Moreover, Congress essentially can't limit eminent domain in these cases. All the Supreme Court did in this case is gave deference to local government's decisions as to what constitutes a "public use" under the 5th Amendment. It's the local governments abusing their power.
Training is the big one. When you consign soldiers against their will, it's really hard to make them into competent front-line fighters (which is what draftees, for the most part, become). They're not only unwilling but also not filtered by recruiters for "soldier material."
How in the hell can anyone be faster than the Vatican to reach this level? Seriously, that's a nation you could get wireless inside of an afternoon, but maybe wireless networking is a sin like sausage was at one point. I don't get it.
And he claims that "sue with an S on the end" is a long U and short E in SUSE. Last time I checked, "silent" and "short" are not the same. Newb, on crack, or whatever else - he's an idiot.
Yep. The two elements of a crime: actus reus and mens rea. Guilty act and guilty mind. I am 100% opposed to "strict liability" crimes. However, possession is more than a state. Possession, properly defined, is the knowing or intentional act of possessing something.
But that's not the issue here. The issue is what constitutes the act of "possessing" something. Without explicit language to the contrary, I strongly believe that looking at a web page does not constitute possessing its content simply by virtue of your web browser caching the content. However, digging through the cache to extract the content for longer-term storage might constitute possession.
You want to see the Debian ports page for more information on this. There is a port for PA-RISC, but I do not know if Sarge is available for it (yet). Good luck.
I have been running sarge on my servers for well over a year. I'm very happy with it. And the fact of the matter is that "unstable" is more stable than the majority of other distributions.
Somewhere along the way, with about 200 days of uptime running sarge all along, I lost the symlink to initrd.img that Grub pointed to. The vmlinuz symlink was still there, but no initrd.img. I did a remote reboot, and the machine didn't come back, so I had to get the support people at the colo company to hook up a remote KVM and try to find the real initrd.img with the Grub command line to boot it up.
The lesson that I thought I had learned but evidently did not is to double-check your boot-loader configuration before rebooting if your machine has more than a week of uptime.
But I didn't lose anything at all in sticking to sarge.:)
You're right, but I wasn't talking about the merits of the language; rather, the reason it's popular. If people thought rationally about their decisions, they would use something else, but PHP gives the instant gratification that people want.
PHP is the single easiest language to write simple web applications with. And by "simple", I really mean simple. Everyone suggesting Ruby on Rails to replace PHP has valid points, but forgets this little feature. Let's just compare the two for a moment. With Ruby on Rails, I read a 5-page tutorial that gets you up and running with a basic application. Just getting the application created took two pages of the tutorial.
With PHP, when you want to get started on something, you don't have to invest any time at all into setting yourself up to begin. You just dive in. The only command needed to start a PHP project is 'vi index.php', and immediately you are working.
You can fight over which language is the best at actually doing the job all you want, but the most popular language is the one that wastes the least of your time on logistics. That's why Perl is so popular for scripting, and it's why PHP is so popular for web applications.
The Founding Fathers distrusted majorities. They really distrusted majority rule. That's why the Senate and House are set up differently and must both agree, it's why the Senate was for a long time appointed by the state legislatures (this was only changed because the state legislatures were corrupt, not because anyone wanted to vote for their Senators), and it's why we have the Electoral College.
People who don't understand it often criticize it. And even those who think they understand it look at the 2000 election and say "See! The Electoral College doesn't work!" But anyone who truly understands the Electoral College also understands that the 2000 election was proof that it does work.
I'm proud to live in a constitutional, republican federation of states. And I'm proud that we have that Constitution, because without it there would be no restraints on Congress.
Now, did anyone actually read the story? I don't have time this morning, but the blurb says that the Senate Intelligence Committee voted on something and then it went on to say that the new FBI powers are already there. What's the actual status, or do tinfoil hats interfere with rational thought?
Although someone has said I misquoted the movie, you are the first person to explicitly state my point: Evil loses almost immediately after saying that line.
That may be, but I have to wonder what it is that would cause iTunes to do that, other than iTunes not being smart about playback when it doesn't have the CPU. Since the playback thread never recovers without at least pausing it or changing tracks, I suspect the problem is with iTunes, regardless of other problems on the machine.
If iTunes on the PC were slightly faster, these numbers would be even higher. I installed it on my PC and it works fine, but on my parents' PC (a Dell P3 at 1 GHz with plenty of RAM, probably fairly average for the home user) it will start skipping if you start a new process while it's playing, and you'll have to stop playback and start it again to make the skipping stop. As the average home PC catches up to iTunes' de fact requirements, I can see these numbers going up.
Also, most Windows users don't realize that iTunes exists or what it is, beyond those who have iPods and use it just to dump songs onto their iPod rather than to buy and play back songs on their PC. I didn't realize it was anything more than that until I got hooked on it on my Powerbook.
Hill v. Gateway 2000 has your answer. See paragraph 17. No, this isn't universal law, but it holds up well enough that you'd be foolish to take the EULA to court as unenforceable.
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Moreover, Congress essentially can't limit eminent domain in these cases. All the Supreme Court did in this case is gave deference to local government's decisions as to what constitutes a "public use" under the 5th Amendment. It's the local governments abusing their power.
Training is the big one. When you consign soldiers against their will, it's really hard to make them into competent front-line fighters (which is what draftees, for the most part, become). They're not only unwilling but also not filtered by recruiters for "soldier material."
