What better way to gather information than to have control over the operating system. Geeks love Google. Who cares if the OS phones home periodically. Google is a helpful and friendly company--web 2.0 ++ (embrace and enhance).:)
This thread made me think of my own book shelf. You know...if your house caught on fire, how you would try to grab your most precious possessions....like your main computer that has everything on it (not just a backup:)), your important papers, etc. But come to think of it, I would have to grab my "out of print" copy of Topics in C Programming by Kochan and Wood--the single greatest book ever written on C programming. IMVHO:)
Another thing...Long emails get truncated by Gmail. Sometimes I like to email long articles or bulletin board threads and find, to my dissappointment, most of the email is gone. With all the space Google is providing you would think they wouldn't truncate long messages.
When terrorists quit sawing off heads and gunning down children in the name of Allah and Islamic Nationalism, people will quit equating terrorism with Muslims.
It is sad...I have no desire to buy this DVD set. The movies turned out to be such a let down after the first. I bought the first DVD and bought the second thinking the third would be end on a high point. I still haven't bought the third and have no desire to buy that one or this DVD set. Though I am looking forward to buying the third Harry Potter movie and, of course, The Return of the King.:)
It might be too late for SUNW. It kind of funny that for all the hate linux users have for Microsoft, Linux will run all the *nix companies out of business well before they'll even touch MSFT.
If I remember correctly, Corel changed the license agreement by stating minors can't enter into a legal contract. Although the statement is redundant, at least in the U.S. (minors can't enter into legal contracts) the Slashdot legal scholars don't see it that way.
I believe your right. But if the kid reaches the age of majority [18] while doing whatever it is he or she is doing then they would become subject to the contract.
I once took a business law course where the professor illustrated this. If a kid were to purchase a computer system with cash and after three years and before the kid reaches the age of majority, the kid were to take the computer back to the computer store, the computer store would have to refund all of the money. But if the kid reaches the age of majority, the kid will not be able to return the system for refund. Specifically, a minor is not allowed, under the law, to enter any kind of contract; but if the kid reaches the age of majority, the kid then becomes a legal party to the contract. BTW, the business law course I took was in Florida.
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What better way to gather information than to have control over the operating system. Geeks love Google. Who cares if the OS phones home periodically. Google is a helpful and friendly company--web 2.0 ++ (embrace and enhance). :)
Front company for the NSA?
This thread made me think of my own book shelf. You know...if your house caught on fire, how you would try to grab your most precious possessions....like your main computer that has everything on it (not just a backup :)), your important papers, etc. But come to think of it, I would have to grab my "out of print" copy of Topics in C Programming by Kochan and Wood--the single greatest book ever written on C programming. IMVHO :)
:) IIRC, you are right. Slashdot looks pretty much the same...though more features.
:)
BTW, the first time I went to Google was from a link here at Slashdot. Google was some new fangled search engine worth checking out.
Another thing...Long emails get truncated by Gmail. Sometimes I like to email long articles or bulletin board threads and find, to my dissappointment, most of the email is gone. With all the space Google is providing you would think they wouldn't truncate long messages.
It would be even better if images could be embedded within the email as well ... rather than attachments.
When terrorists quit sawing off heads and gunning down children in the name of Allah and Islamic Nationalism, people will quit equating terrorism with Muslims.
It is sad...I have no desire to buy this DVD set. The movies turned out to be such a let down after the first. I bought the first DVD and bought the second thinking the third would be end on a high point. I still haven't bought the third and have no desire to buy that one or this DVD set. Though I am looking forward to buying the third Harry Potter movie and, of course, The Return of the King. :)
Few sites can handle being slashdotted static or dynamic.
Static pages are so mid-90s...I can't believe static is even a selling point for MT. Sheesh.
It might be too late for SUNW. It kind of funny that for all the hate linux users have for Microsoft, Linux will run all the *nix companies out of business well before they'll even touch MSFT.
That pisses me off more than the spam I get from Amazon.
Didn't /. and CNN run these interviews a year or two ago?
I read the link to the license agreement problems. Evidently my memory isn't that good. Disregard my previous post.
If I remember correctly, Corel changed the license agreement by stating minors can't enter into a legal contract. Although the statement is redundant, at least in the U.S. (minors can't enter into legal contracts) the Slashdot legal scholars don't see it that way.
I once took a business law course where the professor illustrated this. If a kid were to purchase a computer system with cash and after three years and before the kid reaches the age of majority, the kid were to take the computer back to the computer store, the computer store would have to refund all of the money. But if the kid reaches the age of majority, the kid will not be able to return the system for refund. Specifically, a minor is not allowed, under the law, to enter any kind of contract; but if the kid reaches the age of majority, the kid then becomes a legal party to the contract. BTW, the business law course I took was in Florida.
Why do you think Corel's stock hasn't skyrocketed?
http://biz.yahoo.com/ipo/p/lnux.html
: They asked if I thought they should add HERF
: guns to the Brady Bill," Schwartau recalls.
Bureaucrats writing laws. [sic]
: The underwriters for the IPO include Goldman,
: Sachs & Co., Merrill Lynch & Co., and
: BancBoston Robertson Stephens.
Interesting underwriters, could be a good IPO....