Most piracy doesn't happen online. Most of it happens in physical trades with people; Head over for a LAN party, leave the 'download' drives connected so people can swap stuff. Someone expresses an interest in another's favorite TV series... out come the disposable flash drives. Everyone has a laptop these days -- visiting a friend's house is a common occurrance, as is file trading. More piracy happens on those channels than online. People still loan each other their DVDs and blurays too (and rip them).
The analog hole will never be plugged, because it wears sneakers and goes through your fridge looking for a beer.
This is not even illegal in many European countries (is it in the US?). It goes under fair use to share stuff with friends / family -- this was also true for tapes, CDs, etc. It's a whole different story if you make money from it, and if you do it with random people on large scales.
On the other hand one also has to see some websites like 9gag and FunnyJunk critically, that mostly copy from other websites, web comics, people even scan pages of books, and often enough without giving credit. On rare occasions there is a link to the original. And you have to wonder, is it ok if we can consume media without ever crediting the authors? Is it the job of the authors to run around on the internet and take down things?
The argument people make for music is that it will be advertising and people will buy the albums then. I actually discovered music online and bought CDs because of that. But is the ratio correct? I've seen musicians (not just labels) complain that it just doesn't work and that young upcoming artists suffer because of it. Just because pirates think they're allowed to do whatever they want -- because they don't earn money, because they already paid on another CD, because they'll stick it to record companies,... or whatever excuses they come up with -- doesn't mean that system will work for everyone.
Free sharing is a double-edged sword. When nobody knows you, it's good to through your stuff out there and get you known. But starting up getting some money back must be extremely challenging.
4) Countries with proportional representation seem to have less partisan politics. Yes, there are still tensions between political parties. But bipartisanship is much more common. At the local level especially, it's not uncommon for social-democratic (nominally socialist) and classical liberal parties to enter into a coalition.
That's the main argument I think. In PR you have to work together, things have to be discussed, and mistakes in concepts will be pointed out.
In the US, there are only two parties left, and it is virtually impossible to build up an alternative over a decade or two, while a small party can build up in the PR system, and get small responsibilities first; when tested, it can grow to a larger party.
The waste of resources on individual packaging for each distributions and other points for the Linux Desktop have been brought up here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sh-cnaJoGCw If you are looking for a TODO list of high-impact items necessary to tackle, this is it.
EU just rolled out a new directive. Traditional (also herbal) and homeopathic medicine has the burden of proof now for safety and quality. If the EU does one thing well, it's consumer protection.
You can apply for funding to be able to afford the clinical trial. This is an excellent move sorting out the effectiveness and at the same time preserving traditional "household" medicine. In the end, that's what science is about: Whether it is aesthetically pleasing or illogical that drops are diluted in a huge amount of water is irrelevant. All you have to answer is does it work (better than placebos in a double-blind trial)?
Yes it is, because Google Trends only analyses the past; connecting it to something useful, like an alert system, is something new. Unless you go extreme, but then every idea is based on something, so no idea is really new.
If only the community of software developers could conquer a community of designers and graphics people to collaborate without charge on a free operating system.
All drugs should be legalised, there is no reason to hunt people down for smoking whatever they want, drinking whatever they want. There are already plenty of laws regarding actual acts of violence and negligence (like causing an accident while drunk or drugged). The government likes to have control over your body as well as over all of your actions. Do you think you should be free people, even free to kill your IQ or do you think you should be controlled by the state, told what to do, what not to do, thrown in jail if you refuse to comply?
Free people should make free choices for themselves as they wish. But the classification of something as a drug includes that you lose your free choice because of the addiction and influence. Yes, jail for marijuana use is too much. No, not all drugs should be legalized.
Because 3 sucks and they don't listen to real users. Theory ain't the same as practice, in practice.
The largest screwup was not by GNOME but by distributions in my opinion.
They abandoned GNOME3 for GNOME2 after it was released, not bothering to offer both choices. Some like Gentoo do provide the choice, for bleeding-edge distros like Fedora I understand that they went with the newest. But user-distros shouldn't have gone for GNOME3 only, and there is no technical reason to not offer both.
I think GNOME wants to build a interface for users and not for developers, which is why the slashdot community is a bit pissed (not being the target audience, complaints about "dumbing down".
KDE is elaborate and clunky; XFCE is a good tradeoff; more minimal WM are just toys for having multiple terminals. The choices offered to users by distributions was better a few years ago.
