No. That's why the AGPL exists.

It might be off topic but as most of you have not read the article, here we go anyway:

I do work for a huge international bank and I do receive typically boni in the range of 4-6 monthly salaries.
As a lot of you seem to have strange prejudices about people receiving a bonus at a bank, let me rectify your picture. I am not an investment banker. I hardly ever wear tie nor suit. As a senior IT architect, my job is to look into the long term maintainability of large scale software systems. As a consequence, short term profitability is not part of my job description.

Funny enough, I do not feel motivated by receiving a bonus. Believe it or not but in the last years, I never cut corners to achieve my objectives. I kind of reach my goals anyway. At the bank I work, you do not receive a bonus for being extraordinarily good. You are entitled for a bonus if you did your job. And if I would fail reaching my targets, I could live without receiving a bonus. It feels more like extra money
However, the idea that as an employee of a company I also participate in the profit of the company I think very good. Personally, I think must people criticizing such a system are just envious. Yet, I do agree that banks handing out boni in years where they do not make profit strike me as strange.
Yeah, I took the money in 2009 anyway. Tell me that you would not have taken it...

I have 14 restore points dating back to 3/29/2010 which is about when I installed Windows 7 on this machine.

A quick Bing search brought me to another thread where the guy's problem turned out to be a disk defrag utility that was deleting restore points on reboot. He disabled the utility, and the restores stopped disappearing.

For what it's worth, does a forum post from January with a total of five people reporting a problem really deserve to be on Slashdot? Oh wait, it's anti-MS. Nevermind.

You misread the report. That's modeled with 36 failed satellites.

485 miles is a lot closer than 22,236 miles.

I think this is the most relevant link there.

35% of underaged teenagers who walk up to a movie theater and try to buy a ticket for a R-rated movie got one. 56% who tried to buy a PAL-rated CD got one. 47% who tried to buy an R-rated DVD got it. 50% who tried to buy an unrated DVD got it.

Only 20% who tried to buy an M-rated video game got one.

Anyone who thinks there's any sort of problem in the game retail industry is an idiot. The game industry is, by a vast majority, currently the most responsible entertainment industry when it comes to not selling products to children that have been marked as 'not for children'.

It is more than twice as easy for a 15 year old to buy Apocalypse Now than Fallout 3.

And note how fast the game industry has improved, and note the last poll was in 2008. It's probably even better now. Also note the more generic the retailer got, the more likely it was to fail the test...Game Stop was best at 6%, then Best Buy at 18%, and then other stores that aren't used to selling games near 30%. (Which the exception Circuit City, which was operated by morons, being higher, and Walmart, operated by prudes, being lower.)

I.e., the 'game industry' is fine, but electronic stores sometimes overlook checking, and giant chain stores that sell everything overlook even more. But even they overlook it a hell of a lot less than movie theaters do restricting movies! (And movie theater clerks, obviously, should actually know the rating of the ten movies they're currently selling, whereas some clerk in a Target can be forgiven for missing an M-rated video game they've never heard of in a store with a bajillion items in it.)

Dude, seriously.

Clearly, you never did any web dev when there was IE 4.x, 5.0, 5.5, 5.0.1 for Mac, and 6.0 all out there, and all working fucking differently.

They _always_ broke compatibility with their own browser, every fucking release.

The whole point of IE was to try and stop a world where it didn't matter what OS or browser you used, web apps would "Just Work". So breaking compatibility was the actual goal, that way you could just convince your corporate drone customers to write some idiotic ActiveX crap and fuck the world wide web.

Right, because the FCC should be allowed to enforce a "guideline" as a rule, when they aren't empowered by Congress to do so...

Really, that's what Comcast's suit was about. Making the FCC understand that they cannot enforce something that hasn't gone through the rule-making process. If the FCC goes back to the table, and goes through the legitimate process, I'm sure Comcast will piss and moan and try to fight it - they have to, they have shareholders - but in the end, if it's upheld, they will obey.

I did y2k review on Iridiumat the Satcom facility in Chandler. Worked with software developers, QA and project managers mostly.

