Private corporations, like AT&T, have the right to toss packets on their network however they see fit. If you don't like it, you're free to go access someone else's network who uses rules more to your liking. There is no requirement that they be "neutral" any more than there is a requirement that I must also allow people to put signs in my front-yard who support the war instead of oppose it.
I-95 isn't a private entity, it's a government funded entity, which means the Department of Transportation needs to be neutral.
Oh, no denying it, it's a "freely renewable resource". But, like you say, we have no idea what taking all that energy will do to the rest of the system.
Energy is conserved, and neither be created, nor destroyed. These are the fundamental laws of the Universe and are, except in extreme cases, inviolate.
If you take energy from the wind, en masse, you decrease the amount of energy remaining in the wind, slowing it down in essence. Now, we haven't noticed any effects today because our wind generation is so miniscule. But what happens when there are thousands upon thousands or millions of acres of these things? What will the effect be on airflow patterns and such? Has anyone actually accurately modeled the upward end of what the green-folks consider "ideal" to see if it's actually not going to cause more harm than good?
Everyone seems to concentrate on the "it must be good, it's clean" aspect, without pondering where that energy was GOING to be used...
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I see a couple different weblog style sections of their page, but can't seem to find any XML/RSS feeds. It'd be super-useful if they made such available so that folks could keep up to date on their news stories without having to visit them every day.;-)
What will Lessig do when nearly all the spam comes through anonymised concat(relays,proxies)[rand] overseas, where the legislation has a value somewhere between "nil" and "dick"?
It's a worldwide problem. Unless you advocate a world-government that can kick ass on local countries (and I certainly don't), legislation will NOT solve the problem, it simply CAN'T.
The Dune Encyclopedia has never been "canon". Even when Frank was still alive he would occasionally reference it, but felt no burning need to stay true to it, as it wasn't something he'd written.
If you have a disability, why is it the world's job to cater to YOU, instead of YOUR job to adapt to the world?
If someone is blind AND deaf, will they insist that every movie theater provide someone to do that Helen Keller style sign-language-inside-your-hand-so-you-can-feel-it to tell you what's happening on the screen and what's being said?
I'm all for companies voluntarily making their sites/buildings/whatever more accessible, and I believe that government sites might have a greater reason to be "required" to be accessible, but to make it mandatory is just cost-shifting the expense of "being handicapped" from the person who actually is handicapped to "lots of companies who are rich and can afford it".
>>>>Can someone explain how the OSI is doing something good for the community by endorsing incompatible license variations?
>>>I agree. Why didn't he just work with the FSF on the GPL version 3?
>>Because there are people who honestly believe that the GPL is incompatible with a number of business models, and that those incompatibilities are "by design" and so not likely to vanish in a 2.x->3.x transition.
>how do they solve this 'problem' by using a license which has t the same restritions as the GPL, but with some extra restritions?
Because there's more than one license involved here than the one which happens to be "GPL and then some"? The discussion in the subthread seems to be "general license fragmentations and incompatibilities"
Because there are people who honestly believe that the GPL is incompatible with a number of business models, and that those incompatibilities are "by design" and so not likely to vanish in a 2.x->3.x transition.
Maybe the GPL works for you, but its viral nature does not work for everyone.
Anyone want to place bets on how long before HP "decides that supporting Linux is just too costly" and bails on the platform entirely?
Wouldn't surprise me if part of this MS/HP deal was MSFT saying "before we'll consummate this, in a few months, you've got to get rid of that thorn in our side Perens. We can't have him out there publicly lambasting us, as an employee of your company, if we're going to do business with you."
Fact: you have a right to make backup copies for archival purposes (for yourself only, obviously)
Fact: nothing requires that it be POSSIBLE for you to do so
Executive Summary is that if you can break the DRM, you can make a backup copy.
Of course, there's conflicting laws (copyright doctrine for years has permitted backups, but breaking the DRM probably counts as a DMCA violation). Which one will take precedence in court, should someone try to beat you up for breaking their DRM to make a backup copy, is left as an exercise for the reader.
A lot of "3rd-party" browsers (Opera, etc.) default to ID'ing themselves as IE in order to get past silly JavaScript "you're not supported" stuff. Stop doing that. In fact, vehemently oppose doing that. The more you do that, the more you inflate the figures for IE, making it seem even less important to support a 3rd party, standards-compliant, browser.
