The CO2(i think) that remains trapped in limestone and in the oceans of earth
Nope. It forms the O2 in atmosphere plus all the C-based lifeforms. The acids form environment where DNA and simple proteins get "synthetised". Earth could have looked very much alike when first lifeforms were born. Yes, it was -as- unfriendly.
Venus is what Earth used to be, before first life. Mars is what Earth may be in millions of years. The future of Mars is long gone, the future of Venus is yet to be.
It is now official - Jordell Bank has confirmed: Beagle2 is dying
Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered Mars exploration community when recently ESA confirmed that Beagle2 accounts for less than a fraction of 1 percent of chances for survival. Coming on the heels of the latest Jordell Bank signal analysis which plainly states that Beagle2 has lost radio contact, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Beagle2 is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent radiotelescope comprehensive signal search.
You don't need to be a Aldrin to predict Beagle2's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Beagle2 faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Beagle2 because Beagle2 is dying. Things are looking very bad for Beagle2. As many of us are already aware, Beagle2 continues to lose power. Red dust covers it like a river of blood. The lander rover is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core systems. The sudden and unpleasant failures of long time rover systems of traction and cameras only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: Beagle2 is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
All major surveys show that Beagle2 has steadily declined in survival chances. Beagle2 is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Beagle2 is to survive at all it will be among martian hobbyist junk collectors. Beagle2 continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Beagle2 is dead.
You can dispose of everything there, be it toxic waste, old dirty socks, illegal weapons of mass destruction, your uncle's corpse, multi-tentacle monster, your younger sister, used up ballpens and post-it notes, collection of photos of you and your mare in compromising positions, some curious-looking blue thing nobody can identify, a roll of toilet paper, G. W. Bush or Eiffel's tower. So why not old computer parts?
either they voluntarily go opensource, or they ditch the code and/or pay the real developers.
So, as you said 3 options: 1) They voluntarily go open source. They start following GPL, charges dropped. They are in some trouble but may survive as an open-source company. 2) They ditch the code, their only real product besides lawsuits. They are pretty fried, must start from scratch with everything. Despite that, they may have to pay compensations too. 3) They pay the developers. But since GPL is irrevokable and by staying close-source they are still violating it, that's not really the solution. Except they pay the original developers to re-release their products under a second license, possibly requiring to rewrite most of them to exclude any viral GPL influences from other sources... Not really an option.
Ok, how to install the patch without getting infected? What I can think of, is - unplug the net, install XP, boot it up, configure the firewall, THEN plug the net in (while the firewall is running already, and all network connection autoconfig and stuff is broken and yells "No network connection!". And then install the patch. And for reboot, before the patch starts working, unplug the net again. So: 1) Configure and start ALL the software. 2) Connect the hardware. Not the most intuitive thing?
sue, maybe not, but subpoenate, requesting to reveal the infriging code, why not?
I personally wonder, how many "close source" companies secretly and illegally include GNU-copyrighted code in their products, and sell it without source, violating GPL, but nobody knows they do, just because nobody ever sees the source.
I dual-boot Linux with W98SE. Recently, after quite a while of using it and getting the W98 more and more "dirty" I decided to install the update. System got so unstable that I couldn't open Explorer without crashing. "Time for reinstall", I thought. Format, install, config, everything runs smoothly. Windows Update, system starts crashing really bad. Maybe I did something wrong? Format, reinstall, update. Crash. So now I run "vanilla" W98SE, without ANY updates, just pure CD install. The only protection is my firewall on a Linux box. Sucks, but what should I do? This way it can keep running for several hours, and with screensavers and power management disabled, for several days in a row. With patches, crashes notoriously. Keep it secure? How? By unplugging the net or the power supply??
Of course the same holds true for businesses, but there the problem was more of a problem with the "Default Installation". We have long known that default installations are inherently insecure.
Windows "out of the box" is as wide open as the goatse.cx guy.
The new ruling was made by a panel of three professional judges backed up by four lay judges, two of whom had technical expertise relevant to the case.
then they got some excellent advice on ways they can make Windows better and stem the adoption of Linux at home and businesses.
So our purpose is... - To kill Microsoft at all cost, no matter what direction they go and what cost it takes? or - To make this world a bit better place and help the evil see their evil ways and walk into straight road.
I honestly wouldn't mind to see Windows as an equal, honest and responsible competitor to Linux. Without purposedly broken components, without commercial junk and evil behaviour, treating all other OSes with due respect and letting people do their work easier, faster and cheaper, no matter what platform and OS they chose to do parts of theit job.
Microsoft, which isn't evil... Isn't that quite a pretty dream?
The purpose of the survey, at least the one for corporate users is not to get results, but to convince people that it's more reasonable to use Windows.
Just look at this question: 8. What organizations would you recommend use Linux?
