"There's evidence that the computer in question displayed adult images during the time in question, but there are many reasons, such as the pop-up ads blamed by the defense, that such images could have been displayed"
While I believe the prosecution of this woman is completely ridiculous, one has to wonder why the hell she didn't just pull the plug on the computer. As has been said many times alreafy she had been explicitly instructed not to turn of the PC (or face serious consequences i.e. fired). I don't remember why they told her that, but...
Out of curousity, what happens if the very existence of a law is one of the disputed facts? In that case the interpretation of the law, and the matters of fact become intertwined. Perhaps a more realistic example: somebody attempts to enforce a very old law. It turns out that law was repealed, but records of the repeal were lost in a fire at the statehouse. The defense has "witnesses" to testify about the repeal of the law, which the prosecution will be trying to discredit. That sort of thing can really mess up the clean separation of law and fact. What happens in those circumstances?
True, but properly distilling the document first can fix most of these problems. In a properly distilled document, the code for the first 98 pages would never even be sent to the printer. They would have been striped out by the printer driver. Distillers include Adobe Distiller, and Ghostscript.
I agree that a full programing language can be overkill for a printer.
This solution seems chaotic to me. Now, instead of needing to pull all the changes from one central repository, I need to pull changes from the machines of all my co-workers individually? Wouldn't this system make it difficult to guarantee that each developer was integrating the work of the others? Also, it doesn't seem very scalable. What if I have 20 co-workers? The key here in Linux is the existence of the "official" repository, managed by the project leader.
Code is not Official until it gets merged in there. Most people will be working on modifications to the official repository. So people always keep updating against that, and they eventually get everybody else's changes that have been approved. As long as people are not developing mutually exclusive features this generally works. It is great for Linux's development model. It might not be ideal inside a business. But git does gave support for centralized repository style SCM if desired.
... excercise in seeing when expansion beats out light. Recessional speeds due to expansion can exceed someone's idea of "light speed" because space expands and essentially drags the coordinate system with it. The article basically says that the closest bodies will be outside our light cone in ~3e12 years, and the expanding coordinate system will red-shift it to nothingness to boot. That is disturbing. However, doesn't expansion also affect things below the macroscopic scale? Would it not be slowly spreading the particles of the hypothetical 'rod', just as it spreads the cosmic bodies apart? The spreading of the particles to me sounds similar to the length contraction concept of Relativity, except that it would be expansion, and occurring in all dimensions whereas length contraction occurs only along the dimension of movement. But this length expansion would change the rodlength/clockticks ratio of 'c',which i understand to be a constant, unless time expands also. How does that interact with the island universe concept?
A large number have completely legit looking driver's licenses and social security cards. IF you can get a real social security number and card issued (hard but not impossible) and get a real DMV issued
Drivers license based on that (and whatever forged documents used to get the SSN and card), you are for virtually all intents an purposes a real full fledged American citizen.
Thankfully WM6 ("Crossbow") is mostly a set of graphical improvements on WM5, with a few programs redesigned for nicer interface etc. Overall, the difference between WM5 AKU 3.5 and WM 6 is AFAICT much smaller than the difference between WM5 AKU 1.0 and WM5 AKU 3.5.
I mean the big changes are: Impoved Outlook Mobile allowing HTML formated mail, and in the caledar section, an new "calandar ribbon" interface
Replacing the integrated "MSN" suite with a "Windows Live" suite. (Noticeably improved is the IM client, which now sports many of the features of the desktop client).
Improved versions of the Office Mobile apps, giving additional features. etc.
And several of those could hardly be called improvements, as for example the windows Live software runs just fine on WM5. The Improved Office Mobile and Outlook mobile probably run fine on WM5 also, but Microsoft does not distribute those separately, unlike the Windows Live suite.
The biggest change is the new "Windows Update" feature. That probably required some changes to the Core OS. The Windows Update feature will allow improvements to the integrated applications to be downloaded without requiring upgrading the ROM, which implies a hard reset. The changes are likely saved to normal storage rather than editing the ROM in-place, meaning the changes would be lost with a hard reset, but on the other hand, being able to get bug fixes or even new features added without a hard reset is a very promising sounding feature. I hope it gets used well.
