The point is that the electoral college would vote according to the national popular vote, as opposed to the individual state votes, thereby making itself irrelevant and finally making 1 person 1 vote a reality. (Presidential elections are by their nature "first past the post", so proportional representation wouldn't make any difference)
Obviously it can't be to trace the original poster (why seize a mirror, or anything at all since Indymedia does not log ips),
Well, yes, I agree the motivations of the police could partly be to put pressure on a "critical" organization. Putting a check on how eager the police are to investigate a crime like this would be part of the oversight I mentioned.
However, the point about the logs is irrelevant:
"No officer, there's no need to come into my house, even if someone had committed a crime, I keep it so clean there'd be no evidence in there"
If the police believe a crime has been committed, they *have* to investigate it fully, and not ignore potentially useful evidence just because someone else tells them so.
I know everyone is going to jump up and down about the right to free speech, but that isn't really the topic here.
The police regarded the comment as an implicit threat to the trial judge, which would not come under "free speech" laws in many (most?) countries.
They seized a *mirror* of the main server (the main site is still up a running just fine), in order to try to trace the original poster, and requested that the comment was removed from the site, which it has been.
The main issue I see here is one of oversight, who's there to check that the police only look for forensics on the original poster, and don't start a fishing expedition on the seized server?
In the new T&C's for the "relaunched" Twiki it includes the following:
Derivative works
All GPLed content can of course be freely be redistributed and copied, as long as the TWiki trademark rights are maintained.
TWiki.org website content contributed by an individual is copyrighted by the contributing author. The collective work of the TWiki.org website is copyrighted by TWiki.org and may not be copied without written approval from the TWiki Community Council.
Unfortunately the submitter's had a bit too much KoolAid.
Go read the FAQ on the linked site. Anyone except those using "designated computers" in public libraries is still only going to be able to perform limited searching and previewing of in-print works. The change is that Google will now give them the "opportunity" to buy the book too.
There is a licensing deal available for educational institutions, lets hope its affordable.
The IBM system is just a web app i.e. a web page with AJAX, viewed via Safari on the iphone. Of course Apple can't ban it, anymore than they can ban you from visiting gmail with an iphone.
The whole AppStore NDA issue is important, and worthy of discussion, but can we at least avoid FUD ridden straw men like this one.
The EHF satellites are great for what they've been designed to do, deliver bandwidth to 10,000's users over a large area of the earth, but that isn't what most consumers need.
They need things that will work in urban canyons and can cope with 10,000's of users within a few square miles. This is much better served by local radio masts than satellite systems.
The future of mobile internet is 3G and WiMAX and its rivals, and its already here.
It should be emphasised that he isn't suggesting a "truth commission" that would tag all web pages.
He specifically said that he'd be interested to see how different organisations would label websites, depending on their intended use.
In many ways this is just a specific use of the semantic web concept that Berners-Lee and others have been trying to bring about for the last few years.
Yes, jet aircraft were developed during WWII, but there's no way to prove it accelerated it greatly. In fact, the first jet airliner, the Comet, was part of a deliberate attempt by the British to push their industry beyond their war needs (Brabazon Committee).
http != tcp.
The last one, well, ok, severe trauma medicine is improved by experiences in war, but that is really one of the exceptions.
Actually, modern astronomical adaptive optics are much harder than this. Look up multi-conjugate adaptive optics (MCAO) for an example of how we correct across a field to very high accuracy.
Not very useful for binoculars though, unless you have a humvee wired up with all the dedicated electronics and computers it needs.
This new technique (using turbulent cells in the air as an extra optical element) might be useful for amateurs, but it probably won't scale well to big telescopes, as their beam size is normally significantly bigger than the turbulent cells.
Who mentioned the swearing? Not me. I've got no problems with managers who make their views clearly known.
The attitude problem is that after 3 out of 3 failed launches it must be time to take stock and let your engineers do what they're best at, fix problems.
All his recent statements (not just those in the article) about keeping the launch schedule on track seem to be more aimed at investors than anyone else.
I hate to say this, but the CEO has an attitude problem.
He needs to do some reading up on the reviews of NASA after the two shuttle disasters. In both cases overconfidence, and management overruling/ignoring the views of engineers were found to be major factors.
If he keeps running "hell-bent" towards his goal he's never going to reach it.
This case is being tried in Germany, so a different set of anti-trust laws apply than in the IBM case.
The original case was brought by people involved in the gpl-violations.org project, who have a good track record of ensuring companies follow the principle of the GPL for products released in Germany.
