The Righthaven jerks do not even own the copyright. They have no standing whatsoever. How are they getting away with this without sanctions? I really want to know why. There really isn't any dispute about who owns the copyrights.
The time when taking the vexatious plaintiffs out to the desert and staking them down next to a fire-ant hill is acceptable keeps getting closer every day.
>I'll be glad when these clowns finally sell their Exxon stock so I don't have to listen to them whine any more in the face of the inevitable
Did you read the same article I read?
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists isn't generally thought of as a Big Oil propaganda rag by environmentalists.
In the same issue:
When politicians distort science
Updated: 23 November 2011
Republican presidential candidate and Texas Gov. Rick Perry recently questioned the science of climate change in ways so unsupported by evidence that Glenn Kessler, the "Fact Checker" columnist at The Washington Post, gave him a rating of "four Pinocchios." Perry's is but one scientific misstatement among many that regularly roil the US political scene. What is the proper scientific response to the political distortion -- or even outright rejection -- of science? In coming weeks, three Bulletin experts will offer authoritative and at times provocative analysis.
Yeah, Big Oil. Right.
GFY.
-- BMO - who used to pay attention to the Bulletin's Clock during the Cold War.
The native versions for Linux were 8.1 and earlier. 9 was the horrid Wine one, but that doesn't mean 8.1 and 8.0 weren't native. FFS, it was the main reason why I bought boxed sets of SuSE back then - they came with WP and 4Front sound card drivers. Throw in the best manuals you ever read and other nice things, and the 70 bux was a bargain.
Yes, it used Motif. So did a lot of Linux programs at that time.
YOU DO NOT TELL YOUR CUSTOMERS THAT YOU ARE EOLING YOUR SOFTWARE UNLESS YOU ARE SERIOUS ABOUT GETTING THEM TO MIGRATE OFF THE PLATFORM.
For reals. Migrating off of one system to another takes time. You don't play fucking games. Microsoft knows this. That's why they gave everybody enough warning.
I read the message. The GP is trying to convince people to buy Windows for Itanium, when Windows for Itanium is a DEAD END.
It is irresponsible, and frankly, an insult to the intelligence of potential customers.
W2008R2 for Itanium is THE END. If you have not been migrating off it, you should start. Today.
Microsoft: it's the end of the line for Itanium support By Peter Bright | Published about a year ago
Windows Server 2008 R2, SQL Server 2008 R2, and Visual Studio 2010 will represent the last versions to support Intel's Itanium architecture, Microsoft has announced on its Windows Server blog. Mainstream support for Windows Server 2008 R2 will end on July 9, 2013, with extended support ending five years later.
So we name them (sometimes from their marketing terms) and then we verb them.
"Verbing weirds language" but it works for the time being, and then it gets accepted through repeated use or misuse.
I think we lost when I found "irregardless" in the dictionary.
The problem with defending the purity of the English language is that English is about as pure as a cribhouse whore. We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.[5]
- James D. Nicoll
And...
"Getting upset about marketing speak is like getting upset about the finer points of pig Latin."
But the sooner the anti-malware "ecosystem" disappears the better.
You should not have to purchase third party software to keep an operating system secure or from eating itself (all the snake-oil "registry cleaners" and "application uninstallers"). Such functions should be part of the OS at worst, or better yet, unnecessary.
Richard Feynman had a story about how his hobby was safe cracking. He cracked a cabinet that had a combination lock on it and then told the people who mattered the security hole. Did they upgrade the security on the cabinet? No, they banned him from the room. Problem solved.
It would have helped if he typed in semi-accurate English. It's not my fault if he fails at subject-object-verb agreement, can't spell, and well, doesn't particularly care how his posts appear.
And filtering porn is generally the use of filters. I've never come across someone who wanted to opt-in to a filter to get more porn.
Want non-crap porn listings? They're out there. It's called putting in 5 seconds of effort into Google.
Does certain types of sport encourage the growth of one type of muscle cell over another?
