Sadly, it costs a lot of money to exercise free speech in America.
No it doesn't, free speech is also free as in beer. It costs a lot of money to disseminate that free speech to large groups of people. The dissemination is not part of the speech.
I ran perl like that one time, just for grins. It was really weird, to put it mildly. You just have to get used to thinking about the language syntax in that different context, and then it's no big deal.
I read it, in several places. I didn't note the sources for future reference. I know I've read at least one article in some online periodical, which was discussing MS's insecure default settings being the biggest problem, and that was the example. It was at least a year ago that I read it.
I'm sure MS would love it if they could get away with it. A steady waterfall of cash.
If you think home user's keeping their machines up to date now is a problem, just imagine if everyone had to pay for updates. The majority of homeusers would disable the update service rather than pay for them, and then finally bitch en masse that MS should make more secure default settings (last time I heard, XP still created user accounts as admin by default). They'd have even worse security PR than they do now.
you fail to grasp the meaning of the '...' at the end of the sentence. It means the poster was being sarcastic, and in fact implying that we have, most likely referring to Hiroshima and Nagasaki.
What illegal weapons have our troops used?
Why do the federal supreme court judges get exempt from being voted in, and not have term limits? I call shenannigans.
Truth be told the only federal representatives elected directly by the public are the Congressional representatives. They in turn, through the electoral college, vote for the president. The ones who get to vote are chosen by the people during presidential elections. The President then nominates a bunch of federal office holders, and Congress must approve them. We directly elect Congressional representatives to represent us in federal matters. Supreme Court Judges then don't have to worry about approval ratings and raise money for campaigns, they just focus on interpreting the letter of the law. I'm sure that given enough public outcry, one could be removed from office.
I've never worked at Best Buy but I feel pretty confident that they've had a mantra of "sell the warranty" for a while. The cost of the warranty depends on the cost of the product. They probably don't get commission, but I'll get they get bonuses for the warranties. It almost has to go to the store in general though, because I've never had a cashier ask who was helping me, nor have I had the floor sales staff act as cashier. I haven't spoken to someone on the sales floor at Best Buy [who was employed by Best Buy, as opposed to mobile phone carrier reps who work in the store but not for it,] who knew anything about the products in a while. It's all about the warranty.
In honesty though, I've actually had good experiences with their warranty though. On my microwave and mobile phone. The microwave was in the last month of the warranty (a few years) and died and I just got to credit the full purchase price, including tax, towards the purchase of a new microwave. I've had my mobile phone replaced twice under their warranty, if it happens again I get the same deal: full purchase price credited towards purchase of new mobile phone. It probably actually goes to the purchase of anything in the store. It beats the carrier's warranty because I get the full purchase price and get to pick my replacement.
If they pay less per sale to the RIAA than Apple does than they will have a a better profit margin. (Perhaps in exchange for more restritive DRM, not that I know anything about the DRM restrictions used by Napster).
The problem is those weren't really communist societies, they just incorrectly labeled themselves as such. Kind of like Castro says Cuba is in a permanent state of revolution, and enemies of the state are counter-revolutionaries.
well, that may be the case, but I don't think so. RawHide is and always will be the bleeding edge testing ground for Red Hat maintained packages. Fedora Core is merging with http://fedora.us, and will have various flavors, Core, Legacy, Extras, yadda yadda. It should be up to the volunteer package maintainers to work out a staging cycle. If you've never looked at fedora.us, you should have a peek. You'll notice that their apt repository has stable/testing/unstable. Given this tidbit, and the explicit mention of various flavors of the Fedora distro, I think it's a fair assumption that there will be a stable/testing/unstable model the Debian users can relate to.
especially in light of RedHat dumping their community edition
I don't think it's quite fair to say they're dropping their community edition, any more than to say debian doesn't have a community edition. Red Hat Linux is being transitioned to a community model where volunteers maintain packages adhering to a community standard, and caling it Fedora Core. It will still have large involvement from Red Hat employees, too. We just won't get the free back-ported updates. Instead the volunteer maintainers will decide to back-port themselves, or package the new version.
The RHEL line includes third-party applications which are most likely not licensed to Red Hat in a manner that allows them to grant you redistribution rights. You can download the source RPM to every GPL package included in RHEL on ftp.redhat.com ("extract the GPL software from the product [...] redistributing it to your heart's content").
Because they don't want us, the people, to know that they fuck up in big ways that can really hurt us.
Well, after reading your link, I'm not sure it was our fault.
On January 17, 1966, an SAC B-52 had a mid-air collision with a KC-135 tanker while refueling over Palomares, Spain. The B-52 was carrying four thermonuclear B28 bombs. The bomber had begun the mission at Seymour Johnson AFB, North Carolina. The KC-135 had come from the
Moron Air Base, Spain.
I don't know if it's been fixed or not, but IE had such a glaring security hole that Microsoft advised customers to disable automatic installation of Microsoft signed code. You see, there was this patch to some other app that could be undone by putting the vulnerable version on a web site, and IE would automatically install it. Installing the patched version only worked if you stopped using IE, or disabled automatic installation of Microsoft signed code. So it IE's insecure design model is a big problem, and Microsoft admits it.
