"both Occam and Freud agrees that sometimes a cigar is just a cigar."
Were either one of them in politics? No, then your comment is irrelevant. The US wants Assange to disappear quietly. A public trial given the current polarized conditions would be a political nightmare here. By playing round robin the US gets to decrease his visibility enough to deal with him any way they want.
If what you say is true then its a prosecutor playing for political points locally after the first prosecutor dismissed it already. Guess Assange is a popular enough target. Playing examples can get ugly if your example challenges you and has enough support to win.
Either way it's BS. Remember the UK only checks the paperwork not whether any of it has merit. The extradition process is little more than a rubber stamp as long as the paperwork is correct.
Right now the whole case reads like a he said/she said with no evidence and everyone playing various political games trying to make some kind of points. And Assange under siege for creating and representing an organization(which is also under siege) that is embarrassing the powers that be. Those powers would be happy to discredit Assange and WikiLeaks.
About getting a blow job. I don't know about you but admitting to getting a blow job by someone other than his wife on national tv where his wife will see it... Well, how about you being in that situation with Bill Clintons history. Remember you only have to face the public and congress during the daytime, her you have face after the lights go out. Let's not forget John Bobbit got his dick wacked off while he was sleeping by his wife just a couple of years before... Happy dreams.... Besides we all know the entire fiasco(along with the savings and loan BS, independent prosecutor) was about keeping the president powerless, kind of like the current political fiascos(debt, guns, etc) between congress(house largely) and the president. PS. Forget citation, you're on the internet, lo
"The idea was that you could be using your IM, email, and a host of other applications and services all set up for your work environment (or any environment you desire, for that matter) - your IM contacts were your workmates, your email was work email, your browser had your work bookmarks and started up with your work webapps open, etc - THEN, with the click of a button, you could switch to 'home' or 'personal' or whatever and suddenly you'd be seeing your setup for that environment - your personal email, your personal IM contacts, your personal browser setup, your personal folders being displayed on the desktop with a pic of your dog, etc.
The power was with the user to set this up as they wished, you could have as many (or as few) activities as you desired. Perhaps a Music Creation activity that had all your perferred apps open for music creation + any other stuff you so desired to be configured, or perhaps an activity set up for your Development environment with folders on the desktop pointing directly to your files, etc. The list goes on.
The power of the idea streched even further to 'networked Activities'. The idea was that you could walk into a hotel for instance and KDE would inform you that there was an 'Activity' that the hotel was offering you to use. This could include things like links to common items in the browser, Icons on the desktop for the menu in the hotel's restaurant, IM contacts that were the hotel's helpdesk, a document explaining the local area and local attractions, etc.
When it comes down to it, the idea was actually very cool - your desktop environment could mould itself to suit your 'Activity' making access to the things you needed far, far easier and quicker. A great idea. But, the takeup has been bad, misinformation has been rampant and there has been no clear explination of the concept for user's benefit."
Now if they only could explain it in the documentation as well as you just did. You might want to send your comment in to them.
"If anything is active for thousands of years, it's easy enough to carefully scoop it up and bury it as nuclear waste."
Fine. Let's dig up the entire 20 mile zone around Fukushima and dump it somewhere. Oops, it's on an island. Oops, oops, part of the area is the ocean!
There was a story a couple of days ago about finding thyroid tumors in 30% of cases of children from Fukushima when there was none ten years previous and the researchers were trying to blow it off. The disaster was last year, sorry guys correlation does equal causation in this case.
Let's not forget the governments own report describing (criminal)negligence at many corporate and government levels. Kind of like here in the US with the Davis-Besse plant and it's not the only one and nuclear isn't the only industry with the problem(oil). Whenever humans are involved, cost cutting at the expense of safety is always a problem.
"Also, if you're coughing, do your best to get into a meeting with your CEO/CTO/CFO/VP/etc. Really, any major corporate officer will do. Biological warfare is a fine answer to class warfare."
Don't forget your congressional and local representatives. Especially the conservative ones for enhancing this situation.
