Can't locate a list of who supported the DMCA in the House and Senate (why isn't this on the front page of eff.org BTW).
Because it was passed on a voice vote of those present. There is no record of either who was present at the vote (other than "a quorum"), or who voted for it (other than "a majority of the quorum").
Yes, this sucks.
After a little clicking around I did find the following:
The SPEAKER pro tempore, Mrs. EMERSON, recognized Mr. COBLE and Ms.
JACKSON-LEE, each for 20 minutes.
After debate,
The question being put, viva voce,
Will the House suspend the rules and agree to said conference report?
The SPEAKER pro tempore, Mrs. EMERSON, announced that two-thirds of
the Members present had voted in the affirmative.
So, two-thirds of the Members present having voted in favor thereof,
the rules were suspended and said conference report was agreed to.
A motion to reconsider the vote whereby the rules were suspended and
said conference report was agreed to was passed was, by unanimous
consent, laid on the table.
Ordered, That the Clerk notify the Senate thereof.
For the Senate I have not even found that much. Thomas (the Library of Congress) simply says, "Senate agreed to conference report by Unanimous Consent".
I guess we have to hold them all responsible for voting it into law since we can't single them out. (This would have been the 105th Congress BTW.)
The sponsor of the bill is listed as Howard Coble. Co-sponsors are Howard L Berman, Sonny Bono, Barney Frank, Bill McCollum, Charles Pickering, Mary Bono, John Conyers Jr., Henry J. Hyde, and Bill Paxton. Needless to say, if any of these are running for office in your jurisdiction I urge you to not vote for them.
I did the absentee ballot thing this year. I work 12 hrs, which means I get 12 off before I have to be back at work. Last election I stood in line for nearly 3 hours waiting for bozos who waited until reaching the voting booth to decide who/what they wanted to vote for. (Come on people! This is IMPORTANT! Give it at least as much consideration as, say, what you're going to have for dinner tonight. -ahem-) Add time for the commute and 2 or three minutes for a meal in there somewhere and I decided I had to find a better way this time around.
It sure did save time, but I get the feeling I wasted it anyways.. I'm in California and I voted libertarian. Oh well, at least you can't blame me for the next 4 years.:)
If you can still say it then I might believe it, though even then I would argue with you. You can't say for sure that it's permanent until it can exist without dependance on Earth. The ISS can't do that technically or politically.
Perhaps that might work, but I'd be pissed if someone actually was able to make a business out of this, since it would mean that the patent office is not doing their job in the first place.
(Not that there's any doubt in my mind as it is you understand.. just don't rub it in, ok?)
"Twenty-four manufacturers use the same menu chip as in ours, so they all have the same capability," said Colton Manley, a spokesman for Apex, in Ontario, California. Certainly our intention is not to sell anything that will cause any problems."
So what chip is that?
If everyone starts asking for it by name and the manufacturers start realizing that this "mis"-feature sells boxes, maybe there will be more "unintentional" slip-ups like this.:)
If you like that, you might be interested in SpaceDev's spacecraft, NEAP. It's a totally privately-financed project to rendezvous with the asteroid Nereus in 2002. It is currently scheduled to launch in 2001.
The cool thing is that they plan to stake a claim to Nereus, thus the "P", for "Prospector".
From one of their PRs:
The spacecraft, Near Earth Asteroid Prospector (NEAP), first in a series of SpaceDev deep space Prospectors, will carry up to five advanced scientific instruments to an asteroid near the earth in order to analyze its size, and determine its composition and value. SpaceDev intends to sell the acquired data as a commercial product as well as stake claim to the asteroid in order to set a precedent for private property rights in space.
"NEAP's success will prove that space is a place, not a government program," said Benson. "Private companies and the public can and should have a direct stake in the opportunities space exploration and development have to offer," he added.
Looks like I'm going to have to bump my score filter up to 3.:(
Rob, I agree with you on hoarding points, but couldn't you allow us to keep 3 or so around longer? Maybe you could make it so one's pool has a half-life of 24 hrs. and rounding up (or something), so your points never fall below 1 unless you actually use them/it.
Did anyone read some of the PRs on the Phoenix Tech. web site? It's great that Transmeta's new chips are getting BIOS support, but if it means people are going to get ads for "EarthLink's award-winning Internet access... every time they turn their computers on" I think it'll somewhat dampen the enthusiasm.
Was this the one that had the microphone option for net play (so the players could talk to each other)?
I didn't have the hardware to take advantage of it at the time, but I always thought that was a cool feature. It'd sure beat typing for coordinating attacks!
Nanochip, Inc. says they've got a 56-pin BGA-packaged device that holds 900MB (re-writable, 2.5G WORM) with max latency less than 500usec and a data transfer of 3.1Mbytes/sec.
They also say, "In addition to the Nanochips, we plan to provide a disk drive replacement which will have a capacity of up to 200 Gigabytes using BGA packaged Nanochips, and 1.4 Terabyte drives using flip chip packaged Nanochips in a standard 3.5" form factor (5"x3.25"x1.5")".
Not too shabby, especially if you get a few working in parallel. OTOH, 500usec is still a long way from 6ns, and look at all them moving parts! Wonder what the MTBF is?
Stability is _the_ key reason I use Linux. There are other reasons, but that one's in the "necessary" column. I hope people don't freak out and do anything to compromise that.
All this testing is a good thing. It focuses attention on the areas that need work and provides a goal to work towards. Long term though I think it's best if everyone just continues with business as usual (taking the benchmarks into account where appropriate of course).
