Such reviews, even if incorrect, can only help in the general mind share. Here you have a story that basically tells people that Linux is excellent to good enough for almost everything they want to do. If that's not a win for Linux, I don't know what is.
As for the incorrect information, hopefully more input will be given from those that know, and those items perceived lacking will be improved to the point of obviousness (like with MS, which is probably what they were expecting) so that Linux will be reviewed as excellent in all categories.
You imply, both in your original comment and in this followup that the newspaper is trustworthy because it reports facts. Since you do not make the same assertion about the othe site, I must assume that either you think it contains no facts, or more likely, that we should trust the newspaper BECAUSE it is a newspaper, REGARDLESS of its bias. (both may contain FACTS, so why else prefer the rag?)
I may have chosen my words poorly then, as I meant no such implication. To be 100% clear, the activist site makes blatant assertions, without backing facts. This is much like spewing an unsupported opinion to me. It's fine to have such an opinion, but don't expect me to necessarily believe anything about it or even acknowledge it. The newspaper stated that Richard was jailed on extortion charges. This I believe. I may not agree with it, but generally newspapers don't make these types of statements without some backing. While direct backing facts are not presented, they are somewhat corroborated by the activist site itself, as those facts are the apparent source for the activist site's existence.
Finally, I generally only listen to the news for actual facts, the general slant of the presenters opinion is ignored, as much as possible. I found out a long time ago that "news" is less about presenting facts than to present facts for some purpose. Otherwise, why is a hit and run accident that leaves no one injured big news over another accident where 4 people are killed by a train? Because the hit and run involved a Crown Victoria police car, which, as we all know thanks to the media, blow up on slightest rear end contact, while the train accident occurred with some minority unlicensed, underaged teenagers in the "undesirable" part of town.
I would extend the arguement that if Jackson added movie content after the extended editions, he might actually destroy what he's created.
Lucas pretty much destroyed my interest in Star Wars with his revisions. I used to be a big fan of the first two, then episode I came out, then saw the "new" version of Star Wars, and just went "don't care anymore, it's been dumbed down to a 10 year old's Spy Kids type show."
HD version would possibly be the only one where new movie content could exist, or maybe if they decide to film the burning of the shire portion, which is almost a mini-segment in and of itself. Highly doubtful though.
Personally, I'd prefer the HD DVD set complete with the Hobbit, and hopefully Jackson will do that movie after King Kong. I wonder though, would the Hobbit actually be 4+ hours long if done truly right? Or, would the story be edited down to a 3-3.5 hour movie?
Please note I never stated the newspaper is not biased. I did state that the activist site made blatant assertions. Newspapers usually, and generally, report facts, whether that reporting is biased or not, and leaves out some facts or not to swing reader opinion to one side or another.
The newspaper stated that there was attempted extortion (verifiable by Richard being arrested on extortion charges) as an example. If he wasn't arrested for extortion, this would be libel, and the newspaper could actually get in relatively hot water for publishing such drivel. This still doesn't mean the reporting can't be biased.
So, basically, I can believe that he was arrested for extortion of $300,000. This does not mean he's guilty, that's something the courts will decide.
Yeah, before that year it was pretty awesome. Kinda neat that almost every newsgroup of any size whatsoever had usually 1 or 2 folks you knew from other newsgroups, or even in person! USENET was also somewhat entertaining, although there were also some serious crackpots about, even then.
The quotes you state are from the Justice 4 Pat campaign, an apparently biased source drumming up support for Pat.
Personally, I'd trust a newspaper over blatant assertions by an activist site any day.
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If you wish to truly be anonymous, only use cash, post only from libraries, or use open wireless connections with spoofed MACs.
If you want to live in the real world and be anonymous, use credit cards for normal stuff, use your home PC/broadband for normal stuff, use #1 for anything you don't want tracked.
Or, have so much sporadic activity by allowing free access from your own wireless AP, have large groups of friends share logins, etc, and obfuscate the entire tracking system via multiple simultaneous logins. Note - AIM already allows multiple logins (I've had 3 simultaneous logins at once, the only downside is that only your received messages get sent to all 3
So, that's a real brief primer on anonymity, and the fact that you have little or no anonymity. If you don't like the way the country's going, get out and vote in the next election.