PS. I'd say mumps instead but by the time these bastards get in government far enough to do damage they've already had kids.
By the way, you do realize by closing the specialized hospital that you guarantee wider exposure to the general population because people with TB will be intermingling in numerous hospitals with members of the public who already have weakened immunity/injuries hence the reason that they are there.
"Humans don't need parasites to be attracted to cats. Kittens work for that purpose just fine."
That and brainwashed into consumerism. Ooooohh! kittens, aren't they cute.(but it's wrong!!-- ren and stimpy) New kittens, new toys. More crap to collect and be stuck with being responsible for, you know like the wife, kids, dog, job, crappy government, crooked corporations, crooked corporations trying to be crappy government and the reverse, etc.
I'm not the "AC" but they can do worse than execute you by hunting you down and harassing you to the point of dysfunction. A living death which shows we've become more barbaric since the cavemen not less. Fact is we're reaching police state levels that can only be dealt with via a general uprising since the political system as far as the public is concerned is completely broken.
"The FSF's version of freedom is equivalent to nanny-state socialism. They've basically decided that their idea of playing nice needs to be enforced by big stick, and will happily trample over anything and everything that does something they dislike."
That's funny. A private foundation having to use a license to force copyright law to do the job it was intended to do. Doesn't seem socialistic to me, if it does to you read your constitution. The goal of copyright and patents is to get developments out in the public as soon as possible for the benefit of all(you know the public) not the developer. Copyright/patent was intended as a short term trade off not a long term benefit to encourage further development.
"In this particular case, Ubuntu wants to place a bootloader that will allow you to load ANY operating system, bypassing the "security" features they dislike in the new UEFI. Ubuntu wishes to ensure that users can boot any operating system they like and run any software they want. Their concern is that the GPLv3 makes provisions by which the FSF could, in this case as the owner of GRUB2, deem that a machine that won't let them replace GRUB2 with something else is in violation of the GPLv3. At that point, they can demand that Ubuntu surrender its encryption keys used to provide secure bootloader verification--which then allows anyone to sign any bootloader they want, thus negating any security features you could leverage out of the bootloader (for example, intentionally instructing it to boot only signed code--keeping the chain trusted, rather than booting a foreign OS as is the option)."
You mean public actually having control of both their hardware and software, especially software as the hardware is worthless without it, that they paid for. And yes they paid for it as all money for development comes from the public via investment to buying the actual devices to taxes that pay for company support(tax breaks, land grants, legal/judges) and other support infrastructure(roads).
"The point of contention is where the FSF gets to demand Ubuntu hand over their encryption keys for this particular application because they've decided it's 'unfair' that users don't have the option to replace a bootloader. The GPLv3 is a restrictive license agreement whose provisions do in fact allow the copyright holder to make certain demands about HOW their software is used. Most people fixate on the "Free" part because you're free to distribute and modify the software; but you are also "Obligated" to publish your modifications in source form if published in any form."
A license version that attempts to control the irresponsible behavior of business types that match toddlers "everything is mine" attitude and attention span of the quarterly stock report. If you don't like the GPL don't use it, you still have your freedom to be selfish and publicly irresponsible as you wish. You know, the public that helped feed, clothe, house, and educate you to be a meaningful member of society rather than kill you for the real threat pure competition would make you out to be.
"The GPLv3 brings restrictions on how you can use the software, such that you must be able to modify it--the hardware you use the software on must be configured to allow the use of modified software (or any other software). 'Jailbreaking' is not a thing with GPLv3 because the vendors would have to supply a way to run custom software. If the Linux Kernel was GPLv3, then you wouldn't have to root any phones to install Cyanogenmod: vendors would be required to provide an official method for the end user to replace the software with custom versions."
