FTA:
>The license plate readers are different from other security cameras in the city: they are aimed low, designed to focus on a small area,
Well, the cameras themselves doesn't seem so bad, but does anyone know how long data is retained? I don't want to be leaving records of where I've been for years...
Then the single thing I can suggest you: place you license plate higher than the level the cameras are aimed. Because you don't have anything to say (that will still be listened) in regards with how long the recordings are retained.
Lateral thinking; what if I would sit on the read end of someone else?
Sitting on your top end changes something in the equation?
Anyhow, I'm relatively better if I'm sitting on my rear end in a car travelling at least 10 times faster than I'm walking.
Like I said not a great choice, but that ship sailed 60+ years ago when FDR started the check kiting.
When it happens the world economy will be in such shit that global demand for oil will plummet.
In a weird way, I like your optimism;)
The Chinese will regret not developing their home market and leaving their currency pegged as long as they did.
Google for Chinese investments in Africa. Me thinks maybe they won't be able to get dollars from their investment there, but enough raw materials should be enough to run their (state planned) economy.
Venezuela and Saudi will be busy with revolutions as their economies crash and burn.
Venezuela? Somehow I doubt that will be much worse than now, not if China buy oil from them and excluding CIA sticking its tail there. Saudi Arabia? I think the Saudi citizens aren't strong enough to trigger a revolution by themselves. But without the support of US, I can't exclude being attacked by a foreign country.
Microsoft researchers Erik Meijer and Gavin Bierman... present a mathematical model and standardized query language that could be used to unify SQL and NoSQL data models."
Maybe we should add...
"in an [impossible] exploratory effort to embrace, extend and extinguish..."
at the end of the sentence as they have done in the past.
TFA
CONCLUSION
The nascent noSQL market is extremely fragmented, with many competing vendors and technologies. Programming, deploying, and managing noSQL solutions requires specialized and low-level knowledge that does not easily carry over from one vendor's product to another.
Notes:
1. nothing to embrace in this phase... actually too many to embrace, thus not yet a "standard"
2. can't stop to note that all the examples are LINQ-based. Is this an attempt to grow LINQ in a "standard"?
The leak that was stopped was from a drain pit to the ocean. The reactor itself is still leaking highly radioactive water. They're running out of places to put it.and are frantically building tanks and ponds.
This and... did they actually managed to stop the water leaking into the soil? Or is just a case of "out of the media sight, out of mind"?
In some companies, telecommuters tend to be forgotten about. This means that Jack Brown-Nose who comes in and does almost nothing will always be seen by the boss and keep an impression, while the co-workers who are at home actually working are invisible. End result: Jack tends to have an edge when it comes to promotions, or even keeping the job.
Solutions:
1. suggest the boss to start telecommuting her/himself
2. have monthly meetings with your boss, after-hours, in a good quality slow-food restaurant.
I would pay almost any price straight out of pocket, without blinking. While the Kojack look is kinda cool ("I mean for you! Not for me," people say), I would do anything to have my (real, honest-to-god) hair back.
Would you accept the trade off of having back hair with your hair back?
Suppose Larry decides he's not happy with just changing the license on one of the dozens of open source products he's acquired and decides to actually start demanding payment for use of earlier versions of the software.
Since me, as a licensee, acquired the rights under certain conditions (a set of mutual obligations between parts, obligations protected by the copyright laws [1]), the other part of the contract cannot unilaterally modify the contract in her/his benefit. Which, if happens, would creates another agreement between us.
[1] GPLv2 point 5: You are not required to accept this License, since you have not signed it. However, nothing else grants you permission to modify or distribute the Program or its derivative works. These actions are prohibited by law if you do not accept this License.
Does a copyright owner have the legal right to retract an issued license?
No, unless the original license specifies this is possible and the two parts (licensor/licensee) agree with it before engaging in the contract. E.g. a "variable mortgage rate" - yes, the rate can change in the future, but this is specifically stated in the loan contract before signing it.
Does that right apply to the GPL?
No, it doesn't, because this right does not exist!
Don't make a confusion with releasing a software under two or more different licenses though. If-and-only-if you have the full ownership of the copyrighted work, you are allowed to release the work under a non-GPL license as well. Potentially, you can stop releasing future versions under GPL, but you cannot change the licensing conditions of whatever release that was distributed under GPL.
Open Source generally doesn't have a bankroll funding it. It has a community. Communities of like-minded individuals don't usually have the finances or the will to defend (or instigate) legal battles.
