I think the market has lots of room for improvement. It would be nice to have, not just a GPS system, but an in-car computer. Imagine if the computer could hook up to OBD-II, odometer, speedometer, radio, rear-view camera, a cell/wireless network, and other in-car systems. It could track fuel usage on every trip, overlay Wikipedia geographic coordinates, log milage information for tax reasons, record traffic stops (even capturing a few minutes of video prior to the stop), and countless other things.
A good system would boot up in less than two seconds, start playing music where it left off, and instantly switch on a rear-view camera as soon as the car switches to reverse. Most existing systems have only a few of the aforementioned features, they tend to run fairly slow, and they have startup times that leave you wonting for music.
I think a feature-complete system would require a fast processor, a large display (probably requiring custom dashboard work), and a lot of wiring.
My own research turned up Navit which looks pretty good for the navigation piece.
The US is HUGE and extremely diverse. Pick your climate, scenery, culture, government, etc., and you'll find it somewhere in the US.
That's an excellent point. The US has 50 states and numerous territories. Each of the 50 states has its own government and several of the territories do as well.
Given the way the math works out I'm going to say it's.015 cents per kilobit. AT&T claims he used 9 gigabytes. That is 9,663,676,416 bytes = 9,437,184 kilobytes* = 77,309,411.328 kilobits. At.015 cents per kilobit it comes out to $11,596.41. The summary claims he was charged $11,000.
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
This is an issue of the government conducting an unreasonable search without a warrant. If Justice Thomas did not believe in stare decisis he would have not only ruled the search unconstitutional but he would have held the school personnel liable since confusing precedent is irrelevant.
This is an excellent example of what the strict constructionist crowd fails to understand. When the constitution was written it did not apply to schools at all. It wasn't until the 14th amendment that the fourth amendment applied outside the federal government. The constitution clearly applies to public schools but at the time the 14th amendment was ratified most voters had never attended a public school. I think the notion that schools would function as law enforcement at that time would have been considered absurd.
There are many exemptions in bankruptcy law but I don't believe any of them apply to judgments for copyright infringement. Also, regarding collection, unless a judgment was entered on behalf of the "United States" (student loans, federal taxes, etc) the judgment expires according to state law. In Minnesota, judgments expire after ten years. A judgment entered on behalf of the "United States" expires after 20 years.
This isn't about Wikipedia hiring editors, but rather companies or groups hiring editors for Wikipedia, sometimes in violation of policies.
It looks like the person in question has done exactly that. I can't link straight to the page but here is the author's profile. Click on "Web Content (9)". This will show reviews of his work. He was paid $125 for a project titled "Wikipedia submission for my new product". He even got a rating of 4.9 out of 5.0 for the work. He was paid $150 for another project title "Write our Wikipedia Listing for Our Company".
Where I work we wrote our own Document Management System that integrates with the rest of our systems. The integration has proven quite beneficial. Off-the-shelf systems can integrate but it generally doesn't work very well. Anyway, we were looking at using SharePoint as our back-end to get the indexing support and improved versioning. What we discovered is that SharePoint just doesn't scale very well. When you get into the hundreds of thousands of documents it has problems. When you get into the tens of millions it has major problems.
Given that the submitter already needs to file 500,000 documents I question if SharePoint is feasible.
You write of the foundation of copyright yet you seem ignorant of its history. Copyrights were originally established as a form of censorship:
At its birth in England, copyright was an instrument of censorship. In 1557, Mary Tudor, the Roman Catholic queen, capped off a 120-year monarchal struggle to censor printing presses by issuing a charter to the Stationers' Company, a guild of printers. Only members of the company could legally produce books, which had been licensed by the crown.
Modern copyright is based on the Statute of Anne from 1710. The Statute of Anne granted the author 14 years of exclusive rights with the option to extend for a second 14 year term. The first U.S. copyright did the same when George Washington signed it into law in 1790. You'll notice both of those happened well before Charles Dickens (1812) and Herman Melville (1819) were born.
I also question your understanding of the terms 'amoral' and 'puerile'.
Amoral
not involving questions of right or wrong; without moral quality; neither moral nor immoral.
