Most terrorists have been less clean, less well groomed and tended to dine on scorpions in caves.
Yeah, those 9/11 Hijackers sure were scruffy towel-heads, weren't they? It's not as if anyone could possibly mistake this guy for an ordinary college student.
Also, I'm impressed they found scorpions to eat in the suburban apartments, shopping malls, and occasional titty bars that they spent their time. I've looked for such foods and none of the usual suspects (Lotte, GNC, etc) carry arachnids. Oh, those crafty terrorists!
possible(legal) to transplant Darwin's SMP capabilities into OpenBSD
No. However, you could transplant the entirety of OpenBSD into Darwin. The resulting code would require ASPL.
BSDL is a universal donor; you can take from it as much as you want. GPL is a "copyleft"; it intentionally prevents your ability to take code to other licenses. ASPL is not terribly different from LGPL; the code itself must remain within the license but it can link to other code (free or proprietary).
Could one restrict who is allowed to use the code and thereby restrict who may view the source?
Yes. And GPL allows exactly the same situation. In both cases, those users are allowed to pass the source code along to others under the same license that they received it.
Um, TAH, perhaps you should mention these big magnets to everyone else who has an informed opinion about airport x-ray machines, becuase they all say it's bogus...
you are the one ideologically cutting yourself off from a good piece of software.
No, you are simply misreading. Nagora said that X-Plane's source code is useless to him, and it is. He can't read/modify/compile it, because it's not available to the public. X-Plane's executable binary is a separate topic.
Insert Hanlon's Razor Here. However, they've been shown guilty of malice in the past, and it's difficult to call a $300 billion corporate gorilla "stupid".
most WinDesktops that I'm aware of end up as glorified single-user machines, and that user is also.... Admin
That's because it's unacceptably painful to use a Windows PC if you aren't Admin. You can't install most software or even run Windows Update to get critical patches. Windows really badly needs sudo, and no, "Run As..." doesn't work well enough to count.
A dialog box would pop up and say "The attachment you clicked on wants to install a Service. Enter the Admin password to allow this". Sure, at least half the people would happily give the virus their password, but at least you'd be able to diagnose ID10T errors more precisely.
Sure Google is going to give you several pages of links to Apple Computer when you search for 'apple'
And when you search for 'apple' on MSN, you also end up with a page full of Mac-related links... except for one conspicuous entry at houseandhome.msn.com for "Apple Recipies". They've got some interesting synergies in Redmond, don't you think?
In the first quarter, Apple was the No. 7 PC vendor in the U.S., IDC says.
Remember that 10 years ago Apple was the #1 PC maker, with about 20% market share. That's where they need to reach again before the calls of "beleagured" will stop.
in comparison to some other parts of the world, the U.S. is split between liberals and more liberals
Umm... exactly what parts of this world (Earth, with a bluish sky) are you talking about? In the last 30 times I checked, the USA was absolutely the most rightward-leaning of the industrialized nations. For example, how many of the G7 do not have socialized medicine? Answer: one.
Are you proudly saying that the USA is more liberal than the average military dictatorship? Well, hooray.
I don't get it. Why are the states taking such a reactive approach
Because the USA is based on government of the corporate, for the corporate, by the corporate. Big business interests want to get rid of all spam except for their own, so that their "legitimate" advertising messages will be unimpeded by all the other junk. Hence, they strive to craft laws that will hurt Alan-Ralsky-types but not DMA members.
Requiring true opt-in will never pass the US Congress.
The minimum sanction for any natural entity sending emails in an illegal combination of languages shall be no less than twenty years of service in the customer service department of the European Union
Anyone who marked this Informative (instead of either Funny or Troll) should be sentenced to no less than 20 whacks with a LARTing mallet.
how are they going to decide what is spam and what isn't?
The EU definition pretty much matches with the one at SpamHaus: if an email is unsolicited and bulk, then it's spam. Make sure your mass mailings are confirmed opt-in and you're all set.
Mozilla's pretty good too, I like it, I just have to use NS6 and 7 as part of my job
Non sequitur. Mozilla 1.4 and Netscape 7.1 are absolutely identical from a web developer's point of view. Same with Moz 1.0x and NN 7.0x, Moz 0.9x and NN 6.x (roughly).
Yes it does... BUT the better product isn't always the winner in the marketplace. Mozilla's mindshare (even including Netscape 6/7) is low and not climbing much. AOL's new agreement with MS is a really Really REALLY bad sign. If they drop their Netscape staff, Mozilla is mostly dead.
You have to understand where this article comes from. Adamsmith's summary at the top of this/. article is horribly overstated. Evolt is a help site for web developers. (They have a wonderful browser archive, BTW)
Hence the author speaks directly to fellow web developers, discussing how best to evangelize for web standards without sounding like a nutcase.
that's just what you tell yourself to justify your support for tyranny.
No, this is what you tell yourself to feel less alone. The vast Vast VAST majority of USians who don't vote are not future Libertarians who secretly yearn to overthrow the oppressive 2-party regime. They're "regular joes" who are too busy working, drinking and watching TV to care about politics. They figure they're doing well enough now, so it doesn't make a difference. And the Demoblicans are most definitely content to let them believe that.
I repeat. Vote for a 4th party. Vote for yourself or your mother.
And its not because they are lazy or irresponsible.
ITs because they recognize the choice is a false one.
No, it's because they're lazy and irresponsible (not to mention willfully ignorant). Even though the USA plurality voting system is horribly flawed, there are always options to express disapproval.
