You never mentioned where you were located and where you were looking for hosting. I'm assuming the US. If you're looking in Europe however you can find much better for much cheaper. For example OVH (http://www.ovh.com/fr/serveurs_dedies/), dedicated server with a 100Mb link and no traffic limit start at 50€, 1Gb link starts at 110€/month. You can go even cheaper if you accept a slightly lower quality of service (http://www.kimsufi.com)
European law always takes precedence over national law, and European directives must be transposed into national law. If not there can be sanctions and if cases go to the European court of justice the European law will be applied there.
Note that the itunes MUSIC store is a commodity experience unlike the app store, you'll get exactly what you think you're buying 99.9999% of the time plus or minus human error. Ditto the itunes books and movies. Only the apps are a complete crapshoot.
Actually it's the same thing. If you go to the music store and look for Song S by Band B you'll find exactly what you're looking for. Likewise if you go to the app store and look for App A by Developer D you'll find exactly this as well. Only if looking for "paint program" will you get many choices of very different quality, just like you would if you were looking for "rock song" in the music store.
I'd also add that the music store has nothing to do with a free commodity market, unless you consider that all songs are equivalent. You usually look for specific song, and there is only one major or artist that can sell it to you, and he has a monopoly on it.
Considering that many of the changes to American copyright laws have been to address "conformity" to European copyright laws (especially the concept of automatic copyright upon publication and the "Life+term" philosophy), I have a hard time shedding a tear when it comes to European copyright being pushed along as well.
That's funny because the justification we have had in Europe for the various extensions of copyright was for "harmonization" with the US system...
Well regarding the "simulating mouse inputs using non-mouse devices" patent I can cite at least my Atari which allowed this using the keyboard 10 years before this patent was filled.
And even doing my best to correct my hindsight bias I fail to see how things like "placing a loading icon in the content area of a browser" should be patentable. And even if they were, this certainly does not justify hundreds of millions of dollars of licensing fees. I'm sure that someone will argue that it's a free market and companies are free to set their prices, but precisely no, patents are a government granted monopoly and free market rules can't apply, and if competition is regulated, prices should be, too.
Thanks for this. This is very annoying to see posted a bunch of images resized just to fit the stupid layout and then have to play the "via" game. For this one I counted 5 hops : Shareable via MyModernMet via Visual News via inhabitat.com via The Telegraph
Some of them linked to the globaia website but none to the actual relevant page.
This is wholly irresponsible. You refuse vaccination yet rely on others being vaccinated for the overall health of the society and indirectly your own health. This is not a matter of individual liberties. Diseases like measles require a 97% vaccination rate of the population to stop spreading. By refusing to get vaccinated you endanger the whole population. Individualism has its limits.
The LD50 of capsaicin is estimated to around 47mg/kg (mice), so it's only a case of "the dose makes the poison", but an actual toxic substance (and officially classified as such). Some murders by capsaicin poisoning have even been reported.
All the current candidates from the left parties have stated that they would repel the law, some even "within the first week". And there is a very high probability that the votes will swing to the left in the next elections, so it's not that unlikely.
However there is a saying in France, famously put by former president Jacques Chirac : "Promises commit only those who believe them".
These services provide network-level protection, not application-level. If you need this, document yourself about it and take the additional necessary steps.
FYI the life expectancy of an AIDS patient is 65 years. Way better than it was at the start of the epidemic but not really a "normal healthy life" either.
So don't go fuck a hooker without a condom just yet.
Where did the seagulls pick up the bacteria in the first place? I thought these bacteria were found only in hospitals. Maybe we should be more careful with our medical waste and not dump it unprocessed in landfills.
Magnetohydrodynamic pumps that can move a liquid without moving parts have existed for a long time and for example are used to pump liquid sodium in some nuclear reactors. Any conductive liquid can be pumped that way.
So it's wrong to say that the "goal to pump liquids with no machinery remained elusive, until now". What's new is the ability to pump a magnetic fluid using only a magnetic field.
I think Watson is a great tool and it's perfect for medicine were we have a huge corpus or research and only partial information about a specific patient.
However it will only come up with conclusions based on facts already established in the past. It may help spread effective techniques or treatments faster, but it will never come up with a new idea. Hence the danger is that if doctors trust Watson too much and assume it always gives the best answer, they will cease to experiment and new therapies will not appear, leading to a short term win and a long term loss in terms of global health.
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The end of cancer research funding would utterly destroy fundamental research in molecular biology and biochemistry.
I highly doubt it. The amount of funding would remain the same but would be redirected to other medical problems, like AIDS, or Alzheimer's.
