They're the "number 2 software company," but they didn't have anything like the JDK or a real OS to call their own. Now they have Java, Solaris and MySQL, plus they have access to all of Sun's customers.
Many of my customers would have loved to see this go through because then they could buy an entire package from a single company, and it'd probably be cheaper. Systems integration costs a lot of money, and if Oracle can streamline this down to the point where a lot less labor is needed to deliver and configure an enterprise setup, then they'll succeed handsomely.
I've also seen a lot of people bring up MySQL as an issue, but I bet Oracle actually wanted MySQL. Oracle's DB and MySQL don't compete in most areas, and MySQL can be an excellent rear guard product used to keep SQL Server and PostgreSQL at bay. Oracle has a huge services arm, so it's only natural that they will be able to find a way to fit MySQL into many configurations where Oracle DB would not be as good of a fit.
No, a lot of undergraduate white kids who have had mommy and daddy pay for everything and have never had any real life experience are libertarian leaning.
Funny, I was just thinking the same thing about liberal kids who've never had to work a day in their lives at a serious job and seen entire double digit percentages of the money they need to live on getting taken away to pay for the government programs they support. It's easy to be a socialist when you aren't one of the productive members of society paying for the socialist state.
For many people, even if Apple's prices are high, they're preferable to a typical Vista-based PC for reasons similar to why it's better to live in overly taxed Europe than under-taxed Africa.
So, let me get this straight. It's not illegal to break your employer's confidence and send a full dump of sensitive emails automatically to your private email account where you sell them to an interested third party?
The problem with the mainstream model for ISPs is that in an unlimited use plan, the less aggressive users subsidize the consumption of the aggressive users. Most slashdot readers may not have a problem with that, but I think that a lot of people would rather pay a reasonable, and cheaper rate, for bandwidth they use than pay more for a theoretically uncapped amount that they won't use.
But they VERY clearly regard Anonymous as a "terrorist threat." Perhaps more of a potential threat than an actual one, but don't kid yourselves, the way that they wrote about it on pages 45-46 demonstrate that they clearly take it seriously as a trouble-maker with terrorist potential.
I was surprise to see Harrisonburg listed as a site of interest for Virginia and Anonymous, but it would make sense. Harrisonburg has James Madison University, one of the largest Virginia state universities, and is on a direct path between Virginia Tech and Northern Virginia, which would make it a perfect meet up point for Anonymous members at both universities and in metro DC.
Read up on it if you don't understand it. Just like it took Nixon to go to China, it will take Obama to get this through. Those of you who voted for Obama and really believed that he stood for "hope and change" were every bit as big of morons as the people in the Republican Party who thought that McCain was some maverick conservative.
A provision that amounts to "if you abuse the statute, stop, don't pass go, report directly to the US Attorney for your district and make plans for spending at least a year in federal prison with 'cop' written with a sharpie on your forehead every morning." Based on the way the IG has found that the FBI routinely violates it, and there is so little accountability, the law needs to allow the IG to go damn near Napoleonic (law) on the FBI agents involved.
Generally, if you are stupid enough to send a flaming email to your boss without a serious desire to quit that predates your immediate rage, 5 seconds won't be enough. For every boss that is so bad they'd make a saint froth at the mouth like someone with Tourrette's, there are 20 cases where the employee who does that is just being an immature douchebag. For those people, 5 seconds won't be anywhere near enough time to come to the realization that they just shot their employment in the back of the head, and personally, I say good riddance in this economy. My wife works for a real fiend, and even she is still glad that she has her job.
The bill is carefully worded such that only ODF could pass its test as "open."
That's favoring one vendor over another. What the government should be doing is mandating a variety of formats based on the preferences of the public. Microsoft Office, ODF, PDF and XHTML would be much better, and it wouldn't be that hard for the government to support all of those. After all, Microsoft Office can or does support all of those formats, so it's not like the government would have to do more than install a little extra software and mandate that all public records be saved 4 times with File->Save As or a macro that does the same thing.
That the whole story is essentially one 4 season long dissertation on the "wages of sin" and even "generational sin?" The recurring sins of sloth and bigotry finally keep coming back to haunt the human race. Sloth lead to two of the colonies being treated horribly until the Cylons could be created as a worker class. The Cylons eventually realized that they were slaves and revolted, and that pattern has repeated itself at least once already.
