These are hardly Hitler's worst evils. Any way you spin it, comparing Bush with Hitler is obviously preposterous
Indeed. But how about comparing the first three years of Hitler's power with Bush's. Without suggesting for one moment that Bush was in any way responsible for the 9/11 tragedy it is quite instructive to compare how he has used it with the way that Hitler used (and probably caused) the burning of the Reichstag.
I find the thought of nearly five more years of Bush quite terrifying.
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I could not get to their site, is it the virus or have they been slashdotted?
Brilliant idea. Take a look at Linex which stands for Linux Extremadura a region of Southwest Spain on the Portuguese border. A lot of the site is available in English
The regional Government is strongly supporting the project and the idea is to have Linux in every school and government office. They are also supporting the neighbouring region of Andalucia in a project to install 15,000 computers running Linex in their schools.
It is about time that we all started to think about the question of compensation/damages. Far too many people seem to think it is a bit like winning the Lotto. That guy bumped me so I claim whiplash and a $1m settlement.
People should receive fair damages or reimbursement of losses sustained through the negligence or incompetence of others. It is not right that they culprit is "fined" and the proceeds passed to the victim.
If a Government causes damage by revealing private information it should compensate the victim even if it is only a token amount for embarrassment. If the misbehavior is so bad that it deserves a punitive settlement I see no reason for that to be paid to the victim. There are many better ways of distributing these windfalls.
If a department loses a chunk of its budget through malicious or arrogant disclosure of personal information it might start asking who was responsible and trying to prevent future abuses. There is no need to turn it into a get rich scheme and a honeypot for ambulance chasing lawyers.
any technology that allows for people to protect their privacy within reason should be allowed and accepted.
I accept that in theory. On the other hand any use of technology that denies my freedom to communicate freely must be clearly thought out.
It is now standard for babysitters to have the mobile number of the parents and to text them if there is any sort of problem. Difficulties will arise if that message is going to be jammed because the guy on the next table has unilaterally decided to ban anyone in the room from using their phones.
If restaurants offer phone free zones in the way that they offer smoking free zones that is fine. Companies might do the same thing openly for security or productivity reasons.
Giving anyone the right to block any phone anywhere any time is not the best way of stopping loud voiced showoffs from annoying me.
I just took a look at http://www.dvorak-keyboard.com/ and could not see a backslash. Normally I use a Spanish keyboard and right alt + 1 is intuitive enough for me.
The layout is totally aimed at English speakers and Dvorak looks to be no improvement in any of the languages I know much about. For instance in Spanish Q and Z are commonly used and the K and W tiles would be worth about 50 points each in Scrabble.
The French, being the French, already have a variation and use an AZERTY keyboard layout. I doubt if it would be beneficial to the US to introduce another metric style incompatibility with the rest of the world.
Dvorak would have been great if it had succeeded 50 years ago but I suspect its use will be restricted to Esperanto speakers.
I don't have a data center to play with; my budget is much more modest. As a compromise I have draped the Christams tree lights around my computer. Coool!
Slashdot Mirror
In the UK you are covered for being injured or killed by an uninsured driver Motor Insurers Bureau Of course we are all dangerous commies :)
Tell me Mr. Anderson, what use is a non-clickable link if people just mark and middle-click.
n uxfs/piszcz_large.html
I guess that is why he put the space in the URL:
http://theory.cs.iitm.ernet.in/~arvindn/mirror/li
......and I thought GW stood for Gates, William
Indeed. But how about comparing the first three years of Hitler's power with Bush's. Without suggesting for one moment that Bush was in any way responsible for the 9/11 tragedy it is quite instructive to compare how he has used it with the way that Hitler used (and probably caused) the burning of the Reichstag. I find the thought of nearly five more years of Bush quite terrifying.
ZB
I could not get to their site, is it the virus or have they been slashdotted?
the benefits of software patents are falsified by emirical ressearch.
Were the patents registered in the Emirates?
I had a great time there - but it was mid-summer and the Feast of St John. But there are other opinions.