The much smarter "SHIFT" technology shows a circle near (presumably normally above) showing a view of exactly what is being targeted. The view may optionally be magnified (depends on implementation and possibly user options). That is the tech TFA is describing.
Both are correct, but as usual, TFS is misleading.
I am aware of that. But in many cases you are partially patched, depending on the specifics. In any case, I am not concerned about the patch not taking affect for the first few days before I reboot.
My wish is for: Download Automatically. Prompt me when downloaded so i can review what is to be installed.
If I install them, and it wants to reboot, but I do not reboot, it may leave a systray icon, but MUST NOT
keep popping up that window every 10 minutes asking me to restart. I will generally install the updates ASAP,
but I only restart when i want to, or if the system becomes really messed up, or BSOD.
What about the whackos who go to funerals of servicemen and women with their "God Hates Fags" and "God is killing soldiers for our sins" signs? Just sayin... They are acting in EXTREMELY poor taste, and are likely the scum of the Earth, but I agree they are allowed to do that, as long as they stay non-violent, and law-abdiding. If they protested in such a form as to break other laws, or endanger lives, then that is a problem. Otherwise, you can simply ask them if they could leave, to which they will likely refuse.
You need both the user's PIN I believe that varies by implementation. Even if the RSA server requires a pin, a site using it could just always send a '0000' pin, and use a normal username/password system for the "what you know" part of authentication. Or in theory, they could skip that type of authentication altogether, but that is obviously a bad idea.
I've not heard of any working attacks against SecurID (or any other hardware token). Got any links?
IIRC, for SecurID, It is possible to emulate the harware token in software if the certificate is available. (The certificate is loaded into the token, and the server has a copy. Since the whole thing is basically a series of hashes, the initial values and a description of the algorithm are all that is needed to emulate the device. So this attack merely indicates that the algorithm has been discovered. (The system has good security, but they kept the algorithm secret, adding an additional, but obviously very weak level of security-by-obscurity on top.) The attack is useless without the certificate, which of course is the primary security feature. A real break would of course be some method of getting a-hold of the certificate. If it could desceretly be extracted from the device in some manner, that would really break the system.
Your post may be correct, but the Brady site's facts do appear to be correct. They do note that Dealers still need to do a background check at gun shows.
You are correct that the Brady site does not mention the form 4473 very much, but I suspect that is more of an oversight, as they do want to publish information about the control/legistration/licensing laws actually in effect. I do agree that the source is biased, but I'm not sure the RIAA comparison is just, because it looks like they at least make an effort to publish valid facts in addition to their viewpoints, which is something that the RIAA tries very hard not to do.
But even if the GPL (or more generally the idea of copyleft) could no longer exist, the fact that code would be reusable by anybody is a major benefit. Thus the only protection to corporation's code would be companies tightly controlling their code. If the company ever showed the code to anybody not under an NDA then anybody could use that code. That situation is a slight step down from copyleft as companies could exploit code created by others, but it would definitely be a major step in the right direction overall. As such (based on my understanding of his writings) RMS would support such an abolishment of copyright, despite the loss of copyleft along with it.
Re:Read it! That was taken way out of context.
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It sounds like many people are misreading this as saying "Participant agrees to not mention or imply the name of Google", which is clearly incorrect. The blogger sees this:
Participant agrees not to [...] issue or release any
articles, advertising, publicity or other matter [...] mentioning or implying the
name of Google.
There is definately a problem there, if blogs are considered to consists of "Articles".
Have you tried the suite of utils that David Korn wrote for Windows? Just curious. I tried it several years ago, and was impressed. I haven't done a side-by-side between Cygwin and Korn's tools, though. Be careful there, There is a David Korn who works with Cygwin. No relation to the more famous one, but still...
Fair enough. I had heard that the OSI had been looking at the license, and that there were some complaints about license proliferation. But the not submitted by author is certainly a justifiable reason not to certify.
Ms-PL is not OSI approved because OSI does not support license proliferation. Microsoft has not convinced them that there is a need for a different licence.
Further, I find the License way too ambiguous. The BSD license was right to the point. This one is not. Take this passage:
(D) If you distribute any portion of the software in source code form, you may do so only under this license by including a complete copy of this license with your distribution. If you distribute any portion of the software in compiled or object code form, you may only do so under a license that complies with this license.
