Heh, indeed. I'm doing that right now to avoid having to use IE in a library.
The only downside is that some monitor that Dell packaged with the system keeps bitching about me "having low hard drive space" every few minutes because of the 128 MB thumb drive.
It wouldn't matter if they WERE discriminating based on those. It's a private entity. There are plenty of private schools that REQUIRE someone to have a particular religion, gender, et cetera.
I know doctors who are young-earth creationists. It doesn't interfere with their job, and their faith helps them get through what they have to do.
There are plenty of religious scientists, unless you insist upon the definition that excludes anyone who believes anything that isn't supported by the scientific method. In that case, you need to make up a new term for all the Christians who explore and discover new things...The founder of the "scientific method" for one.
And yes, I know you were being humorous.
He isn't being criminally or civilly charged, and it's not a state school. A private school has the right to limit itself to students who only follow a particular political, religious, or cultural view if it wants, because it's not funded by the Government, but by private citizens. You can't tell them who's going to benefit from their money.
Now, I agree that the school in question is doing something asinine, but it's not illegal.
A private university can expell a student for many more reasons than a public one can. It's not a state school. If he doesn't want to be burdened by the private school's restrictions, he shouldn't go there...This is more along the lines as the private Catholic high school that kicked out a student because her legal guardians were lesbians.
In this case, I think it's a jackass thing for them to do, but I don't believe it's illegal.
I saw it and liked it, despite the fact that it was political (and exaggerative in many ways) as hell. I don't hear much about it outside of CS geek circles, so it doesn't seem to have caught on with the normals.
I'm inclined to agree. FFS, tell the kid he can wait and that he should be glad that he's at least going to get one. Sure, I'd be pissed about it not working (I've had similar, and WORSE, experiences), but bringing a lawsuit about this once the company has already agreed to fix or replace all the faulty units is childish.
Most Greeks probably didn't care. Greece, however, managed to have both great military power and a system of morals that allowed the intellectuals they DID have to do what they do best.
It only lasted for a certain amount of time before they divided into two groups, anyway: one that was martial and moralistic and one that had more intellectuals, but was decadent.
Huh? The only time I had to go to a CLI in an Ubuntu installation was once when the computer had some oddball hardware. Nine times (or more) out of ten, Ubuntu installs and runs without a hitch.
That and the fact that their government is probably more concerned with more important things like water and power...if they aren't corrupt.
Exce$$ive dollar $ign$ nonwithstanding, I don't think the parent post is a troll.
How exactly do you have such a high software piracy rate when only 5% of the people have Internet? Yeah, I know people can copy things at home and hand them out or sell them, but it seems like that couldn't spread things fast enough to come close to the rate in other countries.
That's fine if the machine running 98/SE/ME is a stand-alone, or not on a network with newer versions of Windows, but if you put it on the same network as 2000/XP machines it can act as a Typhoid Mary. Of course, that depends on a few other things such as how files are shared between them, how much common sense your users have, et cetera, but mixing them isn't recommended.
Considering that very few people I talked to had heard about it before I mentioned it, and most of these people were fairly intelligent, I think that you're hoping for too much. At least they didn't react with apathy when I mentioned it.
Don't be cross with yourself for boycotting Sony.If thy hand offend thee, cut it off. If it makes a difference in the big picture, good. If it doesn't, well, at least you didn't compromise your values.
Not necessarily. We just realize that there are good things and bad things that come out of corporations. Then we try to decide which ones are heavier.
With something that's this large-scale, they're probably going to make damn sure they get hardware compatible with whatever *nix they're running...And it's probably going to be as homogenous as possible. I don't believe the Olympics is run off of mix-match home and office equipment.
The contractor, in most places, is required by law to replace the locks. Same thing if they do something stupid like putting all residential hinges on a commercial door. If they don't, they have to do it again. If they don't and the place is broken into as a result, they are civilly liable for damage caused.
I think you're thinking of the Windows Live portal, and yes, they're tacking it onto damn near everything of theirs that uses TCP/IP. It's supposed to serve the same function as adding "online", but that was already taken.
Frankly, I find it less annoying than people including a TLD as part of their product name (ie,.NET, X.org, Openoffice.org).
I believe he was implying that they don't take enough steps to secure the operating system. If a lock is faulty and someone breaks it and steals from a house, the locksmith can potentially be held (at least partially) responsible in a civil court, even though only the burglar would be criminally responsible.
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Heh, indeed. I'm doing that right now to avoid having to use IE in a library.
The only downside is that some monitor that Dell packaged with the system keeps bitching about me "having low hard drive space" every few minutes because of the 128 MB thumb drive.
You'd think a publication called the "IT Observer" could get the hacker vs "malicious hacker" or "cracker" wording right.
