I emailed the on-duty editor (regarding this being a dupe), like any good little/. subscriber. Unfortunately my e-mail bounced pretty much immediately. Normally I would resist the temptation to join in the/. circle-jerk that is shouting "OMG DUPE DUPE DUPE!!" but I wanted someone (ScuttleMonkey, etc) to note that the 'daddypants' email link is bouncing.
( ERROR: Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at... Line 126 )..ScuttleMonkey, if you want the full error, feel free to let me know where to e-mail it.
On a sidenote, what seems odd to me is that not only is this a dupe that is currently visible on the index [slashdot.org] of slashdot, but that the article summary is almost identical to the earlier submission, and is even from the same submitter. Insert Matrix deja-vu quote here.
"We can extract ice cores and easily date the layers."
No, actually, we can't. You're thinking _ANTARCTIC_ ice layers, not Arctic. Arctic ice is _sea ice_ and as sea ice, it melts and refreezes and it _moves_ all over the damn place.
Just to clarify further, since the ice has melted over the passage way it would be damned hard to get an ice core;-]
Q:
Will systems running Wine pass WGA validation? A:
Wine is an implementation of the Windows 3.x and Win32 APIs on top of X and Unix. When WGA validation detects Wine running on the system, it will notify users that they are running non-genuine Windows, and it will not allow genuine Windows downloads for that system. Users of Wine should consult the Wine community for Wine updates. It is important to note that Wine users, and other users of non-genuine Windows, can continue to download updates for most Microsoft applications from Microsoft application-specific sites, such as Office Update.
So isn't this a restriction of trade and a breach of the settlement agreement with the DoJ?
Jaj
P.s. the more I read the more I get scared.... What next, you by you software off MS and they they charge for "auto-updates" (the tool can unquiely id your machine, therefore you therefore your creadit-card details [assuming you bought directly from MS????] )
Also is it just me or the bigger a "capitalist" company becomes the more dictatorial/communist it ends up?
Most of the IT managers I have worked with _had_ to be from the stone age - otherwise they would have been (a long time ago) selectivily remvoed from the gene pool
...why don't you change the one they (D-Link) use to (basically) lie about the time! Deliberatly send out the wrong information. Altered the config for the customers of dix and let the D-Link customers go mad at D-Link
...missed what the article was covering as I was reading/., doing a build, doing two code releases, responding to emails, answering the phone and listening to music...
Technically a webpage is a file being made available for sharing so therefore all websites are breaking the law in the eyes of the RIAA (ironically including them)!
"So SCO is essentially admitting that Novell owns the copyrights at this point, but is saying that Novell breached the contract (that specifically excluded copyrights) by failing to transfer them to Santa Cruz."
Ok, bare with me, I think I have worked out how to defeat Microsoft and then take over the world....
1 Get SCO to sue Microsoft from breach of copyright
2 Sue MS for breach of contract and get them to turn over the copyright to us
3 Get LOTS of money and domination in the software world
4 repeat steps 1-3 with other companies
5 Copyright the word "china"
6 Repeat the procedure and sue China for using the word "china" and demand all monies generated by China
7 Repeat steps 3 and 4 with all contries on the planet (noting that "french fries" could be an issue).
8 Stroke the white pussy cat and go "Ah Mr Bond" a few times
9 Shot Mr Bond, don't try anything fancy. Get a gun shot him, then empty a clip into him, reload and repeat empting the clip. Do it yourself and don't let any employee do it. Take the dead body and burn it, and then pass it through an industrial blender
10 Sit back and enjoy!
Stuff the _real_ crime - we'll just redefine "crime" to be ones that are easy to solve and improve our success rate, and therefore swap the "true" crimes with "madeup" crimes!
... This has nothing/little to do with terrorism and it's unlikely to cut "real" crime.
For example the Yorkshire Ripper was caught by a Policeman doing his job, pulling over a car with dodge plates, and arrested him. Cameras wouldn't have caught him
Light fingered burglers don't tend to drive to commit their crimes either....
