the resolution specifically states THAT the Oklahoma House of Representatives encourages the University of Oklahoma to engage in an open, dignified, and fair discussion of the Darwinian theory of evolution and all other scientific theories
Which is likely just a polite way of pushing creationism and intelligent design. I assume that next they will push the discussion of the existence of Santa Claus and the Invisible Pink Unicorn.
If he's claiming you can't disprove God, then where is the evidence to the contrary he is implying by the very title of his book?
According to Dawkins, you can't disprove the existence of god, but the probability of god existing is infinitesimal, so the chance of belief in god being a delusion is extremely much higher than the alternative.
Oh, and you might be interested to to know that Seven of the top 10 countries with the highest standard of living are socialist.
I know, I live in one of them (Sweden). But I wouldn't use the word socialist to describe them, because that word is so frequently associated with communism-light, which none of these countries are.
I believe the word you were looking for is "communism" not "socialism". Socialism is, on many formulations (it is quite a vague term) compatible with a market economy.
I think you are confusing socialism with social democracy, which is like "socialism light". Remember e.g. that the USSR stood for Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
Hardly. Shell scripting is still useful for all those simple tasks that are not much more than a couple of linked shell commands, where Python or Ruby would be major overkill. On the other hand, I'd never use Bash to write anything complicated, as Python is much easier for that.
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Of course, this would break for those paranoid folks who link ~/.bash_history to/dev/null
One solution is to use a ~/.bash_history.d/$PID file as a temporary storage location. If ~/.bash_history.d exists and is not a directory, don't write any history.
The name of the site alone implies it's true purpose.
The name is irrelevant. In fact, there is a book publisher in Sweden that is called The Pirate Publisher (Piratforlaget), that has nothing to do with piracy or copyright infringement. But maybe they should be accused of piracy just because of their name?
In the current economic/political climate, and with the United States pushing HARD on copyright issues worldwide (...), the "Pirate Bay" is almost surely going to lose this case.
The Pirate Bay is to be judged based on current Swedish law, not American pushes for harsher restrictions.
We are 3+ years on after the signing of the Novell/MSFT deal and there has been zero legal action by Ballmer and his cronies.
Nobody in the know were really worried about actual legal action. What people were actually worried about was that Microsoft's patent threats might be scaring away people from FOSS.
What the Novell/Microsoft deal primarily did was to lend credibility in the eyes of some people that to use many FOSS packages, you needed a patent license from Microsoft. The same applies to Linspire, Xandros, and the rest of those that actually signed patent deals with Microsoft over FOSS.
Now go to the forums like a good Windows user would do and ask for help. Your answer will ALWAYS start with "Bring up Bash and....."
That's not because fixing stuff is impossible in the GUI, but because it is the simplest solution to describe in writing. If you want to describe how to do stuff in a way that even a noob can understand, you'll have to create screenshots and the like.
If you won't accept a CLI answer, I'm not going to care enough about your problem to take the time to create screenshots and the like. You either get the CLI solution, or none at all. Take your pick.
What cracker wouldn't want to kill Google, Yahoo or Wikipedia for a day?
There are more kinds of crackers than those that carry out (D)DoS attacks on various sites. Some crackers try to steal credit card information, some other crackers use your boxes to send out spam. In those cases, you don't want to take the system down, in fact, you want to make your malware as invisible as possible, or otherwise someone might realize what's going on and wipe the system clean.
In my opinion, a security hole certainly is an example of breakage. The parent of my post didn't say anything about stopping the system dead in its tracks, just about breaking something, and the Debian OpenSSL issue surely broke something.
instead of the hit-and-miss pot luck you take when purchasing so-called 'universal' remotes these days.
May I suggest a Logitech Harmony remote? Connect it to your computer using USB, tell the software the manufacturers and model numbers of your devices, and configure the activities that you want to use. Simple as that. I bought one a week ago and I'd say its device database is pretty impressive. It knew about all my systems, including my ten year old mini audio system.
Then, want to watch a DVD? Click the activity button and select "Watch DVD" on the screen. The remote now powers on all systems required for this activity (TV, DVD player, AV receiver, etc), and configures the buttons for the appropriate devices.
the wide range of windows software makes a package manager silly
No it wouldn't. It wouldn't work exactly like on Linux, but certain features of such package management systems would be very welcome in Windows.
One example is updates. Currently, each application comes with its own update agent, making the system load dozens of update agents at system boot. Wouldn't it be better if every application installer added an update repository to a central package management system, and letting that single piece of software keep tabs on all updates? That would be a nice addition to Windows.
