First he states that because rural deployments will cost more than urban that optimal profits will come from operations in the areas with the highest population density, and lower profits -- or losses -- will come from operations outside those areas. Which is true, but so what, nudie bars are more profitable in high population density areas, but they are still present in rural areas - the important question is will it still be profitable?
Later he agrees that competition would be good for the consumer, but that BPL is not being faster, more reliable, or cheaper than conventional broadband access. But, he leave out the part about it being faster and more reliable than no access at all. Although I'll admit that BPL probably costs more than having no access at all.
Finally he begins to selectively quote and reference FCC documents. He talks of notching and quotes a member of the ARRL (association for amateur radio) of which the author is also a member. The FCC data that he claims show that the likelihood of interference is not very low, actually shows the opposite for a properly notched systems. The report showed low to no interference with a an above ground properly notched system simply recommend that the notch be increase by 100kHz in the 10 meter band.
And for underground powerline systems, there were no caveats at all - the underground systems were always below the limit.
Why claim that the data proves something that it doesn't?
It discusses requirements for Federal recognition of State ID cards
MINIMUM DOCUMENT REQUIREMENTS AND ISSUANCE STANDARDS FOR FEDERAL RECOGNITION (a) Minimum Standards for Federal Use-
(1) IN GENERAL- Beginning 3 years after the date of the enactment of this division, a Federal agency may not accept, for any official purpose, a driver's license or identification card issued by a State to any person unless the State is meeting the requirements of this section.
If a state chooses not to follow H.R.1268 they don't have to. Their ID won't be accepted by federal agencies - but there are other forms of ID besides State drivers licenses / State ID cards that the federal agencies will accept.
It discusses requirements for Federal recognition of State ID cards
MINIMUM DOCUMENT REQUIREMENTS AND ISSUANCE STANDARDS FOR FEDERAL RECOGNITION
(a) Minimum Standards for Federal Use-
(1) IN GENERAL- Beginning 3 years after the date of the enactment of this division, a Federal agency may not accept, for any official purpose, a driver's license or identification card issued by a State to any person unless the State is meeting the requirements of this section.
If a state chooses not to follow H.R.1268 they don't have to.
Their ID won't be accepted by federal agencies - but there are other forms of ID besides State drivers licenses / State ID cards that the federal agencies will accept.
"You can find a lot of nations that have unique ID but not capital punishment, weapons in every house and don't make war every 10 years. Uh, and they have a working social security too!"
Then, you should have no problem naming five such countries.
Al Gore quote: During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet.
Snope Statement: "many of the components of today's Internet came into being well before Gore's first term in Congress began in 1977, and it's hard to find any specific action of Gore's (such as his sponsoring a Congressional bill or championing a particular piece of legislation) that one could claim helped bring the Internet into being, much less validate Gore's statement of having taken the "initiative in creating the Internet."
"Even if Al Gore had never entered the political arena, we'd probably still be reading web pages via the Internet today."
Al Gore quote: During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet.
Snope Statement: "many of the components of today's Internet came into being well before Gore's first term in Congress began in 1977, and it's hard to find any specific action of Gore's (such as his sponsoring a Congressional bill or championing a particular piece of legislation) that one could claim helped bring the Internet into being, much less validate Gore's statement of having taken the "initiative in creating the Internet."
"Even if Al Gore had never entered the political arena, we'd probably still be reading web pages via the Internet today."
Al Gore quote: During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet.
Snope Statement: "many of the components of today's Internet came into being well before Gore's first term in Congress began in 1977, and it's hard to find any specific action of Gore's (such as his sponsoring a Congressional bill or championing a particular piece of legislation) that one could claim helped bring the Internet into being, much less validate Gore's statement of having taken the "initiative in creating the Internet."
"Even if Al Gore had never entered the political arena, we'd probably still be reading web pages via the Internet today."
Al Gore quote: During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet.
Snope Statement:
"many of the components of today's Internet came into being well before Gore's first term in Congress began in 1977, and it's hard to find any specific action of Gore's (such as his sponsoring a Congressional bill or championing a particular piece of legislation) that one could claim helped bring the Internet into being, much less validate Gore's statement of having taken the "initiative in creating the Internet."
