The FSF also calls for browsers to support loading modified (or saved) Javascript instead of what is given to you by the server. So, in your example, you would just make sure that your browser loads your copy of their 'clean' source code, rather than something they've patched and re-served.
Well, the source is already technically available, since they ship you non-compiled javascript code. FSF's has several problems with this.
1) Gmail has not granted the user the right to modify the Javascript code.
2) Even if (1) is conceded, the FSF is arguing that the obfuscated code transmitted to the client browser does not truly constitute source code. They would like a link to be placed in a comment in the obfuscated code to the original, un-obfuscated code.
There is a broader problem, however; even if a website transmits GPL'd code in the clear, the user does not have any easy way to replace the transmitted code with their modified code. They would like browsers to support hot-swapping websites' scripts with modified copies.
I got a 5, and got credit for two semesters of college physics. I accepted the credit for the first semester (mostly mechanics), but decided to waive the credits and retake the second semester (E&M). It was (at least for me) the right decision; I would have lived if I hadn't, but I would have struggled to keep up in upper division courses.
A few days ago smbc comics was hit with a Java exploit in the form of a popup that installed a trojan on users machines. People affected were discussing it here; from this it looks like mostly Windows machines were infected, but at least one user claims Ubuntu was affected.
Their method relies heavily on the unknown language being related to a known language by some degree. At their heart of their technique is Bayesian statistics applied to lexical and frequency analysis; for this approach to work, there must be some basis for comparison.
The statistics could be calculated from any old census (and school) data.
Well, that's just it -- this is an improvement on the collection method. I'm not suggesting schools have fingerprint readers at schools, I'm merely stating that this method will likely produce more accurate census data, which could then be used for any of the reasons mentioned.
There's a difference between a right to privacy and the right for you to keep you existence unknown from the government. I agree that privacy is terribly important, but you can't deal with absolutes; yes, people have died for freedom, but that does not mean we must reject anything that encroaches upon it the slightest. The government isn't collecting this information to spy on its citizens, its doing so to provide services to them and properly run the government. You claim the Indian courts will protect privacy; if this is truly the case, then it is likely that anyone misusing this data would be prosecuted.
As long as reasonable attempts are made to keep this information secure and out of the hands of the police, this is a case where the privacy concerns are far outweighed by the benefits. India has the world's second largest population; think about how difficult it must be form them to keep track of even simple census data. The U.S. has a population one fourth the size of India, and still has trouble taking taking a census only once every 10 years. This will allow India to better allocate aid to impoverished regions, or even just track what percentage of children actually attend school.
There's nothing stopping anyone from forking the existing distribution and maintaining it separately from Oracle; if Oracle does release any code back into the public, it can be incorporated too. FTA,
"The good news is that those of us who have worked so hard to bring this project to life still wholeheartedly believe in it. A core group of the Wonderland team intends to keep the project going."
Assume a wireless router broadcasts at 1W, uniformly outward. Suppose the charger has an effective surface area of 4" * 2", or about 50cm^2. Assume the charger is 10m away fro the router; then the charger can receive no more than (1W) * (50cm^2) / (4 * pi * 1000cm * 1000cm) = 4 * 10^-6 W. A Blackberry battery on Bestbuy.com claims to store 1100 mAh @ 3.7V of energy, so the device could charge a powered-off Blackberry in (1100 mAh * 3.7V) / (4 * 10^-6 W) = 116 years... I'm wrong, or the device doesn't work as claimed.
IE doesn't support web standards, but people still use it because it has Microsoft's name. Maybe this will get people to switch to a (hopefully) standards-compliant browser.
Ideally, this wouldn't exist. Less ideally, access to the film would require a court order, but... realistically, the film should be publicly accessible to anyone, anytime, and all records should be destroyed within a certain number of days.
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The FSF also calls for browsers to support loading modified (or saved) Javascript instead of what is given to you by the server. So, in your example, you would just make sure that your browser loads your copy of their 'clean' source code, rather than something they've patched and re-served.
