Debian is a binary based distro, not a source based distro.
Debian, like most GNU/Linux distros use pre-compiled binaries. This saves a lot of time during install of the OS and packages (software, for you windows folks). However, these pre-compiled binaries are fairly generic - for instance they will be compiled for i686. This allows the same binary to run on any i686 compatible processor, whether it be an Intel Pentium 4, an AMD Athlon, and AMD AthlonXP, etc.
This isn't a problem more most users, but a "generic" binary most likely won't make full use of the special intruction sets your particular chip may support, like 3DNow, or even possibly SSE2.
A source based distro like Gentoo compiles the binaries from source code for the specific processor you are using. This makes installing anything quite time consuming - Open Office takes about a day to compile on my older box. The resulting binary often runs noticable faster than the "generic" pre-compiled version. For instance, I've found that Blender (3d animation) renders about 10 to 15 percent faster when compiled from source, running on a stage 1 Gentoo install, compared to using the pre-built binaries on Mandriva.
The trade off of faster binaries vs the lenthy compile time means most users are going to prefer a binary distro. I went with a source based distro because my aging box (900 Mhz Athlon) needs all the help it can get to be faster. YMMV.
But Your Honor, it was encrypted, three times! First, we converted all the letters to numbers using ASCII, then we encrypted that using ROT 13 encryption, and just to be safe we re-encrypted using ROT 13 again!
And the sad thing is, many judges would accept that.
If you pay someone to house-sit, and he or she discovers literal skeletons in your closet, do the police have to get a search warrant if the sitter invites them in?
Yes, the Police have to get a warrant to enter the house. Only the property owner and/or legal resident (paying rent with signed lease) can allow the Police to enter your house - a house sitter, or other guest (doesn't live there full time) cannot. The proper proceedure would be to get a warrant based on the testimony of the house sitter.
There are legal exceptions to this in the case that it poses a danger to somebody, for instance the house sitter finds a homeless person you've kidnapped, tied up in your basement, and haven't killed because you'ld rather torture and rape them repeatedly since it's re-run season so you're bored.
While IANAL, I am a criminologist and have worked in federal law enforcement.
Actually, Tim was a member of a "militia", a militant group which denies the autority of the US government and has been officially designated as subversive and terrorist in nature. But they're christians, so that's all right
He is alleged to have taken up arms against the US and to conspire with bin Laden to kill Americans with a dirty bomb.
alleged means someone says he did it, but no-ones offered any proof of that. It they had any proof, they would have pressed charges. Instead, all they have is circumstantial evidence. You obviously have access to a computer and Internet connection. And everybody knows that the most common material on line is pornography, sometimes with children. Does this make you a pedophile? Not until they find the kiddie-pron on your hard drive.
The fact that he converted to Islam has no bearing - this is a free country. Nor does his marriage to a Saudi have any bearing on the case. And I'll bet you know, and may even be related, to someone who was arrested for some crime. Are you an accessory simply because your friend or relative is a criminal?
I'm not saying the guy is innocent, but the simple fact is that there is no evidence, and no legal (constitutional) right for the government to hold him more than 48 hours without charging him. The constitution and laws were created very specifically to prevent this abuse of power, and the government has apparently decided that it isn't subject to the very laws that give it legitimacy.
Simply put, if the government doesn't abide by the constitution, then the government is not a legal government, and deserves to be overthrown (by voting them out, or by legal action - an armed "revolution" simply isn't going to succeed, nor is it necessary). In fact, it's our duty as American citizens to do this if our government fails to follow it's mandate.
America is based on the principle that the government is given rights by the people, not the people given rights by the government. Civil rights are not given to us by the government - we are born with them and the government has no right to take them away. The American justice system is based on the principle that "its better the guilty go free than the innocent are imprisoned", and "due process" is the procedure that ensures that. The Patriot act is nothing but a way for the government to avoid "due process" and illegally remove civil rights - which apply not only to Americans, but to all people regardless of nationality, race, gender, or religion.
