That the police and courts, in Sweden or the USA waste their time on this shit at all. They could take all that extra time they have on their hands and follow around some sex offenders, or do some real police work, instead of wasting everyones time protecting winnie the poo's trademark or metalica's artistic works.
I am looking into moving soon....maybe Sweden will get a look see....
Why can't they just admit some things don't make sense, and we wouldn't understand them if they did make sense, and if we ever do understand them, we'll probably be wrong ? I know, rather than say "I don't know", I'll just go on and on about an ant on a balloon with some fucking raisins, and oh yeah, if other things are going away from us so fast that light can't travel fast enough to EVER reach us, don't worry about that whole, NOTHING CAN TRAVEL FASTER THAN LIGHT thingy I go on and on about, because if anything ever does travel FASTER THAN LIGHT, it's going away from us anyway, and we'll never know about it, so we can just pretend it doesn't matter, because we'll never know about it anyway ! ALRIGHTY ? What do you mean you don't understand what the hell I mean ? Well, don't worry about it, it just means I'm smarter than you, it doesn't mean I don't know what the hell I'm talking about. See, there is this ant on a balloon and the raisins AREN'T traveling away from each other faster than the speed of light, it's just that the damn BALLOON is getting bigger, so EVERYTHING REALLY DOES MAKE SENSE !!!! See ? Yeah, well, don't worry about it, it just means I'm smarter than you are. Go eat some fucking raisins.
And don't ask me what's on the other side of the expanding universe. Of course I can't even say that there is nothing there. Because there is nothing even to make nothing from out there. Or it might be that the universe sits on a giant turtle. Oh, What's underneath the turtle ? Don't be silly, it's turtles all the way down. I have just as much evidence for one as for the other. Why can't I say "Well, shit, I don't know ?", because I would have missed my chance to to point out how much smarter I am than people who have sex. ALLRIGHTY !!!!
Please let the brave officers of the West Middlands Police know exactly what you think of their brave efforts at crime control. Here is a link to the contacts page of their website. West Midlands Police
Depends on your town. Funny story, in the little town I grew up in, 10,000 people or so, guy gets into his hotel, hits the mini bar quick, and is a little tipsy when he goes out to hit the bar and meet up with his buddy. At the bar, everyone he ran into said "Hello" or "Hi". For no reason at all. Freaked him out. Didn't help he was already drunk. He's starting to get scared. Where he's from strangers don't even look at each other. So he leaves the bar. Every stranger he walks past on the street not only doesn't ignore him, but looks him in the eyes and says hello. He gets even more freaked out, feels like he's in an episode of the twilight zone. RUNS back to the hotel, where his buddy finds him crying, thinking he lost his mind.
Using an open AP is no different than listening to a radio station. They broadcast in the clear, with no authentication, then anyone should be free to use it, exactly the same as browsing the radio. Now, some dude wacking the monkey in their parking lot is another problem altogether. If he's a 21 year old sex offender he should still be on paper and avoid police contact, which is how they'll hang him I'm sure, it's easier than forging new law when it's not needed. With the way liberal judges treat sex offenders though it's no sure thing he's still on probation, or parole. I'm curious how this will turn out. I have no problem listening to any radio station I find while out and about, and no problem using any wireless network a business throws out into the public airwaves. If they require authentication and I bypass it, THEN I'm in the wrong. If they don't want the public to use the radio waves they are pumping out into public space, they are responsible for turning down the volume or restricting access somehow. You can't play your radio station so it reaches the publics ears then turn around and claim they are "stealing" just for tuning in, when you make no effort to restrict access. Especially when you set it up just for the public to use to try to increase traffic for you business. Can't have it both ways.
You don't know many people on probation do you ? I have an Aunt on paper, with 43 years hanging over her head, she has never once had a clean drug test, missed P.O. meetings, disappear for weeks at a time. Took them 2 years to do anything at all, then they sent her to a treatment program, that she flunked out of, then they sent her to a second treatment program, that happened to be located in a prison. Only after she flunked out of that program too did they put her away for a while. Probation is a joke.
