Is it bad that
I now have a scene from the movie "Brazil" in my head?
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It's a "special case" because they are distributing it without meeting the terms of the OSS license under which the software is distributed. In this case the developer actually prohibits this type of activity. So, this isn't a special case, it's a copyright violation. They might as well be offering copies of windows or some current video game.
http://seclists.org/nmap-hackers/2011/5
I like bashing on MS as much as the next, but the GPL is the least friendly to other licenses. The reality is that MS, as the operator of the store, could be considered the distributor. As such, they are unwilling to put themselves under the requirements the GPL creates for redistribution. Given the same position, I would make the same choice.
I'll raise a glass to them for properly making sure they can distribute under the license before they do.
In the home user world it hasn't been populr for some time, but those of us in the professional world have been using SCSI in the intervening years, sometimes on a parallel bus, sometimes over a Fibre Channel bus, sometimes we use the protocols of Fiber Channel on top of a Ethernet transport, but mostly now we use Serial Attached SCSI.
This is just another in a long line of SCSI transports we have used contentiously over the years, albit a nice one. (SCSI has always been a much better engineered protocol then ATA, and it much better suited to the unique properties that SSDs can bring to the table)
but they meant to say that access control and CCTV would be local. I reach this conclusion because they start with examples of things that they are moving, then talk about what they are not.
It really is a bad sentence though... makes you wonder how well they teach, does it not?
What kinda employer makes you wear a sticker saying how long the building was accident free? Sorry, but I'm kinda glad to be in our industry, where our dress codes are a little more reasonable.
Hell, that means they are buying enough stickers for all employees everyday, what a phenomenal waste of money. His management should be fired for misusing funds, when a board with flippy-numbers would be just fine!
This would be the same series that Daggerfall was from, no?
wonderfully beautiful open-ended game play... FOR THE 10 MINUTES IT WOULD RUN.
This series has been like this from the beginning. Frankly, I don't know why gamers put up with it, and if what I've seen from a few other recent releases is any indicator, it's a systemic problem in the industry.
Rumor has it, Tom Clancy has been brought in and questioned after the publishing of a number of his books. I don't recall if The Cardinal of the Kremlin was one of them.
Just because they are announcing it, doesn't mean it hasn't been available, and it's certainly taken time to develop.
Where VMWare workloads are concerned, if you don't have shared storage, you lose the ability to do about 1/2 of what makes VMWare interesting. There are more companies in the SAN and NAS sectors then ever, players like Nexenta, Open-e, Wasabi Systems. Even the guys over at Texas Memory System, who do make some of the NAND cards, have their high end units be SAN-devices. Then we round it out with the F/LOSS projects providing block-storage over various interconnects (COMSTAR, linux-iscsi, iSCSI Enterprise Target).
Commoditized, yes, dieing, I think not.
(full disclosure: I use OpenIndiana/COMSTAR/FC as the storage-backend for VMWare. Works nicely.)
"Over the last 20 years, information security software packages have grown from thousands of lines of code to nearly 10 million lines, while malicious software tends to be around 125 lines."
Someone points out the blatantly obvious. Information security packages are likely a rat's nest of buggy and ill-understood code, whereas malicious software is vary likely bug-free, just based on the average number of bugs per line. As our OSes, servers, security software, and now hypervisors become increasingly complex, both internally and in their interactions with each other we only increase the attack surface.
(UNIX (including OSX), Linux, and Windows are equally bad in this regard.)
KISS - Keep It Simple Stupid.
I think Daniel Craig did a vary good job with what he was given.
Quantum of Solace really can't be considered on it's own, as it is really the missing half of Casino Royale. Putting the films together would have been just too long, so it did have to be split. It's also worth noting that when Casino Royale starts, he's not even 007 yet, (he earns 00 status in the pre-credits opening).
He's not the veteran, detached agent who can sleep with someone one day and shoot them the next. This is the story of a raw newly recruited agent, who isn't completely ready to deal with lies, intrigue, and manipulations of his profession. Every hero has a the elements that formed them, made them who we know. That is what this is.
I think Daniel Craig pulled that off, and most of the complaints about him isn't him, as much as that he played a younger, more naive James Bond. That's not Daniel Craig's fault, that's just the role he's playing.
How did this get an 80? The entire article was everything they did wrong, which from the sound of it is about everything.
Thinkpads have always been form following function. This abomination is a thinkpad in name only.
glossy screen: wrong
rearranged keyboard: wrong
embedded batt: wrong
price: wrong (worse then an apple air)
Wow, you conspiracy theorists are out in force today.
Which is more likely, the US wanted him extradited from the UK (with it's notoriously lax extradition treaty with the US), or Julian "Media Whore (tm)" Assage got called back by the Swedes about the matter and decided to inflate his ego by getting as much camera time as he could out of it?
Occam's Razor says....
Actually, I thought truth was not a valid defense under UK law.
"On the trial of any indictment or information for a defamatory libel, the defendant having pleaded such plea as hereinafter mentioned, the truth of the matters charged may be inquired into, but shall not amount to a defence, unless it was for the public benefit that the said matters charged should be published; and to entitle the defendant to give evidence of the truth of such matters charged as a defence to such indictment or information it shall be necessary for the defendant, in pleading to the said indictment or information, to allege the truth of the said matters charged in the manner now required in pleading a justification to an action for defamation, and further to allege that it was for the public benefit that the said matters charged should be published, and the particular fact or facts by reason whereof it was for the public benefit that the said matters charged should be published, to which plea the prosecutor shall be at liberty to reply generally, denying the whole thereof; and if after such plea the defendant shall be convicted on such indictment or information it shall be competent to the court, in pronouncing sentence, to consider whether the guilt of the defendant is aggravated or mitigated by the said plea, and by the evidence given to prove or to disprove the same: Provided always, that the truth of the matters charged in the alleged libel complained of by such indictment or information shall in no case be inquired into without such plea of justification: Provided also, that in addition to such plea it shall be competent to the defendant to plead a plea of not guilty: Provided also, that nothing in this Act contained shall take away or prejudice any defence under the plea of not guilty which it is now competent to the defendant to make under such plea to any action or indictment or information for defamatory words or libel."
-- Libel Act 1843 (http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/Vict/6-7/96)
So, not only must it be true, but it also has to be in the public benefit.