He also mentions, "We are actively engaged with OnLive with the hope of bringing them into a properly licensed scenario, and we are committed to seeing this issue is resolved," which implies that OnLive is not currently properly licensed.
I think what set them off was the Erlenmeyer flasks. They seem to scream mad scientist to non chemistry people.
Erlenmeyer flasks (and much of the other glassware you mention) are illegal to possess in Texas without a permit--and in order to get a permit, you must allow the police to search your house (or place of business) unannounced: The Precursor Chemical Statute
Off-topic side note that I was reminded of when I was thinking of Ghostscript... Artifex quietly dropped their MuPDF GPL infringement suit against Palm a while back. There was a lot of reporting on the original suit, but nobody seems to have paid attention to the outcome. Apparently, Artifex found out that they can't actually license code under the GPL, but then impose additional restrictions on it (like require money) when a big company uses their GPL code.
No, Adobe's implementation of PostScript is licensed. The specification itself is not--you can download a copy for free. There are numerous third party PostScript implementations. E.g., many Brother printers have "BR-Script". PhoenixPage is/used to be popular too.
I can't find any references to this before January 2012, although maybe the recent news flare-up has drowned the older stuff out.
Or maybe it's just now made it to the English-language media. Here's an documentary from 2008 in Chinese about the kid. It turns out his night vision is a bit better than normal, but it's not that much better. The doctor says he probably has a form of ocular albinism (which is known to cause both sensitivity to bright light, and slightly improved night vision).
Blacklisting doesn't work because the next version of the standard, such as Unicode 6.1, may introduce more undesirable character ranges.
It's not difficult to update a simple file/DB entry/whatever to add more characters to the blacklist. Include a little util to parse the UnicodeData file and automatically blacklist all control characters. But even if you wanted to go with a whitelist instead of a blacklist, there's no reason for the whitelist to be as small as it currently is. And then there's what I assume is a Slashcode bug where non-ASCII characters that are in the whitelist don't come through properly. I've seen numerous posts where a stray character gets included. I don't feel like looking for examples right now, but I don't think people are all making the same consistent typos.
Almost none of those are actually IPv6-only sites... they're IPv6-only DNS records (i.e., AAAA with no A) for sites that are available on both IPv4 and IPv6.
Google IPv6: I think we all know that Google is available over IPv4
Test My IPv6: a test site, but even that is available in an IPv4 version
Facebook IPv6: and we all know Facebook is available over IPv4 too
bin6.it: OK, this does appear to be an IPv6-only site
ipv6.cyups.com: this isn't even an IPv6-only DNS record, much less an IPv6-only site. ipv6.cyups.com has address 173.245.60.44, ipv6.cyups.com has address 173.245.60.121, ipv6.cyups.com has IPv6 address 2400:cb00:2048:1::adf5:3c2c, ipv6.cyups.com has IPv6 address 2400:cb00:2048:1::adf5:3c79
Zone403.eu: LOL, this one is even more of a failure... it's IPv4-only; there's no AAAA record at all!
onet.pl: just change the ipv6 to www for the v4 site
Plurk: same--change ipv6 to www
I could go on, but you get the picture... it looks like there are only 2 IPv6-only sites on that list.
Probably nothing. Nobody's gonna force you off of IPv4 anytime soon--and probably never. The main reason for adding IPv6 support (note: not switching to IPv6) is for the billions of people who aren't currently on the Internet, but will be getting Internet access over the next decade.
More importantly, a violin made in a factory in china is going to sound like crap compared to a hand made violin by a skilled luthier, even if it is brand new.
However, a violin made by a skilled luthier in China is going to sound quite good--in the same class as violins made in Europe, yet significantly cheaper. Search the web for Chinese violins, and you'll find a number of people quite pleased with their Made in China violins. For example, see this thread.
Chrome does not follow the RFC standards on TCP/IP so it can have faster loading time.
What, does it include its own implementation of TCP that uses raw sockets or something? No? Then it must be using the TCP/IP implementation that comes with the OS it's running on. SPDY isn't some tweaked non-standard version of TCP/IP--it's a tweaked non-standard version of HTTP (or perhaps a layer between HTTP and TCP, depending on how you look at things).