But I guess you slept through Social Studies and American History. While you could probably find all this info with Google, it would be far easier to just go to your local library and brush up on exactly how America is supposed to work. Unless, of course, you're just an "Idiotarian" and incapable of understanding concepts like "Rule of Law", democracy, and the Constitution of the Unites States of America.
I have an idea. Instead of bringing freedom and democracy to the middle east, lets bring it home to the US first.
I've tried to tell people about the American citizens being held without due process, but most people simply refuse to believe it. I've even given examples, they claim I got the info from some radical newspaper or website and it's not true - even when I can point to legitimate newspapers and magazines they won't believe.
The current powers, of which the Bush administration is just a part, have realized a sad (to me) truth about the American People. The majority of us will happily settle for the illusion of freedom, eagerly believe any lies told us that support that belief, and disbelieve any truths that threaten that illusion.
We don't really care how screwed up things are as long as we can justify our belief that nothing is wrong (and therefore we don't actually need to do anything about it).
Complacency is easy, cheap, and doesn't cut into our beer and TV time.
The "land of the free, and the home of the brave", is not here in America. Here is the land of the sheeple, and the home of cowards afraid to face any unpleasant truth.
While there are many who are true patriots in this country, most don't actually do anything more than vote, if that. The vast majority has never written their congressmen and senators. Hell, most don't even know who their representatives are.
We complain that voting has become a question of the "lesser of two evils", but wouldn't vote for a truly good candidate if he/she wasn't the official Democratic or Republican candidate. Often, in the two main parties, the best choices are weeded out during the primaries, removed from the ballots not by the will of the people, but by the whim of the party elite.
Uh, no. I'm one such power user, and the problem with Linux is that moderate customization requires intimate knowledge of the command line and Linux's quirks.
That's funny, I set up a half dozen systems with Mandrake 10.0 and never had to use the command line once. Sure, there are some things that can't be customized without using the cli, but making those same customizations in Windows often requires editing the registry, or installing third party add ons. Personnally, the cli is a lot easier for me to work with than the Windows Registry.
To address your "issues",
First: I guess you missed seeing the graphical frontend for your package manager (can't remember the name of the one for that distro)? You could have browsed a list of available packages (with descriptions and usually a link to the projects homepage, and installe them with a couple clicks of the mouse. Personnally, I find that much easier than driving to the Windows package manager (AKA Best Buy, Comp USA, etc).
Second: The reason your Wifi card works under Windows is because the maker of your laptop did all the dirty work (like driver installation and configuration) for you. Had you purchased the computer with Linux pre-installed the Wifi would have worked "out of the box" and you'ld be whining about having to make it work when you added the Windows install.
Third: same as above. Most laptops don't function correctly on the regular version of Windows, either - that's why the maker of your laptop provided the customized install and recovery disc (or partition). Chances are your WIFI and APM stuff wouldn't work "out of the box" with a regular retail version of Windows
Fourth: it's all in your head. I've never felt that Linux is "cramped" compared to windows at the same resolution. And I vastly preferr the Gimp over photoshop for what I do - mostly web and 3-d textures. If I was a photographer I'm sure I'd prefer Photoshop - but the Gimp's "make seamless" tool makes it so much more usefull than PS for me. That's just a matter of preference - YMMV.
As for compiling things - you don't need to with most distros. I used Linux successfully and happily for a couple years before I ever had reason to compile anything.
I think the only real problem you have with Linux is that you don't know how to use it. Once upon a time you didn't know how to use Windows, either, but you learned. Now, however, you're a big bad "power user" and your ego won't let you go back to being a noob and learning Linux. To bad - your loss.
Marijuana hasn't been decriminalised in any state. Some states have passed a "medical marijuana" bill, which would allow a doctor to prescribe it. That doesn't matter, though, it's still against federal law.
