The problem with that attitude is that by the time you can start the process of removing a bad law, it's already done damage. I'd prefer the approach where the stupidity isn't allowed to happen in the first place - no-one gets hurt and less resources are spent.
Also, if a law has no effect, then IMO it should be gotten rid of. It will still cause unnecessary overhead by having to be checked for effect in potentially related cases.
In quite the same sense, "You could find a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow" is also true. Sure, in reality there might be conditions like requiring different laws of physics than reality has, but that doesn't change the basic truth, now does it?
So I've got a $BIGNUM of screws to screw in and I could use either a screwdriver or a power tool, which I don't know how to use yet. Clearly the screwdriver is the superior option, because I have better things to do than wasting my time learning tools.
Microsoft's fine had penalties added in for not paying on time, so it's not exactly a fair comparison point. They could have gotten off rather lighter if they'd skipped dicking about. And the size of the fine is based on yearly revenue, so if Intel's fine is bigger, it just means Intel is bigger.
Additionally, the judge sits on the board of the Swedish Association for the Protection of Industrial Property (Svenska fÃreningen fÃr industriellt rÃttsskydd), which is lobbying for tougher copyright laws.
However, NorstrÃm insisted to the radio station that his membership of the various copyright protection groups did not constitute a conflict of interestâ.
It is indeed quite obvious that being a leading member of a copyright lobby organization can not in any way be seen as a conflict of interest.
There is a general tendency not to admit one has been wrong after having invested in something. A result is that people who have been scammed are generally unwilling to believe they've been scammed, even when confronted with evidence. They'll rather make up flimsy explanations for why the evidence can't be right.
So, no, the sucker won't learn fast, if at all. And it won't be cheap, because those that do learn will end up paranoid, unable to trust other people ever again.
Iraq _had_ WMDs. They did not have any by the time US invaded. The GP's point, I think, was that if Saddam was subjected to a real trial, he'd have a chance to tell the truth about how he got the weapons and what happened to them. Both points being rather uncomfortable for the US. In the first case for supplying them and in the latter for using them as an excuse to invade even when all evidence pointed at the weapons no longer existing.
Playing go in CGoban (Java program) and listening to music at the same time. Way back when Java did audio via OSS and there was no mixing you either got just the clicks from the game - which are not an enterily unimportant part of the playing experience - or the music.
Or more generally, music and anything you'd expect to get audio cues from.
Writes may be re-ordered as the system sees fit, as long as end result is identical - but all guarantees are void in undefined situations like crashes. If your write order is critical, you have to enforce it by fsyncing.
The "transactional" write & rename behaviour is quite sensible, though. So there should probably be some easier mechanic to invoke it than calling fsync a bunch of times.
It's more like their opponents get to go "Look how $name voted against this very necessary and solid bill!". Which wouldn't be much of a problem if your people weren't drooling morons that can't comprehend anything longer than a 5 second soundbite. Which is incidentally too short a time to defend yourself in by explaining why the evil addition was necessary to stop.
The old definition was pretty much arbitrary. The problem was that a non-arbitrary definition that does leave Pluto as a planet needs to add several other bodies as planets that are rather unlike the other bodies currently called planets. Choices were to expand the meaning of the term or contract it. They chose contracting it and adding new definitions for those objects that didn't fit the new definition of planet, but are still significant enough not to be lumped with the generic small rocks.
But why is that a bad thing that patents are "devalued" thus? I see no problem in only being able to obtain damages relative to the actual value of the patent.
A quibble on Lex Nokia: It's not just employers. It's any "service provider", for pretty nebulous definitions of "service" and "provider". Up to and including the landlord and grounds keeper in case of your home connection.
So you've got this really spiffy object-oriented OS automatically persisting your objects. What's the serialized representation of those objects? Any answer other than just having the system puke the memory representation of the object onto permanent storage media means that the programmer has to have a say in determining that representation. And this system was all about not having the programmer worry about those messy details. Except having the serialized form be a memory blob means the only thing you can ever deserialize it to is the exact same version of that particular object type. This is why we have files. Letting the programmer do the de/serialization just means you're calling your files something else and added some mandatory cruft on top. Also, without files (or equivalent), you can't have standard file formats. This kind of system would then be vendor lock-in heaven.
2% is bloody well not an acceptable error rate when manual counting error rate is 0.5% on average. As such, the court saying 2% is acceptable is utter bullshit.
On the offchance that you're really this stupid and not just a troll: That won't work, because it won't be fair from the "unskilled laborer's" point of view. Or, rather, too unfair to tolerate. Living in a real, imperfect society means that people have to tolerate occasional unfairness. But there is a limit to that and pushing people over the limit usually generates a violent reaction.
It merely needs to be preserved pristine long enough to be studied. But it is pretty damn important to preserve Mars until presence / lack of life there has been confirmed and if life is present, it has been examined.
The big questions being "How common is life?" and if life does exist on Mars "How does it differ from Earth life?".
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The problem with that attitude is that by the time you can start the process of removing a bad law, it's already done damage. I'd prefer the approach where the stupidity isn't allowed to happen in the first place - no-one gets hurt and less resources are spent.
Also, if a law has no effect, then IMO it should be gotten rid of. It will still cause unnecessary overhead by having to be checked for effect in potentially related cases.
In quite the same sense, "You could find a pot of gold at the end of the rainbow" is also true. Sure, in reality there might be conditions like requiring different laws of physics than reality has, but that doesn't change the basic truth, now does it?