The king doesn't have any political power; Thailand's a constitutional monarchy, and like the other constitutional monarchies in the world, the king's involvement in government basically consists of presiding over various ceremonies and rubber-stamping what Parliament sends his way. The people who can get rid of the law like its power too much to do so... and my personal impression as a Thai (living in the US) is that a lot of the Thai people approve of the law too--the vast majority of Thais revere the king, and many think he should be legally protected.
tl;dr: it's used as a political tool to silence/jail one's enemies--while the law has been around forever, prosecutions skyrocketed after the 2006 coup that ousted the prime minister as the different political parties fight for power. The king himself has publically stated that he doesn't support the lese majeste law, and no member of the royal family has ever filed a lese majeste charge.
This is the correct answer. Khyber constantly posts these BS stories--here, on lulz.net, forums for pot growers, and everywhere else he hangs out. Don't forget that he claims that his other job besides porn store clerk is research director for the LED company he advertises in his.sig.
(which of course is on top of the 3% fee they charge to the merchant)
No, it's instead of the 3% fee they charge the merchant. The whole reason they're going to make the debit card user pay the fee instead of having the merchant pass the fee along to the user through the product price is because as of a few days ago, it's illegal for them to charge the merchant more than $0.21 + 0.05%. Now I'm all for turning hidden fees into non-hidden ones, but we all know that merchants aren't going to reduce their prices now that they no longer have to pay large debit card fees.
It's not like there's a shortage of banks in this country to do your banking with.
What about banks that don't charge a debit card fee? The number of those is definitely on the decline. Wells Fargo, Chase, and SunTrust are also planning on charging accountholders a fee to use their debit cards.
That's a fairly recent development though--in 2005, Texas only got back 94 cents for each dollar it paid out to the feds. And all states are getting more funds from the fed now (e.g., stimulus funds); in 2009, 47 states received more than they gave (the exceptions being Delaware, Minnesota, and New Jersey). Info on how much taxes were paid by residents of each state are at http://www.irs.gov/taxstats/article/0,,id=102174,00.html and info on how much federal money went to each state is at http://www.census.gov/prod/2010pubs/cffr-09.pdf
I also had ISDN, and used it for both data and voice (had an actual ISDN handset for voice, rather than using an analog phone port on an ISDN terminal adapter), and I've found that VOIP matches or exceeds the quality. If you use an uncompressed codec (e.g., G.711), the quality is the same. And if you use a wideband codec (e.g., G.722), the quality is much better--instead of being bandlimited to 3.something kHz due to the 8k sampling rate, you get 7kHz or even 15kHz, which gets rid of the ubiquitous "telephone" quality that even ISDN has.
Is there a minimum fee for this or the AT&T pay as you go plan?
On the "Adding funds to your account" tab of AT&T's prepaid info page, there's a table that lists the expiration period for various refill amounts. The effective minimum is $100/year (a bit over $8/month).
FWIW, I don't have an iPhone, but I do have a smartphone (Nokia E71), and I average about $20 a month on AT&T's prepaid--some web browsing, email, and Google maps. I don't watch Youtube or download podcasts over 3G data though; I save that for where I have WiFi.
I've been using US ATMs for 20+ years, and in my experience, they've always accepted cash deposits. In the early days, you did have to put your deposit in an envelope (regardless if it was cash or check)--the ATM didn't actually do anything with the deposit except store it securely until the bank teller could actually make the deposit. However, the instructions were very clear about the envelope requirement: text instructions on-screen (this was before the fancy GUI ATMs), a picture of an envelope by the deposit slot showing which way the insert the envelope, the envelopes themselves next to the deposit slot, etc... In the past few years, Bank of America ATMs (and I'm sure other banks too) have eliminated the envelope requirement, and you now insert the cash and checks directly. They get scanned and OCRed by the ATM, so it counts cash for you, and if the OCR worked on the checks, totals those up for you too. If the check is hand-written poorly enough that the OCR can't make sense of it, you do have to key in the amount.
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You forgot another option: he's right and you're unable to rebut.
As an SPLA provider I can confirm there IS a win7 license available under SPLA.
