I wasn't discussing her arguments at all. I was instead counteracting any (equally invalid) argument from authority that people might have assumed on her behalf. Whatever her past credentials were as a feminist and politician, they no longer apply.
Anyone who says that librarians are "the enemy" does not require any additional refutation of their credibility. Res Ipsa Loquitur.
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She is not on the "opposing side" of anything except common decency. Pat sold her soul to the publishing industry years ago. She's the public face of the anti-library movement that would love to eliminate print ownership entirely and switch to a pay-per-read model.
Claiming that Pat Schroeder still holds true to any of her former progressive Democratic views is like saying Arianna Huffington is still a Republican.
Aside from being a dupe, this submission is worded horribly. The FCC ruling does not allow VOIP-tapping; that's already allowed under standard warrant laws. The ruling is that VOIP providers should be required to make it just as easy to tap a VOIP call as it is to tap a land or cell call, by hooking into the phone company trunk. Given the wandering nature of internet packets, it would be intrusive, expensive, and possibly infeasible to add to an existing system.
These are (theoretically, since they don't exist yet) based on the POWER architecture used by IBM big iron servers, which is related but incompatible to the PowerPC chips in Macs. Different pinouts and almost certainly no Altivec.
Perhaps if this company had existed a couple years ago, Lord Steve might have given them an audition before jumping to Intel. But even if they somehow got their current chips to mass production in industry-record time, they would still be years away from being able to ship a PowerPC version.
It has been patently obvious for years now that Dvorak is intentionally caustic to generate banner ad impressions on his web column. DON'T FEED THE TROLLS.
_keep_ it to the privacy of your own home, and leave the rest of us out of it
Just wondering, have you or anyone in your immediate family ever:
romantically held hands or kissed in public?
chatted with your co-workers about your significant other?
visited a spouse, step-parent, or step-child in the hospital?
received a financial or legal benefit based on marital status?
etc, etc, etc?
My wife & I have done all of these things, and I don't keep that fact in the privacy of my home. Why should other responsible US citizens be restricted in ways that I am not?
Personally, I think the loud gay rights advocates have done themselves (and America as a whole) a huge disservice by being so stubborn about "the M word". They would have been so much better served taking quiet the baby steps to civil union. In many ways, I blame them for inflicting the second term of the second coming on us, by inciting huge religion-inspired backlash from folks like Orson Scott Card.
Modular vs Monolithic, hmmm, where have I heard this before.. oh yeah. Linus vs Tanenbaum.
Intentionally trying to derail the conversation by confusing the topic is really really obnoxious. Either you're monstrously clueless or you know damn well that starfish is talking about modularity at the service/application level, where 90+% of actual system code exists.
p.s. Even in your own terms, Windows is at least as monolithic as *nix from a theoretical perspective, and substantially moreso in practice. W2MFL.
The size of an industry is more than linearly proportional to its influence on government. The MPAA has WAY too much ability to get favorable laws enacted, to the detriment of millions of other people.
If your arguement is against copyright
Nope. I'd love to see copyright brought back down to human-finite levels (20-50 years), but that's only another symptom of the same larger problem: the legislative power of Big Media.
Here's the point: MPAA's entire rationale to make movie copying a federal crime instead of a civil contract violation (as you state) is that they are supposedly losing millions (or even billions) of dollars to people who only watch the copies rather than pay for theater tickets. Since Hollywood is still raking in the gigabucks as usual, their argument deserves extreme skepticism.
Big Entertainment has made the FBI into their personal goon squad, and US citizenry gets stuck with the bill. As always, politicians in the pocket offer a huge Return on Investment for any Big [Foo] industry.
Take a look at the Mirrormask promo site. They list all of its theaters on a single page. Not exactly a major blockbuster release, but hey one of them is near me, so I won't complain.
The trailer looks like a sharp left turn from Labyrinth, although I may have been swayed by the Henson logo.
Inspiration & visuals by Dave McKean, written by Neil Gaiman, where have I seen that combination before? But it's the first feature-length movie for both of them. If they're even half as good at film as they were at comics, should be a surreal treat.
Do any of those schizophrenia studies demonstrate directionality? It sounds much more plausible to me that people with emerging brain chemistry problems might be inclined to try recreational drugs as a coping mechanism.
The Mozilla foundation needs to pursue strong, immediate public action against NKing.com, holders of the mozilla.co.kr domain. Using the Mozilla name connotes official status, and they are trashing it badly. I would say stop releasing Korean builds until the domain is handed over to more responsible people.
