Doesn't "the right of the People to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." mean the same thing?
I want to hear you "Constitution says I get to keep my guns no matter what!" people pipe up when the government steps all over that part that goes:
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause,...
True conservatives would stand with liberals on that one. Sadly, they watched too many episodes of "24" and let the morons in their party run it off the rails.
Well factcheck.org gets their stuff out the next day, which is pretty good since they put together source material and also put the claims in the context of the whole campaign.
Sendmail's main purpose in the typical Linux desktop configuration (say, Fedora) is delivering logwatch output to root. [Logwatch attempts to distill the important stuff from system log files.]
But sendmail can be started lazily (in the background) so as not to slow the boot. Or sendmail can be replaced with a lighter weight smtp daemon. Truly though, logwatch-by-email should die for non-enterprise desktops. It's so 1980s it just hurts.
IMHO logwatch should be replaced by some kind of graphical notification widget which requires authentication to actually view the details, since they can be sensitive. As it is, I haven't read my logwatch emails in months, but if SMART is complaining about an immanent disk failure I'd *really* like to know.
Not mentioned in TFA, he tried to do this at Kittyhawk where the Wright brothers made their historic flight. But there was some trouble getting clearance with the US authorities....
TSA: Sir, you can't take that on the plane. Rossy: But this *is* the plane!
Gov. Schwarzenegger ordered a cut in pay to California state workers, and was told that it would be impossible to implement because the payroll system is in Cobol and nobody can touch it.
Sounded like political bull to me, but then again...
If the kids get Sugar it doesn't matter nearly as much which OS is running. That's where most of the learning happens.
IMHO, the XO has at least two things relevant to education in developing countries that previous devices did not: - a learning-oriented environment (Sugar), and - physical usability by children in the poorest areas of the planet -- through extreme power saving, and child-friendly yet "child-proof" design
Right now both of those features depend pretty heavily on Linux. I'm not sure if XP will ever be updated to get all the powersaving potential of the XO (which isn't needed in many use cases). But I'd like to see Sugar ported to run on any OS.
Not exactly. For instance on cellphones, where *I* pay for the call, I believe it IS illegal.
Probably so -- every right is a matter of balance. Cell phone costs are too much to bear for political speech. But we're talking about email, and that's a lot more like your landline than your cellphone. It will be interesting to see bandwidth caps make this argument more tenable.
You CANNOT force people to support a political cause with their own resources - I believe there is caselaw regarding this regarding using union dues for political purposes.
I'm not sure if you're trolling with this one, it just doesn't apply. Obviously you're re-enforcing the argument that it costs you something to receive an email like it costs to receive a cell call. So far, I come down on the other side w.r.t. to political speech, and on your side w.r.t. UCE. We'll have to wait for some other court to rule on that one though.
I'm pointing out that there are two separate issues - the anonymity (which is rightfully protected for political uses) and the use of your resources.
You were complaining about the resource issue, but this judgement doesn't deal with that. Why? Because protecting political speech mostly wins over the resource issue. That's why telemarketing is mostly illegal, but political robo-calls aren't.
Now, this guy *is* a spammer and he should hang buy his thumbs. But *this* particular law can't stand if it makes legitimate political speech illegal. So write a better law.
Political freedom of expression is protected; what isn't protected is having ANYTHING shoved down my throat using my own resources.
In that sense it's spam when a politician knocks on your door, but that's never going to be illegal. (So get rich and buy a gate and dog.)
This particular legal ruling is saying a law can't make it illegal to *be anonymous* by using a fictitious internet identity ("publius.com").
Maybe a better crafted law could still protect you from most spam in the way that we don't have as much to worry about from telemarketers and direct snail-mail.
[Slashdot will munge the euro-character which I faithfully copy-pasted above, sorry.]
Not to detract much from your analysis, but you do know that Jean-Louis Gassee was an Apple executive back in the 80's I think, right? If Michael Dell had said this it would carry a *lot* more weight. But then, he is selling Ubuntu now...
Tabbed browsing is now so normal that the problem of a crash in one tab bringing down all the others is big deal. On Vista, this problem happens a lot with IE7, and it's *the* single major annoyance for my geek GF on that platform.
Threads truly have their place, but this is a good use of separate processes per tab because it keeps one tab from crashing the others where threads can't achieve that.
And even if they win in Federal court, the contract will still be unconscionable to any reasonable human being.
The California version of this contract change has bold screaming letters that say I have to hold NSAT&T harmless for any invasion of my privacy on their part. And why does AT&T feel the need to reserve the option to *break the law* without consequences?
