It's been a long time since I had time to browse any of the code repositories out there, but last time I looked, the BSD people (Free, Net, Open,...) all had their own BSD-licensed unixy command-line tools.
Speaking as a NetBSD user (and developer) we do have something that looks similar to busybox under/rescue, a statically linked binary which acts differently depending on how you call it. See the "list" file at cvsweb for common utilities included and the build seems easy enough to configure your own utilities as required. rescue(8)
FreeBSD at least has a simlar tool, not sure about OpenBSD..
Surely a magazine for people who are actual musicians will be different to a magazine for people who are aspiring to be musicians?
I don't read magazines much anymore, and one of the reasons I stopped was that the Future Publishing stable used to pump out low quality mags full of "introduction to" and "how to" articles rather than anything of interest to non beginners. I simply got bored with it.
In fact, I used to live in Bath and knew a few people who went to work for FP; one was somebody who knew nothing about computers and was working on the editorial team of a computer magazine. I queried her on the lack of in depth content there and she said it was expressly by design. They would in general not hire people to work on a title who knew about the subject at hand. Having worked in related fields I found that the publishing industry is full of people who are desparately afraid of being supplanted by those with better knowledge and skill sets than themselves, and it can be very difficult to get into publishing as a result.
I haven't looked at the computer magazines shelf in many years though so of course, all that might have changed.. and I'm only reading the comments here because I'm thinking that if the Americans think that this stuff is way better than their own it must be truly dire over there..
> if I wanted to turn off that damn safe search I had to have a google account.
You did? I use a local homepage with the following HTML snippet in it.. just type what I want in the box and get a search with safe=off appended. There might be a better way I'm not an expert..
Yes, well I've got an axe which has been in my family for a hundred years! My dad had to replace the handle once or twice and I had to replace the head about 20 years ago, but its the same axe my grandad used to chop wood..
Oh I remember reading that but didn't know what it was called. You might also like "Farthest Star" by Frederick Pohl which features a matter duplicator.. there were several copies of various characters (including alien species, as I recall) sent to investigate a planet found travelling through interstellar space.
Some carriers will ask that you pay the bill before the unlock (Change from monthly billing to pay as you go) but a lot of them will unlock first.
Since at any time during the contract the phone belongs to you then I don't really see why they should be allowed to lock it to their own network. If you want to use the phone with another network it is none of their business, surely? It's your phone after all and no matter what you do with it, you are committed to paying them the full monthly amount your contract states for the remaining contract duration or until you arrange to cancel it (this will likely involve a buy out, on their terms).
The network lock is gravy for them, since they can freely sting you for any extra calls you make outside your contract terms, and you have no easy way to avoid that. Further, since they have so much power that they are offering contracts with no way for you to negotiate the terms, it certainly makes sense that the government should prevent them from abusing it in this way.
Squatting has absolutely nothing to do with freedom of assembly or speech.
I'm agreeing with you there
Squatting is the destruction of the useful aspect of property for any benefit other than the squatter.
but I think you are wildly off track here. Squatting in the UK (and I guess, that the US laws are similar because a lot of US laws descended from the UK ones) is not about destroying anything, it is about occupying unused property. I don't really know how and why the law was instituted (because presumably only the property owners had ability to institute laws, back in the day) but the reasoning seems sound to me now, that property owners who abandon their property, leaving it unused for whatever reason can expect that people who have nowhere else to live will use it, and moreover, if they maintain it properly with no challenge, eventually they will have rights to stay there as if there is a tenancy agreement and eventually they may own it (again, there has to be no challenge from the owner.. the property is treated as abandoned and the occupiers become the owners). I don't know directly anybody who did that but some friends of an ex-girlfriend did live in some abandoned miners cottages in the south west of UK for more than the required time and eventually became the owners.
Using the word "Squatting" to describe protesting for extended periods in a public park is disingenious I think.
if any protest group wants to use public property it should get a permit and prevent scheduling conflicts
oh yes it sounds reasonable but how will they get a permit from the people who they are protesting against?
I would error on the side of allowing a large, generally peaceful group expressing discontent over regional and national political leadership to use the public space over the desire to walk dogs and play. Perhaps one third of the space could have been given some time limited designation (similar to free 20 minute public parking spaces).
