I believe it requires an absolute majority: that is, abstentions or absentees are counted as votes in favor. My definition of absolute majority was 1/2 votes + 1, but maybe this is a special case...
Re:How evolution works
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Happy Darwin Day!
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Happy Darwin Day everybody! For this sort of thread, I feel it is necessary to briefly explain how the theory of evolution, for which Darwin is best known, works Darwin's theory of evolution isn't this at all (DNA was discovered in the second half of the twentieth century). His theory was that of natural selection, meaning that there are (random) variations in individuals (that can be caused by crossing over and mutations), and that those better adapted for the environment are more likely to be passed on to the next generation, making the species more adapted on average. On a different note, albinism is probably very seldom the result of a direct mutation, rather it is due recessive genes received from both parents (these genes being mutations of regular alleles that can have happened many generations before)
Not necessarily - Babylon 5's EarthGov had a Ministry of Peace under President Clarke. 1984 also had a ministry of peace (minipax). It's just that miniluv is more relevant.
Call me uninformed, but don't ALL toasters use infrared beams? Heat some high resistance metal up with electrical current, blackbody radiation puts its peak output in the infrared range? Yes, but is the radiation what causes the heating? Or rather diffusion / convection?
How does this alleviate global warming? Does biodiesel not release carbon dioxide when it burns? Of course it does, but its creation consumes as much.
Re:Hopefully patent provision is not overbroad
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Revising the GPL
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Otherwise it can be used to write a piece of GPLed software whose main purpose is to infringe patents of some company and then get a free license from them because they are using another, unrelated piece of GPLed software - that they wrote themselves This can't be an issue. If you have a problem with the GPL for a particular piece of software, you can always stop using this particular piece of software.
Is it really possible for the GPL to say something that broad and still be enforceable? Can it say that by violating part of the GPL, your right to use BSD licensed stuff is terminated? It seems a bit too arbitrary, legally at least. What you could say is, if you attack a BSD-licensed software, then you can't use mine (you obviously can only dictate conditions on the distribution/use of your own software). But even that seems hard to enforce (although EULAs seem to be enforceable, so why not...)
I'm pretty sure they removed the CD check. Vivendi probably required it to begin with; I doubt it's Valve's fault. I like the independence of having to put a CD check due to a big media group.
Maybe Debian doesn't have a new enough version (although I'm running Sarge), but I haven't been able to get it to work yet... I haven't been able to get it to work on 2.6...
Its once every 455 centuries On average. I think that means we are due. Not at all. If you roll a die a get a 6 10 times in succession, you're not any lesslikely to get a 6 on the next roll. Here it's the same. Just because it hasn't happened in a long time, doesn't mean it's "due".
The Wyadcliffe (sp?) tower is just the biggest example. Go check it out on wikipedia like you do for everything else. From your very own link: Wardenclyffe Tower
Since they've found all 985 bugs in the 2.6 Kernel, did they submit them for fixing, or submit patches to fix the bugs themselves? Seems like a waste to just count the bugs, rather than fix them.
We have better things to do (like improving our tool and selling it)
It's probably better to let the people responsible for the code fix it. We're not familiar with it, we might add more bugs, and also have trouble getting our patches accepted.
How do you analyze 5.7 million lines of code except to run it through a static analyzer? Static analyzers can't detect most errors, which tend to be data dependent. So a company selling an uberlint donates their tool, 5 academics run it and write a paper. *Blech* Actually they created the tool, and then a company. But I agree that "Linux has 900 bugs" is VERY misleading, what it shoud say is "Coverity's tool found 900 bugs", which is completely different. But you should know not to trust Wired (or worse,/.'s summaries of Wired articles)
So, say that, for example, the government of Germany would rather not accept software patents. Too bad, they'll have to anyway, despite the fact that the majority of the people there may not want it. So much for the will of the people. The majority of people in say, California, were against George Bush in the last election. They got him anyway. So much for the will of the people. (I could add that in 2000, the majority of Americans didn't want him and got him anyway, but that would be beside the point)
However, with fission fast-breeder reactors like they use in France, there would be 5000 estimated years of power. I'm afraid the only fast-breeder reactor (Superphenix) has been shutdown definitively, because of anti-nuclear lobbying.