I have an idea. Let's go and sue Linux distributions for bundling free and open source browsers with it, because it wrecks the market for my $40 closed source browser!
Sure, go ahead. Daniel Wallace tried that a couple of years ago, with a very similar argument. He claimed that he wanted to sell his own operating system, and that the GPL amounted to price fixing at zero, and thus Linux was hindering him from selling his own OS.
In short, the court didn't like that argument. He tried to amend his complain several times, but those amended complaints didn't fly either. But if you feel like paying for nothing, go ahead and sue.
That can only work for 2 or 3 neighbourhoods next to either a power plant or a waste oven.
Absolutely not. The closest heat plant is around 8 km (5 miles) away, and it powers a significant part of the southern suburbs of Stockholm. That's not just two or three neighborhoods.
How many of those are there ? Just a few "lucky ones" (who have to deal with the smell and/or with pollution).
Smell? Pollution? There is no smell, and the pollution is minimal. There are strict pollution controls in place, and advanced flue gas treatment installed. It sounds like you have a simplified view of what district heating must entail.
So : Great Idea ! For a few thousand people. For the rest... not so much.
I would say that New York contains a little more than a few thousand people. A significant part of Manhattan is heated through the Consolidated Edison Steam Operations district heating system. Sure, district heating is not especially useful in rural areas, but in cities they can be very useful. Also keep in mind that cleaning one big source is much easier than cleaning many small sources (such as with residential oil-fired heating).
But still, it amounts to a constant average consumption of 2.3kW, 24/7. That's pretty extreme unless you use electric heating.
As a comparison, my dual-core desktop computer at home draws some 180W at full load. You need at least ten of them constantly running at full load to reach those numbers, with some room to spare for cooking, etc.
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the resolution specifically states THAT the Oklahoma House of Representatives encourages the University of Oklahoma to engage in an open, dignified, and fair discussion of the Darwinian theory of evolution and all other scientific theories
Which is likely just a polite way of pushing creationism and intelligent design. I assume that next they will push the discussion of the existence of Santa Claus and the Invisible Pink Unicorn.
even the religion of atheism
Atheism is not a religion, it's the absence of religion.
If he's claiming you can't disprove God, then where is the evidence to the contrary he is implying by the very title of his book?
According to Dawkins, you can't disprove the existence of god, but the probability of god existing is infinitesimal, so the chance of belief in god being a delusion is extremely much higher than the alternative.
Oh, and you might be interested to to know that Seven of the top 10 countries with the highest standard of living are socialist.
I know, I live in one of them (Sweden). But I wouldn't use the word socialist to describe them, because that word is so frequently associated with communism-light, which none of these countries are.
I believe the word you were looking for is "communism" not "socialism". Socialism is, on many formulations (it is quite a vague term) compatible with a market economy.
I think you are confusing socialism with social democracy, which is like "socialism light". Remember e.g. that the USSR stood for Union of Soviet Socialist Republics.
Shell scripting is obsolete technology.
Hardly. Shell scripting is still useful for all those simple tasks that are not much more than a couple of linked shell commands, where Python or Ruby would be major overkill. On the other hand, I'd never use Bash to write anything complicated, as Python is much easier for that.
Of course, this would break for those paranoid folks who link ~/.bash_history to /dev/null
One solution is to use a ~/.bash_history.d/$PID file as a temporary storage location. If ~/.bash_history.d exists and is not a directory, don't write any history.
the fact that half the charges were dropped seems to be a perfectly normal part of the process in Sweden
It's not normal, it's in fact highly unusual. I cannot recall any case where that happened before, and I live in Sweden, although IANAL of course.
The name of the site alone implies it's true purpose.
The name is irrelevant. In fact, there is a book publisher in Sweden that is called The Pirate Publisher (Piratforlaget), that has nothing to do with piracy or copyright infringement. But maybe they should be accused of piracy just because of their name?
In the current economic/political climate, and with the United States pushing HARD on copyright issues worldwide (...), the "Pirate Bay" is almost surely going to lose this case.
The Pirate Bay is to be judged based on current Swedish law, not American pushes for harsher restrictions.
We are 3+ years on after the signing of the Novell/MSFT deal and there has been zero legal action by Ballmer and his cronies.
Nobody in the know were really worried about actual legal action. What people were actually worried about was that Microsoft's patent threats might be scaring away people from FOSS.
What the Novell/Microsoft deal primarily did was to lend credibility in the eyes of some people that to use many FOSS packages, you needed a patent license from Microsoft. The same applies to Linspire, Xandros, and the rest of those that actually signed patent deals with Microsoft over FOSS.