Organizations that have good IT help
Organizations that want to send a message to the greedy computer industry
Only organizations that have a lot of patience
Organizations that don't mind doing things on their own
Organizations that only have limited computing needs
*sigh* I've seen so many more or less sophisticated code to do the bit mirror-reversing in FFT, and why haven't they still made a CPU (ASM) command for that (or did they?) That's SO easy in hardware, just twist the bus 180 degrees.
I wanted to take a BeOS test drive, and potentially use it in the future if I like it (...more than Linux) but I'm not sure where the OpenBeOS development is, is it something I could just install and use, or is it like 90% placeholders, "not implemented yet", "this thing will go here", and I should just go with the old original BeOS closed-source binaries?
Similarly, the Barad-dur and Orodruin appeared to be right next to each other in the movie, when they're over 20 miles apart in the maps!
Does LOTR anywhere precisely mention how high was Barad Dur and Orodruin? Remember the first appearance of Barad Dur in FOTR, when it all starts with view on some orcs on a high, big tower, then we zoom out and see that's just a really tiny piece of Barad Dur. It seemed Barad Dur was some 3 miles high! In this case proportions could be very confusing!
Imagine this, some hacker who takes part in kernel development submits a date, then sabotages the kernel, submits broken modules, introduces bugs, breaks stuff and keeps all the patches on his own harddisk. And finally, when kernel would be ready if not his own purposedly made bugs, he submits his patches one day before his "guessed date" and the kernel is released within next 24 hours, within 2h from his guess and four months later than it could've been released.
The first is true, I doubt greedy bastards would agree to that. Although in Poland 2% of profit on each page copied in commercial xero passes to book authors organisation, and thanks to that, they gave up trying to make xeroing books illegal. Difficult, but not impossible.
In the second case, I don't think this would be a big problem, as long as the "downgraded service" is opt-in, not opt-out, i.e. you can send ONLY unencrypted HTTP (that excludes tunnels over HTTP, easy to tell valid HTTP data from tunelled transfer), FTP or other chosen "legal transfer" protocols and anything else would be very restricted - like, serious throttling, tight monthly limits etc. You can't steal much if you have a limit of 10MB/month on SSH. And if you feel you can't live vithout sending large volumes of encrypted data, just pay for that extra.
Of course there COULD be off-limit areas too, where encryption would be allowed for free..mil,.gov, banks etc - those, where it's obvious they encrypt their own data, and you just get fired if you try using P2P on your employer's network.
I think this could be done. If you can't conquer the enemy, join them.
A standarised fee added to your standard broadband fees, just like road tax in fuel prices. And legal access to all RIAA/MPAA copyrighted material. They are obligated to create a 100% valid, working copy of anything they release (may be allowed a week-two delay since shop appearance) in MP3/DIVX/whatever, and publish it on their official P2P server for everyone to download. And everyone who pays for network access, pays (proportionally to bandwidth) a little extra. Fees are collected through ISPs. And ISPs may provide "cheaper lines", P2P-free, for anyone not interested in P2P. The traffic on that networks monitored, or just P2P-specific services blocked on routers, so if you set up a dedicated webserver, you don't pay RIAA for its traffic.
Get yourself in line with the darkest underground. Get some covert "operation base", some way to access the net without revealing your identity. Maybe a relay somewhere in Kongo or something alike. Then prove your company, how "much more secure" their network became because of the change. Show them how much more secure is Windows over Sun. And in a year, when their life has turned into hell and they can't access their daily mail without thrill if it's erased today or not, pay them a friendly visit and ask how are they doing with the new help. Offer to perform an unofficial 'vulnerability assessment', for free, and show them most of the holes in their system you had found. Get them to publish results of "expertise" provided by the 3rd party vendor, and offer to fix all the problems if you are back to work. For 150% of your old salary.
They complain on the site that after Shelob stabbed Frodo, we didn't see a big wound in his chest. Well, if we did, he would be very dead (shelob sting IS poisonous) but I don't remember him taking his mithril chainmail off, so it was just the same as with the troll in Moria...
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The CO2(i think) that remains trapped in limestone and in the oceans of earth
Nope. It forms the O2 in atmosphere plus all the C-based lifeforms.
The acids form environment where DNA and simple proteins get "synthetised".
Earth could have looked very much alike when first lifeforms were born. Yes, it was -as- unfriendly.
Venus is what Earth used to be, before first life. Mars is what Earth may be in millions of years. The future of Mars is long gone, the future of Venus is yet to be.
It is now official - Jordell Bank has confirmed: Beagle2 is dying
Yet another crippling bombshell hit the beleaguered Mars exploration community when recently ESA confirmed that Beagle2 accounts for less than a fraction of 1 percent of chances for survival. Coming on the heels of the latest Jordell Bank signal analysis which plainly states that Beagle2 has lost radio contact, this news serves to reinforce what we've known all along. Beagle2 is collapsing in complete disarray, as fittingly exemplified by failing dead last in the recent radiotelescope comprehensive signal search.