It wouldn't matter if they WERE discriminating based on those. It's a private entity. There are plenty of private schools that REQUIRE someone to have a particular religion, gender, et cetera.
I know doctors who are young-earth creationists. It doesn't interfere with their job, and their faith helps them get through what they have to do. There are plenty of religious scientists, unless you insist upon the definition that excludes anyone who believes anything that isn't supported by the scientific method. In that case, you need to make up a new term for all the Christians who explore and discover new things...The founder of the "scientific method" for one. And yes, I know you were being humorous.
He isn't being criminally or civilly charged, and it's not a state school. A private school has the right to limit itself to students who only follow a particular political, religious, or cultural view if it wants, because it's not funded by the Government, but by private citizens. You can't tell them who's going to benefit from their money. Now, I agree that the school in question is doing something asinine, but it's not illegal.
A private university can expell a student for many more reasons than a public one can. It's not a state school. If he doesn't want to be burdened by the private school's restrictions, he shouldn't go there...This is more along the lines as the private Catholic high school that kicked out a student because her legal guardians were lesbians. In this case, I think it's a jackass thing for them to do, but I don't believe it's illegal.
I saw it and liked it, despite the fact that it was political (and exaggerative in many ways) as hell. I don't hear much about it outside of CS geek circles, so it doesn't seem to have caught on with the normals.
I'm guessing they mean per second. It would really suck if they couldn't fit more than that on their webserver. :)
I'm inclined to agree. FFS, tell the kid he can wait and that he should be glad that he's at least going to get one. Sure, I'd be pissed about it not working (I've had similar, and WORSE, experiences), but bringing a lawsuit about this once the company has already agreed to fix or replace all the faulty units is childish.
Most Greeks probably didn't care. Greece, however, managed to have both great military power and a system of morals that allowed the intellectuals they DID have to do what they do best.
It only lasted for a certain amount of time before they divided into two groups, anyway: one that was martial and moralistic and one that had more intellectuals, but was decadent.
Picture a large flag with a disc, with the words "COPY THAT FLOPPY!" blazoned across it. :)
Huh? The only time I had to go to a CLI in an Ubuntu installation was once when the computer had some oddball hardware. Nine times (or more) out of ten, Ubuntu installs and runs without a hitch.
That and the fact that their government is probably more concerned with more important things like water and power...if they aren't corrupt. Exce$$ive dollar $ign$ nonwithstanding, I don't think the parent post is a troll.
How exactly do you have such a high software piracy rate when only 5% of the people have Internet? Yeah, I know people can copy things at home and hand them out or sell them, but it seems like that couldn't spread things fast enough to come close to the rate in other countries.
That's fine if the machine running 98/SE/ME is a stand-alone, or not on a network with newer versions of Windows, but if you put it on the same network as 2000/XP machines it can act as a Typhoid Mary. Of course, that depends on a few other things such as how files are shared between them, how much common sense your users have, et cetera, but mixing them isn't recommended.
Considering that very few people I talked to had heard about it before I mentioned it, and most of these people were fairly intelligent, I think that you're hoping for too much. At least they didn't react with apathy when I mentioned it. Don't be cross with yourself for boycotting Sony.If thy hand offend thee, cut it off. If it makes a difference in the big picture, good. If it doesn't, well, at least you didn't compromise your values.
Not necessarily. We just realize that there are good things and bad things that come out of corporations. Then we try to decide which ones are heavier.
With something that's this large-scale, they're probably going to make damn sure they get hardware compatible with whatever *nix they're running...And it's probably going to be as homogenous as possible. I don't believe the Olympics is run off of mix-match home and office equipment.
"sudo killall humans" You do not have sudo access. This incident will be reported. --Gabriel
Then why is there a copy of the "Song of Solomon" in each Bible the Gideons give away? :)
The contractor, in most places, is required by law to replace the locks. Same thing if they do something stupid like putting all residential hinges on a commercial door. If they don't, they have to do it again. If they don't and the place is broken into as a result, they are civilly liable for damage caused.
I think you're thinking of the Windows Live portal, and yes, they're tacking it onto damn near everything of theirs that uses TCP/IP. It's supposed to serve the same function as adding "online", but that was already taken. Frankly, I find it less annoying than people including a TLD as part of their product name (ie, .NET, X.org, Openoffice.org).
I believe he was implying that they don't take enough steps to secure the operating system. If a lock is faulty and someone breaks it and steals from a house, the locksmith can potentially be held (at least partially) responsible in a civil court, even though only the burglar would be criminally responsible.
I guess having better brakes would keep it from crashing so often?
I keep telling them they're in danger of giving rise to dom.