Oh my god, this is exactly the problem! How the fuck do you expect to get networking working on any Linux distro without a network connection? Downloading and burning like 20 CDs isn't a viable solution for this problem, so to Ubuntu we go for networking support.
If it were electrons, though (which itself is absurd), the concept of AC would pretty much prevent the electrons from ever getting here. Even if it were DC, it would take quite a while for the specific electrons to reach here.
Speaking of which, I remember hearing that some Beatles music was going to become public domain soon. If that actually happens, I'll renew (no pun intended) my faith in sensible copyright actually existing.
You forgot to say "IANAL" because you have no idea what the fuck you're talking about. Allofmp3 is legal due to Russian law, and the only way to make it illegal would be to change the law, and as far as I know, that seems kinda hard to do in Russia, especially something as anti-consumer as copyright.
If identity theft were legal when it was done, it was legal. The US Constitution explicitly states that anything that isn't already illegal due to a law is legal. Trying to punish someone for an act that wasn't illegal at the time of the event is called ex post facto, and that also is explicitly banned by the US Constitution.
Finally, copyright infringement is not, I repeat, not theft. Copyright law is fully described in US Code Title 17, and copyright infringement is defined there as well. The concept of theft, burglary, robbery, larceny, and the rest of the theft family of criminal laws deal with physical items, not abstract concepts like ideas. Criminal law can be found in the next title (oddly enough), USC Title 18.
Now for my disclaimer: I am not a licensed attorney, but I study political science and law in fairly well detail.
Also, you refer to the Russian government as a "terrorist organisation"; with that logic, one can easily apply the same accusations towards the RIAA for their own regime.
Now if the system administrator could choose what vendors and/or signers to trust, treacherous computing would actually be a useful tool. Imagine if SELinux or OpenBSD or something allowed you to use this method of signing your own self-built applications and trusting your distro vendor's signing. It might be a simple method of added security.
And on a more serious note, you could instead make modal dialogue boxes use better buttons than "Yes", "No", "OK", "Cancel", and "Reset". Verbs are good (e.g. "Install", "Remember", and "Unknowingly Submit Social Security Number and Credit Card Numbers to Random Company").
Well, for one, you can control what applications an application is allowed to run. In the case of an IM client, you would only allow it to run a web browser for instance. On the web browser side, you wouldn't allow it to run a shell.
You can also put/tmp and wherever you download things (e.g./pub) in their own partitions and mount them with the noexec option. OpenBSD also has W^X and several other security enhancements that would thwart any silly thing like an IM worm as well as the more advanced blackhats even.
Well, you can use sudo in BSD, right? Mac OS X (loosely based on BSD) has sudo just like most Linux distros do, so I'd assume that BSD includes it as well. I know offhand that OpenBSD does, and it's its own patched version as well.
Sun would already have that problem covered. If your version of Java does not fully meet Sun's specifications, you are not legally entitled to use the "Java" trademark (for instance this trademark). Thusly, if Red Hat were to release an incompatible version of Sun's Java anything (or any other Java-related technology) and falsely advertised it as such (using the Java trademark), Sun would be able to sue Red Hat for trademark infringement.
If you live in a city, you have choices. If you live at all in the boonies, you're well and rightly fucked.
Not always so. I live in Chicago, and we pretty much have Comcast exclusively. There might be a DSL company or two, but that's all you can choose from unless you want some dedicated T1, T3, or OC lines which are most certainly overkill for home usage (unless you run a business from your home, but that would be business use anyhow).
He's right, y'know. One time, I searched for "objdump" on Google, and I was offered a job as a Unix system admin at Google. Strangest advertisement I've ever seen there...
I'm going to guess that they've added some specific assembly instructions that would be useful for encryption algorithms such as RSA. SIMD (e.g. SSE) seems to have been an effort to allow computations of vectors and complex numbers at the CPU level, so that's only one example where special (but common) computation tasks get their own assembly instructions to speed up the process.
