A quick google search indicates that less than 100.000 of the 2 million US prisoners are illegal aliens, while to list a stunning example 4.8% of the overwhelmingly native population of black men are imprisoned by the government at any moment, with the number being 12.9% in the 25-29 age groupp.
An unintended side effect of this would be to drive up the SCO stock price, thus rewarding the current stockholders. That in turn would provide an incentive for other companies to start similar legal adventures against Linux, with the hope that they too may be targeted in this profitable way.
It's a nice little loophole that governments are using to get away with military aggression without the humiliation of large opposition in parliaments.
Maybe you're not aware that the US is the only parliamentary country that goes to war regularly? The attitude that war is an everyday thing that happens now and then is uniquely American. The rest of the civilized world abhores war in a way most Americans have no idea of.
The US just has the strongest millitary as _single_ country...not 2 whole continents.
Not true. The US could fairly easily defeat the entire rest of the planet's military might. Other than the old Soviet missiles, none of those countries even have any real capability to launch any kind of attack on the US, let alone be victorious in it.
Bush won't invade France, but it's not because it would be militarily impossible.
I'm in San Francisco. Apart from the high profile races there is typically a dozen city referendums, a dozen state referendums on the ballot, several lower profile city and state elected positions, such as insurance commisioner, district attorney etc, and primaries.
Here are the 27 referendums from last time as an example.
Cost and voter work load are the main problems with the manual system.
I worked in the similiar Swedish vote counting system a few times, and it works very well producing results that are almost certainly exactly correct, and verifiably so. But it is a lot of work. And we only do exactly three elections every four years.
Bear in mind that the typical American voter can have 50 or more elections to vote in every single year, and you start to see the problem. Plus that at that voting volume, you have to consider how to make it easy for the voter to cast all these votes. Putting every vote in a separate sealed envelope etc could take an hour for some less manually skilled voters
I can tell you that if I were told that I had to provide source code for a product to compare against a compiled version for legal reasons in an after-the-fact case where binaries were produced by a compiler compared to the original... I'd have to quit my job immediately, grab my family, max my credit cards/home equity loans, donate my household furnishings to charity, and move to a non-extraditable country in a real hurry.
I don't get the problem. This can be pretty easily accomplished with any number of source versioning tools (CVS, perforce, clearcase, etc...), and an automated build process. It's standard procedure in any part of the software industry I've worked last 10 years, for many very good and non legalistic reasons.
You'd think the voters are also interested parties in the election procerss, not just the political parties.
I worked as a vote counter in Sweden a few timees, and I believe anyone has the right to go look at the process and control count the votes there. And, perhaps as a result, nobody ever does...
I suspect it's pretty hard to collect much money for a candidate that way while complying with all campaign finance restriction laws, especially from out of district or even non citizen contributors.
Yeah, macs are a bit more expensive, but not really by much if you compare to comparable brands and quality, not self assembled garage models.
And I agree in theory on your pricing opinion, but it's just that in reality Apple have been pricing their machines in pretty much this way for 20 years, and they have made a very successful business out of it. They've also continuously been pronounced on the verge of death for all those 20 years.
So I don't expect either Apple pricing or their good fortunes to change anytime soon.
My example in the general form is the fairly common "pattern"
if (fooIsSafeToDo() && foo())...
This is guaranteed to work in C and Java, and to 99.9% in C++. So as a C++ developer you're forced to either always write
if (fooIsSafeToDo()) {
if (foo())...
or to keep writing code that will almost always work. That is, if you're even aware of the issue, which I'm sure most programmers are not.
If I understand your point, this can't happen in the common case where 'fooIsSafeToDo' is a null check, which is good, but doesn't really change the principle. And no, I haven't seen this one bite anyone, but I've seen plenty of other really obscure C++ traps wreak havoc.
Here's an other pet peeve, while I'm whining. Why is this unsafe C++ code?
Amazon and other could move to a system where the order is submitted via an (encrypted) email. That would put the receiving address on the white list, and automatically allow the confirmation email to get through.
Or you'd still send the order through the web, but generate an additional email just for this purpose. But then it's not one-click shopping anymore.
As long as iTunes will not convert the AAC songs to cassette tape I will stay with Kazaa, thank you very much. I have the legal fair use right to conver the music I own to that format, and until the RIAA, Steve Jobs and John Ashcroft stop treating me as a criminal, I will continue to be one.
Apparently Michael Robertson hasn't yet been informed that iTunes will burn regular audio CDs that you can play in pretty much any CD or DVD player in the world.
I am sure he will issue a correction and an apology as soon as this fact reaches him.
Is there any information on how/if you can move your music collection to a new computer when you inevitably get a new machine a few years down the road?
Do you just copy the files over?
I hope the new Mac doesn't have to be one of the three designated machines.
If you actually read the links you will find that he was in fact not held as a material witness as a matter of public record. Stories appeared in the press claiming he was held as a material witness, but there was no public record of it, and the authorities refused to answer any questions about what had happened to him.
As far as I can tell he was disappeared in the Argentinian sense for those 6 weeks, but now that he is charged with a crime that is no longer so. Even in Argentina, some of the disappeared were eventually found alive and well.