Marijuana hasn't been legal in the US since the seventies (briefly, after Timothy Leary successfully challenged the Marijuana Tax Act in the US Supreme Court, who found it unconstitutional.) and before that it was first prohibited in 1932. After Leary's challenge Marijuana was classified as a proscribed (not prescribed) medicine. The US officially allows a very small amount of prescriptions to be written so they can justify it's classification as a medecine, not a recreational drug like alcohol (which then couldn't be prohibited because of a constitional amendment)
If anyone wonders why it's classified the same as heroin, it's because of all the things you can do with marijuana besides get high. This one is reason enough for US politicians, who all seem to have oil money in their background (Republicans and Democrats both)
After all, if we could grow our own fuel we wouldn't need to invade foriegn countries. What would we do for fun then?
Rabbit is fairly common table fair, I've even seen it grocery stores and on restaurant menus here in the US, and Rabbits are rodents. I'd be willing to bet these "new" rodents are fairly tasty. They are vegetarians, as are most of the other animals we eat, keeping in mind that pigs would eat meat, they just aren't given any (on a farm anyway - YMMV with wild boar).
Seriously, if you marinated it in a decent Reisling with garlic, thyme, and a touch of basil these guys could be delish!
Because usually, Internet Explorer's vulnerabilities are discovered by Microsoft and announced when the patch is released!!
Actually, most IE exploits are discovered by third party security firms, such as F-prot and Secunia. It's often months between the discovery of the flaw and a solution - you just weren't told there was a problem.
Black hat hackers also have debuggers. They can find IE exploits as easily as those third party security firms. It all comes down to who finds it first - white hat or black.
The ratio of white hat vs black hat hackers working on an app has a lot to do with how potentially insecure it is, and Firefox has many, many more whitehats than IE.
There is nothing in FireFox's architecture which makes it a more secure alternative to IE.
Except the lack of Active X, and the fact that Mozilla doesn't have hooks embedded deeply into the underlying OS the way IE seems to. I say seems to because MS claimed those hooks were present and necessary to Windows in the anti-trust suit. However, I've heard from a lot of people who are smarter than me that IE isn't actually tied into the OS the way MS claimed.
Are you aware that there are quite a few sites out there? I've heard there are even a few which Mozilla doesn't control!
But how many of them are on your whitelist for software installation? Had you RTFA you would have discovered that only sites on that whitelist can exploit you. All of the sites on the default whitelist have had steps taken to eliminate the threat.
Why don't you shut the f%*& up when you don't know what you're talking about?!
Right back at you.
There's working exploit code in the comments to this very story
I guess you missed the part where Mozilla Foundation has corrected the problem on their servers, and given instructions to take any third party websites off the whitelist? The exploit code simply has no effect if that basic precaution is followed.
While the above mentioned fixes and workarounds aren't perfect, they do eliminate the problem for now. A more thorough comprehensive fix is under development.
This is no worse than that IE exploit that was redirecting people to that scammer site in Russia (forget the name of the exploit). MS issued a "fix" which didn't address the flaw in the software at all - they basically just added that one specific scammer site to the hosts-deny list (Yes I know that's not perfectly accurate, but it's basically what they did)
BTW, nobody here is impressed with your pottymouth language.
Sunbird won't cut it in a business environment, since it doesn't have the groupware features and calendering that Outlook does (MS Exchange is indispensable to many small and mid sized businesses.)
Evolution supports iCalanders, Exchange and Novell's Groupwise and makes a worthy replacement for Outlook, but it's only available for Linux (requires GTK, if not Gnome, installed) at the moment. I've heard a Windows port is under development, but for now Outlook is still the only real solution for Windows users, and probably Mac users as well.
I used to work at an office store selling software. The local MS sales rep told us it was fine to sell the student edition to pretty much anyone. He did ask us to point out that the student edition is not upgradeable. No discount if you decide to move up to "Office 2006" or whatever the next version will be called. Also, the student edition only has the four basics (word, excel, outlook, and powerpoint IIRC). If you need Access or Visio you'll have to pay full price for the pro packages.