I stopped reading technocrat when they started posting long political rants against the war, I get enough of that from users on slashdot. I don't mind political rants in the comments, they get modded down as off topic usually, but when they post them as storys on the front page, it's time to look elsewhere for my daily dose of tech news.
We are causing this, because we put up with it. Vote with your dollars. Hit them in the only place they care about. Yeah Joe six pack is ignorant. Educate him, tell everyone you know. Better yet, get him to play frozen-bubble. End of problem. Thank you very much......
Since when does powdered tiger penis tea or powdered rhino horn tea to make your dick bigger qualify as "medical treatment" ? I don't think an HMO will cover the tiger penis part of the tea. The reason people make fun of the Chinese is because they belive some tiger penis will help them out. It's fucking funny as hell, unless your the tiger who's slong got chopped off some some chinese fuck can feel better about his dick. Don't mod me flamebait either, because it's literaly true.
The laws in this country are bought and paid for by corporations. Don't believe it ? Look at the fine for copyright violations, vs a fine for say, holding up gas station by pointing a gun at a 16yo cashier. If the 16yo gas station cashiers gave as much money to our bought and paid for congress, maybe they would be as protected from violence as the RIAA is from grandmothers and 12yo girls downloading a britney spears song they don't own the copyright to. Corporations exist to make money, do you think they give all that money to the politicians out of a desire to support democracy ? They expect a return on that money, and they get it, or your political opp will out spend you in your next race and you'll be back to the sorry prospect of trying to find a real job. Just in case you think this is a partisian rant, both right and left, if there is a left anymore, is bought and paid for.
To compete with Google, M$ farms out its keyword based advertising program to yahoo, and yahoo farms out its search biz to......drum roll please..... Google. How much did they lose on the last XBox ?
MS is using tactics that time has show work very well against a rival company. They are very confused about why it isn't working this time. They haven't ever competed against a movement before, and don't quite know how to go about it, so they seem to flail around a bit. If you can see the bigger picture, it's pretty funny, watching their pointy haired cubical drones shoot in random directions, then stand around bewildered, "Why haven't they fallen yet ?" Linux doesn't have a single company or target to focus on. Until they come up with a way to connect against a movement, they are going to seem like a boxer who keeps wiffing, and can't figure out he's in the ring by himself.
Could this be used to locate a missing soldier or kidnapped aid worker ? If I understand the tech right, the chip is powered by radio waves from the scanner itself, if the scanner was powerful enough, could it be used to locate someone ? I don't want one myself, but if I was a contractor in Iraq, and it could be used to find me if some of "god's holy warriors" dragged me off for one of Allah's special haircuts, I'd be first in line.
If it's ok for a quarter million Americans to die for French freedom, why is it not ok for 3000 Americans to die for Iraqi Freedom ?
Don't they put out their own flavor of linux ? Why wouldn't they use that in house ? Why would anyone buy linux from them when they have to go to red hat for their own desktops ?
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Most of the exam cram books are geared towards passing the test. Not that they can't be decent reference material, but I'd look elsewhere for an introduction to linux.
Did the guy who came back in time to play the market show up at the party ? I read about some guy put less than $1000 into the stock market ran it up to over 800 million in 6 weeks, was arrested, and claimed he was from the future, never heard anything else about him, which got me thinking......
What she is referring to are the commented out parts. Notes the coders made to help keep track of their code while writing it. Most of the "word for word" stuff she's referring to came from bsd and other sources that linux had a right to use, but unix sysV uses too, so sco thought linux had copied it outright, without looking up the ip history of that code, by the time they did their homework, they were already deeply involved in the suit with IBM, hoping to be bought out. I've seen speculation that their "MIT rocket scientists" just greped the source of both sysV and linux and compared the results, mistaking the bsd code in linux for sysV original stuff. Started filing against everyone and their mom, had their error pointed out to them, said opps....well, maybe IBM will buy us off anyway.
The slanted importance placed on 'GPL compatibility'?
The heart of the GPL is if you take, you give back. Many here on/. defend that idea zealously, and I don't have a problem with that. IBM and Red Hat contribute to and take from a strong grass roots movement. Sun is trying to create a grass roots movement from the top down. Why ? Because they really like us ?