No, it includes some relatively unknown bits of the HTML 4.01 spec. You can use to close the most recent open element, but I don't know of any browsers that support it nor any web developers who use it. I'm not positive, but that might be something inherited from SGML.
Yeah, Safari (and thusly Konqueror) have a nice built-in spellchecker. It's pretty useful to have things highlight in red while you're typing instead of relying on a site's spellchecker or some external program that applies its own formatting *coughwordcough*.
Hmm, maybe the ballots were slightly thicker under "Al Gore" than under "George W. Bush", thus the feeble elderly couldn't vote the way they wanted to?;p
This means under Linux, your swing apps will blend right into your gnome desktop [...]
Nice try, but I use KDE. Where's the Qt version? Qt 4 works as a native interface on Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, and any other platform that Trolltech develops it for. In fact, I'll just stick to using Qt for GUIs as it is cross platform and free. And if I wanted to create a proprietary program (or at least not GPL'd), I could pay Trolltech to get a license to do so.
Okay, I use vim religiously, and I also feel impaired when using other editors (e.g. Kate, this textarea, Thunderbird, whatever). I don't know how fast I look when I'm using it, but to the experienced vim user, I'm sure you don't notice how fast you work until you try to do something in a different non-vi editor (e.g. random "jjjjjjjj"s and "kkkkkk"s and h's and l's and what have you where you're "supposed" to be using the arrows). It's a good thing programs like less(1) and even Konqueror allow you to use j and k for scrolling.
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Oh my god, this is exactly the problem! How the fuck do you expect to get networking working on any Linux distro without a network connection? Downloading and burning like 20 CDs isn't a viable solution for this problem, so to Ubuntu we go for networking support.
If it were electrons, though (which itself is absurd), the concept of AC would pretty much prevent the electrons from ever getting here. Even if it were DC, it would take quite a while for the specific electrons to reach here.
Speaking of which, I remember hearing that some Beatles music was going to become public domain soon. If that actually happens, I'll renew (no pun intended) my faith in sensible copyright actually existing.
You forgot to say "IANAL" because you have no idea what the fuck you're talking about. Allofmp3 is legal due to Russian law, and the only way to make it illegal would be to change the law, and as far as I know, that seems kinda hard to do in Russia, especially something as anti-consumer as copyright.
If identity theft were legal when it was done, it was legal. The US Constitution explicitly states that anything that isn't already illegal due to a law is legal. Trying to punish someone for an act that wasn't illegal at the time of the event is called ex post facto, and that also is explicitly banned by the US Constitution.
Finally, copyright infringement is not, I repeat, not theft. Copyright law is fully described in US Code Title 17, and copyright infringement is defined there as well. The concept of theft, burglary, robbery, larceny, and the rest of the theft family of criminal laws deal with physical items, not abstract concepts like ideas. Criminal law can be found in the next title (oddly enough), USC Title 18.
Now for my disclaimer: I am not a licensed attorney, but I study political science and law in fairly well detail.
Also, you refer to the Russian government as a "terrorist organisation"; with that logic, one can easily apply the same accusations towards the RIAA for their own regime.
Now if the system administrator could choose what vendors and/or signers to trust, treacherous computing would actually be a useful tool. Imagine if SELinux or OpenBSD or something allowed you to use this method of signing your own self-built applications and trusting your distro vendor's signing. It might be a simple method of added security.
And on a more serious note, you could instead make modal dialogue boxes use better buttons than "Yes", "No", "OK", "Cancel", and "Reset". Verbs are good (e.g. "Install", "Remember", and "Unknowingly Submit Social Security Number and Credit Card Numbers to Random Company").
Well, for one, you can control what applications an application is allowed to run. In the case of an IM client, you would only allow it to run a web browser for instance. On the web browser side, you wouldn't allow it to run a shell.