Puerile
childishly foolish; immature or trivial
Most of the world bases 'morals' off of religion. No major religion makes any mention of copyright. So for most of the world copyright has no moral or immoral quality. By definition that makes it amoral. To hold that opinion is hardly childish or immature.
If you're not religious you could just look at the purpose of copyright as it's spelled out in the U.S. Constitution:
To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries
Copyright was meant as a deal between the public and an author. The public would grant the author a temporary monopoly as an incentive to create new writings. After a limited time the writings would pass into the public domain so the pubic could do with it whatever they want. That is not an issue raised over morality. It is a business deal. Again, to label this amoral is not childish or immature. It is correct.
To require this will result in extremely UNSAFE cars that no one wants to buy.
The 2006 Honda Civic almost reaches this level. It has the top rating in every IIHS crash test. The manufacturer is routinely rated at or near the top of the industry in reliability. The Civic's price is comparable to a typical American car. The 2009 Civic Hybrid already tops these standards under recently tightened milage measurements. There is no reason a 42mpg car has to be unsafe, unreliable, or overly expensive.
A person who lives a particular zip code: anonymous to about 1 in 20 thousand.
A person that everyone thinks lives in one zip code but actually lives in another: anonymous
I do *not* think anonymity is a right, nor should we try to enforce it or preserve it. Anonymity is an anachronism in recent human history. People act better when they know they are not anonymous.
Some people act better when they know they are not anonymous. Plenty of people have made valuable contributions to society only because they knew they were anonymous. Take for example, Mark Felt, who blew the whistle on Nixon's attempt to subvert the democratic process. He certainly would not have done that without anonymity. Before his identity was known he was well respected for his professionalism and accomplishments. Once his identity was revealed some 30 years later he was under instant character assassination. Imagine what would have become of him had his identity been known during Watergate. Imagine what would have become of the Watergate investigation had his identity been known.
Do you think Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay were acting poorly when they published the Federalist Papers under a pseudonym? By publishing anonymously, critics were forced to focus on the content rather than the authors.
How about we consider the case of Elijah Parish Lovejoy, a man who should have stayed anonymous but didn't. He published a newletter critical of slavery. A mob of people, after having already destroyed his presses multiple times, came back to do it again and killed him in the process.
While some people act poorly when they are anonymous, our society would suffer greatly without the work of many anonymous heroes--people who only had the courage to act better than normal because they were anonymous.
Well the U.S. Bill of Rights is certainly an excellent starting point.
The right to express yourself, to peacefully assemble, to participate in religion without government interference and without government proselytizing, the right to petition the government, and the right to publish.
The right to possess 'hacking' tools such as NMap, cryptography, high-performance computers, and anti-DRM tools.
Prohibition on the government camping out on our equipment ala CALEA and the Clipper Chip.
Right to be free from search and seizure without a warrant.
Right not to testify against yourself such a being compelled to hand over a cryptographic key. Sanctions can not be imposed without due process (no three allegations and your cut off from the internet). Just compensation for government seizure for public purpose. Prohibition on double jeopardy.
Right to confront your accuser (Media Sentry), right to a speedy trial, right to counsel, right to trial by jury.
Right to jury even in modest civil cases.
Punishment shall not be overly severe (no massive penalties for copyright infringement). Bail shall not be excessive (one million dollars bail when refusing to do your job).
Other, unenumerated rights exist.
Government shall not exceed its enumerated powers.
A district court in Texas struck it down. The state of Minnesota still claims copyright on statutes and the federal government still has "regulations" (such as OSHA standards) that simply refer to a page from a book written by a corporation. If you want the book, you'll have to shell out hundreds of dollars.
Why has he continued to represent her up to this point? I understand he tried to withdraw from the case previously and was barred from doing so. But certainly, he could have withdrawn after the first trial. I also don't understand why Ms. Thomas has continued to keep him as her lawyer considering what a totally pathetic job he did the first time around.
