It seems that the Greens could, in this case, be shooting themselves in the foot proverbially. Microsoft bashing aside, but the a portion of revenue generated by software sales which winds up in Bill Gates' pocket ultimately winds up at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The Foundation is known for its support of (generally) socially liberal causes. Although I haven't digested what they are pouring money in of late besides HIV prevention programs, they could well be a source of funding for environmental issues.
The same could be said for Oracle, Sun, Apple and the other multi-billion dollar gorillas pitching non-OSS warez.
...the impact of high energy sound waves is significantly greater than most people here seem to think. They carry for miles underwater...
True. Except that as surface ships have relatively shallow draft, most of that energy will be channeled above the sonic layer, and it tends to attenuate out much quicker near the surface unless the propogation conditions are optimal. Marine life near the ship is going to get whacked, but then, many ships already have active sonar capability (which put out a lot of power) so the concerns with this system, while notable, are relatively moot.
That, my friend, would violate the Magnusson-Moss Act, which is the same law that permits you to maintain your own car (or have Dingbat Lube do it) without violating the warranty.
Not only does the code tend to fall apart, but it also usually lacks and sort of documentation or commenting. Bad juju for 2038, and software maint. in general.
There are no Windows98 patches in this week's batch. My WindowsUpdate history lists 10 patches for Win98SE since this PC was installed in 2003.
There are no Win98 patches this week because Microsoft has desupported it. Clearly this is one area where OSS is advantageous but how many devs are actively engaged in patching FC1, for example? This is merely a guess but I imaging most have moved on to supporting FC4. At least it is relatively "free" to upgrade.
I hope you aren't serious, except that Win98 (aka Wintendo) was good for games and the home user before broadband...it has no place in the Corporate environment.
Features like NTFS and kerberos (neither of which are natively supported on Win9x) do help security. Most of us realize that in the home environment you aren't likely to find kerberos, but by and large, the W2K & XP kernels are NOT based on WinX and are more secure.
So neither platform is immune to a dedicated haxor coming across an unfirewalled and unpatched home setup on a broadband connection... and don't start on *Nix because the average remaining Wintendo user probably uses AOL and is scared to death of Linux (if they even understand what it is). Ok, so they could go by a Macintosh, but...
I may be terribly cynical, but the first thing I thought was:
1. This distracts the world from Karl's outing the CIA agent.
2. This prevents Blair from going waffely on Iraq despite Bush's lack of any compromise on global warming or aid to Africa.
In any case, we should bomb Mecca every time something like this happens.
Cynicism? Innocent people just died and all you can come up with is claptrap like this?
Shut down & disable the services you don't need before doing anything else (including connecting to anything), even if you are installing from an SP2+ image.
...when a participant asked why MapPoint had not expanded to South East Asia so such services could be built, Ballmer was stumped...
Why expand MapPoint to SE Asia, which will just get pirated anyhow... where's the business case? Or do they plan to sell it in Indonesia for ~ 9718 Rupiah (= 1 USD)?
a high ranking Air Force officer who's packing some large gauge serious metal in his johnson
That's because he's in the Air Farce....the "un-service." The other Branches would flag him during a physical (if not sooner) and make him eliminate such things.
It's a big deal, as the Regulations (love 'em or hate 'em) are specific on piercings and body ornamentation. Had a Master Chief who tore earings out of cretins who forgot to remove their ear rings prior to returning to the ship. Their choices at that point were either to go see Doc and get the ear hole stitched up, or lose their liberty card for he duration of the deployment (and then some).
Be careful of what you point out, else DHS might actually start doing routine cavity searches... Israeli security "randomly" administers those to outbound passengers at Ben Gurion.
More fun to be had by all!
What? So you will move movies back and forth repetitively? Unless you are engaging in that kind of lunacy the home user doesn't need to spend the extra $$$ for Gig E.
As for gaming... the home bottleneck is almost never the LAN (unless your wireless router keeps requiring reboot)...it's your WAN interface (assuming your PCs are adequately sized).
North Korea at least (by and large) still behaves as a nation-state
Now there's a stretch. This is the same country that has a recent history of direct acts of terror (e.g., blowing up airliners in flight, sending hit squads to Indonesia to assasinate South Korean diplomats). Compound that with reports of cannabalism and the irrationality surrounding the cult of Juche, Kim Jong Il and Kim Il Sung and you wonder what the heck kind of nation state it is.
They're so soft you could problably crush a piece with your hands, which means they're easily damaged during flight (and we've seen the fatal results of that)
Errr...it was an impact against the leading edge of the wing -- which is covered by reinforced carbon-carbon -- not the ceramic thermal tiles.
