Going back to SVR2,/etc,/lib, and/bin contained files that were needed in single-user mode, when/usr was unmounted (e.g., during boots & backups). It was not uncommon for multi-user mode only configuration files to reside somewhere in/usr (cron & UUCP come to mind).
If you live in a large city, chances are your local "public radio" station(s) offer HD broadcasts. But try using them at home with your own sound system. They've chosen the Ibiquity [rhymes with iniquity] proprietary format to prevent anything beyond "listen once" use.
Unfortunately, one of the proposals the broadcasters are floating is to greatly reduce or even eliminate OTA HDTV broadcasts, on the grounds that "80 or 90 percent" of households are already cable/satellite sunscribers.
If society at large, not just the govt. or a powerful few, finds someone's speech to be hateful, it shouldn't be necessary to block it. Society will take care of it without "official" help.
Every time I read about any use of IT to further terrorism, I wonder how long it will be before strong civilian crypto is outlawed (or key escrow is mandated, same thing) in the US.
If you haven't seen the move Ed Wood, get it now. Johnny Depp as EW, Martin Landau as Lugosi, Sarah Jessica Parker as Ed's poor girlfriend. It's wonderful.
Oh, and there's a great scene where EW meets Orson Welles, played by Vincent D'Onofrio, except that Welles' voice is uncannily dubbed by Maurice la Marche (Kif & the Robot Devil in Futurama, The Brain in Pinky & The Brain, etc.)
A well-designed firewall will keep out the less determined bad guys.
But if you log as much as you can afford of what gets past the firewall, you'll have a chance of catching the evildoers, or at least the ability to deny that your company really wasn't willfully engaging in spam/fraud/kiddie porn/etc.
I agree that Linux is a happy case where quality and success meet. But suppose that, back in 1992, Linus had been severely injured or worse in a car crash, or that Andy Tanenbaum had actively campaigned against it?
Sorry to say, I still believe that neither quality alone implies success, nor lack of quality, failure. And did Torvalds have a business plan in mind when he first posted to comp.os.minix?
Same thing. I've seen scores of really good restaurants fail not because of quality, but because of bad timing, a bad review by an incompetent reviewer, bad weather, an unrelated E.coli outbreak, etc.
We'd all like to think that quality == success, but luck seems to be the real player.
Why did the fellow from Harvard bother, when Gilbert himself, in Princess Ida (1847) wrote gems like,
In Mathematics, Woman leads the way: The narrow-minded pedant still believes That two and two make four! Why, we can prove, We women -- household drudges as we are -- That two and two make five -- or three -- or seven; Or five-and-twenty, if the case demands!
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How does MicroSoft intend to license it?
You do know that the law (final conference report) passed the House 275-156, the Senate 74-26, right? Not exactly party-line votes.
Going back to SVR2, /etc, /lib, and /bin contained files that were needed in single-user mode, when /usr was unmounted (e.g., during boots & backups). It was not uncommon for multi-user mode only configuration files to reside somewhere in /usr (cron & UUCP come to mind).
So you've forgotten Chernobyl Girl?
If you live in a large city, chances are your local "public radio" station(s) offer HD broadcasts. But try using them at home with your own sound system. They've chosen the Ibiquity [rhymes with iniquity] proprietary format to prevent anything beyond "listen once" use.
Unfortunately, one of the proposals the broadcasters are floating is to greatly reduce or even eliminate OTA HDTV broadcasts, on the grounds that "80 or 90 percent" of households are already cable/satellite sunscribers.
Just ask Mel Gibson or Michael Richards.
Gee. Grigori Perelman [the Poincare Conjecture guy] seems like a real Up With People type.
Are you concerned about what "tiered service" might do to Speakeasy? I am.
These things will happen, just not until the DRM/TC infrastructure is widely deployed.
Every time I read about any use of IT to further terrorism, I wonder how long it will be before strong civilian crypto is outlawed (or key escrow is mandated, same thing) in the US.
I'm always wary of "quips" made by law enforcement officers and politicians. They sometimes turn dead serious.
The terrorist who wants to blow people up will just get a job at one of the parks and wear 20 lbs. of explosives under his Goofy costume.
The Criticwas great. But I thought the Futurama episode with the golden fiddle was MlaM.
Oh, and there's a great scene where EW meets Orson Welles, played by Vincent D'Onofrio, except that Welles' voice is uncannily dubbed by Maurice la Marche (Kif & the Robot Devil in Futurama, The Brain in Pinky & The Brain, etc.)
This is not a new problem.
I haven't been there for years, but I suspect they'd welcome a space colony.
But if you log as much as you can afford of what gets past the firewall, you'll have a chance of catching the evildoers, or at least the ability to deny that your company really wasn't willfully engaging in spam/fraud/kiddie porn/etc.
In today's notation, it's Bb-A-C-B[natural].
Sorry to say, I still believe that neither quality alone implies success, nor lack of quality, failure. And did Torvalds have a business plan in mind when he first posted to comp.os.minix?
Yes. And I'm sorry for ending the post with "real player."
We'd all like to think that quality == success, but luck seems to be the real player.
I intended to end it with "for advertising purposes." And I do believe, sadly, that at some point they will mention their China efforts with pride.