"Even if Al Gore had never entered the political arena, we'd probably still be reading web pages via the Internet today."
Genetic engineering is a laboratory technique used by scientists to change the DNA of living organisms.
DNA is the blueprint for the individuality of an organism. The organism relies upon the information stored in its DNA for the management of every biochemical process. The life, growth and unique features of the organism depend on its DNA. The segments of DNA which have been associated with specific features or functions of an organism are called genes.
Molecular biologists have discovered many enzymes which change the structure of DNA in living organisms. Some of these enzymes can cut and join strands of DNA. Using such enzymes, scientists learned to cut specific genes from DNA and to build customized DNA using these genes. They also learned about vectors, strands of DNA such as viruses, which can infect a cell and insert themselves into its DNA.
With this knowledge, scientists started to build vectors which incorporated genes of their choosing and used the new vectors to insert these genes into the DNA of living organisms. Genetic engineers believe they can improve the foods we eat by doing this. For example, tomatoes are sensitive to frost. This shortens their growing season. Fish, on the other hand, survive in very cold water. Scientists identified a particular gene which enables a flounder to resist cold and used the technology of genetic engineering to insert this 'anti-freeze' gene into a tomato. This makes it possible to extend the growing season of the tomato.
If CITEL is an organization of American states (North, Central, and South America) - why is the Vice President of Nokia (based in Finland) involved?
If the Vice President of Nokia - a corporation based in Finland - can have input into who goes to the Inter-American Telecommunication Commission, why then cannot the President (publically elected offical) of the United States of America also have input?
CITEL,an entity of the Organization of American States, is the main forum in the hemisphere in which the governments and the private sector meet to coordinate regional efforts to develop the Global Information Society according to the mandates of the General Assembly of the Organization and the mandates entrusted to it by Heads of State and Government at the Summits of the Americas.
Says Nokia vice president Bill Plummer: "We do not view sending experts to international meetings on telecom issues to be a partisan matter. We would welcome clarification from the White House."
Interestingly, the bill also added a non-religious definition of creed )that was not present in the original law.)
This is the changed text:
"Creed" means a system of religious beliefs and religious expressions, including moral and ethical beliefs and expressions about right and wrong that are sincerely held with the strength of traditional religious views.
Isn't that interesting - one day after a new Pope is chosen, Microsoft chooses to support a more traditional definition of religion.
Interestingly, the bill also added a non-religious definition of creed )that was not present in the original law.)
"Creed" means a system of religious beliefs and religious expressions, including moral and ethical beliefs and expressions about right and wrong that are sincerely held with the strength of
traditional religious views.
Isn't that interesting - one day after a new Pope is chosen, Microsoft chooses to support a more traditional definition of religion.
Every person shall be at liberty to speak, write or publish his opinions on any subject, being responsible for the abuse of that privilege; and no law shall ever be passed curtailing the liberty of speech or of the press. In prosecutions for the publication of papers, investigating the conduct of officers, or men in public capacity, or when the matter published is proper for public information, the truth thereof may be given in evidence. And in all indictments for libels, the jury shall have the right to determine the law and the facts, under the direction of the court, as in other cases.
I can't find anything in there that requires the state of Texas to provide porn to truckers. I believe that the people of Texas have a right to spend their tax money as they please.
Here are the main sections of the Texas state constitution.
I can't find anything about requiring access to the entire internet if you provide access to some of the internet.
