This is not like utilities, food, or health care where we need to prevent an oligarchy from profiteering by withholding necessities. If you do not agree to the fees, do not license the content.
The government does not care what industry it is invading. This is the problem: once you allow the government to violate the governing documents, you invalidate everything in the document, not just the one thing, and it becomes a government run by special interests./p?
'Weird' people are everywhere, but that doesn't mean that we should lock them up, and there is nothing that suggests he is a danger to himself or others.
How can you possibly have determined that he needs a psychological evaluation? You know nothing about him. Someone who has different beliefs from you or even beliefs that a minority follow is not necessarily mentally unstable. So far, nobody has come forth to claim that he is mentally unstable - not one person. In the exact opposite, we have the recent tragedy created by James Holmes, where professional mental health experts recommended authorities to have him evaluated, and what happened then?
Some are suggesting that the "Sharpen up my axe; I'm here to sever heads" quote is a line from Swollen Members song Bring Me Down. It should also be noted that he doesn't own any guns, which doesn't seem to follow the pattern of a psychopath about to commit mass murder.
I am in strong agreement with you on this. We need a mesh to replace the www. I'm not a developer, so I don't quite understand the technical issues, and there are technical issues preventing this from happening in large scale, but I feel it also suffers from a strong enough incentive to grow.
Certainly there are a lot of people that feel a mesh would be superior for moral or, more generally, emotional reasons, but what it really needs to hit critical mass is a profit incentive. I like the idea of building into every communication a financial transaction mechanism that allows nodes to profit (or not - it would be the node owner's option) from traffic. When I look at my local major freeway in the morning I think about how the total throughput of everyone's cell phone is substantially greater than the capability of the cell towers. Of course not all network traffic could flow along the roads, or even all be wireless, so there would be a need for more powerful and better connected nodes and bridges. Maybe one of the workers at the golf course could place a super node in his truck, which would even start the engine and charge the battery when needed, and it would sit there and make money. This simple incentive: buy a device, let it make you money, would drive millions of people to support and embrace the mesh - just look what it did for Bitcoin.
The idea I've had is to do something like convince the IEEE to create a standard for mesh networking, that way it would work the same everywhere.
The solution for expansion is to use cables - there's no reason a mesh network can't travel through wire.
Another thing that could happen is the elimination or reduction of ads on many sites. A website (since this isn't the www, would we still call them 'websites'?) could charge slightly more than their cost to serve a page, say, 21 cents per GB, and make money just serving their site, with most users hardly seeing any real increase in monthly cost vs. what they pay now.
I own a small business and I had similar ideas of using FOSS, but when I evaluated I decided that I first need to do what is best for my business, and that ended up being to use software created by Intuit and Microsoft.
The compromise I made is that when things are going smoothly enough and I well know my business processes, I will work with developers who are experienced with the appropriate FOSS projects and create a system that will work well for me. I think this will end up being better because when I am contributing, I will be doing it as an experienced business owner in that category, and this will help out others even more than trying to push the square block through the round hole while my business crumbles.
Even beyond just checking facts of a statement is the depth of understanding of the checker. It's been some years, but I remember a fact-check on Ron Paul in the 2008 election about his quoting how much money is spent on defense. The fact checker (it was either the Washington Post or Politifact) claimed he was off by miles, but that was because the person doing the fact checking knew nothing about how Congress makes budgets. For example, the Department of Veteran's Affairs is a separate budget item from the Department of Defense, but to claim that this is really a separate cost from 'defense spending' is ignorant, and Paul's numbers included not only the dollars specifically allocated to the DoD, but also all of the other items that fall under the general umbrella of defense spending.
What is particularly bad about this style of 'fact checking' is that it will then be cited in places like Wikipedia where people will look up this information and consider it to be solid fact, when it may actually be opinion or ignorance.
If they are going to claim they are owners of the content of a post, doesn't this make them liable for the post's content? They voluntarily took down the 'Adult Services' ads for PR purposes, but they were never liable for any of the goings on there because they claimed that they don't own the content and they don't review each ad. But now if they're claiming they own the copyright on the ad, then doesn't that defense go out the window? Doesn't seem like a worthwhile trade-off to me.
A friend of mine has a small company that sells development boards and kits for the Parallax Propeller platform. I'm not that into the hobbyist prototyping stuff, but he's told me a million times that what makes Parallax better than other options is the fact that you don't have to learn a computer language to use it.
If your friend is a mechanic, he may enjoy a kit that my friend just designed call The Car Kracker. Although that kit is specifically designed for BMW models, my friend made the kit himself and I think if someone took the time to understand how to install it on that car, then they could figure out how to make a kit for other cars, and even offer the redesigned kit back to my friend as a designer and make a commission on any sales generated.
Personally, I've found a great solution for this.
