The problem is that IBM appears to be trying to take control of Linux via software patents. Specifically, censoring it when a Linux solution gives them competition that they don't like.
And they are doing this in the fashion of a Patent Troll, with some rather questionable software patents.
Do you have a better article? The one you linked to made no mention of linux. Is that what Platform Solutions is running? Also, what patents? How do they relate to linux?
Why does it matter when your credit report is readily available to any business?
Theoretically, it's not. No business is supposed to pull your credit report without your permission and a valid reason, as per the FCRA. And no, the information on your credit report is the result of private transactions between you and and your creditors.
And for those bothering to read the actual content of this post:
Q: What's the difference between a prostitute and a lawyer?
A: A prostitute stops screwing you once you are dead.
...trouble trying to use Li-ion-battery-powered tools that sat in a 14-to-35 degree F garage for a couple days, and I'm only in Colorado. Folks in North Dakota have to drive too.
Yeah, that's why they make dog sleds.
But seriously, you say Colorado like the rest of us should be held hostage by the fact that you chose to live in a place with an intemperate climate. Plenty of places never get close to the 35 degree issue. There are 4 million people in Colorado and 17 million in Florida where it RARELY dips below 40.
Hell, Broward County has almost three times the population of North Dakota alone.
Riiiiight! Porn? What porn? I don't have any porn on my computer. Must be the HaXor put it there. Yeah, that's the ticket. Why would I need porn when my wife if Morgan Fairchild... Who I've seen NAKED!
Doesn't this make teaching people to read illegal? After all, you're just enabling them to participate in a violation of a copyright on written material?
Windows XP SP2, using Cisco VPN regularly causes a BSOD about once a month. The system reboots about half a second later. Three quarters of a second later is when the cursing starts.
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Marijuana will do that.
When I was a kid, (read before Arnold started saying "I'll be back") a sky hook was one of these, sort of an optical illusion.
You think? How much longer before Zik Zak gets the law passed, making it illegal to turn off a tv?
Perhaps you should look up the word sentience, which is fairly well defined and doesn't mean what you think it means.
30 mg of Prozac? These are children, fool. Clearly they'll need Ritalin.
Hawking was talking about the survival of the species. How is it silly? There has already been two mass extictions caused by impacts. Dinosaurs?
You are hung up on culture, which Hawking doesn't mention.
Somebody actually wasted a point to mod my stupid joke down?
...monkeys evolve from you.
1 million on order? But how many have been shipped?
Didn't James Bond already stop you once in Moonraker?
2. Train/Metro in every major US city
Bzzt - negative impact on the environment
3. Large installation of windmills
Bzzt - negative impact on the environment
The top post should have been, "Can't stop the signal"
The problem is that IBM appears to be trying to take control of Linux via software patents. Specifically, censoring it when a Linux solution gives them competition that they don't like.
And they are doing this in the fashion of a Patent Troll, with some rather questionable software patents.
Do you have a better article? The one you linked to made no mention of linux. Is that what Platform Solutions is running? Also, what patents? How do they relate to linux?
Why does it matter when your credit report is readily available to any business?
Theoretically, it's not. No business is supposed to pull your credit report without your permission and a valid reason, as per the FCRA. And no, the information on your credit report is the result of private transactions between you and and your creditors.
You damaged you argument by trying to clain 10-19 is temperate. Where do you live, the north pole?
And for those bothering to read the actual content of this post: Q: What's the difference between a prostitute and a lawyer? A: A prostitute stops screwing you once you are dead.
...trouble trying to use Li-ion-battery-powered tools that sat in a 14-to-35 degree F garage for a couple days, and I'm only in Colorado. Folks in North Dakota have to drive too.
Yeah, that's why they make dog sleds.
But seriously, you say Colorado like the rest of us should be held hostage by the fact that you chose to live in a place with an intemperate climate. Plenty of places never get close to the 35 degree issue. There are 4 million people in Colorado and 17 million in Florida where it RARELY dips below 40.
Hell, Broward County has almost three times the population of North Dakota alone.
Haven't S/390 had PowerPC chips under the hood for quite some time now?
When does a personality simulation become the bitter mote... of a soul? I, Robot 2004
Riiiiight! Porn? What porn? I don't have any porn on my computer. Must be the HaXor put it there. Yeah, that's the ticket. Why would I need porn when my wife if Morgan Fairchild... Who I've seen NAKED!
An auditor would ENJOY smacking the imps around.
Doesn't this make teaching people to read illegal? After all, you're just enabling them to participate in a violation of a copyright on written material?
Windows XP SP2, using Cisco VPN regularly causes a BSOD about once a month. The system reboots about half a second later. Three quarters of a second later is when the cursing starts.
"Build a man a fire and you keep him warm for an evening. But SET a man on fire and you keep him warm for the rest of his life." - Terry Pratchett
The laptops aren't supposed to be fish. It supposed to allow them to teach themselves how to do better with the clean water, food, and what not.
The policy wasn't widely known, and certainly wasn't publicized, but it was there. You might want to reread your school's policy.
Is this like double secret probation ?
Care to trot out a citation to this "unpublicized" policy? I am genuinely curious to see this.