Forget it. I want no truck with any book that thanks Donaldson for anything, _especially_ inspiration. That'd be like buying a CD that thanks KC and the Sunshine Band, The Captain and Teneille, and whoever it was that did "Disco Duck" for their inspiration.
but I _can't_, because there's no way to do so. Because of paperless voting, we have no way short of standard polling techniques to tell if these machines were even close to accurate.
Interestingly, it also endorsed Tony Blair in the last British election. From what I can tell, this is more of a reaction to the Democratic and Labour Parties moving toward the center rather than the editorial board moving toward the Left.
I'm in NY, and I'll campaign for him if he does. I'm just worried that, if he keeps going after all of these different corporate malefactors, when the time comes to run the only friend he'll have left is the people. And we all know that's just not enough these days...
It's not so much shooting themselves in the foot as shareholder pressure. One of the ironies of M$'s near-monopoly position is that their old products are their biggest competition (in most markets). Shareholders, of course, are not content to rest on the companies laurels, but want new profits.
It may sound strange, but this is just an attempt to choke out the competition.
Not entirely accurate. The Tenth limits the power of the Federal Gov't. It's not a "states' rights" amendment. That's a common misreading, though.
Instead, it simply says that any powers not delegated to the FedGov are _not_ up for grabs, but rather explicitly reserved for the states or people. "People" are included, too, and they're not necessarily less important.
Try reading it in connection with the oft-forgotten Ninth: "The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people."
How could the people "retain" rights if they didn't have any in the first place? The Constitution tells us what rights we _don't_ have, not what we do.*
*Yes, I know that's not how it's been interpreted, but change starts at home. Everyone should know that (as the Declaration of Independence observes) we have rights because we are humans. With all due respect to the Supreme Court and its interpretation of the Constitution, nothing can change that.
Other commentors have opined that this is a clever Microsoft strategy. Perhaps. I have my doubts.
First, they're implicitly acknowledging the security arguments in favor of open source. What will their corporate clients think? Like _they_ trust the gov't to vet their code for them. Doing this will only strengthen the demand on a number of fronts to see the Windows source.
Second, the only way for two people to keep a secret is if one is dead. I don't care what those EULAs say, if you distribute some of the most valuable closed source in the world to 30...30!...gov'ts, someone's going to leak it. Remember the.bmp buffer overrun? I wonder what's going to flow from this.
1,000,000? Why stop there? I'll bet they'll have another million in a week or two. We're not going to fight IE if we keep setting our sights in the one million range. Let's try to get 10,000,000 new ones in the next year.
Nader ran in 2000 largely on the theory that there was no serious difference between the two parties. 4 years, 2 wars, and 1 Atty. General Ashcroft later, I think his theory has been proved stunningly innacurate to all but his most ardent supporters.
Personally, I wish he'd just go back to making the world safer for consumers and workers again. He was pretty good at that. Not perfect, but good.
I was one of those people that installed Firefox over a version with Adblock and Flash Click to View installed. Now, my Firefox can't see Flash files and I have to fire up Mozilla 1.31 when I want to play Defend Your Castle or something.
At first, I was kind of annoyed about this, but then I began to realize how many ads aren't showing up. There are all kinds of stupid flash things out there, and I don't have to see them anymore. Now, I just tell people that I broke my Flash on purpose.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to fire up Moz. 1.31 and go fling some stick figures so hard that they go splat behind my castle.
I've looked at maybe a half-a-dozen different aggregate numbers and the stats for a bunch of high-traffic sites (tech and non-tech). From what I can tell, Mozilla+Netscape are at about 14% combined on English language sites, maybe (this figure is much more tentative) half that in the rest of the world. Furthermore, pretty much every trend I ran into showed a doubling of use between early '03 and July '04. I haven't checked the August numbers, but I imagine it's gone up a bit.
IANAL, so I'm curious if David Bois and his firm are in greater jeopardy here because they took an equity position in SCO in deference to cash for legal fees.
Possibly. If they were driving up the stock price to their own benefit with claims they knew to be false, there could be some SEC issues. Things can get sticky when lawyers accept stock in their clients.
Additionally, in having that equity position, in the almost-certain shareholder suits and SEC investigations that would inevitably follow after SCO's case is dismissed and they go bankrupt, would there be some interesting RICO implications if his firm knowingly advanced false claims?
I have no idea. I haven't really studied RICO, but I get the impression that law can be used to prosecute almost anything under the sun.
Their lawyers can also be sanctioned for submitting arguments they knew had no chance at all* of winning. Rule 11, anyone?
*N.B.: Before you get worried about closing the courthouse doors to legitimate complaints, that rule is used even less than it probably should be, and only in cases where the lawyer submits a claim (s)he knows or should have known is either misleading, false, or ridiculously frivolous (fails the laugh test).
Also, anything that keeps MS market share down helps. Netscape 4.7 was pretty darn buggy (at least on my computer), but I stuck with it anyway because I knew that site counters tracked browser share, and I didn't want to be one of the people who made it possible for web developers to say, "Well, nobody's using Netscape, so let's just code for IE." It may have been futile, but we've got to start somewhere.