I don't think you have to wait until the court's decision. It appears that SCO's customers are already bailing. See previous/. stories, as well as your favorite news source. (no links provided, sorry)
For a thought of what this means, I think this is in Dan Simmons "Hyperion" series (I don't recall whether it was this one or Tad Williams' Otherworld series, and I don't have access to either at this time:-/). Think of lots of people tied to the web recording everything that happens around them and instantly publishing it on the web. An almost instant police state with the police just having to do a quick search on the web for any reported crime.
ISS is largely useless, and probably will remain so for use as a true space based way station. A true way station needs to be in a higher orbit, so that excess fuel isn't consumed getting there and leaving (ie, moon/mars/other shuttle service - required for any type of permanent base). Actually, putting such a base on the moon might not be such a bad idea, but the moon should only be a jumping off point.
The moon actually could serve to nullify some of the dangers of more efficient drives or issues with nuclear reactors in space, although it doesn't solve the actual getting the nuclear material to the moon.... It would, however, be a great place to dump spent fuel. No environmental hazards if it's far enough away from peopel. Oh wait, wasn't that done already? Space 1999 comes to mind....;)
less offensive than people not being able to sing. At least here, only one aural facet would be present, bad verbal acting. The rest can be easily ignored. With singing, there are so many facets that assault the ears, from not being able to carry a tune, to false notes, to bad rhythm, to... I know there's more...
Ahhh, but you can skip them. You can even remove them. There's still the question of whether in doing so you're really violating the DMCA, of course, but then's there's the question whetehr the DMCA is actually really legal. Personal non-commercial use of copyrighted works has always been free to do whatever. (You can burn your books, cut your movies, rip pages from magazines, splice tape, reorder/tape magazine pages without fear of violating a copyright, why can't you do it with digital media? Is it special in some way? I think not. After all, I'm still free to drill a hole through Justin Timberlake's latest attempted effort at a visual/audio DVD...)
a hacking potential, and as for memory formats, who really cares? I have an xD card camera, and the card I have in it is going to stay in it (512MB) and the one that came with it, a 32MB card, is really too small to do anything with. My camera is also not going anywhere, and if it breaks, I'll get another one or one from the same line, as the features are what I want (shameless plug for Olympus Z-50). Granted, I'd prefer a less expensive format such as CF, but if it turns out to be something I like, the memory used for this one would probably also be restricted to just this one device.
that anyone's surprised by this news.... It's something the conspirationlists stated the moment MS officicially "bought" $10M worth of SCO licenses and the lawsuit started 5 days later with a $10M fund. At the very least, everyone was exposed to the idea.
Punitive damages should generally be limited to some fraction of a defendant's wealth or based off of the value of the actual damage. So there is a limit on punitive damages, whether that exceeds a defendant's wealth or not.
Juries, near as I recall, decide guilt or innocence, and then, separately, decide on damages, including punitive damages. So it's not a "you're guilty, here's the $500M you asked for". There are cases where there are multi-million dollar lawsuits for and the plaintiff wins, but get's awarded $0.01!
The ballot you print is a speeded up means for applying your vote. You walk up to your voting station, go in, feed the ballot in, the machine prints out who you're voting for, you check that it's who you voted for, feed this print out into the machine for counting and you're on your way.
The ballot stays with the machine, there's a paper trail, your original is worthless, only as a means to rapidly cast your votes. The biggest issue I've always had are those people that don't know who they're voting for, or can't make up their minds, or can't figure out the voting machines (and I'm hard pressed to decide which category slows the polling process more).
Any online activity prior to the actual casting of a vote is truly irrelevant. There is no "remote casting" of a vote, that would have to be handled via some other suggestion.
Lastly, recall that this proposed solution is purely to speed up voting and remove current error sources (Human counting, funky machines, badly printed ballots, chads, etc).
if this particular discovery bears fruit, it might be really cool, as the cost for implementing it appears much lower than other attempted fusion experiments. But, how much would a true power plant cost? Or, how much would a "home unit" cost, since distributing the grid would probably be a better long-term solution to our power needs.