Huh, maybe you should let Joe Matz, VP of Worldwide Licensing and Pricing at Microsoft know, since he says, "However, it is important to note that SPLA does not support delivery of Windows 7 as a hosted client."
He also mentions, "We are actively engaged with OnLive with the hope of bringing them into a properly licensed scenario, and we are committed to seeing this issue is resolved," which implies that OnLive is not currently properly licensed.
I think what set them off was the Erlenmeyer flasks. They seem to scream mad scientist to non chemistry people.
Erlenmeyer flasks (and much of the other glassware you mention) are illegal to possess in Texas without a permit--and in order to get a permit, you must allow the police to search your house (or place of business) unannounced: The Precursor Chemical Statute
Oh, and is a GPLed implementation of PS, but (AFAIK) you won't find that on an actual printer.
Off-topic side note that I was reminded of when I was thinking of Ghostscript... Artifex quietly dropped their MuPDF GPL infringement suit against Palm a while back. There was a lot of reporting on the original suit, but nobody seems to have paid attention to the outcome. Apparently, Artifex found out that they can't actually license code under the GPL, but then impose additional restrictions on it (like require money) when a big company uses their GPL code.
No, Adobe's implementation of PostScript is licensed. The specification itself is not--you can download a copy for free. There are numerous third party PostScript implementations. E.g., many Brother printers have "BR-Script". PhoenixPage is/used to be popular too.
I can't find any references to this before January 2012, although maybe the recent news flare-up has drowned the older stuff out.
Or maybe it's just now made it to the English-language media. Here's an documentary from 2008 in Chinese about the kid. It turns out his night vision is a bit better than normal, but it's not that much better. The doctor says he probably has a form of ocular albinism (which is known to cause both sensitivity to bright light, and slightly improved night vision).
Blacklisting doesn't work because the next version of the standard, such as Unicode 6.1, may introduce more undesirable character ranges.
It's not difficult to update a simple file/DB entry/whatever to add more characters to the blacklist. Include a little util to parse the UnicodeData file and automatically blacklist all control characters. But even if you wanted to go with a whitelist instead of a blacklist, there's no reason for the whitelist to be as small as it currently is. And then there's what I assume is a Slashcode bug where non-ASCII characters that are in the whitelist don't come through properly. I've seen numerous posts where a stray character gets included. I don't feel like looking for examples right now, but I don't think people are all making the same consistent typos.
Couldn't you be bothered to google?
http://ipv6.cybernode.com/list-of-ipv6-only-sites
Almost none of those are actually IPv6-only sites... they're IPv6-only DNS records (i.e., AAAA with no A) for sites that are available on both IPv4 and IPv6.
I could go on, but you get the picture... it looks like there are only 2 IPv6-only sites on that list.
Probably nothing. Nobody's gonna force you off of IPv4 anytime soon--and probably never. The main reason for adding IPv6 support (note: not switching to IPv6) is for the billions of people who aren't currently on the Internet, but will be getting Internet access over the next decade.
More importantly, a violin made in a factory in china is going to sound like crap compared to a hand made violin by a skilled luthier, even if it is brand new.
However, a violin made by a skilled luthier in China is going to sound quite good--in the same class as violins made in Europe, yet significantly cheaper. Search the web for Chinese violins, and you'll find a number of people quite pleased with their Made in China violins. For example, see this thread.
Okay?
the toyota software bug that caused unintentional acceleration in their vehicles equipped with throttle-by-wire.
Which bug would that be? The investigation found no evidence of any bug--the causes of the unintended acceleration were found to be "improperly installed floor mats, sticky pedals, and driver error."
Chrome does not follow the RFC standards on TCP/IP so it can have faster loading time.
What, does it include its own implementation of TCP that uses raw sockets or something? No? Then it must be using the TCP/IP implementation that comes with the OS it's running on. SPDY isn't some tweaked non-standard version of TCP/IP--it's a tweaked non-standard version of HTTP (or perhaps a layer between HTTP and TCP, depending on how you look at things).
The king doesn't have any political power; Thailand's a constitutional monarchy, and like the other constitutional monarchies in the world, the king's involvement in government basically consists of presiding over various ceremonies and rubber-stamping what Parliament sends his way. The people who can get rid of the law like its power too much to do so... and my personal impression as a Thai (living in the US) is that a lot of the Thai people approve of the law too--the vast majority of Thais revere the king, and many think he should be legally protected.
