Please don't use technical terms like "dupes". In the field of the media, it causes horrible confustion between repeats of programs and the viewing population (through the eyes of media executives).
If I were the U.S. Defen(c|s)e Secretary, I'd just be glad the Japanese weren't planning to build aircraft carriers to fly their fighters from.
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James
If you don't live in the People's Republic of China and your ISP isn't in the effective jurisdiction of the PRC, you probably will see uncensored search results, especially if *google.cn is not actually hosted in the PRC.
Just how zealous is Google about this? Do they censor search results requested by residents
of Taiwan?
AFAIR, a patent's term is 17 years: but according to the link to the USPTO web site from the original article, the Patent was filed in 1987, and 1987+17 = 2004. So what's going on?
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E.
You can't run Windows 3.1 in 12K of RAM. DOS 5.x alone needed about 256K. To run well (in the Win3.1 sense of the word, you required about 2-4M at least.
Were you thinking of Cave Opening 1.0, rather than Windows 3.1?? -- Old Fart (eeyore let me use his account -- thanks dude!!)
You should not allow less-trusted people to setuid to root and then run _any_ text editor that allows a shell to run under the assumed ID (that includes vi and emacs).
If necessary, the configuration file that these people edit should be owned by a low-privilege account; they can then edit it by sudo'ing to the owning account or via some sort of group membership hack.
If the config file directs operation of a daemon, then careful thought needs to be given to setting up the users under sudo that control the stop/start script(s).
Hate speech is detestable. It should however be permitted, although subject to the same restrictions as other categories of speech, with some reservations.
Should a person who is deliberately inciting hatred take objection to another person's criticism of his speech, the fact that the hate speaker's speech was itself malicious should be taken into account should the hate speaker decide to take legal action for defamation. -- E
I'm not sure of the point here. Double-clicking is too established a technique to be patentable on its own.
You would have to be desperate for screen real-estate (embedded systems?) to have three actions applied to one control/widget, depending on how long or how often a user clicks a pointing device on it. It's bad enough telling users how to get at a right-click menu...
I think that there may be some difference in scale here -- and of engineering technique. The jet engine on a Harrier may run for perhaps 4-6 hours (on a ferry flight) at most, spinning at several thousand rpm, and will then be serviced by a very skilled engineering crew.
On the other hand, the PC fan will spin at perhaps
50-100 rpm, for weeks or months at a time (on a server), and won't get any maintenance at all.
If you're going to get an editor that has everything including the Kitchen Sink in it, why not go for the luxury version with gold-plated taps & plug-chain, and which is built from solid marble?
If you look at some of the arrogance of some big modern corporations, you sometimes wonder if Vladimir Illych's (Lenin) timing was just a bit off.
A full-blown Communist system would have just as many problems with free/open source software as BMC's [no names, no packdrill, no defamation!] -- Eeyore
1) Lots more of us would be using HURD or (Free|Open|Net|*)BSD. 2) Linus wouldn't be so famous. 3) He could be a lot better off;-) Linux is part of a process. It isn't the whole process, or may not be the most important part of the process, but it has made a huge difference, and will do for a long while to come. Eeyore
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Please don't use technical terms like "dupes". In the field of the media, it causes horrible confustion between repeats of programs and the viewing population (through the eyes of media executives).
--eeyore
If I were the U.S. Defen(c|s)e Secretary, I'd just be glad the Japanese weren't planning to build aircraft carriers to fly their fighters from.
--
James
Ah, but does it work from China??
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Eeyore
If you don't live in the People's Republic of China and your ISP isn't in the effective jurisdiction of the PRC, you probably will see uncensored search results, especially if *google.cn is not actually hosted in the PRC.
Just how zealous is Google about this? Do they censor search results requested by residents of Taiwan?
--E
AFAIR, a patent's term is 17 years: but according to the link to the USPTO web site from the original article, the Patent was filed in 1987, and 1987+17 = 2004. So what's going on?
--
E.
You can't run Windows 3.1 in 12K of RAM. DOS 5.x alone needed about 256K. To run well (in the Win3.1 sense of the word, you required about 2-4M at least.
Were you thinking of Cave Opening 1.0, rather than Windows 3.1??
--
Old Fart
(eeyore let me use his account -- thanks dude!!)
There is a difference. I doubt that Mr Saddam Hussein has ever contributed funds to the US Republican Party or their candidates.
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AC
Will this news mark a return to the Old Days and all those messages on Websites that say "This Site best viewed at 800x600 in Our Favourite Browser"?
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E
You should not allow less-trusted people to setuid to root and then run _any_ text editor that allows a shell to run under the assumed ID (that includes vi and emacs).
If necessary, the configuration file that these people edit should be owned by a low-privilege account; they can then edit it by sudo'ing to the owning account or via some sort of group membership hack.
If the config file directs operation of a daemon, then careful thought needs to be given to setting up the users under sudo that control the stop/start script(s).
--J.
About 12 months before Visual Basic is
Hate speech is detestable. It should however be permitted, although subject to the same restrictions as other categories of speech, with some reservations.
Should a person who is deliberately inciting hatred take objection to another person's criticism of his speech, the fact that the hate speaker's speech was itself malicious should be taken into account should the hate speaker decide to take legal action for defamation.
--
E
Taking joy from the misfortune of others. A universal human hobby.
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E
I'm not sure of the point here. Double-clicking is too established a technique to be patentable on its own.
You would have to be desperate for screen real-estate (embedded systems?) to have three actions applied to one control/widget, depending on how long or how often a user clicks a pointing device on it. It's bad enough telling users how to get at a right-click menu...
--==--E
Waste of Cyanide.
Too late 8-((
Just as long as they're not the ants
with the attitute problem from "Spaceship Troopers"
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Eeyore
To the pure, all things are pure
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E
NO
I think that there may be some difference in scale here -- and of engineering technique. The jet engine on a Harrier may run for perhaps 4-6 hours (on a ferry flight) at most, spinning at several thousand rpm, and will then be serviced by a very skilled engineering crew.
On the other hand, the PC fan will spin at perhaps
50-100 rpm, for weeks or months at a time (on a server), and won't get any maintenance at all.
--
EEyore
...And it is commonly said that imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
Hah!! -- Eeyore
PostgreSQL has transactions, but it isn't a speed demon. Any /.er's out there have any experience with it?
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E.
Nothing exceeds like excess!
A full-blown Communist system would have just as many problems with free/open source software as BMC's [no names, no packdrill, no defamation!]
--
Eeyore
1) Lots more of us would be using HURD or (Free|Open|Net|*)BSD. 2) Linus wouldn't be so famous. 3) He could be a lot better off ;-)
Linux is part of a process. It isn't the whole process, or may not be the most important part of the process, but it has made a huge difference, and will do for a long while to come. Eeyore