Where in the constitution does it mention "enemy combatants?" Right, it doesn't.
This is an odd concept. Making war against your country is treason. We can try people for treason, and hang them.
With the "enemy combatant" thing we take it as a given that they are guilty of treason without ever trying them, and hold them indefinitely so we can bizarrely charge them with something less serious than treason, or just keep them locked up in a box. Never mind the fact that the laws our country was founded on prevent this.
"Our interest is not in trying him and punishing him," Rumsfeld told reporters during a stopover in Qatar on his way to India. "Our interest is in finding out what he knows."
Now the government doesn't have to let you defend yourself in a trial. They can just lock you in a cage indefinitely and subject you to interrogation. I honestly don't have a lot of sympathy for the people who can't figure out what's wrong with this.
Many, many people have contributed to this effort, including managers, supervisors, project leaders, consultants, development infrastructure group, calling standard committee, engineers working on post-boot projects, etc.
All will receive their well-deserved credit as we proceed. The following is a very specific set of people; these are the engineers who designed/wrote/debugged the code that comprises the running operating system.
list of wonderful engineers removed by Sue Skonetski
The fact that this person felt inclined to list the managers involved in bringing this about first made me suspect her of being a bit wacked. That last sentence sort of confirms it...
Why not give the engineers credit? How many bytes would that take up? Err... okay, who wants to explain "bytes" to Sue Skonetski?
Oracle, as most commercial DBMSs, doesn't let you export the database in SQL format. Of course, you can write scripts to do that, but it shows how the commercial companies are always trying to find ways to lock you in.
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There is no "SQL format" for "exporting databases." You'll need to write scripts in any case.
Services for Unix is a sorry joke, pretty much the only thing it's got going for it is an NFS implementation for win32. In every other way, Cygwin and Uwin are superior.
It raises an interesting question though: how come nobody has done an open-source implementation of NFS for win32?
The reason why pedestrians in San Francisco don't want Segways on their sidewalks is simple physics. A Segway weighs around 70lbs. The average rider would weigh around 150lbs, with some weighing well in excess of 200lbs. The combined weight would be at least 220lbs, with weights up to 300lbs possible. A Segway can travel at up to 12mph. Getting hit by a 250lbs mass traveling at 12mph would be like getting tackled by an NFL linebacker. It could cripple the average adult, and it would kill old people.
I'm sure this would never be a problem. I mean, look at how well people DRIVE in San Francisco! An unlicensed vehicle weaving in and out amongst the friendly, alert people on the sidewalks wouldn't cause any problems at all.
Saying otherwise is just Liberal Propaganda. (or something)
SuSE. The distribution that prides itself on a half-baked, closed-source installer and too many installation CDs to count is also a distribution that has no future.
Of course, it's not actually closed source. Unless your definition of closed source is "not GPL."
Hint: the yast*src.rpm files have what you seem so worried about. ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/8.0/suse/zq1/
The sad thing is that if packaging becomes available to protect sensistive electronics from the beam, it will also suffice to protect the bugs which the beam is meant to kill.
For example, employees of stockbrokers cannot sue their employer for racial discrimination in hiring/promotions, but must submit to arbitration instead. Since the arbitration panels are selected by "industry peers", which is to say the management of other financial employers, the employee doesn't have much of a chance.
Actually these arbitration clauses sometimes exist in a contract to protect the consumer or employee in cases where a lawsuit would be practically impossible for the individual to undertake.
Get involved in litigation with a financial institution. No, really. Sock it to 'em! Good luck.
The quality of the information you've given in your answers here and in your other responses is really fantastic. This is infinitely more effective than most language "advocacy" and it has been really interesting.
Alan needs to realize that, although the DMCA does have important and evil implications for the freedom to code and speak in the U.S., it would not be used against a legitimate programmer such as himself.
You've just illustratted one of the problems with the DMCA - it is an overly broad law. People like Alan Cox need to worry just as much as the script kiddies, which is one of its problems.
Today I'm sending back the "servicable used part" that they sent me to replace my FIRST drive, a 45GB 75GXP which failed. I guess in a sense I'm grateful because this one failed after a couple of hours - before I had too much work stored on the drive.
The previous generation of IBM 7200 RPM IDE drive, the 34GXP, always worked great for me. I've got a couple of the 27GB drives and they still run fine.
Lesson learned: you can't shop for drives based on brand alone. Although no Maxtor drives have given me problems yet...
With its function abundance, its proverbial stability and its efficient protective mechanisms against bad accesses SuSE Linux 7,3 is the umfassendeste, most stable and safest operating system, which was developed ever for the privatgebrauch.
Linux only for Freaks? - the times are past! From now on applies:
Linux for the whole family!
The thought that the passengers were told what was going to happen and that none of them could find it in themselves to try to stop it (and even if only half, or a quarter, made that decision, they could have against men armed with knives and boxcutters) is disturbing.
Although I share your hope that people would try to stop terrorists, it seems presumptuous to judge anyone for the way they spend the last few moments of their lives.
