Water is also rather non-explosive, but if you manage to contain a high temperature and pressure and then release it, it will behave in a rather explosive way.
The Mythbusters did an episode with a water heater, and they managed to give a midsized water heater something like 40 seconds of airtime.
I just recently moved to Sweden from Denmark. The changes in online payment processing wasn't that big - just introduced an extra bit of security. It's not a matter of being from Sweden or Denmark, it's a matter of how the shops are set up.
In Denmark, it's the same way as in the US: 1) Punch in your card number 2) Punch in the card's security code 3) There is no step 3
The Swedish stores I've bought from adds extra steps when I'm using the card from my bank though; it uses authentication that you need to have with you: A smart card reader using the chip and pin for my card.
When I want to pay using that system, the steps are as follows: 1) Payment processor is my bank, not some random company, and is in a separate SSL session to my bank 2) Enter SSN on payment page 3) Enter the one-time control code in my reader 4) Enter the pin number for my card in the reader 5) Punch in the return code from the card reader on the payment page
It's the same system I use for my online banking as well; it has steps for login, signing and buying, each presumably using a separate private key.
A system like this put in to place everywhere would make gleaning my credit card number useless. I don't have any physical identification that has my SSN on it, nor am I required to have such by Swedish Law (unless I'm driving). And even with my SSN, they still need to know my pin code. Can't say for sure if the card and reader are tied to each other though - I haven't tried using someone else's reader.
Additionally when this system is used on the websites, all processing is done through the bank's own systems, meaning the bank itself is the one that needs to be compromised, and they're probably a bit more worried about a breach than the other guys. I mean - if their systems are broken into, it's not like they can just pass the blame onto some random third party and tell the customers "don't worry, we won't be doing business with them again" - they screw up and it's us telling the banks we won't do business with them again.
Obs Feynman quote: "It doesn't matter how beautiful your theory is, it doesn't matter how smart you are. If it doesn't agree with experiment, it's wrong."
It's not nescesarily wrong... it might not even be right.
I think he also said something along those lines after reading some guy's thesis?
Then what happens if the coroner is arrested? Does he have a vice-coroner who takes over? If not, what's to prevent the sheriff from arresting the coroner if he fears the coroner is about to arrest him?
How would they do that? They sold a product to company A and informed company A that their product uses GPL software and what that entails. Company A says "alright" and then repackages that product. That means any and all stickers that they may have put on the box are removed, the manual is checked, anything they don't like is removed (like a GPL notice) etc., and then the product is sold to consumers
So again - how is NDS supposed to make the consumer aware that they have this right?
Undercover officers face the possibility of violent death on a daily basis
If your undercover identity can be broken by a civilian with no special training and no access to non-public information, you're doing it wrong.
Let's compare it to Valerie Plame. She wasn't outed by any counter intelligence agencies, nor by publicly available information. She was outed by someone decided to leak classified information. This despite her using her maiden name.
Be that as it may, they are still not required to call up every single person who have received their product from the company they actually sold it to and say "Hello. You've never heard of us, but we're the people who made the box in your living room that says Viasat/Stofa/YouSee, and we're calling you to tell you that you can receive the source code for it."
NDS have no way of contacting the end users. Thus they can't provide it to the end users. You might as well demand that RMS send me an email, telling me where to get my hands on the Emacs source code, because I might be downloading a Linux Distribution that includes it!
If I were to contact RMS about it though, he would provide it to me. But expecting it to go the other way around is rather silly.
They (NDS) aren't required to notify the end users of the product they sell. They sell it to the cable and satellite providers, and he already pointed out that NDS notifies those companies. NDS' distribution requirements do not extend beyond the people they distribute to.
These are companies who love swinging around the big copyright infringement stick when they get the chance, so get AntiPiratGruppen to help you sue the pants off of these companies. Oh, right. The Anti Pirate Group are only interested in helping the film and music industries - not the common man.
In this case it should be very easy to show just how many copyright infringing copies the companies have shipped. And they've shipped it for profit as well (the money saved on using GPL software are money earned as profit).
