No illeagal bombings of Afganistan, Sunda, Iraq without the agreement of the UN. No supporting of Nations that are carrying out such illeagal actions as that is as bad as doing it yourself.
A nation that is the target of an act of war needs no permission to fight back.
Actually, I believe the origin passenger service in the US was tickets sold on airmail planes. The pilot were required to carry 'mail pistols' since they were primarily mail planes
I sit here wondering how long it will be before I hear that some acquaintance was lost in this attack. Of course I hope that won't be the case, but who knows?
Meanwhile, even my home town of 5 or 6 thousand may be sending two firefighters to help cover NYC fire stations while the regular guys are at the WTC either giving it their all or already gave it.
That's exactly the purpose of patents, and it's very valuable.
What pisses people off is stuff like Amazon's one-click patent, which is should have been denied as 'obvious to a practitioner in the field'. Amazon's real achivement that enabled one-click was to gain their customers' trust to allow them to keep credit cards on file, not any technical advance.
The PTO has been way too liberal with technology patent of late, but don't forget the true purpose of the system is to encourage private investment in R&D.
Now, I don't think I could sue Microsoft over this and win, but I'll be DAMNED if it's because of a EULA for a product I don't even have. IANAL, but I doubt if 'hold harmless' clauses are an absolute defense.
Probably the best prevention is for the virus scan folks to build in a check for javascript in e-mail. Of course not everyone has a virus scanner on their machine that checks inbound e-mail, but I'll bet on that over getting everyone to turn off javascript in their reader.:)
FWIW, three miles is a little over 15,000 feet. A typical puddle jumper will often be below 12,000ft. However, jets will almost always be above 25,000ft. Just to put it in perspective.
Don't confuse honesty and intelligence with public speaking ability. GWB is one of the worst speakers I've heard in national politics, but the best? Bill Clinton hands down. He's not exactly a poster child for honesty; in face quite the opposite. For an older example, there was a politician in the '35-'45 era who was said to be mesmerizing -- Adolph Hitler.
I certainly don't mean to insult Mr. Gore with either of these examples. In face I suspect he's mostly honest and of above average intelligence. My point is you must look beyond the cosmetics and decide who's point of view you agree with, not the fullest head of hair.
It's our money in Washington, not the politicians' -- I'll be voting Bush
De-facto standards are based entirely on the current state of the market, and as such are quite fluid. If AOL adopts NS6 (and why wouldn't they), the balance of power will be transformed overnight.
Now, I don't mean to imply the IE would cease to be widely popular, but there would no longer be a single dominant browser.
In that circumstance, w3.org's concensus standards are likely the best choice, ever more so because mozilla intends to support them.
In case you're interested in seeing for yourself, I should point out that my personal page is on Geocities,
not the business page I list in my user info. Another interesting thing is that Mozilla, by choice, doesn't suppor non-standard html, e.g. the BS that Yahoo adds to the bottom of my page.
I'm not sure about bloat, but Mozilla/Netscape 6 beats IE or Netscape 4.7 hands down on standards compliance.
I fed my personal home page throught w3.org's validator pages for xhtml 1.0 and css. (validator.w3.org and jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator, respectively). After everything passed validation, only Mozilla/NS6 rendered the page correctly in all aspects.
The strongest advocates of Big Government are socialists who would like to Microsoft, GM, GE, etc. nationalized, not split up.
Professional politicians like billionaires who give big donations. Whether they got that way as head of a Fortune 500 company or not doesn't matter. And a few pols don't even care what country they're from.
Established companies trying to protect their market position against newcomers isn't anything new in our system; it's been that way here for over 200 years (probably closer to 300). In that time our system has become #1, and I would submit that it's 'because of' and not 'in spite of' the way it works.
There are a series of laws dealing with monopolistic behavior and improper means of competion. The laws (properly used) allow new companies to prosper--but only if they earn it with good concepts and management
So the sophomore CIS student comes running out of the lab:
Professor! Professor!! I've create a linux distro with no absolutely no way in and installed it on you laptop!
Professor: So how do I log in?
Student: Hmm... I hadn't thought of that.
Seriously, though. I agree with your point. I'll be building my first linux box soon and my plan is to install packages only as I need them. That should as least limit the vulnerabilities. I think.:)
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A nation that is the target of an act of war needs no permission to fight back.