Then come the obvious questions about environmental impacts, as energy = heat, and here is an energy source without effective limits, hence limitless energy, and limitless heat. Perhaps they can use some of this limitless energy to pump the generated heat out of the planet? (ie, big heat radiators? Energy recycling? Something totally out of my depth?)
Umm, just where are you getting E-voting as being 100% full-fledged democracy? It's just converting current voting systems to an electronic one, and getting rid of crap like punch card voting, which is oh so accurrate as we all know.
E-voting doesn't scare me. We still have a representive government. What scares me is when an activist 10% of the population can force their repressive views on the majority, as the majority appear not to care to vote. If E-voting encourages more voter turnout, I'm all for it. But, I too would like a way to confirm the votes cast, and I feel that a paper copy of your choices should be provided for confirmation and secondary recounts, if needed.
Second, what I don't get, is why can't we use electronics to print out a "ballot" with our selections done in the comfort of home, and just take this "ballot" to a polling place? The ballot would, of course, be something similar to a scantron or other paper form, but would also have human readable form of the contained data. Perhaps bar codes or their successors would suffice?
Such a system allows for a paper trail, quick and supposedly accurrate tally of votes, removes the painful sections of voting, by having people be able to make their selections at home, print the page, and verify their selections (or copy it to a floppy, or perhaps a CD) and such medium (paper, floppy, CD, soemthing else) could be taken to a polling place, quickly read, and the voter could verify their selections very quickly. Much easier than punch cards or voting machine du jour
Yes, those that do not have computers would still have to go through the current onus of voting, but, the lines should be shorter, as many do have computers at home or work.
When has MS actually "finished" anything? Wait, I suppose you could say Word was finished, back with Word 6 or Word 97 (don't recall which version exactly) before they started adding major bloatware to Word and making it a hacker's tool. I suppose "notepad" is another app, if your definition of a finished item is a product that can't edit files the file system supports, doesn't support most of the OS features, etc. I can't think of any more...
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Such reviews, even if incorrect, can only help in the general mind share. Here you have a story that basically tells people that Linux is excellent to good enough for almost everything they want to do. If that's not a win for Linux, I don't know what is.
As for the incorrect information, hopefully more input will be given from those that know, and those items perceived lacking will be improved to the point of obviousness (like with MS, which is probably what they were expecting) so that Linux will be reviewed as excellent in all categories.
I may have chosen my words poorly then, as I meant no such implication. To be 100% clear, the activist site makes blatant assertions, without backing facts. This is much like spewing an unsupported opinion to me. It's fine to have such an opinion, but don't expect me to necessarily believe anything about it or even acknowledge it. The newspaper stated that Richard was jailed on extortion charges. This I believe. I may not agree with it, but generally newspapers don't make these types of statements without some backing. While direct backing facts are not presented, they are somewhat corroborated by the activist site itself, as those facts are the apparent source for the activist site's existence.
Finally, I generally only listen to the news for actual facts, the general slant of the presenters opinion is ignored, as much as possible. I found out a long time ago that "news" is less about presenting facts than to present facts for some purpose. Otherwise, why is a hit and run accident that leaves no one injured big news over another accident where 4 people are killed by a train? Because the hit and run involved a Crown Victoria police car, which, as we all know thanks to the media, blow up on slightest rear end contact, while the train accident occurred with some minority unlicensed, underaged teenagers in the "undesirable" part of town.
- I would extend the arguement that if Jackson added movie content after the extended editions, he might actually destroy what he's created.
- Lucas pretty much destroyed my interest in Star Wars with his revisions. I used to be a big fan of the first two, then episode I came out, then saw the "new" version of Star Wars, and just went "don't care anymore, it's been dumbed down to a 10 year old's Spy Kids type show."
- HD version would possibly be the only one where new movie content could exist, or maybe if they decide to film the burning of the shire portion, which is almost a mini-segment in and of itself. Highly doubtful though.
