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It may be that the Court limits the case to that, but the appellate court that already heard this case said that first sale as codified does not apply to copies manufactured abroad even if imported by the copyright holder.

You can read it here if you like: http://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=2678020953327425749&hl=en&as_sdt=2&as_vis=1&oi=scholarr

The relevant bit is on p. 218 (look for the page numbers on the left hand side).

Boeing Canard Rotor/Wing demonstrator (see also these images of a fictional craft from 6th day)

Warning about P/E, what was is not necessarily what will be. When you are buying shares you are buying on what will be, when you are selling shares you are selling because you don't believe what was will be as good as what will be. Even more importantly when selling because what became, was in fact worse than what will be, the act of attempting to unload what became of what you bought will further depress the price.

A word about the consumer bubble. A consumer bubble is where you psychological place people, a place where they believe they become better people based upon the products they buy. They can prove they are better people because they can show off the better people maker products to all those other less well endowed people around them. Bust that bubble around a particular product so that it no longer floats around in that consumer bubble and it comes crashing down because of course that product now makes people who flash it look, well like, bubble heads, iBubble anyone, https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=ibubble.ibubble&hl=en.

"Kind of resembles" is an understatement, given these photos. But does Ron Jeremy make a better Mario than Bob Hoskins or the late Captain Lou Albano?

"Kind of resembles" is an understatement, given these photos. But does Ron Jeremy make a better Mario than Bob Hoskins or the late Captain Lou Albano?

"Kind of resembles" is an understatement, given these photos. But does Ron Jeremy make a better Mario than Bob Hoskins or the late Captain Lou Albano?

More orderly? You mean like this NASA guy?

Except that the Android fork changes have been merged back into the linux kernel.

https://www.google.com/search?q=android+linux+into+mainline

The above link in english: Mathematics and Technical Assistant
There, that wasn't so hard, was it?

I'm sure if he has posted this on his status, website, twitter or some other public medium it wouldn't have even got picked up

You're really sure about that?

http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&source=hp&q=%22palemoon+vs.+waterfox%22&btnG=Google+Search&gbv=1

* I've been meaning to do some reading on this, to see WHICH of the "64-bit more-highly-optimized-than-by-default" FireFox variants ARE THE BETTER PERFORMERS of the two "contestants" here...

(There's some reading on THAT VERY NOTE - & I'm off to make a determination from those readings in fact, finally!)

APK

P.S.=> In any event, there you go - "Onwards & UPWARDS" - time to do some reading on this very note on MY part now..

... apk

Everyone has everyone's data, but the data is encrypted and pseudo-anonymous - meaning you can't get information on someone's transaction without knowing a long bitcoin-address. The latter you can recreate for each transaction for added security. For more information, use a search engine like this one: https://www.google.com/search?q=bitcoin+introduction

What makes the encryption/privacy issue for BItcoin easier is that the data that is stored are just numbers with little or no value on them own: data like 1235.12 is absolutely meaningless when you don't know to whom and what the number applies too But data like a JPEG representing a cat or a text like 'I dated with Alice' already means something on its own.
So our distributed social network would have to store only data of each-other friends. When you use Facebook or similar social networks, it stores data of *everyone*.

Well, the 90s are over too, and we have larger datasets now. With "large scale" SVMs still being measured in 10s of thousands of examples, you can see why companies with 4 orders of magnitude more *users* (let alone data items to classify) would need to use better scaling techniques. The older algorithms, when coupled with more modern minimizers, tend to fare well in comparison to the much smaller models you can train with more advanced techniques.

Also, as a researcher, you should recognize the adage about the actual order of importance for getting machine learning to work:
(1) picking the right features.
(2) getting enough data
(3) the learning algorithm

People love to talk at length about picking "the best" #3, when really you need to consider answers for #3 that let you do well on #2 and #1.

While I was a bit surprised to hear this Google project used networks (though not backprop trained NNs btw, which was the 80s fad), Andrew Ng is on the author list and he's a pretty smart guy (if you've done anything with reinforcement learning in the past 10 years you've probably run across his work). So I'm pretty sure they considered various options before they built something to run on 16K cpu cores.

You can read the ICML paper here:
http://research.google.com/pubs/pub38115.html

Nice strawman. Murder or attempted murder requires mens rea. Most people who do this are not trying to kill anyone. They're just being idiots.

Reckless endangerment, sure. Attempted murder? Good luck getting that to stick. You'd be laughed out of court.