Technically, it was amazing... very much a Bond-villian scale project. There were a number of firsts on the project, first satellite assembly line, first common off-the-shelf (mostly) desktop processor used in space, first use of mixed/hybrid launch vehicles (Boeing, Orbital Sciences, Soviets, Ariane... Probably some Long-March thrown in too)

As far as business plans goes, it was a cluster-f*ck.

They sold rights to a hundred or so nations to get downlinks to terrestrial networks.
They FAILED to mention that it worked best with a clear horizon (no canyons or city streets)
They provided limited modem capability

So... Sales never were what they projected (I do remember seeing dozens of sales-reps making calls from the field adjacent to the facility using actual Iridium phones, just to impress customers), the hundred-odd nationalist companies folded and the US Military ended up with a useful asset.

If you ask me, that was the plan all along... Freakin Brilliant!

You were funny, but I still want to address a serious point.

If aliens come here from those star systems light years away,
they figured out the energy problem. They are not going to
want to take over our coal mines and natural gas deposits.
I assume they have much better energy sources. I do not know
anything else (as resource) that would not be found on other
(uninhabited) planets than the fossil fuels.

Of course that still leaves the possibility that they just
want the living space (oceans greens etc.) and/or would see us
as food as delicacy. (Maybe the better meaning majority would
make laws to declare us endangered, like we do with the whales,
but some would still hunt us for fun/profit.

But if colonization is what drives the aliens, then they would
surely find planets that can serve for that purpose without
intelligent life and much closer to their origins. (There are
billions of systems etc.) Why would they want Earth with an
ecosystem damaged and being damaged by humanity? I just assume
they would much rather have a clean planet...

The only issue I can see is if we are competition to these aliens
colonization efforts of other planets. But we are not there yet,
and when we get there, hopefully we will be able to protect
ourselves.

But, it is an interesting question to ponder: Assume we were on our
way to colonize other planets and got near to some prospective
one. We notice that there is life there and may be intelligent
(say on the level of the Neandertales which is what we would appear
to aliens today I assume). What would we do? Keep looking
further (cost) or eradicate them or enslave them (less cost, high
moral cost)? Now go see Pocahontas or Avatar!!

Simple solution. Encrypt the sensitive information before storing it in the database. Leave all of the other information unencrypted. You don't need to search by the sensitive fields anyway, so the inability to index them doesn't matter.

Use filesystem/os level support for locking down the key on the system that needs to be able to decrypt it so that only the account/application authorized to access it can. That limits the vulnerabilities a single system. Even once on that system it is limited to "root" and the actual application.

Now you may safely let any number of insecure systems query your database. You can use trivial database backup schemes with no additional encryption. You don't need to worry about the physical security of those backups. Since you only need to backup the key when you first generate it, there is never any danger of the key and backup data being lost together in transit.

There is no speed penalty anywhere in the system except the sensitive parts.

If you think you are buying something more than the "right to play until the seller decides otherwise" when you are sadly mistaken and you need to read the EULA.

Face-Off... I'm sure you can find it via IMDB.

We arrive at meanings through the words we use, and choice of words is very important. That our vocabularies don't line up points to a difference in understanding what in reality is going on.

Orthodox will reject that icon veneration is idolatry, or that icons are gods to be worshipped, not just out of choice of words, but out of a difference in theological stance and orientation. We don't think it's just semantics.

BTW, I wasn't trying to say that everyone talks to their grandmothers through photos. But it's an example that people can relate to. When you say, "I miss you grandma" looking at her photo, you're definitely not talking to the photo itself.

Jesus was not even portrayed in cinema until 1961's "King of King's".

An earlier silent movie also named King of Kings (1927) also portrayed Jesus. In fact, depictions of Jesus go back as early as 1897, almost in line with the advent of film itself.

Maybe you mean non-sacred depictions? In which case I can only go back as far as 1979 (Life of Brian).

I'm not disagreeing with your main point... just that itty bitty claim. :)

The strife in Ireland has nothing to do with religion. It stems from a British Army kicking the butt of an Irish Army, and then being rewarded vast tracts of Irish land in return. The conquerors then behaved in an arrogant and exploitative manner, referred to the Irish as "pigs", and allowed millions to starve during the potato famine. This caused the original inhabitants (who just happened to be Catholic) to bear a somewhat overblown grudge against those conquerors (who just happened to be Protestant) who occupied what was formerly their land.