While I too advocate the right to privacy, I do not see how under mass surveillance "free speech doesn't exist, protection from unwarranted searches is removed". Firstly, whether or not every waking moment of my day is observed or not, I may say whatever I damn well please. Secondly, footage taken of you in your own home without warrant isn't admissable evidence, as per (my understand of) the Fourth Amendment. So this can only be true if both the police and courts and astoundingly corrupt (in which case the cameras are the least of your problems).
That's true, until you hit the market of people who are both interested in a cool game and are interested in the more-long-term goal of actually learning to play a guitar; the controller is expensive enough that the person could just as likely buy a Stratocaster starter kit.
Actually, with the increased use of Continuously Variable Transmissions rising, research that's aimed for constant RPM engines is more useful than you say it is.
So what if the War Measures Act was invoked? The Front de libération du Québec openly advocated robbery, kidnappings, and bombings. While people were detained and wiretapped, it wasn't on a particularly large scale, AND results were had and the act was promptly withdrawn. Damages done to people uneccessarily detained were paid by the government of Québec, and legal counsel was provided for all the detainees.
So many people of so many spectrums of political belief agree with this act (I mean, even Levesque did) that I'm not sure why privacy advocates are so panicked about it. Two-hundred bombings in my town of residence would be more worrying to me than wiretapping of my communications.
Canada is slightly leftist compared to America in general; however, the Liberal party is these days considered a fairly middle-ground party. That's probably where the confusion has come in.
You do know that "monitoring" can be rather benign, don't you? As far as I know, it's perfectly legal for the police to keep an eye on your house from public property, or watch where you go in public. That is, if you said "I want to assassinate Mr. X!" they could watch your movements, and warn Mr. X's bodyguards if you put on what appeared to be body armour and started racing to a conference he was holding.
That's what you get for not reading Terms of Use. Freedom of speech is great, and all, but you're not going to find it on Moderated sites that you have no sway with.
I was a little disappointed when he said filesystems like Reiser4 and ZFS don't affect the block layer. I'm not sure about ZFS, either, but I do know that Reiser4 can do stuff above and beyond what the block device layer can do, these days. How do I know? Why, it's on the Namesys webpage!
Pff, you don't even need to be a Liberal to like freedom of speech. (Though too America-centric a remark for my general tastes, this was conventiently demonstrated by the Republicans voting against this bill rather than the Democrats)
Wait, these Apps are just different colourschemes. They aren't following different UI guidelines. If they're the most frequently used apps, they may as WELL look a tad distinct, don't you think?
I use VLC on every computer I've got, these days: Seeing as win32codecs don't work on PPC, SPARC, and MIPS, I'd have an awful sore lack of video and audio support without ffmpeg and VLC.
I used to use codec packs on Windows, but ffmpeg is capable enough to do without them, now.
Joel's actually a fairly well-known ex-Microsoft developer who's put out some nice books and articles about software development, management, usability, and so-on. Unlike Dvorak, he's actually done things in the real world.
If you're going to use OpenSolaris, the license doesn't matter. The CDDL is perfectly legitimate for commercial use. I mentioned Linux because the change to GPL is really only significant for linking OpenSolaris code with GPL code, Linux applications being the most common.
The best part about Sun being GPLed (the CDDL is a fine license itself) is that ZFS can be implemented as a kernel module rather than in FUSE. The idea of running non-trivial enterprise filesystem in user-space is abhorent to me.
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While I too advocate the right to privacy, I do not see how under mass surveillance "free speech doesn't exist, protection from unwarranted searches is removed".
Firstly, whether or not every waking moment of my day is observed or not, I may say whatever I damn well please.
Secondly, footage taken of you in your own home without warrant isn't admissable evidence, as per (my understand of) the Fourth Amendment. So this can only be true if both the police and courts and astoundingly corrupt (in which case the cameras are the least of your problems).
"Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way", to quote Pink Floyd.