Take a look at the track record of the industry. Much more ridiculous money-losing things have been done, regularly. ZB
Brilliant idea. Take a look at Linex which stands for Linux Extremadura a region of Southwest Spain on the Portuguese border. A lot of the site is available in English
The regional Government is strongly supporting the project and the idea is to have Linux in every school and government office. They are also supporting the neighbouring region of Andalucia in a project to install 15,000 computers running Linex in their schools.
ZB
It is about time that we all started to think about the question of compensation/damages. Far too many people seem to think it is a bit like winning the Lotto. That guy bumped me so I claim whiplash and a $1m settlement.
People should receive fair damages or reimbursement of losses sustained through the negligence or incompetence of others. It is not right that they culprit is "fined" and the proceeds passed to the victim.
If a Government causes damage by revealing private information it should compensate the victim even if it is only a token amount for embarrassment. If the misbehavior is so bad that it deserves a punitive settlement I see no reason for that to be paid to the victim. There are many better ways of distributing these windfalls.
If a department loses a chunk of its budget through malicious or arrogant disclosure of personal information it might start asking who was responsible and trying to prevent future abuses. There is no need to turn it into a get rich scheme and a honeypot for ambulance chasing lawyers.
ZB
any technology that allows for people to protect their privacy within reason should be allowed and accepted.
I accept that in theory. On the other hand any use of technology that denies my freedom to communicate freely must be clearly thought out.
It is now standard for babysitters to have the mobile number of the parents and to text them if there is any sort of problem. Difficulties will arise if that message is going to be jammed because the guy on the next table has unilaterally decided to ban anyone in the room from using their phones.
If restaurants offer phone free zones in the way that they offer smoking free zones that is fine. Companies might do the same thing openly for security or productivity reasons. Giving anyone the right to block any phone anywhere any time is not the best way of stopping loud voiced showoffs from annoying me.
ZB
Get used to it, the word is going to become commonplace. I remember when I could not remember the name Ayatollah Khomeini.
Just use NetBSD, all you need is two floppy disks to install it from network.
That is quite amazing!! I just installed Woody on a PC over the network and it took THREE floppies.
Game set and match to NetBSD.
ZB
I just took a look at http://www.dvorak-keyboard.com/ and could not see a backslash. Normally I use a Spanish keyboard and right alt + 1 is intuitive enough for me.
The layout is totally aimed at English speakers and Dvorak looks to be no improvement in any of the languages I know much about. For instance in Spanish Q and Z are commonly used and the K and W tiles would be worth about 50 points each in Scrabble.
The French, being the French, already have a variation and use an AZERTY keyboard layout. I doubt if it would be beneficial to the US to introduce another metric style incompatibility with the rest of the world.
Dvorak would have been great if it had succeeded 50 years ago but I suspect its use will be restricted to Esperanto speakers.
ZB
That is why he was punched in the face? ZB
In summary, you have to click 'no thanks' ONCE and you'll never see the thing again unless you do a hard reset of the router.
If it was a single once in a lifetime click to opt in I would have no objection.
ZB
Now nobody has any excuse for getting p0rn which has been tainted by M$.
Buy shares in Google? That is insane! Buy into eBay if that is the future of IPOs. I wonder if I can pay via Paypal.
Eudora email has a pgp plug in that works just fine. According to a PGP article so do Lookout Express, Pegasus and Groupwise.
Teach the Aibo?
When I win the lottery I will have a butler to all that stuff for me. I might even hire a golf pro to hit the ball for me too.
I hate it when I ask someone the time and they tell me "it is 16.53 and 47 seconds". "Nearly five to five" is good enough for most purposes.
A digital stopwatch is nice.
Surely it can get no worse than handing it over to the Florida Supreme Court!
The sad thing about most supercars is that they are owned by old men with no idea how to drive them.
I don't have a data center to play with; my budget is much more modest. As a compromise I have draped the Christams tree lights around my computer. Coool!
The sad thing about this is that it will be forgotten by the new generations of lamergamers
:))
The will get a rough idea if they try running Linux