I'm currently borrowing a copy of company of heroes off my brother just by breaking the terms of the service, which I will get his account banned for
Fixed that for you. Still not seeing any problems?
So I've got a $BIGNUM of screws to screw in and I could use either a screwdriver or a power tool, which I don't know how to use yet.
Clearly the screwdriver is the superior option, because I have better things to do than wasting my time learning tools.
Lagrange point. Location where the gravitic pulls of some objects cancel each other out. In this case, it's Earth and Moon.
Microsoft's fine had penalties added in for not paying on time, so it's not exactly a fair comparison point. They could have gotten off rather lighter if they'd skipped dicking about.
And the size of the fine is based on yearly revenue, so if Intel's fine is bigger, it just means Intel is bigger.
Additionally, the judge sits on the board of the Swedish Association for the Protection of Industrial Property (Svenska fÃreningen fÃr industriellt rÃttsskydd), which is lobbying for tougher copyright laws.
However, NorstrÃm insisted to the radio station that his membership of the various copyright protection groups did not constitute a conflict of interestâ.
It is indeed quite obvious that being a leading member of a copyright lobby organization can not in any way be seen as a conflict of interest.
And in other news, Slashdot still fails at UTF8.
Hint: Virus tailored for gene insertion.
There is a general tendency not to admit one has been wrong after having invested in something. A result is that people who have been scammed are generally unwilling to believe they've been scammed, even when confronted with evidence. They'll rather make up flimsy explanations for why the evidence can't be right.
So, no, the sucker won't learn fast, if at all. And it won't be cheap, because those that do learn will end up paranoid, unable to trust other people ever again.
Iraq _had_ WMDs. They did not have any by the time US invaded.
The GP's point, I think, was that if Saddam was subjected to a real trial, he'd have a chance to tell the truth about how he got the weapons and what happened to them. Both points being rather uncomfortable for the US. In the first case for supplying them and in the latter for using them as an excuse to invade even when all evidence pointed at the weapons no longer existing.
Playing go in CGoban (Java program) and listening to music at the same time. Way back when Java did audio via OSS and there was no mixing you either got just the clicks from the game - which are not an enterily unimportant part of the playing experience - or the music.
Or more generally, music and anything you'd expect to get audio cues from.
Writes may be re-ordered as the system sees fit, as long as end result is identical - but all guarantees are void in undefined situations like crashes. If your write order is critical, you have to enforce it by fsyncing.
The "transactional" write & rename behaviour is quite sensible, though. So there should probably be some easier mechanic to invoke it than calling fsync a bunch of times.
write. fsync. rename. fsync.
Oh, hey, look at all that data guaranteed not lost.
It's more like their opponents get to go "Look how $name voted against this very necessary and solid bill!". Which wouldn't be much of a problem if your people weren't drooling morons that can't comprehend anything longer than a 5 second soundbite. Which is incidentally too short a time to defend yourself in by explaining why the evil addition was necessary to stop.
The old definition was pretty much arbitrary. The problem was that a non-arbitrary definition that does leave Pluto as a planet needs to add several other bodies as planets that are rather unlike the other bodies currently called planets. Choices were to expand the meaning of the term or contract it. They chose contracting it and adding new definitions for those objects that didn't fit the new definition of planet, but are still significant enough not to be lumped with the generic small rocks.
But why is that a bad thing that patents are "devalued" thus? I see no problem in only being able to obtain damages relative to the actual value of the patent.
A quibble on Lex Nokia: It's not just employers. It's any "service provider", for pretty nebulous definitions of "service" and "provider". Up to and including the landlord and grounds keeper in case of your home connection.
Because there never is anything one would call "halfthis halfthat". All things are in transition and all things are also things themselves.
So you've got this really spiffy object-oriented OS automatically persisting your objects. What's the serialized representation of those objects? Any answer other than just having the system puke the memory representation of the object onto permanent storage media means that the programmer has to have a say in determining that representation. And this system was all about not having the programmer worry about those messy details. Except having the serialized form be a memory blob means the only thing you can ever deserialize it to is the exact same version of that particular object type.
This is why we have files. Letting the programmer do the de/serialization just means you're calling your files something else and added some mandatory cruft on top. Also, without files (or equivalent), you can't have standard file formats. This kind of system would then be vendor lock-in heaven.
The difference would be that different distros don't exist merely for the sake of causing confusion in the market.
It's voting. That means spoilage has weighting ratio relative to all other considerations of +infinity.
2% is bloody well not an acceptable error rate when manual counting error rate is 0.5% on average. As such, the court saying 2% is acceptable is utter bullshit.
Again, like others all you're doing is wasting your time complaining when you should be offering an alternative to DRM which stops piracy.
Why? DRM and no DRM are equivalent as far as stopping piracy goes.
On the offchance that you're really this stupid and not just a troll:
That won't work, because it won't be fair from the "unskilled laborer's" point of view. Or, rather, too unfair to tolerate. Living in a real, imperfect society means that people have to tolerate occasional unfairness. But there is a limit to that and pushing people over the limit usually generates a violent reaction.
It merely needs to be preserved pristine long enough to be studied.
But it is pretty damn important to preserve Mars until presence / lack of life there has been confirmed and if life is present, it has been examined.
The big questions being "How common is life?" and if life does exist on Mars "How does it differ from Earth life?".