Actually, broken down on passenger miles, it's the safest way to travel, on or off this planet...
I absolutely love this way of bluffing with statistics..
If, for example, we count accidents per road/year as a indication of road safety, I suggest the governament just extends the driveway to my parking around the country, as a way to reduce accidents, since there has been no accident at all there for the past 40 years).
This book shuld be a mandatory reading for every person on this planet (who can read).
This will only turn into another money-making thing for the gov.. The "Tax" will go up and up until the governament will find the "right" price that people are willing to pay..
Instead of giving the 1 cent to mr TaxMan, it should instead be payed to the receiver of the email, to pay for the cost of bandwidth/disk / cpu / memory / time..
That way, companies wouldn't have to pay for internal mail, companies would have to pay people to receive their "junk", even if they subscribed to it, and the governament wouldn't be as triggerhappy in raising the cost of email.
Of course this means the death of Bugtraq and other free stuff, but you already understood that, no ?
It's a pity then that the USA is going to help itself to Iraq's wealth to pay for the "liberation" and for "repairing" what was destroyed by the US backed sanctions and bombing..
you cannot have a country if it has no way of generating wealth for itself. so yeah, all that is secondary...I am so sorry your heart gets in the way of your logic.
Surely you can have a poor nation.. But that is not my point. The USA was very big mouthed about doing this for the "Iraqi People".
Now, what makes a nation ? It's it's history and culture that define a nation, so the primary objective to protect should have been museums, and ministries.
it is called prioritizing stupid...you have limited resources most of which areneeded to run down the bad guys and secure the areas so that terrorist or opotunistic people do not begin bombing and killing all over.
Of course it's called "prioritizing", apparently the looting and destruction of our history (yes, Iraq's history is also our history) wasn't important enough.
The rapes and abduction at the mental hospital, the thefts of medicine and hospital equipment, the thefts and destructions of almost all shops in Baghdad wasn't important enough.
And the summary executions and rapes all around Baghdad weren't important enough to try to prevent them.
I argue that its the person who made it possible for a rocket to kill people who is responsible and Robert Oppenheimer certainly seemed to agree with me.
Interesting, because that argument makes the US responsible for those that were killed by Saddam's Chemical weapons..
Has anyone realy seriously claimed that SPAM was a freedom of speech issue ?
That's rediculeus...
With Spam, nobody gives his concent except the Spammer.. Claiming that Spam is a "Freedom of speech" issue is like claiming that Rape is a "Freedom of Sex" issue..
....and even if it isn't, your message could be construed as a death threat and with potential terroristic overtones.
So ?? He could be posting from somewhere in the world where people don't giva a rats piss about how this could be interpreted in other parts of the world ??
I don't think that Hollywood and the movie studios care so much about the outcome of the trial as long as the process is scaring the shit out of other potential code writers.
The goal of the process is not "justice" (Whatever that word means in the US of A) but to make an example out of John. "Hey, if you mess with us we will keep you tied up in legal problems for 10 years, guilty or not!"
The whole thing isn't exactly giving a good image of the USA as the "land of the free and brave" but rather something like the "rich and blinded by power".
IPv6 was a bastard protocol from the start. Not only were promises about no-fragmentation broken, but the IPv6 'options' are 'chained' so every router has to re-assemble look at the options, act on the options, and then re-fragment the packet exactly as it was.
And that's not even half of the problems it has.
Don't hold your breath for everybody to implement IPv6, IETF is already planning the next generation of IP without (hopefully) all the problems.
Got to disagree with your definition of monopoly as "somebody who can block normal competition by financial means or
market position"
Sure you can disagree, it's your right. However it's not *my* definition of monopoly. It's the definition that's tought in "Economics 101".
A monopoly is a supplier of goods in a market where there is only one supplier of goods.
There are no markets where there is "only one supplier of goods". Well, unless in some communist states where competition is forbidden by law (and enforced by public executions), but even there you have the "black market" which is a competition.