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I'm not so sure about finding the drive. I was a used computer parts store and saw a box full of 8" floppies. When were those last used? My latest motherboard is the first one I've bought that doesn't have a floppy port, so how long was that standard around? I'll bet SATA ports and optical drives are going to be around for a while yet. I was happily surprised to see a DOS.exe file run just fine in Windows 7 command line, although I haven't tried running any Windows 3.x or 95/98/NT files yet, I imagine there are emulators, so I would think a Windows.exe file with an accompanied.txt readme would be just fine for 25 years. We're not talking about the distant future here.
I also have a semi-automatic pistol, the barrel of which rusts very easily. I store it in a special ziplock bag that prevents it from rusting. Works great.
If you are going to fill the container with nitrogen, then you should actually keep it barely pressurized relative to atmosphere, so probably want to have a bottle of nitrogen and some sort of regulator/differential pressure detector. Pretty much every container leaks after 25 years, unless you're talking about something really serious like a welding tank. Actually, come to think of it, maybe you could use a propane tank of appropriate size, just cut it open, weld it back together, evacuate it, and pressurize substantially with nitrogen (maybe 100 psi?).
Another media that works pretty well and has been around for a very long time is vinyl records. We can still listen to Edison's very first recordings. Of course, I have no idea where one would go to get records pressed, but I think the data storage would be more dense than printing on paper. And for 25 years, I don't think archival is even necessary - I've got mimeographed elementary school papers over 30 years old that I can read just fine.
What I've wanted to see is a graph of where cell phone power goes. Does it go to rendering pages? Does it go to hi-res LCD screens? Does it go to the radio? I know I can almost see the battery level go down when the GPS is enabled. And any app that requires a connection but doesn't support push is a huge drain, but I'm careful about those things and still see a lot of drain. Where does it actually go?
In hindsight, my post overlooked why Amazon is pursuing this model. I suspect they are going to reverse their position on taxing across state borders and will lobby Congress to create laws allowing taxes to cross borders, making future competition to Amazon impossible. And given the lobby support from brick-and-mortar retailers and states, whose governors have been begging for bailout money, this would be the perfect 'compromise' for Congress.
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This is not like utilities, food, or health care where we need to prevent an oligarchy from profiteering by withholding necessities. If you do not agree to the fees, do not license the content.
The government does not care what industry it is invading. This is the problem: once you allow the government to violate the governing documents, you invalidate everything in the document, not just the one thing, and it becomes a government run by special interests./p?
Since you have the intimate details of the case, can you please provide me with them? I'm interested in reading them.
Sounds like you believe in guilty until proven innocent.
'Weird' people are everywhere, but that doesn't mean that we should lock them up, and there is nothing that suggests he is a danger to himself or others.
So your opinion is that 80% of the world's population needs a psychological evaluation. I rest my case.
How can you possibly have determined that he needs a psychological evaluation? You know nothing about him. Someone who has different beliefs from you or even beliefs that a minority follow is not necessarily mentally unstable. So far, nobody has come forth to claim that he is mentally unstable - not one person. In the exact opposite, we have the recent tragedy created by James Holmes, where professional mental health experts recommended authorities to have him evaluated, and what happened then?
Please point to the evidence that he is mentally unstable or that he has made death threats. Who is handing out mod points these days?
The marine in this article did not own a gun.
Some are suggesting that the "Sharpen up my axe; I'm here to sever heads" quote is a line from Swollen Members song Bring Me Down. It should also be noted that he doesn't own any guns, which doesn't seem to follow the pattern of a psychopath about to commit mass murder.
I am in strong agreement with you on this. We need a mesh to replace the www. I'm not a developer, so I don't quite understand the technical issues, and there are technical issues preventing this from happening in large scale, but I feel it also suffers from a strong enough incentive to grow.
Certainly there are a lot of people that feel a mesh would be superior for moral or, more generally, emotional reasons, but what it really needs to hit critical mass is a profit incentive. I like the idea of building into every communication a financial transaction mechanism that allows nodes to profit (or not - it would be the node owner's option) from traffic. When I look at my local major freeway in the morning I think about how the total throughput of everyone's cell phone is substantially greater than the capability of the cell towers. Of course not all network traffic could flow along the roads, or even all be wireless, so there would be a need for more powerful and better connected nodes and bridges. Maybe one of the workers at the golf course could place a super node in his truck, which would even start the engine and charge the battery when needed, and it would sit there and make money. This simple incentive: buy a device, let it make you money, would drive millions of people to support and embrace the mesh - just look what it did for Bitcoin.
The idea I've had is to do something like convince the IEEE to create a standard for mesh networking, that way it would work the same everywhere.
The solution for expansion is to use cables - there's no reason a mesh network can't travel through wire.
Another thing that could happen is the elimination or reduction of ads on many sites. A website (since this isn't the www, would we still call them 'websites'?) could charge slightly more than their cost to serve a page, say, 21 cents per GB, and make money just serving their site, with most users hardly seeing any real increase in monthly cost vs. what they pay now.