Sorry but I'm on the other side of the atlantic here and although there was (and maybe still is) some "Occupation" in my local city they certainly didn't deny anybody else access to the ground they were occupying.. in fact, they seemed to be pretty welcoming if I were to take their signs at face value, which I did. Were your protesters actually denying access to the location to other citizens? I mean, I can see that if there is a ring of police around the area then it might look as if the access has been restricted.. but surely it is the police who did that, not the peaceful protesters?
Unfortunately, in the space industry like many other industries, it's all custom built *every time*
Is this not at least part of the aim of the SpaceX mission, to make building blocks that can be put together in standard configurations? When they get what they want working, they can set up a production line and offer off the shelf parts..
I don't know how it is in America, but over here in the UK a business that deals in cash and passes that through their bank account will need to pay to get it processed. Cash pickups and change dropoffs cost money too and although a small business can send a member of staff to the bank directly, the bank will still charge for change and deposit processing. I've been told that in some cases, it can be cheaper to deal with cards and account customers only..
I see I've been modded overrated for that comment, but I'm not suggesting (as per the coward below) that the folk would get their panties in a bunch about it, just that they wouldn't really find it funny. Its not really funny, except to a the people who like eating tasty animals and dislike PETA, and who would likely have never looked at the PETA website in the first place. Kind of like the jocks who put up posters around town about the party at the nerdy guys house.. they laugh about they discomfort they might have caused to the nerd, but they had no intention of going to any such party.
And, your example of the SETI is different.. the real SETI guys would no doubt be delighted to find pictures of folk having sex with actual ETs, if disappointed that they didn't find them first..
The earth is in no way full, there is plenty of space for everybody.. Probably what you meant to say is that the earth is now fully claimed and the folk wallowing in luxury don't really want to share with poverty stricken peruvians.
In the US, holding your employer over a barrel like that is usually frowned upon..
I find it likely that in the US, holding your employer over a barrel like that is usually frowned on by the employer.. and the reverse is true also, holding your employee over a barrel is also frowned on by the employee, but as I understand the laws in much of the US are such that the employee has no rights in the workplace, the employees frowning doesn't matter much.
Yeah, but when buds go into business together, then one of the buds is a dick, causing the business to tank and serious money to be lost.. well, it can often be the end of the friendship..
unlike Mr. Sheen, whatever you may think of his accomplishments
Who was Mr Christoforo's father, and who was Mr Sheens father and how much influence did they have in the respective arenas of their sons accomplishments?
I don't mean to belittle Charlie Sheen, but his father was a very famous actor and all of his children work in the entertainment industry.. only Charlie Sheen uses his fathers stage name, presumably to emphasize the connection.
use of trademarks representing a non genuine item, is not allowed.. that mockup of a vehicle or a boat or a secret under-volcano hideaway well now, are they branded items?
I'm sorry, but I reckon WB could have purchased a LV bag and used it without paying a penny for licensing and LV would have been delighted at the free coverage..
Actually, no. You might have thought it would have been funny, for folk looking for a "People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals" website to find instead a "People Eating Tasty Animals" website set up just to taunt them, but I sincerely doubt that any of those folk thought it was very funny.. in fact if you were one of them, you would have probably gone back to google to find the real site.
In fact I have only Froyo still, and you can export the contacts individually or en masse to the SD card or off the phone via Bluetooth or email or MMS. The contacts are exported as a vCard 2.1 file (.vcf) which I edited by hand (using vi, a commonplace free text editor) then reimported the corrected contacts to my phone with no loss of information.
its a pretty good backup, on my laptop. Google account not required.
If you think about it, living in unused properties for free is some kind of social equalizer. If you think about it a bit further, you might wonder why the landowners would ever enact laws that legitimized that, but the laws exist nontheless and homeless squatters certainly didn't enact them.
You don't use your own yacht, when doing deliveries.. you sail the other persons boat from A to B and they pay you for doing that. Then you go back to your own boat in C and cruise for a while, spending the money.. (depending on the locations of A, B and C, the bit of time you can spend doing that can vary a lot:)
Legalizing drugs is not the solution.. just a pipe dream for potheads and teenagers.
