Yes, and we drive on the left in the UK. Which means that the turn which requires you to wait for a gap in traffic in two directions rather than just one is the right turn, not the left turn.
Doesn't matter if it's carved into a brick of lead weighing 4 tons and can only be read by a half blind midget who is kept locked in a dungeon under the guard of five dragons.
I don't see why not. Stick a hypervisor with the software in unencrypted form on the first partition on the disk, stick everything else on another encrypted partition and boot the OS from the hypervisor.
It'll hammer performance, but most modern desktop PCs have more performance than they're ever going to need anyway.
It gets worse than that. There are plenty of instances where even if the database is correct and nobody is spreading lies about you, you could still find yourself at the wrong end of mob justice.
Off the top of my head:
A child molester with the same name as you was the previous tenant. He's moved out and has gone to ground. You're unaware of this, so you don't inform the authorities that their records are no longer accurate. Neither does your landlord. Two weeks later, someone in the area takes a look through the database. Shortly after this, you're attacked in a seemingly unprovoked incident.
You live in a large city, and there are two streets with almost exactly the same name. You live at 21 Franklin Street. A child molester moves into 21 Franklin Street South.
You have just moved into a community from a totally different area. Unknown to you (but it's been in the news locally), a local child molester who looks a bit like you has just gone to ground.
You move into your new house. When you introduce yourself to the neighbours, you have a brief chat and discuss what you do for a living. You're a paediatrician. Your neighbours, OTOH, are idiots.
Which stops someone just driving over the border to the nearest country which doesn't have such sanctions and filling up their car with equipment... how exactly?
This is absurd. There's no point in even debating that.
I think it's the (RI|MP)AA asking for the moon - that way, when they tone down their demands they won't sound as absurd.
Look at it from this perspective: how much resources do you imagine the FBI is dedicating to copyright infringement given the number of embarrassing gaffes that the entertainment industry is making? The entertainment industry wants a government department with powers similar to the FBI but dedicated purely to copyright enforcement. Such a department could not reasonably refuse to assist in arresting some relatively innocent granny because they have higher priorities.
OpenOficce would take a full 3 minutes to start!! Because they had configured a 128MB system with a 1GB Swap.
You didn't really need to add "with a 1GB swap" there.
Sure, Linux will run happily on much older hardware. Doesn't mean you can usefully do any typical desktop-type tasks on it - unless you're prepared to forego GUI-based office applications.
The obvious solution is to make it possible to install software without being administrator. However, if that's too much like hard work, Windows has a concept of a user with greater privileges than Administrator, called System.
Now, if the OS protected things like boot.ini so they were only writeable by System, and somehow introduced a mechanism so signed applications could gain sufficient privileges to write to them, it would be problem solved.
Children who are raised in a mixed neighborhood, with both poor and wealthy see the economic disparity, and are exposed to the culture of wealth. They have opportunity to better consider their position, and will realistically evaluate the costs of becoming wealthier. They are far, far more likely to decide that they don't want to be poor as adults and exert the appropriate effort necessary to make this happen.
Come on, that's been known for years. In the 1982 film Annie, for example:
Warbucks: I was born in liverpool, in a railroad switchhouse. My younger brother died of pneumonia because we had no money for medicine. It was then and there I decided I would be rich. Very, very rich. Annie: Good idea.
(Do I get bonus karma for backing up up my POV with a quote from a cheesy film?)
I think you've got to bear in mind the background of the case. By the time Novell filed this motion for summary judgement, SCO had spent years making all sorts of legal noise but had not produced one iota of evidence.
The UK has pretty strict planning laws. Someone who took the law into their own hands by putting up concrete bollards would be in some trouble if caught - and even if they weren't, the local council would be pretty much guaranteed to remove them (probably putting them back again a year later).
It provides them with executives from Intel and Microsoft getting on the first plane to Alabama to offer them a Windows-based laptop for a special discount price.
Well, you wouldn't like it, but an idea which has been mooted occasionally is to block port 25 from unauthorised hosts, and only allow end users to send a limited number of emails per hour.
Of course, like many anti-spam solutions, it only works if the entire planet does it.
There are always people out there who will find something offensive.
There are always a few nutjobs who will go so far as to kill because of this offence.
However, if you go barging into other countries claiming you're going to "solve their problems with Democracy and Freedom!" without first checking whether or not the people of those countries want you barging in to solve their problems with democracy and freedom, sooner or later you're going to piss an awful lot more people off than if you'd just stayed at home.
Oyegbola Lawyer: Ladies and gentlemen of this supposed jury, OLPC's attorney would certainly want you to believe that his work is based on something developed over ten years ago. And they make a good case. Hell, I almost felt pity myself! But, ladies and gentlemen of this supposed jury, I have one final thing I want you to consider. Ladies and gentlemen, this is Chewbacca. Chewbacca is a Wookiee from the planet Kashyyyk. But Chewbacca lives on the planet Endor. Now think about it; that does not make sense!
OLPC Lawyer: Damn it!
OLPC: What?
OLPC Lawyer: He's using the Chewbacca defense!
Oyegbola Lawyer: Why would a Wookiee, an eight-foot tall Wookiee, want to live on Endor, with a bunch of two-foot tall Ewoks? That does not make sense! But more important, you have to ask yourself: What does this have to do with this case? Nothing. Ladies and gentlemen, it has nothing to do with this case! It does not make sense! Look at me. I'm a lawyer defending a copyright case, and I'm talkin' about Chewbacca! Does that make sense? Ladies and gentlemen, I am not making any sense! None of this makes sense! And so you have to remember, when you're in that jury room deliberatin' and conjugatin' the Emancipation Proclamation, [approaches and softens] does it make sense? No! Ladies and gentlemen of this supposed jury, it does not make sense! If Chewbacca lives on Endor, you must acquit! The defense rests.