Vote for a 4th or 5th party candidate. Write in a vote for yourself or your mother. If (in some future day) the total vote for minor candidates ever exceeds the count for the official winner, then we might see some change. Whereas low turnout is simply labeled as "regrettable" but ignorned.
If you don't vote, understand that you are expressing acceptance of the status quo, and the big-two political parties are thoroughly happy that you do so. All is well; just sit back and watch your "reality" shows.
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Yeah, those 9/11 Hijackers sure were scruffy towel-heads, weren't they? It's not as if anyone could possibly mistake this guy for an ordinary college student.
Also, I'm impressed they found scorpions to eat in the suburban apartments, shopping malls, and occasional titty bars that they spent their time. I've looked for such foods and none of the usual suspects (Lotte, GNC, etc) carry arachnids. Oh, those crafty terrorists!
No. However, you could transplant the entirety of OpenBSD into Darwin. The resulting code would require ASPL.
BSDL is a universal donor; you can take from it as much as you want. GPL is a "copyleft"; it intentionally prevents your ability to take code to other licenses. ASPL is not terribly different from LGPL; the code itself must remain within the license but it can link to other code (free or proprietary).Yes. And GPL allows exactly the same situation. In both cases, those users are allowed to pass the source code along to others under the same license that they received it.
Um, TAH, perhaps you should mention these big magnets to everyone else who has an informed opinion about airport x-ray machines, becuase they all say it's bogus...
No, you are simply misreading. Nagora said that X-Plane's source code is useless to him, and it is. He can't read/modify/compile it, because it's not available to the public. X-Plane's executable binary is a separate topic.
Insert Hanlon's Razor Here. However, they've been shown guilty of malice in the past, and it's difficult to call a $300 billion corporate gorilla "stupid".
That's because it's unacceptably painful to use a Windows PC if you aren't Admin. You can't install most software or even run Windows Update to get critical patches. Windows really badly needs sudo, and no, "Run As..." doesn't work well enough to count.
A dialog box would pop up and say "The attachment you clicked on wants to install a Service. Enter the Admin password to allow this". Sure, at least half the people would happily give the virus their password, but at least you'd be able to diagnose ID10T errors more precisely.
And when you search for 'apple' on MSN, you also end up with a page full of Mac-related links ... except for one conspicuous entry at houseandhome.msn.com for "Apple Recipies". They've got some interesting synergies in Redmond, don't you think?
User-serviceable parts (RAM, HD, AGP, etc) are commodity, but the hard stuff is designed in Cupertino.
Bring 'em on.
Huh? The IDE and PCI buses are completely separate on Macs.
Remember that 10 years ago Apple was the #1 PC maker, with about 20% market share. That's where they need to reach again before the calls of "beleagured" will stop.
Umm... exactly what parts of this world (Earth, with a bluish sky) are you talking about? In the last 30 times I checked, the USA was absolutely the most rightward-leaning of the industrialized nations. For example, how many of the G7 do not have socialized medicine? Answer: one.
Are you proudly saying that the USA is more liberal than the average military dictatorship? Well, hooray.
Because the USA is based on government of the corporate, for the corporate, by the corporate. Big business interests want to get rid of all spam except for their own, so that their "legitimate" advertising messages will be unimpeded by all the other junk. Hence, they strive to craft laws that will hurt Alan-Ralsky-types but not DMA members.
Requiring true opt-in will never pass the US Congress.
Anyone who marked this Informative (instead of either Funny or Troll) should be sentenced to no less than 20 whacks with a LARTing mallet.
The EU definition pretty much matches with the one at SpamHaus: if an email is unsolicited and bulk, then it's spam. Make sure your mass mailings are confirmed opt-in and you're all set.
Non sequitur. Mozilla 1.4 and Netscape 7.1 are absolutely identical from a web developer's point of view. Same with Moz 1.0x and NN 7.0x, Moz 0.9x and NN 6.x (roughly).
Yes it does... BUT the better product isn't always the winner in the marketplace. Mozilla's mindshare (even including Netscape 6/7) is low and not climbing much. AOL's new agreement with MS is a really Really REALLY bad sign. If they drop their Netscape staff, Mozilla is mostly dead.
Hence the author speaks directly to fellow web developers, discussing how best to evangelize for web standards without sounding like a nutcase.
No, this is what you tell yourself to feel less alone. The vast Vast VAST majority of USians who don't vote are not future Libertarians who secretly yearn to overthrow the oppressive 2-party regime. They're "regular joes" who are too busy working, drinking and watching TV to care about politics. They figure they're doing well enough now, so it doesn't make a difference. And the Demoblicans are most definitely content to let them believe that.
I repeat. Vote for a 4th party. Vote for yourself or your mother.A situation like that is "messed up" (i.e. the winner is likely to provoke dispute) under any voting algorithm:
- Plurality would give it to C and upset 60% of the populace
- IRV would give it to whichever of A or B got slightly more 1st votes
- Borda would give it to whichever of A or B got more 2s from C voters, unless A and/or B voters try to abuse insincerity, in which case C wins.
- Condorcet would have no clear winner and resort to a tiebreaker rule.
Not a particularly useful example of anything.No, it's because they're lazy and irresponsible (not to mention willfully ignorant). Even though the USA plurality voting system is horribly flawed, there are always options to express disapproval.
Vote for a 4th or 5th party candidate. Write in a vote for yourself or your mother. If (in some future day) the total vote for minor candidates ever exceeds the count for the official winner, then we might see some change. Whereas low turnout is simply labeled as "regrettable" but ignorned.
If you don't vote, understand that you are expressing acceptance of the status quo, and the big-two political parties are thoroughly happy that you do so. All is well; just sit back and watch your "reality" shows.