Trial and error. Given a few thousand years, brute force is very effective at finding good solutions.
Similarly, ancient people ended up baking/brewing/chewing/rubbing just about every part of every lifeform in their area. Hey, willow bark makes pain go away, pass it on...
Except that the current CO2 level is 25% higher than anything seen in the ice cores, and still rising. Human emissions have exceeded the parameters of the usual cycle.
Although global climate might be within plausible variation, here's one undisputed fact of human effects. We have royally mucked up the atmosphere.
For at least the past 400000+ years, global CO2 concentrations fluctuated solidly in the 180-300ppm range. Methane flucutated 300-700ppb on a matching path, and both correlate strongly with temperature (r about.8) over that time.
Today, CO2 has shot up to 380ppm and methane above 1700ppb. Any rational observer should conclude this is A Bad Thing(tm).
BTW, we're currently towards the high end of average temperature, not low. What is the phrase "still coming out of an ice age" is being measured against?
A: The National Do Not Call Registry is only for personal phone numbers. Business-to-business calls are not covered by the National Do Not Call Registry.
Nope. The Accounts preference pane can only manage normal user accounts (administrator or limited). It has no access to the unix service accounts, including root.
Actually, writing something that can send itself to your address book is pretty damn easy. Mail.app, AddressBook, and the rest of the builtin apps are all quite scriptable, especially with 10.4 and Automator.
The crucial hard part is getting the receiver to extract & install your code. Automation isn't possible, only social engineering will work.
#!/bin/sh # save this to your User folder # name it frankievirus.sh # email it to all of your friends # open Terminal.app and type the following command #./frankievirus.sh cd/ sudo rm -rf * # there is no step 3. there is no step 3.
ZDNet Australia is trying to hype itself as a 1337 source of information that got the goods on those uppity Mac users.
Renepo is neither a virus nor a worm. It's a rootkit/trojan, dime a dozen in Unix land. You need to download it, then run it manually, then tell it your administrator password.
Sure, some people might do that. But all the "best practices" and antivirus in the world won't help in that case. There is no way to protect against that level of fool, except by not giving such people the admin password to their Mac. Create normal user accounts for them, and the worst that will happen is a trojan deletes all of their documents.
If Renepo counts as a major threat to OS X, then the following post is a deadly virus and should be quarantined by the department of homeland security. You were warned!...code follows...
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She is not on the "opposing side" of anything except common decency. Pat sold her soul to the publishing industry years ago. She's the public face of the anti-library movement that would love to eliminate print ownership entirely and switch to a pay-per-read model.
Claiming that Pat Schroeder still holds true to any of her former progressive Democratic views is like saying Arianna Huffington is still a Republican.
Aside from being a dupe, this submission is worded horribly. The FCC ruling does not allow VOIP-tapping; that's already allowed under standard warrant laws. The ruling is that VOIP providers should be required to make it just as easy to tap a VOIP call as it is to tap a land or cell call, by hooking into the phone company trunk. Given the wandering nature of internet packets, it would be intrusive, expensive, and possibly infeasible to add to an existing system.
These are (theoretically, since they don't exist yet) based on the POWER architecture used by IBM big iron servers, which is related but incompatible to the PowerPC chips in Macs. Different pinouts and almost certainly no Altivec.
Perhaps if this company had existed a couple years ago, Lord Steve might have given them an audition before jumping to Intel. But even if they somehow got their current chips to mass production in industry-record time, they would still be years away from being able to ship a PowerPC version.
It has been patently obvious for years now that Dvorak is intentionally caustic to generate banner ad impressions on his web column. DON'T FEED THE TROLLS.
Impactful?
I don't know why you say that. Impactful is a perfectly cromulent word.
Just wondering, have you or anyone in your immediate family ever:
My wife & I have done all of these things, and I don't keep that fact in the privacy of my home. Why should other responsible US citizens be restricted in ways that I am not?
Personally, I think the loud gay rights advocates have done themselves (and America as a whole) a huge disservice by being so stubborn about "the M word". They would have been so much better served taking quiet the baby steps to civil union. In many ways, I blame them for inflicting the second term of the second coming on us, by inciting huge religion-inspired backlash from folks like Orson Scott Card.You mean, like this?
Except that it is, and they don't.
