To begin with, Muslims are not a race. Islam is a religion, that is, an ideology. So the accusation of racism is nonsense. Second, I did not say that only Islam leads to terrorism. In fact, I said exactly the opposite. So you are wrong to think that I am attributing all terrorism to Islam, and therefore examples of terrorism committed by non-Muslims are irrelevant. Third, while I agree that Guantanamo Bay is an outrage, it is not an instance of terrorism. Similarly, I don't know where you get the idea that the use of depleted uranium constitutes terrorism.
Uh, since when did Quakers burn witches? I'm not aware that they did.
In any case, executing people after a trial in accordance with the laws of the time, even when the laws are based on a foolish superstition, is not terrorism.
Murder, however regrettable, is not the same as terrorism, nor is it necessarily motivated by the religion. One can be reasonably confident that members of all religions (other than perhaps the tiniest ones) have committed murder, but that doesn't tell us much about the religion. Without justifying Nixon's secret bombings, I don't think that they qualify as terrorism - their goal was not terror but to disable enemy forces. There are lots of evils other than terrorism.
It is certainly true that Islam is not the only source of terrorism, but some religions are much more likely to lead to terrorism than others. Ever hear of a Quaker terrorist? A Mennonite terrorist? A Buddhist terrorist? A Baha'i terrorist?
A US citizen has an absolute right to enter the United States. So long as you can establish that you are a citizen, they cannot refuse you entry. They can, however, seize anything you have with you that they wish to search.
If a truly rugged laptop is too heavy or expensive, you might consider using a more ordinary laptop and protecting it. Places that sell laptop accessories will have padded cases, but if water is a concern, you might try the plastic bags used by canoers. They come in a variety of sizes, are very tough, and have special seals that make them truly watertight.
Does anyone know how much methamphetamine can be made from a given amount of pseudoephedrine? Since the pseudoephedrine is a base material, not a catalyst, my guess is that the answer is not a lot. That makes me wonder whether it makes sense to restrict the purchase typical consumer quantities of pseudoephedrine. That is, I can see restricting the purchase of wholesale quantities, which might be useful for illegal drug production, but would it really be cost effective for a meth lab to buy a few retail bottles a day?
Instead of having two patent offices, just make the evaluation adversarial. For each patent application, have a proponent, an opponent, and a judge. The Catholic church decides on sainthood in a similar fashion. There is one priest who makes the case for sainthood and another, the Devil's Advocate, who opposes him.
Want to expand on this? It's not easy to figure out what is going on from the response to the lawsuit. It appears that CAIR posted excerpts from a radio program critical of it, is being sued for doing so, and that the EFF is representing CAIR. Isn't the EFF thereby supporting free speech and fair use? (Not that I have much sympathy for CAIR, but they are entitled to present their position and criticize others.)
My immediate reaction to this article is not about microkernels at all. It is: "Why would somebody like Andy Tannenbaum use an HTML generator that creates unreadable over-wide
fixed width pages?" Does he not read what he posts? I understand it when some non-technical person uses an HTML generator that does this, but surely he could do better than this.
If the license is not specified as irrevocable, it can be revoked. If, however, it is explicitly irrevocable, the copyright owner has given up the right to revoke it. Version 3 of the GPL is explicitly irrevocable:
All rights granted under this License are granted for the term of
copyright on the Program, and are irrevocable provided the stated
conditions are met.
If the software in question was licensed under version 3, or under "version 2 or later", the license cannot be revoked.
It is not true that the students' banner was shown to be disruptive. What are you thinking of? The passing of the torch was not disrupted. There was no class to be disrupted.
Yes, its true that things can get screwy in covert operations, but the threat of nuclear weapons in the hands of Israel's enemies is so great and so obvious to Israel that it is really not believable that Israel would knowingly be involved in passing nuclear secrets to Saudi Arabia and Pakistan. It isn't out of the question that Israel could have been duped into doing it unwittingly.
I'm thinking that perhaps the claim is not that the governments of Turkey and Israel are involved, which, in the case of Israel at least, is implausible, but that the criminals involved are Turkish and Israeli nationals. It isn't clear which is meant, but this is a lot more plausible.
Emacs has had auto-save for at least twenty years. This greatly reduces the problem of machines shutting down or crashing before the user saves the buffer. Doesn't MS Word have autosave yet?
Fortunately, I don't use any Microsoft products or services so I haven't encountered this, but if the basis for the claim is a general statement in a EULA, it probably isn't valid. In the United States, a copyright can only be transferred by an explicit written agreement. Generalities like "anything you place on our server" don't satisfy this requirement. So even if the EULA is valid in general, it is probably not valid as an assignment of copyright.
The fact that people can learn something useful from it makes it all the more regrettable that the Linux and Mac versions have been discontinued. America's Army only runs on MS Windows.
For those of us who don't use any of these services, could someone please clarify what is at issue. As I understand it, the problem is that people who have a contact list on a Microsoft service want to be able to use that contact list for some other company's service. Can't they just save their contacts in a file that the other services can import? Surely Microsoft has no claim to the data itself and therefore no way to interfere with importing such a file. It sounds like the other services are trying to connect to the Microsoft service and that that is what gives Microsoft something to say about it. Why do they need to do this?
As a further complication, here in BC we have "university-colleges". These are colleges that have been upgraded to offer 4-year degrees under the aegis of a full university. They differ from universities in that they don't have their own charter as universities.