The main reason I can see for this is to (yet again) punish motorists who are speeding. The theory is simple. Cameras can monitor have far you have travelled, and they know the distance, ergo work out the speed. This already exist it appears to know be used to cover ALL the country and ALL travel. - Just THINK of the profit^H^H^H^H^H taxes^H^H^H^H^H "fines that will be reinvested" the government will get
If you want a vision of the future, Winston, imagine a boot stamping on a human face forever
And also to quote a US general "He[Bush] made a decision that Geneva [conventions] would in fact govern all but al-Qaeda and al-Qaeda look-alike detainees. Any other prisoners of course would be governed by traditional methods, international law, Geneva and so forth".
IMHO the US is acting with total disregard for the basic human rights of people. They apear to be hell-bent on total world domination.
"[Windows xp has]40 million lines of code..." and if 5.7 million lines of code should have "114,000 to 171,000 bugs" that should be that windows has 800k - 1.2 million bugs!!!!
Wow, from the standard of their bugs thre's got to be some _really_ good ones in the source somewhere:-]
the bbc is reporting that "A new round has opened in the European Commission anti-trust battle against Microsoft as the judge hearing its appeal called for a closed meeting.
The meeting - to be held on Thursday - follows US-based Novell and the Computer and Communications Industry Association dropping out of the case. "
Wonder if this means the EU Anti-trust case will fail apart, or, like the US slowly fade into nothing
Slashdot Mirror
Ah the issues with Dyslexia (why is this so damned hard to spell)....
Jaj
...i messed around with anagrams of "ScuttleMoney" and got...
Yo celment slut
To clumsy teen
and my favourate...
u my clone test
Jaj
Just to clarify.....
/. subscriber. Unfortunately my e-mail bounced pretty much immediately. Normally I would resist the temptation to join in the /. circle-jerk that is shouting "OMG DUPE DUPE DUPE!!" but I wanted someone (ScuttleMonkey, etc) to note that the 'daddypants' email link is bouncing. ..ScuttleMonkey, if you want the full error, feel free to let me know where to e-mail it.
;-]
I emailed the on-duty editor (regarding this being a dupe), like any good little
( ERROR: Use of uninitialized value in concatenation (.) or string at... Line 126 )
On a sidenote, what seems odd to me is that not only is this a dupe that is currently visible on the index [slashdot.org] of slashdot, but that the article summary is almost identical to the earlier submission, and is even from the same submitter. Insert Matrix deja-vu quote here.
Sorry couldn't resist
Jaj
"We can extract ice cores and easily date the layers."
No, actually, we can't. You're thinking _ANTARCTIC_ ice layers, not Arctic. Arctic ice is _sea ice_ and as sea ice, it melts and refreezes and it _moves_ all over the damn place.
Just to clarify further, since the ice has melted over the passage way it would be damned hard to get an ice core ;-]
Jaj
*waves it around*
*drops it on desk*
Ah crap, anyone got a spare one.... ;-]
JajCannto see this in the list of comments, so
if you read MS site it clearly states:
Q: Will systems running Wine pass WGA validation?
A: Wine is an implementation of the Windows 3.x and Win32 APIs on top of X and Unix. When WGA validation detects Wine running on the system, it will notify users that they are running non-genuine Windows, and it will not allow genuine Windows downloads for that system. Users of Wine should consult the Wine community for Wine updates. It is important to note that Wine users, and other users of non-genuine Windows, can continue to download updates for most Microsoft applications from Microsoft application-specific sites, such as Office Update.
So isn't this a restriction of trade and a breach of the settlement agreement with the DoJ?
Jaj
P.s. the more I read the more I get scared.... What next, you by you software off MS and they they charge for "auto-updates" (the tool can unquiely id your machine, therefore you therefore your creadit-card details [assuming you bought directly from MS????] )
Also is it just me or the bigger a "capitalist" company becomes the more dictatorial/communist it ends up?
Microsoft... and 'the philosophy has been that licensing should not be a restriction'.
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wipes tear from eye
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*sound of side splitting....*
Seriously one of the funniest thing's I've heard resently...
....I didn't realise Notes was still alive!!!
;-]
I thought it hand been taken out into the street and (in)humanily shot!
Jaj
Are you 100% sure....
Most of the IT managers I have worked with _had_ to be from the stone age - otherwise they would have been (a long time ago) selectivily remvoed from the gene pool
:-]
Jaj
...why don't you change the one they (D-Link) use to (basically) lie about the time! Deliberatly send out the wrong information. Altered the config for the customers of dix and let the D-Link customers go mad at D-Link
Brutal but (in theory) affective....