I think the crowd here on/. sees though them, and their dying business model.
They opensource solaris, that's great. I don't believe it's going to go anywhere though, because developers aren't going to spend so much time giving to those who won't give back. That's the secret to Linuxs success, I believe. The GPL is linux's greatest strength, and the reason for it's large base.
That importance isn't slanted.
If Sun's motives are pure, great, more power to them, I wish them the best of luck. I don't think they will be able to compete against Linux and the GPL though.
I'm not a sun fanboy, I don't know all that much about them to be honest, but didn't they release the code that grew into OOo to poke Microsoft in the eye ? Before they got to be such good buddies ?
I'm not a linux zealot btw. I use xp, mandrake, debian, and I try out a bsd once in a while, and opensolaris would be fun to putz around on too, but I'm smart enough to appreciate all the work the linux developers have done, and realize the roll the GPL played in their willingness to give so much of their time.
That importance isn't slanted.
IBM isn't open sourcing AIX, or trying to. You won't find them looking for people to write (for free) linux drivers for their big iron either. Sure they ride the linux wave for corporate profit, but they put alot of cash into building that wave too. They are in no way free loading. Red Hat isn't trying to sell hardware, or get people to write drivers for the dozens of peripherals most users need to get work done, to help sell that hardware. I don't think anyone has ever accused Red Hat of taking more than they give either. Don't compare apples to oranges. Their motives are different. IBM and Red Hat noticed something that was already there, and contributed to it. Sun is trying to create a grass roots movement from the top down. They don't know it doesn't work that way. Sun is trying to find ways to prop up a dying business model. I don't see a double standard at all. Linux is a grass roots movement, with the momentum coming from the bottom up, with users influencing the direction of development. Sun is a large corporation trying to create a grass roots movement from the top down, from scratch, I don't see how it can succeed.
Anyone think they are putting their version of an open source license out there to get developers to work on hardware compatability for the x86 market ? Sounds like a call for free labor.
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That the police and courts, in Sweden or the USA waste their time on this shit at all. They could take all that extra time they have on their hands and follow around some sex offenders, or do some real police work, instead of wasting everyones time protecting winnie the poo's trademark or metalica's artistic works. I am looking into moving soon....maybe Sweden will get a look see....
I thought the LACK of confidentiality for the rest of us was the cornerstone of the media. Silly me.
Why can't they just admit some things don't make sense, and we wouldn't understand them if they did make sense, and if we ever do understand them, we'll probably be wrong ? I know, rather than say "I don't know", I'll just go on and on about an ant on a balloon with some fucking raisins, and oh yeah, if other things are going away from us so fast that light can't travel fast enough to EVER reach us, don't worry about that whole, NOTHING CAN TRAVEL FASTER THAN LIGHT thingy I go on and on about, because if anything ever does travel FASTER THAN LIGHT, it's going away from us anyway, and we'll never know about it, so we can just pretend it doesn't matter, because we'll never know about it anyway ! ALRIGHTY ? What do you mean you don't understand what the hell I mean ? Well, don't worry about it, it just means I'm smarter than you, it doesn't mean I don't know what the hell I'm talking about. See, there is this ant on a balloon and the raisins AREN'T traveling away from each other faster than the speed of light, it's just that the damn BALLOON is getting bigger, so EVERYTHING REALLY DOES MAKE SENSE !!!! See ? Yeah, well, don't worry about it, it just means I'm smarter than you are. Go eat some fucking raisins.
And don't ask me what's on the other side of the expanding universe. Of course I can't even say that there is nothing there. Because there is nothing even to make nothing from out there. Or it might be that the universe sits on a giant turtle. Oh, What's underneath the turtle ? Don't be silly, it's turtles all the way down. I have just as much evidence for one as for the other. Why can't I say "Well, shit, I don't know ?", because I would have missed my chance to to point out how much smarter I am than people who have sex. ALLRIGHTY !!!!