You make some interesting arguments regarding some events you seem to have imagined in your head, but they have very little to do with the actual case of Mike Hawash. Reading the links provided would easily show that.
1. There was no explanation. Through unknown channels, stories appeared in the press about how he was held as a material witness, but Mikes friends and family got no answers to any inquiries about his status. Also, unless he is called to testify in some case, which nothing seems to indicate will happen, the "material witness" label was phony.
2. "in *any* country, you'd expect him to be arrested and charged" Did you miss that the main complaint here is that he was not arrested and charged?
3. Nobody is asking for him to get special treatment. Just his constitutional right to a fair trial, like all other Americans.
4. Are you under the impression that anyone is holding up China or Cuba as models for better legal treatment? Or are you saying that as long as the US is marginally better than the most oppressive regimes on the planet, we should not complain?
5. The crime he is charged with seems to be that he travelled to China and back. Nobody is even alleged to have been hurt by these actions.
I just find $129 per year to keep my OS current is far too expensive. Especially when to a large extent the improvements are bug fixes. If anyone should pay for that Apple should pay me for selling me a defective product.
Wanting to get a good deal as a buyer is an essential part of capitalism.
But they're independent of folders. All files will still belong to a folder, but they can also be in one (or more?) piles, organized after whatever scheme makes sense to the user.
Also, you can browse through your pile effectively, and you can tell by looking at the pile roughly how much stuff is in it, and possibly (it's been talked about) how old it is or how long since it's been touched by how much dust and spider web it's collected.
A lot of people are excited by this and have talked about it for a long time, so I hope it will be good. Only actual use will tell though.
Maybe I'm still dot.com damaged, but the $10M X award sounds like a far too small sum to provide enough incentive for this. Surely designing and building this thing costs more than that?
In the meantime, don't expect the FTC or anyone from the Bush administration to do anything more than slap the hand of anyone making a good deal of money.
I don't think it is that simple. Drug dealers and porn producers can make tons of money, and the Bush people love to kick their asses. Where spammers fall on their moral scale is anyones guess.
There is some truth to that, I'm sure, but I'm not aware that programmers schooled in any other methodology are perfect programmers straight out of school. It's a tough craft, and it takes a few years of being an idiot until you start producing really good code, regardless of methodology.
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A quick google search indicates that less than 100.000 of the 2 million US prisoners are illegal aliens, while to list a stunning example 4.8% of the overwhelmingly native population of black men are imprisoned by the government at any moment, with the number being 12.9% in the 25-29 age groupp.
An unintended side effect of this would be to drive up the SCO stock price, thus rewarding the current stockholders. That in turn would provide an incentive for other companies to start similar legal adventures against Linux, with the hope that they too may be targeted in this profitable way.
It's a nice little loophole that governments are using to get away with military aggression without the humiliation of large opposition in parliaments.
Maybe you're not aware that the US is the only parliamentary country that goes to war regularly? The attitude that war is an everyday thing that happens now and then is uniquely American. The rest of the civilized world abhores war in a way most Americans have no idea of.
The US just has the strongest millitary as _single_ country...not 2 whole continents.
Not true. The US could fairly easily defeat the entire rest of the planet's military might. Other than the old Soviet missiles, none of those countries even have any real capability to launch any kind of attack on the US, let alone be victorious in it.
Bush won't invade France, but it's not because it would be militarily impossible.
I'm in San Francisco. Apart from the high profile races there is typically a dozen city referendums, a dozen state referendums on the ballot, several lower profile city and state elected positions, such as insurance commisioner, district attorney etc, and primaries.
Here are the
27 referendums from last time as an example.
Cost and voter work load are the main problems with the manual system.
I worked in the similiar Swedish vote counting system a few times, and it works very well producing results that are almost certainly exactly correct, and verifiably so. But it is a lot of work. And we only do exactly three elections every four years.
Bear in mind that the typical American voter can have 50 or more elections to vote in every single year, and you start to see the problem. Plus that at that voting volume, you have to consider how to make it easy for the voter to cast all these votes. Putting every vote in a separate sealed envelope etc could take an hour for some less manually skilled voters
I can tell you that if I were told that I had to provide source code for a product to compare against a compiled version for legal reasons in an after-the-fact case where binaries were produced by a compiler compared to the original... I'd have to quit my job immediately, grab my family, max my credit cards/home equity loans, donate my household furnishings to charity, and move to a non-extraditable country in a real hurry.
I don't get the problem. This can be pretty easily accomplished with any number of source versioning tools (CVS, perforce, clearcase, etc...), and an automated build process. It's standard procedure in any part of the software industry I've worked last 10 years, for many very good and non legalistic reasons.
You'd think the voters are also interested parties in the election procerss, not just the political parties.
I worked as a vote counter in Sweden a few timees, and I believe anyone has the right to go look at the process and control count the votes there. And, perhaps as a result, nobody ever does...
I suspect it's pretty hard to collect much money for a candidate that way while complying with all campaign finance restriction laws, especially from out of district or even non citizen contributors.