while undeveloped countries, like France Just because we don't pollute as much as the Americans, doesn't mean we're "undeveloped" (it has more to do with 75% nuclear electricity)
region encoding is silly. It's supposed to protect film distributors who distribute their films at ifferent times to different markets - but with the ever growing popularity of simultaneous worldwide releases (or releases separated by weeks at most) that isn't a very relevant argument. Instead it is being used to provide regional DVD distributors with a monopoly so they can price gouge. Do you really believe market sharing was not the primary goal (although I have to admit DVDs are not that expensive)? I heard that this region-coding was illegal in my country, so players had to have a way to disable it (don't know if that's true though). The silliest being computer DVD players, with their 4 allowed changes (why 4?)
My favorite quote from the last link in the summary (on format security) would have to be the following:
"In the U.S., the Digital Millennium Copyright Act prohibits unauthorized circumvention. Outside the U.S., however, many jurisdictions only have conventional copyright laws that only protect creative works. Normal decryption keys do not include any obvious creative element."
Another few choice quotes: Question #8: Will the format fail in the marketplace because of pirate attacks? Like the DVD failed... RIP.
Player vendors also require effective security to prevent unfair competition from unlicensed knock-off players. THEY are talking about "unfair" competition from un-broken players, that do not respect their monopolistic market sharing scheme.
Actually I'm more ANNOYED when people put spaces in their file names (such as Microsoft with their "Program Files"). It breaks `find` and other similarly useful things. Case insensitivity is also annoying, but mostly because the behavior is different on windows/unix
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Knives that aren't practical for neither hunting or home protection can be purchased in lots of places
Should we ban cooking knives?
Every Swiss man, on reaching age 20, is issued with a rifle to keep at home.
However, carrying a loaded gun is subject to a hard-to-get license.
I believe it requires an absolute majority: that is, abstentions or absentees are counted as votes in favor.
My definition of absolute majority was 1/2 votes + 1, but maybe this is a special case...
Happy Darwin Day everybody! For this sort of thread, I feel it is necessary to briefly explain how the theory of evolution, for which Darwin is best known, works
Darwin's theory of evolution isn't this at all (DNA was discovered in the second half of the twentieth century). His theory was that of natural selection, meaning that there are (random) variations in individuals (that can be caused by crossing over and mutations), and that those better adapted for the environment are more likely to be passed on to the next generation, making the species more adapted on average.
On a different note, albinism is probably very seldom the result of a direct mutation, rather it is due recessive genes received from both parents (these genes being mutations of regular alleles that can have happened many generations before)
Nevertheless, having a suid script is far preferable to idiots logging in as root for ordinary work!
And sudo is far prefereable to suid
Not necessarily - Babylon 5's EarthGov had a Ministry of Peace under President Clarke.
1984 also had a ministry of peace (minipax). It's just that miniluv is more relevant.
Call me uninformed, but don't ALL toasters use infrared beams? Heat some high resistance metal up with electrical current, blackbody radiation puts its peak output in the infrared range?
Yes, but is the radiation what causes the heating? Or rather diffusion / convection?
How does this alleviate global warming? Does biodiesel not release carbon dioxide when it burns?
Of course it does, but its creation consumes as much.
Otherwise it can be used to write a piece of GPLed software whose main purpose is to infringe patents of some company and then get a free license from them because they are using another, unrelated piece of GPLed software - that they wrote themselves
This can't be an issue. If you have a problem with the GPL for a particular piece of software, you can always stop using this particular piece of software.