Well, at least in California, the malice required can be implied by reckless indifference to an unjustifiably high risk to human life (described as an "abandoned and malignant heart"):

(a) Murder is the unlawful killing of a human being, or a fetus, with malice aforethought.
[ Snip some abortion boilerplate ]
Such malice may be express or implied. It is express when there is manifested a deliberate intention unlawfully to take away the life of a fellow creature. It is implied, when no considerable provocation appears, or when the circumstances attending the killing show an abandoned and malignant heart.

The Supreme Court of California explained it thus People v. Thomas, 41 Cal. 2d 470 - Cal: Supreme Court 1953

That is shown when, as here, the defendant for a base, antisocial motive and with wanton disregard for human life, does an act that involves a high degree of probability that it will result in death. By his own admissions defendant's conduct demonstrates that he was not averse to endangering life for the sake of the sexual pleasure it gave him. Only a person with an "abandoned and malignant heart" could value the attainment of that pleasure more highly than human life.

Yeah, that's it... Here's the announcement from 2003: https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups=#!search/contiki$20c64/fm.announce/xycfZZjevKc/zaH9-dHNJbgJ

Apparently he believes in Intelligent Gestation.

https://sites.google.com/site/intelligentgestationinstitute/

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http://truecreation.info/

https://www.google.com/#hl=en&sclient=psy-ab&q=negative+health+effects+of+caffeine&oq=negitive+heath+effects+of+ca&gs_l=hp.3.0.0i13l4.196.6019.0.7263.28.28.0.0.0.0.175.3856.0j28.28.0.les%3B..0.0...1c.1.sG2o65u3PLM&pbx=1&bav=on.2,or.r_gc.r_pw.r_qf.&fp=5d49d28b45492290&biw=1882&bih=924

I know google is hard to use so I helped you out.

Seems to me the air was quite breathable in CA when children were playing outside and riding bikes when leaded regular and leaded premium gas still existed.

http://google.com/search?q=la+smog

I find it interesting that all your doom and gloom about the real reason for oil prices rising doesn't even mention anything about what it takes to produce oil.

First someone needs to drill in the ground and extract the oil. 20 years ago, you could basically stick a pipe in the ground and oil would come rushing out. It was basically free to produce, so we extracted and sold it as quickly as possible, for very little money. But then we ran out of cheap, easy oil. Now we have to work for it.

We're either off shore in very deep water, since the near shore oil is pretty much all gone, or we are far away from home, in a unstable countries. Increasingly we are even converting sand to oil, which apart from being an environmental catastrophe is already very expensive. It's so expensive and energy intensive that in some cases, a nuclear power plant is required to power the operation.

All these costs add on eachother, since the helicopters which resupply offshore rigs, the oil tankers that bring the oil home, and the mining operation that extracts oil sand from the ground all consume vast quantities of expensive oil.

That's why oil is expensive to begin with.

The reason that the price is now rising above its already high floor, is because of an increase in economic activity in the US and a few other countries. Whether or not this increase continues to pick up steam, we'll have to see, but I don't think anyone has given up on an accelerating economic recovery.

The stock market's value has doubled in the last few years, so the market apparently doesn't share your or the republican party's pessimism, despite a cyclical slow down in each spring of the last 4 years.

In fact, many stock indices are near all time highs.

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"Maturity" was invoked here because I called people Teabaggers. Those people are not worthy of more respect than that - they festooned themselves with teabags, choosing it as their symbol. Their failure to appreciate the more established meaning of the word was consistent with their other arrogant ignorance. Teabaggers' kindergarten playground version of history and power, and their own origins (Republican corporate sponsors' campaigns) fails hardest on the maturity angle.

The Maine Republican Party is the Tea Party. Attacking the Democrat merely for playing WoW in some bizarre fear campaign fails the maturity test.

OK, on Google News it's under 2.5%, which is about 5% less than Google-all:
"romney lied: 356
"romney lied: 14,300

Give up. If you're not going to even try your own argument before you post it, it's not worth reading.

OK, on Google News it's under 2.5%, which is about 5% less than Google-all:
"romney lied: 356
"romney lied: 14,300

Give up. If you're not going to even try your own argument before you post it, it's not worth reading.

If the majority of people catching malware are cheap bums who wanted pirated versions and end up paying much more in background messaging, , then it's all good, as far as I'm concerned.

