When my daughters got computers, we sat down and had a talk. I told them that I didn't have filtering software installed on their machines, because I believed I had raised them properly.
I then informed them that i retained the right to inspect their computers at any time, and if I found something that I considered troublesome, there would be a huge problem.
Technically, in the US, treaties do have the full standing of law, insofar as they don't contradict the Constitution. Whether or not a given administration follows the Constitution is another matter, hence the "technically".
Fair enough. No offense intended. The reason I asked is that many people who complain about installation on Linux haven't tried the XP install.
And, it seems to me, your issues weren't with the install per se, but with codec installation. Agreed, that can be a bitch, depending on your distro, as you found out.
Me, I blame the idiots who patented math and those who allowed them to do so.
At least the RIAA uses its funding to pay for publicity and recording time for its artists, and there's a halfway decent chance some artists will see some of the money.
That already happened. It was all over the news (and Slashdot). It cost RIM $600M, even when the patents were overturned during the trial -- the judge still forced RIM to settle.
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You're thinking of UCITA, which would have allowed the more execrable terms of EULAs to be enforced.
Currently UCITA has been enacted only in VA and MD.
If you read the post to which I was replying, there was nothing in there about who pays. He was asking, why even bother in general.
Damn. That'll teach me to quote from memory without checking first.
Have we shot any cheese-eating bistro crawlers into space yet?
Russia did, and so did NASA.
http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/Bios/htmlbios/chretien.html
Not to mention others.
Or worse, Anti-Social Behavor!!!!
So what is the point of sending people to different planets?
As Sir George Mallory said, when asked why he wanted to climb Everest, "Because it is there."
Or even, as Robert Burns put it several hundred years earlier -- A man's reach must exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for?
Yeah, but she can't kill the audit trails in my firewall.
They are. It's one of the Ten Commandments, regardless of which version (Jewish, Catholic, Protestant, Orthodox) you use.
Well, fuck! That's truly fucked!
Exactly.
When my daughters got computers, we sat down and had a talk. I told them that I didn't have filtering software installed on their machines, because I believed I had raised them properly.
I then informed them that i retained the right to inspect their computers at any time, and if I found something that I considered troublesome, there would be a huge problem.
It's worked so far.
Exactly why "Run As..." is inferior to sudo or setuid.
It requires you to hand out the Admin password, instead of authorizing designated users to run certain privileged commands.
I see you want to stone Jaruzel.
Cancel or Allow?
We'll try stay serene and calm...
When Wikileaks gets the bomb!
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Technically, in the US, treaties do have the full standing of law, insofar as they don't contradict the Constitution. Whether or not a given administration follows the Constitution is another matter, hence the "technically".
Fair enough. No offense intended. The reason I asked is that many people who complain about installation on Linux haven't tried the XP install.
And, it seems to me, your issues weren't with the install per se, but with codec installation. Agreed, that can be a bitch, depending on your distro, as you found out.
Me, I blame the idiots who patented math and those who allowed them to do so.
Speaking as a relative newb, I found that Linux (Fedora) was a bear to set up,
Just out of curiosity, have you ever tried to install XP (or -- gahhh -- Vista) on a bare machine, just to compare it against Fedora?
That's for impeachment, not treason.
Except that treason is explicitly defined int the Constitution -- Article III, Section 3 -- and alas, what Bush did doesn't fit the bill.
Runes Homepage for those who want more depth.
At least the RIAA uses its funding to pay for publicity and recording time for its artists, and there's a halfway decent chance some artists will see some of the money.
Bwahahahahaha!!!! That is hysterical!!!!!!!
Oh wait... you were serious?????
That already happened. It was all over the news (and Slashdot). It cost RIM $600M, even when the patents were overturned during the trial -- the judge still forced RIM to settle.
The small software company that doesn't:
If you're a good cop, don't you want the kids to know about the bad cops? Won't somebody THINK OF THE CHILDREN?????
Damn. I completely missed the "Oh, wait!"
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That's very different. Never mind.
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Doubt it. He's kind of busy defending his own self. Not to mention that he now has zero cred for any prosecutions.