In a dark, twisted way, the series is more religious and conservative than the original one. A lot of fans of the original hate that because it's more like a Hobbesian/Calvinist take on human nature, sin, God's judgment, etc. with the human race not being portrayed as noble, but having its own sins come back to haunt it. As a Christian, I find it a very refreshing show in that it has a brutally realistic take on human nature, sin and other factors that are usually ignored by people looking to create a simplistic "good guys in white, bad guys in black" kind of moral dichotomy.
Version numbers matter to the average user. If you have a product that takes years to break version 1.0, the uninitiated will wonder why it took you so long to "get it working." This question is another example of how many FOSS developers and advocates don't understand the basic psychology of the masses.
Metaphors aside, it's up the lawyers and ultimately the judge on how relevant someone's history is to a trial and if their history would unduly sway the jury. Scumbags are often innocent, habitual liars are occasionally telling the truth. It should be up to the people well versed in the law and trials to weigh up the balance.
If you would believe the word of a habitual liar, then you, sir, are part of the problem with the system. God knows how many innocent people have been sent to prison because people like you have accepted the testimony of jailhouse snitches just because a lawyer or judge gave their testimony the green light.
The character of the defendant and plaintiff do count. If you've ever been falsely accused of a serious crime out of sheer malice like I have, you become a lot less sympathetic to the victims of crimes until it's proved beyond a reasonable doubt that justice was served.
I applaud jurors who try to figure out what kind of person they're trying. For example, if a juror finds out that a woman claiming she was raped had filed false charges in the past, the juror has a moral duty to vote to nullify the trial on moral character grounds unless this time she has firm evidence like wounds indicative of a violent rape.
My question is: What Linux-based Internet filtering solution do Slashdot dads favor, and do they hinder a child's efforts to learn about the world?"
It may go against conventional wisdom on Slashdot, but filters don't particularly hinder a child's efforts to learn about the world. If there is something that they want to see, they can ask you if it's ok and you can unblock it. That's the 21st century version of the way that parents used to do it. Part of being a parent is being a gatekeeper. Some information your kids just need to be largely innocent of until they become adults. It's one thing to know that the ugly side of the world exists. It's another thing to take few measures to stop your kids from participating in it out of curiosity.
In the United States, a woman can often establish paternity by naming a man, "attempting to get papers served" and then getting a summary judgment issued against him in his absence. Generally, you have only 30 days to respond to the allegation, and then the courts **might** invalidate it if you have some really, really good argument (not being the father is often not good enough!)
Personally, I think this is a terrible idea. What if someone never checks their Facebook account or loses access to it? No, I think like most police powers and similar measures, this is only being tolerated by it makes some lawyer's job easier, and there doesn't seem to be much to protect people when the system fails them.
Technical people tend to be atheist. Isn't the air force full of Evangelicals? What about all the chaplains?
Why is this shit modded up as interesting? I can understand atheists being upset over having religion forced on them as a condition (subtle or not so subtle) of moving up the ranks, getting contracts, etc., but you seem to be like most atheists where the mere presence of a religious atmosphere drives you apoplectic.
You could also say that most technical people tend to not be macho and all of that which would make the Army and the Marine Corps far more hostile.
Most people don't do jobs that need this education. What they need are classes in logic, history and philosophy growing up because those will teach them to critically think more than any K-12 class on basic science.
"We do it, so we should expect it in return." Yet, where is the proof that the federal government is actively engaging in the sort of network thuggery that Russia and China indulge in? It's just "common knowledge" that "we do it," especially at a tit-for-tat level.
The main reason I've grown impatient with this line of thought is that it's usually used to defend other countries when they're doing wrong. "The US supported dictators, so why not Russia." Might as well say "two wrongs make a right!"
One of the dumbest things that you can do as a government employee is to try to run a business on the side that has dealings with your agency or other agencies affiliated with yours. Some people at TSA got in trouble for trying to double dip.
'company is a physical thing, and as such analogous to a machine.'
"A machine is any device that uses energy to perform some activity. In common usage, the meaning is that of a device having parts that perform or assist in performing any type of work." Neither a technical nor a vernacular understanding of machinery supports his argument. Only in the twisted logic common to LawyerLandtm could this ever be considered a machine. Lawyers ought to be disbarred for this behavior, as only someone who has an incredibly dishonest character could torture a definition like this.
The copyright lords don't need to get a court involved to impose sanction. Their firm allegation is all that is needed under this system. The commoner is punished, and then must go to a court to prove that the nobility were mistaken.