But, if I fly a private plane to the same airport, I'm given the red-carpet treatment and my identity is never even so much as questioned...
That's because the terrorists live in caves and can't afford private planes. :)
Now go to the forums like a good Windows user would do and ask for help. Your answer will ALWAYS start with "Bring up Bash and....."
That's not because fixing stuff is impossible in the GUI, but because it is the simplest solution to describe in writing. If you want to describe how to do stuff in a way that even a noob can understand, you'll have to create screenshots and the like.
If you won't accept a CLI answer, I'm not going to care enough about your problem to take the time to create screenshots and the like. You either get the CLI solution, or none at all. Take your pick.
What cracker wouldn't want to kill Google, Yahoo or Wikipedia for a day?
There are more kinds of crackers than those that carry out (D)DoS attacks on various sites. Some crackers try to steal credit card information, some other crackers use your boxes to send out spam. In those cases, you don't want to take the system down, in fact, you want to make your malware as invisible as possible, or otherwise someone might realize what's going on and wipe the system clean.
In my opinion, a security hole certainly is an example of breakage. The parent of my post didn't say anything about stopping the system dead in its tracks, just about breaking something, and the Debian OpenSSL issue surely broke something.
I'm still waiting for a Debian security update to break anything.
OpenSSL?
That is not a teacher quote, but a quote of JerryLeeCooper of ZDNet Talkback fame.
How do you know that you won't go to hell? I mean, maybe the Muslims are right? Or the Jews? Or the Hindus? Etc, etc.
Being a Christian is hardly an insurance against going to hell.
instead of the hit-and-miss pot luck you take when purchasing so-called 'universal' remotes these days.
May I suggest a Logitech Harmony remote? Connect it to your computer using USB, tell the software the manufacturers and model numbers of your devices, and configure the activities that you want to use. Simple as that. I bought one a week ago and I'd say its device database is pretty impressive. It knew about all my systems, including my ten year old mini audio system.
Then, want to watch a DVD? Click the activity button and select "Watch DVD" on the screen. The remote now powers on all systems required for this activity (TV, DVD player, AV receiver, etc), and configures the buttons for the appropriate devices.
Hell, why not sue GNU for enabling the techinical and legal foundations for creating and distributing free/zero-cost software?
Daniel Wallace already tried that and failed miserably.
the wide range of windows software makes a package manager silly
No it wouldn't. It wouldn't work exactly like on Linux, but certain features of such package management systems would be very welcome in Windows.
One example is updates. Currently, each application comes with its own update agent, making the system load dozens of update agents at system boot. Wouldn't it be better if every application installer added an update repository to a central package management system, and letting that single piece of software keep tabs on all updates? That would be a nice addition to Windows.
I have an idea. Let's go and sue Linux distributions for bundling free and open source browsers with it, because it wrecks the market for my $40 closed source browser!
Sure, go ahead. Daniel Wallace tried that a couple of years ago, with a very similar argument. He claimed that he wanted to sell his own operating system, and that the GPL amounted to price fixing at zero, and thus Linux was hindering him from selling his own OS.
In short, the court didn't like that argument. He tried to amend his complain several times, but those amended complaints didn't fly either. But if you feel like paying for nothing, go ahead and sue.
I think you misunderstood. By capitalizing Jobs, I think he was referring to Steve Jobs.
That can only work for 2 or 3 neighbourhoods next to either a power plant or a waste oven.
Absolutely not. The closest heat plant is around 8 km (5 miles) away, and it powers a significant part of the southern suburbs of Stockholm. That's not just two or three neighborhoods.
How many of those are there ? Just a few "lucky ones" (who have to deal with the smell and/or with pollution).
Smell? Pollution? There is no smell, and the pollution is minimal. There are strict pollution controls in place, and advanced flue gas treatment installed. It sounds like you have a simplified view of what district heating must entail.
So : Great Idea ! For a few thousand people. For the rest ... not so much.
I would say that New York contains a little more than a few thousand people. A significant part of Manhattan is heated through the Consolidated Edison Steam Operations district heating system. Sure, district heating is not especially useful in rural areas, but in cities they can be very useful. Also keep in mind that cleaning one big source is much easier than cleaning many small sources (such as with residential oil-fired heating).
But still, it amounts to a constant average consumption of 2.3kW, 24/7. That's pretty extreme unless you use electric heating.
As a comparison, my dual-core desktop computer at home draws some 180W at full load. You need at least ten of them constantly running at full load to reach those numbers, with some room to spare for cooking, etc.