Some say they first try the pirated versions for any problems before buying the real ones... Here's the thing:

- most Android apps don't cost more than a cup of coffee. Pretty cheap, considering the long hours of work needed to get some type of decent software on that platform.

- at Google Play, you can try an app for 15 minutes before getting an automatic cancel of your order.
http://support.google.com/googleplay/bin/answer.py?hl=en&answer=134336

15 minutes is plenty of time to check if everything works as intended on your particular phone. If you discover a bug later on, you can always contact the developers who will be more than happy to make their app better on the next version.

I can't feel sorry for cheaters who get malware . Piracy is one reason (among others) why most Android developers can't make a living selling apps. It's already hard enough when you're not a big company and can't afford the advertising, and find your app on page # 120 on app search...

There is no reason to believe that the second law of thermodynamics can be violated

Other than certain instances of the Casimir effect you mean.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casimir_effect#Repulsive_forces

Filter error: That's an awful long string of letters there, the slashdot filter is fucking retarded, it can't even handle a couple of links, but anyway this link should read - The Dynamical and Static Casimir Effects and the Thermodynamic Instability

The Casimir Effect and Thermodynamic Instability

I'm no physics expert but that last paper seems to say that black hole theories also break the second law of thermodynamics.

The Bells got into telephony early, and dominated.

- only thanks to the government giving them a monopoly and killing off 3000 viable competitors in the process. Yeah, not AT&T, it was the government that created that monopoly. There are no monopolies without government intervention. Without gov't any sufficiently large business is just an economy of scale moving closer towards its own collapse because of its own weight.

With today's materials, process shrinks results in worse flash "endurance", a measure of the number of times you can write/erase a cell before it goes kaputt. This loss of endurance is combatted through error-correcting codes and over-provisioning (added redundant flash) used for wear-leveling.

That said, the price drops we're seeing now are NOT mainly because of process shrinkage, and worrying about endurance is a fools errand. You simply have to buy products from trusted manufacturers who you trust to have done the necessary testing.

There is a fourth solution. Google Fibre spreads across more of America (the rest of Kansas is next on the cards), and either takes over completely, or forces the others to play catch up. Kinda like what Gmail did for email.

This is assuming Google succeeds, of course...

There is a fourth solution. Google Fibre spreads across more of America (the rest of Kansas is next on the cards), and either takes over completely, or forces the others to play catch up. Kinda like what Gmail did for email.

The problem with Thunderbird is you can't push tasks to other people, which would probably be the #1 thing you want to do in a small business (delegation).

Seems like that's possible - just a matter of assigning which calendar it goes on, and with Lightening you can have multiple calendars. Of course, you might run into the issue where the Calendar software you are using doesn't support tasks. There is a bug open for Google Calendar Task Support though...and there is a plug-in - haven't tried it though.

That said, as a small business you're probably not doing a lot of that stuff on-line - you're probably doing it mostly in meetings where things will be a lot more fluid depending on needs, etc and you don't likely have a secretary that can go in and update everyone's electronic copies. So it's probably more productive to not do the on-line task management thing regardless of what you're using.

Dyson doesn't have spheres, Dyson has balls !

But nothing sucks like an Elecrolux.

I find it fascinating that dimensional analysis of the expansion of space resolves to a frequency: 74.3 ((kilometers / second) / megaParsec) = 2.40789901 × 10-18 hertz http://www.google.com/#q=74.3+km/s+/+megaparsec http://www.ardeshirmehta.com/Relativity.html

Well, since we're redefining telemarketing, why not cut the definition down to those who are "selling" only items that don't exist, or touting services that they know the target has no need for? While we're at it, let's restrict "developers" to be only people who write programs using C#, "gamers" to be only those who first played Pac-Man at exactly age 19, and "unemployed" to mean only those who have received no income from anywhere in the past 23 years. Suddenly all our discussions are much simpler.

That's the point of my post. Telemarketing as a field has been stereotyped until the word implies only cold-calling scammers, despite the fact that they make up only a tiny minority of the field.

And it's not like you are surrendering all control of your data when you use Google Apps. Google Takeout allows you to download an archive of your docs and a quick search for Google Docs / Drive backup utilities turns up a lot of results too so it should be fairly simple to automate daily backups.

I only use Google Apps for email but have peace of mind that all my mail is synced locally (IMAP) to a server here and then frequently backed up from there. If I ever had any problems with Google's service (none so far in several years) then I can flick the switch on my domain's DNS and have email routed elsewhere very quickly.