Sec. 1 - FREEDOM AND SOVEREIGNTY OF STATE Sec. 2 - INHERENT POLITICAL POWER; REPUBLICAN FORM OF GOVERNMENT Sec. 3 - EQUAL RIGHTS Sec. 3a - EQUALITY UNDER THE LAW Sec. 4 - RELIGIOUS TESTS Sec. 5 - WITNESSES NOT DISQUALIFIED BY RELIGIOUS BELIEFS; OATHS AND AFFIRMATIONS Sec. 6 - FREEDOM OF WORSHIP Sec. 7 - APPROPRIATIONS FOR SECTARIAN PURPOSES Sec. 8 - FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND PRESS; LIBEL Sec. 9 - SEARCHES AND SEIZURES Sec. 10 - RIGHTS OF ACCUSED IN CRIMINAL PROSECUTIONS Sec. 11 - BAIL Sec. 11a - MULTIPLE CONVICTIONS; DENIAL OF BAIL Sec. 12 - HABEAS CORPUS Sec. 13 - EXCESSIVE BAIL OR FINES; CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT; REMEDY BY DUE COURSE OF LAW Sec. 14 - DOUBLE JEOPARDY Sec. 15 - RIGHT OF TRIAL BY JURY Sec. 15-a - COMMITMENT OF PERSONS OF UNSOUND MIND Sec. 16 - BILLS OF ATTAINDER; EX POST FACTO OR RETROACTIVE LAWS; IMPAIRING OBLIGATION OF CONTRACTS Sec. 17 - TAKING, DAMAGING, OR DESTROYING PROPERTY FOR PUBLIC USE; SPECIAL PRIVILEGES AND IMMUNITIES; CONTROL OF PRIVILEGES AND FRANCHISES Sec. 18 - IMPRISONMENT FOR DEBT Sec. 19 - DEPRIVATION OF LIFE, LIBERTY, ETC.; DUE COURSE OF LAW Sec. 20 - OUTLAWRY OR TRANSPORTATION FOR OFFENSE Sec. 21 - CORRUPTION OF BLOOD; FORFEITURE; SUICIDES Sec. 22 - TREASON Sec. 23 - RIGHT TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS Sec. 24 - MILITARY SUBORDINATE TO CIVIL AUTHORITY Sec. 25 - QUARTERING SOLDIERS IN HOUSES Sec. 26 - PERPETUITIES AND MONOPOLIES; PRIMOGENITURE OR ENTAILMENTS Sec. 27 - RIGHT OF ASSEMBLY; PETITION FOR REDRESS OF GRIEVANCES Sec. 28 - SUSPENSION OF LAWS Sec. 29 - PROVISIONS OF BILL OF RIGHTS EXCEPTED FROM POWERS OF GOVERNMENT; TO FOREVER REMAIN INVIOLATE Sec. 30 - RIGHTS OF CRIME VICTIMS Sec. 31 - COMPENSATION TO VICTIMS OF CRIME FUND; COMPENSATION TO VICTIMS OF CRIME AUXILIARY FUND; USE OF FUND MONEY
"Plopping the smartest, most dedicated GPL developers on a proprietary system without their consent is tantamount to treason in government. Like fingernails on a chalk board, you could hear the kernel developers principles twisting as Linus declared the use of BitKeeper law."
And instead of trying to create something better, the "smartest, most dedicated GPL developers" either decided:
1) Bitkeeper was the best product, they "the smartest, most dedicated GPL developers" could not do any better, and so it was necessary to reverse engineer Bitkeeper
or
2) Bitkeeper was not the best product, but they "the smartest, most dedicated GPL developers" were unable to craft a persuasive argument why another product was better.
This may be offtopic but,
What ever happened to the code maintainer who would post about his mysterious illness that he thinks he may have got by brushing his teeth too much?
He said he'd cough up tartar or plaque and so he took a lot of antibiotics and then had some symptoms I don't remember and drove around with his wife a lot over mountains?
Thanks,
Ugmoe
You are confusing the "number of connections for file-serving" which has not been changed with the "number of TCP connection attempts per second" which has been changed.
Windows XP SP2 limits the number of possible TCP connection attempts per second to 10 from an unlimited number in SP1. This can affect performance on server and P2P programs that need to open many outbound connections at the same time.
Notes - With the new implementation, if a P2P or some other network program attempts to connect to 100 sites at once, it would only be able to connect to 10 per second, so it would take it 10 seconds to reach all 100. In addition, even though the setting was registry editable in SP1, it is now only possible to edit by changing it directly in the system file tcpip.sys. Keep in mind this is a cap only on incomplete outbound connect attempts per second, not total connections. Servers and P2P programs can definitely be affected by this new limitation. Use the fix as you see fit.
When you are using your Windows XP system as a File-server of a network of system,
how many systems can connect (use a shared resource ) at the same time to a Windows XP-system ?