People who like quick solutions and big government involvement don't like the rule of law and due process because they get in the way of accomplishing the "greater good." Ironically, the greater good is generally a myth, and if you look behind one group asking another to sacrifice its rights for the "greater good," you'll usually just find some selfish, self-centered individual who profits.
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They're the "number 2 software company," but they didn't have anything like the JDK or a real OS to call their own. Now they have Java, Solaris and MySQL, plus they have access to all of Sun's customers.
Many of my customers would have loved to see this go through because then they could buy an entire package from a single company, and it'd probably be cheaper. Systems integration costs a lot of money, and if Oracle can streamline this down to the point where a lot less labor is needed to deliver and configure an enterprise setup, then they'll succeed handsomely.
I've also seen a lot of people bring up MySQL as an issue, but I bet Oracle actually wanted MySQL. Oracle's DB and MySQL don't compete in most areas, and MySQL can be an excellent rear guard product used to keep SQL Server and PostgreSQL at bay. Oracle has a huge services arm, so it's only natural that they will be able to find a way to fit MySQL into many configurations where Oracle DB would not be as good of a fit.
Funny, I was just thinking the same thing about liberal kids who've never had to work a day in their lives at a serious job and seen entire double digit percentages of the money they need to live on getting taken away to pay for the government programs they support. It's easy to be a socialist when you aren't one of the productive members of society paying for the socialist state.
For many people, even if Apple's prices are high, they're preferable to a typical Vista-based PC for reasons similar to why it's better to live in overly taxed Europe than under-taxed Africa.
So, let me get this straight. It's not illegal to break your employer's confidence and send a full dump of sensitive emails automatically to your private email account where you sell them to an interested third party?
The problem with the mainstream model for ISPs is that in an unlimited use plan, the less aggressive users subsidize the consumption of the aggressive users. Most slashdot readers may not have a problem with that, but I think that a lot of people would rather pay a reasonable, and cheaper rate, for bandwidth they use than pay more for a theoretically uncapped amount that they won't use.
But they VERY clearly regard Anonymous as a "terrorist threat." Perhaps more of a potential threat than an actual one, but don't kid yourselves, the way that they wrote about it on pages 45-46 demonstrate that they clearly take it seriously as a trouble-maker with terrorist potential. I was surprise to see Harrisonburg listed as a site of interest for Virginia and Anonymous, but it would make sense. Harrisonburg has James Madison University, one of the largest Virginia state universities, and is on a direct path between Virginia Tech and Northern Virginia, which would make it a perfect meet up point for Anonymous members at both universities and in metro DC.
You are the first true believer I have ever encountered who has more Kool-Aid than blood circulating in his system.
Read up on it if you don't understand it. Just like it took Nixon to go to China, it will take Obama to get this through. Those of you who voted for Obama and really believed that he stood for "hope and change" were every bit as big of morons as the people in the Republican Party who thought that McCain was some maverick conservative.
A provision that amounts to "if you abuse the statute, stop, don't pass go, report directly to the US Attorney for your district and make plans for spending at least a year in federal prison with 'cop' written with a sharpie on your forehead every morning." Based on the way the IG has found that the FBI routinely violates it, and there is so little accountability, the law needs to allow the IG to go damn near Napoleonic (law) on the FBI agents involved.
Yes, it does.
Generally, if you are stupid enough to send a flaming email to your boss without a serious desire to quit that predates your immediate rage, 5 seconds won't be enough. For every boss that is so bad they'd make a saint froth at the mouth like someone with Tourrette's, there are 20 cases where the employee who does that is just being an immature douchebag. For those people, 5 seconds won't be anywhere near enough time to come to the realization that they just shot their employment in the back of the head, and personally, I say good riddance in this economy. My wife works for a real fiend, and even she is still glad that she has her job.
SixApart should lay down the law.
That's favoring one vendor over another. What the government should be doing is mandating a variety of formats based on the preferences of the public. Microsoft Office, ODF, PDF and XHTML would be much better, and it wouldn't be that hard for the government to support all of those. After all, Microsoft Office can or does support all of those formats, so it's not like the government would have to do more than install a little extra software and mandate that all public records be saved 4 times with File->Save As or a macro that does the same thing.
That the whole story is essentially one 4 season long dissertation on the "wages of sin" and even "generational sin?" The recurring sins of sloth and bigotry finally keep coming back to haunt the human race. Sloth lead to two of the colonies being treated horribly until the Cylons could be created as a worker class. The Cylons eventually realized that they were slaves and revolted, and that pattern has repeated itself at least once already.
