I operate a website that criticizes our local school system.
We have similar censorship policies in Fort Bend ISD and I have set up CGI-Proxy accounts for people in the past so they could access totally appropriate websites that were wrongly blocked.
Anyway, I'd like your permission to use your story as a front page article. You do a really excellent job demonstrating the ignorance and total disregard for students that these administrators have for us.
Reply here or email me - news @ fortbendisdsucks. com. Thanks!
Since when? Especially in class-actions, the lawyers tend to take most of the winnings and all the plaintiff gets is some small measly percentage of the entire thing.
A real journalist doesn't mutely present both "sides". A journalist also has to judge, and present, the motivations and past behaviors of the people involved as well. All sides are NOT equal. A journalist is not a debate moderator
As a journalist, I have to correct you.
We must present a balanced view of any issue, no matter our personal feelings about the issue. We are not in the business of passing judgement of any particular side in an issue. We just present facts and analysis.
Maybe your view of "journalist has to judge" news is acceptable at FOX and the NYT (and others), but by no means is it the standard.
You apparently don't know much about the newspaper business. It's not uncommon for rural newspapers to be printed in a larger city where the economies of scale allow for better equipment. In some cases, the rural papers are even owned by the big-city paper, and maintain a token local editorial and reportage presence, as well as the ad sales force.
I think you need to re-read what I said.
I never said that this doesnt happen, nor did I express any objections to that practice. I was making an analogy so that the original poster could see that such practices are common and have no reason to be not accepted.
I don't care where the anchors are reporting from. As long as the news is actually news and not made up, its all good.
Would you object to reading a newspaper that reported on your town's local news every day but was layed out and printed in some other city before it came to you?
The point is - someone in your city reported the news before it came to that anchor's attention.
I really dont see what your or Michael's problem is.
Excuse me, but the whole spirit behind the GPL was you owe nothing for using GPL licensed programs.
Google owes the community zilch.
If you want corporations to be obliged to be socially accountable while using your programs, then change the license to say so. Then quickly find out that no one wants that kind of obligation.
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This has nothing to do with new installs, it is about supporting existing infrastructure in places that have no need to upgrade.
Manufactuers of hardware still support Win98 and will continue to do so as long as there is demand for it.
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Hmm..
Quite a few people still use Windows 98. I wonder if someone could make some money by doing third-party support of Windows98.
It would be a bit hard to roll out patches as a third-party, but if you supplied people with some sort of firewall package (to shield users from security holes that can't be patched otherwise) and migrated MSIE/Outlook Express users over to Mozilla, it seems like something that could be done.
Windows Media Player users could also be migrated to Winamp.. Pretty much anything that wouldn't be Microsoft supported could be replaced with still-developed Open Source alternatives.
It seems like businesses who don't have their own IT department and run a lot of Win98 PCs who have no other need to upgrade could benefit from this.
The cell-phone ban is just a "feel-good" law designed to make a people think that the government is doing something when all it is doing is just furthering its encroachments onto our own liberties.
What about banning eating while driving? Putting on makeup? Talking to the person next to/behind you?
You only think of the people who cannot drive responsibly with a cell phone but I've seen just as many if not more people who can use phones and drive properly.
Clause 8: No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.
However, the licensure of these people are done by state and not federal (as you may have already read from other replies).
The BSD crowd needs to learn that their constant trolling of the Linux community is what is responsible for the hatred of anything *BSD related.
Now you are saying that "we need BSD", as if your high and mighty ways are somehow overly superior to our own.
If you don't like Linux, then present your software and if it is actually superior, the people who actually care will use it. Simple.
You will not get converts with this arrogant attidude of yours, nor will you win over any hearts and minds, including my own.
I've been very interested in *BSD, but the arrogance abd condesendence of the *BSD community (and to be fair, it exists, to a much lesser extent, in the Linux community as well) has turned me off and away from looking into BSD solutions for my business and personal use.
I'm not an Electrical Engineer, but would this system be able to tell where I am located if I'm using something like a yagi or parabolic dish from several miles away?
What if I had a multi-antenna setup pointing my signal at different APs? To make the thing more confusing, what if I had attenuators or amplifiers on some of those antennas?
Are you saying good hardware can compensate for lousy software?
Good software CAN deal with louse hardware, but only up to a point. Even so, are you going to be running your mission-critical enterprise server on ECS motherboards and knock-off RAM? I hope not.
As an addendum to my previous post, if you are OK with someone taking your code, making changes, and using that in their product sold commercialy, why didn't you use the BSD license in the first place?
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Hey.
I operate a website that criticizes our local school system.
We have similar censorship policies in Fort Bend ISD and I have set up CGI-Proxy accounts for people in the past so they could access totally appropriate websites that were wrongly blocked.
Anyway, I'd like your permission to use your story as a front page article. You do a really excellent job demonstrating the ignorance and total disregard for students that these administrators have for us.
Reply here or email me - news @ fortbendisdsucks. com. Thanks!
You could make pots of money.
Since when? Especially in class-actions, the lawyers tend to take most of the winnings and all the plaintiff gets is some small measly percentage of the entire thing.
Ark is not debian based, as you state, but apt is avaliable for RPM based distributions:
http://ayo.freshrpms.net
APT is now avaliable for RedHat distros.. check out this page
I could have swore I saw this very post a long time ago in another patent stort here.. so I went back to a few patent stories and what did I find?