- Windows XP Professional : 10 simultaneous file-sharing connections
( same limitation as in Windows NT4 workstation and Windows 2000 Professional )
- Windows XP Home Edition : 5 simultaneous file-sharing connections
( Windows 95,98, ME do not have a known limit of simultaneous file-sharing connections )
Source of this information :
Microsoft Windows XP Professional Resource Kit Documentation
Appendix G: Differences between Windows XP Home Edition, page 1539
These opponents play to people's sense of outrage at the corporate scandals that rocked the business world last year, as well as to the breathtaking extent of the $11 billion accounting fraud at WorldCom. Their main claim is that allowing MCI to exit bankruptcy would allow it to profit from its "ill-gotten gains." Both justice and deterrence, they argue, require that MCI be dismembered, if not put to death.
Such claims understandably strike an emotional chord with America's scandal-weary public. Yet those claims are wrong all the same. Simply put, MCI retains no "ill-gotten gains" from the accounting fraud. Whatever short-term advantage the company might have gained has already been lost, many times over. In his opinion on the recent litigation between the SEC and MCI, Federal district court judge Jed Rakoff placed the liquidation value of the company at less than $6 billion. This value pales in comparison with the $200 billion by which WorldCom's equity has plunged.
In the overall scheme of things, there can be little doubt but that MCI would be in stronger shape today had the fraud never occurred, than it will be if it is allowed to emerge from bankruptcy.
While MCI's liquidation would be good for its rivals, it would be bad for the consuming public. It would reduce the choices available to many consumers of telecom services, force 20 million MCI customers to find new suppliers, and leave more of the telecom market under the control of the still relatively monopolistic Baby Bell companies. Local phone competition, which has finally started to deliver major savings to consumers in recent years, would take an especially big hit.
Also wrong are claims that the liquidation of MCI is a means to secure justice and promote deterrence against such misdeeds in the future. Justice is served by punishing responsible individuals. So is deterrence. Neither is served by wreaking punishment indiscriminately on such innocent people as workers, investors, creditors, and customers.
To penalize an entire corporation for the misdeeds of some of its officials is to spread the resulting loss among all participants in the corporation. If corporate misdeeds are punished at the individual level, deterrence works as it is supposed to work. But if those misdeeds are punished at the corporate level, the deterrence effect is weakened and the injustice compounded.
It would be different if all participants within WorldCom had agreed to engage in fraudulent practice. But this is clearly not what happened. A few crooked executives engaged in fraudulent activity, and the practice was halted and made public when other individuals within the company became aware of it. To punish MCI wholesale would be to punish those innocent individuals and not the guilty wrongdoers.
It is easy to see why the entrenched incumbents are so keen to bring about MCI's demise. The likes of AT&T and the Baby Bells would rather feed on WorldCom's carcass than see it rejuvenated and have to compete with it for business. The public good, however, would be far better served if MCI receives a second chance instead of an early grave
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Now he can work on open source full time!
Also, where does it say he was a full-time teacher?
This is the quote from his page: "Sure I was not a Professor (which I never said I was), but I taught several subjects there for over 5 years!"
Later he agrees that competition would be good for the consumer, but that BPL is not being faster, more reliable, or cheaper than conventional broadband access. But, he leave out the part about it being faster and more reliable than no access at all. Although I'll admit that BPL probably costs more than having no access at all. Finally he begins to selectively quote and reference FCC documents. He talks of notching and quotes a member of the ARRL (association for amateur radio) of which the author is also a member. The FCC data that he claims show that the likelihood of interference is not very low, actually shows the opposite for a properly notched systems. The report showed low to no interference with a an above ground properly notched system simply recommend that the notch be increase by 100kHz in the 10 meter band.
And for underground powerline systems, there were no caveats at all - the underground systems were always below the limit.
Why claim that the data proves something that it doesn't?
http://www.arrl.org/~ehare/bpl/FCC_reports.pdf
Humans will use their intelligence to modify themselves using genetic engineering.
Pretty ironic that 100,000 years from now people will wonder if the gills of the sea people were evolved or were engineered.
http://www.grandstyle.com/roomycoa.htm
In a reprint of a Consumer Reports article, I saw the following stats, based on Delta, United, American, and US Air fleets.
