As others here noted last time this result came around, if neutrinos really travel that much faster than the speed of light, then we would have expected the neutrino burst from the 1987a supernova to arrive months, rather than hours, before the light came. Thus, I am skeptical.
Will the neutrinos take the same path that the light did from that event, and is it therefore possible that they took a longer path....
Current GPU systems consume large wattages, so if you have brain augmentation in this way you are likely to need your head connected to a PSU connected in turn to a mains supply.
Well, I'm not ok with it. And I have contributed patches to Linux kernel, and those are my copyrights. I don't think it's good for everyone that Google blatantly violates every copyright law and most importantly, every privacy law.
Well if they've used one of your files, then go ahead and start a suit. If not, then STFU.IIRC copyright in Linux vests with the original author of any patch, so you'd have standing if any of your files were really involved. I strongly suspect that if you really had contributed significant patches to Linux, instead of trolling, you'd have a lower Slashdot ID.
Its possible that Google do play a little fast and loose with some of their code, but since they've promised to release the source to Ice Cream Sandwich fairly soon that event will bring them into strict compliance with the GPL before someone can mutter copytright violation in court.....
The unemployment rate of sharks has been extremely high.
Thanks to the research above, sharks with frikin' lasers attached to their heads can be first in line for this new job sector. I am sure Sharks everywhere express their gratitude to Bill and Melinda for funding the research which opens new opportunity vistas for unemployed sharks who are at risk of descending into a life of crime through underuse of their talents.
ARM presumably has patents on its core technologies, which are good for 15-20 years, and also its chip designs would be covered for at least 10 years, so anything compatible would have to be based on some fairly antiquated stuff.
AFAIK, royalties to ARM are not very high in the first place - even though the company effectively gets royalties from several billion ARM chips, its profits over 3 months are only about £30 million, so it is unlikely that the per chip royalty cost is that high.
Race cars often have fuel tanks only large enough to carry fuel for a little more than the designated length of the race. Some are smaller, where refuelling durimg the race is mandatory. The reasons for that are simply that carrying excess weight is bad for a racecar and carrying excess fuel is both a weight handicap and possibly a fire hazard.
Its true that a normal race car may empty its tank in a short while, but unlike an electric car, it'll be back to full in a matter of seconds.
Is not to be seen as imposing Pax Americana on the world, with all the problems that attempting it seemed to cause (Iraq, Afghanistan, Israel/Palestine etc etc). Instead he seems to be trying to say that if he can find a suitable group to lead the charge, then he'll pass them the ammunition and provide fire support.
There is an obvious balance between the right of freedom of expression and on the other side a right to a private life, and both sides could probably make a Human Rights case. The European Convention on Human Rights is a set of balances; whilst a site which documented police abuse of power would probably be protected by the ECHR, a site which crossed the line by publishing private addresses of police with a view to harassing or threatening them would not be protected.
Africa needs an effective vaccine against babies more than a vaccine against mosquitoes.
The two are related; people have more babies when they are aware that many of their offspring may not survive till adulthood. They will generally have less if the chances that their children will survive are greater.
The X-37B is 9 meters long and fits in/on a normal rocket. I'm sure SpaceX, Boeing or ArianeSpace can lift 5 metric tonnes into space on their rockets, to name just a few. Even if a human capable X-37 is larger and doubles in weight, there's no shortage of rockets capable of punting it up there.
It would be a few years in the future in any event and some or all of the above will be regarded as 'safe' for astronauts by then.
I worked for a GPS company in the early 1990's. Due to the first Gulf War, some of our civilian marine GPS systems were strapped into fast jets and worked perfectly well within the performance envelope of a Tornado fighter/bomber....
Today, even if limits have been put into the sets, its probably not a difficult matter to look in the code for the appropriate constants and change the firmware.
Ours ran on an 8MHz 68000, I'm sure your average GPS phone nowadays has a much more capable CPU.
In Ye Olde Days the retooling issue was probably a very significant deal, however I would suspect that a large part of the cost would now be avoided as most of the retooling would simply be reprogramming the various CNC machines to do the job.
