I suppose that's plausible, however, given no upper limit for the amount of liquids allowed on checked luggage these precautions seem pointless.
With you separated from your bags, they are free to take as much (or as little) time to search as possible. Luggage delays get blamed on the airline (been there, done that). As for the carry-ons, you have people in line, and a (relatively) fixed amount of time to process them in. By having people remove their liquids beforehand (and put them in a nice clear bag), it makes it really easy to find them.
If they hand-inspect every checked bag, people feel safe. If they hand-inspect every carry-on, people get ticked.
On a side note, I can't remember the last time my checked bags _weren't_ hand-inspected. I tend to carry a fair amount of electronics, so that may have something to do with it.
Validating all input can help, but it doesn't help when you have things like off-by-one errors. Remember people, null-terminated strings are 1 byte bigger than the number of characters in the string.
Actually, they have a legitimate reason for limiting liquids - just not the one they tell you about. Given the strong oxidizer you would need to make an explosive, a liquid bomb isn't really an issue - especially considering we _still_ have nothing to stop a guy with a couple of sticks of TNT on his person and a matchbook.
OTOH, one of the ways drugs were smuggled was inside a bag, inside a liquid. It makes it harder for the drug dogs to smell it, as the scent is masked by the liquid. This is why you are limited to 100ml, in a clear plastic bag.
Shouldn't this put millions more LDs out into the "economy" daily, effectively generating SL inflation on the order of Zimbabwe's?
If you look at their Stats Page, you will see a number of sinks they have to remove money from the system. These include classified ads, group creation fees, land, directory fees, upload charges, etc. because of this, they can pay some of those linden dollars back, without causing inflation in the process.
{Just TRY to find jeans with 27-inch waist and 34-inch length.... and if you DO find a non-custom/tailored source, PLEASE let me know...}
I sympathise - it was hard enough finding 32x36.
I recommend Lands End for your hard-to-find sizes. They aren't the cheapest, but they have just about every conceivable size and are good quality products. Unfortunately, the Mens custom jeans only do 28-46". If you knowing anyone going to Vietnam, you can get custom-made stuff really cheap there. I've had them require waivers (they have a hard time believing anyone can _really_ be 6'10"), but other than that, it's fine. We've gotten hand-made silk shirts for under $40.
(You didn't state your gender, and I'm not going to assume, even with a name like UncleTogie) Men's Jeans Women's Jeans
Don't believe me? Try it yourself. Grab the dosbox.exe, and copy it to another folder. Put stock SDL dlls in it, and when you run it, it will whine about being unable to find steam. I'm not the only user in the forums who posted it, but hey, they may have gotten the information from me. If length of time on the site is indication of authority, my Old slashdot account has been around for a while, too.
Unbloody Likely! Not in any court in the USA or Europe! Now this is an example of Anti-GPL fearmongering. In the very worst case, doomsday scenario a judge might rule that: They had to stop distributing the software, immediately, and that they had to pay some quantity in damages to DOSBox developers.
You misread what I wrote. The steam client library is linked in the DosBox address space, combined into one program. Even the most strict intrepretation would require open-sourcing that to "fix" the current issues and bring the current distribution into line with the GPL. Potentially, it could be determined that the library is in fact part of one work (Steam), and as such DosBox is also part of steam by extension.
Note, in either case, this isn't likely to actually result in open-sourcing of the client library, or Steam itself. I never said it was. I simply stated what the possible rulings are based on a strict or liberal reading of the GPL. In either case, the judge is far more likely to say "here's an injunction - go work it out", [potentially] assign some damages, or some combination of the two. It would still be copyright infringement, but I suspect even the $150,000 statutory damages for copyright infringement beat open sourcing steam.
What I indicated before was what it would take to _fix_ the problem under the GPL. I never said that Valve had even the slightest chance of doing it, nor did I indicate that a court would make them. No license simply means it's copyright infringement, nothing more.
Shooting any burglar because some burglars might become violent is just stupid. If the burglar is coming at you, fine. If he's trying to leave or running away, no.
If he's running away, the opportunity for self-defense has passed. Perhaps it's because (as is often the case), when confronted with the choice between death and leaving, he chose to leave. This is a good thing. Shooting him in the back is revenge, which is a bad thing.