DC 9's and MD 80's have seat widths of 20 to 23 inches. Southwest Air's seats are 14 to 25% narrower than average seat widths on DC 9's and MD 80's.
757's and 767's have 19 inch wide seats--10% roomier than Southwest Air's seats.
747's have seat widths between 19.5 and 20.5 inches--12% to 16% roomier than Southwest Air's seats.
L1011's have seat widths between 18.5 and 20 inches--7% to 14% roomier than Southwest Air's seats.
MINIMUM DOCUMENT REQUIREMENTS AND ISSUANCE STANDARDS FOR FEDERAL RECOGNITION (a) Minimum Standards for Federal Use-
(1) IN GENERAL- Beginning 3 years after the date of the enactment of this division, a Federal agency may not accept, for any official purpose, a driver's license or identification card issued by a State to any person unless the State is meeting the requirements of this section.
If a state chooses not to follow H.R.1268 they don't have to. Their ID won't be accepted by federal agencies - but there are other forms of ID besides State drivers licenses / State ID cards that the federal agencies will accept.
MINIMUM DOCUMENT REQUIREMENTS AND ISSUANCE STANDARDS FOR FEDERAL RECOGNITION (a) Minimum Standards for Federal Use-
(1) IN GENERAL- Beginning 3 years after the date of the enactment of this division, a Federal agency may not accept, for any official purpose, a driver's license or identification card issued by a State to any person unless the State is meeting the requirements of this section.
If a state chooses not to follow H.R.1268 they don't have to. Their ID won't be accepted by federal agencies - but there are other forms of ID besides State drivers licenses / State ID cards that the federal agencies will accept.
Then, you should have no problem naming five such countries.
Please do!
Al Gore quote: During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet.
Snope Statement: "many of the components of today's Internet came into being well before Gore's first term in Congress began in 1977, and it's hard to find any specific action of Gore's (such as his sponsoring a Congressional bill or championing a particular piece of legislation) that one could claim helped bring the Internet into being, much less validate Gore's statement of having taken the "initiative in creating the Internet."
"Even if Al Gore had never entered the political arena, we'd probably still be reading web pages via the Internet today."
Al Gore quote: During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet.
Snope Statement: "many of the components of today's Internet came into being well before Gore's first term in Congress began in 1977, and it's hard to find any specific action of Gore's (such as his sponsoring a Congressional bill or championing a particular piece of legislation) that one could claim helped bring the Internet into being, much less validate Gore's statement of having taken the "initiative in creating the Internet."
"Even if Al Gore had never entered the political arena, we'd probably still be reading web pages via the Internet today."
Al Gore quote: During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet.
Snope Statement: "many of the components of today's Internet came into being well before Gore's first term in Congress began in 1977, and it's hard to find any specific action of Gore's (such as his sponsoring a Congressional bill or championing a particular piece of legislation) that one could claim helped bring the Internet into being, much less validate Gore's statement of having taken the "initiative in creating the Internet."
"Even if Al Gore had never entered the political arena, we'd probably still be reading web pages via the Internet today."
http://www.snopes.com/quotes/internet.htm Snopes states:
Al Gore quote: During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet.
Snope Statement: "many of the components of today's Internet came into being well before Gore's first term in Congress began in 1977, and it's hard to find any specific action of Gore's (such as his sponsoring a Congressional bill or championing a particular piece of legislation) that one could claim helped bring the Internet into being, much less validate Gore's statement of having taken the "initiative in creating the Internet."
"Even if Al Gore had never entered the political arena, we'd probably still be reading web pages via the Internet today."
Genetic engineering is a laboratory technique used by scientists to change the DNA of living organisms.
DNA is the blueprint for the individuality of an organism. The organism relies upon the information stored in its DNA for the management of every biochemical process. The life, growth and unique features of the organism depend on its DNA. The segments of DNA which have been associated with specific features or functions of an organism are called genes.
Molecular biologists have discovered many enzymes which change the structure of DNA in living organisms. Some of these enzymes can cut and join strands of DNA. Using such enzymes, scientists learned to cut specific genes from DNA and to build customized DNA using these genes. They also learned about vectors, strands of DNA such as viruses, which can infect a cell and insert themselves into its DNA.