I have issues with the first sentence. It could mean one of two different things, which could be a big problem. it could mean: Under this license, if you distribute any portion of the software in source code form you must include a complete copy of this license with your distribution. I think that is what it was intended to mean. However, it could be read that the source code must be distributed under that license. If that were to be interpreted as the license in its current form without additional modifications (such as additional restrictions) it poses a GPL-compatibility problem (although the patent retaliation clause already make the license incompatible with the GNU GPL v2). But if ignoring license compatibility issues, it would generally act more or less like the 3-clause BSD license.
Then the second sentence has problems. What does it mean for a binary license to be compliant? It must include the trademark retaliation clause and mandate that the copyright information be retained? Anything else?
www.thesentrygun.com/ indicates that the cimpany was originally established for that purpose. Oddly enough, I see no reference tho that original project on the site anymore.
Hey "wintersynth (915045)", what happened there?
I find it amusing that there are references to "military applications" and to "murderous robots" in the previous article on that, without anybody noticing this is the sentry gun company.
[quote]Anybody happen to know if the DRM-free AAC tracks will play on media players other than iPods (presuming they play AACs, of course)?[/quote]
Yes. The only exception is if the player only supports AAC in a format other than the standard MP4 container. If that is the case simple converters would be freely available. The most important thing is that such encoders are lossless. They literally would take the ACC part of the file out, and just "wrap" it with the other file format. Nevertheless, I am completely unaware of any player that would need that.
Well actually, water can compress nbut only very little, and with significant pressure (obviously too much pressure would tend to cause the water to change phase, rather than compress). The real reason why the cells are fine is that the water inside the cells is at the same pressure, so there is no pressure gradient.
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While I believe the prosecution of this woman is completely ridiculous, one has to wonder why the hell she didn't just pull the plug on the computer. As has been said many times alreafy she had been explicitly instructed not to turn of the PC (or face serious consequences i.e. fired). I don't remember why they told her that, but...
Out of curousity, what happens if the very existence of a law is one of the disputed facts? In that case the interpretation of the law, and the matters of fact become intertwined. Perhaps a more realistic example: somebody attempts to enforce a very old law. It turns out that law was repealed, but records of the repeal were lost in a fire at the statehouse. The defense has "witnesses" to testify about the repeal of the law, which the prosecution will be trying to discredit. That sort of thing can really mess up the clean separation of law and fact. What happens in those circumstances?
I agree that a full programing language can be overkill for a printer.
... excercise in seeing when expansion beats out light. Recessional speeds due to expansion can exceed someone's idea of "light speed" because space expands and essentially drags the coordinate system with it. The article basically says that the closest bodies will be outside our light cone in ~3e12 years, and the expanding coordinate system will red-shift it to nothingness to boot. That is disturbing. However, doesn't expansion also affect things below the macroscopic scale? Would it not be slowly spreading the particles of the hypothetical 'rod', just as it spreads the cosmic bodies apart? The spreading of the particles to me sounds similar to the length contraction concept of Relativity, except that it would be expansion, and occurring in all dimensions whereas length contraction occurs only along the dimension of movement. But this length expansion would change the rodlength/clockticks ratio of 'c',which i understand to be a constant, unless time expands also. How does that interact with the island universe concept?^A ^C ^N AltV U AltF A
This way, any hidden formatting is destroyed. Hmm. Select-All. Copy. New-Document. View-menu. Fullscreen. File-Menu. Save-as.
I suppose that gets rid of hidden formating, but the document has no text either. At least thats what would happen in Word 2003.
Thankfully WM6 ("Crossbow") is mostly a set of graphical improvements on WM5, with a few programs redesigned for nicer interface etc. Overall, the difference between WM5 AKU 3.5 and WM 6 is AFAICT much smaller than the difference between WM5 AKU 1.0 and WM5 AKU 3.5.
I mean the big changes are:
Impoved Outlook Mobile allowing HTML formated mail, and in the caledar section, an new "calandar ribbon" interface
Replacing the integrated "MSN" suite with a "Windows Live" suite. (Noticeably improved is the IM client, which now sports many of the features of the desktop client).
Improved versions of the Office Mobile apps, giving additional features.
etc.
