The last time I checked, GPL and the vast majority of FS licenses specifically disclaimed every disclaimable type of warranty. In any sane jurisdiction, this leaves just intentional malicious acts.
If you want metric time, you should check out itime, a new "standard" that Swatch tried to push in. It defines the day time as a real number 0<=x<1000, with 0 being the midnight in Switzerland.
Of course, it take a lot less effort to stick with the good old standard devised by ancient Babylonians, mentioning just the time zone when needed. Personally, I'm sticking with time_t (number of seconds past Epoch).
WINE is not an emulator. It's just a comprehensive set of libraries.
Would you call, let's say, pthreads-win32 an emulator? It's just an implementation of a very popular API, an API that has more than ten of wildly different implementations from a number of FS projects and commercial vendors.
Just like this, WINE is an implementation of an API that has two other implementations already: one running on DOS and one running on the NT kernel.
Any legitimate date-stamping will be done by the program doing the printout -- and it's it what is supposed to let the user position the timestamp, etc. If the printer wants to silently introduce invisible time stamps on my printouts so the printer company/FBI/whoever can spy on me, GO TO HELL!
France has long kept a strong interest in preserving their language.
I'm afraid that they take it to the point of being absolutely nazi.
An example: a friend of mine, an archaeologist, deals with archeological literature in a multitude of languages. The two most prevalent ones are English (for obvious reasons) and German (as germans have a surprisingly big representation in archaeology). Still, the international community has no problems talking to each other -- with a standing out exception, the french. French scientists are not allowed to write publications in any language other than French. Who cares if the bulk of potential attendees to a conference doesn't speak that language? The french government (and unfortunately, a sizeable part of the society) pursues interoperability as strongly as MicroSoft...
Another example: a few years ago, out of a sudden, the french government decreed that the word e-mail is to be forbidden and replaced with made-up "courriel". They are forcing their own citizens to be xenophobic!
On the other hand, English keeps borrowing words from other languages on a massive scale -- and this is one of reasons of its success.
I'll give it about 1 month after release for some hardware geek to fish a secret key out of one of those chips.
Indeed, all it takes is a single signed private key to break the whole network of "trust". This means, if a leak occurs at any of the plethora of hardware manufacturers -- or, a hardware geek manages to fish out the key from his piece of junk, you can use feed this key to QEMU or any similar emulator.
Such a key would work with any piece of software released prior to the leak, and most likely, with all software released later until the point when support for all hardware signed with the original signing key (one that you have never even seen) is dropped. As long as it's you who control the software and "hardware", there is no real way to revoke a compromised key -- the cartel would have to issue a new signing key and use it on any new equipment.
subverting the system (MS can do that) to allow locking the soundcard
We can simply code a virtual soundcard driver.
restricting Janus to work only if your soundcard has a driver signed by Microsoft's key (at the cost of breaking it for many people)
We can use cards with extended functions.
blocking all cards with such "extended functions" when Janus is in use
At the cost of some quality, we can use the analog route, by simply plugging the card's speaker output into some other device.
... and it can be incompatible with the GPL (if you have invariant sections, I guess)
To be exact, GFDL is never compatible with GPL. GPL does require some rights that are explicitely denied by GFDL. You are not allowed to chmod o-r a GFDLed document, as well.
At least in the stripped-down IE they ship with the SDK -- the tabs there are working nicely. Not as good as on FireFox with TBE, but better than on bare-bones FireFox.
I'm working on something that's supposed to be über-portable -- as the very minimum, I want Win32 and everything that can be called Unix.
Yet, I rely on autoconf, which, even though extremely portable among unices, depends on some type of a shell... uh oh. Show me a shell on Windows:p
So, I'm ending up with something "portable" that requires GNU tools to even build for win32 -- either CygWin or cross-compiling. I even use gcc-specific flags for the win32 binary ("-Xlinker --subsystem -Xlinker windows" to avoid spawning the console window).
What way would you suggest to have both Un*x and win32 native support from the same source tree in a clean way?