For example, imagine you
live in a small suburb with only one grocery store. That grocery store is a monopoly in your suburb,
Uhh ?? No !, not according to any definition of the word "monopoly" I have ever heard. Don't forget that there is a thing called "market area" and that even a Internet shop on the moon can be a competition. That's how the Hypermarkets work. They install themselves in some cheap area, relatively far away from the most expensive living areas. Yet, they often manage to kill off the local grocery shops because they are much cheaper.
Just because it's a good product doesn't prevent it from being a monopoly.
Correct, monopoly is defined as somebody who can block normal competition by financial means or market position.
And although Google basically "owns" the market, I just can't see how Google could "block" somebody who would want to compete.
After all, it's the customers who choose every day to go to Google without any manipulation from Google (apart from a good service).
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With closed source code, how do you know that there isn't a root kit included?
Because China is getting access to the code...
Is it only me that finds it suspicious that the chineese are not allowed to compile the code they will get from MS ??
If the purpose of this code review is to search for backdoors etc in the Microsoft code then the logical first thing to, would be to compile it and compare the resulting binaries to the ones sold by Microsoft..
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Actually, broken down on passenger miles, it's the safest way to travel, on or off this planet...
I absolutely love this way of bluffing with statistics..
If, for example, we count accidents per road/year as a indication of road safety, I suggest the governament just extends the driveway to my parking around the country, as a way to reduce accidents, since there has been no accident at all there for the past 40 years).
This book shuld be a mandatory reading for every person on this planet (who can read).
This will only turn into another money-making thing for the gov.. The "Tax" will go up and up until the governament will find the "right" price that people are willing to pay..
Instead of giving the 1 cent to mr TaxMan, it should instead be payed to the receiver of the email, to pay for the cost of bandwidth /disk / cpu / memory / time..
That way, companies wouldn't have to pay for internal mail, companies would have to pay people to receive their "junk", even if they subscribed to it, and the governament wouldn't be as triggerhappy in raising the cost of email.
Of course this means the death of Bugtraq and other free stuff, but you already understood that, no ?
money makes a nation. a stable nation a that
It's a pity then that the USA is going to help itself to Iraq's wealth to pay for the "liberation" and for "repairing" what was destroyed by the US backed sanctions and bombing..
I downloaded American Life about 6 times and each one was the actual song.
Try this one.
(Yes, I know you were joking :-)
you cannot have a country if it has no way of generating wealth for itself. so yeah, all that is secondary...I am so sorry your heart gets in the way of your logic.
Surely you can have a poor nation.. But that is not my point. The USA was very big mouthed about doing this for the "Iraqi People".
Now, what makes a nation ? It's it's history and culture that define a nation, so the primary objective to protect should have been museums, and ministries.
it is called prioritizing stupid...you have limited resources most of which areneeded to run down the bad guys and secure the areas so that terrorist or opotunistic people do not begin bombing and killing all over.
Of course it's called "prioritizing", apparently the looting and destruction of our history (yes, Iraq's history is also our history) wasn't important enough.
The rapes and abduction at the mental hospital, the thefts of medicine and hospital equipment, the thefts and destructions of almost all shops in Baghdad wasn't important enough.
And the summary executions and rapes all around Baghdad weren't important enough to try to prevent them.
Only the Oil was important enough..
Yes, of cource it's called "prioritizing".
At least we now know why the USA attacked..
A US corporate figure is going to have a word about how future LAW will look like in Iraq ???
If there was any doubt that the USA is just acting in the interests of it's corporations, then that doubt is now dead.
You mean like when the US army didn't protect a single thing after the "Fall of Baghdad" except for the Oil wells and the ministry of Oil ?
It's not ASCII, but as Pron I find it brilliant.. Pron pron
Hasn't it already been established that the act of accusing them is proof enough? Send them to Guantanamo Bay, they'll confess in due course.
Please correct me if I am wrong, but I don't think those held at Guantanamo Bay have been officially accused of anything illegal.
Officially they're not prisoners of war and they're not accused of any crime.
That makes them hostages, no ?