If I don't cancel my phone service this agreement kicks automatically on Oct. 1. Given that my local government has handed monopoly rights to the copper wires to AT&T, I don't actually have many realistic options if I want to maintain a landline, which is still a practical necessity for most of us in modern life.
[a Japanese official said:]''We test all slaughtered cattle, regardless of age -- not some.''
This is a point that deserves to be modded up.
In the the spin that this kind of testing is meaningless and therefore would be misleading --- it's the same testing that Japan does on all of their beef. To disallow voluntary testing is just insane, corrupt, and sociopathic.
It's just the time-honored sports tradition of trash-talking your opponent. One example was when DEC's CEO Ken Olsen famously said that "Unix is snake-oil".
That's just hilarious Ken, ya Fred Thomson ugly dinosaur-scaly bastard, since a few years later I bought a DEC Alpha from you running Ultrix instead of VMS.
But there are legitimate uses for self-signed certs IMHO (intranets, privacy for non-commercial sites, embedded devices, etc.). Having to set up your own CA or kow-tow to Verisign or GoDaddy shouldn't be necessary for every minor use of ssl.
I think you're right that any browser would have to give _some_ kind of warning for a self-signed cert it hasn't seen before. It's just that a lot of people think that FF3's handling of self-signed certs is an over-the-top reaction to the very real threat of phishing, resulting in too many hoops to jump through for the legitimate cases.
Myself, I agree with the OP's point on that one, FF3 should probably be tweaked to not go DEFCON 5 over every self-signed cert, even if Perspectives can work around the issue.
"When Firefox users click on a Web site that uses a self-signed certificate, they get a security error message that leaves many people bewildered," says Andersen. Once Perspectives has been installed in the browser, however, it can automatically override the security error page without disturbing the user if the site appears legitimate.
Apparently Perspectives works around the Firefox wolf-crying. Sounds cool to me.
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So then, which are you -- a journalist or a Red Cross aid worker?
I want to hear you "Constitution says I get to keep my guns no matter what!" people pipe up when the government steps all over that part that goes:
True conservatives would stand with liberals on that one. Sadly, they watched too many episodes of "24" and let the morons in their party run it off the rails.
Well factcheck.org gets their stuff out the next day, which is pretty good since they put together source material and also put the claims in the context of the whole campaign.
Sendmail's main purpose in the typical Linux desktop configuration (say, Fedora) is delivering logwatch output to root. [Logwatch attempts to distill the important stuff from system log files.]
But sendmail can be started lazily (in the background) so as not to slow the boot. Or sendmail can be replaced with a lighter weight smtp daemon. Truly though, logwatch-by-email should die for non-enterprise desktops. It's so 1980s it just hurts.
IMHO logwatch should be replaced by some kind of graphical notification widget which requires authentication to actually view the details, since they can be sensitive. As it is, I haven't read my logwatch emails in months, but if SMART is complaining about an immanent disk failure I'd *really* like to know.
You can read about it here. Among other things, it says that an unsolicted commercial email cannot contain falsified headers.
The reason it did not apply in the Virginia case is that the crime was perpetrated before the act was made law in 2003.
So really this Virginia decision is largely irrelevant when it comes to spam. It is possibly very relevant when it comes to anonymity on the internet.
In the mean time, you have powerful interests (like the government of China) working to ensure that anonymity on the internet becomes impossible.
And that is a case-in-point of exactly why anonymity is necessary to protect free speech.
I'm horrified that anyone modded my parent post informative, unless they were being overly ironic.
Mathesar, was that you? My post wasn't a true historical document, it was meant to be what on Earth we call "entertainment". Sorry 'bout that.
Not mentioned in TFA, he tried to do this at Kittyhawk where the Wright brothers made their historic flight. But there was some trouble getting clearance with the US authorities....
Gov. Schwarzenegger ordered a cut in pay to California state workers, and was told that it would be impossible to implement because the payroll system is in Cobol and nobody can touch it.
Sounded like political bull to me, but then again...
If the kids get Sugar it doesn't matter nearly as much which OS is running. That's where most of the learning happens.
IMHO, the XO has at least two things relevant to education in developing countries that previous devices did not:
- a learning-oriented environment (Sugar), and
- physical usability by children in the poorest areas of the planet -- through extreme power saving, and child-friendly yet "child-proof" design
Right now both of those features depend pretty heavily on Linux. I'm not sure if XP will ever be updated to get all the powersaving potential of the XO (which isn't needed in many use cases). But I'd like to see Sugar ported to run on any OS.