It's pretty apparent from the example list of techs they'll be leasing out. That and a clue.
Haven't you read any of the reports on how badly "face recognition" technology has bombed? They are more likely to not recognize a face correctly. By far, most of the "positives" turn out to be false, while the testers who are designated "terrorist" are rarely recognized.
Here at slashdot it's not unheard of for people to get their information from several articles and sources, then put the pieces together and draw their own conclusions.
How, please, would MS sue them when THEY HAVE A LICENSE?
MS can sue them by filing the appropriate paperwork. For example, look at the suits filed by SCO. They have yet to introduce any real evidence to support any of their claims, yet they we still able to initiate proceedings. Winning is another matter entirely.
MS won't win the decision, but they don't really have to. They can use a fairly groundless lawsuit to bankrupt a startup, since no startup will have enough capitol available to both prepare and release their product as well as fund a legal defense. In fact, MS will most likely be able to get an injuction agaisnt the startup, preventing them from selling their product. Then the startup will have no income, and be forced to use what little capitol they have left to pay for lawyers and other court related costs. Have you seen the amount it cost IBM to gather all the information required by SCO in discovery? Then MS just buys up the rights to the product through the courts.
This won't even be the first time they've done this.
Making significant changes to the inclination of your orbital plane requires a lot of fuel, often more than de-orbiting. The less fuel a vehicle has to haul up the gravity well, the better. It's just not convenient to have to wait a half dozen (or more) orbits until you're lined up with the re-entry path.
Cross range capability means a vehicle has many more options when trying to come down safely and efficiently. You can even swerve some to get around a storm, even a capsule design travels hundreds of miles through the atmosphere on it's way down. It takes a while to slow down from about 16000 miles per hour.
I can't believe I'm giving up being able to mod this thread, but here goes.
I have installed Gentoo, and typing -fomitframepointers took less than four seconds. The time it has saved me since may not be much, but it's a lot more than four seconds.
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Debian is a binary based distro, not a source based distro.
Debian, like most GNU/Linux distros use pre-compiled binaries. This saves a lot of time during install of the OS and packages (software, for you windows folks). However, these pre-compiled binaries are fairly generic - for instance they will be compiled for i686. This allows the same binary to run on any i686 compatible processor, whether it be an Intel Pentium 4, an AMD Athlon, and AMD AthlonXP, etc.
This isn't a problem more most users, but a "generic" binary most likely won't make full use of the special intruction sets your particular chip may support, like 3DNow, or even possibly SSE2.
A source based distro like Gentoo compiles the binaries from source code for the specific processor you are using. This makes installing anything quite time consuming - Open Office takes about a day to compile on my older box. The resulting binary often runs noticable faster than the "generic" pre-compiled version. For instance, I've found that Blender (3d animation) renders about 10 to 15 percent faster when compiled from source, running on a stage 1 Gentoo install, compared to using the pre-built binaries on Mandriva.
The trade off of faster binaries vs the lenthy compile time means most users are going to prefer a binary distro. I went with a source based distro because my aging box (900 Mhz Athlon) needs all the help it can get to be faster. YMMV.
But Your Honor, it was encrypted, three times! First, we converted all the letters to numbers using ASCII, then we encrypted that using ROT 13 encryption, and just to be safe we re-encrypted using ROT 13 again!
And the sad thing is, many judges would accept that.
Yes, the Police have to get a warrant to enter the house. Only the property owner and/or legal resident (paying rent with signed lease) can allow the Police to enter your house - a house sitter, or other guest (doesn't live there full time) cannot. The proper proceedure would be to get a warrant based on the testimony of the house sitter.
There are legal exceptions to this in the case that it poses a danger to somebody, for instance the house sitter finds a homeless person you've kidnapped, tied up in your basement, and haven't killed because you'ld rather torture and rape them repeatedly since it's re-run season so you're bored.
While IANAL, I am a criminologist and have worked in federal law enforcement.
TommyNo one expects the Spanish Inquisition!