And while the GPL software doesn't have a fixed cost (there are no price tags on the software for non-GPL licensed versions), it shouldn't be too difficult to figure out what it's worth: Get all the developers to add up the time they think they've spent on the code, multiply by the average cost to hire software developers in Denmark (based on Prosa's salary statistics I'd estimate about 33 euro/hour).
Now, that just gives us the money they've saved. If that's all they're fined, they'll do it again and chalk it up to the cost of doing business. No, multiply this amount by twice the likelihood of someone finding out. I.e. if the likelihood of being discovered doing this is ten to one they'll pay twenty times the cost.
That and they have to follow the GPL license that they violated in the first place.
So maybe he meant block the doors and trip the CO2?
Nah... block the doors and start flooding the room with nitrogen. You don't notice it at first, and when you finally start getting a bit dizzy, you're enjoying the experience too much to do anything about it and you die with a smile on your face.
When you have illegal immigrants in your country, they tend not to assimilate
You're quite right. The original immigrants I was talking about never really did understand the idea of accepting the culture of the new land, did they?
The anti-immigration fans tend to forget a rather important thing: How did they end up here? I don't mean the new immigrants - I mean the fans.
Unless they are of native American stock, they themselves are either immigrants or descendent from immigrants. And if it's the latter, there's a good chance that their own lineage was a rather violent one - after all, they were the original ones that 'came over here and stole the jobs and the country'.
America for Americans? Sure - but where are all the white people going to go then?
Actually, the best way to judge any society is to see how they treat their jail prison population.
See, no justice system is infallible. Just look at the number of death row inmates who have been cleared after spending decades behind bars. Are the people who say "we should treat them like shit so they don't want to come back" really willing to put their money where their mouth is and volunteer to spend say six months doing hard time for a crime they didn't commit? How about a year? Five? Ten? Twenty?
We shouldn't treat inmates as if they're pond scum and that we, as a society, would be better off if they were on the compost heap instead of in prison. Sure, quite a lot of the people we throw behind bars end up committing some kind of crime while behind bars, be it doing drugs, breaking the prison rules, violence etc., but what are you supposed to do, if you're the innocent guy? Just let someone shank you? Rape you? Beat you up? Or are you going to try to fight back?
We may not like the people behind bars, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't treat them as human beings.
First of all, these devices have some limited capabilities
Compared to what we have today, sure.
But are you really going to claim, that back in 2000 no one ever did anything computationally difficult, never played games and never did anything beyond light office work?
I would be surprised if the hardware of the nVidia Tegra wouldn't be able to run rings about most non-workstation computers from 2000, and while I wasn't playing Crysis on that hardware back then, I'm still not playing Crysis on the computers I have today.
It's really not the hardware's performance that's lacking for non-game programs - it's the software's performance. The typical rule of thumb says compute performance doubles every 18 months. That means today's computers are ~64 times more powerful than those of 2000. Yet they're still mostly being used for browsing and office work, but now we need monster computers for it?
Wouldn't it be fun if these congress people were found to be using unlicensed navigation code on their own websites, with the original copyright claim removed along with the author's credit?
I mean, any website is more or less bound to serve up more than 24 copies. I mean, obviously these congress men and women will gladly pay these damages - it's not like they are unconstitutional or shocks the conciousness, right?
And again - a disclaimer: Don't go breaking into these people's web servers to do anything illegal;)
Will take a while to achieve, but I'm somewhat curious if materials with negative refractions still vaporize if hit by a powerful laser at the frequency at which the material exhibits that quality.
Yes, but the hardware in question isn't subject to either copyright or trademark. The only thing that can be those things is the name and the software in question, and you don't "replicate" either of those two - you copy them.
It is completely legal for me to build a replica of a 1976 Ferrari 308 GTB or other - I can even sell the cars or the kits to build them. I can't pretend they are the real thing, but I'm certainly entitled to sell them as 1976 Ferrari 308 GTB Replicas.
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Water is also rather non-explosive, but if you manage to contain a high temperature and pressure and then release it, it will behave in a rather explosive way.
The Mythbusters did an episode with a water heater, and they managed to give a midsized water heater something like 40 seconds of airtime.