In a dark, twisted way, the series is more religious and conservative than the original one. A lot of fans of the original hate that because it's more like a Hobbesian/Calvinist take on human nature, sin, God's judgment, etc. with the human race not being portrayed as noble, but having its own sins come back to haunt it. As a Christian, I find it a very refreshing show in that it has a brutally realistic take on human nature, sin and other factors that are usually ignored by people looking to create a simplistic "good guys in white, bad guys in black" kind of moral dichotomy.
Version numbers matter to the average user. If you have a product that takes years to break version 1.0, the uninitiated will wonder why it took you so long to "get it working." This question is another example of how many FOSS developers and advocates don't understand the basic psychology of the masses.
If you would believe the word of a habitual liar, then you, sir, are part of the problem with the system. God knows how many innocent people have been sent to prison because people like you have accepted the testimony of jailhouse snitches just because a lawyer or judge gave their testimony the green light.
The character of the defendant and plaintiff do count. If you've ever been falsely accused of a serious crime out of sheer malice like I have, you become a lot less sympathetic to the victims of crimes until it's proved beyond a reasonable doubt that justice was served.
I applaud jurors who try to figure out what kind of person they're trying. For example, if a juror finds out that a woman claiming she was raped had filed false charges in the past, the juror has a moral duty to vote to nullify the trial on moral character grounds unless this time she has firm evidence like wounds indicative of a violent rape.
It may go against conventional wisdom on Slashdot, but filters don't particularly hinder a child's efforts to learn about the world. If there is something that they want to see, they can ask you if it's ok and you can unblock it. That's the 21st century version of the way that parents used to do it. Part of being a parent is being a gatekeeper. Some information your kids just need to be largely innocent of until they become adults. It's one thing to know that the ugly side of the world exists. It's another thing to take few measures to stop your kids from participating in it out of curiosity.
In the United States, a woman can often establish paternity by naming a man, "attempting to get papers served" and then getting a summary judgment issued against him in his absence. Generally, you have only 30 days to respond to the allegation, and then the courts **might** invalidate it if you have some really, really good argument (not being the father is often not good enough!)
Personally, I think this is a terrible idea. What if someone never checks their Facebook account or loses access to it? No, I think like most police powers and similar measures, this is only being tolerated by it makes some lawyer's job easier, and there doesn't seem to be much to protect people when the system fails them.
Why is this shit modded up as interesting? I can understand atheists being upset over having religion forced on them as a condition (subtle or not so subtle) of moving up the ranks, getting contracts, etc., but you seem to be like most atheists where the mere presence of a religious atmosphere drives you apoplectic.
You could also say that most technical people tend to not be macho and all of that which would make the Army and the Marine Corps far more hostile.
Most people don't do jobs that need this education. What they need are classes in logic, history and philosophy growing up because those will teach them to critically think more than any K-12 class on basic science.
"We do it, so we should expect it in return." Yet, where is the proof that the federal government is actively engaging in the sort of network thuggery that Russia and China indulge in? It's just "common knowledge" that "we do it," especially at a tit-for-tat level.
The main reason I've grown impatient with this line of thought is that it's usually used to defend other countries when they're doing wrong. "The US supported dictators, so why not Russia." Might as well say "two wrongs make a right!"
One of the dumbest things that you can do as a government employee is to try to run a business on the side that has dealings with your agency or other agencies affiliated with yours. Some people at TSA got in trouble for trying to double dip.
"A machine is any device that uses energy to perform some activity. In common usage, the meaning is that of a device having parts that perform or assist in performing any type of work." Neither a technical nor a vernacular understanding of machinery supports his argument. Only in the twisted logic common to LawyerLandtm could this ever be considered a machine. Lawyers ought to be disbarred for this behavior, as only someone who has an incredibly dishonest character could torture a definition like this.
The copyright lords don't need to get a court involved to impose sanction. Their firm allegation is all that is needed under this system. The commoner is punished, and then must go to a court to prove that the nobility were mistaken.
People who like quick solutions and big government involvement don't like the rule of law and due process because they get in the way of accomplishing the "greater good." Ironically, the greater good is generally a myth, and if you look behind one group asking another to sacrifice its rights for the "greater good," you'll usually just find some selfish, self-centered individual who profits.