Fire the people who badgered him. No, not the legal folks, they're just doing their due diligence, but the PM's who decided it was okay to actually harrass and intimidate the guy.
An apology and an announcement of a policy change from here forward would also work.
Otherwise, all I see is that they got caught and decided they'd just try other means to shut down unauthorized, uh, "unbreaking". There's also the whole deliberate breakage to begin with.
As things stand right now, my only outstanding question for resolving the Creative debacle is "Turtle Beach or m-Audio?"
Christ, touchy much? I'm saying it's a well-enshrined principle, much in the same way that they didn't need to spell out what habeas corpus meant, the mere mention of it was enough.
> Absolutely wrong.
You have an interesting definition of "absolutely". None of those amendments give a mention to the presumption of innocence, but to "the due process of law" of which it is presumed to be a part.
At this point, corporations don't have to bribe anymore. Just being a big rich corporation is enough. Anything that hurts any corporation's bottom line is something that might hurt The Economy, and The Economy is the only thing that America is about. If it's a law that might hurt The Economy, it simply cannot be allowed. If it's behavior that might hurt The Economy, it must carry federal prison sentences.
It's just about being baboon with the biggest ass. You can sit on it most of the time and you still get all the favors.
> First off, in UK there is no presumption of innocence.
"Innocent until proven guilty" isn't even found in the US Constitution, it's simply assumed as a part of the Common Law, otherwise known as English Common Law. It is, however, explicitly in the EU Constitution.
But of course, the word "children" has been the magic word to dispel it.
Why is that? Not questioning your assertion, I just am curious. Basically my reasoning goes "if I haven't seen an update for FF3 by now, it's probably been abandoned". Looks like Mouse Gestures Redox is actually the same code, new name. As for Sage, I'll probably just have to live with a much more feature-encrusted, clunkier, slower, and less stable RSS reader.
I don't particularly mind high memory usage. I do very much mind continously growing memory usage. This isn't an epeen thing, this is a functionality thing. I don't give a damn how cheap memory is, no application should have to force me to buy more because of bugs.
And now that that's licked, let's see if a hanging JS still locks up every tab. Ah, hm. Anyone want to bring back "browse in separate process"?
People are apparently excited as can be (all a-twitter you could say) about being able to append 140-character messages in plain text to a page. I really don't think it's a sign of senile dementia that you fail to get what all the fuss is about.
I think in 50 more years, we're going to be fawning over this newfangled "fire" thing.
Ah indeed, compiz was a most refreshing change from metacity. I've only recently been able to run it, since I was stuck without it for a time (old laptop), and during that time, I became completely disgusted with metacity. And metacity certainly isn't an isolated case, but merely my own pain point. The new "K" menu in KDE4 however turned out to be my pain point there, however. At any rate, I don't even use a DE 99% of my time, but just a browser, a couple emacs windows, and a couple xterms. It's just when I do want to do convenient clicky desktop things that I enjoy not just using a WM, but a real DE.
> But yes, generally, most people, myself included, would agree pedophiles are scum and deserve a fate worse than the death penalty. I was just playing devil's advocate.
Really? Why, does the thought of torturing someone please you? Do you consider yourself a decent human being for this? Ask yourself, do you hold a lower standard of proof for those accused of crimes against children?
I find them highly aberrant, and yes, repulsive, but I also don't let my revulsion act to destroy foundational concepts that the society is built on. It's like the people who say "you've got a right to burn a flag, but boy howdy if you do that in front of me, i'll pound you to a pulp." Really, the only difference in philosophy there is that the redneck isn't wearing polished jackboots.
Like being able to resize windows with alt-rightdrag instead of alt-middle? Last I looked, this was moved out of a configurable setting and hardwired into the WM. All in the name of getting rid of choice.
gconf is a cop-out, and often you're not allowed even that. Sad too, I rather prefer gnome's look, but I'm sick of being held in such contempt by its developers.
Seriously, it's actually okay to use in small modules or if you keep it to a block. Once you've done that, it's really not much noisier than Java.
