What part of "as long as they don't put other people at risk by doing so" did you not understand? Of course it is not ok to drive under the influence. It's not ok to drive under the influence of alcohol, and yet alcohol is still legal. Should stupidity be criminalized, because stupid people are more likely to get into automobile accidents? If so, it looks like your driver's license will be one of the first to be revoked!
I'm sure Microsoft already has a pretty good idea how I feel about them from my posting to/. alone! Sorry Bill, I didn't mean it, honest! You'll certainly let bygones be bygones when looking over my employment application, won't you?
Shouldn't the GPL contain a clause to the effect that "Any entity that attacks the GPL in court or in the press thereby forefeits the right to any use whatsoever of any software granted by a GPL license." Would such a clause be enforcable?
Let's turn this around. If SCO can sue any Linux user, without providing any evidence substantiating their claims, what is to stop any software copyright owner from suing SCO on the same basis? Anybody care to pick up copies of every document SCO files with the court, do a global search & replace, and file the same exact suit against them, using their own lawyers output against them? The only thing stopping us appears to be an overdeveloped sense of ethics...
Talk about taking the moral high road! Jeremy Allison and crew, I've always had tremendous respect for all of you. You've just confirmed that said respect is well deserved! Bravo, and thank you for all your work on a project that provides so much value for so many! It is refreshing to see people who actually do strive to do the right thing in all circumstances.
My problem with the death penalty is that it is never acceptable to execute the wrong person. I support use of the death penalty when there is zero chance of error, but this pretty much limits you to case where there is a clearly uncoerced confession. Our legal system has been shown to be fallible time and time again; once somebody is dead, you can never rectify the mistake.
I agree with flat taxes; however, taxing corporations significantly higher than other states will just force businesses to relocate. How about a flat tax for everybody, with a negative tax for those making less than the poverty level?
Paying for preventative health care (e.g. vacinations and testing) is usually in the best interests of society. Paying for catastrophic health care (e.g. transplants so that people who have abused their bodies their whole lives an live another 6 months) may not be economically feasible. I think we as a society need to clearly decide what we should and should not pay for, not blindly conclude that all medicine should be socialized.
As a fairness issue, homosexuals should have available to them a legal status that by definition gives them all the same legal benefits of married couples. Churches seem to beleive they have a monopoly on the word "marriage". If giving the homosexual legal status a different name helps forge a compromise, than so be it. (Oh, and all the same-sex couples that I know of do make a strong effort to assure that their children have role models of both genders, so the "role-model" argument is invalid. The only down side I see to having 2 mommies or 2 daddies comes from the intolerant reactions of the unenlightened.)
It's only an issue for pot smokers. Bullshit! I most definately do not smoke pot; and I don't think pot is a good idea for people who have to make a living through logical thought (it does appear to be beneficial for some artists, musicians, or others that make a living through creativity alone). However, as a civil liberties advocate, I beleive that every person has the right to take whatever poisons they choose into their own bodies, as long as they don't put other people at risk by doing so. Also, when something is criminalized, it becomes a source of revenue for criminals. If gangsters are shooting each other on the street in a struggle for control of a criminal enterprise, it effects ALL of us -- not just their customers! Remove the profit motive, and you remove the incentive for a lot of violence.
My power bill was FOUR HUNDRED DOLLARS last month.
Have you tried turning off some lights? Or maybe not running the Air Conditioner when you're not home? Is it Gray Davis' fault you use so much electricity? Maybe this is all a clever conspiracy to get all Californians to install solar panels and storage batteries...
Next, you'll be complaining about how high the gas bills are for your SUV...
Certainly for dynamic DNS, you would want to know that the person redirecting "www.amazon.com" to a different IP address is really from Amazon, wouldn't you? Or do you not mind giving out your credit card number to random people?
I know RFC 1149 governs "packet data tied to the legs of birds", but I can't seem to find the relevant RFC governing IP over smoke signals, only a draft document. Was this protocol ever finalized? Can you provide a link? I'd hate to see people out there implementing non-RFC compliant IP over smoke signals -- that would cause massive interoperability problems!
Seems like forever ago when I first saw a water cooled system.
Yeah, remember back when Gene Amdahl introduced the innovation of an air cooled computer back in the '70s? Up until then, they had always been water cooled... this ain't new technology, folks!
Instead of using 100-year old technology, why not leap-frog to Peltier effect instead? At least it doesn't run the risk of leaking and frying your electronics.
So, I come in wearing replicas cards printed on all my clothing, what does the automated system do with _that_ information? Sorry, I'll take an experienced pit boss any day.
They can't even get Ben Affleck to say that Gigli was a good movie; they've got MUCH bigger problems then text messaging!
Personally, I just watch the Tonight Show. Jay: "So, how many people have seen the new movie Gigli?" Sound of exactly ONE person in audience clapping. Everbody laughs... sure removed any doubt that I didn't want to see the movie!
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It might work, but only if you didn't allow anonymous posting...
What part of "as long as they don't put other people at risk by doing so" did you not understand? Of course it is not ok to drive under the influence. It's not ok to drive under the influence of alcohol, and yet alcohol is still legal. Should stupidity be criminalized, because stupid people are more likely to get into automobile accidents? If so, it looks like your driver's license will be one of the first to be revoked!
