Yes there is a problem if you are concerned about your privacy and yes big flash ads will slow down page loading no matter how fast your connection is.
The French Government really seem to get the hang of OSS every depeartment seems focused on using OSS like their entire justice department going ubuntu http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/03/french-police-saves-millions-of-euros-by-adopting-ubuntu.ars and unlike the Germans(+1 million failed projects) or Dutch(going Microsoft everywhere despite promises and even laws(!) to go open source) etc they actually seem to be making progress
I find this the strangest part of the whole thing actually. They where forced to open source it because of the GPL lines in there but they could just as well made them available under a BSD license. That would make way more sense from Microsoft's perspective I say.
Google Chrome doesn't have content policy so all the 'adblock' extensions there are currently are not adblocks but adhides, fine for surfing the web without being annoyed but useless for your privacy and page loading speed.
What's the chance of this happening to a non-English speaker? most of the development of this kind of tuff seems to be happening in the the US so hurray for the rest of the world I guess.
No amount of handwaiving will explain this away for sure, but how about hundreds of data sets all telling a different story?
You are willing to believe that because one data set of tree rings declines and this is 'covered up'thousands of scientist all across the world have faked hundreds of other data sets to publish thousands of peer reviewed articles all telling the same story.Really? How is that different from your average 9/11 troofer, nirther, etc?
Advised viewing on this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nnVQ2fROOg
Are you fucking insane?
Go to the local butcher and get meat for a fraction of that and it will probably be a lot better quality too(these type of restaurants are rip-offs 9 out of 10) , making steak is like the easiest thing you can do in the kitchen and it only takes you like 10 min.
Eating proper food is not something for the rich, just get yourself educated on food.
Google is already the most subpoenaed company in the US. It's the greatest christmas gift ever for the government and intelligence services, all the data centralized in one place you don't need to do some hard searching anymore just demand the data from google,
Not only will it not help it would put them in way bigger trouble. EU directive..? says that even though companies are allowed to let 3rd parties handle their customer data it's is not allowed for that data to leave the EU economic region(EU+ Norway, Switzerland etc)
Google Analitics might be a little illegal, hosting all your stuff in a non-European country is definitely very illegal.
As it is now competitors cannot scan their own books, it's against the law. Each party should now negotiate their own settlement with the authors guild and since the authors guild has absolutely zero incentive to do that this is a classic anti-trust case. Ofcourse the only real solution here is to stop these stupid class action lawsuits and just reform copyright law.
Internet archive and project Gutenberg are at this a lot longer and they would've scanned lot's more books if they where allowed to.
You underestimate how evil a watermarking algorithm can be. Rather raising the number of words changed, amazon can simply make sure one set of an official copy's edits are unique, but another set overlaps exactly with group A of other accounts, another set overlaps with group B, another overlaps with group C... such that a naive copier will still be caught, and collaborators will never be able to be completely certain they removed every watermark.
This only works if Amazon is the only content provider though. I dont know any author that sell their books exclusively via Amazon so the only thing you'd have to do is to get a copy from a different publisher.
Did the US regulators have similar concerns? If not, why not?.
Because they have a different philosophy than the EU. The EU has been the leading anti-trust regulator in the world for a long time now simply because they believe it's in societies best interest to force companies to compete whereas the US believes more in the innovative power of unregulated companies and thus have a more laissez-faire attitude.
Microsoft would have to restructure a part of their OS to make that possible but with 'turning IE off' you can effectivly hide IE from the user completely so it's not a bad deal, the average user will never know it's still there.
To get the new ipods filled completely it would cost you a couple million dollars. If you really paid for all your music you must have a small collection and you basically waste 90% of the thing with empty space.
... They want to replace the ministry of defence with the ministry of feast and use to money currently allocated to new defence systems to provide the people with free beer. You really want to be associated with that?
You don't get it Microsoft wants to be able to scan their own books too. They don't want to use books scanned by google. Letting someone else foot the bill is not the issue here.
Yes. It is called copyright law.