The Vatican?
Actually, Tim was a member of a "militia", a militant group which denies the autority of the US government and has been officially designated as subversive and terrorist in nature. But they're christians, so that's all right
alleged means someone says he did it, but no-ones offered any proof of that. It they had any proof, they would have pressed charges. Instead, all they have is circumstantial evidence. You obviously have access to a computer and Internet connection. And everybody knows that the most common material on line is pornography, sometimes with children. Does this make you a pedophile? Not until they find the kiddie-pron on your hard drive.
The fact that he converted to Islam has no bearing - this is a free country. Nor does his marriage to a Saudi have any bearing on the case. And I'll bet you know, and may even be related, to someone who was arrested for some crime. Are you an accessory simply because your friend or relative is a criminal?
I'm not saying the guy is innocent, but the simple fact is that there is no evidence, and no legal (constitutional) right for the government to hold him more than 48 hours without charging him. The constitution and laws were created very specifically to prevent this abuse of power, and the government has apparently decided that it isn't subject to the very laws that give it legitimacy.
Simply put, if the government doesn't abide by the constitution, then the government is not a legal government, and deserves to be overthrown (by voting them out, or by legal action - an armed "revolution" simply isn't going to succeed, nor is it necessary). In fact, it's our duty as American citizens to do this if our government fails to follow it's mandate.
America is based on the principle that the government is given rights by the people, not the people given rights by the government. Civil rights are not given to us by the government - we are born with them and the government has no right to take them away. The American justice system is based on the principle that "its better the guilty go free than the innocent are imprisoned", and "due process" is the procedure that ensures that. The Patriot act is nothing but a way for the government to avoid "due process" and illegally remove civil rights - which apply not only to Americans, but to all people regardless of nationality, race, gender, or religion.
But I guess you slept through Social Studies and American History. While you could probably find all this info with Google, it would be far easier to just go to your local library and brush up on exactly how America is supposed to work. Unless, of course, you're just an "Idiotarian" and incapable of understanding concepts like "Rule of Law", democracy, and the Constitution of the Unites States of America.
I have an idea. Instead of bringing freedom and democracy to the middle east, lets bring it home to the US first.
TommyI've tried to tell people about the American citizens being held without due process, but most people simply refuse to believe it. I've even given examples, they claim I got the info from some radical newspaper or website and it's not true - even when I can point to legitimate newspapers and magazines they won't believe.
The current powers, of which the Bush administration is just a part, have realized a sad (to me) truth about the American People. The majority of us will happily settle for the illusion of freedom, eagerly believe any lies told us that support that belief, and disbelieve any truths that threaten that illusion.
We don't really care how screwed up things are as long as we can justify our belief that nothing is wrong (and therefore we don't actually need to do anything about it).
Complacency is easy, cheap, and doesn't cut into our beer and TV time.
The "land of the free, and the home of the brave", is not here in America. Here is the land of the sheeple, and the home of cowards afraid to face any unpleasant truth.
While there are many who are true patriots in this country, most don't actually do anything more than vote, if that. The vast majority has never written their congressmen and senators. Hell, most don't even know who their representatives are.
We complain that voting has become a question of the "lesser of two evils", but wouldn't vote for a truly good candidate if he/she wasn't the official Democratic or Republican candidate. Often, in the two main parties, the best choices are weeded out during the primaries, removed from the ballots not by the will of the people, but by the whim of the party elite.
Tommy
That's funny, I set up a half dozen systems with Mandrake 10.0 and never had to use the command line once. Sure, there are some things that can't be customized without using the cli, but making those same customizations in Windows often requires editing the registry, or installing third party add ons. Personnally, the cli is a lot easier for me to work with than the Windows Registry.
To address your "issues",
First: I guess you missed seeing the graphical frontend for your package manager (can't remember the name of the one for that distro)? You could have browsed a list of available packages (with descriptions and usually a link to the projects homepage, and installe them with a couple clicks of the mouse. Personnally, I find that much easier than driving to the Windows package manager (AKA Best Buy, Comp USA, etc).
