Nobody in the UK gets denied healthcare if they want to pay for it. You can always go private, at which point it's the same as in the US. And as far as I understand it, healthcare prices in the US are so incredibly inflated that even though you might be paying for public healthcare that you then don't use on that particular occasion, you'll still have spent less money in total paying taxes and going private in the UK than you would do just getting private service in the US.
Shouldn't the size heuristics be in kernel space? Why should cp be analysing the RAM on the system? Take a look at the obscene hacky amount of heuristics userspace ends up with here, for example: http://insights.oetiker.ch/linux/fadvise/
IMHO, POSIX_FADV_SEQUENTIAL should be sufficient, but it doesn't seem to do anything useful (wrt. the page cache). I'm using POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED continuously on just-read pieces of file for an md5sum-type program (moderate CPU on a one-off sequential read), and this seems to work, but I'll also need to do the Oetiker mincore hack as referenced above in order to avoid evicting files out of the page cache if they were in there before.
This is a massive hack though; why shouldn't POSIX_FADV_SEQUENTIAL suffice? IMHO the kernel should do the following heuristic on POSIX_FADV_SEQUENTIAL: for large files don't cause cache misses to populate the cache. And cp could then do a single posix_fadvise and be done with it.
The field of AI is advanced as CAPTCHAs are broken (eg: OCR). The great thing is that spammers work on this for us, too. When humans and computers cannot be separated, then we'll have computers that can pass the Turing test. AI research will have finished.
You could use that argument in response to every point about coding style, indentation or the number of spaces to use after a sentence, including your own.
How do I get my editor to do that for me? Or am I supposed to hold down the space bar every time I want to line things up like that?
Also, how wide does my screen have to be? I like the 80 character standard. If the tabs have variable width, then what happens when I view someone's code with a tab width of 8 when he wrote it with 4? Everything wraps horribly? No thanks.
I'd be fine with scrolling through pictures as described, but I'd hate to write an SMS with a touchscreen. I think that the difference with the iPhone is that it's a trade-off. You get a much bigger screen in return for dealing with the touchscreen.
It isn't extortion. The disconnection is legal under the terms of the contract (violation of TOS).
Reconnection is then subject to negotiation, or the customer can take their business elsewhere. That cannot be extortion because you aren't threatening the customer with anything. He can have his server back. He is under no obligation.
<i>...it's forcing entry to a legitimate server or tampering with their equipment (if you were mistaken about them being a spammer).</i>
It's not forcing entry at all. It is entry with permission as the result of a non-obligatory contract renegotiation.
Well, you probably broke quite a few laws by using coersion to gain access to a customer's servers. But I for one would overlook it, given the benefits to the world at large (still it could be risky).
Fortunately, given the use of GRE tunnels, the spammer probably broke more laws, and would probably be a bit hesitant to sue.
Yet the breaking news for Monday is that the China is planning to enforce a whitelist on foreign domains: in particular, any e-commerce will have to register locally and obey Chinese law before they get whitelisted.
Single speed provides a significant weight saving. Most of the bike disappears. A much simpler rear hub, no cassette or chainrings, no dérailleurs and no rear brake. You end up with so little bike that there is very little left that can fail.
Even if they have replaced every line that you wrote, surely if this was done step by step then their resultant work is still derivative of your work, so your copyright interest remains? Not that I'm a lawyer or anything.
> We had about 40 hard drive failures and 12 power supply failures coming back up that evening.
That could have just been due to an infrequent shut down. Hard drives are known for not being able to spin back up after being run for a very long time, for example.
Fonts are only protected in that they are "programs" for creating type. Once a font is used, you own the result. The shapes themselves are not protected.
With an image, if you subsequently use an image, you are making an unauthorised copy.
With a font, once you have the font and use it, then the output is entirely yours.
The different between fonts and images is that images need to be copied (infringement), but fonts only need to be used (not infringement).
Fonts may come with an EULA which tries to change this, but it is debatable whether this would be valid as you did not agree to any contract when you visited the website with an embedded font.
So you end up with a legitimate copy as you describe. Now you could move that copy to your system font directory. You could direct anyone else who needs the font to go to the same website you got yours from and move it to your system font directory in the same way.
So if any one website uses a font, everyone has access to a free font download.
Just a thought...the IWF have no special legal status, right? They're examining child pornography in order to determine what to put on the blacklist, right? So why is it not illegal for them to be doing this?
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Nobody in the UK gets denied healthcare if they want to pay for it. You can always go private, at which point it's the same as in the US. And as far as I understand it, healthcare prices in the US are so incredibly inflated that even though you might be paying for public healthcare that you then don't use on that particular occasion, you'll still have spent less money in total paying taxes and going private in the UK than you would do just getting private service in the US.