I could present two solid arguments as to how someone else could have her IP number and login ID. One of those arguments fits in well with the stated reason for replacing her hard drive. Yet the best her lawyer could do was argue; she didn't have a wireless access point, but if she did someone could have used it without her permission and just coincidentally used the same login ID. That's like saying, "my client didn't have a window open, but if he did the bullet could have come from outside and just coincidentally looked like it was fired from two feet away."
HavenCo used to host anything but child porn. They have a few more restrictions now but I think they would have no issue host criticism of a police department. They are based out of Sealand, an independent micronation sitting on a former World War II Maunsell Sea Fort.
Who modded this Troll? It was written by the person who submitted the article and pertains specifically to the topic. The author is a long time member of Slashdot with a paid membership. One can argue that the article itself is a troll but this comment certainly belongs in the discussion.
My recollection is that RSA is based on the idea that it is difficult to find the prime factors of a product composed of two large primes. If someone comes up with a way to easily find large primes it may reduce the time required to break RSA. So this discovery could weaken RSA to the extend that the discovery makes it easier to find large primes.
It's possible someone could have gotten a DWI or wound up in an accident and for some reason they're showing up with your ID. Your insurance agent could probably tell you why your rates are so high.
The weather impacts crops, military operations, flight plans, hurricane preparedness, and countless other things. Weather forecasts require data gathered from all around the world. State, local, and tribal governments don't have the reach to collect this data on their own. That leaves only private industry. Do you really want to pay a private company to know what the forecast is, particularly when the data would most likely be collected at taxpayer expense anyway? If weather services were privatized, would it be legal to share the forecast with your colleagues?
This chart is a classroom aid for Defense Acquisition University students. It provides a notional illustration of the interfaces among the three major decision support systems used to develop, produce, and field a system for national defense. Defense acquisition is a complex process with many more activities than shown here, and many concurrent activities that cannot be properly displayed on a two-dimensional chart. Supporting information is on the back of this chart. For more information see the Acquisition, Technology & Logistics Knowledge Sharing System (http://akss.dau.mil).
From TFA, we are talking about 2,500 pixels per frame at 6.1 megahertz framerate. Let's guesstimate 1 byte/pixel * 2,500 pixels * 6,100,000 frames = 15,000,000,000 bytes/second = ~14 Gigabytes/second.
If you're only looking to capture a few seconds, just put it in RAM and write it to long-term storage later. Write speeds for high-end consumer RAM are in that neighborhood. DDR3 1800 can write just over 14GB/s. For a research project, 128 GB of RAM is certainly feasible. That will give you a full 9 seconds of video.
If you need more pixels you can line up arrays in parallel to capture several seconds from each array at the same time. They can all use the same clock so everything stays synchronized.
The US already grants copyright up to 70 years after the author's death. They're just doing this to harmonize their laws with the United States. But wait, in 2002 the key argument presented to the Supreme Court in Eldred v. Ashcroft is that we extended copyright to harmonize with the European Union.
From the time JFK announced his challenge to go to the moon it took us eight years to actually do it. Now we have all the technology from all of our space research for the past 40 years, we have five years sunk into the current plan to return, and they are saying they can't finish it in another nine years? This is the fruit of our lousy political and education systems!
In the same vane, Tibet has a few million people. They could get several thousand people working together to develop their own system, or barring that, put together their own Linux distro and audit every line of code. It's just a question of how seriously they take their computer security.
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I think the market has lots of room for improvement. It would be nice to have, not just a GPS system, but an in-car computer. Imagine if the computer could hook up to OBD-II, odometer, speedometer, radio, rear-view camera, a cell/wireless network, and other in-car systems. It could track fuel usage on every trip, overlay Wikipedia geographic coordinates, log milage information for tax reasons, record traffic stops (even capturing a few minutes of video prior to the stop), and countless other things.
A good system would boot up in less than two seconds, start playing music where it left off, and instantly switch on a rear-view camera as soon as the car switches to reverse. Most existing systems have only a few of the aforementioned features, they tend to run fairly slow, and they have startup times that leave you wonting for music.
I think a feature-complete system would require a fast processor, a large display (probably requiring custom dashboard work), and a lot of wiring.