/tmp and wherever you download things (e.g. /pub) in their own partitions and mount them with the noexec option. OpenBSD also has W^X and several other security enhancements that would thwart any silly thing like an IM worm as well as the more advanced blackhats even.
You can also put
Well, you can use sudo in BSD, right? Mac OS X (loosely based on BSD) has sudo just like most Linux distros do, so I'd assume that BSD includes it as well. I know offhand that OpenBSD does, and it's its own patched version as well.
Sun would already have that problem covered. If your version of Java does not fully meet Sun's specifications, you are not legally entitled to use the "Java" trademark (for instance this trademark). Thusly, if Red Hat were to release an incompatible version of Sun's Java anything (or any other Java-related technology) and falsely advertised it as such (using the Java trademark), Sun would be able to sue Red Hat for trademark infringement.
If you live in a city, you have choices. If you live at all in the boonies, you're well and rightly fucked.
Not always so. I live in Chicago, and we pretty much have Comcast exclusively. There might be a DSL company or two, but that's all you can choose from unless you want some dedicated T1, T3, or OC lines which are most certainly overkill for home usage (unless you run a business from your home, but that would be business use anyhow).
Or if you're using a modern file system like ext2/3, ReiserFS, Reiser4, XFS, JFS, ZFS, etc.
He's right, y'know. One time, I searched for "objdump" on Google, and I was offered a job as a Unix system admin at Google. Strangest advertisement I've ever seen there...
You can disable the checking for updates either as an option in about:config or as an actual compile-time option.
I'm going to guess that they've added some specific assembly instructions that would be useful for encryption algorithms such as RSA. SIMD (e.g. SSE) seems to have been an effort to allow computations of vectors and complex numbers at the CPU level, so that's only one example where special (but common) computation tasks get their own assembly instructions to speed up the process.
No, it includes some relatively unknown bits of the HTML 4.01 spec. You can use to close the most recent open element, but I don't know of any browsers that support it nor any web developers who use it. I'm not positive, but that might be something inherited from SGML.
So then what parts of it are released under the Apache License 2.0?
Netscape already did that with Netscape 8 (which is based off of Firefox 1.0 or 0.9.3 or something).
Yeah, Safari (and thusly Konqueror) have a nice built-in spellchecker. It's pretty useful to have things highlight in red while you're typing instead of relying on a site's spellchecker or some external program that applies its own formatting *coughwordcough*.
Hmm, maybe the ballots were slightly thicker under "Al Gore" than under "George W. Bush", thus the feeble elderly couldn't vote the way they wanted to? ;p
This means under Linux, your swing apps will blend right into your gnome desktop [...]
Nice try, but I use KDE. Where's the Qt version? Qt 4 works as a native interface on Linux, Windows, Mac OS X, and any other platform that Trolltech develops it for. In fact, I'll just stick to using Qt for GUIs as it is cross platform and free. And if I wanted to create a proprietary program (or at least not GPL'd), I could pay Trolltech to get a license to do so.
How is one of the richest companies in the world (i.e. top of Fortune 500/whatever number you want IIRC) the "little guy"?
To put things in perspective, I still haven't bought a PS2 because it's still too fucking expensive.
Okay, I use vim religiously, and I also feel impaired when using other editors (e.g. Kate, this textarea, Thunderbird, whatever). I don't know how fast I look when I'm using it, but to the experienced vim user, I'm sure you don't notice how fast you work until you try to do something in a different non-vi editor (e.g. random "jjjjjjjj"s and "kkkkkk"s and h's and l's and what have you where you're "supposed" to be using the arrows). It's a good thing programs like less(1) and even Konqueror allow you to use j and k for scrolling.
Is it just me, or does "VPN-GINA" make me think that someone is going to make a GINA called "VA-GINA"?
Then Tylenol and Advil sue Microsoft for promoting Bayer through its monopoly or something. Sucks to be Microsoft, eh? ;p