It has nothing to do with self-incrimination. An encrytion key is no different than a front door key. You can't block a search warrant by locking the door and hiding the key.
F***ing grow up. Can you people discuss ANYTHING without mentioning MS Windows? You remind me of a guy who can't stop mentioning his ex-wife whom he supposedly has gotten over.
Damn straight. The people who oppose these registries live in a fantasy world. In their minds: Because nothing bad has ever happened to them, nothing bad ever happens. It's amazing how fast a mugging or robbery will turn a liberal into a conservative.
It is that simple. The GP post said "Pass an amendment giving the President a line-item veto" Anything passed as an amendment to the constitution is by definition constitutional and cannot be overturned by the courts.
Then let it end. I'm fed up with the business model of running intrusive advertizing that means nothing but annoying to the viewers.
Abso-friggin-lutely! Any website that can't survive without the likes of DoubleClick needs to die. The quicker the better. It won't be anything you care about.
Truly, if this stuff was allowed to go on in other industries we would barely be out of the stone chisel stage. Something needs to happen to bring the PC world to it's knees so that things start to shape up.
So if Ford bought a company that makes really good automobile wheels and then Ford announced that going forward that company would only make wheels for Ford vehicles, you think that would be a bad thing and they should be forced to continue to sell wheels to General Motors? I think Ford would not agree with you. I think Ford would call that "acquiring a competitive advantage". Corporations do that all the time.
Uhmm.. Bullshit. US citizens rights are fully intact. The POW's at Guantanamo are not US citizens. Have you forgotten "The American Taliban" fighter John Walker Lindh who, even though he was found on the battlefield in Afganistan, was afforded full access to lawyers and the courts in the US and who is now serving his time in a US prison? And why is it that the parent doesn't get modded Off Topic but this reply will be?
Let's say that tomorrow you plan to go back to 1946 to kill GW. Even before you leave you already where there in 1946 and we KNOW that GW WAS NOT killed so no matter what you do you already did it and it didn't work. If, on the other hand, it were possible to kill GW it would, as you say, change the "entire course of history" and there could never exist a present in which there was both a you and a GW for you to go back and kill.
Let's say that tomorrow you plan to go back to 1865 to kill John Wilkes Booth and stop Lincoln's assassination. Even before you leave you already where there in 1865 and we KNOW that Lincoln WAS assassinated, so no matter what you do you already did it and it didn't work. Get it?
If you can take nice photos, great, but don't expect to get rich doing it. When the technology was new and the expense of equipment and processing was prohibitive then very few people could afford to take nice pictures. With today's digital tools, even a hack like me can get some really nice shots. When you take 1000 digital pictures at zero cost then the law of averages means you'll get a few good ones, and even the not so good ones can be post processed to make acceptable prints.
He still does. An ordinary cop still needs a conventional warrant. Anybody investigating ordinary domestic criminal activity still needs a conventional warrant. Nothing has changed there. Even at the highest levels of the terror task forces a warrant is still required. The difference is that they don't have to tell the subject of the warrant that he is being investigated and the warrant is issued by a secret court so that no one outside the investigation can find out about it.
In the beginning, Theo de Raadt spent more than $30,000 (CDN) to start OpenBSD, mostly due to expensive networking costs in Canada (due to USA crypto policies, it is not possible to move the project to the USA).
OK, this makes him sound like a kook. MS, Apple, and a bunch of Linux's manage to operate out of the US just fine.
If judicial review is so worthless, why are many law enforcement officials so intent on ridding us of it?
Nobody said that judicial review is worthless. In ordinary criminal prosecutions it is essential. But if the "big, bad goverment" were out to get "li'l ol you" under the cover of the War on Terror, why would you suppose that they would let a thing like lack of a warrant stop them? On the other hand, in a legitimate terror investigation a terrorist cell might have time to evaporate into the crowd while the FBI is waiting for a warrant.
Lack of judicial review. If you want to search my house, get a d*mn judge to approve a warrant.
What makes you think a judge is going to protect you from anything? Who controls the judges?
Doing it because "you suspect I'm a terrorist" is just flat crap.
Why is that crap? People get investigated all the time because they are "suspected" of something.
Secret pogroms smack of Nazi Germany. Of course, so does the USA, today.
Comparing the US to Nazism doesn't win friends and influence people. All you do is turn people off and cause them to tune out everything else you say, and that will result in nothing changing.