There's an easy solution to that. Just paint the ships red :-)
Shouldn't the size heuristics be in kernel space? Why should cp be analysing the RAM on the system? Take a look at the obscene hacky amount of heuristics userspace ends up with here, for example: http://insights.oetiker.ch/linux/fadvise/
IMHO, POSIX_FADV_SEQUENTIAL should be sufficient, but it doesn't seem to do anything useful (wrt. the page cache). I'm using POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED continuously on just-read pieces of file for an md5sum-type program (moderate CPU on a one-off sequential read), and this seems to work, but I'll also need to do the Oetiker mincore hack as referenced above in order to avoid evicting files out of the page cache if they were in there before.
This is a massive hack though; why shouldn't POSIX_FADV_SEQUENTIAL suffice? IMHO the kernel should do the following heuristic on POSIX_FADV_SEQUENTIAL: for large files don't cause cache misses to populate the cache. And cp could then do a single posix_fadvise and be done with it.
You assume that these groups are independent, whereas in fact the size (in real terms) of your 10% group depends on the 90%.
That's an entirely separate and irrelevant discussion.
The field of AI is advanced as CAPTCHAs are broken (eg: OCR). The great thing is that spammers work on this for us, too. When humans and computers cannot be separated, then we'll have computers that can pass the Turing test. AI research will have finished.
You could use that argument in response to every point about coding style, indentation or the number of spaces to use after a sentence, including your own.
How do I get my editor to do that for me? Or am I supposed to hold down the space bar every time I want to line things up like that?
Also, how wide does my screen have to be? I like the 80 character standard. If the tabs have variable width, then what happens when I view someone's code with a tab width of 8 when he wrote it with 4? Everything wraps horribly? No thanks.
Mitchell and Webb have done an amusing sketch on it, too.
Why not use a handheld scanner and some stitching software?
Who'd have guessed that element 114 would turn out to be a cancer-detecting breathalyzer?
I'd be fine with scrolling through pictures as described, but I'd hate to write an SMS with a touchscreen. I think that the difference with the iPhone is that it's a trade-off. You get a much bigger screen in return for dealing with the touchscreen.
It isn't extortion. The disconnection is legal under the terms of the contract (violation of TOS).
Reconnection is then subject to negotiation, or the customer can take their business elsewhere. That cannot be extortion because you aren't threatening the customer with anything. He can have his server back. He is under no obligation.
<i>...it's forcing entry to a legitimate server or tampering with their equipment (if you were mistaken about them being a spammer).</i>
It's not forcing entry at all. It is entry with permission as the result of a non-obligatory contract renegotiation.
Well, you probably broke quite a few laws by using coersion to gain access to a customer's servers. But I for one would overlook it, given the benefits to the world at large (still it could be risky).
Fortunately, given the use of GRE tunnels, the spammer probably broke more laws, and would probably be a bit hesitant to sue.
No legal problem there. It's a contract issue.
Yet the breaking news for Monday is that the China is planning to enforce a whitelist on foreign domains: in particular, any e-commerce will have to register locally and obey Chinese law before they get whitelisted.
Where does it say that? Citation needed!
Single speed provides a significant weight saving. Most of the bike disappears. A much simpler rear hub, no cassette or chainrings, no dérailleurs and no rear brake. You end up with so little bike that there is very little left that can fail.
Even if they have replaced every line that you wrote, surely if this was done step by step then their resultant work is still derivative of your work, so your copyright interest remains? Not that I'm a lawyer or anything.
Our industry considers it a minimum.
Which providers of competing systems can provide a comparable SLA, and at what cost?
> The printer that you buy with ink comes with cartridges that are, at most, half full.
I think you'll find that they're half empty.
> We had about 40 hard drive failures and 12 power supply failures coming back up that evening.
That could have just been due to an infrequent shut down. Hard drives are known for not being able to spin back up after being run for a very long time, for example.
This isn't backslashdot, it's slashdot. So that's GNU/Linux for you, not GNU\Linux.
Fonts are only protected in that they are "programs" for creating type. Once a font is used, you own the result. The shapes themselves are not protected.
With an image, if you subsequently use an image, you are making an unauthorised copy.
With a font, once you have the font and use it, then the output is entirely yours.
The different between fonts and images is that images need to be copied (infringement), but fonts only need to be used (not infringement).
Fonts may come with an EULA which tries to change this, but it is debatable whether this would be valid as you did not agree to any contract when you visited the website with an embedded font.
So you end up with a legitimate copy as you describe. Now you could move that copy to your system font directory. You could direct anyone else who needs the font to go to the same website you got yours from and move it to your system font directory in the same way.
So if any one website uses a font, everyone has access to a free font download.
Just a thought...the IWF have no special legal status, right? They're examining child pornography in order to determine what to put on the blacklist, right? So why is it not illegal for them to be doing this?
Is this a route to force them to be accountable?
First time: "Just insert the floppy, click OK to continue and then follow the instructions on the screen."
Every other time: "Just insert the floppy and follow the instructions on the screen."