that was my first reaction, but don't forget that entrapment is when you make or somehow get a person do to something that they would normally not do.
While IANAL, I have read that "tempting" someone to do something counts as entrapment. I think posting such a link would count; however, finding an existing link and monitoring it would not.
Sounded to me like he was pissed that there was no chance for promotion since young people get let go when their project is complete. That's not "starting at the bottom", that's "temporary slave".
It's a little different when you're _in_ the military though. you are no longer a private citizen. they can order you to go take that hill, they can order you to go halfway around the world, they can order you to STFU.
That doesn't change that private citizens in this country still have the right to know the things that their government (and by extension their military) are up to.
... claiming to be a fully managed code kernel (with managed code drivers and applications as well)...
Someone please explain to me why someone would want this. I've been programming for the past 14 years now and every time someone comes up with a new abstraction layer to "reduce bugs" it's been total BS. Sure, some of these layers have made things easier or faster to code but they have not reduced bugs and they have definitely made applications built with them run a hell of a lot slower. There are always bugs, and there will always be bugs unless there is careful and tedious checking by a lot of programmers. So, I ask you - why on earth would someone want to run their entire kernel like this?
The hours you keep sound very familiar. I discovered that I have B12 and adrenaline deficiency, while also not covered by insurance the supplements are fortunately not very expensive. I'm not exactly down to a normal night, but I'm at least down to about 12 hours on the weekend. What really throws me for a loop was how my old doctor ran a couple tests and concluded that nothing was wrong with me (when at the time I could sleep up to 17 hours a night on the weekend). Apparently my problem gets exacerbated by keeping long hours, so doing a couple years of working late and getting up early drained me of what little reserve B12 and adrenaline that I had.
Integrate Webmail and WAPmail, offer file hosting/backup facilities, offer file sharing facilities, offer community building facilities and generally cater your service to your user base so that they see you as providing their favourite car rather than just a road, (c'mon it's/. I had to stick in a car analogy)
In short it isn't enough just to offer connectivity any more, though if you're selling 16.4Tbps you may have an advantage for a while.
You know what's funny? That's what I remember ISPs doing in "the good old days", but those integrated services, hosting, and backup facilities managed to dry up. What I distinctly remember was how a LOT of providers used to advertise that you'd get 50MB of free storage in your home folder (http://www.provider.net/~jdoe/), I don't know when exactly such practices stopped - but they obviously decided that there were more profitable ways to get customers.
Now, I'm tired of dealing with drivers and all the b.s. I just want an OS that lets me do what I need to do. I don't have unusual needs for hardware so I don't give a shit if Vista won't support this or that. I whipped up an order from Dell and it showed up and it works and that's that.
I completely agree with you, playing with drivers is a pain in the ass - but that's true on both sides of the isle. This last time around I ordered from System76 and got a nice Ubuntu box with no driver issues, support for updates, and all beautifully pre-installed.
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So why are they passing this law then? I thought the US constitution forbade retroactively applying laws...but I'm not American. So surely this vote doesn't matter one jot: the constitution overrules it? Or is is just uni-directional. You cannot make something retroactively illegal but you can make it retroactively legal.
It matters as long as our justice department is sitting on its laurels. Our system requires action from our judicial branch in order to say that something is violating our constitution and is therefore an "invalid" law.
Microsoft are no more 'treating their customers like thieves' than a store that has security tags on the clothes and a scanner by each exit. Amazingly, only the shoplifters get bent out of shape about those.
Not true, I've never shoplifted anything in my entire life and I hate those damn things. They:
Frequently forget to take the tags off or they don't properly demagnetize the tag and set off the alarm.
Go off when a lot of people are exiting and therefore make everyone near the thing stop for a search.
Set off on cell phones, iPods, and other electronics.
I would say that they probably piss off more customers than they save the store from shoplifting, I definitely prefer to go to stores that don't have them.
who really cares, I am gonna use firefox, not to many hackers are that good at getting into Linux Machines, and if I wasn't gonna use FireFox then I would use Opera. Cheers!
Yeah, plus (according to TFA) all they can do is traverse the install folder. Said hacker can have fun looking at all the plugins and blank password database in my ~/.mozilla/firefox/ folder all they want.
Considering the economic wreckage that "science and empiricism" have delivered to the door, I wouldn't be too proud of traditional economic schools of thought right now.