If they win, then the generic case if illegal music file sharing service has company X for funding then they can be sued will be viable.
The laws are "general" i.e. I doubt the laws that have (supposedly) been broken here mention the words "music sharing" at all.
The real danger is that everything that those laws apply to will be just as illegal.
Is anyone doubting that Microsoft (just an example) is breaking some competition laws (somewhere on the planet) ?
Well, if you buy Microsoft Stock, you are helping them to commit a crime ..
Are you ready to go to prison for that ?
What's Google?
George !!!, go back to your office and try to fix the economy !!
I argue that its the person who made it possible for a rocket to kill people who is responsible and Robert Oppenheimer certainly seemed to agree with me.
Interesting, because that argument makes the US responsible for those that were killed by Saddam's Chemical weapons ..
Toss this guy out with the trash and give some honest, decent hard-working folks some jobs.
One problem I see with this approach is that he is probably one of the best qualified on this planet for certain jobs..
He has this valueable knowledge and changes are someone will approach him with an offer ..
Has anyone realy seriously claimed that SPAM was a freedom of speech issue ?
That's rediculeus...
With Spam, nobody gives his concent except the Spammer.. Claiming that Spam is a "Freedom of speech" issue is like claiming that Rape is a "Freedom of Sex" issue ..
So ?? He could be posting from somewhere in the world where people don't giva a rats piss about how this could be interpreted in other parts of the world ??
No everyone lives scared you know ..
Ok, so we know that OS and hardware vendors have their representatives but where are the consumer representatives ?
This looks to me like if UK farmers an beef distributors would create "Trusted Beef Group" without any consumer input ..
The Study..
I don't think that Hollywood and the movie studios care so much about the outcome of the trial as long as the process is scaring the shit out of other potential code writers.
The goal of the process is not "justice" (Whatever that word means in the US of A) but to make an example out of John. "Hey, if you mess with us we will keep you tied up in legal problems for 10 years, guilty or not!"
The whole thing isn't exactly giving a good image of the USA as the "land of the free and brave" but rather something like the "rich and blinded by power".
IPv6 was a bastard protocol from the start. Not only were promises about no-fragmentation broken, but the IPv6 'options' are 'chained' so every router has to re-assemble look at the options, act on the options, and then re-fragment the packet exactly as it was.
And that's not even half of the problems it has.
Don't hold your breath for everybody to implement IPv6, IETF is already planning the next generation of IP without (hopefully) all the problems.
Got to disagree with your definition of monopoly as "somebody who can block normal competition by financial means or market position"
Sure you can disagree, it's your right. However it's not *my* definition of monopoly. It's the definition that's tought in "Economics 101".
A monopoly is a supplier of goods in a market where there is only one supplier of goods.
There are no markets where there is "only one supplier of goods". Well, unless in some communist states where competition is forbidden by law (and enforced by public executions), but even there you have the "black market" which is a competition.
For example, imagine you live in a small suburb with only one grocery store. That grocery store is a monopoly in your suburb,
Uhh ?? No !, not according to any definition of the word "monopoly" I have ever heard. Don't forget that there is a thing called "market area" and that even a Internet shop on the moon can be a competition. That's how the Hypermarkets work. They install themselves in some cheap area, relatively far away from the most expensive living areas. Yet, they often manage to kill off the local grocery shops because they are much cheaper.
Apparently US journalism has no obligations to adhere to the truth.
Just because it's a good product doesn't prevent it from being a monopoly.
Correct, monopoly is defined as somebody who can block normal competition by financial means or market position.
And although Google basically "owns" the market, I just can't see how Google could "block" somebody who would want to compete.
After all, it's the customers who choose every day to go to Google without any manipulation from Google (apart from a good service).
Because China is getting access to the code ...
Is it only me that finds it suspicious that the chineese are not allowed to compile the code they will get from MS ??
If the purpose of this code review is to search for backdoors etc in the Microsoft code then the logical first thing to, would be to compile it and compare the resulting binaries to the ones sold by Microsoft ..