Can't say I'd use Google Apps for anything other than email and calender so far though, it just doesn't appear slick enough for me to use professionally. I'm sure it will get better with time and it does have many upsides, but for now I am much happier using Libre Office on desktops, Samba file server for centralised storage and a VPN for external access. The main reasons I use Google Apps for email is because Google does it so damn well. Whatever problems I may suffer with my local network, I don't have to worry about customers not being able to reach me by email which would be a major source of stress for me. Plus, it's very slick on mobiles and works fine with Thunderbird via IMAP on my laptops.

...aaaand when Google changes its terms, or discontinues the product, you are well and truly hammered. Which Google definitely does do from time to time, and you can't predict when they'll decide they've had enough of supporting some chunk-o-freeware they cobbled up. Look at the wreckage they made out of Google base -- terrible, terrible support, and now they're converting to a "paid" model, which means that the product data you upload to them that they get to place ads all over... you now get to pay for. And there's plenty more like that.

Do NOT put your data "in the cloud." That's the very worst thing you can do. If you have a business, YOU should be in 100% control of your data and your backups.

The tech you use for documents should be chosen (1) so that you own the applications and (2) so that you can interchange any documents with others that you need to (color separations? Probably Photoshop. Writers and editors? Probably Word. Spreadsheets? Probably Excel. etc.)

You need a database? PostgreSQL or MySql (and I'd definitely go with the former... the latter has been, shall we say, "compromised.")

Just keep it to real applications that run under a real OS that you expect to be supported for some time. It will not be the least bit amusing to get that "end of life" notice from Microsoft or Apple or Ubuntu or whomever.

Yes. We are protesting this!!! For some behind-the-scene inputs . And Also .

It's become a circus and a lot of us have protested , The sotto memes are too funny . But they're TRUE. LOL

Never again. Thanks also to TPB for their support !!!

  --- from a Martial Law Baby AC \m/

/facepalm
https://www.google.com/search?q=sputnik

screw sarah brightman

Your proposition is acceptable.

"You can opt out from Google, my dear shill."

Try this: Click opt out. Now go clear your cookies or use a different browser. Hmm, the setting has reverted back to being opted-in.

Google even has http://www.google.com/ads/preferences/plugin/ to keep your cookie permenant.

So, I have to install additional plugins to retain the preferences on my own machine. Brilliant!

The reason it's opt out is so that you will forget to switch it back after a cookie refresh or on other browsers. The default state should be opted out.

You can opt out from Google, my dear shill.

SSDs are plenty reliable.

Really? Then why so many reports of SSD failures in such short time? If the chips are good, but the drive still fails do you really care as a consumer? That's like saying, "well sure your brakes failed and your car crashed, but it least it wasn't the fault of the wheels".

Interesting post as is the one you replied to. I've learned so much from Slashdot over the past thirteen or fourteen years and really enjoyed the community. Personally, I feel something like a social semantic desktop, based around emerging standards for exchanging semantic information, may be in our near future though.

Here is something I posted to the Diaspora list on that about two years ago, included here in its entirety:
"Raising the bar to supporting a Social Semantic Desktop"
https://groups.google.com/forum/?fromgroups#!topic/diaspora-dev/TNNpvfFqNG8
========
Here are some general thoughts about how Diaspora might relate to the
Semantic Web and a Social Semantic Desktop, and how that might make it even
more awesome to encourage everyone to migrate to it.

Please consider this document under a CC-BY-SA 3.0 license (same as
Wikipedia or content on the joindiaspora.com site) -- except for quoted
material which is assumed to be under fair use in this context.

=== Overview with a semantic example

What I propose is that Diaspora emphasize either supporting or directly
integrating semantic technologies based mostly around exchanging collections
of ad-hoc semantic "triples" like RDF (the Resource Description Framework)
is built around. Such triples define essentially a database of ad-hoc
objects with field names and values (although triples can be used in other
ways, too).

(There might actually be more than three components in a "triple" in
practice, like a context, namespaces, a timestamp, a reified uuid, and an
author, and triples themselves might be embedded in transactions.)