I'm sure Microsoft already has a pretty good idea how I feel about them from my posting to /. alone! Sorry Bill, I didn't mean it, honest! You'll certainly let bygones be bygones when looking over my employment application, won't you?
Shouldn't the GPL contain a clause to the effect that "Any entity that attacks the GPL in court or in the press thereby forefeits the right to any use whatsoever of any software granted by a GPL license." Would such a clause be enforcable?
Let's turn this around. If SCO can sue any Linux user, without providing any evidence substantiating their claims, what is to stop any software copyright owner from suing SCO on the same basis? Anybody care to pick up copies of every document SCO files with the court, do a global search & replace, and file the same exact suit against them, using their own lawyers output against them? The only thing stopping us appears to be an overdeveloped sense of ethics...
At the very least, they need to refund to you the price you payed for the Caldera CD (darn, where's my receipt?).
So by extension, any code copied from SCO and placed under GPL should also be public domain? I don't think that's how it works...
Talk about taking the moral high road! Jeremy Allison and crew, I've always had tremendous respect for all of you. You've just confirmed that said respect is well deserved! Bravo, and thank you for all your work on a project that provides so much value for so many! It is refreshing to see people who actually do strive to do the right thing in all circumstances.
My problem with the death penalty is that it is never acceptable to execute the wrong person. I support use of the death penalty when there is zero chance of error, but this pretty much limits you to case where there is a clearly uncoerced confession. Our legal system has been shown to be fallible time and time again; once somebody is dead, you can never rectify the mistake.
I agree with flat taxes; however, taxing corporations significantly higher than other states will just force businesses to relocate. How about a flat tax for everybody, with a negative tax for those making less than the poverty level?
Paying for preventative health care (e.g. vacinations and testing) is usually in the best interests of society. Paying for catastrophic health care (e.g. transplants so that people who have abused their bodies their whole lives an live another 6 months) may not be economically feasible. I think we as a society need to clearly decide what we should and should not pay for, not blindly conclude that all medicine should be socialized.
As a fairness issue, homosexuals should have available to them a legal status that by definition gives them all the same legal benefits of married couples. Churches seem to beleive they have a monopoly on the word "marriage". If giving the homosexual legal status a different name helps forge a compromise, than so be it. (Oh, and all the same-sex couples that I know of do make a strong effort to assure that their children have role models of both genders, so the "role-model" argument is invalid. The only down side I see to having 2 mommies or 2 daddies comes from the intolerant reactions of the unenlightened.)
It's only an issue for pot smokers.
Bullshit! I most definately do not smoke pot; and I don't think pot is a good idea for people who have to make a living through logical thought (it does appear to be beneficial for some artists, musicians, or others that make a living through creativity alone). However, as a civil liberties advocate, I beleive that every person has the right to take whatever poisons they choose into their own bodies, as long as they don't put other people at risk by doing so. Also, when something is criminalized, it becomes a source of revenue for criminals. If gangsters are shooting each other on the street in a struggle for control of a criminal enterprise, it effects ALL of us -- not just their customers! Remove the profit motive, and you remove the incentive for a lot of violence.
My power bill was FOUR HUNDRED DOLLARS last month.
Have you tried turning off some lights? Or maybe not running the Air Conditioner when you're not home? Is it Gray Davis' fault you use so much electricity? Maybe this is all a clever conspiracy to get all Californians to install solar panels and storage batteries...
Next, you'll be complaining about how high the gas bills are for your SUV...
Certainly for dynamic DNS, you would want to know that the person redirecting "www.amazon.com" to a different IP address is really from Amazon, wouldn't you? Or do you not mind giving out your credit card number to random people?
"It's a damn poor mind that can think of only one way to spell a word!" -- Andrew Jackson
I know RFC 1149 governs "packet data tied to the legs of birds", but I can't seem to find the relevant RFC governing IP over smoke signals, only a draft document. Was this protocol ever finalized? Can you provide a link? I'd hate to see people out there implementing non-RFC compliant IP over smoke signals -- that would cause massive interoperability problems!
Yes, but for Main Frames, air cooling was a new technology. That was the point, that "Computers" != "PCs".
Or, (here's a wild idea)... mount the heatsink OUTSIDE the case? (Yes, I keep forgetting Peltiers only move the heat a fraction of an inch.)
Yeah, remember back when Gene Amdahl introduced the innovation of an air cooled computer back in the '70s? Up until then, they had always been water cooled... this ain't new technology, folks!
But seriously, that guy is taking the "hot rod" metaphor a little too far!
Instead of using 100-year old technology, why not leap-frog to Peltier effect instead? At least it doesn't run the risk of leaking and frying your electronics.
Oh yeah, my wife is really going to approve of an old Lincoln radiator in the living room!
The router was using a voting algorithm.
Computers have never done well on "Jeopardy"; they keep forgetting to "please phrase your answers in the form of a question."
So, I come in wearing replicas cards printed on all my clothing, what does the automated system do with _that_ information? Sorry, I'll take an experienced pit boss any day.
Personally, I just watch the Tonight Show. Jay: "So, how many people have seen the new movie Gigli?" Sound of exactly ONE person in audience clapping. Everbody laughs... sure removed any doubt that I didn't want to see the movie!
Yes, but as near as we can tell, it's all "stolen" from BSD!