It does matter. Good software is supported by it's vendor. Good vendors can, and do, charge for support agreements. Good vendors, who are making money on support agreements will provide a patch when an OS upgrade breaks the software. Don't buy specialty software that hasn't had a new version or patch released in the last year, particularly if it is going to be mission critical to your organization. The business model for Linux in particular and OSS in general is that you make money from support agreements. Again, good vendors make money from support. Look at RedHat.
our company committed to a software phone system which, as it turned out when we tried to upgrade to XP, just STOPPED WORKING
Why did your company commit to call center software that is so poorly supported? For me, the inability of a vendor to recompile for XP would outweigh my other concerns about XP.
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I've been working in IT for a good number of years now without needing wrist braces, all the while using QWERTY. I know a lot of other people who haven't suffered this fate. I'm not saying no one has ever had this problem but when you exaggerate risks like this its called FUD/scaremongering.
I have to agree with you. The poster says he's wearing wrist braces at 23. I've been developing software longer then he's been alive and I don't need wrist braces (yet).
Try to get a technical job at Apple without a college degree and see what happens.
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You hit the nail on the head. OSS is not place for for power struggles. Besides, I've never understood how there can be a single codified GPL. It defies legal precedent.
Maybe the questioner is looking for a little more insight than can be gotten from a Wikipedia definition. By your reasoning nearly every comment on/. is redundant. The same or better information can be found by Googling for it.
That plus the lack of a nice scripting environment that Unix-like systems provide make it unusable as a primary OS.
Do you realize what a stupid statement that is? Unusable for you maybe, but hundreds of millions of people use either Windows or OS X as their ONLY operating system. You are a geek. By definition, geeks are not representative of the marketplace. Therefore, using your particular preferences as an indicator of how the entire marketplace will react is a futile exercise.
I, for one, would pay a pretty hefty premium for an Apple computer that runs OS-X and Windows. How much easier will it be to get people to switch from Widows to Mac if they can buy a Mac that will dual boot Windows? Or, better yet what if you could run a Windows(TM) vm natively in a window under OS-X?
There's ridiculous amounts of money to be made in space...we just need to get up there...and stay up there this time.
Bullshit! You must have slept through Econ 101. If that was true there would be one hell of a space race going on right now. Money is a universal motivator.
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It has nothing to do with self-incrimination. An encrytion key is no different than a front door key. You can't block a search warrant by locking the door and hiding the key.
F***ing grow up. Can you people discuss ANYTHING without mentioning MS Windows? You remind me of a guy who can't stop mentioning his ex-wife whom he supposedly has gotten over.
Damn straight. The people who oppose these registries live in a fantasy world. In their minds: Because nothing bad has ever happened to them, nothing bad ever happens. It's amazing how fast a mugging or robbery will turn a liberal into a conservative.
It is that simple. The GP post said
"Pass an amendment giving the President a line-item veto"
Anything passed as an amendment to the constitution is by definition constitutional and cannot be overturned by the courts.
Then let it end. I'm fed up with the business model of running intrusive advertizing that means nothing but annoying to the viewers.
Abso-friggin-lutely! Any website that can't survive without the likes of DoubleClick needs to die. The quicker the better. It won't be anything you care about.
Truly, if this stuff was allowed to go on in other industries we would barely be out of the stone chisel stage. Something needs to happen to bring the PC world to it's knees so that things start to shape up.
So if Ford bought a company that makes really good automobile wheels and then Ford announced that going forward that company would only make wheels for Ford vehicles, you think that would be a bad thing and they should be forced to continue to sell wheels to General Motors? I think Ford would not agree with you. I think Ford would call that "acquiring a competitive advantage". Corporations do that all the time.
http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/ratings/may_ra tings_yearoveryear_numbers_22122.asp
Uhmm.. Bullshit. US citizens rights are fully intact. The POW's at Guantanamo are not US citizens. Have you forgotten "The American Taliban" fighter John Walker Lindh who, even though he was found on the battlefield in Afganistan, was afforded full access to lawyers and the courts in the US and who is now serving his time in a US prison? And why is it that the parent doesn't get modded Off Topic but this reply will be?
You only get a second or so to make that shot - you have to make it count.
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A Canon EOS1 can take 4 frames a second for 8 seconds. Bring on the squirrels.
Let's say that tomorrow you plan to go back to 1946 to kill GW. Even before you leave you already where there in 1946 and we KNOW that GW WAS NOT killed so no matter what you do you already did it and it didn't work. If, on the other hand, it were possible to kill GW it would, as you say, change the "entire course of history" and there could never exist a present in which there was both a you and a GW for you to go back and kill.