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Yes, and we drive on the left in the UK. Which means that the turn which requires you to wait for a gap in traffic in two directions rather than just one is the right turn, not the left turn.
Doesn't matter if it's carved into a brick of lead weighing 4 tons and can only be read by a half blind midget who is kept locked in a dungeon under the guard of five dragons.
Where can I get such a brick?
I don't see why not. Stick a hypervisor with the software in unencrypted form on the first partition on the disk, stick everything else on another encrypted partition and boot the OS from the hypervisor.
It'll hammer performance, but most modern desktop PCs have more performance than they're ever going to need anyway.
But the way I'd do that is something like: tar | bzip2 | gpg > /dev/mt0
Brilliant! A single bad block on your tape and the entire archive could be unrecoverable!
What IF Iran finds unicorns that poo gold bars?
Unicorns poo gold bars?
Why am I messing around in IT when I should be a professional unicorn breeder?
Off the top of my head:
Which stops someone just driving over the border to the nearest country which doesn't have such sanctions and filling up their car with equipment... how exactly?
This is absurd. There's no point in even debating that.
I think it's the (RI|MP)AA asking for the moon - that way, when they tone down their demands they won't sound as absurd.
Look at it from this perspective: how much resources do you imagine the FBI is dedicating to copyright infringement given the number of embarrassing gaffes that the entertainment industry is making? The entertainment industry wants a government department with powers similar to the FBI but dedicated purely to copyright enforcement. Such a department could not reasonably refuse to assist in arresting some relatively innocent granny because they have higher priorities.
OpenOficce would take a full 3 minutes to start!! Because they had configured a 128MB system with a 1GB Swap.
You didn't really need to add "with a 1GB swap" there.
Sure, Linux will run happily on much older hardware. Doesn't mean you can usefully do any typical desktop-type tasks on it - unless you're prepared to forego GUI-based office applications.
I guess there is a nicer way to do this
Yes there is. It's called "buy a disk which works".
The obvious solution is to make it possible to install software without being administrator. However, if that's too much like hard work, Windows has a concept of a user with greater privileges than Administrator, called System.
Now, if the OS protected things like boot.ini so they were only writeable by System, and somehow introduced a mechanism so signed applications could gain sufficient privileges to write to them, it would be problem solved.
Come on, that's been known for years. In the 1982 film Annie, for example:
(Do I get bonus karma for backing up up my POV with a quote from a cheesy film?)
I think you've got to bear in mind the background of the case. By the time Novell filed this motion for summary judgement, SCO had spent years making all sorts of legal noise but had not produced one iota of evidence.
Dude, you missed the tag.
The UK has pretty strict planning laws. Someone who took the law into their own hands by putting up concrete bollards would be in some trouble if caught - and even if they weren't, the local council would be pretty much guaranteed to remove them (probably putting them back again a year later).
Can't be particularly good quality at that kind of insane speed.
Actually, if they've decided to deactivate the kill switch I'd say they've given him lube.
I shall tell you what this PC provides them.
It provides them with executives from Intel and Microsoft getting on the first plane to Alabama to offer them a Windows-based laptop for a special discount price.
Well, you wouldn't like it, but an idea which has been mooted occasionally is to block port 25 from unauthorised hosts, and only allow end users to send a limited number of emails per hour.
Of course, like many anti-spam solutions, it only works if the entire planet does it.
Does the scan come back saying "You are a direct descendant of Adam"?
Then you should do something about taking mentally ill people off the streets
The US already has a world-leading method to get the mentally ill off the streets. It's called "politics".
Actually, they didn't all have valid visas, some had expired.
That does kind of suggest that they had valid visas at some point.
The logical follow on from that is that if they'd timed what they were doing more carefully, their visas would not have been expired.
There are always people out there who will find something offensive.
There are always a few nutjobs who will go so far as to kill because of this offence.
However, if you go barging into other countries claiming you're going to "solve their problems with Democracy and Freedom!" without first checking whether or not the people of those countries want you barging in to solve their problems with democracy and freedom, sooner or later you're going to piss an awful lot more people off than if you'd just stayed at home.
Oyegbola Lawyer: Ladies and gentlemen of this supposed jury, OLPC's attorney would certainly want you to believe that his work is based on something developed over ten years ago. And they make a good case. Hell, I almost felt pity myself! But, ladies and gentlemen of this supposed jury, I have one final thing I want you to consider. Ladies and gentlemen, this is Chewbacca. Chewbacca is a Wookiee from the planet Kashyyyk. But Chewbacca lives on the planet Endor. Now think about it; that does not make sense!
OLPC Lawyer: Damn it!
OLPC: What?
OLPC Lawyer: He's using the Chewbacca defense!
Oyegbola Lawyer: Why would a Wookiee, an eight-foot tall Wookiee, want to live on Endor, with a bunch of two-foot tall Ewoks? That does not make sense! But more important, you have to ask yourself: What does this have to do with this case? Nothing. Ladies and gentlemen, it has nothing to do with this case! It does not make sense! Look at me. I'm a lawyer defending a copyright case, and I'm talkin' about Chewbacca! Does that make sense? Ladies and gentlemen, I am not making any sense! None of this makes sense! And so you have to remember, when you're in that jury room deliberatin' and conjugatin' the Emancipation Proclamation, [approaches and softens] does it make sense? No! Ladies and gentlemen of this supposed jury, it does not make sense! If Chewbacca lives on Endor, you must acquit! The defense rests.
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Don't give them ideas.