I am neither, being 45 and have been a non drinker for over 20 years and never taken drugs. I think legalizing drugs is possibly the answer
1. Legalizing drugs would lead to more drug users and addicts. A vast majority of crime is perpetrated by drug users (alcohol included)
This is irrelevant, since a vast majority of the population consists of drug users (alcohol included). You would have to demonstrate that the percentage of crime unrelated to the illegal status of drugs is perpetrated by a higher percentage of illegal drug users to make this any kind of valid point.
2. Legalizing and then taxing drugs would lead to... wait for it... black market for untaxed or cheaper drugs ! (see cigarettes, alcohol, past attempts at legalizing drugs like opium)
Yet today every drug user must deal with a criminal dealer, but the vast majority of cigarette and alcohol sales are from legal sources..
3. Legalizing and sanctioning drugs would lead to drugs with potentially limited potency due to Government control on the product which leads to.. black market
Yet alcohol consumers do not spurn the legal product with 5% alcohol and seek out criminal dealers who can supply 10%.. they buy it cheap and just consume twice as much.
4. Drug dealers, runners, and general baddies are not going to suddenly because good citizens just because drugs can be purchased over the counter. The sell this shit for money, cause they want money... See #2 and #3 - they won't be out of a job anyways.
The problem is that they have a job and their job is illegal, so they don't declare their income as taxable, and they have to deal with problems themselves. Imagine if they coud take a supplier to court for breach of contract, instead of driving past their house and firing bullets into it at random! Imagine if they all paid income taxes and felt safe leaving their homes without thuggee guards.. they could go and see a football game with their wife and kids!
5. Imagine our healthcare costs when we increase drug users drastically by making drugs acceptable and more available. We've already wasted lives, energy, and costs on smokers and heavy drinkers, why on Earth would we want to add more to this???
Imagine our reduced prison and legal and police costs when we don't need to persecute folk who just want to sit at home and get high. Imagine our reduced healthcare costs when we don't have drug users injecting horse tranquilizer with dirty needles because the drugs are not polluted and they can buy needles over the counter, or take their drugs with a less invasive method. (as a geek, I always wondered about asthma inhalers, they provide an atomised measured delivery of a drug to be inhaled.. surely this would work for drugs that are currently inhaled?)
Legalizing these things just redefines the problem.
So is the amount of advertising revenue going to increase by 100% - I doubt it.
You doubt it because you think that the price paid per advert viewed will remain the same. But this is not necessarily so, especially since Facebook is the definition of the market.. they can demand higher revenue and they will get it. They can increase the marketing forces to their userbase significantly and even if users don't like that they won't be able to go elsewhere for their facebook friends so they will have to suffer it anyway, or do without.
Honestly, the fact that Bill gates had anything to do with windows/microsoft at all is about as irrelevant as it gets here. it is just "Rich guy puts lots of money into building new nuke reactor in china", where the guy got his money from isnt relevant.
Except, that Bill Gates was primarily responsible for the culture of greed and yes-men at Microsoft that created the shitty software that most of the world has had problems with. He always had the power to say 'Enough of this, do it properly now' but he never did..
Oh, that must be why they want to have a presence on facebook, a social networking site.. Gee, can't wait to friend such a corporation, do you think it will come to my birthday party?
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Speaking as a NetBSD user (and developer) we do have something that looks similar to busybox under /rescue, a statically linked binary which acts differently depending on how you call it. See the "list" file at cvsweb for common utilities included and the build seems easy enough to configure your own utilities as required. rescue(8)
FreeBSD at least has a simlar tool, not sure about OpenBSD..
Surely a magazine for people who are actual musicians will be different to a magazine for people who are aspiring to be musicians?
I don't read magazines much anymore, and one of the reasons I stopped was that the Future Publishing stable used to pump out low quality mags full of "introduction to" and "how to" articles rather than anything of interest to non beginners. I simply got bored with it.
In fact, I used to live in Bath and knew a few people who went to work for FP; one was somebody who knew nothing about computers and was working on the editorial team of a computer magazine. I queried her on the lack of in depth content there and she said it was expressly by design. They would in general not hire people to work on a title who knew about the subject at hand. Having worked in related fields I found that the publishing industry is full of people who are desparately afraid of being supplanted by those with better knowledge and skill sets than themselves, and it can be very difficult to get into publishing as a result.
I haven't looked at the computer magazines shelf in many years though so of course, all that might have changed.. and I'm only reading the comments here because I'm thinking that if the Americans think that this stuff is way better than their own it must be truly dire over there..
