Since the Magna Carta, England has not been able to get off their ass to pass a constitution.
You couldn't just pass a constitution in the UK, it would be unconstitutional. What you are in effect saying is that you think we would be better tearing up our existing constitution and getting a new shiny one. Are you so naive that you can't see the problem with that approach?
Your time is more valuable than the cost of having someone cut your grass. Give some teenager or out of work adult the opportunity to earn some money. That is the real win-win of capitalism.
You missed the part where he said he enjoyed doing it. Not doing what the hell you like because your time is too valuable would be my idea of hell.
Just to nit pick. They are making the action legal in the future. However all of us that have done so in the past and might well do so again before the law comes into effect are still filthy criminals. We broke the law and we could technically still be arrested and prosecuted for it even after the law comes into effect.
Last time I looked, ripping for personal use was a civil matter.
- some official accompanied by police offices visited his flat and found no radiation problem
Er, no. Whether the official found a problem is unspecified; the guy that was arrested said he hadn't detected a problem himself. Alpha particles aren't the easiest things to detect, because of their low penetration.
I was really under the impression that the GPL said you had to distribute the source to anyone you sent the binaries if they actually bothered to request it.
You need to provide the source or make an explicit offer to do so on request. If I've assumed the former and not done the latter, it is a GPL violation.
I think you'll find that's not true... Prison populations are exploding.
Both 'plenty of space' or exploding are some way off the mark. They're growing in the region of 1-2% a year. Sending a lot of people to prison is a luxury we can't afford.
If you have the right to decide what to put in your body, why don't business owners have the right to let their customers decide what they put in their bodies?
That would be fine with me, as long as they have no employees. It's paying employees to work in unsafe conditions that is objectionable.
When you look at a total sample, you should expect truly random results. I would imagine they know this, and are observing a non-random series of diagnoses.
TSA workers are not, in general, experts in medical statistics. You need to get a reasonably large dose for your lifetime chance of cancer to be increased by one part in a thousand. The idea that you could get anything out of a study on such a small sample of people, without any controls, is fanciful, to say the least.
However, it still seems like a good idea to me for them to have dosimeters. We have limits for a reason.
I can't imagine how you manage to make sure your neutrino emissions goes only in a predetermined direction (thus, actually build a beam from them), I'd be happy to be shown how.
Relativity, essentially. The neutrinos head off in random directions in the rest frame of the emitter. You take a beam of high energy muons, and keep them in a storage 'ring', with two or three long straight sections precisely aligned at the detector.* If your muons start with high energies compared to the energy of their decay, you will get a fairly well collimated beam of neutrinos.
*Or at least it used to be, in the case of J-PARC. It's going to take them a while to sort the mess out.
If this is victory, I don't know what defeat would look like. Novell shareholders will get roughly $2 billion dollars; SCO shareholders will probably get nothing.
Novell's rights to the legacy System V business was only of significant value in SCO's fantasy world where Linux was a derivate of System V.
I can't speak for the whole of Europe but grant issuing bodies are certainly moving towards open access in the UK. For example, the Medical Research Council position statement says:
It is important that the availability and accessibility of this material is not adversely affected by the copyright, marketing and distribution strategies used by publishers...
The MRC therefore supports unrestricted access to the published outputs of research as a fundamental part of its mission and a public benefit, and this is encouraged wherever possible.
What's the resources usage when transmitting a packet one hop? The electricity to run the router and the space occupied by the router.
Plus the transit fee charged by the upstream provider, which is probably the largest single expense. If I ignore the charges my service provider makes, my internet service costs me almost nothing too.
...And, with that single link, you've not only gotten around the intent of this unicorn-farts-and-pixie-dust "superinjunction".
Untrue, in this case. The superinjunction has been in existence for a while and gone unreported. The reason why it's known about now is that parliamentary speech is protected by the Bill of Rights.
I honestly don't know if I "like" WebOS or not yet, but if I want a Windows PC, I damned well want a Windows PC, not a frankenbox designed to push some crack-addled CEO's latest cross-marketing wet dreams on an otherwise unwilling audience.
It's quite possible that the summary (and original article) is completely wrong. It's not at all clear from what Apotheker said, that WebOS will run in a VM under Windows. You could also read it as 'we will support WebOS as an option on all our systems'.
What I don't get is how they can extradite him to sweden if he's not even facing charges there.
There is rather extensive discussion in the judgement but what it boils down to is that formal charges are put rather later in the Swedish system than would be the case in the UK or the US.
No we don't, in all probability. There are essentially limitless quantities of deuterium available for fusion in Earth's oceans. If we want to get practical fusion earlier, we need to invest more on fusion research. Betting billions on a long shot like Helium 3 reactors doesn't make a lot of sense - you might just as well convert your car to run on powdered diamonds.
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Are you sure it wasn't their insurance companies?
The taxpayer foots the bill for riots in the UK.
Since the Magna Carta, England has not been able to get off their ass to pass a constitution.
You couldn't just pass a constitution in the UK, it would be unconstitutional. What you are in effect saying is that you think we would be better tearing up our existing constitution and getting a new shiny one. Are you so naive that you can't see the problem with that approach?
Your time is more valuable than the cost of having someone cut your grass. Give some teenager or out of work adult the opportunity to earn some money. That is the real win-win of capitalism.