My own research turned up Navit which looks pretty good for the navigation piece.
That's an excellent point. The US has 50 states and numerous territories. Each of the 50 states has its own government and several of the territories do as well.
Given the way the math works out I'm going to say it's .015 cents per kilobit. AT&T claims he used 9 gigabytes. That is 9,663,676,416 bytes = 9,437,184 kilobytes* = 77,309,411.328 kilobits. At .015 cents per kilobit it comes out to $11,596.41. The summary claims he was charged $11,000.
* down with the kibi prefix!
This is an issue of the government conducting an unreasonable search without a warrant. If Justice Thomas did not believe in stare decisis he would have not only ruled the search unconstitutional but he would have held the school personnel liable since confusing precedent is irrelevant.
This is an excellent example of what the strict constructionist crowd fails to understand. When the constitution was written it did not apply to schools at all. It wasn't until the 14th amendment that the fourth amendment applied outside the federal government. The constitution clearly applies to public schools but at the time the 14th amendment was ratified most voters had never attended a public school. I think the notion that schools would function as law enforcement at that time would have been considered absurd.
There are many exemptions in bankruptcy law but I don't believe any of them apply to judgments for copyright infringement. Also, regarding collection, unless a judgment was entered on behalf of the "United States" (student loans, federal taxes, etc) the judgment expires according to state law. In Minnesota, judgments expire after ten years. A judgment entered on behalf of the "United States" expires after 20 years.
It looks like the person in question has done exactly that. I can't link straight to the page but here is the author's profile. Click on "Web Content (9)". This will show reviews of his work. He was paid $125 for a project titled "Wikipedia submission for my new product". He even got a rating of 4.9 out of 5.0 for the work. He was paid $150 for another project title "Write our Wikipedia Listing for Our Company".
Where I work we wrote our own Document Management System that integrates with the rest of our systems. The integration has proven quite beneficial. Off-the-shelf systems can integrate but it generally doesn't work very well. Anyway, we were looking at using SharePoint as our back-end to get the indexing support and improved versioning. What we discovered is that SharePoint just doesn't scale very well. When you get into the hundreds of thousands of documents it has problems. When you get into the tens of millions it has major problems.
Given that the submitter already needs to file 500,000 documents I question if SharePoint is feasible.
Modern copyright is based on the Statute of Anne from 1710. The Statute of Anne granted the author 14 years of exclusive rights with the option to extend for a second 14 year term. The first U.S. copyright did the same when George Washington signed it into law in 1790. You'll notice both of those happened well before Charles Dickens (1812) and Herman Melville (1819) were born.
Amoral not involving questions of right or wrong; without moral quality; neither moral nor immoral. Puerile childishly foolish; immature or trivialI also question your understanding of the terms 'amoral' and 'puerile'.
Most of the world bases 'morals' off of religion. No major religion makes any mention of copyright. So for most of the world copyright has no moral or immoral quality. By definition that makes it amoral. To hold that opinion is hardly childish or immature.
If you're not religious you could just look at the purpose of copyright as it's spelled out in the U.S. Constitution:
Copyright was meant as a deal between the public and an author. The public would grant the author a temporary monopoly as an incentive to create new writings. After a limited time the writings would pass into the public domain so the pubic could do with it whatever they want. That is not an issue raised over morality. It is a business deal. Again, to label this amoral is not childish or immature. It is correct.
The 2006 Honda Civic almost reaches this level. It has the top rating in every IIHS crash test. The manufacturer is routinely rated at or near the top of the industry in reliability. The Civic's price is comparable to a typical American car. The 2009 Civic Hybrid already tops these standards under recently tightened milage measurements. There is no reason a 42mpg car has to be unsafe, unreliable, or overly expensive.
A person that everyone thinks lives in one zip code but actually lives in another: anonymous
Some people act better when they know they are not anonymous. Plenty of people have made valuable contributions to society only because they knew they were anonymous. Take for example, Mark Felt, who blew the whistle on Nixon's attempt to subvert the democratic process. He certainly would not have done that without anonymity. Before his identity was known he was well respected for his professionalism and accomplishments. Once his identity was revealed some 30 years later he was under instant character assassination. Imagine what would have become of him had his identity been known during Watergate. Imagine what would have become of the Watergate investigation had his identity been known.