As they say, "You will never know who was really right. But you will know who had more money."
Don't bet on it: communities of like-minded individuals may have enough money to sustain a "legal arm" to protect them - e.g. EFF
EFF is a donor-funded nonprofit and depends on your support to continue successfully defending your digital rights. Litigation is particularly expensive; because two-thirds of our budget comes from individual donors, every contribution is critical to helping EFF fight — and win — more cases
Contributors to open-source projects must declare that the copyright on their work belongs to the project. That means it can't be itself copied from somewhere else without license (including tutorials, sample code, etc.). If that assignment isn't made, then any change in the project's licensing requires the approval of all the submitters!
Must? Why? The alternative of "or the change in project's licensing must require the approval of all accepted submitters" seems fine with me. See, as a hypothetical submitter, I might dislike not being consulted would the licensing be changed. On the other side, being required to assign the copyright to the project just from the start is just a fair request: given that I know the condition from the start, I can decide whether or not I want to contribute.
In this regard, my point is: this is a non-story - I don't see how the land-scape of open-source is threatened by Canonical's request for copyright attribution: it is playing by a fair set of rules and Canonical will live-or-die by this rule - if too many contributors wouldn't like it, Shuttleworth would be facing sustaining the effort all by himself (by hiring developers). In other words, since the "copyright assignment" doesn't make the Open Source less open than it is right now (the contributor still has the freedom to accept or reject it), just where is the threat?
Paradoxically, the nature of their thinking state is totally opposite to quantum mechanics: any attempt to get an answer from their part will NOT result in a collapsing of their thinking state into one of the defined choices, but rather in setting the mind of the asking person into an indeterminate and fuzzy state (i.e. the "decoherence of the observer" effect).
Furthermore, in deep contrast with the normal quantum entanglement (on which the super-decoherence was observed), the above mentioned sub-system of String Theorist are believed as becoming more stable as the number of scientists in the group increases - in other words, a successful conversion of a new scientist to the group (will require an O(0) effort - i.e. constant, even if non-negligible) is most likely to result in a supra-linear increase in the stability of the so called "group coherence" and their capacity to influence the outside world.
Notes of caution for the young and adventurous - a short term exposure of an external observer may result in an assessment of the "thinking state" as being "incoherent", even if a longer period of observation will most likely note that the discourse and argumentation show patterns that are stable and that strongly resembles rationality and method. The external observer is warmly advised to refrain from searching for the "method behind the madness" under the risk of a fate worst than "living in the basement of their Mum" - see the reference to the "observer decoherence" effect above.
There are three giant money-sucking programs that need drastic cuts if we want to do anything about the budget: Medicare/Medicaid, Social Security, and Defense.
Check this link out. Of all the fucking departments of the Government, we can't donate to Education?
Education? You mean that kind of crap that makes people think? They don't need it to buy and consume... actually quite the contrary. And everybody knows by now: if you don't consume, jobs are lost, the stock market drops, the music/movie piracy and other crimes are rising, etc. Are you trying to get to a point in which the Homeland security and TSA don't have enough money (are you siding with the terrorists)?
We print money and leave China holding worthless bonds.
Do it and the price of oil on the international market will switch to... let me see... Renminbi? If this happens, I wonder who the Saudis and Venezuela would most likely be influenced by?
The US has less gravitational force than Europe... does that mean there are giant cavernous regions below the US?
Maybe it explains why there are more fat people in the US because they don't have to work as hard on a daily basis to keep themselves standing. (/joke)
T'is caused by the trade deficit and foreign debt, both come with a "negative weight".
Slashdot Mirror
Then this settles it: nobody has anything to say/control how the license plates are recorded and how long the records are retained.
FTA: >The license plate readers are different from other security cameras in the city: they are aimed low, designed to focus on a small area,
Well, the cameras themselves doesn't seem so bad, but does anyone know how long data is retained? I don't want to be leaving records of where I've been for years...
Then the single thing I can suggest you: place you license plate higher than the level the cameras are aimed. Because you don't have anything to say (that will still be listened) in regards with how long the recordings are retained.
Lateral thinking; what if I would sit on the read end of someone else?
Sitting on your top end changes something in the equation?
Anyhow, I'm relatively better if I'm sitting on my rear end in a car travelling at least 10 times faster than I'm walking.
What I don't get it... how come somebody needs 2 hours to "read" it?
Like I said not a great choice, but that ship sailed 60+ years ago when FDR started the check kiting.