Personally, I'd prefer the HD DVD set complete with the Hobbit, and hopefully Jackson will do that movie after King Kong. I wonder though, would the Hobbit actually be 4+ hours long if done truly right? Or, would the story be edited down to a 3-3.5 hour movie?Please note I never stated the newspaper is not biased. I did state that the activist site made blatant assertions. Newspapers usually, and generally, report facts, whether that reporting is biased or not, and leaves out some facts or not to swing reader opinion to one side or another.
The newspaper stated that there was attempted extortion (verifiable by Richard being arrested on extortion charges) as an example. If he wasn't arrested for extortion, this would be libel, and the newspaper could actually get in relatively hot water for publishing such drivel. This still doesn't mean the reporting can't be biased.
So, basically, I can believe that he was arrested for extortion of $300,000. This does not mean he's guilty, that's something the courts will decide.
Note I state I trust a newspaper over an activist site making blatant assertions, not that I necessarily believe them hook line and sinker.
Yeah, before that year it was pretty awesome. Kinda neat that almost every newsgroup of any size whatsoever had usually 1 or 2 folks you knew from other newsgroups, or even in person! USENET was also somewhat entertaining, although there were also some serious crackpots about, even then.
The quotes you state are from the Justice 4 Pat campaign, an apparently biased source drumming up support for Pat.
Personally, I'd trust a newspaper over blatant assertions by an activist site any day.
- If you wish to truly be anonymous, only use cash, post only from libraries, or use open wireless connections with spoofed MACs.
- If you want to live in the real world and be anonymous, use credit cards for normal stuff, use your home PC/broadband for normal stuff, use #1 for anything you don't want tracked.
- Or, have so much sporadic activity by allowing free access from your own wireless AP, have large groups of friends share logins, etc, and obfuscate the entire tracking system via multiple simultaneous logins. Note - AIM already allows multiple logins (I've had 3 simultaneous logins at once, the only downside is that only your received messages get sent to all 3
So, that's a real brief primer on anonymity, and the fact that you have little or no anonymity. If you don't like the way the country's going, get out and vote in the next election.that AOL connected up to USENET? I personally thought that was the death of decent newsgroups.
I don't think you have to wait until the court's decision. It appears that SCO's customers are already bailing. See previous /. stories, as well as your favorite news source. (no links provided, sorry)
For a thought of what this means, I think this is in Dan Simmons "Hyperion" series (I don't recall whether it was this one or Tad Williams' Otherworld series, and I don't have access to either at this time:-/). Think of lots of people tied to the web recording everything that happens around them and instantly publishing it on the web. An almost instant police state with the police just having to do a quick search on the web for any reported crime.
Put on your tinfoil hat now!
ISS is largely useless, and probably will remain so for use as a true space based way station. A true way station needs to be in a higher orbit, so that excess fuel isn't consumed getting there and leaving (ie, moon/mars/other shuttle service - required for any type of permanent base). Actually, putting such a base on the moon might not be such a bad idea, but the moon should only be a jumping off point.
The moon actually could serve to nullify some of the dangers of more efficient drives or issues with nuclear reactors in space, although it doesn't solve the actual getting the nuclear material to the moon.... It would, however, be a great place to dump spent fuel. No environmental hazards if it's far enough away from peopel. Oh wait, wasn't that done already? Space 1999 comes to mind.... ;)
less offensive than people not being able to sing. At least here, only one aural facet would be present, bad verbal acting. The rest can be easily ignored. With singing, there are so many facets that assault the ears, from not being able to carry a tune, to false notes, to bad rhythm, to... I know there's more...
Ahhh, but you can skip them. You can even remove them. There's still the question of whether in doing so you're really violating the DMCA, of course, but then's there's the question whetehr the DMCA is actually really legal. Personal non-commercial use of copyrighted works has always been free to do whatever. (You can burn your books, cut your movies, rip pages from magazines, splice tape, reorder/tape magazine pages without fear of violating a copyright, why can't you do it with digital media? Is it special in some way? I think not. After all, I'm still free to drill a hole through Justin Timberlake's latest attempted effort at a visual/audio DVD ...)
a hacking potential, and as for memory formats, who really cares? I have an xD card camera, and the card I have in it is going to stay in it (512MB) and the one that came with it, a 32MB card, is really too small to do anything with. My camera is also not going anywhere, and if it breaks, I'll get another one or one from the same line, as the features are what I want (shameless plug for Olympus Z-50). Granted, I'd prefer a less expensive format such as CF, but if it turns out to be something I like, the memory used for this one would probably also be restricted to just this one device.
in a single bound, faster than a speeding train...
