So many people blaming the EPA regulation for reducing the effectiveness of an asthma medication, yet no one asking why they have asthma in the first place, and whether tougher EPA air standards might help.
Asthma is massively more common today, particularly in children, than only a few decades ago. Skin cancer is not, in large part thanks to a decades old agreement to phase out CFCs -- one of the great international regulatory successes of our time. Let's keep it that way, and also work on cleaner air for the asthma patients.
A (mildly) restrictive license such as CC BY/ND does not prevent releasing the work under other more permissive conditions later. ND does not in any way limit the author's right to approve follow up projects. If, for instance, the work includes extensive data tables, merging those into an independent dataset might exceed most definitions of fair use. However, an author's note could explain the author's extreme likelyhood to approve such uses on a case-by-case basis, which would allow for appropriate conditions (ie "you can use my data, but you must republish all of it, not just the section that supports your conclusion").
Correct. Nor does "open-source" mean "you get exclusive rights". Rather the opposite.
The likely rationale for this is that having universities work on problems of Intel's chooseing gives them enough of an early-mover advantage that they don't much care who uses it later.
Of course the folks who created the first even-a-little-bit-popular tablet had a bunch of opinions about tablets and really high standards. I would be shocked if s/he didn't.
RTFA. Carefully. The actual regulation is not at issue. What the Guardian is reporting is a notice to ISPs, the contents of which, according to the Guardian, are not what you describe.
If you are surprised that government is implementing policy that differs significantly from written law... well, you must be new here, whatever your UID# says.
Yes and no. The African system is a real beast to do transactions internationally. It's a problem, particularly if you want to do something Amazon-like. Online commerce basically doesn't exist in North Africa - there are few credit cards, and no way to do payments abroad, so there's nothing to buy online. It's a green field.
I commuted to work by bike for a winter, decided it worked and sold my car. Currently I can buy myself a new bike every year with what I was paying in insurance alone. I don't, because with occasional maintenance and replacements, my bike works as well today as it did the day it was made... pretty much forever. Find a car sold today where that's true.
This study takes something simple -- a 3000lbs machine that burns petrol releases more carbon than a 19lbs machine that occasionally needs a spritz of petrol on the chain -- and makes it seem complicated, apparently to illustrate the point that buying stuff creates carbon. I knew that, thanks.
The fine folks at Free Geek give away a lot of computers. It's a work-to-own program where volunteers recycle hardware, learn how to build systems, and after a modest investment of hours walk out the door with a free machine.
Free Geek wipes all drives and install a Linux OS (Ubuntu, I believe). The local Linux user group, however, lacks enthusiasm for this user base, making comments which were characterized as "less than racially inclusive" when presented with the opportunity to hang out with these low income / high enthusiasm users.
Thanks for seeing a non-white superhero as somehow remarkable purely on the basis of his race, instead of any other commentary on the storyline, business decisions, or anything else driving the reboot of a franchise. That's, like, totally not a bummer to non-white fans of comic books.
Let Dropbox do what it's really quite good at: ubiquitous access on a number of platforms. Meanwhile, don't trust them for shit, because they haev no real incentive to provide more than superficial "trust me" security. Instead, create a TrueCrypt partition on your Dropbox drive so that the only thing Dropbox is hosting is one giant file which no one at Dropbox (or any other service) can decrypt. Because both mount as hard drives, using them together is surprisingly low hassle: it reads to the user like any other partition. There are, I'm sure, ways to attack this (fellow/.ers, enlighten me!), but the basic framework seems pretty solid - Dropbox can get broken wide open, and you don't care at all.
Quit asking what cloud provider can be trusted, and look for solutions which do not require trust in institutions you do not own.
> For fuck's sake, all I want from them is a browser, not a R&D department that makes the world a better place.
You had a browser. It was called Internet Explorer 6. Then Mozilla came a long and made the world a better place. And now you want a better browser, because you can see that interoperable and open infrastructure is better. Pretty soon you'll be saying things like "I just want a mobile operating system" and "I just want a standard document format" and "I just want a way to read files in the browser" and Mozilla will be off making the world a better place again.
Numbers don't matter. I don't need hundreds of apps, or even "low hundreds". I need the apps that I actually use to work really, really well. This is how we should judge a platform, not the slush pile of wanna-apps that don't see more than 1000 installs.
Proposed solution: tech writers pick a basket of 20 most used apps -- let the crowd decide which ones matter. And evaluate those for UI, stability, etc. Then we can have a conversation about platform communities.
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So many people blaming the EPA regulation for reducing the effectiveness of an asthma medication, yet no one asking why they have asthma in the first place, and whether tougher EPA air standards might help.
Asthma is massively more common today, particularly in children, than only a few decades ago. Skin cancer is not, in large part thanks to a decades old agreement to phase out CFCs -- one of the great international regulatory successes of our time. Let's keep it that way, and also work on cleaner air for the asthma patients.
Additional on No-Derivatives license.