When it happens the world economy will be in such shit that global demand for oil will plummet.
In a weird way, I like your optimism ;)
The Chinese will regret not developing their home market and leaving their currency pegged as long as they did.
Google for Chinese investments in Africa. Me thinks maybe they won't be able to get dollars from their investment there, but enough raw materials should be enough to run their (state planned) economy.
Venezuela and Saudi will be busy with revolutions as their economies crash and burn.
Venezuela? Somehow I doubt that will be much worse than now, not if China buy oil from them and excluding CIA sticking its tail there.
Saudi Arabia? I think the Saudi citizens aren't strong enough to trigger a revolution by themselves. But without the support of US, I can't exclude being attacked by a foreign country.
Microsoft researchers Erik Meijer and Gavin Bierman ... present a mathematical model and standardized query language that could be used to unify SQL and NoSQL data models."
Maybe we should add...
"in an [impossible] exploratory effort to embrace, extend and extinguish..."
at the end of the sentence as they have done in the past.
TFA
CONCLUSION
The nascent noSQL market is extremely fragmented, with many competing vendors and technologies. Programming, deploying, and managing noSQL solutions requires specialized and low-level knowledge that does not easily carry over from one vendor's product to another.
Notes:
1. nothing to embrace in this phase... actually too many to embrace, thus not yet a "standard"
2. can't stop to note that all the examples are LINQ-based. Is this an attempt to grow LINQ in a "standard"?
The leak that was stopped was from a drain pit to the ocean. The reactor itself is still leaking highly radioactive water. They're running out of places to put it.and are frantically building tanks and ponds.
This and... did they actually managed to stop the water leaking into the soil? Or is just a case of "out of the media sight, out of mind"?
If it weren't for the office, I probably would never meet another soul.
What the beer gardens (or whatever informal meeting places) are for?
In some companies, telecommuters tend to be forgotten about. This means that Jack Brown-Nose who comes in and does almost nothing will always be seen by the boss and keep an impression, while the co-workers who are at home actually working are invisible. End result: Jack tends to have an edge when it comes to promotions, or even keeping the job.
Solutions:
1. suggest the boss to start telecommuting her/himself
2. have monthly meetings with your boss, after-hours, in a good quality slow-food restaurant.
...but can it edit text yet?
Well... yes... sort-of. But why go with key-emulation when you can have the real thing?
(grin)
Stallman and the FSF may now insist that the movie be released on DVD as GNU/Tron Legacy.
Source-code as well.
I would pay almost any price straight out of pocket, without blinking. While the Kojack look is kinda cool ("I mean for you! Not for me," people say), I would do anything to have my (real, honest-to-god) hair back.
Would you accept the trade off of having back hair with your hair back?
I'd love to hear about the "much more successful methods" of birth control than oral contraceptive (hormone).
An aspirin pill. All the female partner has to do is to keep the legs straight and the pill tight between her knees.
Suppose Larry decides
Larry who?
Suppose Larry decides he's not happy with just changing the license on one of the dozens of open source products he's acquired and decides to actually start demanding payment for use of earlier versions of the software.
Since me, as a licensee, acquired the rights under certain conditions (a set of mutual obligations between parts, obligations protected by the copyright laws [1]), the other part of the contract cannot unilaterally modify the contract in her/his benefit. Which, if happens, would creates another agreement between us.
[1] GPLv2 point 5: You are not required to accept this License, since you have not signed it. However, nothing else grants you permission to modify or distribute the Program or its derivative works. These actions are prohibited by law if you do not accept this License.
Does a copyright owner have the legal right to retract an issued license?
No, unless the original license specifies this is possible and the two parts (licensor/licensee) agree with it before engaging in the contract. E.g. a "variable mortgage rate" - yes, the rate can change in the future, but this is specifically stated in the loan contract before signing it.
Does that right apply to the GPL?
No, it doesn't, because this right does not exist!
Don't make a confusion with releasing a software under two or more different licenses though. If-and-only-if you have the full ownership of the copyrighted work, you are allowed to release the work under a non-GPL license as well. Potentially, you can stop releasing future versions under GPL, but you cannot change the licensing conditions of whatever release that was distributed under GPL.
Open Source generally doesn't have a bankroll funding it. It has a community. Communities of like-minded individuals don't usually have the finances or the will to defend (or instigate) legal battles.
As they say, "You will never know who was really right. But you will know who had more money."