Second: The reason your Wifi card works under Windows is because the maker of your laptop did all the dirty work (like driver installation and configuration) for you. Had you purchased the computer with Linux pre-installed the Wifi would have worked "out of the box" and you'ld be whining about having to make it work when you added the Windows install.
Third: same as above. Most laptops don't function correctly on the regular version of Windows, either - that's why the maker of your laptop provided the customized install and recovery disc (or partition). Chances are your WIFI and APM stuff wouldn't work "out of the box" with a regular retail version of Windows
Fourth: it's all in your head. I've never felt that Linux is "cramped" compared to windows at the same resolution. And I vastly preferr the Gimp over photoshop for what I do - mostly web and 3-d textures. If I was a photographer I'm sure I'd prefer Photoshop - but the Gimp's "make seamless" tool makes it so much more usefull than PS for me. That's just a matter of preference - YMMV.
As for compiling things - you don't need to with most distros. I used Linux successfully and happily for a couple years before I ever had reason to compile anything.
I think the only real problem you have with Linux is that you don't know how to use it. Once upon a time you didn't know how to use Windows, either, but you learned. Now, however, you're a big bad "power user" and your ego won't let you go back to being a noob and learning Linux. To bad - your loss.
TommyHe has more credibility than an anonymous coward.
Where can I get a car like yours? Is it one of those rocket cars like those super secret "Men in Black" drive? ;)
Marijuana hasn't been decriminalised in any state. Some states have passed a "medical marijuana" bill, which would allow a doctor to prescribe it. That doesn't matter, though, it's still against federal law.
Marijuana hasn't been legal in the US since the seventies (briefly, after Timothy Leary successfully challenged the Marijuana Tax Act in the US Supreme Court, who found it unconstitutional.) and before that it was first prohibited in 1932. After Leary's challenge Marijuana was classified as a proscribed (not prescribed) medicine. The US officially allows a very small amount of prescriptions to be written so they can justify it's classification as a medecine, not a recreational drug like alcohol (which then couldn't be prohibited because of a constitional amendment)
If anyone wonders why it's classified the same as heroin, it's because of all the things you can do with marijuana besides get high. This one is reason enough for US politicians, who all seem to have oil money in their background (Republicans and Democrats both)After all, if we could grow our own fuel we wouldn't need to invade foriegn countries. What would we do for fun then?
Tommy[voice = "elmerfudd"] Mama's widdle baby luvs wabbit, wabbit, Mama's widdle baby luvs wabbit stew [/voice]
Rabbit is fairly common table fair, I've even seen it grocery stores and on restaurant menus here in the US, and Rabbits are rodents. I'd be willing to bet these "new" rodents are fairly tasty. They are vegetarians, as are most of the other animals we eat, keeping in mind that pigs would eat meat, they just aren't given any (on a farm anyway - YMMV with wild boar).Seriously, if you marinated it in a decent Reisling with garlic, thyme, and a touch of basil these guys could be delish!
TommyActually, most IE exploits are discovered by third party security firms, such as F-prot and Secunia. It's often months between the discovery of the flaw and a solution - you just weren't told there was a problem.
Black hat hackers also have debuggers. They can find IE exploits as easily as those third party security firms. It all comes down to who finds it first - white hat or black.
The ratio of white hat vs black hat hackers working on an app has a lot to do with how potentially insecure it is, and Firefox has many, many more whitehats than IE.
TommyExcept the lack of Active X, and the fact that Mozilla doesn't have hooks embedded deeply into the underlying OS the way IE seems to. I say seems to because MS claimed those hooks were present and necessary to Windows in the anti-trust suit. However, I've heard from a lot of people who are smarter than me that IE isn't actually tied into the OS the way MS claimed.
TommyBut how many of them are on your whitelist for software installation? Had you RTFA you would have discovered that only sites on that whitelist can exploit you. All of the sites on the default whitelist have had steps taken to eliminate the threat.
