Yes, and they are almost certain that this Anthrax came from Ft. Detrick, since that exact strain was used there, and some was missing. Additionally, one Lt. Col. Philip Zack was spotted by security cameras entering the facility after hours, and after he had been FIRED one year earlier for racially-motivated harassment against an Egyptian researched named Dr. Assaad. One day before the Anthrax attacks, the FBI was sent an anonymous letter warning that Dr. Assaad was a nutcase, and planning some sort of biological attack on the USA. They investigated him, but determined it was an attempt to frame him. But they NEVER investigated WHO was trying to frame him. Odds are it was the same person who initiated the attacks. (How else would he know?)
So what we have is somebody who was FIRED over his hatred of an Arab, who was spotted illegally entering a secure facility shortly before the Anthrax used in the attacks WENT MISSING, and they received a letter implicating this same Arab immediatly before the attacks began. Additionally, the letters sent with the anthrax were written so as to frame Arabs. However, forensic analysis revealed that the person who penned them writes in English, and was faking an Arabic "accent" on the penmanship (Or whatever it is called when your penmanship is affected by the script you first learned to write in) Also, the letters told the people to take antibiotics. Why would terrorists trying to kill somebody do all they can to help save them? A real terrorist wouldn't say it was Anthrax at all, let alone recommend a treatment. Some have said "Well penacillin wouldn't help, you need Cipero!" That is completely untrue. The people who make Cipero would like you to believe it is the only antibiotic that works, but it is not. There are many antibiotics that are effective. Penicillin is, and is FAR cheaper.
The average dump is 1% disposable diapers, 0.5% fast food garbage by weight, 0.33% by volume. Less than 1% styrofoam, including the styrofoam from the fast food garbage. They contain 16% plastic bags. They contain 50% paper, most of them newspapers. You can dig through a dump and find a New York Times from 1951, and it will be as fresh as the day it was printed. Styrofoam isn't biodegradable? Neither is paper. 18% is food and yard waste. It doesn't decompose either. Nothing decomposes in a dump. All the garbage is compacted. No oxygen = no bacteria = no decomposition. I'm not sure what the other ~14% was. Probably metals and electronics.
A single persons subscription to the New York Times contributes more garbage than a small city of people eating from styrofoam containers for a year. And it probably took more DHMO to make the ink and paper than it did to make the styrofoam!;)
Yes, but this isn't a general draft. The conscripts will be coding, not fighting. You don't need to be particularly fit to do that;)
And yes, what is next IS the general draft.
They have already hired all the required personel for the local draft boards. Spent $28 million to get the draft ready to begin no later than June 15th, 2005. What's that? They need congressional approval? Read Bills S 89 and HR 163. They would have been in the news, but they had just caught Saddam so it never made the cut...
It's not the entire country, though. Just able bodied men and women between the ages of 18 and 26...unless they've change that range. And yes, it is co-ed now;) And if you are a student, or a farmer...you arn't excluded this time. If you want a drivers licence, or if you attended public school, you are already registered. Although if they got your name, address, and phone number from your school, you had the opportunety for your parents to opt you out, but the schools are not required to inform you of that option, or even that they are giving your information to the government. If schools do not comply, they lose government funding.
And as for "for their entire life" no, just 30 years. You see, many of the troops, reserves, and National Guard in Iraq (est 43%) are not planning to reenlist. Unfortunatly, they have been "stop gapped" back into service anyways; many of them whose tours were supposed to end in 2003 or 2004 have found they NOW end in 2030. And yes, the war will still be going on in 2030. Bush himself has said he expects The War on Terror to drag on for several more decades at the minimum. I mean, they have only toppled 2 nations so far, and they still have Iran, Libya and Syria to topple, not to mention North Korea, Cuba, Venezuela, and so on.
The Davis-Besse nuclear reactor in Ohio was running its safty monitoring systems on an NT server. And it got infected by Slammer and crashed. Fortunatly, the system had an analog backup, and the reactor had already been offline all year, after inspectors discovered a 6" hole through the cement in the reactor head, which left the core exposed.