Opera could have 20% market-share right now, and nobody would know because 99% of them are probably id'ing themselves as IE to servers. right or wrong, those user-agent stats are the only thing web-designers have to go by when they're determining the percentage of their traffic represented by different browsers. If you're pretending to be IE, you're selling your own position up the river.
I will cheerfully own up to many faults, including that of being a condescending, obnoxious elitist asshole. But this particular problem really wasn't my fault.
In deferrence to my response elsewhere in the thread... you can obviously see where said attitude might have led someone to believe that you simply hadn't cared that the "name switch" might have caused problems.
I'm glad to see it WASN'T your fault, though... (well, not really, you make a much better villain than ORA *grin*).
I'd say that a sentence in the program "This talk was previously given as old_title" would probably have satisfied all parties. I was actually sitting in that session as I was tutorial-hopping, and was amazed that MJD hadn't thought enough of the attendee to document that fact BEFORE the attendee had coughed up the money.
I have no doubt MJD is bright, but his attitude, from my experience reviewing different talks, seems to be very condescending, and his lack of any real care for the effects of his "tutorial rename" on its attendees was a pretty good demonstration of that to me.
In a vacuum, there is no sound, since there is nothing to vibrate. Not until something that is vibrating (the stuff) gets to you would you be able to hear anything.
What impressed ME about those was that it actually looked/sounded like someone had put some thought and ACCURACY into it. It's silent, UNTIL the explosion (and the vibrating "stuff" it's bringing with it) gets to the camera.
Might be the first "scientically accurate" sound fx in the entire Star Wars universe.;-)
That's nice, but why would he want to pay a monthly fee to rent books he already owns?
Because there's something very nice to having access to your 30-odd book collection from home, office, conference, at a job-site, etc. etc., without dragging along 40 pounds of books with you everywhere you go.
It's a convenience you pay for. Considering how many ORA books many people pay for (and keep current as new editions come out), the annualized cost of simply subscribing and NOT buying the dead-tree version at all is very appealing to some folks, especially if their lifestyle has them wanting ready access to the material "from lots of different places".
If you're like me, a good chunk of your collection is ORA books... in which case, you should check out O'Reilly's Safari, which is their online book offering. It also includes non-ORA books as well, actually.
.USians will simply point at Yahoo! Inc. v France, and point out that the US has already granted declaratory relief that US companies don't have to obey silly-ass foreign laws.
I strongly suspect "being forced to act as a tax-collector on behalf of a foreign country" would fall in the same boat. Heck, given the state of.US tax law, it wouldn't surprise me if it was considered seditious behavior.;-)
Because.US definition of "billion" and.UK definition of "billion" are not the same. When clarity is key (as it would be in an RFC) ambiguous words like "Billion" get laid by the wayside.
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Private corporations, like AT&T, have the right to toss packets on their network however they see fit. If you don't like it, you're free to go access someone else's network who uses rules more to your liking. There is no requirement that they be "neutral" any more than there is a requirement that I must also allow people to put signs in my front-yard who support the war instead of oppose it.
I-95 isn't a private entity, it's a government funded entity, which means the Department of Transportation needs to be neutral.
Oh, no denying it, it's a "freely renewable resource". But, like you say, we have no idea what taking all that energy will do to the rest of the system.
Energy is conserved, and neither be created, nor destroyed. These are the fundamental laws of the Universe and are, except in extreme cases, inviolate.
If you take energy from the wind, en masse, you decrease the amount of energy remaining in the wind, slowing it down in essence. Now, we haven't noticed any effects today because our wind generation is so miniscule. But what happens when there are thousands upon thousands or millions of acres of these things? What will the effect be on airflow patterns and such? Has anyone actually accurately modeled the upward end of what the green-folks consider "ideal" to see if it's actually not going to cause more harm than good?
Everyone seems to concentrate on the "it must be good, it's clean" aspect, without pondering where that energy was GOING to be used...
I see a couple different weblog style sections of their page, but can't seem to find any XML/RSS feeds. It'd be super-useful if they made such available so that folks could keep up to date on their news stories without having to visit them every day. ;-)
It's a worldwide problem. Unless you advocate a world-government that can kick ass on local countries (and I certainly don't), legislation will NOT solve the problem, it simply CAN'T.
