Actually, Dell is horribly inconsistent. Sometimes the Ubuntu version is about $50 cheaper than the Windows one, sometimes it's been around $60 I think.
I've never seen them charge more for Ubuntu than Windows, but on *some* models they charge less.
I think it may mostly be on netbooks.
Though, Dell also charges different amounts of money for the same configuration, depending on which "customize it" link you clicked on.
I'm assuming the entire $800 billion would not be paid out in a single year for one, so that kills your $40k in a year.
Also, from your numbers, the top 1% pay about 40% of the taxes, and the top 5% pay about 60%, so people who make less than $153k a year would only have to pay about $12.5k, if the entire $800 billion were paid in a year.
I'm also fairly sure that the tax bracket for $109k isn't 40% of income, so no matter how much money were allocated to any government project, unless the tax rates went up to 40% a family making $109 would not have to pay out 40k in a single year.
If they must be equal, why call them something different?
You call them something different, because you feel like discriminating against one group, over the other, and while you will give them similar rights, you refuse to fully acknowledge that their relationship is on equal footing with "real" marriage.
Or do you think "I'm married," "Oh, are you really married, or is it just a civil union" would never happen?
Having/home encrypted isn't good enough, you need to encrypt the entire root partition, otherwise you're likely to leak data all over the place.
At least, this is what the crypto howtos advised on most pages I've seen.
Both Fedora 9, and Ubuntu 8.04 will ship with encryption as an option in the standard installer IIRC. That will be full disk, and should be more secure than just encrypting/home.
TC was supposed to protect users from malicious software. TC wasn't supposed to be perverted to serve malicious DRM software at the expense of its users.
From what I've read, that's actually exactly what it was supposed to be for in the first place.
I believe that's why it's driven so heavily by Microsoft so that they can have complete control over the platform, and actually have WGA work.
The constitution does not give the feds the right to say which drugs are illegal.
But the current laws cite interstate commerce as their constitutional basis.
Though, logically (which is rarely how laws work) that would mean that it is alright to do [drug of choice] so long as you don't cross state lines anywhere in the process.
And yes, I did see this with my own eyes, and I've been working with Linux and Unix systems for nigh on 10 years now. The other person in the story had been doing serious Unix systems stuff for close to 20 years, so yes, this is credible. Or you could be, ya know, lying.
I believe the FSF was selling source code with their binaries. (And perhaps even only source.)
So, no, they would not have been in violation of their own license.
I think it's supposed to look like this "big bang" we keep hearing about, but I'm not sure.
I saw a documentary on M-theory a while back on The Science Channel, but my memory's kinda fuzzy.
I was under the impression that "br" was generally considered a bad and non-semantically meaningful tag.
I was also under the impression that sites coded to a standard like XHTML are rather easy for screen readers to interpret, though this is just what I've gathered from reading places like A List Apart.
Spindles work just fine, but if you throw CDs a stack of CDs in a box and try to transport them that way, they won't last for very long at all, the sliding horizontally is what seems to do them in.
I believe not, I think they would have to monitor all traffic on all the servers it is being routed through. TOR layers traffic through many servers for strong anonymity. There are a few vectors of attack, but unless the entire chain keeps logs, and the confiscate them all (from all parts of the world) it seems highly unlikely. Granted, this is just what I've gotten between their website and Wikipedia.
I'm not a physicist but at least from what I've read that's a rather common misconception.
It is the act of measurement itself, not the interaction of the particles that causes changes we see in the particles. The collapse of a wave function is different from anything that we have in the macroscopic universe, it simply does not happen in every day life to an extent that we can view it.
Quantum mechanics/physics/theory doesn't work like normal life.
Analogies don't work properly when you try to explain QM, because it is so counter intuitive.
Electrons are not simple particles, and our measurement doesn't cause them to be perturbed, they actually exist as a probability. This is, at least what I've understood, as the reason for the wave-particle duality that is exhibited in the double-slit experiments.
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Thank you for your response. I know there are some good people here, but seeing so many sexist comments upmodded is a little depressing.
I mostly lurk anyway, so if I leave you guys won't have lost too much. ;-)
I've considered leaving Slashdot because it is not very female friendly, and I am definitely not reading it raw.
It's not as bad as some places, but days like today I start to feel it's not really worth it.
Actually, Dell is horribly inconsistent. Sometimes the Ubuntu version is about $50 cheaper than the Windows one, sometimes it's been around $60 I think.
I've never seen them charge more for Ubuntu than Windows, but on *some* models they charge less.
I think it may mostly be on netbooks.
Though, Dell also charges different amounts of money for the same configuration, depending on which "customize it" link you clicked on.
I'm assuming the entire $800 billion would not be paid out in a single year for one, so that kills your $40k in a year.