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You're a prick.
No it doesn't, free speech is also free as in beer. It costs a lot of money to disseminate that free speech to large groups of people. The dissemination is not part of the speech.
I ran perl like that one time, just for grins. It was really weird, to put it mildly. You just have to get used to thinking about the language syntax in that different context, and then it's no big deal.
Good sir, methinks thou shoudst not jack so much.
I read it, in several places. I didn't note the sources for future reference. I know I've read at least one article in some online periodical, which was discussing MS's insecure default settings being the biggest problem, and that was the example. It was at least a year ago that I read it.
If you think home user's keeping their machines up to date now is a problem, just imagine if everyone had to pay for updates. The majority of homeusers would disable the update service rather than pay for them, and then finally bitch en masse that MS should make more secure default settings (last time I heard, XP still created user accounts as admin by default). They'd have even worse security PR than they do now.
you fail to grasp the meaning of the '...' at the end of the sentence. It means the poster was being sarcastic, and in fact implying that we have, most likely referring to Hiroshima and Nagasaki. What illegal weapons have our troops used?
Truth be told the only federal representatives elected directly by the public are the Congressional representatives. They in turn, through the electoral college, vote for the president. The ones who get to vote are chosen by the people during presidential elections. The President then nominates a bunch of federal office holders, and Congress must approve them. We directly elect Congressional representatives to represent us in federal matters. Supreme Court Judges then don't have to worry about approval ratings and raise money for campaigns, they just focus on interpreting the letter of the law. I'm sure that given enough public outcry, one could be removed from office.
I've never worked at Best Buy but I feel pretty confident that they've had a mantra of "sell the warranty" for a while. The cost of the warranty depends on the cost of the product. They probably don't get commission, but I'll get they get bonuses for the warranties. It almost has to go to the store in general though, because I've never had a cashier ask who was helping me, nor have I had the floor sales staff act as cashier. I haven't spoken to someone on the sales floor at Best Buy [who was employed by Best Buy, as opposed to mobile phone carrier reps who work in the store but not for it,] who knew anything about the products in a while. It's all about the warranty.
In honesty though, I've actually had good experiences with their warranty though. On my microwave and mobile phone. The microwave was in the last month of the warranty (a few years) and died and I just got to credit the full purchase price, including tax, towards the purchase of a new microwave. I've had my mobile phone replaced twice under their warranty, if it happens again I get the same deal: full purchase price credited towards purchase of new mobile phone. It probably actually goes to the purchase of anything in the store. It beats the carrier's warranty because I get the full purchase price and get to pick my replacement.
oops, thought I had filled in the login fields, hadn't meant to post AC.
If they pay less per sale to the RIAA than Apple does than they will have a a better profit margin. (Perhaps in exchange for more restritive DRM, not that I know anything about the DRM restrictions used by Napster).
The problem is those weren't really communist societies, they just incorrectly labeled themselves as such. Kind of like Castro says Cuba is in a permanent state of revolution, and enemies of the state are counter-revolutionaries.
well, that may be the case, but I don't think so. RawHide is and always will be the bleeding edge testing ground for Red Hat maintained packages. Fedora Core is merging with http://fedora.us, and will have various flavors, Core, Legacy, Extras, yadda yadda. It should be up to the volunteer package maintainers to work out a staging cycle. If you've never looked at fedora.us, you should have a peek. You'll notice that their apt repository has stable/testing/unstable. Given this tidbit, and the explicit mention of various flavors of the Fedora distro, I think it's a fair assumption that there will be a stable/testing/unstable model the Debian users can relate to.
I don't think it's quite fair to say they're dropping their community edition, any more than to say debian doesn't have a community edition. Red Hat Linux is being transitioned to a community model where volunteers maintain packages adhering to a community standard, and caling it Fedora Core. It will still have large involvement from Red Hat employees, too. We just won't get the free back-ported updates. Instead the volunteer maintainers will decide to back-port themselves, or package the new version.
she's a KDE app? who knew?
dude, that's Star Trek IV, the Voyage Home. Star Trek VI was the Undiscovered Country.
The RHEL line includes third-party applications which are most likely not licensed to Red Hat in a manner that allows them to grant you redistribution rights. You can download the source RPM to every GPL package included in RHEL on ftp.redhat.com ("extract the GPL software from the product [...] redistributing it to your heart's content").
no, he traveled here through an errant wormhole that went through Uranus.
I seem to recall Stargate originally being on Showtime.
Well, after reading your link, I'm not sure it was our fault.
plant security: ah ha, you chose death
thief: but i meant cake
plant security: oh alright, you're lucky we're Nukes of England!
dude, that was like a mega-octo-burn. bravo.
it's more stable because it's built on a more stable kernel. Drivers and services aren't as able to bring down the entire system as a result.
I don't know if it's been fixed or not, but IE had such a glaring security hole that Microsoft advised customers to disable automatic installation of Microsoft signed code. You see, there was this patch to some other app that could be undone by putting the vulnerable version on a web site, and IE would automatically install it. Installing the patched version only worked if you stopped using IE, or disabled automatic installation of Microsoft signed code. So it IE's insecure design model is a big problem, and Microsoft admits it.