There may be a case for when he is threatening to come back and kill you or your family, or if he says he has a gun in the car, and is getting it so he can come back and kill you. That, however, is neither here nor there.
And this sort of thing is the reason companies are afraid of GPL.
So they take a GPL app, modify it, link in closed-source propreitary code forcing it to only work with another closed-source propreitary app (Steam), charge money for the resulting product, and remove the copyright notice and license. Furthermore, they deliberately obscure the origins of the product, remove much of the products functionality causing problems with the software, and badwill from people who do know the name of the program. Why on earth wouldn't these people be upset.
As for "fixing the problem", dosbox has been linked against steam libraries to make it only work with steam. Depending on what mood the court was in as to the interpration of what constitutes a derivitive work, fixing it would require at the very least open-source the steam client library or potentially all of steam. The GPL is a license designed to ensure that all recipients have the same freedom to modify the work. Valve has taken a GPL app, combined it with a DRM-laden application designed specifically to prevent users from modifying the application, and flat-out refused to abide by the letter, nevermind the letter of the GPL. Tivo technically complies, then breaks when you modify things. Valve didn't even go that far.
Just downloaded the pack. It's using a modified, binary-only dosbox. They have added the license and thanks.txt back, however, it still is infringing.
I copied dosbox.exe to a seperate directory, and it complained about missing SDL dlls. Using stock SDL dlls, it says "Failed to find steam". As such, they are distributing a modified binary-only version of a GPL application. Given the distribution has already happened, they are legally obligated to distribute the source code to the steam "stub" present in their dosbox application. Failing that, they are guilty of some serious copyright infringment, and statutory damages can be huge.
I suspect it wouldn't look good in court having a very large, well-known software company stealing code from little guys, and using it as the foundation for a significant commercial project. This also makes it look willfull, as opposed to accidental infringement. Furthermore, given iD's technology licensing platform, which includes significant GPL distribution, they would have a hard time claiming ignorance.
A system like this cannot function if _everyone_ in the chain is compromised.
On the other hand, if you have N copies, and no person has access to all, you have in fact made it so it can never be deleted, provided you accept as an assumption that N people will not be compromised simultaneously. This is, of course, a necessary assumption anyway - without it, you can't have a working audit system in the first place.
It does nicely with the write-once requirement provided that you have also secured the machine from tampering. Unfortunately it does not do very well with the "read many".
So burn it to CD-Rs (cheap, they have robotic arms for large-scale stuff) when you have enough logs to bother.
If you are looking to use an iPhone with an existing AT&T account, let me know. It's not that hard, really. Visual Voicemail doesn't work, but oh well.
My business has good, tested, proven software. Even if I felt absolutely compelled to upgrade to Vista, it breaks some of my software. Some of it can be updated to a new version of the software from the vendor, but why the heck would I do so?
It's been my experience that "upgrades" are rarely so. In addition to the cost in money and time, they add features I don't need, and senselessly change the interface. It works fine now, but if they don't radically change things, and add new "features", nobody would pay money to "upgrade".
I would still be using Quicken 8 for DOS if it supported online banking. I'm tired of Intuit changing the online banking format every few years, and deliberately breaking old versions of the software. The new interface is horrid, and adds a lot of useless crap.
One of my treos (600, IIRC) had a non-removable battery. I was quite surprised by it.
I had a flight attendant tell me to turn it off. When I indicated it was in flight mode, she said it had to be "completly off", and the little blinking light on the front would have to stop.
I informed her that to achieve that, I would have to throw it out the window, since the tools it would take to dismantle it were down in the cargo bin. She wasn't too happy, but she left me alone after that.
The postal service owns the entire infrastructure end to end
No, they don't. I worked for Mesa Airlines a few years back, and handled quite a bit of mail. I had to go through a background check, and heaven help the employee who left mail uncovered somewhere. The fines were _obscene_ for all kinds of offenses against the mail (with large per-letter fines).
My parents used to take the keyboard when they left, and didn't have the PPP password remembered.
I ended up writing a fake password dialog that logged it to a file, and ended up spending a lot of time chatting on IRC using Character Map.
