Ah, but Demolition Man was all about Rules, Rules and more Rules. I think the writers were trying to show that the Constitution was not immune to the rule making..
Atomic storehouses, vulnerable to terrorist attack, will be emptied of their radioactive loads... and transported thousands of miles across America's vulnerable road system, which are vulnerable to terrorist attack.
MS Windows Media Player 9 has one of the nastier EULAs, so I haven't installed it on my Windows system.
Even though I do not have WMP9 installed on my system, and I told windowsupdate.microsoft.com to NOT show me the updates for "Windows Media Player 9 Series", I am still presented with a fix to WMP9 (with a nasty EULA).
Google's beta tests for search, groups, Froogle all took closer to a year.
Assuming that they have completed internal testing six months is a very very long period to do beta tests.
The problem with internal testing is that you can never account for the wide variety of things that users will do to your site. Your QA team may come up with a great set of tests, but for every functional part of your site, your users will be able to make it break in a dozen different ways.
A full-fledged running spyware program is much worse then a cookie.
A cookie can be used for tracking. Tracking can be used to build a profile of the user and some other things external to your computer.
A full-fledged running spyware program can do many more things-- track keystrokes, install backdoors, delete files. It is much more insidious then a cookie.
A biological virus can't "do" anything by itself, either, until it find a host cell willing to "run" it's "code".
How is this analogous to cookies? If a virus finds a host willing to run it's code, that's more like an executable program if anything.
Note that of those 30 pieces of spyware per PC, 24 of them are labeled as "cookies."
That's not "slightly" misleading, that is *extremely* misleading. The BBC article makes no mention of "cookie". They do say "average of 28 spyware programs", but isn't a Cookie generally more benign then a "program"? A program is usually active; a cookie sits there.
By the way, the BBC sets a Cookie on your system. Perhaps we should sue?
Most software is designed for mathematically trivial problems, which solutions can be mathematically prooven
That's an overly simplistic summary. That's like saying that a building is a trivial set of nails in pieces of wood, or just a bunch of bricks with mortar.
Most software is designed for millions or trillions of mathematically trivial problems, and a large percentage of those problems have numerous variables. Can you imagine mathematicallly proving trillions of calculations?
Google's cache doesn't cache the images. The images probably take up 99% of the bandwidth, so you are still end up slashdotting the site.
Re:Is $6.95 Too Expensive For Anyone?
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Red Hat Recap
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You don't get support, but you aren't paying for it.
I'm curious, how exactly will you keep your system up to date? You don't get a RedHat Network account and loose the ability to easily update your RedHat system (I'm talking RH, not another distro).
retain compatibility with their Errata srpms
SRPMS are one thing, but do I then have to compile the software, or does WhiteBox provide some reasonable.
Compiling software takes time. Time = money. If you spend alot of time compiling software to provide a stable, reliable binary; when RHEL already does that work for you, you may end up LOOSING money.
Sure, you could use apt-get or yum, but are there reliable RHN cloned servers? In my experience, most of them only work with Fedora or RH9.
If a company stepped forward to support OO and guarantee compatibility, we will pay them the licensing fees.
Sun offers a version of OpenOffice called Star Office. They offer support.
OO/Star Office documents are definately compatable with MS Word, but I'm not sure that anyone can guarentee 100% compatability with MS Word, because Microsoft keeps the Office formats a secret.
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The last time they launched the (unmanned) scramjet, it crashed.
Well, don't turn it off. As I was typing this they said it's launching in the next 9 minutes.
Remember, the #1 cause of traffic jams is traffic. The best way to avoid traffic jams is to not drive.
As soon as everyone starts using fancy new technowidgets to find alternate routes routes to traffic jams, traffic will be routed to those alternate routes. Unfortunately, the alternate routes usually won't be able to handle alot of traffic, so the alternate routes will get jammed up as well.
If you get some new device today it would probably give you the edge up for a few years. But just think of what else you could spend that $1000 on.
Around here, we have spent $billions to build new freeways and roads to reduce "Traffic congestion", however these new roads always end up being just as clogged as the old routes.
I've been riding my bike & taking public transit to work for 7 years now, and it's great.
Somehow, people survived for thousands of years without air conditioning. Could it be that "modern" housing design, where one style suits the entire country, isn't the best idea?
There's a place in Arizona called Arcosanti. It was designed around the philosophy that "modern" housing design is wrong and inefficient. The architect made alot of intelligent design decisions to keep the complex cool, all without Air Conditioning.
I was there a few years ago. It was 105 in the sun. Within the complex, in certain buildings or under the giant arches, it was only 90.
Slashdot Mirror
But only after the page is moved off of the dynamic content area.
Ah, but Demolition Man was all about Rules, Rules and more Rules. I think the writers were trying to show that the Constitution was not immune to the rule making..
Atomic storehouses, vulnerable to terrorist attack, will be emptied of their radioactive loads ... and transported thousands of miles across America's vulnerable road system, which are vulnerable to terrorist attack.
Damned if you do, damned if you don't.
A low-budget viral marketing plan for The Spot:
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1. Get a frontpage story on Slashdot. *check*
2.
PPPS:
Did you see Demolition Man? Remember the funny joke about the President Schwarzenegger and the 61st Amendment.
Um, well...
It is even more beautiful then that.
MS Windows Media Player 9 has one of the nastier EULAs, so I haven't installed it on my Windows system.