I wouldn't call it a P2P application in the typical file sharing sense. Isn't it more of a "poor mans Akamai"?
Yeah, macs are a bit more expensive, but not really by much if you compare to comparable brands and quality, not self assembled garage models.
And I agree in theory on your pricing opinion, but it's just that in reality Apple have been pricing their machines in pretty much this way for 20 years, and they have made a very successful business out of it. They've also continuously been pronounced on the verge of death for all those 20 years.
So I don't expect either Apple pricing or their good fortunes to change anytime soon.
My example in the general form is the fairly common "pattern"
// memory, file, whatever
if (fooIsSafeToDo() && foo())...
This is guaranteed to work in C and Java, and to 99.9% in C++. So as a C++ developer you're forced to either always write
if (fooIsSafeToDo()) {
if (foo())...
or to keep writing code that will almost always work. That is, if you're even aware of the issue, which I'm sure most programmers are not.
If I understand your point, this can't happen in the common case where 'fooIsSafeToDo' is a null check, which is good, but doesn't really change the principle. And no, I haven't seen this one bite anyone, but I've seen plenty of other really obscure C++ traps wreak havoc.
Here's an other pet peeve, while I'm whining. Why is this unsafe C++ code?
getResource();
foo();
releaseResource();
because foo() may throw an exception, so this is a resource leak.
An other awful consequence of operator overloading is that code like thisis unsafe, since the && may be overloaded.
(The above may not be valid C++ syntax. I left C++ for Java many years ago and I'm never going back!)
Amazon and other could move to a system where the order is submitted via an (encrypted) email. That would put the receiving address on the white list, and automatically allow the confirmation email to get through.
Or you'd still send the order through the web, but generate an additional email just for this purpose. But then it's not one-click shopping anymore.
As long as iTunes will not convert the AAC songs to cassette tape I will stay with Kazaa, thank you very much. I have the legal fair use right to conver the music I own to that format, and until the RIAA, Steve Jobs and John Ashcroft stop treating me as a criminal, I will continue to be one.
Wake up people!!
Surely a lot of people can find some friend in the US who will let you use their credit card number for buying songs.
Apparently Michael Robertson hasn't yet been informed that iTunes will burn regular audio CDs that you can play in pretty much any CD or DVD player in the world.
I am sure he will issue a correction and an apology as soon as this fact reaches him.
Is there any information on how/if you can move your music collection to a new computer when you inevitably get a new machine a few years down the road?
Do you just copy the files over?
I hope the new Mac doesn't have to be one of the three designated machines.
If you actually read the links you will find that he was in fact not held as a material witness as a matter of public record. Stories appeared in the press claiming he was held as a material witness, but there was no public record of it, and the authorities refused to answer any questions about what had happened to him.
As far as I can tell he was disappeared in the Argentinian sense for those 6 weeks, but now that he is charged with a crime that is no longer so. Even in Argentina, some of the disappeared were eventually found alive and well.
You make some interesting arguments regarding some events you seem to have imagined in your head, but they have very little to do with the actual case of Mike Hawash. Reading the links provided would easily show that.
1. There was no explanation. Through unknown channels, stories appeared in the press about how he was held as a material witness, but Mikes friends and family got no answers to any inquiries about his status. Also, unless he is called to testify in some case, which nothing seems to indicate will happen, the "material witness" label was phony.
2. "in *any* country, you'd expect him to be arrested and charged" Did you miss that the main complaint here is that he was not arrested and charged?
3. Nobody is asking for him to get special treatment. Just his constitutional right to a fair trial, like all other Americans.
4. Are you under the impression that anyone is holding up China or Cuba as models for better legal treatment? Or are you saying that as long as the US is marginally better than the most oppressive regimes on the planet, we should not complain?
5. The crime he is charged with seems to be that he travelled to China and back. Nobody is even alleged to have been hurt by these actions.
I just find $129 per year to keep my OS current is far too expensive. Especially when to a large extent the improvements are bug fixes. If anyone should pay for that Apple should pay me for selling me a defective product.
Wanting to get a good deal as a buyer is an essential part of capitalism.
But they're independent of folders. All files will still belong to a folder, but they can also be in one (or more?) piles, organized after whatever scheme makes sense to the user.
Also, you can browse through your pile effectively, and you can tell by looking at the pile roughly how much stuff is in it, and possibly (it's been talked about) how old it is or how long since it's been touched by how much dust and spider web it's collected.
A lot of people are excited by this and have talked about it for a long time, so I hope it will be good. Only actual use will tell though.
Maybe I'm still dot.com damaged, but the $10M X award sounds like a far too small sum to provide enough incentive for this. Surely designing and building this thing costs more than that?
In the meantime, don't expect the FTC or anyone from the Bush administration to do anything more than slap the hand of anyone making a good deal of money.
I don't think it is that simple. Drug dealers and porn producers can make tons of money, and the Bush people love to kick their asses. Where spammers fall on their moral scale is anyones guess.
There is some truth to that, I'm sure, but I'm not aware that programmers schooled in any other methodology are perfect programmers straight out of school. It's a tough craft, and it takes a few years of being an idiot until you start producing really good code, regardless of methodology.