This might be a little off-topic, since this isn't a 9.04 support forum, but since we're mentioning 9.04 upgrade hicups...
When I upgraded from 8.10 to 9.04, or soon after, I discovered that the user I had the installer create was not a member of the "admin" group. Therefore I couldn't run "sudo". Which is a bit of a problem.
Anywho, I still have the 9.04 live CD around, so it wasn't too hard to boot from the live CD, modify/etc/group so that my username was a member of the "admin" group, and reboot. But still, if the Ubuntu installer was responsible for that happening (and I'm not sure it was), that's kind of uncool.
To date, we've had hacks that are serious enough to alert us to the real threat, but rarely or never serious enough to cause us real harm.
It's a gentle warning to our vulnerabilities, with plenty of lead time to do something about it. At this point, if we keep on producing vulnerable and exposed important computer systems, we share the blame for the consequences of a serious hack.
So basically Manjoo is saying that copyright holders are obligated to make their works available to him in the format and timing he demands, or else he has the right to get them illegally?
I think we call can agree that current copyright is unreasonable and undemocratic (since it was bought for by the music/movie industry). But Manjoo's reasoning doesn't make a ton of sense either.
Here in Rhode Island we have a "use tax", which basically says if you buy something from out-of-state you need to pay a tax on it which, concidentally, is the same rate as our state sales tax.
I pay it, but one thing bothers me. I thought only the federal government is allowed to tax interstate commerce. Isn't a state "use tax" like the one in Rhode Island doing that very thing, even though they claim they're not? Has this kind of "use tax" been challenged in court on Constitutional grounds?
If enough people do this, it will eventually become infeasible for many retailers to actually stock the Xbox, and THEN Microsoft may actually do something.
Perhaps they'll follow our American model of paying to have the law changed in their favor.
Holy crap. I had no idea that "incent" wasn't in the dictionary (at least, in dictionary.com). How could it not be?
"disincent" is a completely reasonable combination of the "dis-" prefix with an action verb. I realize that English doesn't consistently follow a rigid set of rules, but the absence of "disincent" from the dictionary is a little baffling.
In fact, screw it. Having "disincentivize" in our lexicon is so intellectually offensive that I'm not going to recognize it. I'm going to use the word "disincent", and let #$#^% dictionary.com try to catch up with me;)
I've been working in software development for 35 years. No company I've ever worked at jumps on new versions of Windows, they all have a policy of waiting at least until SP1 regardless of whether its an improvement or not. The only news here is that the figure is that 17% might move straight away. From my own experiences I would have thought nearly all, if not all companies would wait at least a year.
For how many employers have you worked since Windows 3.0 came out? That's far more relevant to making your point than your number of years in the trade/profession.
This one creeped me out. At first it was saying that Linux is like a virulent microbe. Then at various stages I was reminded of the Borg, and Kerrigan, Queen of the Zerg. The "it's everywhere" part reminded me of the red scare.
I love using Linux, but this has me ready to install Win95 over it and hide in my house with the shades drawn and the lights off.
You know, its amazing to think how much progress has been destroyed, avoided, or never attained because of stupid, idiotic, invisible little lines drawn up by a bunch of dead men. Maybe that's why I love the internet? It's kind of above this bullshit.
I think it's more fair to say that's what was so great about the pre-1990's internet. Once it got politicians' notice, the apoliticalness geek orgy became harder to sustain (DMCA, snooping, RIAA/MPAA, China / Thailand / etc. blocking YouTube, etc.)
Remember, the ISS is now recycling urine for drinking water. Allowing cosmonauts to use our toilet would risk the contamination of our precious bodily fluids. Twice, no less.
No, the problem is that the American filtration system can't process that much metabolized vodka. After five days it would become the International Party Station.
get a job. work 5 years. figure out what you want to do in life.
if you work for anything approaching a decent company, they will pay for your grad school when you figure out what you want to study.
This is the route I followed, and it's made pursuing my PhD very difficult. It's way harder to focus on PhD work when you've got a family to provide for. I probably could have entered the PhD program at the Ivy League school where I got my Master's, but they required full-time participation in the PhD program, and that wouldn't have let me support my wife and kids.
All of this would have been avoided if I'd gone straight into grad school right after my undergrad work, and I probably would have had my degree by the age of 26-27, plenty young enough to still start a family.
So now my advice to people considering grad school is: start ASAP, if you even suspect you want to go for a PhD.
So with your logic, the government is giving advantages to major religions over minor religions because of tax reasons.
I think that's correct. During the run-up to the 2008 presidential election, I think some churches were going to intentionally endorse candidates, to force the IRS into court on the matter so the law could be invalidated.
I'm not sure whatever happened with that, but I suspect the IRS avoided going after those churches. For what reason, I don't know.
So in the US, we have the 1st Amendment which says this: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press;..."
It seems to me that what this law would do is give a competitive advantage to those newspapers that avoid endorsing candidates.
Isn't that abridging the freedom of the presses that want to make political statements endorsing candidates? It basically says, "Don't make political endorsements, or else we'll tax you."
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This might be a little off-topic, since this isn't a 9.04 support forum, but since we're mentioning 9.04 upgrade hicups...
When I upgraded from 8.10 to 9.04, or soon after, I discovered that the user I had the installer create was not a member of the "admin" group. Therefore I couldn't run "sudo". Which is a bit of a problem.
Anywho, I still have the 9.04 live CD around, so it wasn't too hard to boot from the live CD, modify /etc/group so that my username was a member of the "admin" group, and reboot. But still, if the Ubuntu installer was responsible for that happening (and I'm not sure it was), that's kind of uncool.