With this knowledge, scientists started to build vectors which incorporated genes of their choosing and used the new vectors to insert these genes into the DNA of living organisms. Genetic engineers believe they can improve the foods we eat by doing this. For example, tomatoes are sensitive to frost. This shortens their growing season. Fish, on the other hand, survive in very cold water. Scientists identified a particular gene which enables a flounder to resist cold and used the technology of genetic engineering to insert this 'anti-freeze' gene into a tomato. This makes it possible to extend the growing season of the tomato.
If the Vice President of Nokia - a corporation based in Finland - can have input into who goes to the Inter-American Telecommunication Commission, why then cannot the President (publically elected offical) of the United States of America also have input?
CITEL,an entity of the Organization of American States, is the main forum in the hemisphere in which the governments and the private sector meet to coordinate regional efforts to develop the Global Information Society according to the mandates of the General Assembly of the Organization and the mandates entrusted to it by Heads of State and Government at the Summits of the Americas.
Says Nokia vice president Bill Plummer: "We do not view sending experts to international meetings on telecom issues to be a partisan matter. We would welcome clarification from the White House."
Interestingly, the bill also added a non-religious definition of creed )that was not present in the original law.)
This is the changed text:
"Creed" means a system of religious beliefs and religious expressions, including moral and ethical beliefs and expressions about right and wrong that are sincerely held with the strength of traditional religious views.
Isn't that interesting - one day after a new Pope is chosen, Microsoft chooses to support a more traditional definition of religion.
Interestingly, the bill also added a non-religious definition of creed )that was not present in the original law.)
"Creed" means a system of religious beliefs and religious expressions, including moral and ethical beliefs and expressions about right and wrong that are sincerely held with the strength of traditional religious views.
Isn't that interesting - one day after a new Pope is chosen, Microsoft chooses to support a more traditional definition of religion.
Copyright 1984-2004 Adobe Systems Incorporated and its licensors. All rights reserved.
Protected by U.S. Patents 4,667,247; 4,837,613; 5,050,103; 5,185,818; 5,200,740; 5,233,336; 5,237,313; 5,255,357; 5,546,528; 5,625,711; 5,634,064; 5,729,637; 5,737,599; 5,754,873; 5,781,785; 5,819,301; 5,832,530; 5,832,531; 5,835,634; 5,860,074; 5,929,866; 5,930,813; 5,943,063; 5,995,086; 5,999,649; 6,028,583; 6,049,339; 6,073,148; 6,185,684; 6,205,549; 6,275,587; 6,289,364; 6,324,555; 6,385,350; 6,408,092; 6,411,730; 6,415,278; 6,421,460; 6,466,210; 6,507,848; 6,515,675; 6,563,502; 6,604,105 ; 6,639,593; 6,678,410; 6,701,023; 6,711,557; 6,720,977; 6,748,111 ; 6,754,382; 6,771,816; U.S. Patent Design 337,604; 338,907; 371,799; 454,582; Patents Pending.
No - the only tape lost was the backup tape - Ameritrade has the original and current data.
So more specifically - the article should be titled "Copy of Ameritrade Customer Data Lost."
Section 8 - FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND PRESS; LIBEL
Every person shall be at liberty to speak, write or publish his opinions on any subject, being responsible for the abuse of that privilege; and no law shall ever be passed curtailing the liberty of speech or of the press. In prosecutions for the publication of papers, investigating the conduct of officers, or men in public capacity, or when the matter published is proper for public information, the truth thereof may be given in evidence. And in all indictments for libels, the jury shall have the right to determine the law and the facts, under the direction of the court, as in other cases.
I can't find anything in there that requires the state of Texas to provide porn to truckers. I believe that the people of Texas have a right to spend their tax money as they please.
http://www.capitol.state.tx.us/txconst/articles/cn 000100.html
Here are the main sections of the Texas state constitution.
I can't find anything about requiring access to the entire internet if you provide access to some of the internet.
