1) SCO is suing IBM because SCO believes SCO copyrighted code is in the Linux kernel.
2) Microsoft and Novell signed an indemnity agreement regarding patents.
3) There is no relation between the two. SCO isn't suing IBM over Microsoft patents, and Microsoft isn't indemnifying Novell's customers regarding SCO's copyrights. These are two seperate issues, and trying to conflate them is evidence only that your tinfoil hat is on too tight.
When all you have is a conspiracy theory, everything starts looking like a conspiracy.
Conspiracists believe that all evil is attributable to one cause. Communist Insiders, The Elders of Zion, Vast Right Wing Conspiracy, Microsoft. But that's not reality. PJ needs to wake up and realize that SCO is able to be evil all on its own.
Did you see the very next definition? No I didn't think so...
2 : the infliction of intense pain (as from burning, crushing, or wounding) to punish, coerce, or afford sadistic pleasure
This definition fits the circumstances much better, because a) it's something being done to someone else as a means of coercion. Waterboarding is coercion, but it does not inflict intense pain. Coercive interrogation is not torture.
Waterboarding doesn't cause pain. That's why it isn't torture. Instead it induces a panic response. There is a difference. I'm not saying waterboarding is right, only that it isn't torture.
Because it's easier to inflict pain than pleasure. A single half second smack inflicts debilitating pain. But it takes a few minutes of stimulation/visualization/etc to inflict debilitating pleasure.
A good compromise, though, is tickling. Invent a tickling field and you may be on to something.
However, justice and fairness are two different things. The fact that his kids only get a scolding at the same time he's suing other people's kids, is most definitely unjust. The solution is easy: top suing the other people's kids.
YES I tried adept. I only decended down to the apt-get level when I couldn't get adept to work.
And yes, I went online to the forums. Which is a poor source for primary documentation, especially if you're trying to set up a networking (another problem I had with k/ubuntu). The forums didn't help, but three pages into a google search, I found a clue that eventually led me to the cause of the problem. The X package I was installing needed a newer Y package but older Z package. I couldn't figure out how to downgrade/upgrade either one. Even after blowing way both dependencies and starting over, the problem remained. But two other installs on identical hardware did not have this problem. The difference between these four systems was that two were installed while the network was down and two after the network came back up.
On any decent system, I should have been able to quickly find the documentation to help me determine the problem with the dependencies. Maybe it wouldn't have told me how to fix it, but at least I could have saved a couple of hours online reading forums.
This makes me wonder why there is all this hype about K[U]buntu, which is dogged with all sorts of bugs.
Tell me about it. I like kubuntu as a live CD, and so I tried deploying it "for real" for a group of four workstations which needed a temporary *nix desktop. It was a nightmare. For some reason, two of the machines were never able to apt-get a particular package because of a circular dependency. With adequate documentation(1) and a tiny bit of time, I might have figured out the solution. But with only six hours to get four machines deployed with a minimal desktop, there was no way. I ended up building the required packages from source.
(1) As a long time FreeBSD user, I have to ask: why the fsck can't any Linux distro manage to produce decent documentation? Other than an occasional install howto, Linux documentation is horrendous and woefully incomplete.
It's obvious to all climatologists (as well as to most other scientists, regardless of field) that the climate changes. I'm not talking geologic era, I'm talking about major changes within the lifespan of humanity.
Climate change is normal. But it's something the media can't seem to grasp.
Yes, that's the core of the problem right there. This whole thing is a publicity stunt by the BBC, because scientists are definitely *NOT* all agreeing with the general media assertion that global warming is new, and the result of man-made CO2, and that there's a political solution. When it comes to evidence, the range of opinions is even greater. Does every scientist believe that Antarctica is melting? Does every scientist believe that the ozone "hole" is non-cyclic and man-made? Does every scientist believe that last years hurricane season was the result of global warming?
What will happen when the BBC discovers this? Will they loudly proclaim that there is no bias in climate science, and thus all the biased media misreporting of science must be true? Sadly, I suspect so.
