It's important to remember that most of Microsoft's Windows sales are to OEM and corporate customers, not directly to end-users via retail or online sales.
Unfortunately, ZFS can only be used on Linux through FUSE. 'Real' kernel module support for ZFS on Linux is not possible due to several Sun patents and the fact that the ZFS code is CDDL, which is incompatible with the GPL.
My guess on reading the article is that the e-mails were addressed to georgewbush.org, and either no bounce messages came due to a misconfigured mail server or Rove and Co. are too stupid to read bounce messages. Either way, Rove deleted them when they were found to be possibly incriminating. Unbeknownst to Rove and Co., being sent to georgewbush.org put them in the hands of Chickenhead Productions, which owns and operates the site along with whitehouse.org. The sites are clearly anti-Bush and anti-Republican humor sites. The owner of Chickenhead, registered as John Wooden in both his Internic registration and in his trademark regstration, or someone working for Chickenhead probably forwarded them to Palast, a reporter well-known for breaking the voting irregularities in Florida prior to the 2000 U.S. presidential election
wtf does this have to do with copyright infringement? isnt it already illegal, with a possible penalty of life imprisonment, to knowingly cause death or attempted death?
Exactly. The whole 'life imprisonment' tack in the story is just sensationalism. Other crimes, like robbery, have similar statutes adding minimum sentences. All this does is simply ensure that someone doesn't use the other crime as defense to beat a murder rap ("I was robbing him, not trying to kill him! I had to shoot him! I can't help if he wouldn't give his wallet!")
"would create a new crime of life imprisonment for using pirated software in some circumstances"
I dont know what circunstances are those, but yeah right any judge would sentence that.
RTFA
The proposal increases the maximum penalties for 5 2320 offenses from 10 to 20 years imprisonment where the defendant knowingly or recklessly causes or attempts to cause serious bodily injury, and increases the maximum penalty to life imprisonment where the defendant knowingly or recklessly causes or attempts to cause death.
And exactly how is someone going to cause death while committing criminal copyright infringement?
Holy fsck! I thought you were kidding. Here I was thinking "Why did this get modded informative?" Until I noticed the link at the end of the post...and then followed and read it! Parent is very serious, folks. Another one that struck me:
* Allow computers to be seized more readily. Specifically, property such as a PC "intended to be used in any manner" to commit a copyright crime would be subject to forfeiture, including civil asset forfeiture
They'll be able to seize your PC like a they would a drug lord's vehicles and property. You have to be kidding me. In addition, what is a PC "intended to be used in any manner" to commit a copyright crime? How about anything running Linux with libdvdcss loaded on it! Ya know, so you can play those DVDs you legitimately purchased on equipment you own? Except that doing so is a violation of the DMCA?
For those not in in the know, the parent is referring to Fred Gwynne, who played Judge Chamberlain Haller in My Cousin Vinny. Fred Gwynne, btw, is also well-known for playing Herman Munster.
Saves you lots of money in R&D and I guarantee you can fit 40 of them in one capsule.
The problem isn't fitting 40 in 1 capsule, but fitting 40 in 1 capsule, plus all the 40 oz. Colt 45s and/or Mickey's. Additionally, you have to figure in the expensive of removing the gang tags once they get there.
The US automakers have been fighting to keep the current standards for decades so that they can tout the "Great Milage" that their cars have. Now that something has come along that looks even better that the standard (read fossil fuel only) autos look worse, they probably have done some back door lobbying to change over to this new formula.
No, this is clearly not the case as mileage has gone down across the board.
Actually, as someone who, until very recently, worked in the U.S. auto industry for several years, I can tell you that the automakers did fight for decades to keep the current standards because they made all their cars look good. But they lobbied hard against the change to the new formula, not just because it ruins their marketing, but also because these ratings are used to compute CAFE (Corporate Average Fuel Economy). Automakers are mandated by Congress to meet a CAFE quota, which is the average fuel economy of all of their cars and trucks sold in the U.S., year after year. If they fail to do so, they have to make up for it by pushing more small vehicles, which they make less money on -- and on many small cars, they actually lose money rather than make a profit.