RealPlayer is far worse
"Good day. I see I'm not registered to play MP3, MPG, or AVI. You must have mistakenly unchecked them during install. I've fixed this error automatically"
"Hi! Just thought I'd pop up a message telling you there are new ads to view! Click here to view"
"Trying to uninstall me!? Please write a paragraph on your reasons for uninstalling and submit it to RealMedia for approval. Have you considered upgrading instead?"
A friend of mine's older sister would buy anything for her kids, who were like 10 and 5 at the time. Although the older one got his pellet gun taken away because he kept shooting out the car and house windows. But the younger one got to keep his, since he was mostly good with it. But they certainly get all the violent video games they want. Why? Because otherwise they wouldn't like her. Last time she wouldn't because they didn't have the money, the 5 year old said "I hate you!" so she bought it. When she wouldn't get them icecream before dinner, they said they would kill her so she bought it for them.
They've learned they can do anything to the babysitter and they won't get in trouble. Last time she took their precious Playstation away for fighting, so they wedged the bedroom door closed with a chair while she was putting it in the closet. She tried to call the parents but they cut the phone line! She climbed out the window but they had locked the front door. Then they started shooting at her. She ran 2 miles to the next door neighbors (They live in the boonies, you see) and the mom came home and yelled at the babysitter for bothering her and taking their games away, then bought the kids ice-cream. (They didn't even have to threaten to kill her this time!)
On top of they, she is convinced the older one is the smartest person on the planet. He gets straight A's in elementry school, you see...mostly because she does all his homework and projects for him...but only because he's too smart to waste his time with them, you see;)
Long and the short of it, she doesn't want Wal-Mart doing her parenting beacuse she doesn't want ANYBODY doing her parenting. She doesn't want her kids being repressed and deprived. And she certainly doesn't want them mad at her
No, if you get your stuff back, you don't get compensation from the thief! If you buy stolen property, YOU have to sue the theif for restitution. The person who had it stolen is NOT obligated to buy it back and then do the suing themselves. They can and should be charged with possession of stolen property, and trafficing in stolen property.
Regardless of the waiting period issue, the second they knew it was stolen, and tried to sell it anyways, they broke the law and should go to JAIL. No stupid bullshit fines. Throw the clerk and the manager in jail. It's just plain illegal, and there is no way around that.
It's not even a question of what they WANT. If they are anything like nVidia, they CAN'T open them up because they licence technology from other firms, and can't publish their licenced code.
In a CANDU, yes, there is something that decreses the activity if it gets too hot. The coolant is heavy water. The heavy water also acts to conduct the neutrons between the fuel rods. If the coolant leaks out, the reaction cannot continue because the neutrons are not traveling at the right speed anymore. In a normal reactor, if the rods get too hot they melt down and away. Once away from the coolant and control rods, the chain reaction speeds up, since nothing is absorbing the neutrons anymore, and nothing is absorbing the heat. In a CANDU reactor, this won't happen.
And as long as we are talking about 9/11, 2 of the 9/11 planes passed OVER an operating nuclear reactor. The air around nuclear reactors is highly restricted. Normally, whenever a plane gets close Airforce jets are scrambled to warn it and/or shoot it down. This is also what is supposed to happen within 5 minutes of a jet's transponder going off-line, or a loss of radio contact. These arn't new rules, they have always been in place.
The long and the short is, on 9/11, they could have crashed into two nuclear reactors, possibly killing everybody in the north eastern corridor. Others have pointed out that the reinforced concrete could take it. Maybe they knew this and didn't bother trying. But either way, there are strict airspace rules designed to prevent this sort of thing, it's just that on 9/11 people decided not to bother with the rules.
This is, of course, the optimal state for things. If everybody is a criminal, the police can arrest anybody, because they can always find a law the person has broken. Even now it is getting that way. There are over 3,000,000 federal laws, not to mention state laws and local laws. Are you SURE you havn't broken any?
