Thanks to shale oil, the very concept of "peak oil" has been debunked..
That's a ridiculous overstatement: shale oil makes an insignificant difference to the concept of peak oil. It might push it back a few decades: if you're a market analyst that can't think beyond the next bonus, maybe that makes a difference to you. For everyone else, it's just a question of when.
Actaully, this might be a good place to ask - does anyone know the name of a scifi series based around humanity being enslaved by an ancient alien race who created a huge empire out of thousands of enslaved races, with the series starting as the very last member of that master race dying and the rest of the series involving a civil war within the now leaderless empire? The main characters were a male and a female, with the male going on to revolutionise tactics within the fleet.
I read it ages ago but can't remember what its called.
You are thinking of the Dread Empire's Fall trilogy by Walter Jon Williams.
The problem isn't so much legal, or technical, it's that US courts tend to be far more patriotic, in protecting US citizens and interests - they ignore the fact the treaty is stupidly unfair for the average joe who can get extradited at will, and protect American interests- they ignore the terms of the agreement.
the current ICT curriculum will be scrapped in September this year, to be replaced by compulsory lessons in computer science and programming.
While I appreciate the need to expose students to computer classes in the same way they're exposed to other subjects, I don't think that something as specific as programming should be a *mandatory* requirement.
Fortunately, the quote is pretty much the opposite of what he said. A better summary would be:
1. ICT will continue to be mandatory. 2. The detailed, government required program requirements will be abolished.
GigE uses the 8b/10b encoding scheme, which chops 20% of your bandwidth right off the top. So your 1.2Gbps "bandwidth" is instantly chopped down to about 100MB/sec.
The physical layer overhead from the symbol encoding is on top of the Gigabit rate. So, the encoding is 80% efficient as you say but you can still theoretically get most of a Gigabit throughput (minus a little for framing and higher level protocol headers).
I was thinking the same thing and then realized it was the UK.
If any city in the US did this the carriers would be SCREAMING SOCIALISM!!... and funding every politican and their brothers to ban and stop this assault on freedom and capitalism at all cost
Which is odd because they are solidly conservative areas. I don't really see how a private company providing an advertising funded 'free' service counts as socialism anyway.
What's the problem with Oracle? It's not like they're running around trying to extort money from Linux-based device makers using bogus patents they refuse to reveal.
It looks very like that to me, except that Oracle went after Google directly. They still want their piece of Android though.
Indeed. As a Brit, can I petition the editors to change the title to "Brits rejecting superpricey broadband"?
How about 'superpricey broadband only has 600% annual growth rate', or 'only trebled market penetration in a year'? People don't generally queue up to pay a premium to be early adopters, unless it has an Apple logo on it.
Well, no. It appears to be bad summary week. And people replying without RTFA week. Actually skip the article even, read Lennart Poettering's post on fedora.devel.
I don't disagree with you in principe, but it seems that Assange hasn't even officially been charged with anything in Sweden, it does seem a bit weird to me that someone who is just wanted for questioning can be extradited like that
In Sweden, being charged happens late on during the course of the prosecution. The defence were pushing the line that he was just wanted for questioning but it was an argument that the court rejected.
Then Germany sucks. This story is in the UK were illegal evidence isn't evidence of anything but wrongdoing on the part of whoever collected it. If it was any other way there would be massive police abuse.
You're so out of date: 'make it work in a commercially viable fashion' just means that there are investors dumb enough to buy into it. Who cares if it actually works, as long as you make money out of it?
It is a shame that on their site there is nothing about polish "coders" who in 1932 broke the enigma code and made it available for British and French intelligence...
Corporations do not pay taxes at all. That's economics from junior high school. All corporations do is pass their tax costs on to the price of their goods.
Well, that's a silly argument. You might just as well say individuals don't pay any taxes, it just goes on their wage bill.
A plain old spellchecker, like the one under discussion here, makes no attempt to guess what word was meant and assume a typo is a result of accidentally pressing keys near the intended ones..
Actually, no. It's not using either a plain spellchecker, or predictive text. It's just using a small fixed list of common errors.
So the allegations here are that Edward Naughton and Florian Mueller (neither of whom I am defending, by the way) have spread FUD to strong arm people into migrating to GPLv3 so that device makers won't fear the repercussion of violating GPLv2 and then having to do impossible legwork to get back in good standing and regain a license?
No. They've spread FUD that Android resellers may be in default of the GPL and would have to do impossible legwork. The FSF press release has added fuel to the fire by saying that if Linux was GPL2 or later, that wouldn't be a problem, and that Android hardware makers should lobby Linux kernel developers to relicense their code.
Personally, whilst it may be well meaning, I don't think it's helpful. It's just going to wind up the kernel devs, and give some mileage for trolls.
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Thanks to shale oil, the very concept of "peak oil" has been debunked. .
That's a ridiculous overstatement: shale oil makes an insignificant difference to the concept of peak oil. It might push it back a few decades: if you're a market analyst that can't think beyond the next bonus, maybe that makes a difference to you. For everyone else, it's just a question of when.
Actaully, this might be a good place to ask - does anyone know the name of a scifi series based around humanity being enslaved by an ancient alien race who created a huge empire out of thousands of enslaved races, with the series starting as the very last member of that master race dying and the rest of the series involving a civil war within the now leaderless empire? The main characters were a male and a female, with the male going on to revolutionise tactics within the fleet.
I read it ages ago but can't remember what its called.
You are thinking of the Dread Empire's Fall trilogy by Walter Jon Williams.
What makes you think this UK Judge was presiding over a Jury Trial?
It was at Crown court, so would normally be a jury trial. however, as he pleaded guilty, it's kind of moot.