FYI, here's an informative/interesting article from Time magazine: What's Behind Thailand's Lèse Majesté Crackdown?
tl;dr: it's used as a political tool to silence/jail one's enemies--while the law has been around forever, prosecutions skyrocketed after the 2006 coup that ousted the prime minister as the different political parties fight for power. The king himself has publically stated that he doesn't support the lese majeste law, and no member of the royal family has ever filed a lese majeste charge.
Sorry bro, the post really is at -1, Offtopic. Deal with it.
You're either none too bright, a paid shill
Or Khyber.
This is the correct answer. Khyber constantly posts these BS stories--here, on lulz.net, forums for pot growers, and everywhere else he hangs out. Don't forget that he claims that his other job besides porn store clerk is research director for the LED company he advertises in his .sig.
So has anyone sent RMS an iPod for his birthday? :)
(which of course is on top of the 3% fee they charge to the merchant)
No, it's instead of the 3% fee they charge the merchant. The whole reason they're going to make the debit card user pay the fee instead of having the merchant pass the fee along to the user through the product price is because as of a few days ago, it's illegal for them to charge the merchant more than $0.21 + 0.05%. Now I'm all for turning hidden fees into non-hidden ones, but we all know that merchants aren't going to reduce their prices now that they no longer have to pay large debit card fees.
It's not like there's a shortage of banks in this country to do your banking with.
What about banks that don't charge a debit card fee? The number of those is definitely on the decline. Wells Fargo, Chase, and SunTrust are also planning on charging accountholders a fee to use their debit cards.
That's a fairly recent development though--in 2005, Texas only got back 94 cents for each dollar it paid out to the feds. And all states are getting more funds from the fed now (e.g., stimulus funds); in 2009, 47 states received more than they gave (the exceptions being Delaware, Minnesota, and New Jersey). Info on how much taxes were paid by residents of each state are at http://www.irs.gov/taxstats/article/0,,id=102174,00.html and info on how much federal money went to each state is at http://www.census.gov/prod/2010pubs/cffr-09.pdf
I also had ISDN, and used it for both data and voice (had an actual ISDN handset for voice, rather than using an analog phone port on an ISDN terminal adapter), and I've found that VOIP matches or exceeds the quality. If you use an uncompressed codec (e.g., G.711), the quality is the same. And if you use a wideband codec (e.g., G.722), the quality is much better--instead of being bandlimited to 3.something kHz due to the 8k sampling rate, you get 7kHz or even 15kHz, which gets rid of the ubiquitous "telephone" quality that even ISDN has.
You got +4 insightful so many people agree
No, he got +4 because he has sockpuppets to mod himself up.
Read it. You're still wrong. How about you read the other posts that have explained why you're wrong?
Is there a minimum fee for this or the AT&T pay as you go plan?
On the "Adding funds to your account" tab of AT&T's prepaid info page, there's a table that lists the expiration period for various refill amounts. The effective minimum is $100/year (a bit over $8/month).
FWIW, I don't have an iPhone, but I do have a smartphone (Nokia E71), and I average about $20 a month on AT&T's prepaid--some web browsing, email, and Google maps. I don't watch Youtube or download podcasts over 3G data though; I save that for where I have WiFi.
ATMs there have accepted cash for a long time.
I've been using US ATMs for 20+ years, and in my experience, they've always accepted cash deposits. In the early days, you did have to put your deposit in an envelope (regardless if it was cash or check)--the ATM didn't actually do anything with the deposit except store it securely until the bank teller could actually make the deposit. However, the instructions were very clear about the envelope requirement: text instructions on-screen (this was before the fancy GUI ATMs), a picture of an envelope by the deposit slot showing which way the insert the envelope, the envelopes themselves next to the deposit slot, etc... In the past few years, Bank of America ATMs (and I'm sure other banks too) have eliminated the envelope requirement, and you now insert the cash and checks directly. They get scanned and OCRed by the ATM, so it counts cash for you, and if the OCR worked on the checks, totals those up for you too. If the check is hand-written poorly enough that the OCR can't make sense of it, you do have to key in the amount.