Actually, I believe the origin passenger service in the US was tickets sold on airmail planes. The pilot were required to carry 'mail pistols' since they were primarily mail planes
One of our many losses yesterday:
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http://akamai.com/html/en/nr/press/press292.htm
I sit here wondering how long it will be before I hear that some acquaintance was lost in this attack. Of course I hope that won't be the case, but who knows?
Meanwhile, even my home town of 5 or 6 thousand may be sending two firefighters to help cover NYC fire stations while the regular guys are at the WTC either giving it their all or already gave it.
AFAIN, it's only prior art if the genuine method of manufacture is published. That precludes a patent from ever becoming a trade secret.
To add to what you said:
That's exactly the purpose of patents, and it's very valuable.
What pisses people off is stuff like Amazon's one-click patent, which is should have been denied as 'obvious to a practitioner in the field'. Amazon's real achivement that enabled one-click was to gain their customers' trust to allow them to keep credit cards on file, not any technical advance.
The PTO has been way too liberal with technology patent of late, but don't forget the true purpose of the system is to encourage private investment in R&D.
Do you mean to say that trashing someone's page like in IE6 isn't an original MS idea? Imagine that!
Now, I don't think I could sue Microsoft over this and win, but I'll be DAMNED if it's because of a EULA for a product I don't even have. IANAL, but I doubt if 'hold harmless' clauses are an absolute defense.
IANAL, but that sounds like triple-damages to me.
And he's using his 'privilages' to abuse the English language, too!
Probably the best prevention is for the virus scan folks to build in a check for javascript in e-mail. Of course not everyone has a virus scanner on their machine that checks inbound e-mail, but I'll bet on that over getting everyone to turn off javascript in their reader. :)
FWIW, three miles is a little over 15,000 feet. A typical puddle jumper will often be below 12,000ft. However, jets will almost always be above 25,000ft. Just to put it in perspective.
Don't confuse honesty and intelligence with public speaking ability. GWB is one of the worst speakers I've heard in national politics, but the best? Bill Clinton hands down. He's not exactly a poster child for honesty; in face quite the opposite. For an older example, there was a politician in the '35-'45 era who was said to be mesmerizing -- Adolph Hitler.
I certainly don't mean to insult Mr. Gore with either of these examples. In face I suspect he's mostly honest and of above average intelligence. My point is you must look beyond the cosmetics and decide who's point of view you agree with, not the fullest head of hair.
It's our money in Washington, not the politicians' -- I'll be voting Bush
De-facto standards are based entirely on the current state of the market, and as such are quite fluid. If AOL adopts NS6 (and why wouldn't they), the balance of power will be transformed overnight.
Now, I don't mean to imply the IE would cease to be widely popular, but there would no longer be a single dominant browser. In that circumstance, w3.org's concensus standards are likely the best choice, ever more so because mozilla intends to support them.
In case you're interested in seeing for yourself, I should point out that my personal page is on Geocities, not the business page I list in my user info. Another interesting thing is that Mozilla, by choice, doesn't suppor non-standard html, e.g. the BS that Yahoo adds to the bottom of my page.
No comments on my artistic skills, please.I'm not sure about bloat, but Mozilla/Netscape 6 beats IE or Netscape 4.7 hands down on standards compliance.
I fed my personal home page throught w3.org's validator pages for xhtml 1.0 and css. (validator.w3.org and jigsaw.w3.org/css-validator, respectively). After everything passed validation, only Mozilla/NS6 rendered the page correctly in all aspects.
Gosh, is that Bob from Accountemps? That guy's amazing! :^)
The strongest advocates of Big Government are socialists who would like to Microsoft, GM, GE, etc. nationalized, not split up.
Professional politicians like billionaires who give big donations. Whether they got that way as head of a Fortune 500 company or not doesn't matter. And a few pols don't even care what country they're from.
As far as MS goes, the fat lady hasn't sung yet.
Established companies trying to protect their market position against newcomers isn't anything new in our system; it's been that way here for over 200 years (probably closer to 300). In that time our system has become #1, and I would submit that it's 'because of' and not 'in spite of' the way it works.
There are a series of laws dealing with monopolistic behavior and improper means of competion. The laws (properly used) allow new companies to prosper--but only if they earn it with good concepts and management
So the sophomore CIS student comes running out of the lab:
Professor! Professor!! I've create a linux distro with no absolutely no way in and installed it on you laptop!
Professor: So how do I log in?
Student: Hmm... I hadn't thought of that.
Seriously, though. I agree with your point. I'll be building my first linux box soon and my plan is to install packages only as I need them. That should as least limit the vulnerabilities. I think. :)