The problem isn't so much legal, or technical, it's that US courts tend to be far more patriotic, in protecting US citizens and interests - they ignore the fact the treaty is stupidly unfair for the average joe who can get extradited at will, and protect American interests- they ignore the terms of the agreement.
Nice theory. However, the US has never refused an extradition request for the UK, since the treaty was signed. The UK has refused several times. http://www.parliament.uk/business/committees/committees-a-z/commons-select/home-affairs-committee/news/111202-us-ambassador/
the current ICT curriculum will be scrapped in September this year, to be replaced by compulsory lessons in computer science and programming.
While I appreciate the need to expose students to computer classes in the same way they're exposed to other subjects, I don't think that something as specific as programming should be a *mandatory* requirement.
Fortunately, the quote is pretty much the opposite of what he said. A better summary would be:
1. ICT will continue to be mandatory.
2. The detailed, government required program requirements will be abolished.
GigE uses the 8b/10b encoding scheme, which chops 20% of your bandwidth right off the top. So your 1.2Gbps "bandwidth" is instantly chopped down to about 100MB/sec.
The physical layer overhead from the symbol encoding is on top of the Gigabit rate. So, the encoding is 80% efficient as you say but you can still theoretically get most of a Gigabit throughput (minus a little for framing and higher level protocol headers).
I was thinking the same thing and then realized it was the UK.
If any city in the US did this the carriers would be SCREAMING SOCIALISM!! ... and funding every politican and their brothers to ban and stop this assault on freedom and capitalism at all cost
Which is odd because they are solidly conservative areas. I don't really see how a private company providing an advertising funded 'free' service counts as socialism anyway.
No. It's for real. "Doctors studying the placebo effect have noticed that large pills work better than small pills, and that coloured pills work better than white ones." http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/2002/homeopathy.shtml
Sorry, don't have the original citations.
No, you'ld have ninjas bursting through it all the time.
What's the problem with Oracle? It's not like they're running around trying to extort money from Linux-based device makers using bogus patents they refuse to reveal.
It looks very like that to me, except that Oracle went after Google directly. They still want their piece of Android though.
Hopefully this means they will not be allowed onto the plane.
No.
'In addition, passengers are given the right to opt out from a control with scanners and be subject to an alternative method of screening.'
Indeed. As a Brit, can I petition the editors to change the title to "Brits rejecting superpricey broadband"?
How about 'superpricey broadband only has 600% annual growth rate', or 'only trebled market penetration in a year'? People don't generally queue up to pay a premium to be early adopters, unless it has an Apple logo on it.
Is it nonsense-week on /. or what?
Well, no. It appears to be bad summary week. And people replying without RTFA week. Actually skip the article even, read Lennart Poettering's post on fedora.devel.
I don't disagree with you in principe, but it seems that Assange hasn't even officially been charged with anything in Sweden, it does seem a bit weird to me that someone who is just wanted for questioning can be extradited like that
In Sweden, being charged happens late on during the course of the prosecution. The defence were pushing the line that he was just wanted for questioning but it was an argument that the court rejected.
Is there any debate that a printer can be patented? No. The output of the printer however is another story altogether.
So, can a self-replicating 3D printer be patented or not?
Then Germany sucks. This story is in the UK were illegal evidence isn't evidence of anything but wrongdoing on the part of whoever collected it. If it was any other way there would be massive police abuse.
Actually, it's pretty much the same in the UK, at least in primciple. The courts have wide discretion to do whatever they think is appropriate. http://lawiki.org/lawwiki/Improperly_obtained_evidence
You're so out of date: 'make it work in a commercially viable fashion' just means that there are investors dumb enough to buy into it. Who cares if it actually works, as long as you make money out of it?
sounds like the EU would be ok with one broadcaster having the rights for the entirety of europe
Courts only get to rule on the case in front of them, not some hypothetical other thing. In any case, the EU broke up the monopoly several years ago.
It is a shame that on their site there is nothing about polish "coders" who in 1932 broke the enigma code and made it available for British and French intelligence...
You didn't look very hard. http://www.bletchleypark.org.uk/content/hist/history/polish.rhtm
Corporations do not pay taxes at all.
That's economics from junior high school.
All corporations do is pass their tax costs on to the price of their goods.
Well, that's a silly argument. You might just as well say individuals don't pay any taxes, it just goes on their wage bill.
A plain old spellchecker, like the one under discussion here, makes no attempt to guess what word was meant and assume a typo is a result of accidentally pressing keys near the intended ones..
Actually, no. It's not using either a plain spellchecker, or predictive text. It's just using a small fixed list of common errors.
So the allegations here are that Edward Naughton and Florian Mueller (neither of whom I am defending, by the way) have spread FUD to strong arm people into migrating to GPLv3 so that device makers won't fear the repercussion of violating GPLv2 and then having to do impossible legwork to get back in good standing and regain a license?
No. They've spread FUD that Android resellers may be in default of the GPL and would have to do impossible legwork. The FSF press release has added fuel to the fire by saying that if Linux was GPL2 or later, that wouldn't be a problem, and that Android hardware makers should lobby Linux kernel developers to relicense their code.
Personally, whilst it may be well meaning, I don't think it's helpful. It's just going to wind up the kernel devs, and give some mileage for trolls.
But Tomlinson was certainly manslaughter by definition of the acts, although the case was never brought
It was eventually. After the coroner's jury ruled it was unlawful killing, the prosecutors reopened the case and brought a manslaughter charge.
These are young people, disenfranchised people without jobs or educations, robbing stores and beating people up and stealing their stuff.
You're probably largely correct but they are not all young, or unemployed or uneducated.
On top of that, I'm concerned that delegating responsibility solely to the inciters lets the people who did the actual violent acts off the hook.
1600+ rioters arrested, 12 for Facebook postings.