Right, because Perl should be made harder to read. Good thinking, Perl community! :)
How in the hell can anyone be faster than the Vatican to reach this level? Seriously, that's a nation you could get wireless inside of an afternoon, but maybe wireless networking is a sin like sausage was at one point. I don't get it.
And he claims that "sue with an S on the end" is a long U and short E in SUSE. Last time I checked, "silent" and "short" are not the same. Newb, on crack, or whatever else - he's an idiot.
Can any of you guys hack the iTunes Music Store so every listed song is actually God Save the Queen by the Sex Pistols, just for a day or two?
Nah. Slashdot will probably just post this story again in ten years and call it good.
Yep. The two elements of a crime: actus reus and mens rea. Guilty act and guilty mind. I am 100% opposed to "strict liability" crimes. However, possession is more than a state. Possession, properly defined, is the knowing or intentional act of possessing something.
But that's not the issue here. The issue is what constitutes the act of "possessing" something. Without explicit language to the contrary, I strongly believe that looking at a web page does not constitute possessing its content simply by virtue of your web browser caching the content. However, digging through the cache to extract the content for longer-term storage might constitute possession.
Debian testing was in this state for 3 years.
The sentence itself is poorly worded, in any order. It would be far clearer to state that "There are few differences between this release and Ubuntu."
Then someone should tell the Debian webmaster. The PA-RISC port page says nothing about sarge and mentions something about woody just being released.
You want to see the Debian ports page for more information on this. There is a port for PA-RISC, but I do not know if Sarge is available for it (yet). Good luck.
I have been running sarge on my servers for well over a year. I'm very happy with it. And the fact of the matter is that "unstable" is more stable than the majority of other distributions.
Somewhere along the way, with about 200 days of uptime running sarge all along, I lost the symlink to initrd.img that Grub pointed to. The vmlinuz symlink was still there, but no initrd.img. I did a remote reboot, and the machine didn't come back, so I had to get the support people at the colo company to hook up a remote KVM and try to find the real initrd.img with the Grub command line to boot it up.
:)
The lesson that I thought I had learned but evidently did not is to double-check your boot-loader configuration before rebooting if your machine has more than a week of uptime.
But I didn't lose anything at all in sticking to sarge.
You're right, but I wasn't talking about the merits of the language; rather, the reason it's popular. If people thought rationally about their decisions, they would use something else, but PHP gives the instant gratification that people want.
PHP is the single easiest language to write simple web applications with. And by "simple", I really mean simple. Everyone suggesting Ruby on Rails to replace PHP has valid points, but forgets this little feature. Let's just compare the two for a moment. With Ruby on Rails, I read a 5-page tutorial that gets you up and running with a basic application. Just getting the application created took two pages of the tutorial.
With PHP, when you want to get started on something, you don't have to invest any time at all into setting yourself up to begin. You just dive in. The only command needed to start a PHP project is 'vi index.php', and immediately you are working.
You can fight over which language is the best at actually doing the job all you want, but the most popular language is the one that wastes the least of your time on logistics. That's why Perl is so popular for scripting, and it's why PHP is so popular for web applications.
The Founding Fathers distrusted majorities. They really distrusted majority rule. That's why the Senate and House are set up differently and must both agree, it's why the Senate was for a long time appointed by the state legislatures (this was only changed because the state legislatures were corrupt, not because anyone wanted to vote for their Senators), and it's why we have the Electoral College.
People who don't understand it often criticize it. And even those who think they understand it look at the 2000 election and say "See! The Electoral College doesn't work!" But anyone who truly understands the Electoral College also understands that the 2000 election was proof that it does work.
I'm proud to live in a constitutional, republican federation of states. And I'm proud that we have that Constitution, because without it there would be no restraints on Congress.
Now, did anyone actually read the story? I don't have time this morning, but the blurb says that the Senate Intelligence Committee voted on something and then it went on to say that the new FBI powers are already there. What's the actual status, or do tinfoil hats interfere with rational thought?
Just be glad they haven't started patenting songs or movies, or the lobbyists would take the distinction away. ;)
Although someone has said I misquoted the movie, you are the first person to explicitly state my point: Evil loses almost immediately after saying that line.
Evil will always triumph over good, because good is dumb.
That may be, but I have to wonder what it is that would cause iTunes to do that, other than iTunes not being smart about playback when it doesn't have the CPU. Since the playback thread never recovers without at least pausing it or changing tracks, I suspect the problem is with iTunes, regardless of other problems on the machine.
If iTunes on the PC were slightly faster, these numbers would be even higher. I installed it on my PC and it works fine, but on my parents' PC (a Dell P3 at 1 GHz with plenty of RAM, probably fairly average for the home user) it will start skipping if you start a new process while it's playing, and you'll have to stop playback and start it again to make the skipping stop. As the average home PC catches up to iTunes' de fact requirements, I can see these numbers going up.
Also, most Windows users don't realize that iTunes exists or what it is, beyond those who have iPods and use it just to dump songs onto their iPod rather than to buy and play back songs on their PC. I didn't realize it was anything more than that until I got hooked on it on my Powerbook.
Hell, I don't care how many ATMs of pressure there are on me, it's still not going to be a fun experience. Even one small ATM would hurt.
If you go beyond how long the LFS name and manual have been around, people have been doing this for longer than there have been distributions at all.
Hill v. Gateway 2000 has your answer. See paragraph 17. No, this isn't universal law, but it holds up well enough that you'd be foolish to take the EULA to court as unenforceable.
You'll have to read elsewhere on this thread. But it almost certainly does legally bind you. Deal with it.