And several of those could hardly be called improvements, as for example the windows Live software runs just fine on WM5. The Improved Office Mobile and Outlook mobile probably run fine on WM5 also, but Microsoft does not distribute those separately, unlike the Windows Live suite.
The biggest change is the new "Windows Update" feature. That probably required some changes to the Core OS. The Windows Update feature will allow improvements to the integrated applications to be downloaded without requiring upgrading the ROM, which implies a hard reset. The changes are likely saved to normal storage rather than editing the ROM in-place, meaning the changes would be lost with a hard reset, but on the other hand, being able to get bug fixes or even new features added without a hard reset is a very promising sounding feature. I hope it gets used well.
The much smarter "SHIFT" technology shows a circle near (presumably normally above) showing a view of exactly what is being targeted. The view may optionally be magnified (depends on implementation and possibly user options). That is the tech TFA is describing.
Both are correct, but as usual, TFS is misleading.
I am aware of that. But in many cases you are partially patched, depending on the specifics. In any case, I am not concerned about the patch not taking affect for the first few days before I reboot.
Thanks. That is much better. Not quite perfect, but once a day until I reboot is quite manageable.
I did not need anything else because the options to download automatically, and prompt are one of the choices in AU's control panel interface.
My wish is for: Download Automatically. Prompt me when downloaded so i can review what is to be installed. If I install them, and it wants to reboot, but I do not reboot, it may leave a systray icon, but MUST NOT keep popping up that window every 10 minutes asking me to restart. I will generally install the updates ASAP, but I only restart when i want to, or if the system becomes really messed up, or BSOD.
Your post may be correct, but the Brady site's facts do appear to be correct. They do note that Dealers still need to do a background check at gun shows.
You are correct that the Brady site does not mention the form 4473 very much, but I suspect that is more of an oversight, as they do want to publish information about the control/legistration/licensing laws actually in effect. I do agree that the source is biased, but I'm not sure the RIAA comparison is just, because it looks like they at least make an effort to publish valid facts in addition to their viewpoints, which is something that the RIAA tries very hard not to do.
But even if the GPL (or more generally the idea of copyleft) could no longer exist, the fact that code would be reusable by anybody is a major benefit. Thus the only protection to corporation's code would be companies tightly controlling their code. If the company ever showed the code to anybody not under an NDA then anybody could use that code. That situation is a slight step down from copyleft as companies could exploit code created by others, but it would definitely be a major step in the right direction overall. As such (based on my understanding of his writings) RMS would support such an abolishment of copyright, despite the loss of copyleft along with it.
Fair enough. I had heard that the OSI had been looking at the license, and that there were some complaints about license proliferation. But the not submitted by author is certainly a justifiable reason not to certify.
Further, I find the License way too ambiguous. The BSD license was right to the point. This one is not. Take this passage: I have issues with the first sentence. It could mean one of two different things, which could be a big problem. it could mean: Under this license, if you distribute any portion of the software in source code form you must include a complete copy of this license with your distribution. I think that is what it was intended to mean. However, it could be read that the source code must be distributed under that license. If that were to be interpreted as the license in its current form without additional modifications (such as additional restrictions) it poses a GPL-compatibility problem (although the patent retaliation clause already make the license incompatible with the GNU GPL v2). But if ignoring license compatibility issues, it would generally act more or less like the 3-clause BSD license.
Then the second sentence has problems. What does it mean for a binary license to be compliant? It must include the trademark retaliation clause and mandate that the copyright information be retained? Anything else?
I hope I made my point clear.
Hey "wintersynth (915045)", what happened there?
I find it amusing that there are references to "military applications" and to "murderous robots" in the previous article on that, without anybody noticing this is the sentry gun company.
[quote]Anybody happen to know if the DRM-free AAC tracks will play on media players other than iPods (presuming they play AACs, of course)?[/quote] Yes. The only exception is if the player only supports AAC in a format other than the standard MP4 container. If that is the case simple converters would be freely available. The most important thing is that such encoders are lossless. They literally would take the ACC part of the file out, and just "wrap" it with the other file format. Nevertheless, I am completely unaware of any player that would need that.
Well actually, water can compress nbut only very little, and with significant pressure (obviously too much pressure would tend to cause the water to change phase, rather than compress). The real reason why the cells are fine is that the water inside the cells is at the same pressure, so there is no pressure gradient.