And what, exactly, about MSFT's previous security track record makes you think that they can solve it? Note that it isn't a technical talent issue, but a managerial issue (i.e., gotta spend money on new stuff [revenue generating tasks], not on fixing old stuff)
Actually, you don't need government rules, all you need is corporate fiat. Windows and Office became the defacto systems because corporate IT departments decided they wanted to settle on something that was to be a corporate standard. Before Windows became a monopoly OS in the desktop arena, corporates had a huge diversity in systems and solutions.
Several companies I'd worked for had IBM equipment (mainframes and mid-ranges like the AS/400) for accounting, Windows and DOS for many office workers, Macs in the art department, Unix in engineering, and a mix of Unix, Novell and Windows NT in the server room.
The legal department would do their docs in WordPerfect, while other departments would pick and choose from the diversity of different solutions.
Finally, IT departments said enough is enough and CIOs forced Windows on everyone because that's what they used at home.
And now people buy home computers with Windows on them because that's what they use at work.
Add to that Microsoft leveraging their Windows desktop monopoly to promote Office and then leveraging their Office monopoly to promote Windows, and voila -- you have a company with a 90+% lock on the market, reaching towards 99%.
I'm saying that the President should consult with Constitutional law experts when he clearly has no understanding of Constitutional law. Clinton at least has a law degree. Bush's experience boils down to some cocaine usage in college instead of actually studying anything along with his voluminous expertise as an oil businessman.
That's actually backwards. If the Executive finds a law unconstitutional, he can simply ignore it unless there's a court ruling. He needn't sue. He doesn't need the courts' powers, he has his own No, the Executive does not have court powers. Yes, the President may choose to ignore a law, and Congress may choose to bring forth articles of impeachment if he does so.
You forgot part: I'm just a bill Yes, I'm only a bill And if they vote for me on Capitol Hill Well, then I'm off to the White House Where I'll wait in a line With a lot of other bills For the president to sign And if he signs me, then I'll be a law. HOW I hope and pray that he will, But today I am still just a bill.
Boy:
You mean even if the whole Congress says you should be a law, the president can still say no? BILL:
Yes, that's called a veto. If the president vetoes me, I have to go back to Congress and they vote on me again, and by that time you're so old...
Boy:
Which, it would seem that the Executive branch doesn't have the power under the Constitution:
Amendment IV The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized
A minor nit: Purdue has been asked to re-open the case, but as of the writing of the article, has not (but I'm sure Purdue will).
Food for thought -- just supposing Taleyarkhan really produced sonofusion (however much of a stretch that might be), who stands to gain and who stands to lose if someone really produces a net-positive energy fusion reaction? How quickly would Congresscritters bought and paid for by big oil want to shut him up?
I'm not saying he did or didn't do it -- it's just that I'm betting if someone comes up with a net-positive reaction that can be reproduced easily and cheaply we'll never hear about it.
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That's what I'm asking.
It's important to remember that most of Microsoft's Windows sales are to OEM and corporate customers, not directly to end-users via retail or online sales.
The weird Christian page; unless you happen to be running Linux x64.
Unfortunately, ZFS can only be used on Linux through FUSE. 'Real' kernel module support for ZFS on Linux is not possible due to several Sun patents and the fact that the ZFS code is CDDL, which is incompatible with the GPL.
My guess on reading the article is that the e-mails were addressed to georgewbush.org, and either no bounce messages came due to a misconfigured mail server or Rove and Co. are too stupid to read bounce messages. Either way, Rove deleted them when they were found to be possibly incriminating. Unbeknownst to Rove and Co., being sent to georgewbush.org put them in the hands of Chickenhead Productions, which owns and operates the site along with whitehouse.org. The sites are clearly anti-Bush and anti-Republican humor sites. The owner of Chickenhead, registered as John Wooden in both his Internic registration and in his trademark regstration, or someone working for Chickenhead probably forwarded them to Palast, a reporter well-known for breaking the voting irregularities in Florida prior to the 2000 U.S. presidential election
Exactly. The whole 'life imprisonment' tack in the story is just sensationalism. Other crimes, like robbery, have similar statutes adding minimum sentences. All this does is simply ensure that someone doesn't use the other crime as defense to beat a murder rap ("I was robbing him, not trying to kill him! I had to shoot him! I can't help if he wouldn't give his wallet!")
RTFA
And exactly how is someone going to cause death while committing criminal copyright infringement?