For example, purchaced a sex toy of some form? They're available everywhere, but it is illegal to sell them. The fact that the law isn't regularly enforced doesn't change the fact that you can go to jail for working in an adult store. Then there are the crazy state and city laws like "You can't kiss on Sundays" and "You cannot sell yo-yo's on Sundays" and "No more than 3 women can live under the same roof" and "It is illegal to drink a beer immediatly after having sex." and "A husband cannot have sex with his wife if he has eaten garlic or anchovis. If she requests it, he is legally obligated to brush his teeth"
No, it's an American comic. MandrakeSoft are the ones who are French;)
And I just thought I would point out that while there was a comic out way back then that featured a crime solving magician named Mandrake, there was a Canadian, Leon Mandrake, who went by Mandrake the Magician, and he started performing YEARS before this comic came out. He did a bit of ESP, mindreading, and hypnotism, which is what the comic Mandrake the Magician specialized in.
Either way, the comic syndicate's argument was that the author invented the Magician-Mandrake connection, which is plainly false.
Actually, they have, but they since deleted it. However, somebody saved a screen shot. What it says is
Actually, that's not what the comic portrayed. It actually meant that they were upset that we wouldn't sue them and they ended it with outright slander saying I can only orgasm if I kill a dog...very funny...love it...they want the publicity and traffic driven to there website like is happening to hardocp
The penny arcade guys were nice enough to call us in the beginning and tell us they didn't mean any harm and would be putting us through the gaming console initiation process that all the past consoles have gone through with the hardcore techies
Gabe's response is
So Tim thinks we did that comic strip to get more traffic driven to our site. That's a nice thought Tim but you're way off. You see unlike Infinium Labs and your doomed console, Penny Arcade is successful. How can I say this without sounding like an asshole? Penny Arcade has more readers in a given second than your site will ever have even if it were to sit and rot on the internet until time ends and the universe implodes. Hmmm, I guess I can't.
Tim also says we called him to let him know it's all in fun. This again is bullshit. I don't care if he likes the comic or not. I've certainly never called the guy and I have no intention of doing so.
Bottom line, the guy is a lying huckster. I guess he figured he could post that on his forum and we'd never see it. This proves he has no concept of how huge PA is. Penny Arcade isn't just a comic and a news post Tim, PA is a community and we have agents everywhere. Chances are they're watching you even now.
You misunderstand. These arn't crosswalks at downtown intersections, they are crosswalks across a single road in suburban areas. There is one near me. The nearest intersections are probably a 1/4 mile away in either direction. So just to get across the street to the bus stop would be a half-mile walk without this crosswalk. And it's a really busy 4-lane, so just jaywalking without the crosswalk is pretty difficult. Even when it was just a crosswalk, people rarely stopped for you. With the flashing lights (Besides the lights embedded in the road, there are lights around the crosswalk signs that flash as well) nobody runs though it.
On the other hand, once you get downtown, there are no control buttons. It's not like they disabled them, they just have never been there. When the traffic lights turn green, the crosswalks get a walk sign.
Why put it in underware? Put it in drivers licences and state ID. There is a push to have a national ID card, so put one in them, too. You can't microwave them, as they would probably melt. Even if not, it would be destruction of government property, and land you in jail. You can't report it stolen and get a few more, and have them spread around, because they would know which are the stolen ones, and could arrest the people who are carrying them for you.
Exactly. When the first Creative Jukeboxes came out, before the iPod, a big selling point was that they were firmware upgradeable. Right on the box it promised that they would update it to play "all future digital music formats" but it still only plays MP3 and WMA files. If you ask them when they are coding firmware to play Ogg Vorbis files they say "We do not support other music formats." If you point out they promised to support all future formats, they say "I already said, we do not support other formats" and then stop responding.
I'll never buy a Creative product again, because they lied about their features in order to sell them.