All we need now is "more powerful than a bullet" and we'll all be superman (or supergirl...)that anyone's surprised by this news.... It's something the conspirationlists stated the moment MS officicially "bought" $10M worth of SCO licenses and the lawsuit started 5 days later with a $10M fund. At the very least, everyone was exposed to the idea.
Punitive damages should generally be limited to some fraction of a defendant's wealth or based off of the value of the actual damage. So there is a limit on punitive damages, whether that exceeds a defendant's wealth or not.
Juries, near as I recall, decide guilt or innocence, and then, separately, decide on damages, including punitive damages. So it's not a "you're guilty, here's the $500M you asked for". There are cases where there are multi-million dollar lawsuits for and the plaintiff wins, but get's awarded $0.01!
The ballot you print is a speeded up means for applying your vote. You walk up to your voting station, go in, feed the ballot in, the machine prints out who you're voting for, you check that it's who you voted for, feed this print out into the machine for counting and you're on your way.
The ballot stays with the machine, there's a paper trail, your original is worthless, only as a means to rapidly cast your votes. The biggest issue I've always had are those people that don't know who they're voting for, or can't make up their minds, or can't figure out the voting machines (and I'm hard pressed to decide which category slows the polling process more).
Any online activity prior to the actual casting of a vote is truly irrelevant. There is no "remote casting" of a vote, that would have to be handled via some other suggestion.
Lastly, recall that this proposed solution is purely to speed up voting and remove current error sources (Human counting, funky machines, badly printed ballots, chads, etc).
Umm, the actual vote can't leave the voting station. It's kept there when you submit your vote, otherwise you haven't voted.
if this particular discovery bears fruit, it might be really cool, as the cost for implementing it appears much lower than other attempted fusion experiments. But, how much would a true power plant cost? Or, how much would a "home unit" cost, since distributing the grid would probably be a better long-term solution to our power needs.
Then come the obvious questions about environmental impacts, as energy = heat, and here is an energy source without effective limits, hence limitless energy, and limitless heat. Perhaps they can use some of this limitless energy to pump the generated heat out of the planet? (ie, big heat radiators? Energy recycling? Something totally out of my depth?)
can now be used to power your car! :)
Umm, just where are you getting E-voting as being 100% full-fledged democracy? It's just converting current voting systems to an electronic one, and getting rid of crap like punch card voting, which is oh so accurrate as we all know.
E-voting doesn't scare me. We still have a representive government. What scares me is when an activist 10% of the population can force their repressive views on the majority, as the majority appear not to care to vote. If E-voting encourages more voter turnout, I'm all for it. But, I too would like a way to confirm the votes cast, and I feel that a paper copy of your choices should be provided for confirmation and secondary recounts, if needed.
First, it's not about internet voting.
Second, what I don't get, is why can't we use electronics to print out a "ballot" with our selections done in the comfort of home, and just take this "ballot" to a polling place? The ballot would, of course, be something similar to a scantron or other paper form, but would also have human readable form of the contained data. Perhaps bar codes or their successors would suffice?
Such a system allows for a paper trail, quick and supposedly accurrate tally of votes, removes the painful sections of voting, by having people be able to make their selections at home, print the page, and verify their selections (or copy it to a floppy, or perhaps a CD) and such medium (paper, floppy, CD, soemthing else) could be taken to a polling place, quickly read, and the voter could verify their selections very quickly. Much easier than punch cards or voting machine du jour
Yes, those that do not have computers would still have to go through the current onus of voting, but, the lines should be shorter, as many do have computers at home or work.
When has MS actually "finished" anything? Wait, I suppose you could say Word was finished, back with Word 6 or Word 97 (don't recall which version exactly) before they started adding major bloatware to Word and making it a hacker's tool. I suppose "notepad" is another app, if your definition of a finished item is a product that can't edit files the file system supports, doesn't support most of the OS features, etc. I can't think of any more...