I don't understand why people keep repeating this strange talking point. Copyright prevent companies from digitalizing books, Google will be the sole company exempt from this through a class action lawsuit.
Of course theoretically other companies could try to get a similar agreement with the writers guild but what incentive does the writers guild have to renegotiate the same agreement with other companies? None I say. In fact it would go against their interest so it's a classic case of a monopoly and anti-trust legislation is preventing this.
Extradition happens when when I commit a crime in another country and then flee.
In this case the guy did something in another country and the US still seeks to impose their laws on the man that's insane.
If you do something in Texas witch happens to be illegal in Germany is Germany going to seek extradition?
Availability of data is way more important than data not being 100% private.
Your private data in a super secret NSA database somewhere vs your private data going to people you know.
I know what I'd pick thank you.
Independent testing shows time and time again that LED lamps produces less lux than adversed
They don't actually last for 19 years.
The lamp itself will but the LED lights also need a bunch of resistors and other electrical components to function, these last considerably less long and if they fail the whole lamp fails.
Also LED lamps are heat sensitive too high temperatures and they fail so you better be careful with your led lamp since you just invested 40$ in them.
I say the reservations of the public are entirely justified given how flexible with the truth the LED industry has been.
When it comes to interfaces it isn't just about sums to do testing etc. It's also ideological.
Open source projects usually want to make the user in control, giving them an insane amount of options, especially if you don't really know what you are doing this can scare you off. Even if they developer realizes this he still doesn't want to put the options out of his program because the whole spirit of the project is to create 'freedom' for the end user and lock everything down and be patronizing like the property alternative.
One point regarding Jammie Thomas. She actually had 2500 illegally obtained tracks on her PC, but was only prosecuted for a handful of them so the $K22.5 I often see bandied around isn't strictly accurate.
Yes it is!
Nobody gets punished for things they aren't charged for. If she also happens to have killed an old man that she wasn't charged for that doesn't mean this fine is more just because it's also punishment for killing an old man.
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Yes there is a problem if you are concerned about your privacy and yes big flash ads will slow down page loading no matter how fast your connection is.
The French Government really seem to get the hang of OSS every depeartment seems focused on using OSS like their entire justice department going ubuntu http://arstechnica.com/open-source/news/2009/03/french-police-saves-millions-of-euros-by-adopting-ubuntu.ars and unlike the Germans(+1 million failed projects) or Dutch(going Microsoft everywhere despite promises and even laws(!) to go open source) etc they actually seem to be making progress
I find this the strangest part of the whole thing actually. They where forced to open source it because of the GPL lines in there but they could just as well made them available under a BSD license. That would make way more sense from Microsoft's perspective I say.
Google Chrome doesn't have content policy so all the 'adblock' extensions there are currently are not adblocks but adhides, fine for surfing the web without being annoyed but useless for your privacy and page loading speed.
What's the chance of this happening to a non-English speaker? most of the development of this kind of tuff seems to be happening in the the US so hurray for the rest of the world I guess.
No amount of handwaiving will explain this away for sure, but how about hundreds of data sets all telling a different story? You are willing to believe that because one data set of tree rings declines and this is 'covered up'thousands of scientist all across the world have faked hundreds of other data sets to publish thousands of peer reviewed articles all telling the same story.Really? How is that different from your average 9/11 troofer, nirther, etc? Advised viewing on this: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7nnVQ2fROOg
Are you fucking insane? Go to the local butcher and get meat for a fraction of that and it will probably be a lot better quality too(these type of restaurants are rip-offs 9 out of 10) , making steak is like the easiest thing you can do in the kitchen and it only takes you like 10 min. Eating proper food is not something for the rich, just get yourself educated on food.
Google is already the most subpoenaed company in the US. It's the greatest christmas gift ever for the government and intelligence services, all the data centralized in one place you don't need to do some hard searching anymore just demand the data from google,
Not only will it not help it would put them in way bigger trouble. EU directive ..? says that even though companies are allowed to let 3rd parties handle their customer data it's is not allowed for that data to leave the EU economic region(EU+ Norway, Switzerland etc)
Google Analitics might be a little illegal, hosting all your stuff in a non-European country is definitely very illegal.