I would assume that some people tried to stop what was happening and were hurt for it. I've read about one of the cell calls, the panicked passenger mentioned that a flight attendant had been stabbed. It is all speculation but I have to assume that the pilots were killed - what pilot would let someone take his plane away from him without a fight?
It is a mistake to think that knives and razors ("boxcutters") are not effective weapons. In the hands of well trained individuals these are nearly ideal weapons for use on an airborne plane - guns are too dangerous to the aircraft itself. And they are lethal. If these were metallic and not ceramic or plastic knives that made it into the cabin then shame on the security personnel that allowed them through.
I hope that most people are not interested in retaliation in kind - I hope we're not going to bomb anyone's cities and intentionally kill lots of innocent people, although plenty of people will suggest that. Ideally we would find everyone responsible for these acts and try them for these crimes.
But would course would you suggest if the people responsible turn out to be sponsored by a foreign government? Or if their government(s) do not want to give them up for trial? That would make these attacks an act of war, and a very destructive one. While bombing civilian populations is not part of our military doctrine bombing military, infrastructure, and terrorist targets is. Would you really object to that, as a means of preventing this from happening again?
Was talking to my dad on the phone, sounds like there is a plane grounded at Hopkins in Cleveland, apparently with a bomb. They were taking passengers off the plane when I talked to him.
They were saying on the news that another plane was in the air, possible headed to Dayton or Detroit. Kinda uncertain though.
In this case O'Reilly really was not listening to customer feedback. When this was reviewed last time it was very clear that people were not happy with the search engine and now they've done it again.
Does anyone who has used this know if the search engine is ANY better this time around? Can I search for $_ and actually get a response?
I liked Mandrake up before 7.2. Had always just downloaded ISOs. Felt like I should support the project.
So I bought the box with their stupid 7.2 distribution. This was a buggy piece of crap regardless, but those of us who bought the box didn't even get the buggy piece of crap the rest of you did. We got pre-release KDE and other stuff, since the box was shipped early to meet the Christmas rush.
After downloading over 500MB worth of patches and still having a flaky system, I decided that this contribution to Mandrake would be my last.
Even if they get it together, I'll go back to downloading ISOs. Why? Because supporting a company as a customer only works if they support you as well. This is not a charity.
The people who don't see the harm in what Asus was doing just aren't very invested in online FPS gaming. Thankfully, the people who actually BUY Geforce cards, primarily the gaming community, have a different set of priorities. It speaks well of Asus that the community has a voice with the company regarding issues like this.
What would happen if Asus kept releasing these drivers? Game authors would be required to check and make sure the card owners were using the Nvidia reference drivers, rather than the Asus drivers. First they would check driver versions through the registry or something, eventually they would probably be required to do something like scan through the driver binary. Bleh. All very damaging to Asus' relationship with game developers as well.
It is likely that Asus developed an understanding of all this based on feedback from the community. This "whining" was a good thing for everyone concerned.
Did you ever consider that two mouse buttons might not be what you term 'proper'? Not everyone requires the functionality of two or more mouse buttons, nor does everyone find it as easy to use. Some prefer the simplicity of one mouse button.
Bottom line is don't judge something improper just because it doesn't support your needs.
I can't understand why anyone would want just one mouse button, but that's not the point. The point is that, in the context of using X, one mouse button is just not cutting it. The original posting was about LinuxPPC, and so it was actually a pretty pertinent observation.
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This is an odd concept. Making war against your country is treason. We can try people for treason, and hang them.
With the "enemy combatant" thing we take it as a given that they are guilty of treason without ever trying them, and hold them indefinitely so we can bizarrely charge them with something less serious than treason, or just keep them locked up in a box. Never mind the fact that the laws our country was founded on prevent this.
Now the government doesn't have to let you defend yourself in a trial. They can just lock you in a cage indefinitely and subject you to interrogation. I honestly don't have a lot of sympathy for the people who can't figure out what's wrong with this.
The fact that this person felt inclined to list the managers involved in bringing this about first made me suspect her of being a bit wacked. That last sentence sort of confirms it...
Why not give the engineers credit? How many bytes would that take up? Err... okay, who wants to explain "bytes" to Sue Skonetski?
Hey dummy! Fight the power! Down with those bad guys who... um... write the codecs which... MPlayer "borrows."
Who modded this up?
There is no "SQL format" for "exporting databases." You'll need to write scripts in any case.
You've got to be fucking kidding.
Services for Unix is a sorry joke, pretty much the only thing it's got going for it is an NFS implementation for win32. In every other way, Cygwin and Uwin are superior.
It raises an interesting question though: how come nobody has done an open-source implementation of NFS for win32?
I'm sure this would never be a problem. I mean, look at how well people DRIVE in San Francisco! An unlicensed vehicle weaving in and out amongst the friendly, alert people on the sidewalks wouldn't cause any problems at all.
Saying otherwise is just Liberal Propaganda. (or something)
Just be REALLY nice to your mailman. Leave him milk and cookies, even. He's the innocent victim here.