(IIRC, IANAL in Germany anyone can bring a copyright case to court, it doesn't have to be the actual owner of the copyright)
You know the Baylis radio project turned into a successful company right?
They even make wind up generators for the OLPC: http://www.freeplayenergy.com/
Mind you, one thing that Baylis and his colleagues did right was to go to Africa with a selection of prototypes to see which features were most wanted. IIRC they'd been trying to make it look small and cool, as you would for the European market, but the most popular prototype was the biggest and loudest.
I wonder if the OLPC group could have learnt something from that?
Actually, this result isn't as exiting as that. All they've shown is that the burst wasn't colliding black holes in M31 (Andromeda). It's still entirely possible that it was colliding black holes in a more distant galaxy along the same line of sight as M31.
These specific tests were for people who claimed various symptoms due to radiation "sensitivity", headaches, nausea etc.
Their symptoms were highly correlated with being told that a radiation source was switched on, and not at all correlated with whether it was actually on or not.
i.e. the symptoms would appear if they were told the source was on, even if it was off, and would disappear if they were told it was switched off, even if it was still on.
The tests were in fact done as a "double blind" i.e. neither the test subject, nor the researcher performing the test actually knew whether the source was on or not.
Except its not voluntary. They have to pre-announce they're taking a 1Billion hit this financial quarter due to SEC regulation. Funnily enough they also announced they expect the XBOX division to be profitable next year. i.e. they're taking a huge loss now so they can claim a profit next year for their shareholders.
Only admitting to a problem due to regulatory procedures and shareholder interests? That isn't going to increase customer goodwill.
Except you also say you use MS Word on Windows. Any particular reason why you completely reject the Mac version, other than the demo's watermark?
Oh, BTW, the italics problem in NeoOffice can be solved with 10 seconds googling: http://neowiki.neooffice.org/index.php/Accessing_H elvetica_Oblique_and_Courier_Oblique
And the Canon scanner drivers? As it says on the download page:
Double-click the " ScanGear CS Installer " file in the folder. Installation starts automatically.
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The headline is correct.
The point is that the electoral college would vote according to the national popular vote, as opposed to the individual state votes, thereby making itself irrelevant and finally making 1 person 1 vote a reality. (Presidential elections are by their nature "first past the post", so proportional representation wouldn't make any difference)
Obviously it can't be to trace the original poster (why seize a mirror, or anything at all since Indymedia does not log ips),
Well, yes, I agree the motivations of the police could partly be to put pressure on a "critical" organization. Putting a check on how eager the police are to investigate a crime like this would be part of the oversight I mentioned.
However, the point about the logs is irrelevant:
"No officer, there's no need to come into my house, even if someone had committed a crime, I keep it so clean there'd be no evidence in there"
If the police believe a crime has been committed, they *have* to investigate it fully, and not ignore potentially useful evidence just because someone else tells them so.
I know everyone is going to jump up and down about the right to free speech, but that isn't really the topic here.
The police regarded the comment as an implicit threat to the trial judge, which would not come under "free speech" laws in many (most?) countries.
They seized a *mirror* of the main server (the main site is still up a running just fine), in order to try to trace the original poster, and requested that the comment was removed from the site, which it has been.
The main issue I see here is one of oversight, who's there to check that the police only look for forensics on the original poster, and don't start a fishing expedition on the seized server?
In the new T&C's for the "relaunched" Twiki it includes the following:
Derivative works
All GPLed content can of course be freely be redistributed and copied, as long as the TWiki trademark rights are maintained.
TWiki.org website content contributed by an individual is copyrighted by the contributing author. The collective work of the TWiki.org website is copyrighted by TWiki.org and may not be copied without written approval from the TWiki Community Council.
Are those 2 conditions even legal?
Unfortunately the submitter's had a bit too much KoolAid.
Go read the FAQ on the linked site. Anyone except those using "designated computers" in public libraries is still only going to be able to perform limited searching and previewing of in-print works. The change is that Google will now give them the "opportunity" to buy the book too.
There is a licensing deal available for educational institutions, lets hope its affordable.
The IBM system is just a web app i.e. a web page with AJAX, viewed via Safari on the iphone. Of course Apple can't ban it, anymore than they can ban you from visiting gmail with an iphone.
The whole AppStore NDA issue is important, and worthy of discussion, but can we at least avoid FUD ridden straw men like this one.