This has absolutely no bearing on whether or not Microsoft will be allowed to continue shipping Word.
i4i is entirely within their right not to license the patent to Microsoft, even if/after Microsoft pays the fines and damages.
Which is of course why we see gasoline electric locomotives all over the place ...
I just recently moved to Sweden from Denmark. The changes in online payment processing wasn't that big - just introduced an extra bit of security. It's not a matter of being from Sweden or Denmark, it's a matter of how the shops are set up.
In Denmark, it's the same way as in the US:
1) Punch in your card number
2) Punch in the card's security code
3) There is no step 3
The Swedish stores I've bought from adds extra steps when I'm using the card from my bank though; it uses authentication that you need to have with you:
A smart card reader using the chip and pin for my card.
When I want to pay using that system, the steps are as follows:
1) Payment processor is my bank, not some random company, and is in a separate SSL session to my bank
2) Enter SSN on payment page
3) Enter the one-time control code in my reader
4) Enter the pin number for my card in the reader
5) Punch in the return code from the card reader on the payment page
It's the same system I use for my online banking as well; it has steps for login, signing and buying, each presumably using a separate private key.
A system like this put in to place everywhere would make gleaning my credit card number useless. I don't have any physical identification that has my SSN on it, nor am I required to have such by Swedish Law (unless I'm driving). And even with my SSN, they still need to know my pin code. Can't say for sure if the card and reader are tied to each other though - I haven't tried using someone else's reader.
Additionally when this system is used on the websites, all processing is done through the bank's own systems, meaning the bank itself is the one that needs to be compromised, and they're probably a bit more worried about a breach than the other guys. I mean - if their systems are broken into, it's not like they can just pass the blame onto some random third party and tell the customers "don't worry, we won't be doing business with them again" - they screw up and it's us telling the banks we won't do business with them again.
It's not nescesarily wrong ... it might not even be right.
I think he also said something along those lines after reading some guy's thesis?
Then what happens if the coroner is arrested? Does he have a vice-coroner who takes over? If not, what's to prevent the sheriff from arresting the coroner if he fears the coroner is about to arrest him?
Was her mom a big prankster by any chance?
How would they do that? They sold a product to company A and informed company A that their product uses GPL software and what that entails. Company A says "alright" and then repackages that product. That means any and all stickers that they may have put on the box are removed, the manual is checked, anything they don't like is removed (like a GPL notice) etc., and then the product is sold to consumers
So again - how is NDS supposed to make the consumer aware that they have this right?
If your undercover identity can be broken by a civilian with no special training and no access to non-public information, you're doing it wrong.
Let's compare it to Valerie Plame. She wasn't outed by any counter intelligence agencies, nor by publicly available information. She was outed by someone decided to leak classified information. This despite her using her maiden name.
Be that as it may, they are still not required to call up every single person who have received their product from the company they actually sold it to and say "Hello. You've never heard of us, but we're the people who made the box in your living room that says Viasat/Stofa/YouSee, and we're calling you to tell you that you can receive the source code for it."
NDS have no way of contacting the end users. Thus they can't provide it to the end users. You might as well demand that RMS send me an email, telling me where to get my hands on the Emacs source code, because I might be downloading a Linux Distribution that includes it!
If I were to contact RMS about it though, he would provide it to me. But expecting it to go the other way around is rather silly.
They (NDS) aren't required to notify the end users of the product they sell. They sell it to the cable and satellite providers, and he already pointed out that NDS notifies those companies. NDS' distribution requirements do not extend beyond the people they distribute to.
Uhm ... personally I'd hate to read any book (including eBooks) that haven't been edited and typeset properly.
Typesetting can make the difference between readable and unreadable, even in digital form.
These are companies who love swinging around the big copyright infringement stick when they get the chance, so get AntiPiratGruppen to help you sue the pants off of these companies. Oh, right. The Anti Pirate Group are only interested in helping the film and music industries - not the common man.
In this case it should be very easy to show just how many copyright infringing copies the companies have shipped. And they've shipped it for profit as well (the money saved on using GPL software are money earned as profit).
And while the GPL software doesn't have a fixed cost (there are no price tags on the software for non-GPL licensed versions), it shouldn't be
too difficult to figure out what it's worth: Get all the developers to add up the time they think they've spent on the code, multiply by the average cost to hire software developers in Denmark (based on Prosa's salary statistics I'd estimate about 33 euro/hour).