Also, from your numbers, the top 1% pay about 40% of the taxes, and the top 5% pay about 60%, so people who make less than $153k a year would only have to pay about $12.5k, if the entire $800 billion were paid in a year.
I'm also fairly sure that the tax bracket for $109k isn't 40% of income, so no matter how much money were allocated to any government project, unless the tax rates went up to 40% a family making $109 would not have to pay out 40k in a single year.
Once again, lies, damn lies, and statistics.
If they must be equal, why call them something different?
You call them something different, because you feel like discriminating against one group, over the other, and while you will give them similar rights, you refuse to fully acknowledge that their relationship is on equal footing with "real" marriage.
Or do you think "I'm married," "Oh, are you really married, or is it just a civil union" would never happen?
Noscript can be set to block Java (and Flash) by default, so activating either plugin requires explicit user interaction.
"I don't know, let's go look it up together."
When I was younger and would ask my mom a question she didn't know the answer to she would often pull out the encyclopedia and look for an answer.
...Couldn't we make this work by writing a XULrunner plugin for IE...
Yeah, it would be incredibly roundabout and an entire other rendering engine, but it would add support for all the standards we want to IE...
If you associated it with all XML files, it could do wonders for web development.
Mortality doesn't assure that we avoid permanent rule by utter assholes, merely that which asshole is in charge changes from time to time.
Why must we vote with our dollars, and not with our ballots?
If you feel that smoking should be allowed in a restaurant, should the chef not be allowed to put some rat poison in the food as well?
You know, I mean, people who don't like it can just go elsewhere, right?
I'm all for individual rights, but I think it's fair to draw the line at poisoning people.
Having /home encrypted isn't good enough, you need to encrypt the entire root partition, otherwise you're likely to leak data all over the place.
At least, this is what the crypto howtos advised on most pages I've seen.
Both Fedora 9, and Ubuntu 8.04 will ship with encryption as an option in the standard installer IIRC. That will be full disk, and should be more secure than just encrypting /home.
- Real name: first and last
- Credit card numbers
- Bank account numbers
- Social Security Number
- And for good measure, your mother's maiden name
Please, show us how you don't want privacy or anonymity. Or did you mean you want it only for yourself?From what I've read, that's actually exactly what it was supposed to be for in the first place.
I believe that's why it's driven so heavily by Microsoft so that they can have complete control over the platform, and actually have WGA work.
And in highschool I knew people who made drug deals (pot) in class.
The constitution does not give the feds the right to say which drugs are illegal. But the current laws cite interstate commerce as their constitutional basis. Though, logically (which is rarely how laws work) that would mean that it is alright to do [drug of choice] so long as you don't cross state lines anywhere in the process.
I believe the FSF was selling source code with their binaries. (And perhaps even only source.) So, no, they would not have been in violation of their own license.
I think it's supposed to look like this "big bang" we keep hearing about, but I'm not sure. I saw a documentary on M-theory a while back on The Science Channel, but my memory's kinda fuzzy.
I was under the impression that "br" was generally considered a bad and non-semantically meaningful tag. I was also under the impression that sites coded to a standard like XHTML are rather easy for screen readers to interpret, though this is just what I've gathered from reading places like A List Apart.
Spindles work just fine, but if you throw CDs a stack of CDs in a box and try to transport them that way, they won't last for very long at all, the sliding horizontally is what seems to do them in.
Working on a piece of software is not the same as being paid to work on a piece of software.
Fedora's builds of Firefox tend to be much slower than the Mozilla builds.
As far as I can tell, this is due to all of the languages that come installed by default.
Anyone who is using Fedora should login as root and remove the languages they don't need.
On my laptop I've noticed a drastic speedup in the time it takes for the browser to start.
I believe they do this so that Firefox will work no matter which locale you choose at installation.
I believe not, I think they would have to monitor all traffic on all the servers it is being routed through. TOR layers traffic through many servers for strong anonymity. There are a few vectors of attack, but unless the entire chain keeps logs, and the confiscate them all (from all parts of the world) it seems highly unlikely. Granted, this is just what I've gotten between their website and Wikipedia.
You could always use tor to talk to the tracker.
I'm not a physicist but at least from what I've read that's a rather common misconception.
It is the act of measurement itself, not the interaction of the particles that causes changes we see in the particles. The collapse of a wave function is different from anything that we have in the macroscopic universe, it simply does not happen in every day life to an extent that we can view it.
Quantum mechanics/physics/theory doesn't work like normal life.
Analogies don't work properly when you try to explain QM, because it is so counter intuitive.
Electrons are not simple particles, and our measurement doesn't cause them to be perturbed, they actually exist as a probability. This is, at least what I've understood, as the reason for the wave-particle duality that is exhibited in the double-slit experiments.