While Freenet has legitimate uses, everyone knows that it's also used to trade things like child porn.
Likewise, the Internet in general. Yet, you seem to be using it despite the fact that (with steganography and such) there is no telling what your computer might be downloading.
Common carrier status is a bargain, the ISPs give up the right to censor content, but in doing so they aren't held responsible for that content.
In the US, ISPs don't have common carrier status. Instead, Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (CDA) protects ISPs from the actions of their users. Now this is a really sweet deal for the ISPs because it means that they can censor whatever want to without being liable for what they don't.
It's called "selective enforcement" and is one of the cornerstones of the US legal system. If you want to see it enforced, try filing a bogus DMCA take down notice against Microsoft.
It has a long list of recharge options, for the Classmate only standard power will do.
I don't think that's true. I see no reason why generators of various types, AC or DC, couldn't be used with the classmate. (although I still like the XO better)
I've been working on a financial application which I've decided to release to the public.
You didn't really state exactly why you want to do that. You did state
There are many aspects of the application that I don't have time to refine, and other developers could definitely improve upon my work.
but that could probably be said of almost any program (nothing's perfect).
Is the program already of commercial quality? Then why open source it if you are looking to make money? (Not that you can't do both, but why?)
But, if the program isn't really of commercial quality and you're looking for a way to get other people to make it so but for you to then get paid for their work, well, good luck with that.
As for offering support or customization or something like that as a way to make money on it, well if you don't have to time finish the program I doubt that you have time for that either.
Microwaves work by producing an alternative electric field
While I know what an alternating electric field is, what's an alternative electric field? Does it have anything to do with healing crystals or free energy?
Big deal. You can, however, bring two spares with you on board. That's a total of THREE batteries (if you bring your laptop too) or FIVE if you have your wife bring two as well.
See, that's just the point. They're doing this in the name of safety, so why is it dangerous to bring 5 batteries by yourself but perfectly safe to do so if you wife travels with you? Only in the mind of a bureaucrat does that make sense.
How does it make sense that 2 people checking one battery each is safe but 1 person checking two batteries (even in separate bags) suddenly becomes unsafe?
Makes sense? I don't think so.
It never works that way. Herbert Hoover didn't cause the Depression, Joe Stalin didn't by himself cause the Cold War, Alan Greenspan didn't cause the dot-com bust or the mortgage meltdown, and your Mikey G isn't by himself blocking all future progress in manned spaceflight.
Well, if you want to get technical then no, Mikey G isn't doing it by himself. He's doing it with the help of all those NASA employees under his direct control. But he's still the guy at the top making the decisions and that's what people mean when they hold a leader responsible. Not that the leader "did it all by himself".
OTOH, there is a break from the earlier articulations of the principles of the project here, and its not in the fact that its in a developed country, its in the "Students will turn in their computers at the end of their eighth-grade year" part.
I noticed that too. I read previously that the OLPC folks would require the computers to actually be the property of the children. But then they said that the children aren't going to get the encryption keys required to keep them "activated" (those will likely be kept by the purchasing governmental entity). And now they're talking about making the children hand the computers back in after a while. It really sounds more to me like the children are just borrowing the things. Will they be charged if anything happens to them (broken/lost/stolen)? Are the kids going to need to go out and buy insurance too now?
The OLPC project requires the laptops to go to children, and become the property of the child. There is also an excellent security system called BitFrost which makes stolen laptops essentially useless.
But the child is not given the keys to the system. The keys are to be retained by the government in most cases. So who really owns it, the child or the government?
'caught' makes it sound like they were trying to get away with it. more likely a matter of the left hand not knowing what the right hand was doing, and once it's brought to the attention of the leadership at Asus they will post the source code.
I can imagine a shoplifter trying to use that excuse. "Gee officer, you see the right carried it out of the store but the left hand is the one that does the paying and, well, it just didn't know what the right hand was doing." (sound of handcuffs going on)
If there's source code that needs to be released then great, let them do it.
I'm not sure that releasing the source code after you've been caught is good enough. That's kind of like offering to pay for an item after you've been caught shoplifting: It's too late, you've already been caught.
Openfiler requires the use of a network directory server (NIS, LDAP, Windows Domain Controller or Hesiod) somewhere on the network. Most home networks probably do not have such a server and adding one increases the cost and complexity considerably.
virtually everybody who uses Windows XP runs as admin
Ha, that's funny. Not in corporate environments they don't.
most admins don't usually download and run random code on their servers
The code doesn't haven't to be random, just bad. Maybe even signed by Microsoft itself as this case shows. (Apparently one of the ways to get trojans and other bad code onto a windows box is to pay Microsoft to "sign" it for you.)
Lastly, Vista isn't affected,
No, this is an old vulnerability. Vista has new and improved vulnerabilities.
To go from 1080i to 1080p (this is simplified and doesn't account for various framerate differences), you take every two 1080i frames (540 lines each), weave them, and you have a 1080p frame.
If only it were so easy then de-interlacing wouldn't be a problem. But it isn't that easy and de-interlaced 1080i does not have the same spatial resolution as 1080p. Likewise, you can't take a 1080p signal and just add in some interpolated frames to get the same temporal resolution as 1080i. Thinking that you can is just the kind of wishful thinking that leads people to think that they can make perpetual-motion machines. Sorry, you can't get something from nothing.
The engineers who introduced this notation were well aware of its different meanings in different contexts. And that context is different for main memory than it is for hard drives. Just as the word "foot" can refer to a unit of measure, the lower extremity of the vertebrate leg, the lower edge of a sail, etc. depending upon context. It was only when non-engineers started trying to meddle with things that they didn't really understand that problems arose. But who needs to understand things when you can just file a lawsuit instead?
Every operating system, whether it be Windows NT, XP, or Vista, Linux, FreeBSD, or Solaris, states that 1Kb = 1024bytes, 1Mb = 1024Kb, and so on.
Every application, does too.
Simply not true. Additionally, 1Kb was often used to refer to 1024 bits, not bytes. Likewise for Mb, Gb and so on.
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It's called "selective enforcement" and is one of the cornerstones of the US legal system. If you want to see it enforced, try filing a bogus DMCA take down notice against Microsoft.
Where's the news in this? I'll sell you one today if you want to pay for it.
I have a relative who works in loss prevention for a large retail chain. He's told me about those kinds of family shoplifting teams.
I'm not sure that releasing the source _after_ you've been caught is good enough.
Openfiler requires the use of a network directory server (NIS, LDAP, Windows Domain Controller or Hesiod) somewhere on the network. Most home networks probably do not have such a server and adding one increases the cost and complexity considerably.
The engineers who introduced this notation were well aware of its different meanings in different contexts. And that context is different for main memory than it is for hard drives. Just as the word "foot" can refer to a unit of measure, the lower extremity of the vertebrate leg, the lower edge of a sail, etc. depending upon context. It was only when non-engineers started trying to meddle with things that they didn't really understand that problems arose. But who needs to understand things when you can just file a lawsuit instead?