On the other hand, Folding@Home has already yielded far more interesting results (if not exactly "useful" outside of the world of biophysics) than SETI@Home probably ever will, so go for it.
The key word there is "probably." One positive, one single positive, from SETI will be arguably the greatest discovery in human history (certainly in the top 5).
I was reading awhile ago on some/.er's journal that funny mods grant no karma, but getting modded down from funny costs you karma. This person (whose name utterly eludes me, I'm sorry) advocated modding people up as insightful or something to get around the karma trap. It's possible that whoever modded this person was operating on that theory [said without comment on the value or lack thereof of the theory].
That depends how the law at issue defines a "telephone line." If it doesn't, I know I could put together a good complaint, especially if I could spend some time alone with the legislative history. If it does define "telephone line" narrowly...well, then I'd just have to try even harder. Remember, nothing means anything until a judge says it does.
...is where the government obtained the power to track us wherever we go. Requiring a license for public safety purposes is intrusive, but arguably important enough to be a valid exercise of the police power. Forcing people who use autombiles to travel with radio transmitters that can be used to track them constantly is qualitatively different.
For instance, it could easily be used to chill the right to free association. Imagine what the Commie hunters back in the '50s could've done with these (assuming they had the technology, of course). That example only took me a second to come up with, and the people at the FBI are probably much more creative than I.
Ok, first Ashcroft wants to tackle porn (link), then they want the DOJ to go after file swappers?
This is one of the biggest reasons Bush's continued 9/11 references make me ill. I could deal with it if they were actually working to fight terror. Instead, every time somebody waves the bloody shirt, all we get is some tired propaganda for drilling in the Arctic, a Federal Marriage Amendment, tax cuts for the wealthy, or some other thing we have to do to keep the terrorists from winning. Meanwhile, Homeland Security isn't getting the funds it needs for simple, basic port (seaport, not computer port) scanners: link (found on Instapundit).
I'm a hawk on security, folks. A hard-core, let's get them before they get us, serious hawk. And I'm voting against Bush and his idiots for precisely that reason.
(Sorry for the rant, but I just couldn't take it any more. Feel free to mod this down.)
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Forget it. I want no truck with any book that thanks Donaldson for anything, _especially_ inspiration. That'd be like buying a CD that thanks KC and the Sunshine Band, The Captain and Teneille, and whoever it was that did "Disco Duck" for their inspiration.
but I _can't_, because there's no way to do so. Because of paperless voting, we have no way short of standard polling techniques to tell if these machines were even close to accurate.
Interestingly, it also endorsed Tony Blair in the last British election. From what I can tell, this is more of a reaction to the Democratic and Labour Parties moving toward the center rather than the editorial board moving toward the Left.
I'm in NY, and I'll campaign for him if he does. I'm just worried that, if he keeps going after all of these different corporate malefactors, when the time comes to run the only friend he'll have left is the people. And we all know that's just not enough these days...
Do not trust the pusher satellite. Pushing will protect you from the terrible secret of space. Do you have stairs at your house?
It's not so much shooting themselves in the foot as shareholder pressure. One of the ironies of M$'s near-monopoly position is that their old products are their biggest competition (in most markets). Shareholders, of course, are not content to rest on the companies laurels, but want new profits.
It may sound strange, but this is just an attempt to choke out the competition.
Not entirely accurate. The Tenth limits the power of the Federal Gov't. It's not a "states' rights" amendment. That's a common misreading, though.
Instead, it simply says that any powers not delegated to the FedGov are _not_ up for grabs, but rather explicitly reserved for the states or people. "People" are included, too, and they're not necessarily less important.
Try reading it in connection with the oft-forgotten Ninth: "The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people."
How could the people "retain" rights if they didn't have any in the first place? The Constitution tells us what rights we _don't_ have, not what we do.*
*Yes, I know that's not how it's been interpreted, but change starts at home. Everyone should know that (as the Declaration of Independence observes) we have rights because we are humans. With all due respect to the Supreme Court and its interpretation of the Constitution, nothing can change that.
Sounds good to me! I'll keep converting 'em out here.
Other commentors have opined that this is a clever Microsoft strategy. Perhaps. I have my doubts.
First, they're implicitly acknowledging the security arguments in favor of open source. What will their corporate clients think? Like _they_ trust the gov't to vet their code for them. Doing this will only strengthen the demand on a number of fronts to see the Windows source.
Second, the only way for two people to keep a secret is if one is dead. I don't care what those EULAs say, if you distribute some of the most valuable closed source in the world to 30...30!...gov'ts, someone's going to leak it. Remember the .bmp buffer overrun? I wonder what's going to flow from this.
1,000,000? Why stop there? I'll bet they'll have another million in a week or two. We're not going to fight IE if we keep setting our sights in the one million range. Let's try to get 10,000,000 new ones in the next year.
