How about a library or broadcast TV, they give away information for free, and they have lasted. Maybe not forever, but who really thought you meant FOREVER.
:P
If you know of anything that lasts FOREVER please don't hide it. A discovery this important belongs next to the "Perpetual Motion Machine"
NO, everything can have an ill effect on your life.
You can smoke tobacco, sky dive, swim in the ocean, drink turpentine, eat Holly berries, snort Cheese-Wiz. All perfectly legal, all could have a serious effect on your life. Does that mean we start stripping the land of all plants and animals or forbid ocean activity because you could do something harmful with it?
You can be killed, injured, maimed, disfigured, paralyzed, blinded, dismembered, etc.., by many of the things you do every day.
Should you be a criminal because you do things that could be, or are, harmful?
Do you deserve to go to prison, or loose your job, or home?
The Government has every right to tell me when, where, and how I can sell it, but when was the Government ever given permission to tell us what vegetables we can consume?
Yeah, like the 15,000 people who died from aspirin in 1999. 15,000 more than died from cannabis.
More People die from prescription drugs than all illegal ones combined.
Don't blame everything on politicians. Come on, I thought 'THE BUCK STOPS HERE' with the president and his responsibility to the American people and the Constitution.
NO where in the Constitution is the Government given permission to dictate what you may consume.
Just think about what you support: Putting United States adult citizens in prison because of what vegetable they wish to consume. Sounds pretty dumb, right.
I first learned about cannabis from a pre DARE drug education class (~1975). We got to smell it burning. The police office told us it would destroy our minds and probably kill us if we smoked it. He sparked my interest, even thought he lied through his teeth. 20+ smoking years later, I know he lied for sure.
NO where in the Costitution is the Government given permission to tell you what you may consume.
What do you expect from a country that puts people in jail because of what vegetables they consume. When the government sets brain dead examples by saying they know what is better for you than you do yourself, and threaten that judgment with punishment, companies are sure to follow the leader and set brain dead policies that threaten you in some way.
If you want a single configuration tool 'Windows Registry Editor' then why not just go to a binary configuration file format. It's much easier and faster to parse binary data than text, and since you have a universal configuration utility, it really doesn't have to store it in a human readable format. Applications can add their own piece for its configuration options.
After a while you might end up with all the extra applications to edit small pieces of that massive tool, TweakDUN, TweakUI, TweakEveryThing. Eventually you might end up at the same spot, except instead of having multiple text files for configuration, you'll have multiple command line and GUI applications for configuration 'Control Panel', along with one really big configuration tool that is difficult to browse through 'Windows Registry Editor'.
What we always found to be the biggest problem are employees constantly checking there stocks. What we needed was something that gave us more control. Productivity from our employees during there working hours was increased by using a proxy server that is maintained daily to filter all stock related sites from all but a few bosses during working hours. Employees are allowed to view them during there lunch or breaks, or they may stay after hours or come in early. We have seen an increase of more than 60% of our network bandwidth, blowing away any benefit from the filtering of all, so called, 'BAD' browsing sites. We must have allot of wannabe day traders. We also see allot of employees that used to come in late or leave early, are now here for a full day and then some. We have found that putting too tight a noose around your employees necks is just bad for moral and causes more employee turn around than what we consider healthy.
We also found that productivity lost due to Windows customizations is also a problem. We conducted a test, and constructed 2 systems that allowed access to our applications and other services, e-mail, web, chat, etc... One system was implemented using Windows another was implemented using Linux. Employees using the Windows system would always try and change the way things looked and install unapproved software, I guess being too familiar with the same system they have at home is the problem. Employees using the Linux system were forced to do there work, either they didn't know how to do anything else or were prevented from doing it. The time waisted on personal e-mail, and web browsing went up on the Linux system, probably because employees looking for a break from there work found less to play with. We never made a complete conversion to Linux on the desktops, but the prospect is looking bright.
Cannabis was also always legal, and our attempt at prohibition is failing with the same problems that plagued alcohol prohibition. The big difference is that now there are many more legitimate businesses profiting from prohibition.
Alcohol use also decreased during prohibition, and it was still a failure.
Alcohol prohibition required a constitutional amendment while drug prohibition is based on no such amendment. Instead it's based on ignorance and fear.
In fact, the feds where never given permission to determine what was legal for individual citizens to consume. As others have pointed out, anything that effects your body is a drug. Then it must hold true that, if the feds can say what drugs you can consume, eventually it will be your favorite sandwich.