Roger Williams noted that nearly all the native americans excelled at running if they weren't lame from injury. They did because they started running as little kids all the way through adulthood (Route 44 in RI is known as Wampanoag Trail, which was a running trail back in the day). The same can be said for what seems to be the national sport of Kenya - the reason why there are so many Kenyan champion runners is that it's what everybody does growing up.
Also, fast twitch vs slow twitch does not take into account the dynamics of a person's skeleton. All the fast twitch in the world is not going to help you in sprinting when your bones aren't optimal for it.
There are so many factors in being good at a sport, a single genetic test is not going to tell you anything. This is barely a step above waving a dead chicken, which will do more harm than good if you ask me.
Do you listen to music in other languages? No? Then get out from under your rock. There is more to music than the American Top 40 on Saturday mornings.
While I currently do not run full disk encryption on my laptop and I have never done anything to warrant arrest, I have thought about full disk encryption. Especially in these days of a growing police state, it is not my job to make your job easier. If the news stories keep going the way they are, I suspect that within the year, I will simply migrate over with strong encryption and that will be that.
Because I do not like the increasingly adversarial and militarized role the police have been taking. I'm sure I'm not alone. While I do not wear tinfoil, the news events of late give me pause.
Nothing is 100 percent accurate. And I suppose you're going to say next "well moving all the porn to.xxx will make it 100 percent accurate" which is patently untrue, and trying to legislate it in the US would run afoul of Constitutional speech issues.
The.xxx TLD is a terrible idea all around. The only people for it are those who haven't thought it through and those who stand to gain from selling more domains.
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If this is SCO redux and we're going to hear about this for 7 more years, I suppose we should shoot them now.
I give you the most censored routine in history.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LyPFQKpRnd0
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BMO
No you cannot, Dan Wallace. You lost and therefore cemented the issue forever. Deal with it.
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BMO
The Righthaven jerks do not even own the copyright. They have no standing whatsoever. How are they getting away with this without sanctions? I really want to know why. There really isn't any dispute about who owns the copyrights.
The time when taking the vexatious plaintiffs out to the desert and staking them down next to a fire-ant hill is acceptable keeps getting closer every day.
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BMO
I clicked through to that.
You can take your "naturopath" website and interstitial "can't even close it without an email address" ad and shove it squarely up your ass.
Furthermore,
Fuck you, you nutjob anti-vaxxer.
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BMO
>I'll be glad when these clowns finally sell their Exxon stock so I don't have to listen to them whine any more in the face of the inevitable
Did you read the same article I read?
The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists isn't generally thought of as a Big Oil propaganda rag by environmentalists.
In the same issue:
Yeah, Big Oil. Right.
GFY.
--
BMO - who used to pay attention to the Bulletin's Clock during the Cold War.
The real reason are your Frankenstein Radio controls. These are controlled by your computergod brain on the moon.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lJHiU-X9Y-0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJLhnts9-oQ
It's proven. I heard it on the web.
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BMO
What the hell are you talking about?
The native versions for Linux were 8.1 and earlier. 9 was the horrid Wine one, but that doesn't mean 8.1 and 8.0 weren't native. FFS, it was the main reason why I bought boxed sets of SuSE back then - they came with WP and 4Front sound card drivers. Throw in the best manuals you ever read and other nice things, and the 70 bux was a bargain.
Yes, it used Motif. So did a lot of Linux programs at that time.
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BMO
YOU DO NOT TELL YOUR CUSTOMERS THAT YOU ARE EOLING YOUR SOFTWARE UNLESS YOU ARE SERIOUS ABOUT GETTING THEM TO MIGRATE OFF THE PLATFORM.
For reals. Migrating off of one system to another takes time. You don't play fucking games. Microsoft knows this. That's why they gave everybody enough warning.
I read the message. The GP is trying to convince people to buy Windows for Itanium, when Windows for Itanium is a DEAD END.
It is irresponsible, and frankly, an insult to the intelligence of potential customers.
W2008R2 for Itanium is THE END. If you have not been migrating off it, you should start. Today.
--
BMO
>windows
>itanium
Excuse me?
