amendment.
So the force of this decision ends at the border of Washington State.
See, the thing is that Duke doesn't have a great song written about it like the Pixies' UMass, which was what made me a Mass fan, back in the day -- and the early nineties were when Coach Cal and Marcus Gumby and that wicked backcourt of Padilla and Travieso were tearing up the nation (plus comically named forward Dana Dingle!). But yeah, ever since then, it's been lean years for Mass basketball.
K came along in '80-'81, and Ferry (finally) got a title in 2003, so that's 22 years. And what's a Dookie doing at UMass? Shouldn't you be representing for your Minutemen? Sure, they've kinda sucked since Coach Cal cut and run, but c'mon dude.
Maybe you were just making a joke....I had no idea.:)
Yep, he was. Y'see, you Dookies usually like to talk smack about how good your teams are, especially the basketball team. So you might be "in" on the computer stuff, but you seem to be "out" on the campus-wide obsession stuff.
Bonus Quiz: How many Coach K-coached players have gone on to win NBA titles?
xnu, the Darwin and OS X kernel, is actually monolithic. It just provides mach-like abstractions. Or something. See here (section 2) for details.
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Uh, would you believe that the extra "e" is for "evolution"?
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I never thought I would see IBM on the right side of IT, but there we have it.
IBM is crafty, eh? The most charitable way of putting it is to say that they know how to adapt to changing business environments (although it might be more accurate to say that they have an almost supernatural sense which way the wind is blowing). Think about it: old alliances, like IBM-MS, are a thing of the past, with IBM being perhaps linux's greatest corporate benefactor, while old oppositions, like IBM-Apple, have evaporated, starting with the old AIM partnership, and now with IBM-made CPU's in the latest Macintoshes.
Is ESR's "Ultimate Linux Box" semi- or full-automatic?
Also, if you look at the bottom of this page, you'll see that the specs on the so-called ULB's don't match what you're saying, and the prices start at about $900 more.
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. . .then the terrorists have already won.
. . .Except computers.
This screenshot from the Wired article points to a disturbing problem with the 10.3 prereleases: move from 10.2.x to 10.3 and have your processor downgrade, your clock speed decrease by 600MHz, and your RAM decrease by 448 MB. Watch out!
Right -- so we'll be "virtual slaves . . . taxed for any utterance" because of DRM software on Windows. I'll bet you US$20 that in, say, two decades time, there will exist at least some utterance that will remain untaxed. You willing to take that? Or are you willing to admit that for all your melodrama, it's really really trivializing to compare the holocaust with an optional patch that appears to be the thin edge of the wedge to making you (heaven forfend) pay for the music that you listen to on your computer?
If you're wondering what William Shatner said best, click here. Because timothy sure hit the nail on the head this time.
If you're wondering what William Shatner said best, click here. Because timothy sure hit the nail on the head this time.
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Somewhere in the neighbourhood of 90% of the people on /. are too young to catch your reference.
Were it only a jurisdictional issue, you'd be dead on, and having the Washington State precedent could be of some bearing in other states. The problem with appealing to this decision elsewhere is that the actions were found to be in contravention of a privacy guarantee in the Washington State Constitution, not the search and seizure provisions of the fourth amendment to the U.S. Constitution. So unless other states have similar language in their constitutions (and a similar case-law interpretation of that provision), this still isn't very useful outside the Pacific Northwest.
Q: What do you call one senior executive leaving Sun?
A: A start, at least.
See, the thing is that Duke doesn't have a great song written about it like the Pixies' UMass, which was what made me a Mass fan, back in the day -- and the early nineties were when Coach Cal and Marcus Gumby and that wicked backcourt of Padilla and Travieso were tearing up the nation (plus comically named forward Dana Dingle!). But yeah, ever since then, it's been lean years for Mass basketball.
K came along in '80-'81, and Ferry (finally) got a title in 2003, so that's 22 years. And what's a Dookie doing at UMass? Shouldn't you be representing for your Minutemen? Sure, they've kinda sucked since Coach Cal cut and run, but c'mon dude.
Bonus Quiz: How many Coach K-coached players have gone on to win NBA titles?
xnu, the Darwin and OS X kernel, is actually monolithic. It just provides mach-like abstractions. Or something. See here (section 2) for details.
Uh, would you believe that the extra "e" is for "evolution"?
Is ESR's "Ultimate Linux Box" semi- or full-automatic?
Also, if you look at the bottom of this page, you'll see that the specs on the so-called ULB's don't match what you're saying, and the prices start at about $900 more.