Don't bet on it: communities of like-minded individuals may have enough money to sustain a "legal arm" to protect them - e.g. EFF
EFF is a donor-funded nonprofit and depends on your support to continue successfully defending your digital rights. Litigation is particularly expensive; because two-thirds of our budget comes from individual donors, every contribution is critical to helping EFF fight — and win — more cases
Contributors to open-source projects must declare that the copyright on their work belongs to the project. That means it can't be itself copied from somewhere else without license (including tutorials, sample code, etc.). If that assignment isn't made, then any change in the project's licensing requires the approval of all the submitters!
Must? Why? The alternative of "or the change in project's licensing must require the approval of all accepted submitters" seems fine with me. See, as a hypothetical submitter, I might dislike not being consulted would the licensing be changed. On the other side, being required to assign the copyright to the project just from the start is just a fair request: given that I know the condition from the start, I can decide whether or not I want to contribute.
In this regard, my point is: this is a non-story - I don't see how the land-scape of open-source is threatened by Canonical's request for copyright attribution: it is playing by a fair set of rules and Canonical will live-or-die by this rule - if too many contributors wouldn't like it, Shuttleworth would be facing sustaining the effort all by himself (by hiring developers).
In other words, since the "copyright assignment" doesn't make the Open Source less open than it is right now (the contributor still has the freedom to accept or reject it), just where is the threat?
The difference though, is that we don't call our tweaking "Evolution" as we ought to. :|
Naaah, can't call it that. "Intelligent design" perhaps...
They couldn't have entangled a Z-80's worth of bits and called it good. Sigh.
Huh? Z80 was an 8-bit processor. Granted, it had more registries than this one (if I remember well, it actually had a pair of registry sets).
Some physicists think that we will be able to distinguish a change of state eventually [...]. Some do not.
Meanwhile, there is a group of physicist are in a superposition of the state thinking that FTL is and is not possible... they pertain to the class of String Theorists.
Paradoxically, the nature of their thinking state is totally opposite to quantum mechanics: any attempt to get an answer from their part will NOT result in a collapsing of their thinking state into one of the defined choices, but rather in setting the mind of the asking person into an indeterminate and fuzzy state (i.e. the "decoherence of the observer" effect).
Furthermore, in deep contrast with the normal quantum entanglement (on which the super-decoherence was observed), the above mentioned sub-system of String Theorist are believed as becoming more stable as the number of scientists in the group increases - in other words, a successful conversion of a new scientist to the group (will require an O(0) effort - i.e. constant, even if non-negligible) is most likely to result in a supra-linear increase in the stability of the so called "group coherence" and their capacity to influence the outside world.
Notes of caution for the young and adventurous - a short term exposure of an external observer may result in an assessment of the "thinking state" as being "incoherent", even if a longer period of observation will most likely note that the discourse and argumentation show patterns that are stable and that strongly resembles rationality and method. The external observer is warmly advised to refrain from searching for the "method behind the madness" under the risk of a fate worst than "living in the basement of their Mum" - see the reference to the "observer decoherence" effect above.
There are three giant money-sucking programs that need drastic cuts if we want to do anything about the budget: Medicare/Medicaid, Social Security, and Defense.
If my computation is correct, US4 mil is the cost of less than 13 minutes of war in Afghanistan in 2010
https://www.pay.gov/paygov/alphabeticSearchAgencies.html?nc=1301889252475&alphabet=E
Check this link out. Of all the fucking departments of the Government, we can't donate to Education?
Education? You mean that kind of crap that makes people think? They don't need it to buy and consume... actually quite the contrary. And everybody knows by now: if you don't consume, jobs are lost, the stock market drops, the music/movie piracy and other crimes are rising, etc. Are you trying to get to a point in which the Homeland security and TSA don't have enough money (are you siding with the terrorists)?
(GRIN)
We print money and leave China holding worthless bonds.
Do it and the price of oil on the international market will switch to... let me see... Renminbi?
If this happens, I wonder who the Saudis and Venezuela would most likely be influenced by?
We don't dig up any more dinos in China, that name is horrific.
Still better than "Zuckenberg-tyrannus maximus"... aka "the FBeast"
Seed it after 6 months, will you?
The US has less gravitational force than Europe... does that mean there are giant cavernous regions below the US?
Maybe it explains why there are more fat people in the US because they don't have to work as hard on a daily basis to keep themselves standing. (/joke)
T'is caused by the trade deficit and foreign debt, both come with a "negative weight".