Funny, we over here in Europe have the same information, the same empirical data available and are applying the same scientific principles, and it seems to work for us...
That's only because you actually apply logic and reasoning to your decision making and aren't stupid enough to waste all your money on a third high-def TV and two wars on the other side of the globe. You just don't understand how much we need these things, er... yeah, i'm not bitter about these things at all, really.
What I object to is that the issue is that CHURCHES can't do it. This attitude that churches should not have to play by the same rules as everyone else drives me up the wall. The suggestion that the legislature should amend federal law to create ANOTHER carve-out for churches is ridiculous.
All this church wants is the same rights and privileges as a bar. So, let's take your statement and replace "church" with "bar" and you'll have what is really going on.
Not exactly, I bet you that bars can't charge admission for watching the game. Sure, they charge you for beverages but the church event is charging you even if you don't consume anything. The policy appears to be "you can show the game as long as you don't charge people for it" (though you can charge for any ADDITIONAL services you provide).
Also, not trolling here, I really hope Linux does explode and gain market share...it's just I've heard this year after year after year. But I suppose that one year it's actually going to happen.
Personally, I think we're getting really close to a tipping point. The past couple months have been the first time I've had people notice I'm not running Windows on my laptop and look interested rather than disgusted. I then try to remain as calm as possible (getting too excited puts people off) and explain that they can get Ubuntu for free, and even buy computers with it pre-loaded, and all the benefits of using a system built around free software.
This thing is going through the roof, the submitter didn't do his homework very well.
My understanding is that some blocks have less qualified bidders than others, I think it's pretty obvious that the "C" block has only got one or two bidders. Who should have done their homework better was the NYT, since all they would have had to do was wait for the next round of bidding ended. Oh, that's right - they don't care about reporting news, as long as they can speculate about it and run Google's name through the mud so they can sell papers.
In Trammel v. United States, 445 U.S. 40 (1980), the Supreme Court ruled that the fifth amendment extended the right not to testify against oneself to include not testifying against one's spouse.
So, just plead the fifth and if pressured cite Trammel v. US - they'd have to take it up with the Supreme Court to challenge you after that.
They are taken by grown ups who have mortgages and orthodentist bills to pay, and those people recommend, and will continue to recommend, Microsoft because nobody ever got sacked for doing so.
That sounds oddly like the old adage "No One Ever Gets Fired For Buying IBM," a statement which is no-longer true. I don't know about your experience, but in my experience most "normal" people ask techs for what to do. Most techs that I've met these days recommend either Mac or Ubuntu (and have a sly comment about "or you could get an XP machine while you still can"). In the business world management might ignore the recommendation of their techy folks, but not all of them do. I think you should take a long hard look at history before you start anticipating 5-year purchasing decisions.
When the techniques are as cheap and simple as they are likely to become, how can you restrict access? It's like trying to restrict access to encryption.
As long as we get an open source immune system before it gets cheap then we'll be good. Everyone will target the commercial products so we'll all be safe.
It would be trivial to use the LAN MAC address as the default password.
It would also be trivial for someone to run "arp" while connected to your access point. I agree that they need to use a random default password, but the MAC address would not be sufficient.
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Sounded to me like he was pissed that there was no chance for promotion since young people get let go when their project is complete. That's not "starting at the bottom", that's "temporary slave".
Firefox, SSH, VNC, .... Not to mention that a lot of tech support happens over IRC and IM.
The hours you keep sound very familiar. I discovered that I have B12 and adrenaline deficiency, while also not covered by insurance the supplements are fortunately not very expensive. I'm not exactly down to a normal night, but I'm at least down to about 12 hours on the weekend. What really throws me for a loop was how my old doctor ran a couple tests and concluded that nothing was wrong with me (when at the time I could sleep up to 17 hours a night on the weekend). Apparently my problem gets exacerbated by keeping long hours, so doing a couple years of working late and getting up early drained me of what little reserve B12 and adrenaline that I had.
I just registered some of my own, the answer is "nothing".
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- Frequently forget to take the tags off or they don't properly demagnetize the tag and set off the alarm.
- Go off when a lot of people are exiting and therefore make everyone near the thing stop for a search.
- Set off on cell phones, iPods, and other electronics.
I would say that they probably piss off more customers than they save the store from shoplifting, I definitely prefer to go to stores that don't have them.