Windows on Itanium is being EOLed.
http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/news/2010/04/microsoft-its-the-end-of-the-line-for-itanium-support.ars
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BMO
> Citation please
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAMXmW61nWk
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BMO
I do it to piss you, personally, off. Specifically. Indeed, I've been doing it since 1986 to piss you off, even before I met you.
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BMO
So we name them (sometimes from their marketing terms) and then we verb them.
"Verbing weirds language" but it works for the time being, and then it gets accepted through repeated use or misuse.
I think we lost when I found "irregardless" in the dictionary.
- James D. Nicoll
And...
- Christiana Ellis
Jeg opgiv.
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BMO
>genetically-determined muscular composition.
But we all train our muscles doing what we do.
If it was pure genetics, training wouldn't matter, surely?
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BMO
I nominate this for the "BOFH of the Year" answer.
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BMO
But the sooner the anti-malware "ecosystem" disappears the better.
You should not have to purchase third party software to keep an operating system secure or from eating itself (all the snake-oil "registry cleaners" and "application uninstallers"). Such functions should be part of the OS at worst, or better yet, unnecessary.
--
BMO
You think this is funny, eh?
Richard Feynman had a story about how his hobby was safe cracking. He cracked a cabinet that had a combination lock on it and then told the people who mattered the security hole. Did they upgrade the security on the cabinet? No, they banned him from the room. Problem solved.
--
BMO
It would have helped if he typed in semi-accurate English. It's not my fault if he fails at subject-object-verb agreement, can't spell, and well, doesn't particularly care how his posts appear.
And filtering porn is generally the use of filters. I've never come across someone who wanted to opt-in to a filter to get more porn.
Want non-crap porn listings? They're out there. It's called putting in 5 seconds of effort into Google.
--
BMO
>In an environment where the ability to run matters, natural selection favors good runners.
>implying that running has anything to do with natural selection in Kenya instead of the motivation to get money through winning races.
Subtle troll is subtle.
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BMO
But here's a question.
Does certain types of sport encourage the growth of one type of muscle cell over another?
Roger Williams noted that nearly all the native americans excelled at running if they weren't lame from injury. They did because they started running as little kids all the way through adulthood (Route 44 in RI is known as Wampanoag Trail, which was a running trail back in the day). The same can be said for what seems to be the national sport of Kenya - the reason why there are so many Kenyan champion runners is that it's what everybody does growing up.
Also, fast twitch vs slow twitch does not take into account the dynamics of a person's skeleton. All the fast twitch in the world is not going to help you in sprinting when your bones aren't optimal for it.
There are so many factors in being good at a sport, a single genetic test is not going to tell you anything. This is barely a step above waving a dead chicken, which will do more harm than good if you ask me.
>Let the kid do what they like
I can't agree more.
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BMO
Came looking for the Gattaca reference. Leaving satisfied.
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BMO
>camden
Fortunately I do not live in a third-world hellhole such as that.
Camden is the asshole of NJ.
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BMO
True, and at that point I'll just give up the pw even before we get to the rubber hose decryption.
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BMO
Do you listen to music in other languages? No? Then get out from under your rock. There is more to music than the American Top 40 on Saturday mornings.
--
BMO
While I currently do not run full disk encryption on my laptop and I have never done anything to warrant arrest, I have thought about full disk encryption. Especially in these days of a growing police state, it is not my job to make your job easier. If the news stories keep going the way they are, I suspect that within the year, I will simply migrate over with strong encryption and that will be that.
Because I do not like the increasingly adversarial and militarized role the police have been taking. I'm sure I'm not alone. While I do not wear tinfoil, the news events of late give me pause.
--
BMO - shiny side out.
Nothing is 100 percent accurate. And I suppose you're going to say next "well moving all the porn to .xxx will make it 100 percent accurate" which is patently untrue, and trying to legislate it in the US would run afoul of Constitutional speech issues.
The .xxx TLD is a terrible idea all around. The only people for it are those who haven't thought it through and those who stand to gain from selling more domains.
--
BMO