Problem with this approach is that you don't know what will get defined as 'interesting' in 5 years. You filter out non-interesting data today and you won't have it when it becomes interesting again.
By your logic we should also allow private possession of nerve gas and nukes. With baseball/knife/scissors it takes quite a lot of work to kill one person. With guns you get something like this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy_Hook_Elementary_School_shooting - 27 dead in 15 minutes all by one guy.
Fortunately I enjoy another option: live in a country where criminals don't run around armed with AK-47. Also I don't remember any headlines similar to 'Man kills 30 schoolkids with a rock'.
I agree, let's be civilized people and compromise. For example: allow guns with no restrictions, but completely ban ammo. As for abortion... let's abort only upper or lower half of a fetus. There, two big debates solved.
HTTP/2.0 defines stream multiplexing, framing, stream control, prioritizing - pretty much replicating TCP. What is the point of putting TCP-like protocol on top of TCP ?
Wouldn't that make you liable for fraud? Breaking TOS of free service is one thing, but if you are paid for your data and you provide fake then it is more serious.
Back on topic though, you're right that we have to draw the line somewhere; I'd rather draw the line at zero. Nothing can be patented, and no business idea deserves any kind of special protection. If your idea cannot survive in the free market on merit alone it has no place in the market at all.
Oh, I am sure my Great Idea will survive in the market just fine, however it won't benefit my company at all. Immediately after putting it on market, bigger and richer competition will just copy it, set up mass production and use huge advertising campaign to grab all sales. In this case why should I even bother trying to innovate?
I would say that the tipping point was twisting "regulation of interstate commerce" into bullshit rule covering pretty much eveything. Or maybe secession war - it shown that states that abandoning USA if they find federal law unbearable is not an option.
BTW, would Poland have objected so much if the Germans asked them to join in a crusade against the Godless Communists on their Eastern border, instead of what happened?
Actually Ribbentrop proposed that Poland joins anti-soviet pact during meeting with ambassador Lipski on 24 Oct 1938 . It was of course declined.
It is only about as efficient as H.264 *baseline profile*. Considering that recent hardware (even phones) has no problems with h.264 high profile, VP8 is in fact far behind.
At least not until you make codec that is radically different. All current codecs are based on the same stuff - some variant of cosine transform, macroblocks, motion vectors. Just small improvements of concepts from MPEG2.
And we are back to feminist rule number one: everything is men's fault. Bunch of feminists is talking crazy? Of course it must be patriarchal conspiracy to weaken feminists and oppress women!
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Because we also reward them with jail.
Approaching the level of a psychopath is beneficial, getting caught crossing into is not (in general).
FTFY
Problem with this approach is that you don't know what will get defined as 'interesting' in 5 years. You filter out non-interesting data today and you won't have it when it becomes interesting again.
By your logic we should also allow private possession of nerve gas and nukes. With baseball/knife/scissors it takes quite a lot of work to kill one person. With guns you get something like this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy_Hook_Elementary_School_shooting - 27 dead in 15 minutes all by one guy.
Here is list to more detailed story about the same event: http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/story/2012/12/14/china-knife-attack-school.html . 22 children attacked and no one died. That's the big difference - if this guy had a gun, there would be dozen or more dead kids. So thank you for proving my point.
Fortunately I enjoy another option: live in a country where criminals don't run around armed with AK-47. Also I don't remember any headlines similar to 'Man kills 30 schoolkids with a rock'.
I agree, let's be civilized people and compromise. For example: allow guns with no restrictions, but completely ban ammo. As for abortion ... let's abort only upper or lower half of a fetus. There, two big debates solved.
If I remember correctly, closures were supposed to be included in Java 6 and later 7. So I will believe it when I see it in officially released jvm.
What is wrong with HLS? Definitely simplest adaptive streaming protocol to work with.
HTTP/2.0 defines stream multiplexing, framing, stream control, prioritizing - pretty much replicating TCP. What is the point of putting TCP-like protocol on top of TCP ?
... with apropriate DRM plugin. Which you won't get for Linux.
Why all the downvoting? Parent summarized the situation very accurately.
So in other words - Linux users get screwed as usual.
Wouldn't that make you liable for fraud? Breaking TOS of free service is one thing, but if you are paid for your data and you provide fake then it is more serious.
That's the point. American companies losing every public contract abroad, because nobody believes their claims of disabled wiretapping.
As non-American I am also very much in favour - this should be huge boost for IT sector everywhere outside US.
Or you could do cat program.exe > /dev/dsp . I just proved that program in is fact collection of sounds.
Back on topic though, you're right that we have to draw the line somewhere; I'd rather draw the line at zero. Nothing can be patented, and no business idea deserves any kind of special protection. If your idea cannot survive in the free market on merit alone it has no place in the market at all.
Oh, I am sure my Great Idea will survive in the market just fine, however it won't benefit my company at all. Immediately after putting it on market, bigger and richer competition will just copy it, set up mass production and use huge advertising campaign to grab all sales. In this case why should I even bother trying to innovate?
Or redirects all WM8 clients to goat porn.
I would say that the tipping point was twisting "regulation of interstate commerce" into bullshit rule covering pretty much eveything. Or maybe secession war - it shown that states that abandoning USA if they find federal law unbearable is not an option.
BTW, would Poland have objected so much if the Germans asked them to join in a crusade against the Godless Communists on their Eastern border, instead of what happened?
Actually Ribbentrop proposed that Poland joins anti-soviet pact during meeting with ambassador Lipski on 24 Oct 1938 . It was of course declined.
And here ladies and gentlemen we have fine specimen of religious reasoning - "I don't believe it, so it cannot be true"
It is only about as efficient as H.264 *baseline profile*. Considering that recent hardware (even phones) has no problems with h.264 high profile, VP8 is in fact far behind.
At least not until you make codec that is radically different. All current codecs are based on the same stuff - some variant of cosine transform, macroblocks, motion vectors. Just small improvements of concepts from MPEG2.
No, the main function of version control is ... version control.
And we are back to feminist rule number one: everything is men's fault. Bunch of feminists is talking crazy? Of course it must be patriarchal conspiracy to weaken feminists and oppress women!