A (mildly) restrictive license such as CC BY/ND does not prevent releasing the work under other more permissive conditions later. ND does not in any way limit the author's right to approve follow up projects. If, for instance, the work includes extensive data tables, merging those into an independent dataset might exceed most definitions of fair use. However, an author's note could explain the author's extreme likelyhood to approve such uses on a case-by-case basis, which would allow for appropriate conditions (ie "you can use my data, but you must republish all of it, not just the section that supports your conclusion").
Correct. Nor does "open-source" mean "you get exclusive rights". Rather the opposite.
The likely rationale for this is that having universities work on problems of Intel's chooseing gives them enough of an early-mover advantage that they don't much care who uses it later.
You say wall paper, someone else says targeted daily deal advertising. I'll pass.
Of course the folks who created the first even-a-little-bit-popular tablet had a bunch of opinions about tablets and really high standards. I would be shocked if s/he didn't.
So the problem is that we don't know how much Jeagermeister there is? Is there a Jaegermeister Uncertainly Principal?
In context, putting this on "the Chinese" is kinda racist. It's not like it's one undifferentiated mass of yellow people.
Yes. Just because it's likely to work doesn't make it less exciting.
RTFA. Carefully. The actual regulation is not at issue. What the Guardian is reporting is a notice to ISPs, the contents of which, according to the Guardian, are not what you describe.
If you are surprised that government is implementing policy that differs significantly from written law... well, you must be new here, whatever your UID# says.
> Apparently the cops on the scene didn't buy her "I didn't realize it was stolen" line for a second.
And that's why the burden of proof is on the state.
In Soviet Russia, volleyball serves you!
(note, you may need to RTFA).
Yes and no. The African system is a real beast to do transactions internationally. It's a problem, particularly if you want to do something Amazon-like. Online commerce basically doesn't exist in North Africa - there are few credit cards, and no way to do payments abroad, so there's nothing to buy online. It's a green field.
I commuted to work by bike for a winter, decided it worked and sold my car. Currently I can buy myself a new bike every year with what I was paying in insurance alone. I don't, because with occasional maintenance and replacements, my bike works as well today as it did the day it was made... pretty much forever. Find a car sold today where that's true.
This study takes something simple -- a 3000lbs machine that burns petrol releases more carbon than a 19lbs machine that occasionally needs a spritz of petrol on the chain -- and makes it seem complicated, apparently to illustrate the point that buying stuff creates carbon. I knew that, thanks.
In a competitive market, blah blah blah...
And in a unicorn playground mobile data is free free free!
You keep talking about capitalism as if it doesn't capture regulators and entrench monopolies. Look around. It is what it is.
The fine folks at Free Geek give away a lot of computers. It's a work-to-own program where volunteers recycle hardware, learn how to build systems, and after a modest investment of hours walk out the door with a free machine.
Free Geek wipes all drives and install a Linux OS (Ubuntu, I believe). The local Linux user group, however, lacks enthusiasm for this user base, making comments which were characterized as "less than racially inclusive" when presented with the opportunity to hang out with these low income / high enthusiasm users.
So, there's an option for you.
http://freegeekchicago.org/
Yes, because 80 years of white male characters had nothing to do with selling comic books to white males.
Thanks for seeing a non-white superhero as somehow remarkable purely on the basis of his race, instead of any other commentary on the storyline, business decisions, or anything else driving the reboot of a franchise. That's, like, totally not a bummer to non-white fans of comic books.
Please let this turn into an Angry Hobbit cosplay rally put on by the Tea Party. Oh, I cannot wait for that.
It turns out one way to reduce the Debt Per GDP is the grow the fucking economy, and it turns out 25% unemployment is not a great way to do that.
Let Dropbox do what it's really quite good at: ubiquitous access on a number of platforms. Meanwhile, don't trust them for shit, because they haev no real incentive to provide more than superficial "trust me" security. Instead, create a TrueCrypt partition on your Dropbox drive so that the only thing Dropbox is hosting is one giant file which no one at Dropbox (or any other service) can decrypt. Because both mount as hard drives, using them together is surprisingly low hassle: it reads to the user like any other partition. There are, I'm sure, ways to attack this (fellow /.ers, enlighten me!), but the basic framework seems pretty solid - Dropbox can get broken wide open, and you don't care at all.
Quit asking what cloud provider can be trusted, and look for solutions which do not require trust in institutions you do not own.
Innovation involves a rate of failure greater than zero.
> For fuck's sake, all I want from them is a browser, not a R&D department that makes the world a better place.
You had a browser. It was called Internet Explorer 6. Then Mozilla came a long and made the world a better place. And now you want a better browser, because you can see that interoperable and open infrastructure is better. Pretty soon you'll be saying things like "I just want a mobile operating system" and "I just want a standard document format" and "I just want a way to read files in the browser" and Mozilla will be off making the world a better place again.
It's a feature.
The style name you're looking for is "dieselpunk."
Oh good. I'll notify Etsy.
^ For the win.
Numbers don't matter. I don't need hundreds of apps, or even "low hundreds". I need the apps that I actually use to work really, really well. This is how we should judge a platform, not the slush pile of wanna-apps that don't see more than 1000 installs.
Proposed solution: tech writers pick a basket of 20 most used apps -- let the crowd decide which ones matter. And evaluate those for UI, stability, etc. Then we can have a conversation about platform communities.