As it is now competitors cannot scan their own books, it's against the law. Each party should now negotiate their own settlement with the authors guild and since the authors guild has absolutely zero incentive to do that this is a classic anti-trust case. Ofcourse the only real solution here is to stop these stupid class action lawsuits and just reform copyright law. Internet archive and project Gutenberg are at this a lot longer and they would've scanned lot's more books if they where allowed to.
What about the privacy of the victim?
You underestimate how evil a watermarking algorithm can be. Rather raising the number of words changed, amazon can simply make sure one set of an official copy's edits are unique, but another set overlaps exactly with group A of other accounts, another set overlaps with group B, another overlaps with group C... such that a naive copier will still be caught, and collaborators will never be able to be completely certain they removed every watermark.
This only works if Amazon is the only content provider though. I dont know any author that sell their books exclusively via Amazon so the only thing you'd have to do is to get a copy from a different publisher.
Fewer!
Did the US regulators have similar concerns? If not, why not? .
Because they have a different philosophy than the EU. The EU has been the leading anti-trust regulator in the world for a long time now simply because they believe it's in societies best interest to force companies to compete whereas the US believes more in the innovative power of unregulated companies and thus have a more laissez-faire attitude.
OpenSSH is developed solely for OpenBSD, to not bloat the code, then they have a separate team working on making it portable to other OSes
Microsoft would have to restructure a part of their OS to make that possible but with 'turning IE off' you can effectivly hide IE from the user completely so it's not a bad deal, the average user will never know it's still there.
To get the new ipods filled completely it would cost you a couple million dollars. If you really paid for all your music you must have a small collection and you basically waste 90% of the thing with empty space.
... They want to replace the ministry of defence with the ministry of feast and use to money currently allocated to new defence systems to provide the people with free beer. You really want to be associated with that?
You don't get it Microsoft wants to be able to scan their own books too. They don't want to use books scanned by google. Letting someone else foot the bill is not the issue here.
Yes. It is called copyright law. I don't understand why people keep repeating this strange talking point. Copyright prevent companies from digitalizing books, Google will be the sole company exempt from this through a class action lawsuit. Of course theoretically other companies could try to get a similar agreement with the writers guild but what incentive does the writers guild have to renegotiate the same agreement with other companies? None I say. In fact it would go against their interest so it's a classic case of a monopoly and anti-trust legislation is preventing this.
Extradition happens when when I commit a crime in another country and then flee. In this case the guy did something in another country and the US still seeks to impose their laws on the man that's insane. If you do something in Texas witch happens to be illegal in Germany is Germany going to seek extradition?
Availability of data is way more important than data not being 100% private. Your private data in a super secret NSA database somewhere vs your private data going to people you know. I know what I'd pick thank you.
Independent testing shows time and time again that LED lamps produces less lux than adversed They don't actually last for 19 years. The lamp itself will but the LED lights also need a bunch of resistors and other electrical components to function, these last considerably less long and if they fail the whole lamp fails. Also LED lamps are heat sensitive too high temperatures and they fail so you better be careful with your led lamp since you just invested 40$ in them. I say the reservations of the public are entirely justified given how flexible with the truth the LED industry has been.
When it comes to interfaces it isn't just about sums to do testing etc. It's also ideological. Open source projects usually want to make the user in control, giving them an insane amount of options, especially if you don't really know what you are doing this can scare you off. Even if they developer realizes this he still doesn't want to put the options out of his program because the whole spirit of the project is to create 'freedom' for the end user and lock everything down and be patronizing like the property alternative.
One point regarding Jammie Thomas. She actually had 2500 illegally obtained tracks on her PC, but was only prosecuted for a handful of them so the $K22.5 I often see bandied around isn't strictly accurate.
Yes it is! Nobody gets punished for things they aren't charged for. If she also happens to have killed an old man that she wasn't charged for that doesn't mean this fine is more just because it's also punishment for killing an old man.