Try this without the "cyber". Imagine a Slashdot article which says "the General has determined that the law of armed conflict applies to enemy armies with guns. This also means that we consider non-state gun attackers to be illegal enemy combatants". The article then goes on to suggest that we will now be sending bank robbers to Guantanamo.
Would that make sense? Of course not. Just because sending people with guns at us is an act of war doesn't mean that non-state actors with guns are all illegal enemy combatants. Why does this change when you replace guns with cyber-?
Note also that the illegal enemy combatant thing was made up by Slashdot for the summary and isn't actually part of the article.
The amusing part is that since Obama's black ancestry is from modern Africa, but his white ancestry is from the US, he's a descendant of slaveholders, but not of slaves. Giving him something from an anti-slave ship may not be as positive as it seems.
Your bonus was tied to performance. Theirs was not. It's what's known as a "retention bonus", which is specifically given as a sum at the end of a period of time to provide incentives for someone to keep working at a company that has no future.
"Bonus" doesn't mean that it comes as a surprise and they only get it if they do well. "Bonus" is just a type of pay that is given in a lump sum at the end instead of every two weeks.
Suggesting that it's wrong to get or pay out "bonuses" is equivalent to saying "salary is fine if you get it every two weeks but if you get it in a lump sum it's really evil".
And the reason they had to be given extra pay at all is that a failing company is a pretty lousy place to work. Nobody's going to work at a company which has no future and will leave them unemployed after a year unless you pay them extra to make up for it.
Incorrect. Super Sentai (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Super_Sentai) has the record, although you could argue whether it counts as "a" show, since it changes each year.
You could argue this violates the DMCA with respect to technological protection measures.
But DMCA notices use a different part of the DMCA, which allows takedowns for actual copyright violations. IANAL, but I don't think that you can combine the two and use a DMCA notice to take down something that doesn't violate copyright but does violate the other part of the DMCA.
I'm amazed at how many times I see this argument used whenever the subject comes up. The answer is always "Yeah, I'd want to work for someone that clueless, because a job that sucks is better than not being able to eat and pay rent". We're living in the real world, and people don't take jobs just because they want to enjoy themselves at the job. They take jobs because you need a job to live.
The original Slashdot article (and the original Economist article) got so close, but missed it: the reason we won't have cheaper computers is Microsoft. It glosses over it by mentioning that Microsoft wants its new OS to use fewer resources.
But the real way that Microsoft is the problem is that Windows licenses are one per computer, and the price of one isn't going down. Decreasing the price of the other components of a PC instead of doubling their power would mean that Windows takes up a larger and larger slice of the PC's total cost. Microsoft would be under pressure to reduce the price of Windows, and they really don't want that....
But Foundation isn't a novel in the ordinary sense: it's a collection of short stories. There are some novellas in the later books, and only the post-Golden-Age ones are actual novels. It's also very talky and lacks most of the space action an unfamiliar viewer/reader might expect.
Also, the original premise (which is later retconned) is nonsense. Predicting future society by analyzing human behavior is impossible because that won't let you predict technological breakthroughs, which drastically change society.
And when we do learn the Second Foundation is manipulating things, the story tries to present them as the good guys. Good guys who shape the future of the galaxy using mind control? No thanks.
The way this summary is written implies that NASA's selection of missions in the other article has something to do with Juno. It doesn't. New Frontiers missions are picked periodically. Juno was picked in 2003; NASA still hasn't picked one of the current batch yet.
I still find Firefox unusable on some sites, because redrawing or scrolling halts the CPU at 100% usage for several seconds. However, this is on Linux, which isn't the majority platform, and not the most bleeding edge version of all libraries, with the result that nobody seems likely to fix it. (I reported the Firefox 3 version of the problem in March. Firefox 2 had problems on a different set of sites.)
I still occasionally play DOS games. As you know, most modern soundcards are pathetic in DOS if they work at all. The new Philips Edge cards make reference to FM synthesis for real mode DOS and I've been trying to find out how good their DOS support is. So far I've been able to find out exactly nothing (and the information on modern soundcards under DOS in general isn't all that good).
There are also a couple of old Japanese animation/manga scripts that seem to have disappeared off of the Internet.
The problem is that using the bit kills all copying and printing, even fair use. Copyright law allows for fair use; the bit prevents it, so the bit cannot be described as just letting people break copyright law.
The author himself says that he isn't going to allow fair use copying because he can't interpret the law and have the program know how much copying is fair use, which ignores that the program is a tool. Programs like "cp" copy everything, and of course have no way to check if the copying is permitted under law, and this is perfectly fine. (And I suspect that any attempt to print is fair use anyway.)
Try this link. It pretty debunks the idea. Also
this.
GM was convicted of conspiring to monopolize "supplies"--that is, to force the companies it owned to buy all their busses from GM. Not of driving streetcars out. Streetcars had already peaked in 1920 and were in decline for a long time. And streetcars were replaced by busses all over the world, including in locations which had no connection to GM and where the busses did not come from GM, and even by companies in Los Angeles which were not owned by GM.
Before another person claims that federal service in Starship Troopers wasn't necessarily military, I suggest reading this link. (pdf format)
As for Stranger in a Strange Land, remember that this book came out in 1960 and had been in progress for a long while. Heinlein wasn't influenced by the 1960's--he *predicted* the 1960's. It was really a prety amazing job of prediction--a lot better than predicting personal jetpacks, wrist televisions, and food pills. Of course, when the 1960's came around, all the hippies jumped on the book, but please do try to remember what order it happened in.
I'm living in Buckhead right now, and my lease is running out (condominium conversion, argh), so I'm starting to think about moving. I suspect that I'm going to end up in the north just because that's where the jobs are (I'm looking for a job and peeved that someone with a background in C usually won't even be considered for C++. This sucks); just about every potential job I've seen has been in a place like Marietta or Norcross. Nothing around Midtown.