God forbid, however, you want to map a custom function across your vector. Fear and loathing are known in C++ as binder1st and binder2nd, respectively. Boost can make it tolerable, but introduce an error anywhere and the resulting error messages will fill you with an enduring and consuming hate for C++ and all who ever touched it, including yourself.
Too bad if your generic was returned from a method that's in a class in a.jar file, you're back to casting. Generics are pretty much useless unless you're recompiling everything from source. Feel like recompiling Hibernate every time you hit F5?
I don't think the etymology of Hanlon's Razor will ever be known. Unless there's a verifiable source, the attribution to Napoleon is no better than the one to Machiavelli (which is also quite common). Chalk it up to "common wisdom" now.
As for the modern coinage, Hanlon is quite likely a pseudonym for Heinlein. It sounds like the sort of glib aphorism he'd put in the mouth of a character like Lazarus Long.
Finland is actually in a perfect position to tell the rest of the world about what happens when any one corporation gets too powerful: when Nokia says "jump", how many of the local politicians in Finland say "how high"?
I'm not singling out Finland, and I think the USA has even more deeply fucked up corporate machinations (witness the current debacle), but that much power in the hands of one corporate entity cannot be good.
The Fujifilm Dimatix printer can churn out OLED (organic LED) displays, biosensors and custom circuits. Unlike an ordinary printer, its piezoelectric head can squirt out gold nanoparticles, colloidal silver or DNA, a few trillionths of a liter at a time.
I wonder if the cartridges on that thing come only 1/4 full?
If a strangelet chain reaction were possible, then it wouldn't stop at earth, right? So why haven't we detected any strangelet stars? Heck if one of them went nova, we should be seeing strangelet galaxies, no?
Most distributions have extra downstream packaging work to do, which means signing is up to the redistributor. Your package manager should check it automatically -- apt and yum certainly do. It makes a little more sense for windows distributions where people would get it straight from OOo, but I think the number of people that actually verify the checksum is vanishingly small.
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Fire the people who badgered him. No, not the legal folks, they're just doing their due diligence, but the PM's who decided it was okay to actually harrass and intimidate the guy.
An apology and an announcement of a policy change from here forward would also work.
Otherwise, all I see is that they got caught and decided they'd just try other means to shut down unauthorized, uh, "unbreaking". There's also the whole deliberate breakage to begin with.
As things stand right now, my only outstanding question for resolving the Creative debacle is "Turtle Beach or m-Audio?"
> That exact phrasing isn't used. SO WHAT?
Christ, touchy much? I'm saying it's a well-enshrined principle, much in the same way that they didn't need to spell out what habeas corpus meant, the mere mention of it was enough.
> Absolutely wrong.
You have an interesting definition of "absolutely". None of those amendments give a mention to the presumption of innocence, but to "the due process of law" of which it is presumed to be a part.
At this point, corporations don't have to bribe anymore. Just being a big rich corporation is enough. Anything that hurts any corporation's bottom line is something that might hurt The Economy, and The Economy is the only thing that America is about. If it's a law that might hurt The Economy, it simply cannot be allowed. If it's behavior that might hurt The Economy, it must carry federal prison sentences.
It's just about being baboon with the biggest ass. You can sit on it most of the time and you still get all the favors.
> First off, in UK there is no presumption of innocence.
"Innocent until proven guilty" isn't even found in the US Constitution, it's simply assumed as a part of the Common Law, otherwise known as English Common Law. It is, however, explicitly in the EU Constitution.
But of course, the word "children" has been the magic word to dispel it.
I don't particularly mind high memory usage. I do very much mind continously growing memory usage. This isn't an epeen thing, this is a functionality thing. I don't give a damn how cheap memory is, no application should have to force me to buy more because of bugs.
And now that that's licked, let's see if a hanging JS still locks up every tab. Ah, hm. Anyone want to bring back "browse in separate process"?
NoScript > Flashblock. I won't even consider running firefox without NoScript.
Unfortunately I think I'll never see a FF3 version of Sage or MouseGestures.
People are apparently excited as can be (all a-twitter you could say) about being able to append 140-character messages in plain text to a page. I really don't think it's a sign of senile dementia that you fail to get what all the fuss is about.