Let's say that tomorrow you plan to go back to 1865 to kill John Wilkes Booth and stop Lincoln's assassination. Even before you leave you already where there in 1865 and we KNOW that Lincoln WAS assassinated, so no matter what you do you already did it and it didn't work. Get it?
If you can take nice photos, great, but don't expect to get rich doing it. When the technology was new and the expense of equipment and processing was prohibitive then very few people could afford to take nice pictures. With today's digital tools, even a hack like me can get some really nice shots. When you take 1000 digital pictures at zero cost then the law of averages means you'll get a few good ones, and even the not so good ones can be post processed to make acceptable prints.
He still does. An ordinary cop still needs a conventional warrant. Anybody investigating ordinary domestic criminal activity still needs a conventional warrant. Nothing has changed there. Even at the highest levels of the terror task forces a warrant is still required. The difference is that they don't have to tell the subject of the warrant that he is being investigated and the warrant is issued by a secret court so that no one outside the investigation can find out about it.
See: http://slate.msn.com/id/2088106/
From the OpenBSD site:
In the beginning, Theo de Raadt spent more than $30,000 (CDN) to start OpenBSD, mostly due to expensive networking costs in Canada (due to USA crypto policies, it is not possible to move the project to the USA).
OK, this makes him sound like a kook. MS, Apple, and a bunch of Linux's manage to operate out of the US just fine.
If judicial review is so worthless, why are many law enforcement officials so intent on ridding us of it?
Nobody said that judicial review is worthless. In ordinary criminal prosecutions it is essential. But if the "big, bad goverment" were out to get "li'l ol you" under the cover of the War on Terror, why would you suppose that they would let a thing like lack of a warrant stop them? On the other hand, in a legitimate terror investigation a terrorist cell might have time to evaporate into the crowd while the FBI is waiting for a warrant.
Lack of judicial review. If you want to search my house, get a d*mn judge to approve a warrant.
What makes you think a judge is going to protect you from anything? Who controls the judges?
Doing it because "you suspect I'm a terrorist" is just flat crap.
Why is that crap? People get investigated all the time because they are "suspected" of something.
Secret pogroms smack of Nazi Germany. Of course, so does the USA, today.
Comparing the US to Nazism doesn't win friends and influence people. All you do is turn people off and cause them to tune out everything else you say, and that will result in nothing changing.
It does matter. Good software is supported by it's vendor. Good vendors can, and do, charge for support agreements. Good vendors, who are making money on support agreements will provide a patch when an OS upgrade breaks the software. Don't buy specialty software that hasn't had a new version or patch released in the last year, particularly if it is going to be mission critical to your organization. The business model for Linux in particular and OSS in general is that you make money from support agreements. Again, good vendors make money from support. Look at RedHat.
our company committed to a software phone system which, as it turned out when we tried to upgrade to XP, just STOPPED WORKING
Why did your company commit to call center software that is so poorly supported? For me, the inability of a vendor to recompile for XP would outweigh my other concerns about XP.
I've been working in IT for a good number of years now without needing wrist braces, all the while using QWERTY. I know a lot of other people who haven't suffered this fate. I'm not saying no one has ever had this problem but when you exaggerate risks like this its called FUD/scaremongering.
I have to agree with you. The poster says he's wearing wrist braces at 23. I've been developing software longer then he's been alive and I don't need wrist braces (yet).
Try to get a technical job at Apple without a college degree and see what happens.
You hit the nail on the head. OSS is not place for for power struggles. Besides, I've never understood how there can be a single codified GPL. It defies legal precedent.
Maybe the questioner is looking for a little more insight than can be gotten from a Wikipedia definition. By your reasoning nearly every comment on /. is redundant. The same or better information can be found by Googling for it.
That plus the lack of a nice scripting environment that Unix-like systems provide make it unusable as a primary OS.
Do you realize what a stupid statement that is? Unusable for you maybe, but hundreds of millions of people use either Windows or OS X as their ONLY operating system. You are a geek. By definition, geeks are not representative of the marketplace. Therefore, using your particular preferences as an indicator of how the entire marketplace will react is a futile exercise.
I, for one, would pay a pretty hefty premium for an Apple computer that runs OS-X and Windows. How much easier will it be to get people to switch from Widows to Mac if they can buy a Mac that will dual boot Windows? Or, better yet what if you could run a Windows(TM) vm natively in a window under OS-X?
There's ridiculous amounts of money to be made in space...we just need to get up there...and stay up there this time.
Bullshit! You must have slept through Econ 101. If that was true there would be one hell of a space race going on right now. Money is a universal motivator.