If I recall correctly the recent ruling by an appeal court on the subject, it was determined that the process of going from a gene to an isolated DNA sequence is sufficiently transformative to be patentable, because isolated DNA sequences do not exist in nature.
This criterion of patentability is very, very weak. Someone objected that in the same logic lithium should be patentable since isolated lithium does not exist in nature.
Actually it is an European law, and each country decides how much the tax should be. It is highest in France than in any other European country. For example, the tax on a blank DVD is 1.2€, and 20€ for a 1TB external hard drive. Nearly anything that can store audio is taxed, from audio cassettes to car GPS. It is not actually a tax in the sense that it is not contributed to the community but instead directly to the local equivalent of the RIAA. The tax amount is established by a committee composed by 50% representatives of the artists/producers/editors, 25% representatives of the media manufacturers/resellers, and 25% representatives of the consumers. In case of a tie during a vote, the president decides the vote. Until now, he has always sided with the media industry, which have consequently been able to unilaterally decide the amount of the tax. That might explain why it is so high.
(Speculation) This DRM scheme is not intended to prevent piracy. Pirates so far have always been able to break protection schemes, and probably will be in the foreseeable future. The protection only need to be broken once to be duplicated on torrent sites instantly. On the other hand it absolutely prevents the game from being resold, lent to a friend, etc, since one game key will be associated with one account, which is personal. So it still is a mislead (but different) attempt to increase revenue by restricting customer freedoms.
You seem to ignore the fact that technology is progressing at a really fast pace, and that what is not possible now will be possible very soon in the future. Laws tend to change much more slowly. Besides, I'd say scanning the iris of people in public places is already possible today, just use a standard camera with face detection to find out the position of people's eyes, and use another camera with a zoom to take the iris pictures.
CFL usually are much hotter than 30C. Mercury vapor pressure rises pretty quickly with temperature. Comparing with water makes no sense at all, water is not the dangerous poison that mercury is to children. And while all the mercury was probably not in vapor phase when the lamp broke, if there was a spill in a carpet there is not chance at all to be able to recover it, and the mercury would poison the air possibly for some time.
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You can also run several Firefox profiles simultaneously if you start it with the -no-remote option.
"After Elsevier pulled its support, it was decided that no legislative action will be taken on the bill."
Is that all it takes to push a bill, the support of one company ?
You never mentioned where you were located and where you were looking for hosting. I'm assuming the US. If you're looking in Europe however you can find much better for much cheaper. For example OVH (http://www.ovh.com/fr/serveurs_dedies/), dedicated server with a 100Mb link and no traffic limit start at 50€, 1Gb link starts at 110€/month. You can go even cheaper if you accept a slightly lower quality of service (http://www.kimsufi.com)
No, the best you can find is 2€ for 1 hour voice, 60 SMS. It's "free" only if you buy the 30€/month ADSL subscription as well.
European law always takes precedence over national law, and European directives must be transposed into national law. If not there can be sanctions and if cases go to the European court of justice the European law will be applied there.
Note that the itunes MUSIC store is a commodity experience unlike the app store, you'll get exactly what you think you're buying 99.9999% of the time plus or minus human error. Ditto the itunes books and movies. Only the apps are a complete crapshoot.
Actually it's the same thing. If you go to the music store and look for Song S by Band B you'll find exactly what you're looking for. Likewise if you go to the app store and look for App A by Developer D you'll find exactly this as well. Only if looking for "paint program" will you get many choices of very different quality, just like you would if you were looking for "rock song" in the music store.
I'd also add that the music store has nothing to do with a free commodity market, unless you consider that all songs are equivalent. You usually look for specific song, and there is only one major or artist that can sell it to you, and he has a monopoly on it.
Considering that many of the changes to American copyright laws have been to address "conformity" to European copyright laws (especially the concept of automatic copyright upon publication and the "Life+term" philosophy), I have a hard time shedding a tear when it comes to European copyright being pushed along as well.
That's funny because the justification we have had in Europe for the various extensions of copyright was for "harmonization" with the US system...
Well regarding the "simulating mouse inputs using non-mouse devices" patent I can cite at least my Atari which allowed this using the keyboard 10 years before this patent was filled.
And even doing my best to correct my hindsight bias I fail to see how things like "placing a loading icon in the content area of a browser" should be patentable. And even if they were, this certainly does not justify hundreds of millions of dollars of licensing fees. I'm sure that someone will argue that it's a free market and companies are free to set their prices, but precisely no, patents are a government granted monopoly and free market rules can't apply, and if competition is regulated, prices should be, too.
Thanks for this. This is very annoying to see posted a bunch of images resized just to fit the stupid layout and then have to play the "via" game.