The only reason I see you would want to restrict people from altering their software is to lock them out of their hardware. So who's doing the restricting now? Vendors providing options for you to control your device that you paid for in more ways than one, who would have thought? Wouldn't that make it easier for customers/public to
"Both gnome and KDE have by now proven that if you use them, you *will* get screwed. Because as soon as you'll feel comfortable using any of them, they'll just stop supporting it and try getting you to switch to the new version that's awful and not what you wanted. They'll tell you "it's an just an early release, it'll get better". And indeed, it'll get better... and once it's good enough, they'll throw it all away again. I've learned my lesson and I'm now using XFCE, which I'm hoping will not go the way of gnome/KDE...."
Actually Xfce did this from version 3 to 4. They were just lucky enough to do it early enough in their popularity(what there was of it). The change also was before the big linux popularity spike and distro forking per UI hell starting with the *buntus. The Xfce 4 series was in a pretty good position by the time the spike in interest from the general public came along.
I wouldn't hold my breath Xfce won't do a rewrite, it just might be awhile.
Isn't that terrorism? Why haven't the RIAA and supporters been charged with committing economic terrorism on US citizens? We have plenty of anti-terrorism law in place lets use them against corporations like various groups including government use laws in unintended ways against the public.
"It is a balancing act. No invasion of privacy = no money. Too much = evil."
There is no balancing act. Any invasion of privacy is evil. Just because everyone else does it or the system is there to do it or that it's generally accepted doesn't make it less evil. Google is evil just smart enough not to irritate the "golden goose" unlike the other evil (facebook,etc) out there.
I had a 50Mhz DX back then(early ninties), with turbo off down to 25Mhz. Made "blip to death" in fighter mode on Wing Commander down to "warp speed to death" with the turbo off. Another great game bit the dust as I had sold my earlier rig to pay for the DX. I still have my copy of WC in my basement somewhere too.
The guy said itunes functionality on his phones failed due to the age of itunes and he had to upgrade his os to get the newest itunes to install. Yes, basil you dumbass it's coercion. Look up dependancies and understand they are not options but requirements and up to Apple to set them.
Isec stated ios has 30% of the market which is probably a little high. Using the example of the desktop market, which part of the market would you write viruses and malware to get the best return for your effort for? The 30% part of the market or 70% part of the market. My educated guess it's the 70% but feel free to state any evidence with citations to contest my claims. The less than 30% share is the main reason ios is relatively malware and virus free and why Apple is a joke in the phone market just like in the desktop market. There's a reason Apple always is the first to fall in hacking contests and lack of security and accountability is it. Take your fanboyism somewhere else.
"It appears the confusion all over the place here derives from the fact that there were two separate incidents. First, last year, he used school equipment to post a profane tweet and was suspended. Then, recently, he posted the above linked profane tweet, but it was from home, on his own computer, not on the school's network at all. They just saw it because they were examining his Twitter account because of the last incident."
Isn't this defined as stalking? They were monitoring the kid waiting for a violation. If the above is true, the kid should be talking to the DA or ACLU as the first amendment definitely was violated along with more than a couple of state and local laws.
"They can enforce the rules as they wish (just like employers)."
Except schools are government entities not private companies. The kid should be talking to the ACLU. There is no way the first amendment doesn't apply.
Since when did they start cracking down on free speech in schools. When I was in high school several decades ago harsh language was common, and often deserved.
Have you seen the complexity and tolerance of the car parts used these days? I wouldn't want anyone with less than a B.A. degree in engineering to touch any of it. I certainly wouldn't trust it to anyone less since I will eventually be trusting those parts with the lives of my family.
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"t's too late for them to do that with a straight face."
Or us to listen with a straight face.
"both Occam and Freud agrees that sometimes a cigar is just a cigar."
Were either one of them in politics? No, then your comment is irrelevant. The US wants Assange to disappear quietly. A public trial given the current polarized conditions would be a political nightmare here. By playing round robin the US gets to decrease his visibility enough to deal with him any way they want.
If what you say is true then its a prosecutor playing for political points locally after the first prosecutor dismissed it already. Guess Assange is a popular enough target. Playing examples can get ugly if your example challenges you and has enough support to win.