Is it really possible for the GPL to say something that broad and still be enforceable? Can it say that by violating part of the GPL, your right to use BSD licensed stuff is terminated? It seems a bit too arbitrary, legally at least.
What you could say is, if you attack a BSD-licensed software, then you can't use mine (you obviously can only dictate conditions on the distribution/use of your own software). But even that seems hard to enforce (although EULAs seem to be enforceable, so why not...)
I'm pretty sure they removed the CD check. Vivendi probably required it to begin with; I doubt it's Valve's fault.
I like the independence of having to put a CD check due to a big media group.
I can definitely say it would with a First Person Shooter
You mean like Quake I/II/III ? (although it's GPL, not BSD)
Maybe Debian doesn't have a new enough version (although I'm running Sarge), but I haven't been able to get it to work yet...
I haven't been able to get it to work on 2.6...
Its once every 455 centuries
On average.
I think that means we are due.
Not at all.
If you roll a die a get a 6 10 times in succession, you're not any lesslikely to get a 6 on the next roll.
Here it's the same. Just because it hasn't happened in a long time, doesn't mean it's "due".
The Wyadcliffe (sp?) tower is just the biggest example. Go check it out on wikipedia like you do for everything else.
From your very own link:
Wardenclyffe Tower
A very common bug in the kernel:
p = malloc();
if(!p)return;
q = malloc();
if(!q)return; <= Memory leak if this happens
How do you analyze 5.7 million lines of code except to run it through a static analyzer? Static analyzers can't detect most errors, which tend to be data dependent. So a company selling an uberlint donates their tool, 5 academics run it and write a paper. *Blech* /.'s summaries of Wired articles)
Actually they created the tool, and then a company.
But I agree that "Linux has 900 bugs" is VERY misleading, what it shoud say is "Coverity's tool found 900 bugs", which is completely different. But you should know not to trust Wired (or worse,
So, say that, for example, the government of Germany would rather not accept software patents. Too bad, they'll have to anyway, despite the fact that the majority of the people there may not want it. So much for the will of the people.
The majority of people in say, California, were against George Bush in the last election. They got him anyway. So much for the will of the people. (I could add that in 2000, the majority of Americans didn't want him and got him anyway, but that would be beside the point)
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correction
However, with fission fast-breeder reactors like they use in France, there would be 5000 estimated years of power.
I'm afraid the only fast-breeder reactor (Superphenix) has been shutdown definitively, because of anti-nuclear lobbying.
while undeveloped countries, like France
Just because we don't pollute as much as the Americans, doesn't mean we're "undeveloped" (it has more to do with 75% nuclear electricity)
region encoding is silly. It's supposed to protect film distributors who distribute their films at ifferent times to different markets - but with the ever growing popularity of simultaneous worldwide releases (or releases separated by weeks at most) that isn't a very relevant argument. Instead it is being used to provide regional DVD distributors with a monopoly so they can price gouge.
Do you really believe market sharing was not the primary goal (although I have to admit DVDs are not that expensive)? I heard that this region-coding was illegal in my country, so players had to have a way to disable it (don't know if that's true though).
The silliest being computer DVD players, with their 4 allowed changes (why 4?)
My favorite quote from the last link in the summary (on format security) would have to be the following:
"In the U.S., the Digital Millennium Copyright Act prohibits unauthorized circumvention. Outside the U.S., however, many jurisdictions only have conventional copyright laws that only protect creative works. Normal decryption keys do not include any obvious creative element."
Another few choice quotes:
Question #8: Will the format fail in the marketplace because of pirate attacks?
Like the DVD failed... RIP.
Player vendors also require effective security to prevent unfair competition from unlicensed knock-off players.
THEY are talking about "unfair" competition from un-broken players, that do not respect their monopolistic market sharing scheme.
Actually I'm more ANNOYED when people put spaces in their file names (such as Microsoft with their "Program Files"). It breaks `find` and other similarly useful things. Case insensitivity is also annoying, but mostly because the behavior is different on windows/unix