> I wonder, does it account for leap seconds and the slowing rotation of the Earth?
Try reading TFA:
Due to the elliptical orbit of Earth, variations in the absolute time kept by the pendulum and solar time can vary by as much as +/- 15 minutes each year. The Equation of Time Cam measures the difference in these two times and recalibrates the clock, while also correcting for the Earth's axis wobble and 1 second per century decrease in speed.
...
Sunlight striking a wire will allow this solar synchronizer to make minute adjustments and realign the clock's absolute time pendulum with true solar time.
> someone's going to look foolish in a few thousand years when their clock is off.
That's wrong at so many levels, but I'll just say that it's better to miss a few seconds over 10,000 years than to miss your life by doing nothing with it.
Published source code is not the same as "open" source code.
They're trying to confuse the issue so they can have it both ways - look like a good corporate citizen by donating to the community, but making us pay for the donation.
> I don't expect even the blogosphere to treat Obama like it treated Bush How nice "the blogosphere" (slashdot) is to the POTUS is not really the issue.
The issue here is whether the People still have any power over the Government. This is the second POTUS/DOJ to give the People the finger.
But according to FTA this argument is way out there. It's hard to imagine SCOTUS buying the argument that the DOJ is immune from any litigation on the subject. DOJ may be sabotaging their own case, which could result in the DOJ being reined in.
> God knows this is not a story that the doting MSM would ever run on its own Amen. It's sad to see that the People are oblivious/useless/impotent, the Legislature bipolar with myopia and attention deficit disorder, and the morbidly obese Executive hungrier the more it eats.
The (POTUS-appointed) nine member Supreme Court is the only barrier between whatever freedoms Americans have, and tyranny.
It is rather amazing that right after the RIAA experiemce proves that this is a spectacularly bad idea, the AP dusts it off and tries it on. Don't these guys read the news?
Thanks for your explanation, it's the best I've seen.
> the court empowered the Authors Guild to negotiate on behalf of all members
> of the class (holders of copyrights to orphaned works)
Doesn't a class action lawsuit requires some lead plaintiff who is a member of the class? Did some author or publisher come forward and say "Google copied my book without permission after I disappeared"?
The named plaintiffs in this case are Herbert Mitgang, Betty Miles, and Daniel Hoffman, all authors who have copyrighted books at the University of Michigan, and who obviously have not abandoned their copyrights.
So I can see how they'd sue on behalf of copyright holders who haven't given google license to copy. But how did they manage to include in the class copyright holders who have disappeared off the face of the earth?
> How do you think Google was granted the ability to republish 'orphaned' works in the first place? I don't know.
I think Google did the equivalent of re-cirulating trinkets they found in dumpsters, and then got sued by the Trinket Peddler Association who was acting in good faith on behalf of unidentified apartment dwellers who might have children. Then some Judge, for the good of the children, granted Google rights to dumpster diving. They're not exclusive rights, mind you - anybody can dumpster dive, and take whatever they'd like, as long as they can't find the owner of the discarded trinket, and that owner says they can have it.
> The time to negotiate is when you're still holding the cards... I don't think they saw this coming. They let somebody scan the books - what's the big deal? How could they have known that in the future some exclusive club would sell the copyright for these books to Google?
I'm still confused about how some group of publishers could sell something they didn't own. But if that's how it works, I think I'm going to sell to Exxon Mobil exclusive rights to drill for oil in Orrin Hatch's living room.
My thinking too. Who sued them? Doesn't tort law have a concept called "standing?" Can I sue the US Army for survivor's benefits on behalf of the Unknown Soldier?
I haven't found the actual text of the proposed settlement, but FTA:
While the registry's agreement with Google is not exclusive, the registry will be allowed to license to others only the books whose authors and publishers have explicitly authorized it. Since no such authorization is possible for orphan works, only Google would have access to them, so only Google could assemble a truly comprehensive book database.
> untrained non-cops using deadly force if the president gave the ok and declared some kind of local emergency. As despicable as "Operation TIPS" would be, I find no reference to anything close to "non-cops using deadly force" within the article cited.
> I WISH I was making this up!;( Apparently your wish has been granted.
> If you're sharing a copyrighted file via torrent without permission, I think you indisputably are violating copyright law
I think the mafiaa, unexpectedly, claims a higher hurdle for themselves:
The movie studios' lawyers argued that this is irrelevant to their case as all they need to prove is that iiNet users illegally obtained the files and then made them available for others
That part about starting out with an illegal file seems to me to leave a pretty big door open.