Except Islamic. Under the guise of "tolerance", they actively censor anything which might be percieved as anti-Islamic (ie, everything).
So in other words, they're passively contributing to the collapse of western enlightenment. How ironic for a site dedicated to rooting out creationist pseudoscience.
In the new redacted words of Rousseau: "I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall happily cave in if you threaten me with beheading."
Since the Slashdot groupthink also has a "the moderation system sucks" meme, your post ironically got modded up.
It's funny. Obvious trolls that append an "I'm sure this will get modded down" clause all get modded up. Followed by scores of posts wondering if the moderators are on crack.
p.s. No, they aren't on crack. They're sniffing fumes from the paint cans stored in their parent's basement.
Not true. To everyone's complete surprise, we once discovered my grandparent's photograph on the cover of a Time/Life book. My grandparents' iamge was recognizable and used for commercial purposes without their express consent. Moreover, they were the focus of the photograph. But they were NOT the subject of the photograph, the scenery behind them was. Which makes all the difference in the world.
Since Slashdot did not exist back then, they of course did not realize that their rights were being violated. Neither did it occur to them to sue Time/Life books or the photographer. Heck, it didn't even bother them!
No, it's not fair. But then again, life isn't fair either.
"Fair" is the enemy of "free". To make things fair you must make other things unfree. That means bigger government and more laws. The purpose of government is to protect your life, liberty and property, not to protect you from the embarassment of being photographed in your pink boxers.
The power to prevent people from photographing your underwear, is the same power that can prevent paparazzi from photographing Britney's cooch. Is that the kind of power you want to give the government?
It would be nice if things were fair, but it's not the reality we live in, no matter how much you pretend to perceive it otherwise.
These are people doing a truly thankless job... and they deserve a few thank-yous
Like a shit casserole, the thanklessness of the job is irrelevant. The good intentions of a chef cannot overcome the poor choice of ingredients. In the case of Wikipedia, the poor choice was in an anarchic methodology that assumes a consensus of anonymity can product accuracy.
While I am no fan of Kenneth Starr (far far from it), it should be noted that the Lewinsky scandal was an offshoot of the Whitewater investigation, and only became a big deal legally because of perjury. If Clinton had told the truth, or even said "NOYB", then Lewinsky would have been just another Jennifer Flowers.
To reiterate, I am not defending Ken Starr. Questioning Clinton under oath about his sexual relations was COMPLETELY irrelevant to the Whitewater investigation. But contrary to media myth, Clinton got in trouble for perjury, not for adultery.
No. But, if you buy a Mustang, your penis will grow six inches longer.
I was walking through a parking lot with two co-workers (whom I'll call "Fred" and "Joe"), when we went past a ricerocket Nissan with an aftermarket aluminum spoiler at least three feet wider than the car. I said, "Wow, that guy must have a really small penis!"
Fred, a young guy in support, turned bright red. After Joe stopped laughing his ass off, he explained: "Fred has one of those on his car too!"
Except on Windows. I have one USB drive that will crash Windows when it's plugged in, and another that Windows won't attach until I install it's "driver". Both work flawlessly out of the box on Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris and Mac OSX, without any special setup.
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Here's the facts:
1) SCO is suing IBM because SCO believes SCO copyrighted code is in the Linux kernel.
2) Microsoft and Novell signed an indemnity agreement regarding patents.
3) There is no relation between the two. SCO isn't suing IBM over Microsoft patents, and Microsoft isn't indemnifying Novell's customers regarding SCO's copyrights. These are two seperate issues, and trying to conflate them is evidence only that your tinfoil hat is on too tight.
When all you have is a conspiracy theory, everything starts looking like a conspiracy.
Conspiracists believe that all evil is attributable to one cause. Communist Insiders, The Elders of Zion, Vast Right Wing Conspiracy, Microsoft. But that's not reality. PJ needs to wake up and realize that SCO is able to be evil all on its own.