Einstein = (german) "one stone" Keinstein = (german) "no stones"
By the way, for a few years, the soviets teached their children that the Theory of Relativity was the work of a brilliant russian scientist Odnokamyencev, a name which "purely" accidentally translates to "Einstein". Go figure.
Helping a scam that costs lawyers is a good deed for any values of lawyers that don't belong to the tiny class of non-harmful lawyers. I considered helping, but... I realized that I would need to temporarily disable three layers of protection:
Adblock (in Firefox)
adzapper (a squid extension)
a DNS fake zone for ".googlesyndication.com"
So, I'm afraid you won't get any ad clicks from me:(
The only reason this training isn't mandatory like driver training is because the average person doesn't care if his neighbor is slowly killing his computer. If they were to do away with driver training, the average person would pitch a fit, as he doesn't want his stupid neighbor driving into his house.
Well, I do consider all those spam zombies hammering on my machines and on my inbox to be an attack. It is pretty much some form of "driving into my house" -- or, to be exact, constantly pounding on my door to check if I failed to lock it, coupled with constantly throwing garbage into my yard.
In Poland, if my dog bites a bum on my yard, this counts as an aggravated assault, even if the bum was breaking into my house. Actions done by my dog can be punished more harshly than actions done by myself! While the case with dogs in Poland is certainly out of whack, there should be some penalty for having your computer be a danger to the others, just the way driving a car with faulty brakes can get your license suspended.
Under some circumstances, Win98 will repair your Linux partition... It was one of two times I've ever used ReiserFS, so I can't tell if Windows deems Reiser more tasty or sumthing.
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I would not call him Mahatma
Why? IMHO "Mahatma Torvalds" sounds a lot better than "Linus Gandhi"...
I would personally go for Alt-F2 (or perhaps Ctrl-Z) followed by killall -9 vi.
the government was about to hand the phone system over to the president's brother-in-law
We're talking about the phone system in this very article. Do you see any connection...? Hmm...
Mandatory bash.org quote.
The last time I checked, GPL and the vast majority of FS licenses specifically disclaimed every disclaimable type of warranty. In any sane jurisdiction, this leaves just intentional malicious acts.
If you want metric time, you should check out itime, a new "standard" that Swatch tried to push in. It defines the day time as a real number 0<=x<1000, with 0 being the midnight in Switzerland.
Of course, it take a lot less effort to stick with the good old standard devised by ancient Babylonians, mentioning just the time zone when needed.
Personally, I'm sticking with time_t (number of seconds past Epoch).
They also require you to run an ActiveX control to even download some of SDKs, too...
WINE is not an emulator. It's just a comprehensive set of libraries.
Would you call, let's say, pthreads-win32 an emulator? It's just an implementation of a very popular API, an API that has more than ten of wildly different implementations from a number of FS projects and commercial vendors.
Just like this, WINE is an implementation of an API that has two other implementations already: one running on DOS and one running on the NT kernel.
For the drivers??? Hello, no!
Any legitimate date-stamping will be done by the program doing the printout -- and it's it what is supposed to let the user position the timestamp, etc. If the printer wants to silently introduce invisible time stamps on my printouts so the printer company/FBI/whoever can spy on me, GO TO HELL!
France has long kept a strong interest in preserving their language.
I'm afraid that they take it to the point of being absolutely nazi.
An example: a friend of mine, an archaeologist, deals with archeological literature in a multitude of languages. The two most prevalent ones are English (for obvious reasons) and German (as germans have a surprisingly big representation in archaeology). Still, the international community has no problems talking to each other -- with a standing out exception, the french. French scientists are not allowed to write publications in any language other than French. Who cares if the bulk of potential attendees to a conference doesn't speak that language? The french government (and unfortunately, a sizeable part of the society) pursues interoperability as strongly as MicroSoft...
Another example: a few years ago, out of a sudden, the french government decreed that the word e-mail is to be forbidden and replaced with made-up "courriel". They are forcing their own citizens to be xenophobic!
On the other hand, English keeps borrowing words from other languages on a massive scale -- and this is one of reasons of its success.
Of course, it doesn't smell very french to me...