Either way it's BS. Remember the UK only checks the paperwork not whether any of it has merit. The extradition process is little more than a rubber stamp as long as the paperwork is correct.
Right now the whole case reads like a he said/she said with no evidence and everyone playing various political games trying to make some kind of points. And Assange under siege for creating and representing an organization(which is also under siege) that is embarrassing the powers that be. Those powers would be happy to discredit Assange and WikiLeaks.
...ok it up yourself. Damn slashdot pages and laptop pads.
"And Bill Clinton was impeached for perjury."
About getting a blow job. I don't know about you but admitting to getting a blow job by someone other than his wife on national tv where his wife will see it... Well, how about you being in that situation with Bill Clintons history. Remember you only have to face the public and congress during the daytime, her you have face after the lights go out. Let's not forget John Bobbit got his dick wacked off while he was sleeping by his wife just a couple of years before... Happy dreams.... Besides we all know the entire fiasco(along with the savings and loan BS, independent prosecutor) was about keeping the president powerless, kind of like the current political fiascos(debt, guns, etc) between congress(house largely) and the president.
PS. Forget citation, you're on the internet, lo
"The idea was that you could be using your IM, email, and a host of other applications and services all set up for your work environment (or any environment you desire, for that matter) - your IM contacts were your workmates, your email was work email, your browser had your work bookmarks and started up with your work webapps open, etc - THEN, with the click of a button, you could switch to 'home' or 'personal' or whatever and suddenly you'd be seeing your setup for that environment - your personal email, your personal IM contacts, your personal browser setup, your personal folders being displayed on the desktop with a pic of your dog, etc.
The power was with the user to set this up as they wished, you could have as many (or as few) activities as you desired. Perhaps a Music Creation activity that had all your perferred apps open for music creation + any other stuff you so desired to be configured, or perhaps an activity set up for your Development environment with folders on the desktop pointing directly to your files, etc. The list goes on.
The power of the idea streched even further to 'networked Activities'. The idea was that you could walk into a hotel for instance and KDE would inform you that there was an 'Activity' that the hotel was offering you to use. This could include things like links to common items in the browser, Icons on the desktop for the menu in the hotel's restaurant, IM contacts that were the hotel's helpdesk, a document explaining the local area and local attractions, etc.
When it comes down to it, the idea was actually very cool - your desktop environment could mould itself to suit your 'Activity' making access to the things you needed far, far easier and quicker. A great idea. But, the takeup has been bad, misinformation has been rampant and there has been no clear explination of the concept for user's benefit."
Now if they only could explain it in the documentation as well as you just did. You might want to send your comment in to them.
"If anything is active for thousands of years, it's easy enough to carefully scoop it up and bury it as nuclear waste."
Fine. Let's dig up the entire 20 mile zone around Fukushima and dump it somewhere. Oops, it's on an island. Oops, oops, part of the area is the ocean!
There was a story a couple of days ago about finding thyroid tumors in 30% of cases of children from Fukushima when there was none ten years previous and the researchers were trying to blow it off. The disaster was last year, sorry guys correlation does equal causation in this case.
Let's not forget the governments own report describing (criminal)negligence at many corporate and government levels. Kind of like here in the US with the Davis-Besse plant and it's not the only one and nuclear isn't the only industry with the problem(oil). Whenever humans are involved, cost cutting at the expense of safety is always a problem.
"Also, if you're coughing, do your best to get into a meeting with your CEO/CTO/CFO/VP/etc. Really, any major corporate officer will do. Biological warfare is a fine answer to class warfare."
Don't forget your congressional and local representatives. Especially the conservative ones for enhancing this situation.
PS. I'd say mumps instead but by the time these bastards get in government far enough to do damage they've already had kids.
By the way, you do realize by closing the specialized hospital that you guarantee wider exposure to the general population because people with TB will be intermingling in numerous hospitals with members of the public who already have weakened immunity/injuries hence the reason that they are there.
"Humans don't need parasites to be attracted to cats. Kittens work for that purpose just fine."
