You miss the point. I don't mind installing on other people's machines. What I object to is software that, once installed, insists on being admin before it will run.
Cases in point: "The Sims", "Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing".
Why on G-d's Green Earth does a TYPING TUTOR require Admin?
Because $BIG_SOFTWARE_COMPANY will settle the class-action by giving away vouchers for more sneakwrap-ridden software.
Individual Small Claims cases are an annoyance to $BIG_SOFTWARE_COMPANY, and if they don't show, you get an automatic judgement. Imagine a million people doing this... it adds up.
Amen brother! I want a PHONE. I want a Phone that gives good sound. I want a phone that I don't have to hold in a really strange position for the other party to be able to hear me clearly. I want a phone that gets good signal. Use the power and CCA real-estate to add some extra power/amp/whatever (disclaimer: IANA RF Engineer, and don't know if this is feasible).
I don't want a camera. I don't want an MP3 player. I don't want email. I don't want web. I don't want AIM. I don't want SMS.
The US is also working on an airborne laser for tactical use.
One of the things that a DE weapon has over standard KE/HE weapons is the minimization of collateral damage. Consider: Terrorist group X has taken over a mosque, of considerable historical/cultural significance. Their equipment is parked all around it, close enough that conventional weapons would cause damage to the mosque. A DE weapon can disable the weaponry and vehicles without such collateral damage.
No, you've got it wrong. The Peter Principle (as expounded by Laurence J. Peter in the book of the same name) is that:
In any hierarchy, an individual will rise to his level of \b{incompetence} and then remain there. \i{(emphasis mine)}
The rationale is that as long as you are competent, you will continue to be promoted. At some point you will reach your level of incompetence, where you will remain.
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Shouldn't that be in /etc/issue, not in /etc/motd?
NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!
You miss the point. I don't mind installing on other people's machines. What I object to is software that, once installed, insists on being admin before it will run.
Cases in point: "The Sims", "Mavis Beacon Teaches Typing".
Why on G-d's Green Earth does a TYPING TUTOR require Admin?
No, it's usually with no admission of fault/guilt.
Because $BIG_SOFTWARE_COMPANY will settle the class-action by giving away vouchers for more sneakwrap-ridden software.
Individual Small Claims cases are an annoyance to $BIG_SOFTWARE_COMPANY, and if they don't show, you get an automatic judgement. Imagine a million people doing this... it adds up.
Yeah, using Run-As requires me to give out the Admin password to people I don't want to have it.
Would you give out the root password to your Linux box to all your users, just so they can do stuff that shouldn't require root, but does?
because he'd have been in some boiling legal water thanks to the DMCA. As it is, the publisher of this story probably will be
Ed Felten has gone toe to toe with the xxAA before.
Chris talked about it at SCALE back in Feb. Great talk, by the way, Chris.
Someone else said it on /. long ago, but it bears repeating:
Child Porn is the root password to the US Constitution.
All specifically mentioned in the First Amendment to the US Constitution
The way I've seen this work, is that because it's line-of-sight, there's visual confirmation of the target.
Amen brother! I want a PHONE. I want a Phone that gives good sound. I want a phone that I don't have to hold in a really strange position for the other party to be able to hear me clearly. I want a phone that gets good signal. Use the power and CCA real-estate to add some extra power/amp/whatever (disclaimer: IANA RF Engineer, and don't know if this is feasible).
I don't want a camera. I don't want an MP3 player. I don't want email. I don't want web. I don't want AIM. I don't want SMS.
I want a FRIGGIN' PHONE. Is that too much to ask?
The US is also working on an airborne laser for tactical use.
One of the things that a DE weapon has over standard KE/HE weapons is the minimization of collateral damage. Consider: Terrorist group X has taken over a mosque, of considerable historical/cultural significance. Their equipment is parked all around it, close enough that conventional weapons would cause damage to the mosque. A DE weapon can disable the weaponry and vehicles without such collateral damage.
I didn't think that tragedy required hubris, merely a flawed protagonist.
It means I own both Boardwalk and Park Place :-)
If Jobs had co-written it, it would have been "iWoz".
If you have that high level a clearance, you \b{don't} talk about it.
It's just like fight club.
"Sick Gloria in transit Monday": Don't get it.
:(
From the Latin: "sic transit gloria mundi"
"CLOSE BUT NO CIGAR"
A cigar was, um... err... pivotal in the case against Clinton.
"COPS MAKE BUTT-ER KNIFE CON SPREAD 'EM": Don't get it."
Think Goatse.cx
ooking up on Wikipedia, there are 182 million speakers of French, of whom 87 are native.
And all 87 of those people live in Quebec.
Darl McBride is right, and Linux is a Communist Plot!
ISTR reading somewhere that Intel actually came up with an asynchronous 386, but it was shelved. Does anyone else recall this?
Yep. That's what happened. I read it as: "first commercial microprocessor, the VAX 8600".
My mistake, and my apologies to the OP.
WTF???
Are you clueless? The VAX-8600 wasn't a microprocessor, it was a mini-computer. And it wasn't the first. It was one of the last VAXen.
No, you've got it wrong. The Peter Principle (as expounded by Laurence J. Peter in the book of the same name) is that:
In any hierarchy, an individual will rise to his level of \b{incompetence} and then remain there. \i{(emphasis mine)}
The rationale is that as long as you are competent, you will continue to be promoted. At some point you will reach your level of incompetence, where you will remain.