Databases may be protected by copyright, but the TZ DB existed a long time before any DB created by Astrolabe. The TZ DB happens to contain factual information contained in the book form of the Atlas. As (amongst other reasons) it is a transformative work, it is not a breach of copyright
a) ACS is not the copyright holder and therefore probably does not have the right to sue - see the recent Righthaven judgements b) Fair Use
i) the TZ DB is not for profit and as an information service
ii) The historical facts with respect to dates and timezones are not subject to copyright. With specific reference to the facts presented in the Atlas, Astrolabe would only have copyright on the creative expression of those facts in the exact format of the Atlas, and not to a database table of timezones, whether they were derived from the facts contained in the Atlas or not
iii) The work of the timezone database, whilst citing the Atlas, is transformative and therefore not a breach of the original copyright. c) Limitation of damages
ACS Atlas cannot claim any damages from prior to the date their own database was available (estoppel?).
I'm surprised the judge granted the temporary injunction; it could be denied simply on the grounds that innumerable third parties would be harmed in the event that the case were found to be baseless.
Incidentally, if you're someone using the database, forget amicus briefs and start filing declaration of non-infringement lawsuits with respect to the database in your own jurisdiction; they're very expensive to defend in every state ( see Righthaven)
I'm a Slashdot commentator, not a lawyer, so don't follow the above advice without consulting one.
You're correct, lawyers don't indulge in such profanities
In the Arkell v Pressdram case, Fuck Off is never said directly, instead the defendants (Pressdram) ask a hypothetical question as to how Arkell would feel if the response was "Fuck Off"
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As others here noted last time this result came around, if neutrinos really travel that much faster than the speed of light, then we would have expected the neutrino burst from the 1987a supernova to arrive months, rather than hours, before the light came. Thus, I am skeptical.
Will the neutrinos take the same path that the light did from that event, and is it therefore possible that they took a longer path ....
So the timing ought to be right, unless it's done by cuckoo clock....
Current GPU systems consume large wattages, so if you have brain augmentation in this way you are likely to need your head connected to a PSU connected in turn to a mains supply.
Well, I'm not ok with it. And I have contributed patches to Linux kernel, and those are my copyrights. I don't think it's good for everyone that Google blatantly violates every copyright law and most importantly, every privacy law.
Well if they've used one of your files, then go ahead and start a suit. If not, then STFU.IIRC copyright in Linux vests with the original author of any patch, so you'd have standing if any of your files were really involved. I strongly suspect that if you really had contributed significant patches to Linux, instead of trolling, you'd have a lower Slashdot ID.
Its possible that Google do play a little fast and loose with some of their code, but since they've promised to release the source to Ice Cream Sandwich fairly soon that event will bring them into strict compliance with the GPL before someone can mutter copytright violation in court.....
The first shot would likely break both your wrists. Good luck holding onto it for the other 8 rounds in the clip.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ezBdC6l3LRU&feature=youtu.be proves you are wrong, even if the demonstration should not really be attempted by anyone! However, it seems women were more expendable in the 1950s....
The unemployment rate of sharks has been extremely high.
Thanks to the research above, sharks with frikin' lasers attached to their heads can be first in line for this new job sector. I am sure Sharks everywhere express their gratitude to Bill and Melinda for funding the research which opens new opportunity vistas for unemployed sharks who are at risk of descending into a life of crime through underuse of their talents.
ARM presumably has patents on its core technologies, which are good for 15-20 years, and also its chip designs would be covered for at least 10 years, so anything compatible would have to be based on some fairly antiquated stuff.
AFAIK, royalties to ARM are not very high in the first place - even though the company effectively gets royalties from several billion ARM chips, its profits over 3 months are only about £30 million, so it is unlikely that the per chip royalty cost is that high.
I just posted my own version before finding this
I was expecting Johnny B. Goodenough
I'll get my coat...
Race cars often have fuel tanks only large enough to carry fuel for a little more than the designated length of the race. Some are smaller, where refuelling durimg the race is mandatory. The reasons for that are simply that carrying excess weight is bad for a racecar and carrying excess fuel is both a weight handicap and possibly a fire hazard.
Its true that a normal race car may empty its tank in a short while, but unlike an electric car, it'll be back to full in a matter of seconds.