For this one I counted 5 hops :
Shareable
via MyModernMet
via Visual News
via inhabitat.com
via The Telegraph
Some of them linked to the globaia website but none to the actual relevant page.
This is wholly irresponsible. You refuse vaccination yet rely on others being vaccinated for the overall health of the society and indirectly your own health.
This is not a matter of individual liberties. Diseases like measles require a 97% vaccination rate of the population to stop spreading. By refusing to get vaccinated you endanger the whole population. Individualism has its limits.
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The LD50 of capsaicin is estimated to around 47mg/kg (mice), so it's only a case of "the dose makes the poison", but an actual toxic substance (and officially classified as such).
Some murders by capsaicin poisoning have even been reported.
All the current candidates from the left parties have stated that they would repel the law, some even "within the first week". And there is a very high probability that the votes will swing to the left in the next elections, so it's not that unlikely.
However there is a saying in France, famously put by former president Jacques Chirac : "Promises commit only those who believe them".
These services provide network-level protection, not application-level. If you need this, document yourself about it and take the additional necessary steps.
FYI the life expectancy of an AIDS patient is 65 years. Way better than it was at the start of the epidemic but not really a "normal healthy life" either.
So don't go fuck a hooker without a condom just yet.
Where did the seagulls pick up the bacteria in the first place? I thought these bacteria were found only in hospitals. Maybe we should be more careful with our medical waste and not dump it unprocessed in landfills.
Magnetohydrodynamic pumps that can move a liquid without moving parts have existed for a long time and for example are used to pump liquid sodium in some nuclear reactors. Any conductive liquid can be pumped that way.
So it's wrong to say that the "goal to pump liquids with no machinery remained elusive, until now". What's new is the ability to pump a magnetic fluid using only a magnetic field.
I think Watson is a great tool and it's perfect for medicine were we have a huge corpus or research and only partial information about a specific patient.
However it will only come up with conclusions based on facts already established in the past. It may help spread effective techniques or treatments faster, but it will never come up with a new idea. Hence the danger is that if doctors trust Watson too much and assume it always gives the best answer, they will cease to experiment and new therapies will not appear, leading to a short term win and a long term loss in terms of global health.
The end of cancer research funding would utterly destroy fundamental research in molecular biology and biochemistry.
I highly doubt it. The amount of funding would remain the same but would be redirected to other medical problems, like AIDS, or Alzheimer's.
If I recall correctly the recent ruling by an appeal court on the subject, it was determined that the process of going from a gene to an isolated DNA sequence is sufficiently transformative to be patentable, because isolated DNA sequences do not exist in nature.
This criterion of patentability is very, very weak. Someone objected that in the same logic lithium should be patentable since isolated lithium does not exist in nature.
Actually it is an European law, and each country decides how much the tax should be. It is highest in France than in any other European country. For example, the tax on a blank DVD is 1.2€, and 20€ for a 1TB external hard drive. Nearly anything that can store audio is taxed, from audio cassettes to car GPS. It is not actually a tax in the sense that it is not contributed to the community but instead directly to the local equivalent of the RIAA. The tax amount is established by a committee composed by 50% representatives of the artists/producers/editors, 25% representatives of the media manufacturers/resellers, and 25% representatives of the consumers. In case of a tie during a vote, the president decides the vote. Until now, he has always sided with the media industry, which have consequently been able to unilaterally decide the amount of the tax. That might explain why it is so high.
(Speculation) This DRM scheme is not intended to prevent piracy. Pirates so far have always been able to break protection schemes, and probably will be in the foreseeable future. The protection only need to be broken once to be duplicated on torrent sites instantly.
On the other hand it absolutely prevents the game from being resold, lent to a friend, etc, since one game key will be associated with one account, which is personal.
So it still is a mislead (but different) attempt to increase revenue by restricting customer freedoms.
You seem to ignore the fact that technology is progressing at a really fast pace, and that what is not possible now will be possible very soon in the future. Laws tend to change much more slowly.
Besides, I'd say scanning the iris of people in public places is already possible today, just use a standard camera with face detection to find out the position of people's eyes, and use another camera with a zoom to take the iris pictures.
Sure, Europe has plenty of financial/legal paradises for you to shop for : British Channel Islands, Liechtenstein, Andorre, etc. Take your pick.
CFL usually are much hotter than 30C. Mercury vapor pressure rises pretty quickly with temperature. Comparing with water makes no sense at all, water is not the dangerous poison that mercury is to children.
And while all the mercury was probably not in vapor phase when the lamp broke, if there was a spill in a carpet there is not chance at all to be able to recover it, and the mercury would poison the air possibly for some time.