Do you think Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay were acting poorly when they published the Federalist Papers under a pseudonym? By publishing anonymously, critics were forced to focus on the content rather than the authors.
How about we consider the case of Elijah Parish Lovejoy, a man who should have stayed anonymous but didn't. He published a newletter critical of slavery. A mob of people, after having already destroyed his presses multiple times, came back to do it again and killed him in the process.
While some people act poorly when they are anonymous, our society would suffer greatly without the work of many anonymous heroes--people who only had the courage to act better than normal because they were anonymous.
A district court in Texas struck it down. The state of Minnesota still claims copyright on statutes and the federal government still has "regulations" (such as OSHA standards) that simply refer to a page from a book written by a corporation. If you want the book, you'll have to shell out hundreds of dollars.
Why has he continued to represent her up to this point? I understand he tried to withdraw from the case previously and was barred from doing so. But certainly, he could have withdrawn after the first trial. I also don't understand why Ms. Thomas has continued to keep him as her lawyer considering what a totally pathetic job he did the first time around.
I could present two solid arguments as to how someone else could have her IP number and login ID. One of those arguments fits in well with the stated reason for replacing her hard drive. Yet the best her lawyer could do was argue; she didn't have a wireless access point, but if she did someone could have used it without her permission and just coincidentally used the same login ID. That's like saying, "my client didn't have a window open, but if he did the bullet could have come from outside and just coincidentally looked like it was fired from two feet away."
HavenCo used to host anything but child porn. They have a few more restrictions now but I think they would have no issue host criticism of a police department. They are based out of Sealand, an independent micronation sitting on a former World War II Maunsell Sea Fort.
Who modded this Troll? It was written by the person who submitted the article and pertains specifically to the topic. The author is a long time member of Slashdot with a paid membership. One can argue that the article itself is a troll but this comment certainly belongs in the discussion.
My recollection is that RSA is based on the idea that it is difficult to find the prime factors of a product composed of two large primes. If someone comes up with a way to easily find large primes it may reduce the time required to break RSA. So this discovery could weaken RSA to the extend that the discovery makes it easier to find large primes.
It's possible someone could have gotten a DWI or wound up in an accident and for some reason they're showing up with your ID. Your insurance agent could probably tell you why your rates are so high.
The weather impacts crops, military operations, flight plans, hurricane preparedness, and countless other things. Weather forecasts require data gathered from all around the world. State, local, and tribal governments don't have the reach to collect this data on their own. That leaves only private industry. Do you really want to pay a private company to know what the forecast is, particularly when the data would most likely be collected at taxpayer expense anyway? If weather services were privatized, would it be legal to share the forecast with your colleagues?
Check the top-right corner:
If you're only looking to capture a few seconds, just put it in RAM and write it to long-term storage later. Write speeds for high-end consumer RAM are in that neighborhood. DDR3 1800 can write just over 14GB/s. For a research project, 128 GB of RAM is certainly feasible. That will give you a full 9 seconds of video.
If you need more pixels you can line up arrays in parallel to capture several seconds from each array at the same time. They can all use the same clock so everything stays synchronized.
For goodness sakes, how did this get modded up? At least post a real link.
The US already grants copyright up to 70 years after the author's death. They're just doing this to harmonize their laws with the United States. But wait, in 2002 the key argument presented to the Supreme Court in Eldred v. Ashcroft is that we extended copyright to harmonize with the European Union.
From the time JFK announced his challenge to go to the moon it took us eight years to actually do it. Now we have all the technology from all of our space research for the past 40 years, we have five years sunk into the current plan to return, and they are saying they can't finish it in another nine years? This is the fruit of our lousy political and education systems!
Would you like to back that up with some references? My recollection is that the first draft came straight from the Department of Justice.
In the same vane, Tibet has a few million people. They could get several thousand people working together to develop their own system, or barring that, put together their own Linux distro and audit every line of code. It's just a question of how seriously they take their computer security.