That and brainwashed into consumerism. Ooooohh! kittens, aren't they cute.(but it's wrong!!-- ren and stimpy) New kittens, new toys. More crap to collect and be stuck with being responsible for, you know like the wife, kids, dog, job, crappy government, crooked corporations, crooked corporations trying to be crappy government and the reverse, etc.
"Nobody is going to execute you for it... yet."
I'm not the "AC" but they can do worse than execute you by hunting you down and harassing you to the point of dysfunction. A living death which shows we've become more barbaric since the cavemen not less. Fact is we're reaching police state levels that can only be dealt with via a general uprising since the political system as far as the public is concerned is completely broken.
"Trusted computing ..."
Trusted by whom?
"didn't die ..."
Damn!!!
"it just fell behind schedule."
Who's schedule? Time to kill the fuckers!!
"The FSF's version of freedom is equivalent to nanny-state socialism. They've basically decided that their idea of playing nice needs to be enforced by big stick, and will happily trample over anything and everything that does something they dislike."
That's funny. A private foundation having to use a license to force copyright law to do the job it was intended to do. Doesn't seem socialistic to me, if it does to you read your constitution. The goal of copyright and patents is to get developments out in the public as soon as possible for the benefit of all(you know the public) not the developer. Copyright/patent was intended as a short term trade off not a long term benefit to encourage further development.
"In this particular case, Ubuntu wants to place a bootloader that will allow you to load ANY operating system, bypassing the "security" features they dislike in the new UEFI. Ubuntu wishes to ensure that users can boot any operating system they like and run any software they want. Their concern is that the GPLv3 makes provisions by which the FSF could, in this case as the owner of GRUB2, deem that a machine that won't let them replace GRUB2 with something else is in violation of the GPLv3. At that point, they can demand that Ubuntu surrender its encryption keys used to provide secure bootloader verification--which then allows anyone to sign any bootloader they want, thus negating any security features you could leverage out of the bootloader (for example, intentionally instructing it to boot only signed code--keeping the chain trusted, rather than booting a foreign OS as is the option)."
You mean public actually having control of both their hardware and software, especially software as the hardware is worthless without it, that they paid for. And yes they paid for it as all money for development comes from the public via investment to buying the actual devices to taxes that pay for company support(tax breaks, land grants, legal/judges) and other support infrastructure(roads).
"The point of contention is where the FSF gets to demand Ubuntu hand over their encryption keys for this particular application because they've decided it's 'unfair' that users don't have the option to replace a bootloader. The GPLv3 is a restrictive license agreement whose provisions do in fact allow the copyright holder to make certain demands about HOW their software is used. Most people fixate on the "Free" part because you're free to distribute and modify the software; but you are also "Obligated" to publish your modifications in source form if published in any form."
A license version that attempts to control the irresponsible behavior of business types that match toddlers "everything is mine" attitude and attention span of the quarterly stock report. If you don't like the GPL don't use it, you still have your freedom to be selfish and publicly irresponsible as you wish. You know, the public that helped feed, clothe, house, and educate you to be a meaningful member of society rather than kill you for the real threat pure competition would make you out to be.
"The GPLv3 brings restrictions on how you can use the software, such that you must be able to modify it--the hardware you use the software on must be configured to allow the use of modified software (or any other software). 'Jailbreaking' is not a thing with GPLv3 because the vendors would have to supply a way to run custom software. If the Linux Kernel was GPLv3, then you wouldn't have to root any phones to install Cyanogenmod: vendors would be required to provide an official method for the end user to replace the software with custom versions."
The only reason I see you would want to restrict people from altering their software is to lock them out of their hardware. So who's doing the restricting now? Vendors providing options for you to control your device that you paid for in more ways than one, who would have thought? Wouldn't that make it easier for customers/public to
"back then it was actually kewl to own people."
It's still kewl to own people. The masters are corporations and government. The public are the slaves.
"Man, he accomplished so much, yet still found time to regularly impregnate the help!"