Awhile back I was trying to explain to a stickler-for-the-rules nothing-to-hide trust-the-system colleague why dvd regions were stupid. He didn't see the problem. Until he brought back some DVDs from overseas.
If our heads of state and legislators actually experienced DRM for themselves, DRMs days would probably be numbered.
the scientists have identified a star potentially close to explosion, whose mass was estimated to be equal to 50-100 Suns. Their observations revealed that while a small part of the star's mass was "flung off" in the explosion, most of the material, according to Gal-Yam, was "drawn into the collapsing core as its gravitational pull mounted." In subsequent images taken of that region of the sky, the star does seem to have disappeared, which led the astronomers to conclude that it has, indeed, become a black hole.
The explosion of such an 'immature' star has led scientists to put existing theories of stellar evolution to doubt - "This might mean that we are fundamentally wrong about the evolution of massive stars, and that theories need revising," said Gal-Yam
How did they figure out the star's age? Without a link to the original research, this article just sounds like one picture where a bright dot is there, and another picture where they can't see it anymore. If that's all we've got, I don't see why we need to rewrite solar physics.
I like your logic. You completely bypassed the scientific merits of each side and went straight to the heart of the matter, that 1) "proponents of evolution" are stubborn, close-minded pricks, 2) "no different than the people they claim the creationists are." Ergo, 3)creationist dogma deserves the same airtime as scientifically proven fact. QED
Yeah, it kind of sounds possible to use trust metrics to distribute the salary. But what kind of trust metrics?
If he uses his example of advogato, then co-workers would upmod their peers. But I'm not sure that structure creates the right incentives for modders - if I upmod some stranger, he gets a bigger piece of the pie - every upmod I do makes my take smaller. Every downmod makes my piece bigger. And if friends upmod friends, maybe they'll be expecting some kind of reciprocity.
This "opem source company" is a really interesting idea, but to the extent that trust metrics can be gamed, the concept can be broken.
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... when used as identification rather than authentication.
For persistency, I like to store them in the freezer.
> is this a responsible thing to do?
Of course it is. How can we implement security if we don't understand the ways we can be attacked?
Well, if the secretary doesn't just use Office, but actually writes in OOXML, maybe "OOXML Developer" is a pretty good title.
Try reading TFA:
Due to the elliptical orbit of Earth, variations in the absolute time kept by the pendulum and solar time can vary by as much as +/- 15 minutes each year. The Equation of Time Cam measures the difference in these two times and recalibrates the clock, while also correcting for the Earth's axis wobble and 1 second per century decrease in speed.
...
Sunlight striking a wire will allow this solar synchronizer to make minute adjustments and realign the clock's absolute time pendulum with true solar time.
> someone's going to look foolish in a few thousand years when their clock is off.
That's wrong at so many levels, but I'll just say that it's better to miss a few seconds over 10,000 years than to miss your life by doing nothing with it.
It would seem that "legality" is proportional to the cost of your legal counsel, and inversely proportional to the virtue of your cause.
Published source code is not the same as "open" source code.
They're trying to confuse the issue so they can have it both ways - look like a good corporate citizen by donating to the community, but making us pay for the donation.
> I don't expect even the blogosphere to treat Obama like it treated Bush
How nice "the blogosphere" (slashdot) is to the POTUS is not really the issue.
The issue here is whether the People still have any power over the Government. This is the second POTUS/DOJ to give the People the finger.
But according to FTA this argument is way out there. It's hard to imagine SCOTUS buying the argument that the DOJ is immune from any litigation on the subject. DOJ may be sabotaging their own case, which could result in the DOJ being reined in.
> God knows this is not a story that the doting MSM would ever run on its own
Amen. It's sad to see that the People are oblivious/useless/impotent, the Legislature bipolar with myopia and attention deficit disorder, and the morbidly obese Executive hungrier the more it eats.
The (POTUS-appointed) nine member Supreme Court is the only barrier between whatever freedoms Americans have, and tyranny.
> it's unnecessary.
I'd say ears are unnecessary to navies to about the same extent that eyes are unnecessary for armies.
It is rather amazing that right after the RIAA experiemce proves that this is a spectacularly bad idea, the AP dusts it off and tries it on. Don't these guys read the news?
The "firmer proof" is only required if you want the scientific community to call it a law.
The standard for getting your fifteen minutes of fame is considerably lower.
Thanks for your explanation, it's the best I've seen.