I think in 50 more years, we're going to be fawning over this newfangled "fire" thing.
You made me look. You're a bad man. Or egg. Or eggman. Goo goo ga joob.
Ah indeed, compiz was a most refreshing change from metacity. I've only recently been able to run it, since I was stuck without it for a time (old laptop), and during that time, I became completely disgusted with metacity. And metacity certainly isn't an isolated case, but merely my own pain point. The new "K" menu in KDE4 however turned out to be my pain point there, however. At any rate, I don't even use a DE 99% of my time, but just a browser, a couple emacs windows, and a couple xterms. It's just when I do want to do convenient clicky desktop things that I enjoy not just using a WM, but a real DE.
> I think they mispelled bold faced fraud.
Perhaps their OOXML formatters have problems with boldface, and that's just how it rendered.
> But yes, generally, most people, myself included, would agree pedophiles are scum and deserve a fate worse than the death penalty. I was just playing devil's advocate.
Really? Why, does the thought of torturing someone please you? Do you consider yourself a decent human being for this? Ask yourself, do you hold a lower standard of proof for those accused of crimes against children?
I find them highly aberrant, and yes, repulsive, but I also don't let my revulsion act to destroy foundational concepts that the society is built on. It's like the people who say "you've got a right to burn a flag, but boy howdy if you do that in front of me, i'll pound you to a pulp." Really, the only difference in philosophy there is that the redneck isn't wearing polished jackboots.
> Gnome has all the choices that KDE has
Like being able to resize windows with alt-rightdrag instead of alt-middle? Last I looked, this was moved out of a configurable setting and hardwired into the WM. All in the name of getting rid of choice.
gconf is a cop-out, and often you're not allowed even that. Sad too, I rather prefer gnome's look, but I'm sick of being held in such contempt by its developers.
> The moderation system is there for a reason, guys!
Yes, to allow random people to mod down up to five trolls.
Solution: post six.
> Does anyone still USE C++ any more?
Played any computer games lately?
using std;
Seriously, it's actually okay to use in small modules or if you keep it to a block. Once you've done that, it's really not much noisier than Java.
God forbid, however, you want to map a custom function across your vector. Fear and loathing are known in C++ as binder1st and binder2nd, respectively. Boost can make it tolerable, but introduce an error anywhere and the resulting error messages will fill you with an enduring and consuming hate for C++ and all who ever touched it, including yourself.
Too bad if your generic was returned from a method that's in a class in a .jar file, you're back to casting. Generics are pretty much useless unless you're recompiling everything from source. Feel like recompiling Hibernate every time you hit F5?
I don't think the etymology of Hanlon's Razor will ever be known. Unless there's a verifiable source, the attribution to Napoleon is no better than the one to Machiavelli (which is also quite common). Chalk it up to "common wisdom" now.
As for the modern coinage, Hanlon is quite likely a pseudonym for Heinlein. It sounds like the sort of glib aphorism he'd put in the mouth of a character like Lazarus Long.
Finland is actually in a perfect position to tell the rest of the world about what happens when any one corporation gets too powerful: when Nokia says "jump", how many of the local politicians in Finland say "how high"?
I'm not singling out Finland, and I think the USA has even more deeply fucked up corporate machinations (witness the current debacle), but that much power in the hands of one corporate entity cannot be good.
I wonder if the cartridges on that thing come only 1/4 full?
A list of obsolete ports? Seriously? People get paid to write this stuff?
No wonder C|Net is laying people off.
If a strangelet chain reaction were possible, then it wouldn't stop at earth, right? So why haven't we detected any strangelet stars? Heck if one of them went nova, we should be seeing strangelet galaxies, no?
Or maybe it is teeming with extra terrestrial life, and they too are bound by inconveniences like the laws of physics.
Or maybe we've just been snubbed because we're made of meat.
Naw, Cassandra's nightmares were prophetic -- they actually happened.
Most distributions have extra downstream packaging work to do, which means signing is up to the redistributor. Your package manager should check it automatically -- apt and yum certainly do. It makes a little more sense for windows distributions where people would get it straight from OOo, but I think the number of people that actually verify the checksum is vanishingly small.