Jaj
...missed what the article was covering as I was reading /., doing a build, doing two code releases, responding to emails, answering the phone and listening to music...
What was the general gist again
:-]
Jaj
... I have just invested heavily in a Blue Cheese maker
:-]
Yet another investment loss
Jaj
Technically a webpage is a file being made available for sharing so therefore all websites are breaking the law in the eyes of the RIAA (ironically including them)!
Wow what a bunch of idiots!
Jaj
Mr Monkey, or can I call you Scuttle, this may be of use in the future.
Jaj
"So SCO is essentially admitting that Novell owns the copyrights at this point, but is saying that Novell breached the contract (that specifically excluded copyrights) by failing to transfer them to Santa Cruz." Ok, bare with me, I think I have worked out how to defeat Microsoft and then take over the world....
1 Get SCO to sue Microsoft from breach of copyright
2 Sue MS for breach of contract and get them to turn over the copyright to us
3 Get LOTS of money and domination in the software world 4 repeat steps 1-3 with other companies 5 Copyright the word "china"
6 Repeat the procedure and sue China for using the word "china" and demand all monies generated by China
7 Repeat steps 3 and 4 with all contries on the planet (noting that "french fries" could be an issue).
8 Stroke the white pussy cat and go "Ah Mr Bond" a few times
9 Shot Mr Bond, don't try anything fancy. Get a gun shot him, then empty a clip into him, reload and repeat empting the clip. Do it yourself and don't let any employee do it. Take the dead body and burn it, and then pass it through an industrial blender
10 Sit back and enjoy!
Jaj
This is very true....
Stuff the _real_ crime - we'll just redefine "crime" to be ones that are easy to solve and improve our success rate, and therefore swap the "true" crimes with "madeup" crimes!
Wahoo!
Jaj
... This has nothing/little to do with terrorism and it's unlikely to cut "real" crime.
For example the Yorkshire Ripper was caught by a Policeman doing his job, pulling over a car with dodge plates, and arrested him. Cameras wouldn't have caught him
Light fingered burglers don't tend to drive to commit their crimes either....
The main reason I can see for this is to (yet again) punish motorists who are speeding. The theory is simple. Cameras can monitor have far you have travelled, and they know the distance, ergo work out the speed. This already exist it appears to know be used to cover ALL the country and ALL travel. - Just THINK of the profit^H^H^H^H^H taxes^H^H^H^H^H "fines that will be reinvested" the government will get
If you want a vision of the future, Winston, imagine a boot stamping on a human face forever
Jaj
Well apparently lying in a bloody pool of denal
And also to quote a US general "He[Bush] made a decision that Geneva [conventions] would in fact govern all but al-Qaeda and al-Qaeda look-alike detainees. Any other prisoners of course would be governed by traditional methods, international law, Geneva and so forth".
IMHO the US is acting with total disregard for the basic human rights of people. They apear to be hell-bent on total world domination.
It's a massive shame
Jaj
"aggregated diamond nanorods are a girls best friend" just doesn't have the same "ring"
There we are, two bad jokes in one sentence
Jaj
For the brits...
Camellia Parket Bowles and/or Johnny Vegas walk through then they'll change there minds
Jaj
We explained to the parents that 127.0.0.1 was the local PC's IP
Oh NOW I understand why it's funny
;-]
Jaj
"[Windows xp has]40 million lines of code..." and if 5.7 million lines of code should have "114,000 to 171,000 bugs" that should be that windows has 800k - 1.2 million bugs!!!!
Wow, from the standard of their bugs thre's got to be some _really_ good ones in the source somewhere:-]
...sounds like a scottish pyschopath!
:-]
Jaj
the bbc is reporting that "A new round has opened in the European Commission anti-trust battle against Microsoft as the judge hearing its appeal called for a closed meeting. The meeting - to be held on Thursday - follows US-based Novell and the Computer and Communications Industry Association dropping out of the case. "
Wonder if this means the EU Anti-trust case will fail apart, or, like the US slowly fade into nothing
Jaj
... a story about dodgy URL's to be read at work,
I am currently posting this on his home computer after being escorted of works premise with p45[1] in hand[2]
[1] P45 - in the uk a slip to say "you're fired" (has tax details etc.. on it).
[2] My excuse and I'm sticking to it
With tongue firmly in cheek
Jaj