You don't need to be a Aldrin to predict Beagle2's future. The hand writing is on the wall: Beagle2 faces a bleak future. In fact there won't be any future at all for Beagle2 because Beagle2 is dying. Things are looking very bad for Beagle2. As many of us are already aware, Beagle2 continues to lose power. Red dust covers it like a river of blood. The lander rover is the most endangered of them all, having lost 93% of its core systems. The sudden and unpleasant failures of long time rover systems of traction and cameras only serve to underscore the point more clearly. There can no longer be any doubt: Beagle2 is dying.
Let's keep to the facts and look at the numbers.
All major surveys show that Beagle2 has steadily declined in survival chances. Beagle2 is very sick and its long term survival prospects are very dim. If Beagle2 is to survive at all it will be among martian hobbyist junk collectors. Beagle2 continues to decay. Nothing short of a miracle could save it at this point in time. For all practical purposes, Beagle2 is dead.
Fact: Beagle2 is dead
Lotsa biiig firecrackers. Size of a good dynamite rod and give similar punch. I llllike my present!
You can dispose of everything there, be it toxic waste, old dirty socks, illegal weapons of mass destruction, your uncle's corpse, multi-tentacle monster, your younger sister, used up ballpens and post-it notes, collection of photos of you and your mare in compromising positions, some curious-looking blue thing nobody can identify, a roll of toilet paper, G. W. Bush or Eiffel's tower. So why not old computer parts?
either they voluntarily go opensource, or they ditch the code and/or pay the real developers.
So, as you said 3 options:
1) They voluntarily go open source. They start following GPL, charges dropped. They are in some trouble but may survive as an open-source company.
2) They ditch the code, their only real product besides lawsuits. They are pretty fried, must start from scratch with everything. Despite that, they may have to pay compensations too.
3) They pay the developers. But since GPL is irrevokable and by staying close-source they are still violating it, that's not really the solution. Except they pay the original developers to re-release their products under a second license, possibly requiring to rewrite most of them to exclude any viral GPL influences from other sources... Not really an option.
The 1. sounds most reasonable.
Ok, how to install the patch without getting infected?
What I can think of, is - unplug the net, install XP, boot it up, configure the firewall, THEN plug the net in (while the firewall is running already, and all network connection autoconfig and stuff is broken and yells "No network connection!". And then install the patch. And for reboot, before the patch starts working, unplug the net again.
So: 1) Configure and start ALL the software. 2) Connect the hardware.
Not the most intuitive thing?
Implications: Suit, compensations and... forcing SCO UNIX to go open source?
sue, maybe not, but subpoenate, requesting to reveal the infriging code, why not?
I personally wonder, how many "close source" companies secretly and illegally include GNU-copyrighted code in their products, and sell it without source, violating GPL, but nobody knows they do, just because nobody ever sees the source.
I dual-boot Linux with W98SE. Recently, after quite a while of using it and getting the W98 more and more "dirty" I decided to install the update. System got so unstable that I couldn't open Explorer without crashing. "Time for reinstall", I thought. Format, install, config, everything runs smoothly. Windows Update, system starts crashing really bad. Maybe I did something wrong? Format, reinstall, update. Crash. So now I run "vanilla" W98SE, without ANY updates, just pure CD install. The only protection is my firewall on a Linux box. Sucks, but what should I do? This way it can keep running for several hours, and with screensavers and power management disabled, for several days in a row. With patches, crashes notoriously. Keep it secure? How? By unplugging the net or the power supply??
Of course the same holds true for businesses, but there the problem was more of a problem with the "Default Installation". We have long known that default installations are inherently insecure.
Windows "out of the box" is as wide open as the goatse.cx guy.
The new ruling was made by a panel of three professional judges backed up by four lay judges, two of whom had technical expertise relevant to the case.
:) :)
Read: NERDS
He had to win
Can be done on ONE standard latch with two extra inputs (CS and ~WR). 1 CPU command to replace sniplets like:
n = ((n >> 1) & 0x55555555) | ((n > 2) & 0x33333333) | ((n > 4) & 0x0f0f0f0f) | ((n > 8) & 0x00ff00ff) | ((n > 16) & 0x0000ffff) | ((n 16) & 0xffff0000);
(how many CPU cycles is the above?)
And how many cycles to initialise the DSP to perform it?
then they got some excellent advice on ways they can make Windows better and stem the adoption of Linux at home and businesses.
So our purpose is...
- To kill Microsoft at all cost, no matter what direction they go and what cost it takes?
or
- To make this world a bit better place and help the evil see their evil ways and walk into straight road.