No, SCO is breaking Section 2b of the GPL by charging for the kernel, as they are NOT licencing their code in it free of charge to all third parties. You will note that this Section also states that putting two programs on the same CD/distrubution package does NOT put them under the same licence. So you can break the licence of one without touching the other, since they are NOT under the same licence. (This also means that you can include proprietary code without any problems)
Since they are breaking 2B., then under Section 4, their licence is void, and they may not redistribute at all. However, if they go up to a company running Redhat, and demand a fee, they have not violated the GPL at all: The GPL is only void if they sell copies of Linux complete with a licence to use the code. Of course, it is illegal to demand compensation for something you don't own, but unless they are charging it for their OWN copy, the GPL has nothing to do with it.
Further more, they are only charging for the Linux kernel. They are not charging for NMap, grep, gcc, Samba, perl, or anything else that may or may not be in a particular GNU/Linux distribution. As such, they have not violated the licence on these pieces of software. If the authors try to revoke SCO's right to this code, THEY are violating the GPL by not licencing it under the GPL to ALL third parties. SCO's right to the kernel is void by their actions (If they are selling licences to the kernel that they are distributing, and the licence sold is a condition of said distribution) but not their right to anything else.
It sounds like it's not even an internal designation. More like they are considering a version inbetween XP and Longhorn, "Reloaded" is just what some of the guys are calling it.
Even if you pay be Credit Card, they don't know it's you. Know why? This is just talking about an inventory guy coming into the store and getting how many purchases and at what times, as well as looking at how much space their competitors are getting, and where they are located. Then he orders more to make up for how many were sold. It is NEVER tied to an individual!
No, that only works if the probability of system X being wrong is independent of the particular message it is checking. (This also means that their figures are dependent on the makeup of the e-mail you are getting) Also, you couldn't really combine them usefully. If one says yes and the other says no, what do you do? You could either accept in these cases, or reject. But either way you could increase the error over just using one or the other.
99.84% chance of success is a one in 625 chance of failure. 99.983% chance of success is a one in 5000 chance of failure. 99.984% = 1 in 6250. So yes, it is around 10 times better:D
You don't see it going up? Right now the internet-to-phone stuff works by having some gateways somewhere. However, 911 in NY does NOT have a 10-digit number you can call to get it elsewhere. That means that these gateways would have to be in every single city in the US. Some of the companies have a "911" service, but it ISN'T 911. They route your 911 call to some emergency call center near your address. And often times, this call center can patch you in to the local 911 service if you request it. Or maybe not.
There are only a few notches on a key, and only a few positions they can have...for most cars, the odds of the key from one opening another are around 1/150 or something, IIRC.
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Yes, and they are almost certain that this Anthrax came from Ft. Detrick, since that exact strain was used there, and some was missing. Additionally, one Lt. Col. Philip Zack was spotted by security cameras entering the facility after hours, and after he had been FIRED one year earlier for racially-motivated harassment against an Egyptian researched named Dr. Assaad. One day before the Anthrax attacks, the FBI was sent an anonymous letter warning that Dr. Assaad was a nutcase, and planning some sort of biological attack on the USA. They investigated him, but determined it was an attempt to frame him. But they NEVER investigated WHO was trying to frame him. Odds are it was the same person who initiated the attacks. (How else would he know?)
So what we have is somebody who was FIRED over his hatred of an Arab, who was spotted illegally entering a secure facility shortly before the Anthrax used in the attacks WENT MISSING, and they received a letter implicating this same Arab immediatly before the attacks began. Additionally, the letters sent with the anthrax were written so as to frame Arabs. However, forensic analysis revealed that the person who penned them writes in English, and was faking an Arabic "accent" on the penmanship (Or whatever it is called when your penmanship is affected by the script you first learned to write in) Also, the letters told the people to take antibiotics. Why would terrorists trying to kill somebody do all they can to help save them? A real terrorist wouldn't say it was Anthrax at all, let alone recommend a treatment. Some have said "Well penacillin wouldn't help, you need Cipero!" That is completely untrue. The people who make Cipero would like you to believe it is the only antibiotic that works, but it is not. There are many antibiotics that are effective. Penicillin is, and is FAR cheaper.