Sec. 1 - FREEDOM AND SOVEREIGNTY OF STATE
Sec. 2 - INHERENT POLITICAL POWER; REPUBLICAN FORM OF GOVERNMENT
Sec. 3 - EQUAL RIGHTS
Sec. 3a - EQUALITY UNDER THE LAW
Sec. 4 - RELIGIOUS TESTS
Sec. 5 - WITNESSES NOT DISQUALIFIED BY RELIGIOUS BELIEFS; OATHS AND AFFIRMATIONS
Sec. 6 - FREEDOM OF WORSHIP
Sec. 7 - APPROPRIATIONS FOR SECTARIAN PURPOSES
Sec. 8 - FREEDOM OF SPEECH AND PRESS; LIBEL
Sec. 9 - SEARCHES AND SEIZURES
Sec. 10 - RIGHTS OF ACCUSED IN CRIMINAL PROSECUTIONS
Sec. 11 - BAIL
Sec. 11a - MULTIPLE CONVICTIONS; DENIAL OF BAIL
Sec. 12 - HABEAS CORPUS
Sec. 13 - EXCESSIVE BAIL OR FINES; CRUEL AND UNUSUAL PUNISHMENT; REMEDY BY DUE COURSE OF LAW
Sec. 14 - DOUBLE JEOPARDY
Sec. 15 - RIGHT OF TRIAL BY JURY
Sec. 15-a - COMMITMENT OF PERSONS OF UNSOUND MIND
Sec. 16 - BILLS OF ATTAINDER; EX POST FACTO OR RETROACTIVE LAWS; IMPAIRING OBLIGATION OF CONTRACTS
Sec. 17 - TAKING, DAMAGING, OR DESTROYING PROPERTY FOR PUBLIC USE; SPECIAL PRIVILEGES AND IMMUNITIES; CONTROL OF PRIVILEGES AND FRANCHISES
Sec. 18 - IMPRISONMENT FOR DEBT
Sec. 19 - DEPRIVATION OF LIFE, LIBERTY, ETC.; DUE COURSE OF LAW
Sec. 20 - OUTLAWRY OR TRANSPORTATION FOR OFFENSE
Sec. 21 - CORRUPTION OF BLOOD; FORFEITURE; SUICIDES
Sec. 22 - TREASON
Sec. 23 - RIGHT TO KEEP AND BEAR ARMS
Sec. 24 - MILITARY SUBORDINATE TO CIVIL AUTHORITY
Sec. 25 - QUARTERING SOLDIERS IN HOUSES
Sec. 26 - PERPETUITIES AND MONOPOLIES; PRIMOGENITURE OR ENTAILMENTS
Sec. 27 - RIGHT OF ASSEMBLY; PETITION FOR REDRESS OF GRIEVANCES
Sec. 28 - SUSPENSION OF LAWS
Sec. 29 - PROVISIONS OF BILL OF RIGHTS EXCEPTED FROM POWERS OF GOVERNMENT; TO FOREVER REMAIN INVIOLATE
Sec. 30 - RIGHTS OF CRIME VICTIMS
Sec. 31 - COMPENSATION TO VICTIMS OF CRIME FUND; COMPENSATION TO VICTIMS OF CRIME AUXILIARY FUND; USE OF FUND MONEY
"Plopping the smartest, most dedicated GPL developers on a proprietary system without their consent is tantamount to treason in government. Like fingernails on a chalk board, you could hear the kernel developers principles twisting as Linus declared the use of BitKeeper law."
And instead of trying to create something better, the "smartest, most dedicated GPL developers" either decided:
1) Bitkeeper was the best product, they "the smartest, most dedicated GPL developers" could not do any better, and so it was necessary to reverse engineer Bitkeeper
or
2) Bitkeeper was not the best product, but they "the smartest, most dedicated GPL developers" were unable to craft a persuasive argument why another product was better.
Misleading headline... RTFA editors! (Score:5, Informative)
Erm (Score:3, Informative)
RTFA (Score:1)
Linus did NOT say that, RTFA! (Score:1)
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RTFA - "we just made that quote up" (Score:1)
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Did you even look at the article? (Score:1)
Lies, More Lies and a bad joke... (Score:1)
not true (Score:1)
This is a sensational bull crap that... (Score:1)
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Slashdot is run by dolts... (Score:0)
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This may be offtopic but, What ever happened to the code maintainer who would post about his mysterious illness that he thinks he may have got by brushing his teeth too much? He said he'd cough up tartar or plaque and so he took a lot of antibiotics and then had some symptoms I don't remember and drove around with his wife a lot over mountains? Thanks, Ugmoe
"I post this mainly to inform you all and give you opportunity to make your own decisions as to whether I've handled this correctly"
How they hell is anyone supposed to know? You claim there is a gag order and you cannot give any information!