I honestly wouldn't mind to see Windows as an equal, honest and responsible competitor to Linux. Without purposedly broken components, without commercial junk and evil behaviour, treating all other OSes with due respect and letting people do their work easier, faster and cheaper, no matter what platform and OS they chose to do parts of theit job.
Microsoft, which isn't evil... Isn't that quite a pretty dream?
The purpose of the survey, at least the one for corporate users is not to get results, but to convince people that it's more reasonable to use Windows.
Just look at this question:
8. What organizations would you recommend use Linux?
Organizations that have good IT help
Organizations that want to send a message to the greedy computer industry
Only organizations that have a lot of patience
Organizations that don't mind doing things on their own
Organizations that only have limited computing needs
*sigh* I've seen so many more or less sophisticated code to do the bit mirror-reversing in FFT, and why haven't they still made a CPU (ASM) command for that (or did they?) That's SO easy in hardware, just twist the bus 180 degrees.
I wanted to take a BeOS test drive, and potentially use it in the future if I like it (...more than Linux) but I'm not sure where the OpenBeOS development is, is it something I could just install and use, or is it like 90% placeholders, "not implemented yet", "this thing will go here", and I should just go with the old original BeOS closed-source binaries?
Not trying to troll or anything, I just want a reasonable answer to this one:
I heard a ton of arguments why ther should be only One. Okay, development, toolsets, all that crap.
So, if KDE IN and GNOME IN is not an option, they go with KDE OUT, GNOME IN.
Why not KDE IN, GNOME OUT?
How is GNOME better than KDE?
UserLiGNUx. Sounds OK and with the right capitalisation
Similarly, the Barad-dur and Orodruin appeared to be right next to each other in the movie, when they're over 20 miles apart in the maps!
Does LOTR anywhere precisely mention how high was Barad Dur and Orodruin? Remember the first appearance of Barad Dur in FOTR, when it all starts with view on some orcs on a high, big tower, then we zoom out and see that's just a really tiny piece of Barad Dur. It seemed Barad Dur was some 3 miles high! In this case proportions could be very confusing!
Imagine this, some hacker who takes part in kernel development submits a date, then sabotages the kernel, submits broken modules, introduces bugs, breaks stuff and keeps all the patches on his own harddisk. And finally, when kernel would be ready if not his own purposedly made bugs, he submits his patches one day before his "guessed date" and the kernel is released within next 24 hours, within 2h from his guess and four months later than it could've been released.
The first is true, I doubt greedy bastards would agree to that. Although in Poland 2% of profit on each page copied in commercial xero passes to book authors organisation, and thanks to that, they gave up trying to make xeroing books illegal. Difficult, but not impossible.
.mil, .gov, banks etc - those, where it's obvious they encrypt their own data, and you just get fired if you try using P2P on your employer's network.
In the second case, I don't think this would be a big problem, as long as the "downgraded service" is opt-in, not opt-out, i.e. you can send ONLY unencrypted HTTP (that excludes tunnels over HTTP, easy to tell valid HTTP data from tunelled transfer), FTP or other chosen "legal transfer" protocols and anything else would be very restricted - like, serious throttling, tight monthly limits etc. You can't steal much if you have a limit of 10MB/month on SSH. And if you feel you can't live vithout sending large volumes of encrypted data, just pay for that extra.
Of course there COULD be off-limit areas too, where encryption would be allowed for free.
I think this could be done. If you can't conquer the enemy, join them.
A standarised fee added to your standard broadband fees, just like road tax in fuel prices. And legal access to all RIAA/MPAA copyrighted material. They are obligated to create a 100% valid, working copy of anything they release (may be allowed a week-two delay since shop appearance) in MP3/DIVX/whatever, and publish it on their official P2P server for everyone to download. And everyone who pays for network access, pays (proportionally to bandwidth) a little extra. Fees are collected through ISPs. And ISPs may provide "cheaper lines", P2P-free, for anyone not interested in P2P. The traffic on that networks monitored, or just P2P-specific services blocked on routers, so if you set up a dedicated webserver, you don't pay RIAA for its traffic.
Get yourself in line with the darkest underground. Get some covert "operation base", some way to access the net without revealing your identity. Maybe a relay somewhere in Kongo or something alike. Then prove your company, how "much more secure" their network became because of the change. Show them how much more secure is Windows over Sun. And in a year, when their life has turned into hell and they can't access their daily mail without thrill if it's erased today or not, pay them a friendly visit and ask how are they doing with the new help. Offer to perform an unofficial 'vulnerability assessment', for free, and show them most of the holes in their system you had found. Get them to publish results of "expertise" provided by the 3rd party vendor, and offer to fix all the problems if you are back to work. For 150% of your old salary.
They complain on the site that after Shelob stabbed Frodo, we didn't see a big wound in his chest. Well, if we did, he would be very dead (shelob sting IS poisonous) but I don't remember him taking his mithril chainmail off, so it was just the same as with the troll in Moria...