Did you see the very next definition? No I didn't think so...
2 : the infliction of intense pain (as from burning, crushing, or wounding) to punish, coerce, or afford sadistic pleasure
This definition fits the circumstances much better, because a) it's something being done to someone else as a means of coercion. Waterboarding is coercion, but it does not inflict intense pain. Coercive interrogation is not torture.
Waterboarding doesn't cause pain. That's why it isn't torture. Instead it induces a panic response. There is a difference. I'm not saying waterboarding is right, only that it isn't torture.
Because it's easier to inflict pain than pleasure. A single half second smack inflicts debilitating pain. But it takes a few minutes of stimulation/visualization/etc to inflict debilitating pleasure.
A good compromise, though, is tickling. Invent a tickling field and you may be on to something.
I agree with you. See my sig.
However, justice and fairness are two different things. The fact that his kids only get a scolding at the same time he's suing other people's kids, is most definitely unjust. The solution is easy: top suing the other people's kids.
YES I tried adept. I only decended down to the apt-get level when I couldn't get adept to work.
And yes, I went online to the forums. Which is a poor source for primary documentation, especially if you're trying to set up a networking (another problem I had with k/ubuntu). The forums didn't help, but three pages into a google search, I found a clue that eventually led me to the cause of the problem. The X package I was installing needed a newer Y package but older Z package. I couldn't figure out how to downgrade/upgrade either one. Even after blowing way both dependencies and starting over, the problem remained. But two other installs on identical hardware did not have this problem. The difference between these four systems was that two were installed while the network was down and two after the network came back up.
On any decent system, I should have been able to quickly find the documentation to help me determine the problem with the dependencies. Maybe it wouldn't have told me how to fix it, but at least I could have saved a couple of hours online reading forums.
Can Bootcamp or Parallels be used to run a IIS + win2K server on this?
Let me ask a stupid question: why would you want to?
This makes me wonder why there is all this hype about K[U]buntu, which is dogged with all sorts of bugs.
Tell me about it. I like kubuntu as a live CD, and so I tried deploying it "for real" for a group of four workstations which needed a temporary *nix desktop. It was a nightmare. For some reason, two of the machines were never able to apt-get a particular package because of a circular dependency. With adequate documentation(1) and a tiny bit of time, I might have figured out the solution. But with only six hours to get four machines deployed with a minimal desktop, there was no way. I ended up building the required packages from source.
(1) As a long time FreeBSD user, I have to ask: why the fsck can't any Linux distro manage to produce decent documentation? Other than an occasional install howto, Linux documentation is horrendous and woefully incomplete.
It's obvious to all climatologists (as well as to most other scientists, regardless of field) that the climate changes. I'm not talking geologic era, I'm talking about major changes within the lifespan of humanity.
Climate change is normal. But it's something the media can't seem to grasp.
Yes, that's the core of the problem right there. This whole thing is a publicity stunt by the BBC, because scientists are definitely *NOT* all agreeing with the general media assertion that global warming is new, and the result of man-made CO2, and that there's a political solution. When it comes to evidence, the range of opinions is even greater. Does every scientist believe that Antarctica is melting? Does every scientist believe that the ozone "hole" is non-cyclic and man-made? Does every scientist believe that last years hurricane season was the result of global warming?
What will happen when the BBC discovers this? Will they loudly proclaim that there is no bias in climate science, and thus all the biased media misreporting of science must be true? Sadly, I suspect so.
Aaack! I meant Voltaire...
Except Islamic. Under the guise of "tolerance", they actively censor anything which might be percieved as anti-Islamic (ie, everything).
So in other words, they're passively contributing to the collapse of western enlightenment. How ironic for a site dedicated to rooting out creationist pseudoscience.
In the new redacted words of Rousseau: "I may disagree with what you have to say, but I shall happily cave in if you threaten me with beheading."