Note how they ALWAYS say the person's name first. Yeah, just like the ones in the article. You say their name, it connects to them.
The average dump is 1% disposable diapers, 0.5% fast food garbage by weight, 0.33% by volume. Less than 1% styrofoam, including the styrofoam from the fast food garbage. They contain 16% plastic bags. They contain 50% paper, most of them newspapers. You can dig through a dump and find a New York Times from 1951, and it will be as fresh as the day it was printed. Styrofoam isn't biodegradable? Neither is paper. 18% is food and yard waste. It doesn't decompose either. Nothing decomposes in a dump. All the garbage is compacted. No oxygen = no bacteria = no decomposition. I'm not sure what the other ~14% was. Probably metals and electronics.
A single persons subscription to the New York Times contributes more garbage than a small city of people eating from styrofoam containers for a year. And it probably took more DHMO to make the ink and paper than it did to make the styrofoam! ;)
Yes, but this isn't a general draft. The conscripts will be coding, not fighting. You don't need to be particularly fit to do that ;)
And yes, what is next IS the general draft. They have already hired all the required personel for the local draft boards. Spent $28 million to get the draft ready to begin no later than June 15th, 2005. What's that? They need congressional approval? Read Bills S 89 and HR 163. They would have been in the news, but they had just caught Saddam so it never made the cut...
It's not the entire country, though. Just able bodied men and women between the ages of 18 and 26...unless they've change that range. And yes, it is co-ed now ;) And if you are a student, or a farmer...you arn't excluded this time. If you want a drivers licence, or if you attended public school, you are already registered. Although if they got your name, address, and phone number from your school, you had the opportunety for your parents to opt you out, but the schools are not required to inform you of that option, or even that they are giving your information to the government. If schools do not comply, they lose government funding.
And as for "for their entire life" no, just 30 years. You see, many of the troops, reserves, and National Guard in Iraq (est 43%) are not planning to reenlist. Unfortunatly, they have been "stop gapped" back into service anyways; many of them whose tours were supposed to end in 2003 or 2004 have found they NOW end in 2030. And yes, the war will still be going on in 2030. Bush himself has said he expects The War on Terror to drag on for several more decades at the minimum. I mean, they have only toppled 2 nations so far, and they still have Iran, Libya and Syria to topple, not to mention North Korea, Cuba, Venezuela, and so on.
The Davis-Besse nuclear reactor in Ohio was running its safty monitoring systems on an NT server. And it got infected by Slammer and crashed. Fortunatly, the system had an analog backup, and the reactor had already been offline all year, after inspectors discovered a 6" hole through the cement in the reactor head, which left the core exposed.
RealPlayer is far worse
"Good day. I see I'm not registered to play MP3, MPG, or AVI. You must have mistakenly unchecked them during install. I've fixed this error automatically"
"Hi! Just thought I'd pop up a message telling you there are new ads to view! Click here to view"
"Trying to uninstall me!? Please write a paragraph on your reasons for uninstalling and submit it to RealMedia for approval. Have you considered upgrading instead?"
A friend of mine's older sister would buy anything for her kids, who were like 10 and 5 at the time. Although the older one got his pellet gun taken away because he kept shooting out the car and house windows. But the younger one got to keep his, since he was mostly good with it. But they certainly get all the violent video games they want. Why? Because otherwise they wouldn't like her. Last time she wouldn't because they didn't have the money, the 5 year old said "I hate you!" so she bought it. When she wouldn't get them icecream before dinner, they said they would kill her so she bought it for them.
They've learned they can do anything to the babysitter and they won't get in trouble. Last time she took their precious Playstation away for fighting, so they wedged the bedroom door closed with a chair while she was putting it in the closet. She tried to call the parents but they cut the phone line! She climbed out the window but they had locked the front door. Then they started shooting at her. She ran 2 miles to the next door neighbors (They live in the boonies, you see) and the mom came home and yelled at the babysitter for bothering her and taking their games away, then bought the kids ice-cream. (They didn't even have to threaten to kill her this time!)
