"NASA has collected and processed more information about our planet and universe than any other entity in the history of humanity," said Chris C. Kemp, director of strategic business development at Ames. "Even though this information was collected for the benefit of everyone, and much is in the public domain, the vast majority of this information is scattered and difficult for non-experts to access and to understand.
So maybe this Chris C Kemp is actually a NASA guy?
Australia is not known for having the government break the law. Politicians, that's a different matter. But when the ABS collects data, they are bound under the Census and Statistics Act never to release it without permission (e.g. Census Q59), and even with directions from the Minister they can only release non-identifying information.
I don't really see this as a privacy issue myself. I actually don't really have much problem with the new e-passports and welfare cards, as they actually have good points (speeding up immigration and preventing welfare fraud.)
Also unlike the US, Australia has not had any major issues with election fraud, at least not on the part of the Electoral Commission, and major events like elections and censuses tend to be more open (e.g. scrutineers (all appointed by candidates or the Governor [General]) watch over the counting and the destruction of the census forms is watched by observers.)
By special software, yes I was referring to Java. Java's bad because as we all know it's proprietary. So it's impossible to use it on a completely open source system.
What is it with Americans and expulsion? Here in Australia if someone gets expelled it is because they have done something absolutely crazy that in America probably would have them in prison or something like that, e.g. bashing up other students. Even something like swearing in front of the teacher, depending on the school, may only get you suspended.
Here in Australia there are two miners trapped around 935 metres (3116 ft) below the ground. They managed to contact them using existing radios. Fact is, most mines are deeper than 500ft.
FYI, the original mindstorms actually used a C-like language called MindScript internally - you can see it by opening an RIS program with a text editor. I think LEGO did this because it makes it easier for programmers that are used to C and so on and allows a text programming language.
Look, LEGO even allowed programs written in NQC, Java and so on to be uploaded to their own website. They distributed details about their copyrighted designs and so on. The only thing that they did which could even possibly be considered bad was to ask a project to rename (legOS) because of their trademarks. They made an effort to make it possible for third-party developers to create these tools. There is a difference between allowing something and embracing something.
Because PHP is released under a Free Software license and Java isn't. Java isn't even a free standard. If Sun releases Java under an FSF-approved and Debian-approved license, I will very happily learn it and write all my apps in Java instead. But until that happens, I will continue to not run a Java program, unless that program is Free Software in itself and runs under GCJ or Kaffe.
If Sun releases Java under a Free Software license it will be the best example yet of a product that has started out proprietary and become Free Software. It will also increase Java's adoption among Free Software/Open Source users.
If you don't like what the government is doing with ID cards, vote them out. The fact is, the majority of voters don't seem to care so much about ID cards and civil liberties than about major issues like taxation. Also, if this new card is saving the government $3bn/yr, that can be put into welfare and other important and underfunded services like, let's say, NSW and QLD's terrible health systems.
You couldnt care less about the license as long as it is 'reasonably' free. It has a name-change clause which is annoying if you plan to distribute your changes. It also has other practical problems. Read the thread and find out why.
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Browsing around the ISECOM site makes it seem like it *is* an actual organisation. Is it the site or the post which is a joke?
So maybe this Chris C Kemp is actually a NASA guy?
Debian is packaging Strigi, I assume Ubuntu and co will follow.
It's *not* beta 3, it's D-I beta 3. There's a difference.
Yeah, except the site will only work with the proprietary implementation AFAICS.
Australia is not known for having the government break the law. Politicians, that's a different matter. But when the ABS collects data, they are bound under the Census and Statistics Act never to release it without permission (e.g. Census Q59), and even with directions from the Minister they can only release non-identifying information. I don't really see this as a privacy issue myself. I actually don't really have much problem with the new e-passports and welfare cards, as they actually have good points (speeding up immigration and preventing welfare fraud.) Also unlike the US, Australia has not had any major issues with election fraud, at least not on the part of the Electoral Commission, and major events like elections and censuses tend to be more open (e.g. scrutineers (all appointed by candidates or the Governor [General]) watch over the counting and the destruction of the census forms is watched by observers.)
By special software, yes I was referring to Java. Java's bad because as we all know it's proprietary. So it's impossible to use it on a completely open source system.
What is it with Americans and expulsion? Here in Australia if someone gets expelled it is because they have done something absolutely crazy that in America probably would have them in prison or something like that, e.g. bashing up other students. Even something like swearing in front of the teacher, depending on the school, may only get you suspended.
Google really isn't making any money out of Google Talk yet. This may be a start.
GTA has always been crap IMO. There are much better games out there that are clean with a better storyline.
IANAL. AFAIK, you can't trademark something that is confusingly similar. I don't know how they define that though.
Sorry, meant 3067 ft.
Here in Australia there are two miners trapped around 935 metres (3116 ft) below the ground. They managed to contact them using existing radios. Fact is, most mines are deeper than 500ft.
FYI, the original mindstorms actually used a C-like language called MindScript internally - you can see it by opening an RIS program with a text editor. I think LEGO did this because it makes it easier for programmers that are used to C and so on and allows a text programming language.
Look, LEGO even allowed programs written in NQC, Java and so on to be uploaded to their own website. They distributed details about their copyrighted designs and so on. The only thing that they did which could even possibly be considered bad was to ask a project to rename (legOS) because of their trademarks. They made an effort to make it possible for third-party developers to create these tools. There is a difference between allowing something and embracing something.
Hmmm... must have been slashcode that did that, I pasted the link with the spaces, oh well.
Because PHP is released under a Free Software license and Java isn't. Java isn't even a free standard. If Sun releases Java under an FSF-approved and Debian-approved license, I will very happily learn it and write all my apps in Java instead. But until that happens, I will continue to not run a Java program, unless that program is Free Software in itself and runs under GCJ or Kaffe. If Sun releases Java under a Free Software license it will be the best example yet of a product that has started out proprietary and become Free Software. It will also increase Java's adoption among Free Software/Open Source users.
If you don't like what the government is doing with ID cards, vote them out. The fact is, the majority of voters don't seem to care so much about ID cards and civil liberties than about major issues like taxation. Also, if this new card is saving the government $3bn/yr, that can be put into welfare and other important and underfunded services like, let's say, NSW and QLD's terrible health systems.
Set up a cron job to run this shell script:
/etc/motd
#!/bin/bash
lynx -head -dump http://slashdot.org/ | egrep "X-Bender|X-Fry" | cut -d : -f 2 >
It uses a quote hidden in the HTTP headers of every slashdot page.
Debian in-joke: Sure that's not from those BYU students?
Ironically enough the link is to Yahoo...
Yes, obviously of course it's not April 1st yet... just kidding.
Clear your cookies. In Fx go to Tools - Options, I think, in Fx 1.5 Tools-Clear Private Data.
Although at least Howard's speechwriters have better grammar skills than this guy, e.g.
"only 49 will be ever finished"
doesn't really sound right...
You couldnt care less about the license as long as it is 'reasonably' free. It has a name-change clause which is annoying if you plan to distribute your changes. It also has other practical problems. Read the thread and find out why.