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I am not an expert, but I think you can not compare radiation that easily. It really depends on how you come into contact with the radiation, and where it is stored. For example, eating fish from effected may be more serious than just breathing air -- with the same measured radiation content. I think people at least on Slashdot where well-aware of how to compare Sieverts (or rem) from https://xkcd.com/radiation/
We know Fukushima expelled a third of the radiation of Chernobyl, we know how widespread the mutations are there (people still can't live there), we know Japan is not exactly underpopulated and predominantly fish-eating. That can be a serious concern, especially if you at some point lived in the parts of Europe where radiation from Chernobyl rained down and still today you can't eat mushrooms for example, because they are too poisonous (>1000km away, 25 years later).
But where do diseases end, where does aesthetics start? Who enforces that line for the rich? Clearly this guy hasn't seen enough dystopian movies about two-class societies emerging from genetics.
Currently, you can make any products with new chemicals until they are banned. Should it be the burden of companies to prove that chemicals are safe before they can sell products?
eg 1. There are a number of people in my household, including friends that visit regularly and all have access to the wifi network.
If they give you one or several timestamps, you should be able to recall the people around.
eg 2. The wifi node at the local coffee shop is accessible by anyone within range.
Coffee shop's wifis in Germany are typically run by 3rd-party companies, and have a habit of requiring a telephone number for registering (although the law is that telecommunication providers must not obtain more data than is required forwarding data).
eg 3. The wifi at the place where I work is accessible by hundreds of employees and clients.
The IT department will identify you, because the company doesn't want to pay so they'll make you pay.
Combinatorics... thats what you need most in my experience. And statistics, when you look at scientific or approximate algorithms. Linear algebra, definitely. Ultimately, all of CS (logic) is math, except where it lingers into user interfaces and becomes design.
"The discussions are ongoing and it's unhelpful to treat this as a conflict; neither OSI's board nor -- as far as I have been told -- OSHWA's board do," Phipps said in an e-mail.
Highlights: Caffeine was detected in Oregon coastal ocean waters measuring up to 44.7 ng/L. Caffeine concentration did not correspond with human population density and pollution sources. Caffeine concentrations corresponded with storm event occurrence. Caffeine concentrations in rivers and estuaries draining to the coast measured up to 152.2 ng/L.
We're not vegetarians, but we used to be. But meat still isn't high on our radar except for the occasional fish or chicken. Sometimes beef from good quality small farms. We eat meat about 1-3 times in a given month. One doesn't have to go completely vegetarian, but cutting down on meat is a good idea I think.
No, we're omnivores. We evolved to eat whatever we could find. Way the hell back before the Stone Age, there were no domesticated grains you could use to make a balanced vegetarian diet. It just wasn't happening. Meat was the only source of concentrated proteins. It was only after we developed agriculture that we domesticated and bred plants for higher protein content. You still have to do some research though to balance your diet if you go vegetarian.
Way back we used to eat fruit and some meat, but only a small portion (10%) of the meal of hunter-gatherers was meat. It is true that back then, meat was a cheap and good option to get good nutrient coverage. Today, if you live in a western country the variety of food you eat easily covers what you need, without the need for meat. You don't really need to watch your diet for that.
With that reason to eat meat, we also found out that eating meat is not very good for you. People on a vegetarian diet consistently live healthier and longer (see studies by UNO, or as a very specific example 7th day adventists study). Perhaps you have heard that present-day mankind consumes the resources of 2 earths -- if you take into account that raising kettle wastes 10x more water and pollutes the environment dramatically compared to crops, at the same time reducing the protein content per kg by another factor of 10 you can easily see what you have to do. [if you find the above numbers vague --> go here: http://www.vegetarismus.ch/info/eoeko.htm ]
We live on a planet where water and good soil is becoming scarce in many places, and people are starving because of that. At the same time people are becoming richer and meat demand goes up, especially in Asia.
The remaining two arguments to eat meat are subjective: 1) We've always done it. 2) It tastes good. Is that enough?
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but is getting fed up with "New release. Guess what we MOVED EVERYTHING AGAIN!".
Use a LTS and don't upgrade (only update). Or use a distribution that is focussed on stability.
Most piracy doesn't happen online. Most of it happens in physical trades with people; Head over for a LAN party, leave the 'download' drives connected so people can swap stuff. Someone expresses an interest in another's favorite TV series... out come the disposable flash drives. Everyone has a laptop these days -- visiting a friend's house is a common occurrance, as is file trading. More piracy happens on those channels than online. People still loan each other their DVDs and blurays too (and rip them).