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Because it was passed on a voice vote of those present. There is no record of either who was present at the vote (other than "a quorum"), or who voted for it (other than "a majority of the quorum").
Yes, this sucks.
After a little clicking around I did find the following:
The House Journal records the deed thusly:
For the Senate I have not even found that much. Thomas (the Library of Congress) simply says, "Senate agreed to conference report by Unanimous Consent".
I guess we have to hold them all responsible for voting it into law since we can't single them out. (This would have been the 105th Congress BTW.)
The sponsor of the bill is listed as Howard Coble. Co-sponsors are Howard L Berman, Sonny Bono, Barney Frank, Bill McCollum, Charles Pickering, Mary Bono, John Conyers Jr., Henry J. Hyde, and Bill Paxton. Needless to say, if any of these are running for office in your jurisdiction I urge you to not vote for them.
I did the absentee ballot thing this year. I work 12 hrs, which means I get 12 off before I have to be back at work. Last election I stood in line for nearly 3 hours waiting for bozos who waited until reaching the voting booth to decide who/what they wanted to vote for. (Come on people! This is IMPORTANT! Give it at least as much consideration as, say, what you're going to have for dinner tonight. -ahem-) Add time for the commute and 2 or three minutes for a meal in there somewhere and I decided I had to find a better way this time around.
:)
It sure did save time, but I get the feeling I wasted it anyways.. I'm in California and I voted libertarian. Oh well, at least you can't blame me for the next 4 years.
If you can still say it then I might believe it, though even then I would argue with you. You can't say for sure that it's permanent until it can exist without dependance on Earth. The ISS can't do that technically or politically.
Perhaps that might work, but I'd be pissed if someone actually was able to make a business out of this, since it would mean that the patent office is not doing their job in the first place.
(Not that there's any doubt in my mind as it is you understand.. just don't rub it in, ok?)
Tell that to these people
from the article:
"Twenty-four manufacturers use the same menu chip as in ours, so they all have
the same capability," said Colton Manley, a spokesman for Apex, in Ontario,
California. Certainly our intention is not to sell anything that will cause any problems."
So what chip is that?
If everyone starts asking for it by name and the manufacturers start realizing that this "mis"-feature sells boxes, maybe there will be more "unintentional" slip-ups like this.
The cool thing is that they plan to stake a claim to Nereus, thus the "P", for "Prospector".
From one of their PRs:
The spacecraft, Near Earth Asteroid Prospector (NEAP), first in a series of SpaceDev deep space Prospectors, will carry up to five advanced scientific instruments to an asteroid near the earth in order to analyze its size, and determine its composition and value. SpaceDev intends to sell the acquired data as a commercial product as well as stake claim to the asteroid in order to set a precedent for private property rights in space.
"NEAP's success will prove that space is a place, not a government program," said Benson. "Private companies and the public can and should have a direct stake in the opportunities space exploration and development have to offer," he added.
I really hope they pull it off!
I don't post moron, I post messages.
Looks like I'm going to have to bump my score filter up to 3. :(
Rob, I agree with you on hoarding points, but couldn't you allow us to keep 3 or so around longer? Maybe you could make it so one's pool has a half-life of 24 hrs. and rounding up (or something), so your points never fall below 1 unless you actually use them/it.
Please, just for emergencies like this? :)
(posting because I have no points)
Check out:
http://www.ptltd.com/about/pr990621f.html
and also
http://www.ptltd.com/about/pr990621e.html and http://www.ptltd.com/about/pr990621d.html
Good thing Linux doesn't need rebooting very often!
I like this idea, not least because if you keep them busy reading email they might not have time to vote crud like the DMCA and CDA into law.
:)
Was this the one that had the microphone option for net play (so the players could talk to each other)?
I didn't have the hardware to take advantage of it at the time, but I always thought that was a cool feature. It'd sure beat typing for coordinating attacks!
As long as we're dreaming :) make it able to access local wireless networks such as can be created with Apple's Airport.
If you think you're confused now, check out:
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http://www.amiga.de/diary/executive/linux-e.htm
That fat lady just keeps on singing...
Nanochip, Inc. says they've got a 56-pin BGA-packaged device that holds 900MB (re-writable, 2.5G WORM) with max latency less than 500usec and a data transfer of 3.1Mbytes/sec.
They also say, "In addition to the Nanochips, we plan to provide a disk drive replacement which will have a capacity of up to 200 Gigabytes using BGA packaged Nanochips, and 1.4 Terabyte drives using flip chip packaged Nanochips in a standard 3.5" form factor (5"x3.25"x1.5")".
Not too shabby, especially if you get a few working in parallel. OTOH, 500usec is still a long way from 6ns, and look at all them moving parts! Wonder what the MTBF is?
( http://www.nanochip.com/)
Gallium arsenide? I don't think so.. maybe something like indium phosphide.
There was an interesting piece recently on sciencedaily about some research being done on electro-optical effects in photo-reactive crystals.
If you like that link, Salamo has a (very brief) page describing some of his other work as well.
"..it may be faster, but only when it's UP."
Stability is _the_ key reason I use Linux. There are other reasons, but that one's in the "necessary" column. I hope people don't freak out and do anything to compromise that.
All this testing is a good thing. It focuses attention on the areas that need work and provides a goal to work towards. Long term though I think it's best if everyone just continues with business as usual (taking the benchmarks into account where appropriate of course).
6.0 had that kind of rushed-out-the-door feel to it, but 6.1 is great.
I've never used RH (BION) so I don't know how it compares there.
Apple did SMP? When? I thought all their multi-processor systems were master/slave-type setups.