On top of they, she is convinced the older one is the smartest person on the planet. He gets straight A's in elementry school, you see...mostly because she does all his homework and projects for him...but only because he's too smart to waste his time with them, you see ;)
Long and the short of it, she doesn't want Wal-Mart doing her parenting beacuse she doesn't want ANYBODY doing her parenting. She doesn't want her kids being repressed and deprived. And she certainly doesn't want them mad at her
No, if you get your stuff back, you don't get compensation from the thief! If you buy stolen property, YOU have to sue the theif for restitution. The person who had it stolen is NOT obligated to buy it back and then do the suing themselves. They can and should be charged with possession of stolen property, and trafficing in stolen property.
Regardless of the waiting period issue, the second they knew it was stolen, and tried to sell it anyways, they broke the law and should go to JAIL. No stupid bullshit fines. Throw the clerk and the manager in jail. It's just plain illegal, and there is no way around that.
It's not even a question of what they WANT. If they are anything like nVidia, they CAN'T open them up because they licence technology from other firms, and can't publish their licenced code.
In a CANDU, yes, there is something that decreses the activity if it gets too hot. The coolant is heavy water. The heavy water also acts to conduct the neutrons between the fuel rods. If the coolant leaks out, the reaction cannot continue because the neutrons are not traveling at the right speed anymore. In a normal reactor, if the rods get too hot they melt down and away. Once away from the coolant and control rods, the chain reaction speeds up, since nothing is absorbing the neutrons anymore, and nothing is absorbing the heat. In a CANDU reactor, this won't happen.
And as long as we are talking about 9/11, 2 of the 9/11 planes passed OVER an operating nuclear reactor. The air around nuclear reactors is highly restricted. Normally, whenever a plane gets close Airforce jets are scrambled to warn it and/or shoot it down. This is also what is supposed to happen within 5 minutes of a jet's transponder going off-line, or a loss of radio contact. These arn't new rules, they have always been in place.
The long and the short is, on 9/11, they could have crashed into two nuclear reactors, possibly killing everybody in the north eastern corridor. Others have pointed out that the reinforced concrete could take it. Maybe they knew this and didn't bother trying. But either way, there are strict airspace rules designed to prevent this sort of thing, it's just that on 9/11 people decided not to bother with the rules.
This is, of course, the optimal state for things. If everybody is a criminal, the police can arrest anybody, because they can always find a law the person has broken. Even now it is getting that way. There are over 3,000,000 federal laws, not to mention state laws and local laws. Are you SURE you havn't broken any?
For example, purchaced a sex toy of some form? They're available everywhere, but it is illegal to sell them. The fact that the law isn't regularly enforced doesn't change the fact that you can go to jail for working in an adult store. Then there are the crazy state and city laws like "You can't kiss on Sundays" and "You cannot sell yo-yo's on Sundays" and "No more than 3 women can live under the same roof" and "It is illegal to drink a beer immediatly after having sex." and "A husband cannot have sex with his wife if he has eaten garlic or anchovis. If she requests it, he is legally obligated to brush his teeth"
No, it's an American comic. MandrakeSoft are the ones who are French ;)
And I just thought I would point out that while there was a comic out way back then that featured a crime solving magician named Mandrake, there was a Canadian, Leon Mandrake, who went by Mandrake the Magician, and he started performing YEARS before this comic came out. He did a bit of ESP, mindreading, and hypnotism, which is what the comic Mandrake the Magician specialized in.
Either way, the comic syndicate's argument was that the author invented the Magician-Mandrake connection, which is plainly false.
I used to use /.'s RSS, but once I queried twice in one hour, so my IP got banned.
You misunderstand. These arn't crosswalks at downtown intersections, they are crosswalks across a single road in suburban areas. There is one near me. The nearest intersections are probably a 1/4 mile away in either direction. So just to get across the street to the bus stop would be a half-mile walk without this crosswalk. And it's a really busy 4-lane, so just jaywalking without the crosswalk is pretty difficult. Even when it was just a crosswalk, people rarely stopped for you. With the flashing lights (Besides the lights embedded in the road, there are lights around the crosswalk signs that flash as well) nobody runs though it.