This was when I was in 6th grade (I believe we used netcom), so it was approximately 11 years ago. They eventually got better security software.
Over the years, I did some consulting over the internet, took public transportation to Incredible Universe/Frys Electronics, and amassed enough parts to build my own PC - I had the motherboard, power supply, etc. hidden inside a drawer. The power supply was dismantled to make it small enough to hide under the desk, and I spliced some more wire into the drawer could open normally. I'd move the monitor to my room when they weren't home. Buying a laptop wasn't an option, and my parents intercepted the mail.
In retrospect, it would have been easier to just swap out the hard disk, and replace the case screws with thumbscrews. Heck, I could have probably just left the second HDD in, gotten a keyboard, and swapped the IDE cable.
Given the software available today on the internet, it's unlikely your "typical" parent could ever do too much to control their kid directly. Even if the child isn't the most internet savvy, he probably has a friend or schoolmate who is. Treat them with respect, help them make correct decisions, and don't give them a reason to rebel against you. After all, if you are willing to work that hard to keep them from doing something, it must really be worth doing.
does that quote imply that if it was the Republicans... they wouldn't be influenced by Hollywood
The point of the quote is not that the Republicans aren't corrupt - everyone knows they are. The Democrats, on the other hand, are supposedly "different".
I'm not going to badmouth them, and I think that providing medicine to those who cannot afford it is a good thing.
As for an "ulterior motive", there may be some tax advantages to it, and at the very least, it's not much of a cost. R&D and advertising are a good part of the cost of a pill; there's no profit in selling to those who can't afford it. Many drugs have a very low cost per-pill to produce, and by not passing on the advertising/R&D costs, the free medication won't make much of a difference on the bottom line. Accordingly, it makes sense from an ethical standpoint to provide those for free, especially if it's possible to get tax deductions for doing so. If not, there are intangible benefits to be had as well.
Of course, from a macro standpoint, _everyone_ does things for their own gain (including "pure" charity) - sometimes the reward is simply knowing that the world is more as you would like it (i.e. a better place). I'd also say that "you can't put a price on goodwill", but in accounting, they most certainly can.
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With you separated from your bags, they are free to take as much (or as little) time to search as possible. Luggage delays get blamed on the airline (been there, done that). As for the carry-ons, you have people in line, and a (relatively) fixed amount of time to process them in. By having people remove their liquids beforehand (and put them in a nice clear bag), it makes it really easy to find them.
If they hand-inspect every checked bag, people feel safe. If they hand-inspect every carry-on, people get ticked.
On a side note, I can't remember the last time my checked bags _weren't_ hand-inspected. I tend to carry a fair amount of electronics, so that may have something to do with it.
Validating all input can help, but it doesn't help when you have things like off-by-one errors. Remember people, null-terminated strings are 1 byte bigger than the number of characters in the string.
Actually, they have a legitimate reason for limiting liquids - just not the one they tell you about. Given the strong oxidizer you would need to make an explosive, a liquid bomb isn't really an issue - especially considering we _still_ have nothing to stop a guy with a couple of sticks of TNT on his person and a matchbook.
OTOH, one of the ways drugs were smuggled was inside a bag, inside a liquid. It makes it harder for the drug dogs to smell it, as the scent is masked by the liquid. This is why you are limited to 100ml, in a clear plastic bag.
The more you know.
Shouldn't this put millions more LDs out into the "economy" daily, effectively generating SL inflation on the order of Zimbabwe's?
If you look at their Stats Page, you will see a number of sinks they have to remove money from the system. These include classified ads, group creation fees, land, directory fees, upload charges, etc. because of this, they can pay some of those linden dollars back, without causing inflation in the process.
I sympathise - it was hard enough finding 32x36.
I recommend Lands End for your hard-to-find sizes. They aren't the cheapest, but they have just about every conceivable size and are good quality products. Unfortunately, the Mens custom jeans only do 28-46". If you knowing anyone going to Vietnam, you can get custom-made stuff really cheap there. I've had them require waivers (they have a hard time believing anyone can _really_ be 6'10"), but other than that, it's fine. We've gotten hand-made silk shirts for under $40.
(You didn't state your gender, and I'm not going to assume, even with a name like UncleTogie)
Men's Jeans
Women's Jeans
Who is that guy? Me.