Probably so -- every right is a matter of balance. Cell phone costs are too much to bear for political speech. But we're talking about email, and that's a lot more like your landline than your cellphone. It will be interesting to see bandwidth caps make this argument more tenable.
I'm not sure if you're trolling with this one, it just doesn't apply. Obviously you're re-enforcing the argument that it costs you something to receive an email like it costs to receive a cell call. So far, I come down on the other side w.r.t. to political speech, and on your side w.r.t. UCE. We'll have to wait for some other court to rule on that one though.
I'm pointing out that there are two separate issues - the anonymity (which is rightfully protected for political uses) and the use of your resources.
You were complaining about the resource issue, but this judgement doesn't deal with that. Why? Because protecting political speech mostly wins over the resource issue. That's why telemarketing is mostly illegal, but political robo-calls aren't.
Now, this guy *is* a spammer and he should hang buy his thumbs. But *this* particular law can't stand if it makes legitimate political speech illegal. So write a better law.
In that sense it's spam when a politician knocks on your door, but that's never going to be illegal. (So get rich and buy a gate and dog.)
This particular legal ruling is saying a law can't make it illegal to *be anonymous* by using a fictitious internet identity ("publius.com").
Maybe a better crafted law could still protect you from most spam in the way that we don't have as much to worry about from telemarketers and direct snail-mail.
[Slashdot will munge the euro-character which I faithfully copy-pasted above, sorry.]
Not to detract much from your analysis, but you do know that Jean-Louis Gassee was an Apple executive back in the 80's I think, right? If Michael Dell had said this it would carry a *lot* more weight. But then, he is selling Ubuntu now...
Maybe when Microsoft starts selling PCs, so that your comparison is really an apples-to-Apples one? ;)
Tabbed browsing is now so normal that the problem of a crash in one tab bringing down all the others is big deal. On Vista, this problem happens a lot with IE7, and it's *the* single major annoyance for my geek GF on that platform.
Threads truly have their place, but this is a good use of separate processes per tab because it keeps one tab from crashing the others where threads can't achieve that.
This needs to be so clearly illegal that no American ISP would have thought about trying it to begin with.
definition of rediculous: deserving of ridicule all over again
Hence your original post is ok as is.
And even if they win in Federal court, the contract will still be unconscionable to any reasonable human being.
The California version of this contract change has bold screaming letters that say I have to hold NSAT&T harmless for any invasion of my privacy on their part. And why does AT&T feel the need to reserve the option to *break the law* without consequences?
If I don't cancel my phone service this agreement kicks automatically on Oct. 1. Given that my local government has handed monopoly rights to the copper wires to AT&T, I don't actually have many realistic options if I want to maintain a landline, which is still a practical necessity for most of us in modern life.
This is a point that deserves to be modded up.
In the the spin that this kind of testing is meaningless and therefore would be misleading --- it's the same testing that Japan does on all of their beef. To disallow voluntary testing is just insane, corrupt, and sociopathic.
That's really freakin cool. How long before there's a GIMP plugin for this? I'd like it by 3pm Pacific please.
It's just the time-honored sports tradition of trash-talking your opponent. One example was when DEC's CEO Ken Olsen famously said that "Unix is snake-oil".
That's just hilarious Ken, ya Fred Thomson ugly dinosaur-scaly bastard, since a few years later I bought a DEC Alpha from you running Ultrix instead of VMS.
According to this article:
But there are legitimate uses for self-signed certs IMHO (intranets, privacy for non-commercial sites, embedded devices, etc.). Having to set up your own CA or kow-tow to Verisign or GoDaddy shouldn't be necessary for every minor use of ssl.
I think you're right that any browser would have to give _some_ kind of warning for a self-signed cert it hasn't seen before. It's just that a lot of people think that FF3's handling of self-signed certs is an over-the-top reaction to the very real threat of phishing, resulting in too many hoops to jump through for the legitimate cases.
Myself, I agree with the OP's point on that one, FF3 should probably be tweaked to not go DEFCON 5 over every self-signed cert, even if Perspectives can work around the issue.
From TFA:
Apparently Perspectives works around the Firefox wolf-crying. Sounds cool to me.
Among other things, of course.
OLPC seems to be plugging away as hard as ever since all that angst over XP.
And some users are figuring out how to install regular linux desktops in an easier way. (Sugar's pretty hard for expert users to get used to.)
Obligatory on-topic snark: does ClassmatePC come with a virus checker?