Even though I do not have WMP9 installed on my system, and I told windowsupdate.microsoft.com to NOT show me the updates for "Windows Media Player 9 Series", I am still presented with a fix to WMP9 (with a nasty EULA).
Well, hacker@gmail.com may be "pretty", but as for other Gmail addresses, there are numerous Gmail invites which were never bid on at all, sold for a pitiful $5, etc.
Of course, most of Pink Floyd's works are on labels which support the RIAA.
So apparently they think we do need some thought control.
Mars was a god of war (Mars was also the Protector of Cows). But he wasn't the exclusive god of war.
Many of the gods were also gods of war, depending on the era, the purpose of the war and what people believe in that one region of the world.
She was also a god plants and flowers, occasionally of female chastity, and war (War brings change, just like the seasons), so be careful there.
Well, Gmail requires that your username be a minimum of 6 characters, so that actually rules out a number of common first names.
Google's backend is more complex then you think.
Google's beta tests for search, groups, Froogle all took closer to a year.
Assuming that they have completed internal testing six months is a very very long period to do beta tests.
The problem with internal testing is that you can never account for the wide variety of things that users will do to your site. Your QA team may come up with a great set of tests, but for every functional part of your site, your users will be able to make it break in a dozen different ways.
A full-fledged running spyware program is much worse then a cookie.
A cookie can be used for tracking. Tracking can be used to build a profile of the user and some other things external to your computer.
A full-fledged running spyware program can do many more things-- track keystrokes, install backdoors, delete files. It is much more insidious then a cookie.
A biological virus can't "do" anything by itself, either, until it find a host cell willing to "run" it's "code".
How is this analogous to cookies? If a virus finds a host willing to run it's code, that's more like an executable program if anything.
Note that of those 30 pieces of spyware per PC, 24 of them are labeled as "cookies."
That's not "slightly" misleading, that is *extremely* misleading. The BBC article makes no mention of "cookie". They do say "average of 28 spyware programs", but isn't a Cookie generally more benign then a "program"? A program is usually active; a cookie sits there.
By the way, the BBC sets a Cookie on your system. Perhaps we should sue?
Most software is designed for mathematically trivial problems, which solutions can be mathematically prooven
That's an overly simplistic summary. That's like saying that a building is a trivial set of nails in pieces of wood, or just a bunch of bricks with mortar.
Most software is designed for millions or trillions of mathematically trivial problems, and a large percentage of those problems have numerous variables. Can you imagine mathematicallly proving trillions of calculations?
Yes, According to the notice:
Systems Affected: Nullsoft Winamp versions 2.91 to 5.02 (possibly older versions, although this is not confirmed)
Google's cache doesn't cache the images. The images probably take up 99% of the bandwidth, so you are still end up slashdotting the site.
You don't get support, but you aren't paying for it.
I'm curious, how exactly will you keep your system up to date? You don't get a RedHat Network account and loose the ability to easily update your RedHat system (I'm talking RH, not another distro).
retain compatibility with their Errata srpms
SRPMS are one thing, but do I then have to compile the software, or does WhiteBox provide some reasonable.
Compiling software takes time. Time = money. If you spend alot of time compiling software to provide a stable, reliable binary; when RHEL already does that work for you, you may end up LOOSING money.
Sure, you could use apt-get or yum, but are there reliable RHN cloned servers? In my experience, most of them only work with Fedora or RH9.
If a company stepped forward to support OO and guarantee compatibility, we will pay them the licensing fees.
Sun offers a version of OpenOffice called Star Office. They offer support.
OO/Star Office documents are definately compatable with MS Word, but I'm not sure that anyone can guarentee 100% compatability with MS Word, because Microsoft keeps the Office formats a secret.
The last time they launched the (unmanned) scramjet, it crashed.
Well, don't turn it off. As I was typing this they said it's launching in the next 9 minutes.
Remember, the #1 cause of traffic jams is traffic. The best way to avoid traffic jams is to not drive.
As soon as everyone starts using fancy new technowidgets to find alternate routes routes to traffic jams, traffic will be routed to those alternate routes. Unfortunately, the alternate routes usually won't be able to handle alot of traffic, so the alternate routes will get jammed up as well.
If you get some new device today it would probably give you the edge up for a few years. But just think of what else you could spend that $1000 on.
Around here, we have spent $billions to build new freeways and roads to reduce "Traffic congestion", however these new roads always end up being just as clogged as the old routes.
I've been riding my bike & taking public transit to work for 7 years now, and it's great.
http://www.openrpg.com/
Not super pretty, but very functional. A bit like an IRC client with a GUI map capability.
If you already have a group of players, this product is great.
The GNOME mailing lists... seem to be up
Well, now that you linked to mail.gnome.org on Slashdot, it won't be up for long!
I wonder how many people are downloading code from the CVS servers to check for comprimised code. Their CVS was already slow at times...
Somehow, people survived for thousands of years without air conditioning. Could it be that "modern" housing design, where one style suits the entire country, isn't the best idea?
There's a place in Arizona called Arcosanti. It was designed around the philosophy that "modern" housing design is wrong and inefficient. The architect made alot of intelligent design decisions to keep the complex cool, all without Air Conditioning.
I was there a few years ago. It was 105 in the sun. Within the complex, in certain buildings or under the giant arches, it was only 90.
All without air conditioning.
Something wrong with this Java?
http://www.apple.com/macosx/features/java/