Or is this fission, where they convert the actinides into other less-dangerous elements via fission?
It's not really so much induced fission as in a normal reactor, it's that you push the isotopes past the point where they are long term active into really unstable ones. It's like a fast breeder reactor in reverse. Since they are French, they are probably talking about using a magnetic confined fusion reactor as the neutron source.
The 'burn up' analogy isn't bad really. Partially burnt products of normal combustion like soot and carbon monoxide are toxic. Add more oxygen and heat, and the problem goes away (mostly).
This demonstrates an abuse of open source philosophy. It's an example of deliberately starting an open source project with no intention of keeping it open source: the intention is to milk the unpaid participation of others until the project reaches a certain critical mass - profitability - and then cordon it off.
It really depends on how much community involvement there actually was. If it was 99% the work of the core team, and they have licenced properly upstream, then I say good luck to them. There's a bit of an absence of actual contributors complaining, as far as I can tell.
As far as I know (IANAL, IAAAC) the legality of this depends largely on one thing: did the code contributors reassign their copyrights to Nexuiz / the code maintainer, or did they retain it?
Two things: did they get copyright assignments from contributors, and did they get non-GPL licences from all the third parties involved?
The probability that someone from the peanut gallery who gets upset about some bikeshed GUI problem will actually do anything constructive: vanishingly small.
I wonder how many others have noticed that 'Tim Berners-Lee' is the man behind this...
Well, Tim Berners-Lee is leading a project to provide open access to goverment data; it seems pretty worthy and uncontroversial. I don't know about the rest of the story - but running an article from the Telegraph on what Gordon Brown may say tomorrow is rather like reading a Fox News report on what Obama said tomorrow.
Could we not just wait to hear the announcement - I've got this terribly old fashioned idea of reporting news stories after they happen, rather than before.
Joel has a lot of followers, but you shouldn't take what he says as holy writ. In fact, this very article is all about how we should still be using the old Netscape browser and not have started this crazy Mozilla project... you know, the one that resulted in Firefox?
Yes, but where is Netscape today? Rwriting your code from scratch and fading into oblivion is hardly good business. Eventually the code came good but it was too late to save the company.
So rather than fight for fake faith rights, maybe we should fight for the right for an atheist or strongly agnostic politician to not have to lie about being a Christian just to be electable.
To be honest, I don't think it really makes much of a difference. It's really not something politicians tend to talk about much.
Tesco said: "He hasn't been banned. Jedis are very welcome to shop in our stores although we would ask them to remove their hoods.
"Obi-Wan Kenobi, Yoda and Luke Skywalker all appeared hoodless without ever going over to the Dark Side and we are only aware of the Emperor as one who never removed his hood.
"If Jedi walk around our stores with their hoods on, they'll miss lots of special offers."
So far as I can tell, if you're against software patents, you're either against all patents, or you're a hypocrite.
You need a better dictionary. Being hypocritical isn't believing something inconsistent, which pretty much everyone does. It's believing one thing and acting differently, like acting anti-gay when you're gay yourself.
Well, surely it has been appropriately encrypted with strong encryption and protected with a strong password. After all, those people are not completely incompetent, are they?
Well, GCHQ workers *invented* public key encryption, so they are obviously not all completely incompetent. Big organisations lose laptops. It's more that they don't have the paperwork to prove nothing secret hit these machines. It's sloppy but hardly unexpected.
Quoting a Prof. Brian Cox, "ALL particle accelerators have 6 - 12 month regular shutdowns for maintenance and upgrades. That's how complex machines are operated!"
That is rather like a Formula One driver saying, "ALL cars need a complete engine overhaul several times a year."
So remember when I warned you that your social system is better than ours in the "oh-so-great-EU". You'll pay in ONE month more than you pay for actually being ill for 2 years.
If you used the comma as a decimal separator, you could reduce your medical costs by a factor of a thousand!
Surely I am not the only person living in the EU that sees Google Street Maps as a liberating technology.
You're making it sound like they are trying to ban it. It's a fundamental principle of data protection law, that you retain personal information no longer than necessary. So, 'do you need to keep the unblurred pictures a whole year?' is quite a reasonable question.
Retaining the DNA of innocent people and using stop and search powers without reasonable suspicion are two areas that come to mind, the UK government has been successfully prosecuted in the ECHR but has yet to comply with the rulings
True, but this is just them taking a while to comply. Deplorably slow, yes, but they are going to get around to it eventually. The Bill to amend the DNA retention laws is going through parliament now, for instance.
Not wishing to defend these guys too much but on a quick read of one of their reports, they barely mention open source. Here's all the report on Brazil says about FOSS:
"Avoid legislation on the mandatory use of open source software by government agencies and government controlled companies."