Also make sure it is waterproof. Turns out they put fires out with water. LOTS of water.
I own a small business and I had similar ideas of using FOSS, but when I evaluated I decided that I first need to do what is best for my business, and that ended up being to use software created by Intuit and Microsoft.
The compromise I made is that when things are going smoothly enough and I well know my business processes, I will work with developers who are experienced with the appropriate FOSS projects and create a system that will work well for me. I think this will end up being better because when I am contributing, I will be doing it as an experienced business owner in that category, and this will help out others even more than trying to push the square block through the round hole while my business crumbles.
Even beyond just checking facts of a statement is the depth of understanding of the checker. It's been some years, but I remember a fact-check on Ron Paul in the 2008 election about his quoting how much money is spent on defense. The fact checker (it was either the Washington Post or Politifact) claimed he was off by miles, but that was because the person doing the fact checking knew nothing about how Congress makes budgets. For example, the Department of Veteran's Affairs is a separate budget item from the Department of Defense, but to claim that this is really a separate cost from 'defense spending' is ignorant, and Paul's numbers included not only the dollars specifically allocated to the DoD, but also all of the other items that fall under the general umbrella of defense spending.
What is particularly bad about this style of 'fact checking' is that it will then be cited in places like Wikipedia where people will look up this information and consider it to be solid fact, when it may actually be opinion or ignorance.
If they are going to claim they are owners of the content of a post, doesn't this make them liable for the post's content? They voluntarily took down the 'Adult Services' ads for PR purposes, but they were never liable for any of the goings on there because they claimed that they don't own the content and they don't review each ad. But now if they're claiming they own the copyright on the ad, then doesn't that defense go out the window? Doesn't seem like a worthwhile trade-off to me.
What I don't understand is how one can release .9 of something.
A friend of mine has a small company that sells development boards and kits for the Parallax Propeller platform. I'm not that into the hobbyist prototyping stuff, but he's told me a million times that what makes Parallax better than other options is the fact that you don't have to learn a computer language to use it.
If your friend is a mechanic, he may enjoy a kit that my friend just designed call The Car Kracker. Although that kit is specifically designed for BMW models, my friend made the kit himself and I think if someone took the time to understand how to install it on that car, then they could figure out how to make a kit for other cars, and even offer the redesigned kit back to my friend as a designer and make a commission on any sales generated.
I own a BlackBerry.
Will Jitsi let me call home to my old wired phone?
Jitsi uses SIP, so it just might (I haven't looked into it too deeply).
I never really thought of Microsoft as being 'metro'.
I'm not so sure about finding the drive. I was a used computer parts store and saw a box full of 8" floppies. When were those last used? My latest motherboard is the first one I've bought that doesn't have a floppy port, so how long was that standard around? I'll bet SATA ports and optical drives are going to be around for a while yet. I was happily surprised to see a DOS .exe file run just fine in Windows 7 command line, although I haven't tried running any Windows 3.x or 95/98/NT files yet, I imagine there are emulators, so I would think a Windows .exe file with an accompanied .txt readme would be just fine for 25 years. We're not talking about the distant future here.
I have 22-year old music CDs and they work fine.
I also have a semi-automatic pistol, the barrel of which rusts very easily. I store it in a special ziplock bag that prevents it from rusting. Works great.
If you are going to fill the container with nitrogen, then you should actually keep it barely pressurized relative to atmosphere, so probably want to have a bottle of nitrogen and some sort of regulator/differential pressure detector. Pretty much every container leaks after 25 years, unless you're talking about something really serious like a welding tank. Actually, come to think of it, maybe you could use a propane tank of appropriate size, just cut it open, weld it back together, evacuate it, and pressurize substantially with nitrogen (maybe 100 psi?).
Another media that works pretty well and has been around for a very long time is vinyl records. We can still listen to Edison's very first recordings. Of course, I have no idea where one would go to get records pressed, but I think the data storage would be more dense than printing on paper. And for 25 years, I don't think archival is even necessary - I've got mimeographed elementary school papers over 30 years old that I can read just fine.
Did they block the Internet, or was it the World Wide Web?
What I've wanted to see is a graph of where cell phone power goes. Does it go to rendering pages? Does it go to hi-res LCD screens? Does it go to the radio? I know I can almost see the battery level go down when the GPS is enabled. And any app that requires a connection but doesn't support push is a huge drain, but I'm careful about those things and still see a lot of drain. Where does it actually go?
In hindsight, my post overlooked why Amazon is pursuing this model. I suspect they are going to reverse their position on taxing across state borders and will lobby Congress to create laws allowing taxes to cross borders, making future competition to Amazon impossible. And given the lobby support from brick-and-mortar retailers and states, whose governors have been begging for bailout money, this would be the perfect 'compromise' for Congress.