> the court empowered the Authors Guild to negotiate on behalf of all members
> of the class (holders of copyrights to orphaned works)
Doesn't a class action lawsuit requires some lead plaintiff who is a member of the class? Did some author or publisher come forward and say "Google copied my book without permission after I disappeared"?
The named plaintiffs in this case are Herbert Mitgang, Betty Miles, and Daniel Hoffman, all authors who have copyrighted books at the University of Michigan, and who obviously have not abandoned their copyrights.
So I can see how they'd sue on behalf of copyright holders who haven't given google license to copy. But how did they manage to include in the class copyright holders who have disappeared off the face of the earth?
> How do you think Google was granted the ability to republish 'orphaned' works in the first place?
I don't know.
I think Google did the equivalent of re-cirulating trinkets they found in dumpsters, and then got sued by the Trinket Peddler Association who was acting in good faith on behalf of unidentified apartment dwellers who might have children. Then some Judge, for the good of the children, granted Google rights to dumpster diving. They're not exclusive rights, mind you - anybody can dumpster dive, and take whatever they'd like, as long as they can't find the owner of the discarded trinket, and that owner says they can have it.
> The time to negotiate is when you're still holding the cards...
I don't think they saw this coming. They let somebody scan the books - what's the big deal? How could they have known that in the future some exclusive club would sell the copyright for these books to Google?
I'm still confused about how some group of publishers could sell something they didn't own. But if that's how it works, I think I'm going to sell to Exxon Mobil exclusive rights to drill for oil in Orrin Hatch's living room.
My thinking too. Who sued them? Doesn't tort law have a concept called "standing?" Can I sue the US Army for survivor's benefits on behalf of the Unknown Soldier?
While the registry's agreement with Google is not exclusive, the registry will be allowed to license to others only the books whose authors and publishers have explicitly authorized it. Since no such authorization is possible for orphan works, only Google would have access to them, so only Google could assemble a truly comprehensive book database.
(emphasis mine.)
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> untrained non-cops using deadly force if the president gave the ok and declared some kind of local emergency.
As despicable as "Operation TIPS" would be, I find no reference to anything close to "non-cops using deadly force" within the article cited.
> I WISH I was making this up! ;(
Apparently your wish has been granted.
I'd like to see a scientific study of how noticeably different they taste if boiled alive vs killed one second before being thrown in the pot.
I think the mafiaa, unexpectedly, claims a higher hurdle for themselves:
The movie studios' lawyers argued that this is irrelevant to their case as all they need to prove is that iiNet users illegally obtained the files and then made them available for others
That part about starting out with an illegal file seems to me to leave a pretty big door open.
Mod parent up.
Awhile back I was trying to explain to a stickler-for-the-rules nothing-to-hide trust-the-system colleague why dvd regions were stupid. He didn't see the problem. Until he brought back some DVDs from overseas.
If our heads of state and legislators actually experienced DRM for themselves, DRMs days would probably be numbered.
"That's us, dude!"
the scientists have identified a star potentially close to explosion, whose mass was estimated to be equal to 50-100 Suns. Their observations revealed that while a small part of the star's mass was "flung off" in the explosion, most of the material, according to Gal-Yam, was "drawn into the collapsing core as its gravitational pull mounted." In subsequent images taken of that region of the sky, the star does seem to have disappeared, which led the astronomers to conclude that it has, indeed, become a black hole.
The explosion of such an 'immature' star has led scientists to put existing theories of stellar evolution to doubt - "This might mean that we are fundamentally wrong about the evolution of massive stars, and that theories need revising," said Gal-Yam
How did they figure out the star's age? Without a link to the original research, this article just sounds like one picture where a bright dot is there, and another picture where they can't see it anymore. If that's all we've got, I don't see why we need to rewrite solar physics.
I like your logic. You completely bypassed the scientific merits of each side and went straight to the heart of the matter, that
1) "proponents of evolution" are stubborn, close-minded pricks,
2) "no different than the people they claim the creationists are."
Ergo,
3)creationist dogma deserves the same airtime as scientifically proven fact.
QED
Yeah, it kind of sounds possible to use trust metrics to distribute the salary. But what kind of trust metrics?
If he uses his example of advogato, then co-workers would upmod their peers. But I'm not sure that structure creates the right incentives for modders - if I upmod some stranger, he gets a bigger piece of the pie - every upmod I do makes my take smaller. Every downmod makes my piece bigger. And if friends upmod friends, maybe they'll be expecting some kind of reciprocity.
This "opem source company" is a really interesting idea, but to the extent that trust metrics can be gamed, the concept can be broken.