"mostly right, most of the time, for most of the people."??? Is this the standard by which the Ruby community judges software goodness? I'm speechless.
I don't think Google 'patched' the vulnerability
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If I RTFA correctly, they just avoided using it. The vulnerability (in IE, which only MS can patch) is still there...
... a motto of "do no evil" with patent applications that use phrases such as "user targeted"? Obviously I am not a customer to be served, but a resource to be "targeted". What next, "identify and neutralize"? "Search and destroy"? -k
I keep correcting you guys, but nobody listens! It's "Bezerkeley"! I know, I went there. (At least, I'm told I did -- I really don't remember much about those years.)
I doubt you have to 'sell' the philosophy of OSS to today's students. I'd concentrate on the real-world challenges of OSS: patch hell, choosing a distribution (Linux or *BSD), where to find OSS goodies if you're stuck w/ Windows, using RPMs, how/where to post questions and get support, where to find best doc/books, using CVS and other CMSs, etc. In short, introduce them to the real-world, practical problems and issues with OSS, and give a survey of the tools available to solve them.
Ha! A zero-calorie, red-herring riposte! Since when has a critic, offering a frank and accurate appraisal of a (so-called) literary work, been required to prove they are capable of better? Sorry, dude, there's no there there in that there article! (My apologies Ms. Stein.)
... of the prototypical/.'er, that someone would have mentioned the ITU by now. (A) The U.S. invented the phone (ok, true, it was some Canadian named Alexander, but he did it in the US); (B) But, the phone system protocols of the world are governed by the ITU, not the U.S. government. The ITU has done a reasonably good job of making the worlds phone systems interoperate!
However, the 'internet taxes' thing is right out -- no one in their right mind is going to allow the U.N. to start collecting taxes of any kind.
Of course, when I find/steal your wallet, with the tattered but legible cheat-sheet with all your IDs and passwords written down, 'cause you can't keep all fifty of them in your head, I'll bankrupt you in 24 hours.
Tom Adelstein has discovered that (gasp, I'm in shock! Are you ready for this?!):
People with lots of money have lots of political clout, and they tend to use it!
Get a grip, dude. This is everyday politics in just about every organized collection of humans on earth. Has been for, oh, I dunno, a hundred and twenty thousand years or more?
(Of course, the whining about the aforementioned state of affairs has been going on for, oh, a hundred and nineteen thousand years...)
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The software I write is of much higher quality than "mostly" raised to the third power. :)
"mostly right, most of the time, for most of the people."???
Is this the standard by which the Ruby community judges software goodness? I'm speechless.
(p.s., I got the joke, so I'm ancient, too!)
... a motto of "do no evil" with patent applications that use phrases such as "user targeted"? Obviously I am not a customer to be served, but a resource to be "targeted". What next, "identify and neutralize"? "Search and destroy"?
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My $.02
Uh... IBM's revenues for 2004 were in the $96B range, with profits in the $8.4B range. http://www.ibm.com/investor/1q05/1q05earnings.phtm l Pooooor IBM, Pooooor MS...
Take first match.
Ha! A zero-calorie, red-herring riposte! Since when has a critic, offering a frank and accurate appraisal of a (so-called) literary work, been required to prove they are capable of better? Sorry, dude, there's no there there in that there article! (My apologies Ms. Stein.)
yawn...
However, the 'internet taxes' thing is right out -- no one in their right mind is going to allow the U.N. to start collecting taxes of any kind.
I would add that exactly 0% of the circumvention/copying that is subsequently published on the internet is for the purpose of "archiving".
Of course, when I find/steal your wallet, with the tattered but legible cheat-sheet with all your IDs and passwords written down, 'cause you can't keep all fifty of them in your head, I'll bankrupt you in 24 hours.
Ok, ok, let's be civilized -- just his left-hand pinky.
Good spelling is for the most part a matter of memory, not intelligence.
People with lots of money have lots of political clout, and they tend to use it!
Get a grip, dude. This is everyday politics in just about every organized collection of humans on earth. Has been for, oh, I dunno, a hundred and twenty thousand years or more?
(Of course, the whining about the aforementioned state of affairs has been going on for, oh, a hundred and nineteen thousand years...)