Since the Slashdot groupthink also has a "the moderation system sucks" meme, your post ironically got modded up.
It's funny. Obvious trolls that append an "I'm sure this will get modded down" clause all get modded up. Followed by scores of posts wondering if the moderators are on crack.
p.s. No, they aren't on crack. They're sniffing fumes from the paint cans stored in their parent's basement.
Not true. To everyone's complete surprise, we once discovered my grandparent's photograph on the cover of a Time/Life book. My grandparents' iamge was recognizable and used for commercial purposes without their express consent. Moreover, they were the focus of the photograph. But they were NOT the subject of the photograph, the scenery behind them was. Which makes all the difference in the world.
Since Slashdot did not exist back then, they of course did not realize that their rights were being violated. Neither did it occur to them to sue Time/Life books or the photographer. Heck, it didn't even bother them!
These rules do not apply to news, since the primary focus is the gathering of fact*.
*unless you're AP or Reuters, then the primary focus is the gathering of material suitable for photoshopping.
Is this kind of thing fair?
No, it's not fair. But then again, life isn't fair either.
"Fair" is the enemy of "free". To make things fair you must make other things unfree. That means bigger government and more laws. The purpose of government is to protect your life, liberty and property, not to protect you from the embarassment of being photographed in your pink boxers.
The power to prevent people from photographing your underwear, is the same power that can prevent paparazzi from photographing Britney's cooch. Is that the kind of power you want to give the government?
It would be nice if things were fair, but it's not the reality we live in, no matter how much you pretend to perceive it otherwise.
These are people doing a truly thankless job... and they deserve a few thank-yous
Like a shit casserole, the thanklessness of the job is irrelevant. The good intentions of a chef cannot overcome the poor choice of ingredients. In the case of Wikipedia, the poor choice was in an anarchic methodology that assumes a consensus of anonymity can product accuracy.
While I am no fan of Kenneth Starr (far far from it), it should be noted that the Lewinsky scandal was an offshoot of the Whitewater investigation, and only became a big deal legally because of perjury. If Clinton had told the truth, or even said "NOYB", then Lewinsky would have been just another Jennifer Flowers.
To reiterate, I am not defending Ken Starr. Questioning Clinton under oath about his sexual relations was COMPLETELY irrelevant to the Whitewater investigation. But contrary to media myth, Clinton got in trouble for perjury, not for adultery.
Debate? What debate? You mean to tell me that there are people out there debating whether or not philanthropy is a good thing?
The mind boggles...
Wikipedia(tm) is edited by Anonymous(tm) Contributors(tm) from the Free(tm) Community(tm). How can it possibly be anything but The Truth(tm).
For you to be questioning this must mean you haven't been drinking your Kool-Aid(tm).
No. But, if you buy a Mustang, your penis will grow six inches longer.
I was walking through a parking lot with two co-workers (whom I'll call "Fred" and "Joe"), when we went past a ricerocket Nissan with an aftermarket aluminum spoiler at least three feet wider than the car. I said, "Wow, that guy must have a really small penis!"
Fred, a young guy in support, turned bright red. After Joe stopped laughing his ass off, he explained: "Fred has one of those on his car too!"
I'm 40+, and those 18 year old girls look FINE! My only problem is that those same 18 year olds look at me like I'm 40+ years old. Sigh.
You know you've reached middle age when you hear that chick in the bar tell her friends, "Eeew! That old guy tried to pick me up!" Double sigh.
Except on Windows. I have one USB drive that will crash Windows when it's plugged in, and another that Windows won't attach until I install it's "driver". Both work flawlessly out of the box on Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris and Mac OSX, without any special setup.
Many folks got stuck with 3d hardware cards and no company and/or no supported drivers...
I'm using Linux and FreeBSD. Nvidia's out-of-date crippleware drivers don't count as "supported". The non-existant ATI drivers even less so.
I don't agree with this anti-trust move, but that doesn't mean I think NVidia/AMD are above criticism.