DARE is government propaganda against a minority class of society. Trying to instill intolerance that is no different than persecuting someone for what religion they practice, what there opinion is, or what color shirt they have on. Done all in the name of 'Saving the children'. When actually the desired goal is to play with the minds of children, and make them either curious about drugs or hate them insanely. Ensuring that those children become part of a healthy supply of persecutors and victims for the business of war.
#3 - People realize that clicking a button on a computer screen legally means nothing. Any program can ask, In order to use this program you must agree to X. What if X = "Kill yourself after 100 uses" or anything else, reasonable or not. Sorry, but without a real signature on a real document that will hold up in court, there is no liability to agree to any EULA, GPL included.
Button Click != Signature
Never did, never will.
My cat likes to lay on my keyboard, he must have hit the right combination of keys. I never saw an EULA.
I signed up in October 1999 with Bell Atlantic. They were wiring my house within 10 days. I have had ~2 days of downtime total. When they tested my line, the tech said I had the highest test he had seen. I think it was 77, what ever that means. The speed is excellent. I have a 640kbs line and downloads rarely go over 30KBs from web servers, but I can get 2 downloads at that speed. FTP saturates my line, always around 60KBs, depending on the source - of course.
I live across the street from the CO., guess I'm a lucky one.
There is no enlightenment, this is an uninformed judge giving in to a frivolous lawsuit that has the wording to make browsing with unapproved software illegal and punishable.
Slashdot Mirror
How about a library or broadcast TV, they give away information for free, and they have lasted. Maybe not forever, but who really thought you meant FOREVER.
:P
If you know of anything that lasts FOREVER please don't hide it. A discovery this important belongs next to the "Perpetual Motion Machine"
amendment barring slavery -- except as a punishment for crime
communism and capitalism, two paths to slavery.
NO, everything can have an ill effect on your life.
You can smoke tobacco, sky dive, swim in the ocean, drink turpentine, eat Holly berries, snort Cheese-Wiz. All perfectly legal, all could have a serious effect on your life. Does that mean we start stripping the land of all plants and animals or forbid ocean activity because you could do something harmful with it?
You can be killed, injured, maimed, disfigured, paralyzed, blinded, dismembered, etc.., by many of the things you do every day.
Should you be a criminal because you do things that could be, or are, harmful?
Do you deserve to go to prison, or loose your job, or home?
The Government has every right to tell me when, where, and how I can sell it, but when was the Government ever given permission to tell us what vegetables we can consume?
Drugs do cost lives
Yeah, like the 15,000 people who died from aspirin in 1999. 15,000 more than died from cannabis.
More People die from prescription drugs than all illegal ones combined.
Don't blame everything on politicians.
Come on, I thought 'THE BUCK STOPS HERE' with the president and his responsibility to the American people and the Constitution.
NO where in the Constitution is the Government given permission to dictate what you may consume.
Just think about what you support: Putting United States adult citizens in prison because of what vegetable they wish to consume. Sounds pretty dumb, right.
I first learned about cannabis from a pre DARE drug education class (~1975). We got to smell it burning. The police office told us it would destroy our minds and probably kill us if we smoked it. He sparked my interest, even thought he lied through his teeth. 20+ smoking years later, I know he lied for sure.
NO where in the Costitution is the Government given permission to tell you what you may consume.
FUCKING NAZI'S.
SLS was very usable.
with all those witches extinct now
They are not extinct, we just call them dissidents now.
What do you expect from a country that puts people in jail because of what vegetables they consume. When the government sets brain dead examples by saying they know what is better for you than you do yourself, and threaten that judgment with punishment, companies are sure to follow the leader and set brain dead policies that threaten you in some way.
When I installed Linux for the first time about 10 years ago, I bought "Running Linux". I've never needed another book.
http://www.norml.org
single 'universal' configuration tool
If you want a single configuration tool 'Windows Registry Editor' then why not just go to a binary configuration file format. It's much easier and faster to parse binary data than text, and since you have a universal configuration utility, it really doesn't have to store it in a human readable format. Applications can add their own piece for its configuration options.
After a while you might end up with all the extra applications to edit small pieces of that massive tool, TweakDUN, TweakUI, TweakEveryThing. Eventually you might end up at the same spot, except instead of having multiple text files for configuration, you'll have multiple command line and GUI applications for configuration 'Control Panel', along with one really big configuration tool that is difficult to browse through 'Windows Registry Editor'.