In other news, the beta test of this device met with horrible tragedy when Samantha tried one on and accidentally obliterated three city blocks.
I thought this was another Diebold-related article.
Nader ran in 2000 largely on the theory that there was no serious difference between the two parties. 4 years, 2 wars, and 1 Atty. General Ashcroft later, I think his theory has been proved stunningly innacurate to all but his most ardent supporters.
Personally, I wish he'd just go back to making the world safer for consumers and workers again. He was pretty good at that. Not perfect, but good.
I was one of those people that installed Firefox over a version with Adblock and Flash Click to View installed. Now, my Firefox can't see Flash files and I have to fire up Mozilla 1.31 when I want to play Defend Your Castle or something.
At first, I was kind of annoyed about this, but then I began to realize how many ads aren't showing up. There are all kinds of stupid flash things out there, and I don't have to see them anymore. Now, I just tell people that I broke my Flash on purpose.
Now, if you'll excuse me, I need to fire up Moz. 1.31 and go fling some stick figures so hard that they go splat behind my castle.
I've looked at maybe a half-a-dozen different aggregate numbers and the stats for a bunch of high-traffic sites (tech and non-tech). From what I can tell, Mozilla+Netscape are at about 14% combined on English language sites, maybe (this figure is much more tentative) half that in the rest of the world. Furthermore, pretty much every trend I ran into showed a doubling of use between early '03 and July '04. I haven't checked the August numbers, but I imagine it's gone up a bit.
Those are just my amateur calculations, though.
IANAL, so I'm curious if David Bois and his firm are in greater jeopardy here because they took an equity position in SCO in deference to cash for legal fees.
Possibly. If they were driving up the stock price to their own benefit with claims they knew to be false, there could be some SEC issues. Things can get sticky when lawyers accept stock in their clients.
Additionally, in having that equity position, in the almost-certain shareholder suits and SEC investigations that would inevitably follow after SCO's case is dismissed and they go bankrupt, would there be some interesting RICO implications if his firm knowingly advanced false claims?
I have no idea. I haven't really studied RICO, but I get the impression that law can be used to prosecute almost anything under the sun.
Their lawyers can also be sanctioned for submitting arguments they knew had no chance at all* of winning. Rule 11, anyone?
*N.B.: Before you get worried about closing the courthouse doors to legitimate complaints, that rule is used even less than it probably should be, and only in cases where the lawyer submits a claim (s)he knows or should have known is either misleading, false, or ridiculously frivolous (fails the laugh test).
Randall and Dante discuss flying cars in a short that first appeared on Leno.
Also, anything that keeps MS market share down helps. Netscape 4.7 was pretty darn buggy (at least on my computer), but I stuck with it anyway because I knew that site counters tracked browser share, and I didn't want to be one of the people who made it possible for web developers to say, "Well, nobody's using Netscape, so let's just code for IE." It may have been futile, but we've got to start somewhere.
The key word there is "probably." One positive, one single positive, from SETI will be arguably the greatest discovery in human history (certainly in the top 5).
I was reading awhile ago on some /.er's journal that funny mods grant no karma, but getting modded down from funny costs you karma. This person (whose name utterly eludes me, I'm sorry) advocated modding people up as insightful or something to get around the karma trap. It's possible that whoever modded this person was operating on that theory [said without comment on the value or lack thereof of the theory].
Given the tendency to release games too early, I suspect that this one will be playable around the time they get the fifth patch out in October.
That depends how the law at issue defines a "telephone line." If it doesn't, I know I could put together a good complaint, especially if I could spend some time alone with the legislative history. If it does define "telephone line" narrowly...well, then I'd just have to try even harder. Remember, nothing means anything until a judge says it does.
...is where the government obtained the power to track us wherever we go. Requiring a license for public safety purposes is intrusive, but arguably important enough to be a valid exercise of the police power. Forcing people who use autombiles to travel with radio transmitters that can be used to track them constantly is qualitatively different.
For instance, it could easily be used to chill the right to free association. Imagine what the Commie hunters back in the '50s could've done with these (assuming they had the technology, of course). That example only took me a second to come up with, and the people at the FBI are probably much more creative than I.
Ok, first Ashcroft wants to tackle porn (link), then they want the DOJ to go after file swappers?
This is one of the biggest reasons Bush's continued 9/11 references make me ill. I could deal with it if they were actually working to fight terror. Instead, every time somebody waves the bloody shirt, all we get is some tired propaganda for drilling in the Arctic, a Federal Marriage Amendment, tax cuts for the wealthy, or some other thing we have to do to keep the terrorists from winning. Meanwhile, Homeland Security isn't getting the funds it needs for simple, basic port (seaport, not computer port) scanners: link (found on Instapundit).
I'm a hawk on security, folks. A hard-core, let's get them before they get us, serious hawk. And I'm voting against Bush and his idiots for precisely that reason.
(Sorry for the rant, but I just couldn't take it any more. Feel free to mod this down.)