:D
The _only_ innocent victim.
SuSE. The distribution that prides itself on a half-baked, closed-source installer and too many installation CDs to count is also a distribution that has no future.
Of course, it's not actually closed source. Unless your definition of closed source is "not GPL."
Hint: the yast*src.rpm files have what you seem so worried about. ftp://ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/8.0/suse/zq1/
The sad thing is that if packaging becomes available to protect sensistive electronics from the beam, it will also suffice to protect the bugs which the beam is meant to kill.
Get involved in litigation with a financial institution. No, really. Sock it to 'em! Good luck.
The quality of the information you've given in your answers here and in your other responses is really fantastic. This is infinitely more effective than most language "advocacy" and it has been really interesting.
You've just illustratted one of the problems with the DMCA - it is an overly broad law. People like Alan Cox need to worry just as much as the script kiddies, which is one of its problems.
Today I'm sending back the "servicable used part" that they sent me to replace my FIRST drive, a 45GB 75GXP which failed. I guess in a sense I'm grateful because this one failed after a couple of hours - before I had too much work stored on the drive.
The previous generation of IBM 7200 RPM IDE drive, the 34GXP, always worked great for me. I've got a couple of the 27GB drives and they still run fine.
Lesson learned: you can't shop for drives based on brand alone. Although no Maxtor drives have given me problems yet...
With its function abundance, its proverbial stability and its efficient protective mechanisms against bad accesses SuSE Linux 7,3 is the umfassendeste, most stable and safest operating system, which was developed ever for the privatgebrauch.
Linux only for Freaks? - the times are past! From now on applies: Linux for the whole family!
If you're using an EMU10k-based card, well, the kernel IS broken. No secret there. What kinda card are you using?
I would assume that some people tried to stop what was happening and were hurt for it. I've read about one of the cell calls, the panicked passenger mentioned that a flight attendant had been stabbed. It is all speculation but I have to assume that the pilots were killed - what pilot would let someone take his plane away from him without a fight?
It is a mistake to think that knives and razors ("boxcutters") are not effective weapons. In the hands of well trained individuals these are nearly ideal weapons for use on an airborne plane - guns are too dangerous to the aircraft itself. And they are lethal. If these were metallic and not ceramic or plastic knives that made it into the cabin then shame on the security personnel that allowed them through.
I hope that most people are not interested in retaliation in kind - I hope we're not going to bomb anyone's cities and intentionally kill lots of innocent people, although plenty of people will suggest that. Ideally we would find everyone responsible for these acts and try them for these crimes.
But would course would you suggest if the people responsible turn out to be sponsored by a foreign government? Or if their government(s) do not want to give them up for trial? That would make these attacks an act of war, and a very destructive one. While bombing civilian populations is not part of our military doctrine bombing military, infrastructure, and terrorist targets is. Would you really object to that, as a means of preventing this from happening again?
Was talking to my dad on the phone, sounds like there is a plane grounded at Hopkins in Cleveland, apparently with a bomb. They were taking passengers off the plane when I talked to him.
They were saying on the news that another plane was in the air, possible headed to Dayton or Detroit. Kinda uncertain though.
Haven't seen this mentioned yet, it looks like someone flew a plane into the pentagon in DC as well.
In this case O'Reilly really was not listening to customer feedback. When this was reviewed last time it was very clear that people were not happy with the search engine and now they've done it again. Does anyone who has used this know if the search engine is ANY better this time around? Can I search for $_ and actually get a response?
I liked Mandrake up before 7.2. Had always just downloaded ISOs. Felt like I should support the project. So I bought the box with their stupid 7.2 distribution. This was a buggy piece of crap regardless, but those of us who bought the box didn't even get the buggy piece of crap the rest of you did. We got pre-release KDE and other stuff, since the box was shipped early to meet the Christmas rush. After downloading over 500MB worth of patches and still having a flaky system, I decided that this contribution to Mandrake would be my last. Even if they get it together, I'll go back to downloading ISOs. Why? Because supporting a company as a customer only works if they support you as well. This is not a charity.
The people who don't see the harm in what Asus was doing just aren't very invested in online FPS gaming. Thankfully, the people who actually BUY Geforce cards, primarily the gaming community, have a different set of priorities. It speaks well of Asus that the community has a voice with the company regarding issues like this.
What would happen if Asus kept releasing these drivers? Game authors would be required to check and make sure the card owners were using the Nvidia reference drivers, rather than the Asus drivers. First they would check driver versions through the registry or something, eventually they would probably be required to do something like scan through the driver binary. Bleh. All very damaging to Asus' relationship with game developers as well.
It is likely that Asus developed an understanding of all this based on feedback from the community. This "whining" was a good thing for everyone concerned.
The link posted for the "story" is actually a "dotless" IP address, which can potentially exploit security holes in many older browsers.
Aside from that, it would be really nice if some kind of corroboration were obtained before posting stuff like this.