Actually, the First Amendment specifically states that it applies only to the Congress, and by extension the United States Government:
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the government for a redress of grievances.
It's more significant than that. It is already possible, under the current Danish Copyright Act, for the copyright holders' organisation (Copydan A/S) to impose fees on digital media. This bill will also extend these fees to equipment that can record on digital media.
But the bill will also allow individuals to copy anything, to give these copies to their friends, and to make copies of copies.
Here in Denmark you can usually get installation free and pay around $60/month for 512/512, and for 2048/512 you pay $125 installation and $125/month.
But that's only if you don't use the monopoly TeleDanmark. The problem is that TeleDanmark decides who can and cannot be allowed to use one of the alternative carriers, because they determine whether there is or is not any available raw copper. This decision is often not technical but purely random - there might be six or even pairs of copper, but they won't let you use it. So the decision of whether you can get cheap ADSL is based on pure luck.
It works fine, though. I can usually download at around 90% of rated speed. Latency is low, and it includes a Cisco 639 router.
In many countries, such as Denmark where I live, you can pay practically all your bills electronically. The banks collectively run a payment service that is a lot like the British Direct Debit. The creditor gives information to the bank each month on how much is to be charged, and you also get a paper statement so you can still stop payments. The statement doubles as a receipt. In most banks it is virtually free (perhaps 10 cents or so per bill).
Yes you can! Yahoo! provides a free version of IntelliSync and StarSync that can be used to synchronize Outlook, various PDAs, and other stuff with Yahoo.
This is a bit amusing. I live in Denmark, where all foreign-language movies are subtitled. In fact, if they speak any language but Danish, it's subtitled.
This is why it is so funny to watch German television, where everything is dubbed. You should really hear James Bond speak German.;)
And CNN! Ha ha ha. They actually dub non-English interviews. Stupid.
I bought some MP3 cd's in China once, and they all had an AUTORUN.INI file which started WinAmp (included and extracted on the CD) with the default playlist. Pretty smart for Windows lusers.
Actually, only part of the MAC address is self-assigned. The first two (or is it four?) bytes are assigned by IEEE to each vendor. The rest is assigned by the vendor for each card.
Nope, MP3 is non-deterministic. Two different encoders using the same sampling rate and bitrate will output different MP3 files.
PNG is also non-deterministic. GIF, on the other hand, is deterministic, which means that two different programs saving the same image in GIF will usually output almost exactly the file.
I rarely use minus in queries, because I'm afraid that they might filter out useful pages. Consider a page that contains a lot of useful information about OpenSSH, but also the sentence "This isn't rpmfind" (I know this is a bad example), or even an informative link to rpmfind. That page would be rejected.
Hmm... Isn't this what private peering agreements are all about? The only difference is, with traditional private peering, the IPP and the ISP share the cost because both have an equal interest in the peering. e@h doesn't host that many servers, but has a lot of high-bandwidth users that IPPs such as Akamai want direct access to.
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Just one more thing, before the trolls kick in. Yes, of course he subscribes to Nature, but imagine how long it takes to get through customs in China.
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He owns around 65% of the company.
Some old documents on what ArsDigita used to be like are available here and here.
These are actually nice people. They once wasted $1000 on sending me to boot camp.
Wait. With Microsoft, people pay for product and support. With Red Hat, they only pay for support.
Hehe. In Europe, companies can even deduct bribe expenses from taxes.
Try finding an old Multia. They have 166 MHz Alpha processors and generally cost around $100 on eBay.
It's more significant than that. It is already possible, under the current Danish Copyright Act, for the copyright holders' organisation (Copydan A/S) to impose fees on digital media. This bill will also extend these fees to equipment that can record on digital media. But the bill will also allow individuals to copy anything, to give these copies to their friends, and to make copies of copies.
But that's only if you don't use the monopoly TeleDanmark. The problem is that TeleDanmark decides who can and cannot be allowed to use one of the alternative carriers, because they determine whether there is or is not any available raw copper. This decision is often not technical but purely random - there might be six or even pairs of copper, but they won't let you use it. So the decision of whether you can get cheap ADSL is based on pure luck.
It works fine, though. I can usually download at around 90% of rated speed. Latency is low, and it includes a Cisco 639 router.
In many countries, such as Denmark where I live, you can pay practically all your bills electronically. The banks collectively run a payment service that is a lot like the British Direct Debit. The creditor gives information to the bank each month on how much is to be charged, and you also get a paper statement so you can still stop payments. The statement doubles as a receipt. In most banks it is virtually free (perhaps 10 cents or so per bill).
Yes you can! Yahoo! provides a free version of IntelliSync and StarSync that can be used to synchronize Outlook, various PDAs, and other stuff with Yahoo.
This is why it is so funny to watch German television, where everything is dubbed. You should really hear James Bond speak German.
And CNN! Ha ha ha. They actually dub non-English interviews. Stupid.
I bought some MP3 cd's in China once, and they all had an AUTORUN.INI file which started WinAmp (included and extracted on the CD) with the default playlist. Pretty smart for Windows lusers.
Actually, only part of the MAC address is self-assigned. The first two (or is it four?) bytes are assigned by IEEE to each vendor. The rest is assigned by the vendor for each card.
Nope, MP3 is non-deterministic. Two different encoders using the same sampling rate and bitrate will output different MP3 files.
PNG is also non-deterministic. GIF, on the other hand, is deterministic, which means that two different programs saving the same image in GIF will usually output almost exactly the file.
No, the GPL is not covered by the GPL. It is 100% controlled by the FSF (notice the copyright at the top).
But I'm sure that the FSF is willing to take suggestions.
Actually, Dan Bernstein, the author of qmail, is already ready with QMTP (Quick Mail Transfer Protocol), a replacement for SMTP.
I rarely use minus in queries, because I'm afraid that they might filter out useful pages. Consider a page that contains a lot of useful information about OpenSSH, but also the sentence "This isn't rpmfind" (I know this is a bad example), or even an informative link to rpmfind. That page would be rejected.
And so have Mandrake!
Hmm... Isn't this what private peering agreements are all about? The only difference is, with traditional private peering, the IPP and the ISP share the cost because both have an equal interest in the peering. e@h doesn't host that many servers, but has a lot of high-bandwidth users that IPPs such as Akamai want direct access to.
Just one more thing, before the trolls kick in. Yes, of course he subscribes to Nature, but imagine how long it takes to get through customs in China.
My dad, who works in Beijing, China, is a geneticist. So when the news broke that human chromosome 21 had been mapped, I sent him a link to the BBC News article on the event. He replied that he couldn't read the article in China, and asked me to email him the text. Same thing happened with the chromosome 21 article published in Nature . Had to email him the PDF.
Actually, Berkeley DB does support client/server. Take a look at Berkeley DB Transactional Data Store.
Simple. The ArsDigita people read Slashdot too - so they took the stuff down.
I said it was internal because there are no links to it from the ArsDigita website. You have to know the URL.