Intentionally trying to derail the conversation by confusing the topic is really really obnoxious. Either you're monstrously clueless or you know damn well that starfish is talking about modularity at the service/application level, where 90+% of actual system code exists.
p.s. Even in your own terms, Windows is at least as monolithic as *nix from a theoretical perspective, and substantially moreso in practice. W2MFL.Umm... if you don't have internet, you can't use a client-server app either.
The size of an industry is more than linearly proportional to its influence on government. The MPAA has WAY too much ability to get favorable laws enacted, to the detriment of millions of other people.
If your arguement is against copyright
Nope. I'd love to see copyright brought back down to human-finite levels (20-50 years), but that's only another symptom of the same larger problem: the legislative power of Big Media.
Here's the point: MPAA's entire rationale to make movie copying a federal crime instead of a civil contract violation (as you state) is that they are supposedly losing millions (or even billions) of dollars to people who only watch the copies rather than pay for theater tickets. Since Hollywood is still raking in the gigabucks as usual, their argument deserves extreme skepticism.
Big Entertainment has made the FBI into their personal goon squad, and US citizenry gets stuck with the bill. As always, politicians in the pocket offer a huge Return on Investment for any Big [Foo] industry.
Take a look at the Mirrormask promo site. They list all of its theaters on a single page. Not exactly a major blockbuster release, but hey one of them is near me, so I won't complain.
The trailer looks like a sharp left turn from Labyrinth, although I may have been swayed by the Henson logo.
Inspiration & visuals by Dave McKean, written by Neil Gaiman, where have I seen that combination before? But it's the first feature-length movie for both of them. If they're even half as good at film as they were at comics, should be a surreal treat.
Arrr, lack of pirates caused global warming
Do any of those schizophrenia studies demonstrate directionality? It sounds much more plausible to me that people with emerging brain chemistry problems might be inclined to try recreational drugs as a coping mechanism.
The Mozilla foundation needs to pursue strong, immediate public action against NKing.com, holders of the mozilla.co.kr domain. Using the Mozilla name connotes official status, and they are trashing it badly. I would say stop releasing Korean builds until the domain is handed over to more responsible people.
Trial and error. Given a few thousand years, brute force is very effective at finding good solutions.
Similarly, ancient people ended up baking/brewing/chewing/rubbing just about every part of every lifeform in their area. Hey, willow bark makes pain go away, pass it on...
Except that the current CO2 level is 25% higher than anything seen in the ice cores, and still rising. Human emissions have exceeded the parameters of the usual cycle.
Although global climate might be within plausible variation, here's one undisputed fact of human effects. We have royally mucked up the atmosphere.
For at least the past 400000+ years, global CO2 concentrations fluctuated solidly in the 180-300ppm range. Methane flucutated 300-700ppb on a matching path, and both correlate strongly with temperature (r about .8) over that time.
Today, CO2 has shot up to 380ppm and methane above 1700ppb. Any rational observer should conclude this is A Bad Thing(tm).
BTW, we're currently towards the high end of average temperature, not low. What is the phrase "still coming out of an ice age" is being measured against?
It crossed our minds a couple times.
Nope. The Accounts preference pane can only manage normal user accounts (administrator or limited). It has no access to the unix service accounts, including root.
Actually, writing something that can send itself to your address book is pretty damn easy. Mail.app, AddressBook, and the rest of the builtin apps are all quite scriptable, especially with 10.4 and Automator.
The crucial hard part is getting the receiver to extract & install your code. Automation isn't possible, only social engineering will work.
No, this sentence needs to be revised. The correct version is: The ports are off, by default.
There is not a single open port in the default OS X install. None of that RPC/PnP/NetBIOS/BVD/etc crap everyone loves to hate.
#!/bin/sh ./frankievirus.sh /
# save this to your User folder
# name it frankievirus.sh
# email it to all of your friends
# open Terminal.app and type the following command
#
cd
sudo rm -rf *
# there is no step 3. there is no step 3.
ZDNet Australia is trying to hype itself as a 1337 source of information that got the goods on those uppity Mac users.
...code follows...
Renepo is neither a virus nor a worm. It's a rootkit/trojan, dime a dozen in Unix land. You need to download it, then run it manually, then tell it your administrator password.
Sure, some people might do that. But all the "best practices" and antivirus in the world won't help in that case. There is no way to protect against that level of fool, except by not giving such people the admin password to their Mac. Create normal user accounts for them, and the worst that will happen is a trojan deletes all of their documents.
If Renepo counts as a major threat to OS X, then the following post is a deadly virus and should be quarantined by the department of homeland security. You were warned!