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It seems that the Greens could, in this case, be shooting themselves in the foot proverbially. Microsoft bashing aside, but the a portion of revenue generated by software sales which winds up in Bill Gates' pocket ultimately winds up at the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The Foundation is known for its support of (generally) socially liberal causes. Although I haven't digested what they are pouring money in of late besides HIV prevention programs, they could well be a source of funding for environmental issues. The same could be said for Oracle, Sun, Apple and the other multi-billion dollar gorillas pitching non-OSS warez.
Errr... Wine anyone?
...the impact of high energy sound waves is significantly greater than most people here seem to think. They carry for miles underwater...
True. Except that as surface ships have relatively shallow draft, most of that energy will be channeled above the sonic layer, and it tends to attenuate out much quicker near the surface unless the propogation conditions are optimal. Marine life near the ship is going to get whacked, but then, many ships already have active sonar capability (which put out a lot of power) so the concerns with this system, while notable, are relatively moot.
That, my friend, would violate the Magnusson-Moss Act, which is the same law that permits you to maintain your own car (or have Dingbat Lube do it) without violating the warranty.
Yeah, and it's even weaker because you posted to the wrong thread...
Isn't Levanta something sold as a "stamina improving aid"?
Not only does the code tend to fall apart, but it also usually lacks and sort of documentation or commenting. Bad juju for 2038, and software maint. in general.
There are no Windows98 patches in this week's batch. My WindowsUpdate history lists 10 patches for Win98SE since this PC was installed in 2003. There are no Win98 patches this week because Microsoft has desupported it. Clearly this is one area where OSS is advantageous but how many devs are actively engaged in patching FC1, for example? This is merely a guess but I imaging most have moved on to supporting FC4. At least it is relatively "free" to upgrade.
I hope you aren't serious, except that Win98 (aka Wintendo) was good for games and the home user before broadband...it has no place in the Corporate environment. Features like NTFS and kerberos (neither of which are natively supported on Win9x) do help security. Most of us realize that in the home environment you aren't likely to find kerberos, but by and large, the W2K & XP kernels are NOT based on WinX and are more secure. So neither platform is immune to a dedicated haxor coming across an unfirewalled and unpatched home setup on a broadband connection... and don't start on *Nix because the average remaining Wintendo user probably uses AOL and is scared to death of Linux (if they even understand what it is). Ok, so they could go by a Macintosh, but...
I may be terribly cynical, but the first thing I thought was: 1. This distracts the world from Karl's outing the CIA agent. 2. This prevents Blair from going waffely on Iraq despite Bush's lack of any compromise on global warming or aid to Africa. In any case, we should bomb Mecca every time something like this happens. Cynicism? Innocent people just died and all you can come up with is claptrap like this?
Shut down & disable the services you don't need before doing anything else (including connecting to anything), even if you are installing from an SP2+ image.
a high ranking Air Force officer who's packing some large gauge serious metal in his johnson
That's because he's in the Air Farce....the "un-service." The other Branches would flag him during a physical (if not sooner) and make him eliminate such things.
It's a big deal, as the Regulations (love 'em or hate 'em) are specific on piercings and body ornamentation. Had a Master Chief who tore earings out of cretins who forgot to remove their ear rings prior to returning to the ship. Their choices at that point were either to go see Doc and get the ear hole stitched up, or lose their liberty card for he duration of the deployment (and then some).
seriously, this is a boon for Novell... how long will this keep them alive?
errr...TSA...whatever!
Be careful of what you point out, else DHS might actually start doing routine cavity searches... Israeli security "randomly" administers those to outbound passengers at Ben Gurion. More fun to be had by all!
And it seems every time my Fedora box gets a kernel patch, I'm prompted for a reboot too... Face it folks, OS perfection does not exist.
What? So you will move movies back and forth repetitively? Unless you are engaging in that kind of lunacy the home user doesn't need to spend the extra $$$ for Gig E.
As for gaming... the home bottleneck is almost never the LAN (unless your wireless router keeps requiring reboot)...it's your WAN interface (assuming your PCs are adequately sized).
North Korea at least (by and large) still behaves as a nation-state
Now there's a stretch. This is the same country that has a recent history of direct acts of terror (e.g., blowing up airliners in flight, sending hit squads to Indonesia to assasinate South Korean diplomats). Compound that with reports of cannabalism and the irrationality surrounding the cult of Juche, Kim Jong Il and Kim Il Sung and you wonder what the heck kind of nation state it is.
They're so soft you could problably crush a piece with your hands, which means they're easily damaged during flight (and we've seen the fatal results of that) Errr...it was an impact against the leading edge of the wing -- which is covered by reinforced carbon-carbon -- not the ceramic thermal tiles.