Do you expect me to flip a coin - heads you're right, tails the FBI is right?
Windows XP SP2 limits the number of possible TCP connection attempts per second to 10 from an unlimited number in SP1. This can affect performance on server and P2P programs that need to open many outbound connections at the same time.
Notes - With the new implementation, if a P2P or some other network program attempts to connect to 100 sites at once, it would only be able to connect to 10 per second, so it would take it 10 seconds to reach all 100. In addition, even though the setting was registry editable in SP1, it is now only possible to edit by changing it directly in the system file tcpip.sys. Keep in mind this is a cap only on incomplete outbound connect attempts per second, not total connections. Servers and P2P programs can definitely be affected by this new limitation. Use the fix as you see fit.
When you are using your Windows XP system as a File-server of a network of system, how many systems can connect (use a shared resource ) at the same time to a Windows XP-system ?
- Windows XP Professional : 10 simultaneous file-sharing connections ( same limitation as in Windows NT4 workstation and Windows 2000 Professional ) - Windows XP Home Edition : 5 simultaneous file-sharing connections ( Windows 95,98, ME do not have a known limit of simultaneous file-sharing connections )
Source of this information : Microsoft Windows XP Professional Resource Kit Documentation Appendix G: Differences between Windows XP Home Edition, page 1539
These opponents play to people's sense of outrage at the corporate scandals that rocked the business world last year, as well as to the breathtaking extent of the $11 billion accounting fraud at WorldCom. Their main claim is that allowing MCI to exit bankruptcy would allow it to profit from its "ill-gotten gains." Both justice and deterrence, they argue, require that MCI be dismembered, if not put to death.
Such claims understandably strike an emotional chord with America's scandal-weary public. Yet those claims are wrong all the same. Simply put, MCI retains no "ill-gotten gains" from the accounting fraud. Whatever short-term advantage the company might have gained has already been lost, many times over. In his opinion on the recent litigation between the SEC and MCI, Federal district court judge Jed Rakoff placed the liquidation value of the company at less than $6 billion. This value pales in comparison with the $200 billion by which WorldCom's equity has plunged.
In the overall scheme of things, there can be little doubt but that MCI would be in stronger shape today had the fraud never occurred, than it will be if it is allowed to emerge from bankruptcy.
While MCI's liquidation would be good for its rivals, it would be bad for the consuming public. It would reduce the choices available to many consumers of telecom services, force 20 million MCI customers to find new suppliers, and leave more of the telecom market under the control of the still relatively monopolistic Baby Bell companies. Local phone competition, which has finally started to deliver major savings to consumers in recent years, would take an especially big hit. Also wrong are claims that the liquidation of MCI is a means to secure justice and promote deterrence against such misdeeds in the future. Justice is served by punishing responsible individuals. So is deterrence. Neither is served by wreaking punishment indiscriminately on such innocent people as workers, investors, creditors, and customers.
To penalize an entire corporation for the misdeeds of some of its officials is to spread the resulting loss among all participants in the corporation. If corporate misdeeds are punished at the individual level, deterrence works as it is supposed to work. But if those misdeeds are punished at the corporate level, the deterrence effect is weakened and the injustice compounded.
It would be different if all participants within WorldCom had agreed to engage in fraudulent practice. But this is clearly not what happened. A few crooked executives engaged in fraudulent activity, and the practice was halted and made public when other individuals within the company became aware of it. To punish MCI wholesale would be to punish those innocent individuals and not the guilty wrongdoers.
It is easy to see why the entrenched incumbents are so keen to bring about MCI's demise. The likes of AT&T and the Baby Bells would rather feed on WorldCom's carcass than see it rejuvenated and have to compete with it for business. The public good, however, would be far better served if MCI receives a second chance instead of an early grave