Now, that just gives us the money they've saved. If that's all they're fined, they'll do it again and chalk it up to the cost of doing business. No, multiply this amount by twice the likelihood of someone finding out. I.e. if the likelihood of being discovered doing this is ten to one they'll pay twenty times the cost.
That and they have to follow the GPL license that they violated in the first place.
Nah ... block the doors and start flooding the room with nitrogen. You don't notice it at first, and when you finally start getting a bit dizzy, you're enjoying the experience too much to do anything about it and you die with a smile on your face.
See this clip from the documentary How to Kill a Human Being . Start at 2 minutes.
And if you can replace the oxygen in the room with nitrogen, nothing will be able to burn.
You're quite right. The original immigrants I was talking about never really did understand the idea of accepting the culture of the new land, did they?
Isn't this exactly what the 2nd amendment is for? To overthrow an oppressive regime?
The anti-immigration fans tend to forget a rather important thing: How did they end up here? I don't mean the new immigrants - I mean the fans.
Unless they are of native American stock, they themselves are either immigrants or descendent from immigrants. And if it's the latter, there's a good chance that their own lineage was a rather violent one - after all, they were the original ones that 'came over here and stole the jobs and the country'.
America for Americans? Sure - but where are all the white people going to go then?
Actually, the best way to judge any society is to see how they treat their jail prison population.
See, no justice system is infallible. Just look at the number of death row inmates who have been cleared after spending decades behind bars. Are the people who say "we should treat them like shit so they don't want to come back" really willing to put their money where their mouth is and volunteer to spend say six months doing hard time for a crime they didn't commit? How about a year? Five? Ten? Twenty?
We shouldn't treat inmates as if they're pond scum and that we, as a society, would be better off if they were on the compost heap instead of in prison. Sure, quite a lot of the people we throw behind bars end up committing some kind of crime while behind bars, be it doing drugs, breaking the prison rules, violence etc., but what are you supposed to do, if you're the innocent guy? Just let someone shank you? Rape you? Beat you up? Or are you going to try to fight back?
We may not like the people behind bars, but that doesn't mean we shouldn't treat them as human beings.
Compared to what we have today, sure.
But are you really going to claim, that back in 2000 no one ever did anything computationally difficult, never played games and never did anything beyond light office work?
I would be surprised if the hardware of the nVidia Tegra wouldn't be able to run rings about most non-workstation computers from 2000, and while I wasn't playing Crysis on that hardware back then, I'm still not playing Crysis on the computers I have today.
It's really not the hardware's performance that's lacking for non-game programs - it's the software's performance. The typical rule of thumb says compute performance doubles every 18 months. That means today's computers are ~64 times more powerful than those of 2000. Yet they're still mostly being used for browsing and office work, but now we need monster computers for it?
Wouldn't it be fun if these congress people were found to be using unlicensed navigation code on their own websites, with the original copyright claim removed along with the author's credit?
I mean, any website is more or less bound to serve up more than 24 copies. I mean, obviously these congress men and women will gladly pay these damages - it's not like they are unconstitutional or shocks the conciousness, right?
And again - a disclaimer: Don't go breaking into these people's web servers to do anything illegal ;)
Will take a while to achieve, but I'm somewhat curious if materials with negative refractions still vaporize if hit by a powerful laser at the frequency at which the material exhibits that quality.
Yes, but the hardware in question isn't subject to either copyright or trademark. The only thing that can be those things is the name and the software in question, and you don't "replicate" either of those two - you copy them.
It is completely legal for me to build a replica of a 1976 Ferrari 308 GTB or other - I can even sell the cars or the kits to build them. I can't pretend they are the real thing, but I'm certainly entitled to sell them as 1976 Ferrari 308 GTB Replicas.
It was made in 1976. That's 33 years ago. Any relevant patents should have expired about 13 years ago.
Alright, Sergeant Major will also receive a citation for not standing at attention as ordered.
Nothing to be overly concerned about. But start worrying when the enemy is seen to keep and arm bears!