TommyRight back at you.
There's working exploit code in the comments to this very storyI guess you missed the part where Mozilla Foundation has corrected the problem on their servers, and given instructions to take any third party websites off the whitelist? The exploit code simply has no effect if that basic precaution is followed.
While the above mentioned fixes and workarounds aren't perfect, they do eliminate the problem for now. A more thorough comprehensive fix is under development.
This is no worse than that IE exploit that was redirecting people to that scammer site in Russia (forget the name of the exploit). MS issued a "fix" which didn't address the flaw in the software at all - they basically just added that one specific scammer site to the hosts-deny list (Yes I know that's not perfectly accurate, but it's basically what they did)
BTW, nobody here is impressed with your pottymouth language.
TommySunbird won't cut it in a business environment, since it doesn't have the groupware features and calendering that Outlook does (MS Exchange is indispensable to many small and mid sized businesses.)
Evolution supports iCalanders, Exchange and Novell's Groupwise and makes a worthy replacement for Outlook, but it's only available for Linux (requires GTK, if not Gnome, installed) at the moment. I've heard a Windows port is under development, but for now Outlook is still the only real solution for Windows users, and probably Mac users as well.
TommyI used to work at an office store selling software. The local MS sales rep told us it was fine to sell the student edition to pretty much anyone. He did ask us to point out that the student edition is not upgradeable. No discount if you decide to move up to "Office 2006" or whatever the next version will be called. Also, the student edition only has the four basics (word, excel, outlook, and powerpoint IIRC). If you need Access or Visio you'll have to pay full price for the pro packages.
TommyLet's see, now. About two years behind schedule, and missing most of the new features it was supposed to be introducing.
I'd say that qualifies as a severe delay.
How does that old saying go? Oh yeah. "Microsoft has never met a release schedule it could keep."
It's pretty apparent from the example list of techs they'll be leasing out. That and a clue.
Haven't you read any of the reports on how badly "face recognition" technology has bombed? They are more likely to not recognize a face correctly. By far, most of the "positives" turn out to be false, while the testers who are designated "terrorist" are rarely recognized.
Here at slashdot it's not unheard of for people to get their information from several articles and sources, then put the pieces together and draw their own conclusions.
Personally, I like to draw mine with crayons.
TommyMS can sue them by filing the appropriate paperwork. For example, look at the suits filed by SCO. They have yet to introduce any real evidence to support any of their claims, yet they we still able to initiate proceedings. Winning is another matter entirely.
MS won't win the decision, but they don't really have to. They can use a fairly groundless lawsuit to bankrupt a startup, since no startup will have enough capitol available to both prepare and release their product as well as fund a legal defense. In fact, MS will most likely be able to get an injuction agaisnt the startup, preventing them from selling their product. Then the startup will have no income, and be forced to use what little capitol they have left to pay for lawyers and other court related costs. Have you seen the amount it cost IBM to gather all the information required by SCO in discovery? Then MS just buys up the rights to the product through the courts.
This won't even be the first time they've done this.
TommyWe do not support one Linux product and no one in this field does.
I'm curious. What field is this?
Nuclear.
Is anyone else here terrified by this?
TommyMaking significant changes to the inclination of your orbital plane requires a lot of fuel, often more than de-orbiting. The less fuel a vehicle has to haul up the gravity well, the better. It's just not convenient to have to wait a half dozen (or more) orbits until you're lined up with the re-entry path.
Cross range capability means a vehicle has many more options when trying to come down safely and efficiently. You can even swerve some to get around a storm, even a capsule design travels hundreds of miles through the atmosphere on it's way down. It takes a while to slow down from about 16000 miles per hour.
TommyI can't believe I'm giving up being able to mod this thread, but here goes.
I have installed Gentoo, and typing -fomitframepointers took less than four seconds. The time it has saved me since may not be much, but it's a lot more than four seconds.
TommyNAPT (Not A Professional Typer)