Well, I prefer reading things on the screen anyway. It's too much hassle to print them out.
At work we print a lot, but I can't really recall the last time when we printed something that's not connected with the @#$%^&* bureaucracy.
Thus yes, boycotting printers is not that bad an idea.
Or, make a zone file for adserver.com. on your DNS. This will protect not just you, but the whole company.
As we know it damn well, shit happens all the time.
So... how exactly are they going to ship patches in the case of a security issue?
I'll give it about 1 month after release for some hardware geek to fish a secret key out of one of those chips.
Indeed, all it takes is a single signed private key to break the whole network of "trust". This means, if a leak occurs at any of the plethora of hardware manufacturers -- or, a hardware geek manages to fish out the key from his piece of junk, you can use feed this key to QEMU or any similar emulator.
Such a key would work with any piece of software released prior to the leak, and most likely, with all software released later until the point when support for all hardware signed with the original signing key (one that you have never even seen) is dropped. As long as it's you who control the software and "hardware", there is no real way to revoke a compromised key -- the cartel would have to issue a new signing key and use it on any new equipment.
Possible workarounds for them:
subverting the system (MS can do that) to allow locking the soundcard We can simply code a virtual soundcard driver. restricting Janus to work only if your soundcard has a driver signed by Microsoft's key (at the cost of breaking it for many people) We can use cards with extended functions. blocking all cards with such "extended functions" when Janus is in use At the cost of some quality, we can use the analog route, by simply plugging the card's speaker output into some other device.... and it can be incompatible with the GPL (if you have invariant sections, I guess)
To be exact, GFDL is never compatible with GPL. GPL does require some rights that are explicitely denied by GFDL.
You are not allowed to chmod o-r a GFDLed document, as well.
No, they already do have tabbed browsing done.
At least in the stripped-down IE they ship with the SDK -- the tabs there are working nicely. Not as good as on FireFox with TBE, but better than on bare-bones FireFox.
Of course, everything else is still the old crap.
I'm working on something that's supposed to be über-portable -- as the very minimum, I want Win32 and everything that can be called Unix.
:p
Yet, I rely on autoconf, which, even though extremely portable among unices, depends on some type of a shell... uh oh. Show me a shell on Windows
So, I'm ending up with something "portable" that requires GNU tools to even build for win32 -- either CygWin or cross-compiling. I even use gcc-specific flags for the win32 binary ("-Xlinker --subsystem -Xlinker windows" to avoid spawning the console window).
What way would you suggest to have both Un*x and win32 native support from the same source tree in a clean way?
Einstein = (german) "one stone"
Keinstein = (german) "no stones"
By the way, for a few years, the soviets teached their children that the Theory of Relativity was the work of a brilliant russian scientist Odnokamyencev, a name which "purely" accidentally translates to "Einstein". Go figure.
I considered helping, but... I realized that I would need to temporarily disable three layers of protection:
- Adblock (in Firefox)
- adzapper (a squid extension)
- a DNS fake zone for ".googlesyndication.com"
So, I'm afraid you won't get any ad clicks from meThe only reason this training isn't mandatory like driver training is because the average person doesn't care if his neighbor is slowly killing his computer. If they were to do away with driver training, the average person would pitch a fit, as he doesn't want his stupid neighbor driving into his house.
Well, I do consider all those spam zombies hammering on my machines and on my inbox to be an attack. It is pretty much some form of "driving into my house" -- or, to be exact, constantly pounding on my door to check if I failed to lock it, coupled with constantly throwing garbage into my yard.
In Poland, if my dog bites a bum on my yard, this counts as an aggravated assault, even if the bum was breaking into my house. Actions done by my dog can be punished more harshly than actions done by myself!
While the case with dogs in Poland is certainly out of whack, there should be some penalty for having your computer be a danger to the others, just the way driving a car with faulty brakes can get your license suspended.
So... does the name mean they're finally out of the stone age, or that Gnome took even their stones from them?
Under some circumstances, Win98 will repair your Linux partition... It was one of two times I've ever used ReiserFS, so I can't tell if Windows deems Reiser more tasty or sumthing.
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