You missed the part where he said he enjoyed doing it. Not doing what the hell you like because your time is too valuable would be my idea of hell.
Just to nit pick. They are making the action legal in the future. However all of us that have done so in the past and might well do so again before the law comes into effect are still filthy criminals. We broke the law and we could technically still be arrested and prosecuted for it even after the law comes into effect.
Last time I looked, ripping for personal use was a civil matter.
- some official accompanied by police offices visited his flat and found no radiation problem
Er, no. Whether the official found a problem is unspecified; the guy that was arrested said he hadn't detected a problem himself. Alpha particles aren't the easiest things to detect, because of their low penetration.
That's code written by a University of London Computer Science professor.
Stanford actually, it's just mirrored at UCL.
I was really under the impression that the GPL said you had to distribute the source to anyone you sent the binaries if they actually bothered to request it.
You need to provide the source or make an explicit offer to do so on request. If I've assumed the former and not done the latter, it is a GPL violation.
I think you'll find that's not true... Prison populations are exploding.
Both 'plenty of space' or exploding are some way off the mark. They're growing in the region of 1-2% a year. Sending a lot of people to prison is a luxury we can't afford.
If you have the right to decide what to put in your body, why don't business owners have the right to let their customers decide what they put in their bodies?
That would be fine with me, as long as they have no employees. It's paying employees to work in unsafe conditions that is objectionable.
When you look at a total sample, you should expect truly random results. I would imagine they know this, and are observing a non-random series of diagnoses.
TSA workers are not, in general, experts in medical statistics. You need to get a reasonably large dose for your lifetime chance of cancer to be increased by one part in a thousand. The idea that you could get anything out of a study on such a small sample of people, without any controls, is fanciful, to say the least.
However, it still seems like a good idea to me for them to have dosimeters. We have limits for a reason.
I can't imagine how you manage to make sure your neutrino emissions goes only in a predetermined direction (thus, actually build a beam from them), I'd be happy to be shown how.
Relativity, essentially. The neutrinos head off in random directions in the rest frame of the emitter. You take a beam of high energy muons, and keep them in a storage 'ring', with two or three long straight sections precisely aligned at the detector.* If your muons start with high energies compared to the energy of their decay, you will get a fairly well collimated beam of neutrinos.
*Or at least it used to be, in the case of J-PARC. It's going to take them a while to sort the mess out.
If this is victory, I don't know what defeat would look like. Novell shareholders will get roughly $2 billion dollars; SCO shareholders will probably get nothing.
Novell's rights to the legacy System V business was only of significant value in SCO's fantasy world where Linux was a derivate of System V.
Actually, one of the most widely-used translations of the Bible (NIV) is under copyright.
So is the King James version, at least in the UK.
I can't speak for the whole of Europe but grant issuing bodies are certainly moving towards open access in the UK. For example, the Medical Research Council position statement says:
It is important that the availability and accessibility of this material is not adversely affected by the copyright, marketing and distribution strategies used by publishers...
The MRC therefore supports unrestricted access to the published outputs of research as a fundamental part of its mission and a public benefit, and this is encouraged wherever possible.
Also depends on BT offering a decent price for access to existing underground cable routes.
If they drag their feet too hard, Ofcom will slap them down. At least, that's how it's meant to work.
What is ACE?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advanced_Computing_Environment
Apparently it had hit #1 in the pop charts in the UK the year before. A true one hit wonder..
Maybe he's viewed the way in the states. However he had a previous number 1 single and album in the UK.
Why don't they just play in winter? We have such nice winter weather in this region!
Because they would take players away from their (mostly European) clubs, during the football season there. However, this might happen.
They give 'the Mote in God's Eye' as a reference from the 70's. It's in 'Cities in Flight' (1957) also.
What's the resources usage when transmitting a packet one hop? The electricity to run the router and the space occupied by the router.
Plus the transit fee charged by the upstream provider, which is probably the largest single expense. If I ignore the charges my service provider makes, my internet service costs me almost nothing too.
Untrue, in this case. The superinjunction has been in existence for a while and gone unreported. The reason why it's known about now is that parliamentary speech is protected by the Bill of Rights.
I honestly don't know if I "like" WebOS or not yet, but if I want a Windows PC, I damned well want a Windows PC, not a frankenbox designed to push some crack-addled CEO's latest cross-marketing wet dreams on an otherwise unwilling audience.
It's quite possible that the summary (and original article) is completely wrong. It's not at all clear from what Apotheker said, that WebOS will run in a VM under Windows. You could also read it as 'we will support WebOS as an option on all our systems'.
Then he could have woken them up with "Kirk to Enterprise".
...get your clothes back on.
What I don't get is how they can extradite him to sweden if he's not even facing charges there.
There is rather extensive discussion in the judgement but what it boils down to is that formal charges are put rather later in the Swedish system than would be the case in the UK or the US.
We also need it for fusion reactors.
No we don't, in all probability. There are essentially limitless quantities of deuterium available for fusion in Earth's oceans. If we want to get practical fusion earlier, we need to invest more on fusion research. Betting billions on a long shot like Helium 3 reactors doesn't make a lot of sense - you might just as well convert your car to run on powdered diamonds.