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To begin with, Muslims are not a race. Islam is a religion, that is, an ideology. So the accusation of racism is nonsense. Second, I did not say that only Islam leads to terrorism. In fact, I said exactly the opposite. So you are wrong to think that I am attributing all terrorism to Islam, and therefore examples of terrorism committed by non-Muslims are irrelevant. Third, while I agree that Guantanamo Bay is an outrage, it is not an instance of terrorism. Similarly, I don't know where you get the idea that the use of depleted uranium constitutes terrorism.
Uh, since when did Quakers burn witches? I'm not aware that they did. In any case, executing people after a trial in accordance with the laws of the time, even when the laws are based on a foolish superstition, is not terrorism.
Murder, however regrettable, is not the same as terrorism, nor is it necessarily motivated by the religion. One can be reasonably confident that members of all religions (other than perhaps the tiniest ones) have committed murder, but that doesn't tell us much about the religion. Without justifying Nixon's secret bombings, I don't think that they qualify as terrorism - their goal was not terror but to disable enemy forces. There are lots of evils other than terrorism.
It is certainly true that Islam is not the only source of terrorism, but some religions are much more likely to lead to terrorism than others. Ever hear of a Quaker terrorist? A Mennonite terrorist? A Buddhist terrorist? A Baha'i terrorist?
A US citizen has an absolute right to enter the United States. So long as you can establish that you are a citizen, they cannot refuse you entry. They can, however, seize anything you have with you that they wish to search.
If a truly rugged laptop is too heavy or expensive, you might consider using a more ordinary laptop and protecting it. Places that sell laptop accessories will have padded cases, but if water is a concern, you might try the plastic bags used by canoers. They come in a variety of sizes, are very tough, and have special seals that make them truly watertight.
Does anyone know how much methamphetamine can be made from a given amount of pseudoephedrine? Since the pseudoephedrine is a base material, not a catalyst, my guess is that the answer is not a lot. That makes me wonder whether it makes sense to restrict the purchase typical consumer quantities of pseudoephedrine. That is, I can see restricting the purchase of wholesale quantities, which might be useful for illegal drug production, but would it really be cost effective for a meth lab to buy a few retail bottles a day?
Instead of having two patent offices, just make the evaluation adversarial. For each patent application, have a proponent, an opponent, and a judge. The Catholic church decides on sainthood in a similar fashion. There is one priest who makes the case for sainthood and another, the Devil's Advocate, who opposes him.
Want to expand on this? It's not easy to figure out what is going on from the response to the lawsuit. It appears that CAIR posted excerpts from a radio program critical of it, is being sued for doing so, and that the EFF is representing CAIR. Isn't the EFF thereby supporting free speech and fair use? (Not that I have much sympathy for CAIR, but they are entitled to present their position and criticize others.)
The author of the article, Michael Eisen, is chief legal officer of Microsoft Canada.
My immediate reaction to this article is not about microkernels at all. It is: "Why would somebody like Andy Tannenbaum use an HTML generator that creates unreadable over-wide fixed width pages?" Does he not read what he posts? I understand it when some non-technical person uses an HTML generator that does this, but surely he could do better than this.
Are you sure that shouldn't be:
Where does the BSA get the authority to raid with armed US marshalls? They aren't the FBI. And even the FBI needs a warrant to do that.
If the license is not specified as irrevocable, it can be revoked. If, however, it is explicitly irrevocable, the copyright owner has given up the right to revoke it. Version 3 of the GPL is explicitly irrevocable:
If the software in question was licensed under version 3, or under "version 2 or later", the license cannot be revoked.
In this context state means "country".
It is not true that the students' banner was shown to be disruptive. What are you thinking of? The passing of the torch was not disrupted. There was no class to be disrupted.
Yes, its true that things can get screwy in covert operations, but the threat of nuclear weapons in the hands of Israel's enemies is so great and so obvious to Israel that it is really not believable that Israel would knowingly be involved in passing nuclear secrets to Saudi Arabia and Pakistan. It isn't out of the question that Israel could have been duped into doing it unwittingly.
I'm thinking that perhaps the claim is not that the governments of Turkey and Israel are involved, which, in the case of Israel at least, is implausible, but that the criminals involved are Turkish and Israeli nationals. It isn't clear which is meant, but this is a lot more plausible.
Emacs has had auto-save for at least twenty years. This greatly reduces the problem of machines shutting down or crashing before the user saves the buffer. Doesn't MS Word have autosave yet?
Fortunately, I don't use any Microsoft products or services so I haven't encountered this, but if the basis for the claim is a general statement in a EULA, it probably isn't valid. In the United States, a copyright can only be transferred by an explicit written agreement. Generalities like "anything you place on our server" don't satisfy this requirement. So even if the EULA is valid in general, it is probably not valid as an assignment of copyright.
The fact that people can learn something useful from it makes it all the more regrettable that the Linux and Mac versions have been discontinued. America's Army only runs on MS Windows.
I see. Amazing. That does kind of let you know that they don't intend you to control your own data, doesn't it?
For those of us who don't use any of these services, could someone please clarify what is at issue. As I understand it, the problem is that people who have a contact list on a Microsoft service want to be able to use that contact list for some other company's service. Can't they just save their contacts in a file that the other services can import? Surely Microsoft has no claim to the data itself and therefore no way to interfere with importing such a file. It sounds like the other services are trying to connect to the Microsoft service and that that is what gives Microsoft something to say about it. Why do they need to do this?
You're out of date. Groklaw now handles serious legal matters.
As a further complication, here in BC we have "university-colleges". These are colleges that have been upgraded to offer 4-year degrees under the aegis of a full university. They differ from universities in that they don't have their own charter as universities.