That's true, until you hit the market of people who are both interested in a cool game and are interested in the more-long-term goal of actually learning to play a guitar; the controller is expensive enough that the person could just as likely buy a Stratocaster starter kit.
Actually, with the increased use of Continuously Variable Transmissions rising, research that's aimed for constant RPM engines is more useful than you say it is.
Vancouver's got the second highest cost of living in Canada, behind Toronto. If it's cheaper than the States, I feel sorry for you.
So what if the War Measures Act was invoked? The Front de libération du Québec openly advocated robbery, kidnappings, and bombings. While people were detained and wiretapped, it wasn't on a particularly large scale, AND results were had and the act was promptly withdrawn. Damages done to people uneccessarily detained were paid by the government of Québec, and legal counsel was provided for all the detainees.
So many people of so many spectrums of political belief agree with this act (I mean, even Levesque did) that I'm not sure why privacy advocates are so panicked about it.
Two-hundred bombings in my town of residence would be more worrying to me than wiretapping of my communications.
Canada is slightly leftist compared to America in general; however, the Liberal party is these days considered a fairly middle-ground party. That's probably where the confusion has come in.
You do know that "monitoring" can be rather benign, don't you? As far as I know, it's perfectly legal for the police to keep an eye on your house from public property, or watch where you go in public.
That is, if you said "I want to assassinate Mr. X!" they could watch your movements, and warn Mr. X's bodyguards if you put on what appeared to be body armour and started racing to a conference he was holding.
Hey, not to be a devil's advocate or anything, but marriage really doesn't have anything to do with what you do in your bedroom.
Actually, the Quicktime streaming application is something that Apple has open-sourced (under the APL, but what can you do):a ming/
Darwin streaming server: http://developer.apple.com/opensource/server/stre
Next they'll illegalize Washingtonians crossing the border for British Columbian liqour!
That's what you get for not reading Terms of Use. Freedom of speech is great, and all, but you're not going to find it on Moderated sites that you have no sway with.
"Tomorrow is more important than today".
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I don't remember what this is ACTUALLY from, but I've seen it recently in Fist of the North Star, and thought it quite fitting.
I was a little disappointed when he said filesystems like Reiser4 and ZFS don't affect the block layer. I'm not sure about ZFS, either, but I do know that Reiser4 can do stuff above and beyond what the block device layer can do, these days.
How do I know? Why, it's on the Namesys webpage!
Pff, you don't even need to be a Liberal to like freedom of speech.
(Though too America-centric a remark for my general tastes, this was conventiently demonstrated by the Republicans voting against this bill rather than the Democrats)
It probably has something to do with the fact that OGM isn't a codec.
Wait, these Apps are just different colourschemes. They aren't following different UI guidelines. If they're the most frequently used apps, they may as WELL look a tad distinct, don't you think?
An otherwise good article...
I use VLC on every computer I've got, these days: Seeing as win32codecs don't work on PPC, SPARC, and MIPS, I'd have an awful sore lack of video and audio support without ffmpeg and VLC. I used to use codec packs on Windows, but ffmpeg is capable enough to do without them, now.
Joel's actually a fairly well-known ex-Microsoft developer who's put out some nice books and articles about software development, management, usability, and so-on. Unlike Dvorak, he's actually done things in the real world.
What XML needs now is a standardized (even ad hoc) format for Binary XML. XML is such a verbose format...
If you're going to use OpenSolaris, the license doesn't matter. The CDDL is perfectly legitimate for commercial use. I mentioned Linux because the change to GPL is really only significant for linking OpenSolaris code with GPL code, Linux applications being the most common.
Hey, you can export and sign too. I'd hate using a program that didn't let me do that.
Either a last resort, or the malevolent use of a previously unknown loophole in American law.
The best part about Sun being GPLed (the CDDL is a fine license itself) is that ZFS can be implemented as a kernel module rather than in FUSE. The idea of running non-trivial enterprise filesystem in user-space is abhorent to me.
Hey! Don't forget the loss of Manchuria, Japan's largest source for war materials.