Actually, it seems pretty accurate. He (stupidly) asked a cop if he knew he was riding a gay horse, and the cop cited him for violations of the public order act.
It is a pretty poorly worded law but really people should be held upside down and smacked with a kipper every time they reason "if you got the maximum sentence for some trivial infringement of the law, it would be unjust." That's what the judges are for, dammit.
It was a long time ago, and the CPS didn't offer any evidence.
11 browsers? how many of them have >1%market penetration? This is going to confuse the less versed users
Well they say 11 but it's 5 + 6 really. That is, they are randomly placed but in two groups - the big 5: IE, Chrome, Safari, Opera, Firefox are the only ones visible without scrolling. Most people aren't going to look at the 'below the fold" browsers.
Here's something that must be killed off in every democracy - embedded clauses that have nothing to do with the main bill or its stated purpose.
It does happen at the EU level, but not so much in the UK, I think. Could someone explain to me why the offending clauses don't just get struck out when the detail of the bill is discussed? Most bills end up significantly different from the original draft - is that not the case in the US?
LeGuin wrote some very interesting books. Unfortunately her stance on copyright is a bit too 20th centure to my taste.
Well, Doctorow is too much of a jerk for mine. He reproduced another's writers work in full without permission, and can't even manage a proper apology.
Britain hasn't had the best reputation in history.
Compared to what? It's been a colonial power but not as brutal as many of the others. It's been a stable democracy with respect for the rule of law for centuries, whilst other European countries were still absolute monarchies.
We gave the world Magna Carta and the Bill of Rights. There's plenty in our histyory to be proud of. Other parts, not so good but that goes for pretty much anywhere.
Yes, the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002. Drug trafficking, arms dealing, people trafficking, money laundering... is grounds for forfeiture of assets. As is "making an illicit recording", "possessing an article designed for making a copy of a copyright work".
I'm frankly kind of surprised anyone was still running ReiserFS before he was in the news.
It was the default on SuSE at the time (barely), so you shouldn't be. Filesystem failure modes are always going to be fairly anecdotal*; I've never seen a really screwed filesystem, except where the drive was terminally ill.
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Or is this fission, where they convert the actinides into other less-dangerous elements via fission?
It's not really so much induced fission as in a normal reactor, it's that you push the isotopes past the point where they are long term active into really unstable ones. It's like a fast breeder reactor in reverse. Since they are French, they are probably talking about using a magnetic confined fusion reactor as the neutron source.
The 'burn up' analogy isn't bad really. Partially burnt products of normal combustion like soot and carbon monoxide are toxic. Add more oxygen and heat, and the problem goes away (mostly).
This demonstrates an abuse of open source philosophy. It's an example of deliberately starting an open source project with no intention of keeping it open source: the intention is to milk the unpaid participation of others until the project reaches a certain critical mass - profitability - and then cordon it off.
It really depends on how much community involvement there actually was. If it was 99% the work of the core team, and they have licenced properly upstream, then I say good luck to them. There's a bit of an absence of actual contributors complaining, as far as I can tell.
As far as I know (IANAL, IAAAC) the legality of this depends largely on one thing: did the code contributors reassign their copyrights to Nexuiz / the code maintainer, or did they retain it?
Two things: did they get copyright assignments from contributors, and did they get non-GPL licences from all the third parties involved?
This is where you fork. End of story. kthxbai
The probability that someone from the peanut gallery who gets upset about some bikeshed GUI problem will actually do anything constructive: vanishingly small.
Every time a user chooses what distro to use, they vote.
I think emigration is a better metaphor for that though; if your government sucks sufficiently, you can go find another one.
I wonder how many others have noticed that 'Tim Berners-Lee' is the man behind this...
Well, Tim Berners-Lee is leading a project to provide open access to goverment data; it seems pretty worthy and uncontroversial. I don't know about the rest of the story - but running an article from the Telegraph on what Gordon Brown may say tomorrow is rather like reading a Fox News report on what Obama said tomorrow.
Could we not just wait to hear the announcement - I've got this terribly old fashioned idea of reporting news stories after they happen, rather than before.
Joel has a lot of followers, but you shouldn't take what he says as holy writ. In fact, this very article is all about how we should still be using the old Netscape browser and not have started this crazy Mozilla project... you know, the one that resulted in Firefox?
Yes, but where is Netscape today? Rwriting your code from scratch and fading into oblivion is hardly good business. Eventually the code came good but it was too late to save the company.
So rather than fight for fake faith rights, maybe we should fight for the right for an atheist or strongly agnostic politician to not have to lie about being a Christian just to be electable.
To be honest, I don't think it really makes much of a difference. It's really not something politicians tend to talk about much.
That was a little lame, there was a much better Jedi story last year: a Jedi master against the Tesco empire
Tesco said: "He hasn't been banned. Jedis are very welcome to shop in our stores although we would ask them to remove their hoods.