Please let the brave officers of the West Middlands Police know exactly what you think of their brave efforts at crime control. Here is a link to the contacts page of their website. West Midlands Police
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Depends on your town. Funny story, in the little town I grew up in, 10,000 people or so, guy gets into his hotel, hits the mini bar quick, and is a little tipsy when he goes out to hit the bar and meet up with his buddy. At the bar, everyone he ran into said "Hello" or "Hi". For no reason at all. Freaked him out. Didn't help he was already drunk. He's starting to get scared. Where he's from strangers don't even look at each other. So he leaves the bar. Every stranger he walks past on the street not only doesn't ignore him, but looks him in the eyes and says hello. He gets even more freaked out, feels like he's in an episode of the twilight zone. RUNS back to the hotel, where his buddy finds him crying, thinking he lost his mind.
Using an open AP is no different than listening to a radio station. They broadcast in the clear, with no authentication, then anyone should be free to use it, exactly the same as browsing the radio. Now, some dude wacking the monkey in their parking lot is another problem altogether. If he's a 21 year old sex offender he should still be on paper and avoid police contact, which is how they'll hang him I'm sure, it's easier than forging new law when it's not needed. With the way liberal judges treat sex offenders though it's no sure thing he's still on probation, or parole. I'm curious how this will turn out. I have no problem listening to any radio station I find while out and about, and no problem using any wireless network a business throws out into the public airwaves. If they require authentication and I bypass it, THEN I'm in the wrong. If they don't want the public to use the radio waves they are pumping out into public space, they are responsible for turning down the volume or restricting access somehow. You can't play your radio station so it reaches the publics ears then turn around and claim they are "stealing" just for tuning in, when you make no effort to restrict access. Especially when you set it up just for the public to use to try to increase traffic for you business. Can't have it both ways.
There is no way Pat Robertson and Jerry Falwell would ever risk their own secret porn stash. The parent is clearly a troll.
You don't know many people on probation do you ? I have an Aunt on paper, with 43 years hanging over her head, she has never once had a clean drug test, missed P.O. meetings, disappear for weeks at a time. Took them 2 years to do anything at all, then they sent her to a treatment program, that she flunked out of, then they sent her to a second treatment program, that happened to be located in a prison. Only after she flunked out of that program too did they put her away for a while. Probation is a joke.
I stopped reading technocrat when they started posting long political rants against the war, I get enough of that from users on slashdot. I don't mind political rants in the comments, they get modded down as off topic usually, but when they post them as storys on the front page, it's time to look elsewhere for my daily dose of tech news.
We are causing this, because we put up with it. Vote with your dollars. Hit them in the only place they care about. Yeah Joe six pack is ignorant. Educate him, tell everyone you know. Better yet, get him to play frozen-bubble. End of problem. Thank you very much......
Since when does powdered tiger penis tea or powdered rhino horn tea to make your dick bigger qualify as "medical treatment" ? I don't think an HMO will cover the tiger penis part of the tea. The reason people make fun of the Chinese is because they belive some tiger penis will help them out. It's fucking funny as hell, unless your the tiger who's slong got chopped off some some chinese fuck can feel better about his dick. Don't mod me flamebait either, because it's literaly true.
The laws in this country are bought and paid for by corporations. Don't believe it ? Look at the fine for copyright violations, vs a fine for say, holding up gas station by pointing a gun at a 16yo cashier. If the 16yo gas station cashiers gave as much money to our bought and paid for congress, maybe they would be as protected from violence as the RIAA is from grandmothers and 12yo girls downloading a britney spears song they don't own the copyright to. Corporations exist to make money, do you think they give all that money to the politicians out of a desire to support democracy ? They expect a return on that money, and they get it, or your political opp will out spend you in your next race and you'll be back to the sorry prospect of trying to find a real job. Just in case you think this is a partisian rant, both right and left, if there is a left anymore, is bought and paid for.
......no /.ers have girlfriends........
To compete with Google, M$ farms out its keyword based advertising program to yahoo, and yahoo farms out its search biz to......drum roll please..... Google. How much did they lose on the last XBox ?
MS is using tactics that time has show work very well against a rival company. They are very confused about why it isn't working this time. They haven't ever competed against a movement before, and don't quite know how to go about it, so they seem to flail around a bit. If you can see the bigger picture, it's pretty funny, watching their pointy haired cubical drones shoot in random directions, then stand around bewildered, "Why haven't they fallen yet ?" Linux doesn't have a single company or target to focus on. Until they come up with a way to connect against a movement, they are going to seem like a boxer who keeps wiffing, and can't figure out he's in the ring by himself.