To date, we've had hacks that are serious enough to alert us to the real threat, but rarely or never serious enough to cause us real harm.
It's a gentle warning to our vulnerabilities, with plenty of lead time to do something about it. At this point, if we keep on producing vulnerable and exposed important computer systems, we share the blame for the consequences of a serious hack.
Great post. Wish I could mod it up.
You didn't hear these people. Their questions were hostile, and pretty fucking dumb.
So maybe that particular talk brought out an especially dumb sample of Creationists.
Does this really tell us much about the general population of Creationists vs. the general population of non-Creationists? It's a pretty small sample.
Is it that Bush blackmailed a Congressman to do his political bidding? As much as I find it detestable, district attorneys do this all the time.
So basically Manjoo is saying that copyright holders are obligated to make their works available to him in the format and timing he demands, or else he has the right to get them illegally?
I think we call can agree that current copyright is unreasonable and undemocratic (since it was bought for by the music/movie industry). But Manjoo's reasoning doesn't make a ton of sense either.
Here in Rhode Island we have a "use tax", which basically says if you buy something from out-of-state you need to pay a tax on it which, concidentally, is the same rate as our state sales tax.
I pay it, but one thing bothers me. I thought only the federal government is allowed to tax interstate commerce. Isn't a state "use tax" like the one in Rhode Island doing that very thing, even though they claim they're not? Has this kind of "use tax" been challenged in court on Constitutional grounds?
So you're saying that the new place makes you cranky?
Perhaps they'll follow our American model of paying to have the law changed in their favor.
Holy crap. I had no idea that "incent" wasn't in the dictionary (at least, in dictionary.com). How could it not be?
"disincent" is a completely reasonable combination of the "dis-" prefix with an action verb. I realize that English doesn't consistently follow a rigid set of rules, but the absence of "disincent" from the dictionary is a little baffling.
In fact, screw it. Having "disincentivize" in our lexicon is so intellectually offensive that I'm not going to recognize it. I'm going to use the word "disincent", and let #$#^% dictionary.com try to catch up with me ;)
pet peeve
D'oh.
s/disincentivize/disincent/g
Security through obscurity?
Brilliant!
"perverts"
I've been working in software development for 35 years. No company I've ever worked at jumps on new versions of Windows, they all have a policy of waiting at least until SP1 regardless of whether its an improvement or not.
The only news here is that the figure is that 17% might move straight away. From my own experiences I would have thought nearly all, if not all companies would wait at least a year.
For how many employers have you worked since Windows 3.0 came out? That's far more relevant to making your point than your number of years in the trade/profession.
This one creeped me out. At first it was saying that Linux is like a virulent microbe. Then at various stages I was reminded of the Borg, and Kerrigan, Queen of the Zerg. The "it's everywhere" part reminded me of the red scare.
I love using Linux, but this has me ready to install Win95 over it and hide in my house with the shades drawn and the lights off.
Someone else can maintain AdBlock, no one else can be his daughter's father.
At least not until the mourning period is over.
I'm pretty sure you can get a Z-series mainframe that they'll support for > 15 years.
I don't live in a police sta%%%CARRIER DISCONNECT%%%
Well duh, none of us lives in a police station. Sheesh...
You know, its amazing to think how much progress has been destroyed, avoided, or never attained because of stupid, idiotic, invisible little lines drawn up by a bunch of dead men. Maybe that's why I love the internet? It's kind of above this bullshit.
I think it's more fair to say that's what was so great about the pre-1990's internet. Once it got politicians' notice, the apoliticalness geek orgy became harder to sustain (DMCA, snooping, RIAA/MPAA, China / Thailand / etc. blocking YouTube, etc.)
Remember, the ISS is now recycling urine for drinking water. Allowing cosmonauts to use our toilet would risk the contamination of our precious bodily fluids. Twice, no less.
No, the problem is that the American filtration system can't process that much metabolized vodka. After five days it would become the International Party Station.
Installed this on my brother's MSI Wind u100 last weekend.
He absolutely loves it. It won't make you more manly, but it is a damn fine OS for the u100.
get a job. work 5 years. figure out what you want to do in life.
if you work for anything approaching a decent company, they will pay for your grad school when you figure out what you want to study.
This is the route I followed, and it's made pursuing my PhD very difficult. It's way harder to focus on PhD work when you've got a family to provide for. I probably could have entered the PhD program at the Ivy League school where I got my Master's, but they required full-time participation in the PhD program, and that wouldn't have let me support my wife and kids.
All of this would have been avoided if I'd gone straight into grad school right after my undergrad work, and I probably would have had my degree by the age of 26-27, plenty young enough to still start a family.
So now my advice to people considering grad school is: start ASAP, if you even suspect you want to go for a PhD.
So with your logic, the government is giving advantages to major religions over minor religions because of tax reasons.
I think that's correct. During the run-up to the 2008 presidential election, I think some churches were going to intentionally endorse candidates, to force the IRS into court on the matter so the law could be invalidated.
I'm not sure whatever happened with that, but I suspect the IRS avoided going after those churches. For what reason, I don't know.
So in the US, we have the 1st Amendment which says this: "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; ..."
It seems to me that what this law would do is give a competitive advantage to those newspapers that avoid endorsing candidates.
Isn't that abridging the freedom of the presses that want to make political statements endorsing candidates? It basically says, "Don't make political endorsements, or else we'll tax you."