The analog hole will never be plugged, because it wears sneakers and goes through your fridge looking for a beer.
This is not even illegal in many European countries (is it in the US?). It goes under fair use to share stuff with friends / family -- this was also true for tapes, CDs, etc. It's a whole different story if you make money from it, and if you do it with random people on large scales.
On the other hand one also has to see some websites like 9gag and FunnyJunk critically, that mostly copy from other websites, web comics, people even scan pages of books, and often enough without giving credit. On rare occasions there is a link to the original. And you have to wonder, is it ok if we can consume media without ever crediting the authors? Is it the job of the authors to run around on the internet and take down things?
The argument people make for music is that it will be advertising and people will buy the albums then. I actually discovered music online and bought CDs because of that. But is the ratio correct? I've seen musicians (not just labels) complain that it just doesn't work and that young upcoming artists suffer because of it. Just because pirates think they're allowed to do whatever they want -- because they don't earn money, because they already paid on another CD, because they'll stick it to record companies, ... or whatever excuses they come up with -- doesn't mean that system will work for everyone.
Free sharing is a double-edged sword. When nobody knows you, it's good to through your stuff out there and get you known. But starting up getting some money back must be extremely challenging.
4) Countries with proportional representation seem to have less partisan politics. Yes, there are still tensions between political parties. But bipartisanship is much more common. At the local level especially, it's not uncommon for social-democratic (nominally socialist) and classical liberal parties to enter into a coalition.
That's the main argument I think. In PR you have to work together, things have to be discussed, and mistakes in concepts will be pointed out.
In the US, there are only two parties left, and it is virtually impossible to build up an alternative over a decade or two, while a small party can build up in the PR system, and get small responsibilities first; when tested, it can grow to a larger party.
The waste of resources on individual packaging for each distributions and other points for the Linux Desktop have been brought up here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sh-cnaJoGCw
If you are looking for a TODO list of high-impact items necessary to tackle, this is it.
So what types of identifiers do the use now, and what's the purpose of them anyway?
Is it for advertisers to do behavioral tracking? Can you override/deactivate them?
EU just rolled out a new directive. Traditional (also herbal) and homeopathic medicine has the burden of proof now for safety and quality. If the EU does one thing well, it's consumer protection.
You can apply for funding to be able to afford the clinical trial. This is an excellent move sorting out the effectiveness and at the same time preserving traditional "household" medicine. In the end, that's what science is about: Whether it is aesthetically pleasing or illogical that drops are diluted in a huge amount of water is irrelevant. All you have to answer is does it work (better than placebos in a double-blind trial)?
Yes it is, because Google Trends only analyses the past; connecting it to something useful, like an alert system, is something new. Unless you go extreme, but then every idea is based on something, so no idea is really new.
http://news.slashdot.org/story/12/08/15/1839202/advance-warning-system-for-solar-flares-hinges-on-surprising-hypothesis
People managed to take OpenOffice away from Oracle.
Java is open source, why can't the same happen there?
If only the community of software developers could conquer a community of designers and graphics people to collaborate without charge on a free operating system.
All drugs should be legalised, there is no reason to hunt people down for smoking whatever they want, drinking whatever they want. There are already plenty of laws regarding actual acts of violence and negligence (like causing an accident while drunk or drugged). The government likes to have control over your body as well as over all of your actions. Do you think you should be free people, even free to kill your IQ or do you think you should be controlled by the state, told what to do, what not to do, thrown in jail if you refuse to comply?
Free people should make free choices for themselves as they wish. But the classification of something as a drug includes that you lose your free choice because of the addiction and influence.
Yes, jail for marijuana use is too much. No, not all drugs should be legalized.
Because 3 sucks and they don't listen to real users. Theory ain't the same as practice, in practice.
The largest screwup was not by GNOME but by distributions in my opinion.
They abandoned GNOME3 for GNOME2 after it was released, not bothering to offer both choices. Some like Gentoo do provide the choice, for bleeding-edge distros like Fedora I understand that they went with the newest. But user-distros shouldn't have gone for GNOME3 only, and there is no technical reason to not offer both.
I think GNOME wants to build a interface for users and not for developers, which is why the slashdot community is a bit pissed (not being the target audience, complaints about "dumbing down".