Well, the source is already technically available, since they ship you non-compiled javascript code. FSF's has several problems with this. 1) Gmail has not granted the user the right to modify the Javascript code. 2) Even if (1) is conceded, the FSF is arguing that the obfuscated code transmitted to the client browser does not truly constitute source code. They would like a link to be placed in a comment in the obfuscated code to the original, un-obfuscated code. There is a broader problem, however; even if a website transmits GPL'd code in the clear, the user does not have any easy way to replace the transmitted code with their modified code. They would like browsers to support hot-swapping websites' scripts with modified copies.
Haskell FTW!
I got a 5, and got credit for two semesters of college physics. I accepted the credit for the first semester (mostly mechanics), but decided to waive the credits and retake the second semester (E&M). It was (at least for me) the right decision; I would have lived if I hadn't, but I would have struggled to keep up in upper division courses.
A few days ago smbc comics was hit with a Java exploit in the form of a popup that installed a trojan on users machines. People affected were discussing it here; from this it looks like mostly Windows machines were infected, but at least one user claims Ubuntu was affected.
Their method relies heavily on the unknown language being related to a known language by some degree. At their heart of their technique is Bayesian statistics applied to lexical and frequency analysis; for this approach to work, there must be some basis for comparison.
I agree; results are meaningless if you can't review the process and attempt to replicate the results.
The statistics could be calculated from any old census (and school) data.
Well, that's just it -- this is an improvement on the collection method. I'm not suggesting schools have fingerprint readers at schools, I'm merely stating that this method will likely produce more accurate census data, which could then be used for any of the reasons mentioned.
There's a difference between a right to privacy and the right for you to keep you existence unknown from the government. I agree that privacy is terribly important, but you can't deal with absolutes; yes, people have died for freedom, but that does not mean we must reject anything that encroaches upon it the slightest. The government isn't collecting this information to spy on its citizens, its doing so to provide services to them and properly run the government. You claim the Indian courts will protect privacy; if this is truly the case, then it is likely that anyone misusing this data would be prosecuted.
As long as reasonable attempts are made to keep this information secure and out of the hands of the police, this is a case where the privacy concerns are far outweighed by the benefits. India has the world's second largest population; think about how difficult it must be form them to keep track of even simple census data. The U.S. has a population one fourth the size of India, and still has trouble taking taking a census only once every 10 years. This will allow India to better allocate aid to impoverished regions, or even just track what percentage of children actually attend school.
There's nothing stopping anyone from forking the existing distribution and maintaining it separately from Oracle; if Oracle does release any code back into the public, it can be incorporated too. FTA, "The good news is that those of us who have worked so hard to bring this project to life still wholeheartedly believe in it. A core group of the Wonderland team intends to keep the project going."
This is electrolysis. Piezoelectric materials produce an electrical current when pressure is exerted on them.
Would you like jurors reading about you in some shitty tabloid? The press can hurt the innocent and guilty alike.
Of course, I can't be wrong: http://www.xkcd.com/687/
Assume a wireless router broadcasts at 1W, uniformly outward. Suppose the charger has an effective surface area of 4" * 2", or about 50cm^2. Assume the charger is 10m away fro the router; then the charger can receive no more than (1W) * (50cm^2) / (4 * pi * 1000cm * 1000cm) = 4 * 10^-6 W. A Blackberry battery on Bestbuy.com claims to store 1100 mAh @ 3.7V of energy, so the device could charge a powered-off Blackberry in (1100 mAh * 3.7V) / (4 * 10^-6 W) = 116 years... I'm wrong, or the device doesn't work as claimed.
This shouldn't come as a surprise, since most people still don't understand how viewing a website can affect their computer.
IE doesn't support web standards, but people still use it because it has Microsoft's name. Maybe this will get people to switch to a (hopefully) standards-compliant browser.
Ideally, this wouldn't exist. Less ideally, access to the film would require a court order, but... realistically, the film should be publicly accessible to anyone, anytime, and all records should be destroyed within a certain number of days.