On the other hand, once you get downtown, there are no control buttons. It's not like they disabled them, they just have never been there. When the traffic lights turn green, the crosswalks get a walk sign.
Why put it in underware? Put it in drivers licences and state ID. There is a push to have a national ID card, so put one in them, too. You can't microwave them, as they would probably melt. Even if not, it would be destruction of government property, and land you in jail. You can't report it stolen and get a few more, and have them spread around, because they would know which are the stolen ones, and could arrest the people who are carrying them for you.
All you could do is wrap it in tinfoil.
Exactly. When the first Creative Jukeboxes came out, before the iPod, a big selling point was that they were firmware upgradeable. Right on the box it promised that they would update it to play "all future digital music formats" but it still only plays MP3 and WMA files. If you ask them when they are coding firmware to play Ogg Vorbis files they say "We do not support other music formats." If you point out they promised to support all future formats, they say "I already said, we do not support other formats" and then stop responding.
I'll never buy a Creative product again, because they lied about their features in order to sell them.
No, SCO is breaking Section 2b of the GPL by charging for the kernel, as they are NOT licencing their code in it free of charge to all third parties. You will note that this Section also states that putting two programs on the same CD/distrubution package does NOT put them under the same licence. So you can break the licence of one without touching the other, since they are NOT under the same licence. (This also means that you can include proprietary code without any problems)
Since they are breaking 2B., then under Section 4, their licence is void, and they may not redistribute at all. However, if they go up to a company running Redhat, and demand a fee, they have not violated the GPL at all: The GPL is only void if they sell copies of Linux complete with a licence to use the code. Of course, it is illegal to demand compensation for something you don't own, but unless they are charging it for their OWN copy, the GPL has nothing to do with it.
Further more, they are only charging for the Linux kernel. They are not charging for NMap, grep, gcc, Samba, perl, or anything else that may or may not be in a particular GNU/Linux distribution. As such, they have not violated the licence on these pieces of software. If the authors try to revoke SCO's right to this code, THEY are violating the GPL by not licencing it under the GPL to ALL third parties. SCO's right to the kernel is void by their actions (If they are selling licences to the kernel that they are distributing, and the licence sold is a condition of said distribution) but not their right to anything else.
It sounds like it's not even an internal designation. More like they are considering a version inbetween XP and Longhorn, "Reloaded" is just what some of the guys are calling it.
Even if you pay be Credit Card, they don't know it's you. Know why? This is just talking about an inventory guy coming into the store and getting how many purchases and at what times, as well as looking at how much space their competitors are getting, and where they are located. Then he orders more to make up for how many were sold. It is NEVER tied to an individual!
No, that only works if the probability of system X being wrong is independent of the particular message it is checking. (This also means that their figures are dependent on the makeup of the e-mail you are getting) Also, you couldn't really combine them usefully. If one says yes and the other says no, what do you do? You could either accept in these cases, or reject. But either way you could increase the error over just using one or the other.
99.84% chance of success is a one in 625 chance of failure. 99.983% chance of success is a one in 5000 chance of failure. 99.984% = 1 in 6250. So yes, it is around 10 times better :D
You don't see it going up? Right now the internet-to-phone stuff works by having some gateways somewhere. However, 911 in NY does NOT have a 10-digit number you can call to get it elsewhere. That means that these gateways would have to be in every single city in the US. Some of the companies have a "911" service, but it ISN'T 911. They route your 911 call to some emergency call center near your address. And often times, this call center can patch you in to the local 911 service if you request it. Or maybe not.
There are only a few notches on a key, and only a few positions they can have...for most cars, the odds of the key from one opening another are around 1/150 or something, IIRC.
Hmmm, lets do some in-depth research of our own, then: Slashdot poll!
The last thing I hacked was:
I'm sure it would be at least as accurate ;)