> if I wanted to turn off that damn safe search I had to have a google account.
You did? I use a local homepage with the following HTML snippet in it.. just type what I want in the box and get a search with safe=off appended. There might be a better way I'm not an expert..
<form method="GET" action="http://www.google.com/search">
Google Search <input type="text" name="q"></input>
<input type="hidden" name="hl" value="en"></input>
<input type="hidden" name="num" value="30"></input>
<input type="hidden" name="safe" value="off"></input>
</form>
Yes, well I've got an axe which has been in my family for a hundred years! My dad had to replace the handle once or twice and I had to replace the head about 20 years ago, but its the same axe my grandad used to chop wood..
Oh I remember reading that but didn't know what it was called. You might also like "Farthest Star" by Frederick Pohl which features a matter duplicator.. there were several copies of various characters (including alien species, as I recall) sent to investigate a planet found travelling through interstellar space.
Since at any time during the contract the phone belongs to you then I don't really see why they should be allowed to lock it to their own network. If you want to use the phone with another network it is none of their business, surely? It's your phone after all and no matter what you do with it, you are committed to paying them the full monthly amount your contract states for the remaining contract duration or until you arrange to cancel it (this will likely involve a buy out, on their terms).
The network lock is gravy for them, since they can freely sting you for any extra calls you make outside your contract terms, and you have no easy way to avoid that. Further, since they have so much power that they are offering contracts with no way for you to negotiate the terms, it certainly makes sense that the government should prevent them from abusing it in this way.
I'm agreeing with you there
but I think you are wildly off track here. Squatting in the UK (and I guess, that the US laws are similar because a lot of US laws descended from the UK ones) is not about destroying anything, it is about occupying unused property. I don't really know how and why the law was instituted (because presumably only the property owners had ability to institute laws, back in the day) but the reasoning seems sound to me now, that property owners who abandon their property, leaving it unused for whatever reason can expect that people who have nowhere else to live will use it, and moreover, if they maintain it properly with no challenge, eventually they will have rights to stay there as if there is a tenancy agreement and eventually they may own it (again, there has to be no challenge from the owner.. the property is treated as abandoned and the occupiers become the owners). I don't know directly anybody who did that but some friends of an ex-girlfriend did live in some abandoned miners cottages in the south west of UK for more than the required time and eventually became the owners.
Using the word "Squatting" to describe protesting for extended periods in a public park is disingenious I think.
oh yes it sounds reasonable but how will they get a permit from the people who they are protesting against?
Sorry but I'm on the other side of the atlantic here and although there was (and maybe still is) some "Occupation" in my local city they certainly didn't deny anybody else access to the ground they were occupying.. in fact, they seemed to be pretty welcoming if I were to take their signs at face value, which I did. Were your protesters actually denying access to the location to other citizens? I mean, I can see that if there is a ring of police around the area then it might look as if the access has been restricted.. but surely it is the police who did that, not the peaceful protesters?
Is this not at least part of the aim of the SpaceX mission, to make building blocks that can be put together in standard configurations? When they get what they want working, they can set up a production line and offer off the shelf parts..
I don't know how it is in America, but over here in the UK a business that deals in cash and passes that through their bank account will need to pay to get it processed. Cash pickups and change dropoffs cost money too and although a small business can send a member of staff to the bank directly, the bank will still charge for change and deposit processing. I've been told that in some cases, it can be cheaper to deal with cards and account customers only..
I see I've been modded overrated for that comment, but I'm not suggesting (as per the coward below) that the folk would get their panties in a bunch about it, just that they wouldn't really find it funny. Its not really funny, except to a the people who like eating tasty animals and dislike PETA, and who would likely have never looked at the PETA website in the first place. Kind of like the jocks who put up posters around town about the party at the nerdy guys house.. they laugh about they discomfort they might have caused to the nerd, but they had no intention of going to any such party.
And, your example of the SETI is different.. the real SETI guys would no doubt be delighted to find pictures of folk having sex with actual ETs, if disappointed that they didn't find them first..
The earth is in no way full, there is plenty of space for everybody.. Probably what you meant to say is that the earth is now fully claimed and the folk wallowing in luxury don't really want to share with poverty stricken peruvians.
