Not just news sources... political campaigns should really have someone check their calculations and spelling before putting something out in front of the public.
Actually, I think it was supposed to have used the Duke Nukem Forever engine. They cut this out of the script at the last minute, though, as they realized that it wouldn't be done by the year in which the future sections of the storyline were to be set.
I just don't understand. Its one of the the most public,
Sure.
most newsworthy
Not really. John Kerry mathematically wrapped up the Democratic nomination by winning enough delegates over 4 months ago. He's been campaigning as the nominee since then. Voting to officially nominate him at the convention is just a formality (and an excuse to party.) They'll also be approving the official Democratic party platform, which should be a matter of "All in favor? Good. Any opposed? Done and done." It's already been written, so I would imagine any lengthy discussion about it has already happened.
and best covered events happening, and everyone's in a twist about the governement having a few cameras there as well?
BTW, I should mention I live in Massachusetts, although luckily I won't have to go anywhere near Boston during the convention. I still may be affected by the bag searches, at least, since I take the Commuter Rail to work.
Hmm... celebrity naming has a bit of potential. If NASA ever did design a waste-disposal rocket (a la Futurama) do you think we could petition them to name it the McBride-Gates mission?
... SCO is absolutely within its rights to tell Sun that they can't sublicense it...
Actually, depending on the result of one of the pending trials, isn't it Novell that would have to tell Sun that they can't sublicense it? Yet another thing pending an SCO lawsuit.
Breaking news: SCO to sue Network Solutions for the right to iamanidiot.com, citing the fact that someone who has posted messages to Slashdot, a website for people interested in Linux, has thought about registering this website as rationale for their decision.
Said Darl McBride of the iamanidiot.com lawsuit: "If the judge disagrees that the domain should be mine, I'll explain my reasoning why SCO has IP rights to Linux to him. Then he'll have to transfer this domain, which has been 'tainted' by Linux, to SCO." Linux users are torn by this lawsuit. "On the one hand, we don't like SCO... but on the other, it's just too appropriate." said one user when asked to comment on SCO's newest lawsuit.
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Note from the desk of Darl McBride: Because this post uses the SCO name, it is now the property of the SCO group. We will sue anyone who reads this message for possession of their eyeballs, which are now SCO property due to interaction with SCO property.
True, a piece of software being open source does not necessarily imply that it's the best tool for the job. However, I imagine that if a piece of software doesn't meet some government agency's needs, they'll modify it so it does or ask someone else to modify it. Then they can put it back in the repository for the next government agency to use. If the states involved in this effort play their cards right, and try to make sure that the code they produce is reusable and generally good quality, the development and support costs can be amortized over each state and a decent amount of time.
Will the price to get one piece of software in the repository working in one specific situation for a short period of time be less than the price of purchasing a non-open source alternate? Not necessarily.
Will the price to get a piece of software that is generally application to many situations (with minor adjustment) and will be used for a decent period of time be less than the cost of licensing that non-open source alternate for each situation for that length of time?
Perhaps. Time will tell, but if nothing else this is a good opportunity for open source to show what it's made of.
Probably it will be, if it works out well. Remember this is marked beta, so it sounds like they're still testing it out. On one hand it's too bad it's probably going to get Slashdotted; on the other hand, it is giving the site a stress test.
If you were a criminal, would you be willing to bet the NSA couldn't decrypt it? Admittedly, if you went to a ridiculously high encryption level (say several thousand bits) you could be reasonably sure they couldn't... but you couldn't be certain.
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Not just news sources ... political campaigns should really have someone check their calculations and spelling before putting something out in front of the public.
Actually, I think it was supposed to have used the Duke Nukem Forever engine. They cut this out of the script at the last minute, though, as they realized that it wouldn't be done by the year in which the future sections of the storyline were to be set.
They're planning ahead for what the system requirements will be for Duke Nukem Forever running on Longhorn when they both come out.
Yeah, after all they control the British crown ... keep the metric system down ... they're even powerful enough to make Steve Gutenberg a star!
I just don't understand. Its one of the the most public,
Sure.
most newsworthy
Not really. John Kerry mathematically wrapped up the Democratic nomination by winning enough delegates over 4 months ago. He's been campaigning as the nominee since then. Voting to officially nominate him at the convention is just a formality (and an excuse to party.) They'll also be approving the official Democratic party platform, which should be a matter of "All in favor? Good. Any opposed? Done and done." It's already been written, so I would imagine any lengthy discussion about it has already happened.
and best covered events happening, and everyone's in a twist about the governement having a few cameras there as well?
Actually, there's also been a lot of discussion about trash cans, mailboxes, random bag searches, and a fairly major road closure for people north of Boston during the DNC.
BTW, I should mention I live in Massachusetts, although luckily I won't have to go anywhere near Boston during the convention. I still may be affected by the bag searches, at least, since I take the Commuter Rail to work.
After all, a $1,000,000 error is nothing compared to some of the mistakes SCO's made ...
Hmm ... celebrity naming has a bit of potential. If NASA ever did design a waste-disposal rocket (a la Futurama) do you think we could petition them to name it the McBride-Gates mission?
Actually, depending on the result of one of the pending trials, isn't it Novell that would have to tell Sun that they can't sublicense it? Yet another thing pending an SCO lawsuit.
How about "At least we're not SCO"? Oh wait, then they'd get sued by Darl & co.
Breaking news: SCO to sue Network Solutions for the right to iamanidiot.com, citing the fact that someone who has posted messages to Slashdot, a website for people interested in Linux, has thought about registering this website as rationale for their decision.
Said Darl McBride of the iamanidiot.com lawsuit: "If the judge disagrees that the domain should be mine, I'll explain my reasoning why SCO has IP rights to Linux to him. Then he'll have to transfer this domain, which has been 'tainted' by Linux, to SCO." Linux users are torn by this lawsuit. "On the one hand, we don't like SCO ... but on the other, it's just too appropriate." said one user when asked to comment on SCO's newest lawsuit.
***
Note from the desk of Darl McBride: Because this post uses the SCO name, it is now the property of the SCO group. We will sue anyone who reads this message for possession of their eyeballs, which are now SCO property due to interaction with SCO property.
True, a piece of software being open source does not necessarily imply that it's the best tool for the job. However, I imagine that if a piece of software doesn't meet some government agency's needs, they'll modify it so it does or ask someone else to modify it. Then they can put it back in the repository for the next government agency to use. If the states involved in this effort play their cards right, and try to make sure that the code they produce is reusable and generally good quality, the development and support costs can be amortized over each state and a decent amount of time. Will the price to get one piece of software in the repository working in one specific situation for a short period of time be less than the price of purchasing a non-open source alternate? Not necessarily. Will the price to get a piece of software that is generally application to many situations (with minor adjustment) and will be used for a decent period of time be less than the cost of licensing that non-open source alternate for each situation for that length of time? Perhaps. Time will tell, but if nothing else this is a good opportunity for open source to show what it's made of.
Probably it will be, if it works out well. Remember this is marked beta, so it sounds like they're still testing it out. On one hand it's too bad it's probably going to get Slashdotted; on the other hand, it is giving the site a stress test.
If you were a criminal, would you be willing to bet the NSA couldn't decrypt it? Admittedly, if you went to a ridiculously high encryption level (say several thousand bits) you could be reasonably sure they couldn't ... but you couldn't be certain.