Could this be used to locate a missing soldier or kidnapped aid worker ? If I understand the tech right, the chip is powered by radio waves from the scanner itself, if the scanner was powerful enough, could it be used to locate someone ? I don't want one myself, but if I was a contractor in Iraq, and it could be used to find me if some of "god's holy warriors" dragged me off for one of Allah's special haircuts, I'd be first in line.
If it's ok for a quarter million Americans to die for French freedom, why is it not ok for 3000 Americans to die for Iraqi Freedom ?
They only have to pay 2 million a quarter up to Dec 2005, they are free loading after that......
Don't they put out their own flavor of linux ? Why wouldn't they use that in house ? Why would anyone buy linux from them when they have to go to red hat for their own desktops ?
Most of the exam cram books are geared towards passing the test. Not that they can't be decent reference material, but I'd look elsewhere for an introduction to linux.
Did the guy who came back in time to play the market show up at the party ? I read about some guy put less than $1000 into the stock market ran it up to over 800 million in 6 weeks, was arrested, and claimed he was from the future, never heard anything else about him, which got me thinking......
What she is referring to are the commented out parts. Notes the coders made to help keep track of their code while writing it. Most of the "word for word" stuff she's referring to came from bsd and other sources that linux had a right to use, but unix sysV uses too, so sco thought linux had copied it outright, without looking up the ip history of that code, by the time they did their homework, they were already deeply involved in the suit with IBM, hoping to be bought out. I've seen speculation that their "MIT rocket scientists" just greped the source of both sysV and linux and compared the results, mistaking the bsd code in linux for sysV original stuff. Started filing against everyone and their mom, had their error pointed out to them, said opps....well, maybe IBM will buy us off anyway.
The slanted importance placed on 'GPL compatibility'? The heart of the GPL is if you take, you give back. Many here on /. defend that idea zealously, and I don't have a problem with that. IBM and Red Hat contribute to and take from a strong grass roots movement. Sun is trying to create a grass roots movement from the top down. Why ? Because they really like us ?
I think the crowd here on /. sees though them, and their dying business model.
They opensource solaris, that's great. I don't believe it's going to go anywhere though, because developers aren't going to spend so much time giving to those who won't give back. That's the secret to Linuxs success, I believe. The GPL is linux's greatest strength, and the reason for it's large base.
That importance isn't slanted.
If Sun's motives are pure, great, more power to them, I wish them the best of luck. I don't think they will be able to compete against Linux and the GPL though.
I'm not a sun fanboy, I don't know all that much about them to be honest, but didn't they release the code that grew into OOo to poke Microsoft in the eye ? Before they got to be such good buddies ?
I'm not a linux zealot btw. I use xp, mandrake, debian, and I try out a bsd once in a while, and opensolaris would be fun to putz around on too, but I'm smart enough to appreciate all the work the linux developers have done, and realize the roll the GPL played in their willingness to give so much of their time.
That importance isn't slanted.
IBM isn't open sourcing AIX, or trying to. You won't find them looking for people to write (for free) linux drivers for their big iron either. Sure they ride the linux wave for corporate profit, but they put alot of cash into building that wave too. They are in no way free loading. Red Hat isn't trying to sell hardware, or get people to write drivers for the dozens of peripherals most users need to get work done, to help sell that hardware. I don't think anyone has ever accused Red Hat of taking more than they give either. Don't compare apples to oranges. Their motives are different. IBM and Red Hat noticed something that was already there, and contributed to it. Sun is trying to create a grass roots movement from the top down. They don't know it doesn't work that way. Sun is trying to find ways to prop up a dying business model. I don't see a double standard at all. Linux is a grass roots movement, with the momentum coming from the bottom up, with users influencing the direction of development. Sun is a large corporation trying to create a grass roots movement from the top down, from scratch, I don't see how it can succeed.
Anyone think they are putting their version of an open source license out there to get developers to work on hardware compatability for the x86 market ? Sounds like a call for free labor.