Sounds like what you want is Windows. ~:(
What we always found to be the biggest problem are employees constantly checking there stocks. What we needed was something that gave us more control. Productivity from our employees during there working hours was increased by using a proxy server that is maintained daily to filter all stock related sites from all but a few bosses during working hours. Employees are allowed to view them during there lunch or breaks, or they may stay after hours or come in early. We have seen an increase of more than 60% of our network bandwidth, blowing away any benefit from the filtering of all, so called, 'BAD' browsing sites. We must have allot of wannabe day traders. We also see allot of employees that used to come in late or leave early, are now here for a full day and then some. We have found that putting too tight a noose around your employees necks is just bad for moral and causes more employee turn around than what we consider healthy.
We also found that productivity lost due to Windows customizations is also a problem. We conducted a test, and constructed 2 systems that allowed access to our applications and other services, e-mail, web, chat, etc... One system was implemented using Windows another was implemented using Linux. Employees using the Windows system would always try and change the way things looked and install unapproved software, I guess being too familiar with the same system they have at home is the problem. Employees using the Linux system were forced to do there work, either they didn't know how to do anything else or were prevented from doing it. The time waisted on personal e-mail, and web browsing went up on the Linux system, probably because employees looking for a break from there work found less to play with. We never made a complete conversion to Linux on the desktops, but the prospect is looking bright.
Alcohol use also decreased during prohibition, and it was still a failure.
Alcohol prohibition required a constitutional amendment while drug prohibition is based on no such amendment. Instead it's based on ignorance and fear.
In fact, the feds where never given permission to determine what was legal for individual citizens to consume. As others have pointed out, anything that effects your body is a drug. Then it must hold true that, if the feds can say what drugs you can consume, eventually it will be your favorite sandwich.
DARE is government propaganda against a minority class of society. Trying to instill intolerance that is no different than persecuting someone for what religion they practice, what there opinion is, or what color shirt they have on. Done all in the name of 'Saving the children'. When actually the desired goal is to play with the minds of children, and make them either curious about drugs or hate them insanely. Ensuring that those children become part of a healthy supply of persecutors and victims for the business of war.
#3 - People realize that clicking a button on a computer screen legally means nothing. Any program can ask, In order to use this program you must agree to X. What if X = "Kill yourself after 100 uses" or anything else, reasonable or not. Sorry, but without a real signature on a real document that will hold up in court, there is no liability to agree to any EULA, GPL included.
Button Click != Signature
Never did, never will.
My cat likes to lay on my keyboard, he must have hit the right combination of keys. I never saw an EULA.
very few companies produce
Hardly rare, Cocaine is usually made with Kerosene but Gasoline is an acceptable substitute.
I signed up in October 1999 with Bell Atlantic. They were wiring my house within 10 days. I have had ~2 days of downtime total. When they tested my line, the tech said I had the highest test he had seen. I think it was 77, what ever that means.
The speed is excellent. I have a 640kbs line and downloads rarely go over 30KBs from web servers, but I can get 2 downloads at that speed. FTP saturates my line, always around 60KBs, depending on the source - of course.
I live across the street from the CO., guess I'm a lucky one.
Ah, 'the good old days':P
Downloading the A series through a "Free" shell account 1500 miles away. Only to be retrieved by a 1200 baud overnight.
I took me ~3 weeks to get all the SLS disk sets, and about $300 in phone charges.
Regardless, I thought it was the best thing ever.
FREE *NIX AT LASTS
What defines a legitimate news source on the Net?
The fact that they can resist posting lies on April 1 and stick to the news.
The funny thing is, I can still go to Wall St. and choose between 5 or so DVD street dealers.
At $10 a DVD, what a wholesale bargain.
Why don't they sue Mayor Guliani for aiding and abetting blatant criminal activity?
What does that do for TIVO?
Any man willing to give up his liberty for a false sense of safety deserves neither.
There is no enlightenment, this is an uninformed judge giving in to a frivolous lawsuit that has the wording to make browsing with unapproved software illegal and punishable.
IMO either everyone has guns, or no one has guns. Since the later is impossible, the solution is obvious.
Anyone who comes into my house and takes my things without telling me, is a thief.
That is unreasonable, and it violates my rights.