Ahh, that "lacuna" word again
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Weapons in Space
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You know how you see a word for the first time, and then you keep seeing it for the following week?
Over the weekend I saw the movei "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind", and the evil brainwashing company was Lacuna Inc. Now, this UN document also uses lacuna - it means "A gap, an empty space, spot, or cavity"; applicable to both cases.
All those free and fresh updates available at SF and kernel.org would gradually grow more and more incompatible.
And with a billion+ people, you don't think that these 3 countries will be able to keep up with all of the OSS developments? The question is not *if* the countries may produce closed software, but *why* may they want to.
What it will do is make it much much harder for someone to spoof an identity (ie, fake passport) for coming into the US.
Oh, this is the tiresome "nothing to hide, nothing to fear" argument. Do you you *who* now has a copy of your fingerprints, and why they claim to need them. Can they be reproduced with latex, and planted somewhere?
Cool, so my country (Australia) who sent troops to Iraq - now has its citizens treated the same way suspects are when brought into a police station.
I'm an Australian working, short term, in the US.
I refused to have my fingerprints and photo "optionally" taken when I entered the country in January - now I'm forced to have them taken when I will leave the US? Makes sense to me; not.
Sorry, but I'm having a problem developing my open-source missle guidance project. I'm currently using GPS and a reverse lookup database to locate and lock onto the Internet host closest to the intended target. I then use ping to track the success of my software. I'm looking for a willing volunteer, and their IP address, to join my project as my previous testing using the loopback address caused my code to dump core all over the place.
Agreed, perhaps no proof (yet?),
but I was commenting on the
eWeek article
which states "The leaked code includes 30,915 files and was apparently removed from a Linux computer used by Mainsoft for development purposes."
Perhaps it comes down to their definitions of "apparently" and
"removed".
I feel that Microsoft may yet get some "marketing points" from this event - after all, the code was reportedly stolen from one of MainSoft's *Linux* machines. Oh, if only Linux had greater security, this would never have happened.....
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You know how you see a word for the first time, and then you keep seeing it for the following week? Over the weekend I saw the movei "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind", and the evil brainwashing company was Lacuna Inc. Now, this UN document also uses lacuna - it means "A gap, an empty space, spot, or cavity"; applicable to both cases.
And with a billion+ people, you don't think that these 3 countries will be able to keep up with all of the OSS developments? The question is not *if* the countries may produce closed software, but *why* may they want to.
Oh, this is the tiresome "nothing to hide, nothing to fear" argument. Do you you *who* now has a copy of your fingerprints, and why they claim to need them. Can they be reproduced with latex, and planted somewhere?
I'm an Australian working, short term, in the US. I refused to have my fingerprints and photo "optionally" taken when I entered the country in January - now I'm forced to have them taken when I will leave the US? Makes sense to me; not.
Sorry, but I'm having a problem developing my open-source missle guidance project. I'm currently using GPS and a reverse lookup database to locate and lock onto the Internet host closest to the intended target. I then use ping to track the success of my software. I'm looking for a willing volunteer, and their IP address, to join my project as my previous testing using the loopback address caused my code to dump core all over the place.
Agreed, perhaps no proof (yet?), but I was commenting on the eWeek article which states "The leaked code includes 30,915 files and was apparently removed from a Linux computer used by Mainsoft for development purposes." Perhaps it comes down to their definitions of "apparently" and "removed".
I feel that Microsoft may yet get some "marketing points" from
this event - after all, the code was reportedly stolen from
one of MainSoft's *Linux* machines.
Oh, if only Linux had greater security, this would never have happened.....