As with Bill Clinton, fucking the public was the job and fucking the help was for fun. Republicans are just the opposite.
"Both gnome and KDE have by now proven that if you use them, you *will* get screwed. Because as soon as you'll feel comfortable using any of them, they'll just stop supporting it and try getting you to switch to the new version that's awful and not what you wanted. They'll tell you "it's an just an early release, it'll get better". And indeed, it'll get better... and once it's good enough, they'll throw it all away again. I've learned my lesson and I'm now using XFCE, which I'm hoping will not go the way of gnome/KDE. ..."
Actually Xfce did this from version 3 to 4. They were just lucky enough to do it early enough in their popularity(what there was of it). The change also was before the big linux popularity spike and distro forking per UI hell starting with the *buntus. The Xfce 4 series was in a pretty good position by the time the spike in interest from the general public came along.
I wouldn't hold my breath Xfce won't do a rewrite, it just might be awhile.
"The UNIX world is becoming very Linux- and GNU-centric."
So much for being portable and flexible.
"Spreading fear was their mission."
Isn't that terrorism? Why haven't the RIAA and supporters been charged with committing economic terrorism on US citizens? We have plenty of anti-terrorism law in place lets use them against corporations like various groups including government use laws in unintended ways against the public.
"It is a balancing act. No invasion of privacy = no money. Too much = evil."
There is no balancing act. Any invasion of privacy is evil. Just because everyone else does it or the system is there to do it or that it's generally accepted doesn't make it less evil. Google is evil just smart enough not to irritate the "golden goose" unlike the other evil (facebook,etc) out there.
I had a 50Mhz DX back then(early ninties), with turbo off down to 25Mhz. Made "blip to death" in fighter mode on Wing Commander down to "warp speed to death" with the turbo off. Another great game bit the dust as I had sold my earlier rig to pay for the DX. I still have my copy of WC in my basement somewhere too.
The guy said itunes functionality on his phones failed due to the age of itunes and he had to upgrade his os to get the newest itunes to install. Yes, basil you dumbass it's coercion. Look up dependancies and understand they are not options but requirements and up to Apple to set them.
Isec stated ios has 30% of the market which is probably a little high. Using the example of the desktop market, which part of the market would you write viruses and malware to get the best return for your effort for? The 30% part of the market or 70% part of the market. My educated guess it's the 70% but feel free to state any evidence with citations to contest my claims. The less than 30% share is the main reason ios is relatively malware and virus free and why Apple is a joke in the phone market just like in the desktop market. There's a reason Apple always is the first to fall in hacking contests and lack of security and accountability is it. Take your fanboyism somewhere else.
"Fourth Estate"
You mean we actually still have one in this corporatation-owned-media country.
You know all you 'whatevers' whining about syntax reminds me about what George Carlin said about "bad hair days".
"Put on a hat and go to work you shallow ..." -- George Carlin
In other words:
Reset your damn editor and get to work! -- me
"It appears the confusion all over the place here derives from the fact that there were two separate incidents. First, last year, he used school equipment to post a profane tweet and was suspended. Then, recently, he posted the above linked profane tweet, but it was from home, on his own computer, not on the school's network at all. They just saw it because they were examining his Twitter account because of the last incident."
Isn't this defined as stalking? They were monitoring the kid waiting for a violation. If the above is true, the kid should be talking to the DA or ACLU as the first amendment definitely was violated along with more than a couple of state and local laws.
"They can enforce the rules as they wish (just like employers)."
Except schools are government entities not private companies. The kid should be talking to the ACLU. There is no way the first amendment doesn't apply.
Since when did they start cracking down on free speech in schools. When I was in high school several decades ago harsh language was common, and often deserved.
"Someone has to build the cars, right? :)"
Have you seen the complexity and tolerance of the car parts used these days? I wouldn't want anyone with less than a B.A. degree in engineering to touch any of it. I certainly wouldn't trust it to anyone less since I will eventually be trusting those parts with the lives of my family.