Is not to be seen as imposing Pax Americana on the world, with all the problems that attempting it seemed to cause (Iraq, Afghanistan, Israel/Palestine etc etc). Instead he seems to be trying to say that if he can find a suitable group to lead the charge, then he'll pass them the ammunition and provide fire support.
There is an obvious balance between the right of freedom of expression and on the other side a right to a private life, and both sides could probably make a Human Rights case. The European Convention on Human Rights is a set of balances; whilst a site which documented police abuse of power would probably be protected by the ECHR, a site which crossed the line by publishing private addresses of police with a view to harassing or threatening them would not be protected.
Africa needs an effective vaccine against babies more than a vaccine against mosquitoes.
The two are related; people have more babies when they are aware that many of their offspring may not survive till adulthood. They will generally have less if the chances that their children will survive are greater.
True but vaccines train the body to recognise markers so one presumes that a strain of malaria may arise without the markers that are recognised.
...so will this vaccine and others become useless in a few years, as malaria seems to have become resistant to other treatments over the years?
int main (int argc, char *argv[])
{
printf("Goodbye World!!");
return 0;
}
The X-37B is 9 meters long and fits in/on a normal rocket. I'm sure SpaceX, Boeing or ArianeSpace can lift 5 metric tonnes into space on their rockets, to name just a few. Even if a human capable X-37 is larger and doubles in weight, there's no shortage of rockets capable of punting it up there.
It would be a few years in the future in any event and some or all of the above will be regarded as 'safe' for astronauts by then.
I worked for a GPS company in the early 1990's. Due to the first Gulf War, some of our civilian marine GPS systems were strapped into fast jets and worked perfectly well within the performance envelope of a Tornado fighter/bomber....
Today, even if limits have been put into the sets, its probably not a difficult matter to look in the code for the appropriate constants and change the firmware.
Ours ran on an 8MHz 68000, I'm sure your average GPS phone nowadays has a much more capable CPU.
Release iPhone 4S... die the next day
Marketing genius beyond the grave!
Makes you wonder if he had died the previous day and they just stashed his corpse for 24 hours to avoid any conflict with the release.
Or maybe Tim Cook forgot to say at the end of the launch "One More Thing...Steve Jobs has passed on"
In Ye Olde Days the retooling issue was probably a very significant deal, however I would suspect that a large part of the cost would now be avoided as most of the retooling would simply be reprogramming the various CNC machines to do the job.
Maybe this will mark the start of an upturn which will stop them changing CEOs quite so rapidly....
Databases may be protected by copyright, but the TZ DB existed a long time before any DB created by Astrolabe. The TZ DB happens to contain factual information contained in the book form of the Atlas. As (amongst other reasons) it is a transformative work, it is not a breach of copyright
a) ACS is not the copyright holder and therefore probably does not have the right to sue - see the recent Righthaven judgements
b) Fair Use
i) the TZ DB is not for profit and as an information service
ii) The historical facts with respect to dates and timezones are not subject to copyright. With specific reference to the facts presented in the Atlas, Astrolabe would only have copyright on the creative expression of those facts in the exact format of the Atlas, and not to a database table of timezones, whether they were derived from the facts contained in the Atlas or not
iii) The work of the timezone database, whilst citing the Atlas, is transformative and therefore not a breach of the original copyright.
c) Limitation of damages
ACS Atlas cannot claim any damages from prior to the date their own database was available (estoppel?).
I'm surprised the judge granted the temporary injunction; it could be denied simply on the grounds that innumerable third parties would be harmed in the event that the case were found to be baseless.
Incidentally, if you're someone using the database, forget amicus briefs and start filing declaration of non-infringement lawsuits with respect to the database in your own jurisdiction; they're very expensive to defend in every state ( see Righthaven)
I'm a Slashdot commentator, not a lawyer, so don't follow the above advice without consulting one.
You're correct, lawyers don't indulge in such profanities
In the Arkell v Pressdram case, Fuck Off is never said directly, instead the defendants (Pressdram) ask a hypothetical question as to how Arkell would feel if the response was "Fuck Off"
Does this mean I should dust off my OCCAM textbooks?