Don't believe me? Try it yourself. Grab the dosbox.exe, and copy it to another folder. Put stock SDL dlls in it, and when you run it, it will whine about being unable to find steam. I'm not the only user in the forums who posted it, but hey, they may have gotten the information from me. If length of time on the site is indication of authority, my Old slashdot account has been around for a while, too.
You misread what I wrote. The steam client library is linked in the DosBox address space, combined into one program. Even the most strict intrepretation would require open-sourcing that to "fix" the current issues and bring the current distribution into line with the GPL. Potentially, it could be determined that the library is in fact part of one work (Steam), and as such DosBox is also part of steam by extension.
Note, in either case, this isn't likely to actually result in open-sourcing of the client library, or Steam itself. I never said it was. I simply stated what the possible rulings are based on a strict or liberal reading of the GPL. In either case, the judge is far more likely to say "here's an injunction - go work it out", [potentially] assign some damages, or some combination of the two. It would still be copyright infringement, but I suspect even the $150,000 statutory damages for copyright infringement beat open sourcing steam.
What I indicated before was what it would take to _fix_ the problem under the GPL. I never said that Valve had even the slightest chance of doing it, nor did I indicate that a court would make them. No license simply means it's copyright infringement, nothing more.
Shooting any burglar because some burglars might become violent is just stupid. If the burglar is coming at you, fine. If he's trying to leave or running away, no.
If he's running away, the opportunity for self-defense has passed. Perhaps it's because (as is often the case), when confronted with the choice between death and leaving, he chose to leave. This is a good thing. Shooting him in the back is revenge, which is a bad thing.
There may be a case for when he is threatening to come back and kill you or your family, or if he says he has a gun in the car, and is getting it so he can come back and kill you. That, however, is neither here nor there.
Well, dosbox is linked with the closed-source steam client library in it, with obfuscation/packing. So, either
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1) The steam lib was linked directly into the dosbox source, or
2) A steam exe wrapper was applied to the dosbox
In either case, Valve should have been paying attention. It's their IP in dosbox, not iD software's.
So they take a GPL app, modify it, link in closed-source propreitary code forcing it to only work with another closed-source propreitary app (Steam), charge money for the resulting product, and remove the copyright notice and license. Furthermore, they deliberately obscure the origins of the product, remove much of the products functionality causing problems with the software, and badwill from people who do know the name of the program. Why on earth wouldn't these people be upset.
As for "fixing the problem", dosbox has been linked against steam libraries to make it only work with steam. Depending on what mood the court was in as to the interpration of what constitutes a derivitive work, fixing it would require at the very least open-source the steam client library or potentially all of steam. The GPL is a license designed to ensure that all recipients have the same freedom to modify the work. Valve has taken a GPL app, combined it with a DRM-laden application designed specifically to prevent users from modifying the application, and flat-out refused to abide by the letter, nevermind the letter of the GPL. Tivo technically complies, then breaks when you modify things. Valve didn't even go that far.
See here for more info.
That may be true; however, it's harder to claim innocense when you Modify a GPL app, link in propreitary code you would _never_ open-source (steam), run a packer on it, and distribute to millions for commercial gain.
Just downloaded the pack. It's using a modified, binary-only dosbox. They have added the license and thanks.txt back, however, it still is infringing.
I copied dosbox.exe to a seperate directory, and it complained about missing SDL dlls. Using stock SDL dlls, it says "Failed to find steam". As such, they are distributing a modified binary-only version of a GPL application. Given the distribution has already happened, they are legally obligated to distribute the source code to the steam "stub" present in their dosbox application. Failing that, they are guilty of some serious copyright infringment, and statutory damages can be huge.
I suspect it wouldn't look good in court having a very large, well-known software company stealing code from little guys, and using it as the foundation for a significant commercial project. This also makes it look willfull, as opposed to accidental infringement. Furthermore, given iD's technology licensing platform, which includes significant GPL distribution, they would have a hard time claiming ignorance.
SW:G
'nuff said.
A system like this cannot function if _everyone_ in the chain is compromised.