The very same post
A real journalist doesn't mutely present both "sides". A journalist also has to judge, and present, the motivations and past behaviors of the people involved as well. All sides are NOT equal. A journalist is not a debate moderator
As a journalist, I have to correct you.
We must present a balanced view of any issue, no matter our personal feelings about the issue. We are not in the business of passing judgement of any particular side in an issue. We just present facts and analysis.
Maybe your view of "journalist has to judge" news is acceptable at FOX and the NYT (and others), but by no means is it the standard.
You apparently don't know much about the newspaper business. It's not uncommon for rural newspapers to be printed in a larger city where the economies of scale allow for better equipment. In some cases, the rural papers are even owned by the big-city paper, and maintain a token local editorial and reportage presence, as well as the ad sales force.
I think you need to re-read what I said.
I never said that this doesnt happen, nor did I express any objections to that practice. I was making an analogy so that the original poster could see that such practices are common and have no reason to be not accepted.
I don't care where the anchors are reporting from. As long as the news is actually news and not made up, its all good.
Would you object to reading a newspaper that reported on your town's local news every day but was layed out and printed in some other city before it came to you?
The point is - someone in your city reported the news before it came to that anchor's attention.
I really dont see what your or Michael's problem is.
Excuse me, but the whole spirit behind the GPL was you owe nothing for using GPL licensed programs.
Google owes the community zilch.
If you want corporations to be obliged to be socially accountable while using your programs, then change the license to say so. Then quickly find out that no one wants that kind of obligation.
This has nothing to do with new installs, it is about supporting existing infrastructure in places that have no need to upgrade.
Manufactuers of hardware still support Win98 and will continue to do so as long as there is demand for it.
Hmm..
Quite a few people still use Windows 98. I wonder if someone could make some money by doing third-party support of Windows98.
It would be a bit hard to roll out patches as a third-party, but if you supplied people with some sort of firewall package (to shield users from security holes that can't be patched otherwise) and migrated MSIE/Outlook Express users over to Mozilla, it seems like something that could be done.
Windows Media Player users could also be migrated to Winamp.. Pretty much anything that wouldn't be Microsoft supported could be replaced with still-developed Open Source alternatives.
It seems like businesses who don't have their own IT department and run a lot of Win98 PCs who have no other need to upgrade could benefit from this.
A title of nobility grants special rights or privileges upon someone.
Hence, a license to practice medicine is a title of nobility.
However, states are free to grant such titles.
What about just banning unsafe driving?
The cell-phone ban is just a "feel-good" law designed to make a people think that the government is doing something when all it is doing is just furthering its encroachments onto our own liberties.
What about banning eating while driving? Putting on makeup? Talking to the person next to/behind you?
You only think of the people who cannot drive responsibly with a cell phone but I've seen just as many if not more people who can use phones and drive properly.
US Constitution Article I, Section 9, Clause 8
Clause 8: No Title of Nobility shall be granted by the United States: And no Person holding any Office of Profit or Trust under them, shall, without the Consent of the Congress, accept of any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.
However, the licensure of these people are done by state and not federal (as you may have already read from other replies).
Read the constitution.
Granting titles of nobility is only prohibited of the federal government.
The BSD crowd needs to learn that their constant trolling of the Linux community is what is responsible for the hatred of anything *BSD related.
Now you are saying that "we need BSD", as if your high and mighty ways are somehow overly superior to our own.
If you don't like Linux, then present your software and if it is actually superior, the people who actually care will use it. Simple.
You will not get converts with this arrogant attidude of yours, nor will you win over any hearts and minds, including my own.
I've been very interested in *BSD, but the arrogance abd condesendence of the *BSD community (and to be fair, it exists, to a much lesser extent, in the Linux community as well) has turned me off and away from looking into BSD solutions for my business and personal use.
Its this kind of attitude that will drive people away from your business.
There are people out there who have laptops who ARENT geeks who would come in.
No WEP (Whats the point, anyway?), and use something like NoCatAuth.
Start -> Run -> calc ->
Takes me about a second to do and has always worked in most versions of Windows (95 and up).
I'm not an Electrical Engineer, but would this system be able to tell where I am located if I'm using something like a yagi or parabolic dish from several miles away?
What if I had a multi-antenna setup pointing my signal at different APs? To make the thing more confusing, what if I had attenuators or amplifiers on some of those antennas?
That makes no sense whatsoever
Are you saying good hardware can compensate for lousy software?
Good software CAN deal with louse hardware, but only up to a point. Even so, are you going to be running your mission-critical enterprise server on ECS motherboards and knock-off RAM? I hope not.
As much as I hate the Dubya/Ashcroft admnistration, what the hell does moding your OnStar system have to do with the Patriot act?
Please, no mindless political bashing.
on the Home User survey:
Reasons you like Linux for the home:
"The satisfaction of not giving Microsoft more money."
and
"I don't trust Microsoft"
At least they ask honest questions.
RR homepages are NOT on the RR network, FYI. Hosting is outsourced to some other company.
almost all POP clients can "Leave email on server".
it downloads the messages but does not delete them on server
As an addendum to my previous post, if you are OK with someone taking your code, making changes, and using that in their product sold commercialy, why didn't you use the BSD license in the first place?