"Obi-Wan Kenobi, Yoda and Luke Skywalker all appeared hoodless without ever going over to the Dark Side and we are only aware of the Emperor as one who never removed his hood.
"If Jedi walk around our stores with their hoods on, they'll miss lots of special offers."
So far as I can tell, if you're against software patents, you're either against all patents, or you're a hypocrite.
You need a better dictionary. Being hypocritical isn't believing something inconsistent, which pretty much everyone does. It's believing one thing and acting differently, like acting anti-gay when you're gay yourself.
Well, surely it has been appropriately encrypted with strong encryption and protected with a strong password. After all, those people are not completely incompetent, are they?
Well, GCHQ workers *invented* public key encryption, so they are obviously not all completely incompetent. Big organisations lose laptops. It's more that they don't have the paperwork to prove nothing secret hit these machines. It's sloppy but hardly unexpected.
Quoting a Prof. Brian Cox, "ALL particle accelerators have 6 - 12 month regular shutdowns for maintenance and upgrades. That's how complex machines are operated!"
That is rather like a Formula One driver saying, "ALL cars need a complete engine overhaul several times a year."
So remember when I warned you that your social system is better than ours in the "oh-so-great-EU". You'll pay in ONE month more than you pay for actually being ill for 2 years.
If you used the comma as a decimal separator, you could reduce your medical costs by a factor of a thousand!
Surely I am not the only person living in the EU that sees Google Street Maps as a liberating technology.
You're making it sound like they are trying to ban it. It's a fundamental principle of data protection law, that you retain personal information no longer than necessary. So, 'do you need to keep the unblurred pictures a whole year?' is quite a reasonable question.
Retaining the DNA of innocent people and using stop and search powers without reasonable suspicion are two areas that come to mind, the UK government has been successfully prosecuted in the ECHR but has yet to comply with the rulings
True, but this is just them taking a while to comply. Deplorably slow, yes, but they are going to get around to it eventually. The Bill to amend the DNA retention laws is going through parliament now, for instance.
...They obviously did not see Swordfish or Hackers as they would understand what REAL hackers are.
And you obviously didn't see the list of films. they studied.
With Intellectual in the title. That should be enough to tell you that they have no intelligence whatsoever.
Fail. It's a business lobby group. Members include: BSA, MPAA, RIAA. Nuff said.
Not wishing to defend these guys too much but on a quick read of one of their reports, they barely mention open source. Here's all the report on Brazil says about FOSS:
"Avoid legislation on the mandatory use of open source software by government agencies and government controlled
companies."
Actually, it seems pretty accurate. He (stupidly) asked a cop if he knew he was riding a gay horse, and the cop cited him for violations of the public order act.
It is a pretty poorly worded law but really people should be held upside down and smacked with a kipper every time they reason "if you got the maximum sentence for some trivial infringement of the law, it would be unjust." That's what the judges are for, dammit.
It was a long time ago, and the CPS didn't offer any evidence.
11 browsers? how many of them have >1%market penetration? This is going to confuse the less versed users
Well they say 11 but it's 5 + 6 really. That is, they are randomly placed but in two groups - the big 5: IE, Chrome, Safari, Opera, Firefox are the only ones visible without scrolling. Most people aren't going to look at the 'below the fold" browsers.
Here's something that must be killed off in every democracy - embedded clauses that have nothing to do with the main bill or its stated purpose.
It does happen at the EU level, but not so much in the UK, I think. Could someone explain to me why the offending clauses don't just get struck out when the detail of the bill is discussed? Most bills end up significantly different from the original draft - is that not the case in the US?
LeGuin wrote some very interesting books. Unfortunately her stance on copyright is a bit too 20th centure to my taste.
Well, Doctorow is too much of a jerk for mine. He reproduced another's writers work in full without permission, and can't even manage a proper apology.
Britain hasn't had the best reputation in history.
Compared to what? It's been a colonial power but not as brutal as many of the others. It's been a stable democracy with respect for the rule of law for centuries, whilst other European countries were still absolute monarchies.
We gave the world Magna Carta and the Bill of Rights. There's plenty in our histyory to be proud of. Other parts, not so good but that goes for pretty much anywhere.
Depends. Does the UK have civil asset forfeiture?
Yes, the Proceeds of Crime Act 2002. Drug trafficking, arms dealing, people trafficking, money laundering... is grounds for forfeiture of assets. As is "making an illicit recording", "possessing an article designed for making a copy of a copyright work".
I'm frankly kind of surprised anyone was still running ReiserFS before he was in the news.
It was the default on SuSE at the time (barely), so you shouldn't be. Filesystem failure modes are always going to be fairly anecdotal*; I've never seen a really screwed filesystem, except where the drive was terminally ill.
*Unless you're Google.