I wonder if that's a standard formmail.pl complete with the exploitability for spamming?
The Dune Encyclopedia has never been "canon". Even when Frank was still alive he would occasionally reference it, but felt no burning need to stay true to it, as it wasn't something he'd written.
If you have a disability, why is it the world's job to cater to YOU, instead of YOUR job to adapt to the world?
If someone is blind AND deaf, will they insist that every movie theater provide someone to do that Helen Keller style sign-language-inside-your-hand-so-you-can-feel-it to tell you what's happening on the screen and what's being said?
I'm all for companies voluntarily making their sites/buildings/whatever more accessible, and I believe that government sites might have a greater reason to be "required" to be accessible, but to make it mandatory is just cost-shifting the expense of "being handicapped" from the person who actually is handicapped to "lots of companies who are rich and can afford it".
>>>I agree. Why didn't he just work with the FSF on the GPL version 3?
>>Because there are people who honestly believe that the GPL is incompatible with a number of business models, and that those incompatibilities are "by design" and so not likely to vanish in a 2.x->3.x transition.
>how do they solve this 'problem' by using a license which has t the same restritions as the GPL, but with some extra restritions?
Because there's more than one license involved here than the one which happens to be "GPL and then some"? The discussion in the subthread seems to be "general license fragmentations and incompatibilities"
Maybe the GPL works for you, but its viral nature does not work for everyone.
Anyone want to place bets on how long before HP "decides that supporting Linux is just too costly" and bails on the platform entirely?
Wouldn't surprise me if part of this MS/HP deal was MSFT saying "before we'll consummate this, in a few months, you've got to get rid of that thorn in our side Perens. We can't have him out there publicly lambasting us, as an employee of your company, if we're going to do business with you."
Fact: nothing requires that it be POSSIBLE for you to do so
Executive Summary is that if you can break the DRM, you can make a backup copy.
Of course, there's conflicting laws (copyright doctrine for years has permitted backups, but breaking the DRM probably counts as a DMCA violation). Which one will take precedence in court, should someone try to beat you up for breaking their DRM to make a backup copy, is left as an exercise for the reader.
Gives them 90 pixels for a title bar, without it interfering with the display area of the HDTV image.
Yahoo!Mail? What browser are you using, because I've never experienced any problem getting in using other browsers....
Opera could have 20% market-share right now, and nobody would know because 99% of them are probably id'ing themselves as IE to servers. right or wrong, those user-agent stats are the only thing web-designers have to go by when they're determining the percentage of their traffic represented by different browsers. If you're pretending to be IE, you're selling your own position up the river.
In deferrence to my response elsewhere in the thread... you can obviously see where said attitude might have led someone to believe that you simply hadn't cared that the "name switch" might have caused problems.
I'm glad to see it WASN'T your fault, though... (well, not really, you make a much better villain than ORA *grin*).
I have no doubt MJD is bright, but his attitude, from my experience reviewing different talks, seems to be very condescending, and his lack of any real care for the effects of his "tutorial rename" on its attendees was a pretty good demonstration of that to me.
In a vacuum, there is no sound, since there is nothing to vibrate. Not until something that is vibrating (the stuff) gets to you would you be able to hear anything.
Might be the first "scientically accurate" sound fx in the entire Star Wars universe. ;-)
Because there's something very nice to having access to your 30-odd book collection from home, office, conference, at a job-site, etc. etc., without dragging along 40 pounds of books with you everywhere you go.
It's a convenience you pay for. Considering how many ORA books many people pay for (and keep current as new editions come out), the annualized cost of simply subscribing and NOT buying the dead-tree version at all is very appealing to some folks, especially if their lifestyle has them wanting ready access to the material "from lots of different places".
Quite useful and handy.
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Just thinking out loud....
I strongly suspect "being forced to act as a tax-collector on behalf of a foreign country" would fall in the same boat. Heck, given the state of .US tax law, it wouldn't surprise me if it was considered seditious behavior. ;-)
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Because .US definition of "billion" and .UK definition of "billion" are not the same. When clarity is key (as it would be in an RFC) ambiguous words like "Billion" get laid by the wayside.
No, you have 30 days to re-license yourself and 60-days to re-tag your vehicles. (or vice versa, I can't remember).