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Try this without the "cyber". Imagine a Slashdot article which says "the General has determined that the law of armed conflict applies to enemy armies with guns. This also means that we consider non-state gun attackers to be illegal enemy combatants". The article then goes on to suggest that we will now be sending bank robbers to Guantanamo.
Would that make sense? Of course not. Just because sending people with guns at us is an act of war doesn't mean that non-state actors with guns are all illegal enemy combatants. Why does this change when you replace guns with cyber-?
Note also that the illegal enemy combatant thing was made up by Slashdot for the summary and isn't actually part of the article.
The amusing part is that since Obama's black ancestry is from modern Africa, but his white ancestry is from the US, he's a descendant of slaveholders, but not of slaves. Giving him something from an anti-slave ship may not be as positive as it seems.
Your bonus was tied to performance. Theirs was not. It's what's known as a "retention bonus", which is specifically given as a sum at the end of a period of time to provide incentives for someone to keep working at a company that has no future.
"Bonus" doesn't mean that it comes as a surprise and they only get it if they do well. "Bonus" is just a type of pay that is given in a lump sum at the end instead of every two weeks.
Suggesting that it's wrong to get or pay out "bonuses" is equivalent to saying "salary is fine if you get it every two weeks but if you get it in a lump sum it's really evil".
And the reason they had to be given extra pay at all is that a failing company is a pretty lousy place to work. Nobody's going to work at a company which has no future and will leave them unemployed after a year unless you pay them extra to make up for it.
Incorrect. Super Sentai (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Super_Sentai) has the record, although you could argue whether it counts as "a" show, since it changes each year.
You could argue this violates the DMCA with respect to technological protection measures.
But DMCA notices use a different part of the DMCA, which allows takedowns for actual copyright violations. IANAL, but I don't think that you can combine the two and use a DMCA notice to take down something that doesn't violate copyright but does violate the other part of the DMCA.
I'm amazed at how many times I see this argument used whenever the subject comes up. The answer is always "Yeah, I'd want to work for someone that clueless, because a job that sucks is better than not being able to eat and pay rent". We're living in the real world, and people don't take jobs just because they want to enjoy themselves at the job. They take jobs because you need a job to live.
The original Slashdot article (and the original Economist article) got so close, but missed it: the reason we won't have cheaper computers is Microsoft. It glosses over it by mentioning that Microsoft wants its new OS to use fewer resources.
But the real way that Microsoft is the problem is that Windows licenses are one per computer, and the price of one isn't going down. Decreasing the price of the other components of a PC instead of doubling their power would mean that Windows takes up a larger and larger slice of the PC's total cost. Microsoft would be under pressure to reduce the price of Windows, and they really don't want that....
But Foundation isn't a novel in the ordinary sense: it's a collection of short stories. There are some novellas in the later books, and only the post-Golden-Age ones are actual novels. It's also very talky and lacks most of the space action an unfamiliar viewer/reader might expect.
Also, the original premise (which is later retconned) is nonsense. Predicting future society by analyzing human behavior is impossible because that won't let you predict technological breakthroughs, which drastically change society.
And when we do learn the Second Foundation is manipulating things, the story tries to present them as the good guys. Good guys who shape the future of the galaxy using mind control? No thanks.
The way this summary is written implies that NASA's selection of missions in the other article has something to do with Juno. It doesn't. New Frontiers missions are picked periodically. Juno was picked in 2003; NASA still hasn't picked one of the current batch yet.
I still find Firefox unusable on some sites, because redrawing or scrolling halts the CPU at 100% usage for several seconds. However, this is on Linux, which isn't the majority platform, and not the most bleeding edge version of all libraries, with the result that nobody seems likely to fix it. (I reported the Firefox 3 version of the problem in March. Firefox 2 had problems on a different set of sites.)
https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=415488 but I don't think they let you link from Slashdot.
I still occasionally play DOS games. As you know, most modern soundcards are pathetic in DOS if they work at all. The new Philips Edge cards make reference to FM synthesis for real mode DOS and I've been trying to find out how good their DOS support is. So far I've been able to find out exactly nothing (and the information on modern soundcards under DOS in general isn't all that good). There are also a couple of old Japanese animation/manga scripts that seem to have disappeared off of the Internet.
The author himself says that he isn't going to allow fair use copying because he can't interpret the law and have the program know how much copying is fair use, which ignores that the program is a tool. Programs like "cp" copy everything, and of course have no way to check if the copying is permitted under law, and this is perfectly fine. (And I suspect that any attempt to print is fair use anyway.)
Try this link. It pretty debunks the idea. Also this. GM was convicted of conspiring to monopolize "supplies"--that is, to force the companies it owned to buy all their busses from GM. Not of driving streetcars out. Streetcars had already peaked in 1920 and were in decline for a long time. And streetcars were replaced by busses all over the world, including in locations which had no connection to GM and where the busses did not come from GM, and even by companies in Los Angeles which were not owned by GM.
As for Stranger in a Strange Land, remember that this book came out in 1960 and had been in progress for a long while. Heinlein wasn't influenced by the 1960's--he *predicted* the 1960's. It was really a prety amazing job of prediction--a lot better than predicting personal jetpacks, wrist televisions, and food pills. Of course, when the 1960's came around, all the hippies jumped on the book, but please do try to remember what order it happened in.
I'm living in Buckhead right now, and my lease is running out (condominium conversion, argh), so I'm starting to think about moving. I suspect that I'm going to end up in the north just because that's where the jobs are (I'm looking for a job and peeved that someone with a background in C usually won't even be considered for C++. This sucks); just about every potential job I've seen has been in a place like Marietta or Norcross. Nothing around Midtown.