Here is an example of using triples to define two different objects that are
related at the end:

uuid:746A0205-E758-4BB2-B1FE-5D48B688A1CE represents-user "Daniel Grippi"
uuid:746A0205-E758-4BB2-B1FE-5D48B688A1CE has-role DiasporaDeveloper
uuid:746A0205-E758-4BB2-B1FE-5D48B688A1CE has-role DiasporaFounder
uuid:746A0205-E758-4BB2-B1FE-5D48B688A1CE routed-by joindiaspora.com

uuid:DD776C2F-E795-453E-A343-B823AF989C01 type DesignDocument
uuid:DD776C2F-E795-453E-A343-B823AF989C01 title "Disapora Roadmap"
uuid:DD776C2F-E795-453E-A343-B823AF989C01 content "Disapora is..."
uuid:DD776C2F-E795-453E-A343-B823AF989C01 author "Maxwell Salzberg"
uuid:DD776C2F-E795-453E-A343-B823AF989C01 reviewed-by "Raphael Sofaer"
uuid:DD776C2F-E795-453E-A343-B823AF989C01 reviewed-by "Ilya Zhitomirskiy"
uuid:DD776C2F-E795-453E-A343-B823AF989C01 license CC-BY-SA
uuid:DD776C2F-E795-453E-A343-B823AF989C01 checksum 57AB28F91028
uuid:DD776C2F-E795-453E-A343-B823AF989C01 signature C39E5ADE93E4
uuid:DD776C2F-E795-453E-A343-B823AF989C01 encryption None
uuid:DD776C2F-E795-453E-A343-B823AF989C01 sent-to
uuid:746A0205-E758-4BB2-B1FE-5D48B688A1CE

And, in case it was not obvious, the above defines two objects (each with a
different uuid), one representing a user with a routing method and the other
representing a design document that has been sent to that first user.

In practice there would probably be higher levels of abstraction used
eventually rather than embedding people's names in there like that, or to
support timestamped encrypted versions of documents, or to represent the act
of transmitting as an object, and so on... This was just to illustrate the
basic idea of ad hoc objects.

One could imagine that Dispora would have some general support for moving
such triples around (maybe in transactions

they provide for state governments what the CIA does for the White House

And do you think that's a good thing? Are you familiar with what the CIA does? And you want that power given over the STATE authorities? Are you sure you didn't mean FBI? Because they're at least able to work within our national borders. And state officials have that. We call them cops.

Do you really think I was saying that fusion centers give state goverment covert intelligence assets or specops/black ops capabilities? And no, I do not mean the FBI. I am talking about NIOs that come in and brief the president daily over security threatrs and related issues. This is a role that fusion centers provide to state governments. Fusion centers do not collect intelligence, they simply pass it along and analyze it.

they provide for state governments what the CIA does for the White House

And do you think that's a good thing? Are you familiar with what the CIA does? And you want that power given over the STATE authorities? Are you sure you didn't mean FBI? Because they're at least able to work within our national borders. And state officials have that. We call them cops.

Do you really think I was saying that fusion centers give state goverment covert intelligence assets or specops/black ops capabilities? And no, I do not mean the FBI. I am talking about NIOs that come in and brief the president daily over security threatrs and related issues. This is a role that fusion centers provide to state governments. Fusion centers do not collect intelligence, they simply pass it along and analyze it.

Interestingly a recent serious virtual machine security vulnerability affected Intel but did not affect AMD:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!msg/qubes-devel/JIpZoQUP6dQ/g6TvtpUHzBQJ

You can call that a language translator maybe, not it doesn't have a distinct syntax its own. It is as it describes itself: a toolkit.

https://developers.google.com/web-toolkit/overview

For example the Q9550s released at $369 and now sells for around $300.

I guess you could argue the high resale value makes it very cheap to own so long as you remember to sell it a few years later.

they provide for state governments what the CIA does for the White House

And do you think that's a good thing? Are you familiar with what the CIA does? And you want that power given over the STATE authorities?

Are you sure you didn't mean FBI? Because they're at least able to work within our national borders. And state officials have that. We call them cops.

they provide for state governments what the CIA does for the White House

And do you think that's a good thing? Are you familiar with what the CIA does? And you want that power given over the STATE authorities?

Are you sure you didn't mean FBI? Because they're at least able to work within our national borders. And state officials have that. We call them cops.

In fact, the english phrase seems to date back from 1880:
http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=correlation+does+not+imply+causation&year_start=1600&year_end=1900&corpus=0&smoothing=3

But the concepts of correlation and causation started to become popular around 1860:
http://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=correlation%2C+causation&year_start=1600&year_end=1900&corpus=0&smoothing=3