KDE is elaborate and clunky; XFCE is a good tradeoff; more minimal WM are just toys for having multiple terminals. The choices offered to users by distributions was better a few years ago.
I am not an expert, but I think you can not compare radiation that easily. It really depends on how you come into contact with the radiation, and where it is stored. For example, eating fish from effected may be more serious than just breathing air -- with the same measured radiation content. I think people at least on Slashdot where well-aware of how to compare Sieverts (or rem) from https://xkcd.com/radiation/
We know Fukushima expelled a third of the radiation of Chernobyl, we know how widespread the mutations are there (people still can't live there), we know Japan is not exactly underpopulated and predominantly fish-eating. That can be a serious concern, especially if you at some point lived in the parts of Europe where radiation from Chernobyl rained down and still today you can't eat mushrooms for example, because they are too poisonous (>1000km away, 25 years later).
But where do diseases end, where does aesthetics start? Who enforces that line for the rich? Clearly this guy hasn't seen enough dystopian movies about two-class societies emerging from genetics.
Like what? What are you trying to protect against? What should pupils be allowed to see?
It's pointless anyways, kids have Facebook on their phones these days.
Currently, you can make any products with new chemicals until they are banned. Should it be the burden of companies to prove that chemicals are safe before they can sell products?
And if they don't like the answer?
eg 1. There are a number of people in my household, including friends that visit regularly and all have access to the wifi network.
If they give you one or several timestamps, you should be able to recall the people around.
eg 2. The wifi node at the local coffee shop is accessible by anyone within range.
Coffee shop's wifis in Germany are typically run by 3rd-party companies, and have a habit of requiring a telephone number for registering (although the law is that telecommunication providers must not obtain more data than is required forwarding data).
eg 3. The wifi at the place where I work is accessible by hundreds of employees and clients.
The IT department will identify you, because the company doesn't want to pay so they'll make you pay.
It's one thing to share stuff between friends, it's another to make between £12,000 and £60,000 a month from sharing other peoples content. Clearly the site was profit-oriented. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2188262/Surfthechannel-com-Internet-pirate-earned-60-000-month-download-site-jailed-4-years.html
Combinatorics ... thats what you need most in my experience. And statistics, when you look at scientific or approximate algorithms. Linear algebra, definitely. Ultimately, all of CS (logic) is math, except where it lingers into user interfaces and becomes design.
I think there is a button on the monitor
From the article (admittedly, second page):
Article says it's 2 ng/L in the North Sea. Where is the North Sea? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Sea
why http://hirise.lpl.arizona.edu/ didn't release a sequence of pictures? It'd be so awesome! Perhaps the other ones are blurry ...
We're not vegetarians, but we used to be. But meat still isn't high on our radar except for the occasional fish or chicken. Sometimes beef from good quality small farms. We eat meat about 1-3 times in a given month. One doesn't have to go completely vegetarian, but cutting down on meat is a good idea I think.
No, we're omnivores. We evolved to eat whatever we could find. Way the hell back before the Stone Age, there were no domesticated grains you could use to make a balanced vegetarian diet. It just wasn't happening. Meat was the only source of concentrated proteins. It was only after we developed agriculture that we domesticated and bred plants for higher protein content. You still have to do some research though to balance your diet if you go vegetarian.
Way back we used to eat fruit and some meat, but only a small portion (10%) of the meal of hunter-gatherers was meat. It is true that back then, meat was a cheap and good option to get good nutrient coverage. Today, if you live in a western country the variety of food you eat easily covers what you need, without the need for meat. You don't really need to watch your diet for that.
With that reason to eat meat, we also found out that eating meat is not very good for you. People on a vegetarian diet consistently live healthier and longer (see studies by UNO, or as a very specific example 7th day adventists study). Perhaps you have heard that present-day mankind consumes the resources of 2 earths -- if you take into account that raising kettle wastes 10x more water and pollutes the environment dramatically compared to crops, at the same time reducing the protein content per kg by another factor of 10 you can easily see what you have to do. [if you find the above numbers vague --> go here: http://www.vegetarismus.ch/info/eoeko.htm ]
We live on a planet where water and good soil is becoming scarce in many places, and people are starving because of that. At the same time people are becoming richer and meat demand goes up, especially in Asia.
The remaining two arguments to eat meat are subjective:
1) We've always done it.
2) It tastes good.
Is that enough?