Somehow I doubt that would help much.
Rappers should be shot on sight for noise pollution. Rapists on the other hand...
They'll be able to seize your PC like a they would a drug lord's vehicles and property. You have to be kidding me. In addition, what is a PC "intended to be used in any manner" to commit a copyright crime? How about anything running Linux with libdvdcss loaded on it! Ya know, so you can play those DVDs you legitimately purchased on equipment you own? Except that doing so is a violation of the DMCA?
For those not in in the know, the parent is referring to Fred Gwynne, who played Judge Chamberlain Haller in My Cousin Vinny. Fred Gwynne, btw, is also well-known for playing Herman Munster.
Torrent.
The problem isn't fitting 40 in 1 capsule, but fitting 40 in 1 capsule, plus all the 40 oz. Colt 45s and/or Mickey's. Additionally, you have to figure in the expensive of removing the gang tags once they get there.
No, this is clearly not the case as mileage has gone down across the board.
Actually, as someone who, until very recently, worked in the U.S. auto industry for several years, I can tell you that the automakers did fight for decades to keep the current standards because they made all their cars look good. But they lobbied hard against the change to the new formula, not just because it ruins their marketing, but also because these ratings are used to compute CAFE (Corporate Average Fuel Economy). Automakers are mandated by Congress to meet a CAFE quota, which is the average fuel economy of all of their cars and trucks sold in the U.S., year after year. If they fail to do so, they have to make up for it by pushing more small vehicles, which they make less money on -- and on many small cars, they actually lose money rather than make a profit.
Aw, man, Taco! I told you to put that thing away, it looks real!
And what, exactly, about MSFT's previous security track record makes you think that they can solve it? Note that it isn't a technical talent issue, but a managerial issue (i.e., gotta spend money on new stuff [revenue generating tasks], not on fixing old stuff)
Actually, you don't need government rules, all you need is corporate fiat. Windows and Office became the defacto systems because corporate IT departments decided they wanted to settle on something that was to be a corporate standard. Before Windows became a monopoly OS in the desktop arena, corporates had a huge diversity in systems and solutions.
Several companies I'd worked for had IBM equipment (mainframes and mid-ranges like the AS/400) for accounting, Windows and DOS for many office workers, Macs in the art department, Unix in engineering, and a mix of Unix, Novell and Windows NT in the server room.
The legal department would do their docs in WordPerfect, while other departments would pick and choose from the diversity of different solutions.
Finally, IT departments said enough is enough and CIOs forced Windows on everyone because that's what they used at home.
And now people buy home computers with Windows on them because that's what they use at work.
Add to that Microsoft leveraging their Windows desktop monopoly to promote Office and then leveraging their Office monopoly to promote Windows, and voila -- you have a company with a 90+% lock on the market, reaching towards 99%.
I'm saying that the President should consult with Constitutional law experts when he clearly has no understanding of Constitutional law. Clinton at least has a law degree. Bush's experience boils down to some cocaine usage in college instead of actually studying anything along with his voluminous expertise as an oil businessman.
You forgot part:
...
I'm just a bill
Yes, I'm only a bill
And if they vote for me on Capitol Hill
Well, then I'm off to the White House
Where I'll wait in a line
With a lot of other bills
For the president to sign
And if he signs me, then I'll be a law.
HOW I hope and pray that he will,
But today I am still just a bill.
Boy:
You mean even if the whole Congress says you should be a law, the president can still say no?
BILL:
Yes, that's called a veto. If the president vetoes me, I have to go back to Congress and they vote on me again, and by that time you're so old
Boy:
A minor nit: Purdue has been asked to re-open the case, but as of the writing of the article, has not (but I'm sure Purdue will).
Food for thought -- just supposing Taleyarkhan really produced sonofusion (however much of a stretch that might be), who stands to gain and who stands to lose if someone really produces a net-positive energy fusion reaction? How quickly would Congresscritters bought and paid for by big oil want to shut him up?
I'm not saying he did or didn't do it -- it's just that I'm betting if someone comes up with a net-positive reaction that can be reproduced easily and cheaply we'll never hear about it.
We're gonna need a whole lot of Mentos and Diet Coke for that one!
Uhhh...it already is
Last year's "dead season" was caused by El Nino.