I find it likely that in the US, holding your employer over a barrel like that is usually frowned on by the employer.. and the reverse is true also, holding your employee over a barrel is also frowned on by the employee, but as I understand the laws in much of the US are such that the employee has no rights in the workplace, the employees frowning doesn't matter much.
Yeah, but when buds go into business together, then one of the buds is a dick, causing the business to tank and serious money to be lost.. well, it can often be the end of the friendship..
Who was Mr Christoforo's father, and who was Mr Sheens father and how much influence did they have in the respective arenas of their sons accomplishments?
I don't mean to belittle Charlie Sheen, but his father was a very famous actor and all of his children work in the entertainment industry.. only Charlie Sheen uses his fathers stage name, presumably to emphasize the connection.
use of trademarks representing a non genuine item, is not allowed.. that mockup of a vehicle or a boat or a secret under-volcano hideaway well now, are they branded items?
I'm sorry, but I reckon WB could have purchased a LV bag and used it without paying a penny for licensing and LV would have been delighted at the free coverage..
Actually, no. You might have thought it would have been funny, for folk looking for a "People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals" website to find instead a "People Eating Tasty Animals" website set up just to taunt them, but I sincerely doubt that any of those folk thought it was very funny.. in fact if you were one of them, you would have probably gone back to google to find the real site.
In fact I have only Froyo still, and you can export the contacts individually or en masse to the SD card or off the phone via Bluetooth or email or MMS. The contacts are exported as a vCard 2.1 file (.vcf) which I edited by hand (using vi, a commonplace free text editor) then reimported the corrected contacts to my phone with no loss of information.
its a pretty good backup, on my laptop. Google account not required.
If you think about it, living in unused properties for free is some kind of social equalizer. If you think about it a bit further, you might wonder why the landowners would ever enact laws that legitimized that, but the laws exist nontheless and homeless squatters certainly didn't enact them.
You don't use your own yacht, when doing deliveries.. you sail the other persons boat from A to B and they pay you for doing that. Then you go back to your own boat in C and cruise for a while, spending the money.. (depending on the locations of A, B and C, the bit of time you can spend doing that can vary a lot :)
Even the fine summary says that there is no evidence of falsification.. and if its true, then a libel case would be dismissed, no?
I am neither, being 45 and have been a non drinker for over 20 years and never taken drugs. I think legalizing drugs is possibly the answer
This is irrelevant, since a vast majority of the population consists of drug users (alcohol included). You would have to demonstrate that the percentage of crime unrelated to the illegal status of drugs is perpetrated by a higher percentage of illegal drug users to make this any kind of valid point.
Yet today every drug user must deal with a criminal dealer, but the vast majority of cigarette and alcohol sales are from legal sources..
Yet alcohol consumers do not spurn the legal product with 5% alcohol and seek out criminal dealers who can supply 10% .. they buy it cheap and just consume twice as much.
The problem is that they have a job and their job is illegal, so they don't declare their income as taxable, and they have to deal with problems themselves. Imagine if they coud take a supplier to court for breach of contract, instead of driving past their house and firing bullets into it at random! Imagine if they all paid income taxes and felt safe leaving their homes without thuggee guards.. they could go and see a football game with their wife and kids!
Imagine our reduced prison and legal and police costs when we don't need to persecute folk who just want to sit at home and get high. Imagine our reduced healthcare costs when we don't have drug users injecting horse tranquilizer with dirty needles because the drugs are not polluted and they can buy needles over the counter, or take their drugs with a less invasive method. (as a geek, I always wondered about asthma inhalers, they provide an atomised measured delivery of a drug to be inhaled .. surely this would work for drugs that are currently inhaled?)
You got that bit right at least
You doubt it because you think that the price paid per advert viewed will remain the same. But this is not necessarily so, especially since Facebook is the definition of the market.. they can demand higher revenue and they will get it. They can increase the marketing forces to their userbase significantly and even if users don't like that they won't be able to go elsewhere for their facebook friends so they will have to suffer it anyway, or do without.
Except, that Bill Gates was primarily responsible for the culture of greed and yes-men at Microsoft that created the shitty software that most of the world has had problems with. He always had the power to say 'Enough of this, do it properly now' but he never did..
Oh, that must be why they want to have a presence on facebook, a social networking site.. Gee, can't wait to friend such a corporation, do you think it will come to my birthday party?