The EHF satellites are great for what they've been designed to do, deliver bandwidth to 10,000's users over a large area of the earth, but that isn't what most consumers need.
They need things that will work in urban canyons and can cope with 10,000's of users within a few square miles. This is much better served by local radio masts than satellite systems.
The future of mobile internet is 3G and WiMAX and its rivals, and its already here.
The original article was on the BBC:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7613201.stm
It should be emphasised that he isn't suggesting a "truth commission" that would tag all web pages.
He specifically said that he'd be interested to see how different organisations would label websites, depending on their intended use.
In many ways this is just a specific use of the semantic web concept that Berners-Lee and others have been trying to bring about for the last few years.
Yes, jet aircraft were developed during WWII, but there's no way to prove it accelerated it greatly. In fact, the first jet airliner, the Comet, was part of a deliberate attempt by the British to push their industry beyond their war needs (Brabazon Committee).
http != tcp.
The last one, well, ok, severe trauma medicine is improved by experiences in war, but that is really one of the exceptions.
Actually, modern astronomical adaptive optics are much harder than this. Look up multi-conjugate adaptive optics (MCAO) for an example of how we correct across a field to very high accuracy.
Not very useful for binoculars though, unless you have a humvee wired up with all the dedicated electronics and computers it needs.
This new technique (using turbulent cells in the air as an extra optical element) might be useful for amateurs, but it probably won't scale well to big telescopes, as their beam size is normally significantly bigger than the turbulent cells.
And this is *my* opinion.
Many, if not most, of the worlds greatest inventions were developed in peacetime, for peaceful purposes.
A short list:
Writing
Vaccinations
Steam power
Industrial revolution
Internal combustion engine
Light bulb
Aeroplanes
Transistors
World Wide Web
etc etc etc
This "war is good for technology" meme is complete hogwash. And has been throughout recorded history.
Who mentioned the swearing? Not me. I've got no problems with managers who make their views clearly known.
The attitude problem is that after 3 out of 3 failed launches it must be time to take stock and let your engineers do what they're best at, fix problems.
All his recent statements (not just those in the article) about keeping the launch schedule on track seem to be more aimed at investors than anyone else.
I hate to say this, but the CEO has an attitude problem.
He needs to do some reading up on the reviews of NASA after the two shuttle disasters. In both cases overconfidence, and management overruling/ignoring the views of engineers were found to be major factors.
If he keeps running "hell-bent" towards his goal he's never going to reach it.
This case is being tried in Germany, so a different set of anti-trust laws apply than in the IBM case. The original case was brought by people involved in the gpl-violations.org project, who have a good track record of ensuring companies follow the principle of the GPL for products released in Germany. (IIRC, IANAL in Germany anyone can bring a copyright case to court, it doesn't have to be the actual owner of the copyright)
You know the Baylis radio project turned into a successful company right? They even make wind up generators for the OLPC: http://www.freeplayenergy.com/ Mind you, one thing that Baylis and his colleagues did right was to go to Africa with a selection of prototypes to see which features were most wanted. IIRC they'd been trying to make it look small and cool, as you would for the European market, but the most popular prototype was the biggest and loudest. I wonder if the OLPC group could have learnt something from that?
Actually, this result isn't as exiting as that. All they've shown is that the burst wasn't colliding black holes in M31 (Andromeda). It's still entirely possible that it was colliding black holes in a more distant galaxy along the same line of sight as M31.
The Finder does have an Undo command. Work's fine over a networked drive too.
Their symptoms were highly correlated with being told that a radiation source was switched on, and not at all correlated with whether it was actually on or not.
i.e. the symptoms would appear if they were told the source was on, even if it was off, and would disappear if they were told it was switched off, even if it was still on.
The tests were in fact done as a "double blind" i.e. neither the test subject, nor the researcher performing the test actually knew whether the source was on or not.
Only admitting to a problem due to regulatory procedures and shareholder interests? That isn't going to increase customer goodwill.
Except you also say you use MS Word on Windows. Any particular reason why you completely reject the Mac version, other than the demo's watermark? Oh, BTW, the italics problem in NeoOffice can be solved with 10 seconds googling: http://neowiki.neooffice.org/index.php/Accessing_H elvetica_Oblique_and_Courier_Oblique
And the Canon scanner drivers? As it says on the download page:
Double-click the " ScanGear CS Installer " file in the folder. Installation starts automatically.
OK, so the summary of the article suggests otherwise then....
Of course, OS X also does live updates of windows in Expose, don't know why the article suggests otherwise.