On the other hand, if you have N copies, and no person has access to all, you have in fact made it so it can never be deleted, provided you accept as an assumption that N people will not be compromised simultaneously. This is, of course, a necessary assumption anyway - without it, you can't have a working audit system in the first place.
That's why you use a software WOM implementation -
So burn it to CD-Rs (cheap, they have robotic arms for large-scale stuff) when you have enough logs to bother.
But yeah, it would be nice to use wget.
So use it. The download manager is a preference that can be changed.
If you are looking to use an iPhone with an existing AT&T account, let me know. It's not that hard, really. Visual Voicemail doesn't work, but oh well.
This is a rather disgusting image, and should be modded down.
This may be true. Ultimately, it doesn't matter.
My business has good, tested, proven software. Even if I felt absolutely compelled to upgrade to Vista, it breaks some of my software. Some of it can be updated to a new version of the software from the vendor, but why the heck would I do so?
It's been my experience that "upgrades" are rarely so. In addition to the cost in money and time, they add features I don't need, and senselessly change the interface. It works fine now, but if they don't radically change things, and add new "features", nobody would pay money to "upgrade".
I would still be using Quicken 8 for DOS if it supported online banking. I'm tired of Intuit changing the online banking format every few years, and deliberately breaking old versions of the software. The new interface is horrid, and adds a lot of useless crap.
One of my treos (600, IIRC) had a non-removable battery. I was quite surprised by it.
I had a flight attendant tell me to turn it off. When I indicated it was in flight mode, she said it had to be "completly off", and the little blinking light on the front would have to stop.
I informed her that to achieve that, I would have to throw it out the window, since the tools it would take to dismantle it were down in the cargo bin. She wasn't too happy, but she left me alone after that.
All in all, very annoying.
The postal service owns the entire infrastructure end to end
No, they don't. I worked for Mesa Airlines a few years back, and handled quite a bit of mail. I had to go through a background check, and heaven help the employee who left mail uncovered somewhere. The fines were _obscene_ for all kinds of offenses against the mail (with large per-letter fines).
My parents used to take the keyboard when they left, and didn't have the PPP password remembered.
I ended up writing a fake password dialog that logged it to a file, and ended up spending a lot of time chatting on IRC using Character Map.
This was when I was in 6th grade (I believe we used netcom), so it was approximately 11 years ago. They eventually got better security software.
Over the years, I did some consulting over the internet, took public transportation to Incredible Universe/Frys Electronics, and amassed enough parts to build my own PC - I had the motherboard, power supply, etc. hidden inside a drawer. The power supply was dismantled to make it small enough to hide under the desk, and I spliced some more wire into the drawer could open normally. I'd move the monitor to my room when they weren't home. Buying a laptop wasn't an option, and my parents intercepted the mail.
In retrospect, it would have been easier to just swap out the hard disk, and replace the case screws with thumbscrews. Heck, I could have probably just left the second HDD in, gotten a keyboard, and swapped the IDE cable.
Given the software available today on the internet, it's unlikely your "typical" parent could ever do too much to control their kid directly. Even if the child isn't the most internet savvy, he probably has a friend or schoolmate who is. Treat them with respect, help them make correct decisions, and don't give them a reason to rebel against you. After all, if you are willing to work that hard to keep them from doing something, it must really be worth doing.
The point of the quote is not that the Republicans aren't corrupt - everyone knows they are. The Democrats, on the other hand, are supposedly "different".
I'm not going to badmouth them, and I think that providing medicine to those who cannot afford it is a good thing.
As for an "ulterior motive", there may be some tax advantages to it, and at the very least, it's not much of a cost. R&D and advertising are a good part of the cost of a pill; there's no profit in selling to those who can't afford it. Many drugs have a very low cost per-pill to produce, and by not passing on the advertising/R&D costs, the free medication won't make much of a difference on the bottom line. Accordingly, it makes sense from an ethical standpoint to provide those for free, especially if it's possible to get tax deductions for doing so. If not, there are intangible benefits to be had as well.
Of course, from a macro standpoint, _everyone_ does things for their own gain (including "pure" charity) - sometimes the reward is simply knowing that the world is more as you would like it (i.e. a better place). I'd also say that "you can't put a price on goodwill", but in accounting, they most certainly can.