Amazon and iTunes both allow DRM-laden *DOWNLOADED* movies. No, it's not "unlimited watch for a monthly price," but it's not DRM's fault. You're picking a completely different delivery mechanism.
FireWire is a keyed-connector. That doesn't prevent them from being plugged in backward. As I have done on more than one occasion where the socket was "loose", allowing the keying to not work, allowing the plug to be plugged in backward.
Which promptly puts up to 45 Watts of power into the data pins.
Which tends to fry the device.
Cables that can't be plugged in wrong because there IS NO "wrong" are best - just plug it in. Don't worry about how you're plugging it in, if it seems like it will fit, it's good.
As others have said, the walled gardens are *EXTREMELY* safe. iOS App Store and Google Play are both *VERY* safe.
Jailbroken iPhones are targets, but most people concerned with open platforms are on Android - and sadly Google has gotten people used to "going off-reservation" for some apps. (Is Kindle Market available to install direct from Google Play yet? Or do you still need to root and side-load?)
Symbian is effectively dead (the former leader of malware,) and Palm is all but buried at this point. Not sure about CrackBerry's ecosystem. Microsoft's is basically as safe as Apple's.
That leaves Android as the only reasonable target for malware. Sort of like how in the '80s, Macintosh was the primary target for viruses, as it was the most likely to be networked - then as Windows got internet-connected, it became the prime target.
I think you need to research how government-mandated insurance works... The government doesn't make a dime off the insurance companies. And socializing would mean the exact OPPOSITE of what you claim - socializing would make the GOVERNMENT own the liabilities, and the PEOPLE own the profits.
Note: I'm not saying that socialism is good - mostly because "pure" socialism has never happened. Nor has "pure" communism. Every country that claimed to be communist ended up as a dictatorship under the veneer of communism. Pure socialism and pure communism are always doomed to fail because people are inherently greedy - corrupting the systems.
Gene Roddenberry's original Star Trek is as close to "pure communism" that has ever been portrayed. And like in Star Trek: we couldn't handle that system at present. (I don't think we ever will.)
Go ahead and play politics - but if your mission is "...to empower a global volunteer community to collect and develop the world's knowledge and to make it available to everyone for free, for any purpose." then to me "make it available to everyone" is primary take away.
"Make available to everyone" means *MAKE AVAILABLE*. They're not the Free Software Foundation. They're not GNU, they're not even Creative Commons. Their mission is to make the information available to as many people as possible. To me, this means that supporting closed FORMATS for open INFORMATION gets to the maximum number of people.
They also specifically call out that they are about "free content" - notably SEPARATING it from "open content". The part of the content they care about is the freedom of the CONTENT itself. Public Domain, CC-licensed, etc. The mission of Wikimedia doesn't mention supporting OPEN content as a priority. And that is as it should be!
Yes - it's called "most people don't care what their computer or mobile phone runs - they just want things to work when they click/tap them."
When a kid in middle school, working on a Windows XP computer that the district can't afford to replace, and can barely afford to (under)pay an IT staff to maintain, accesses Wikipedia to do research for a report, and can't view the video because IE doesn't support Ogg, that kid gives up on Wikipedia.
When a grandma, working on her iPhone, tries to watch a short video about a topic she's interested in, and can't, she gives up on Wikipedia.
You're absolutely right - it is wrong. And Wikimedia stubbornly sticking to "free only!" doesn't fix it. Even a giant "YOU NEED AN OPEN PLATFORM TO VIEW THIS - CLICK HERE TO FIND OUT MORE!" when you try to view a video will only scare people away, not get them to move to open platforms.
If the kerfuffle over this has one positive outcome - it will be the insufferable, ridiculously self-righteous Wikimedia users leaving en masse and making Wikimedia a much nicer place to contribute again...
You're right, the US Code of Federal Regulations (CFRs,) only affect the USA, and had no impact on the ozone layer (well, except the one banning CFCs, see below.)
Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs,) on the other hand, have had a scientifically-demonstrated effect on the ozone layer, and have been banned essentially world-wide since 1994.
Yup, I've used similar on my phone (and before that, my Palm device,) to control my HTPC for a decade now.
While it's nice to have something truly built-in on both sides, rather than my current solution, a kb/mouse VNC client on the phone and a VNC server on the HTPC, it's still rather unnecessary to make a big deal.
Not to mention that it's really only the iWork name that is going away.
The same basic functionality will continue, only branded as iCloud, and presumably new versions of the iWork apps are about to come out that work with the new iCloud implementation.
Now every time they turn email notifications back on that I don't want, it won't go to one of the email addresses I ever check... (It was already linked to my 'spam attractor' email that I only check once a week.)
There is a bento place nearby that serves both Buffalo (Bison, dammit! But they call it Buffalo,) and Elk. The Elk is *VERY* hit-and-miss. Even the best I've had, I didn't like.
And, no offense to my wife, but she sucks at preparing meat dishes - and while I can do a decent job on meat dishes, I have tried once (my grandfather was an avid hunter-for-food, and gave me a frozen chunk,) and did a horrible job on Elk. Even my grandmother's preparation was "iffy".
But there are a few other meat types that I just don't like the taste of, that others love (turkey, for example.) So it's probably a combination of iffy preparation and just plain dislike.
Yeah, I'm not big on hunting - largely because I think hunting for "sport" is stupid, if I hunt, I'll hunt because I want to eat what I caught. Considering I have yet to find a place to hunt Angus Beef Stock, and Elk tastes like crap, I won't be hunting anytime soon.
But *THIS* is interesting. I enjoy target shooting, and this would be an activity the difficulty of hunting, without worrying about having to haul/clean/eat something I have no interest in eating.
I am on the "interview" team at work (interviewing candidates,) and I usually try to search for each applicant on LinkedIn, etc. I have noticed that when job titles differ from resume to LinkedIn, they are almost uniformly less-inflated on LinkedIn. (One applicant's resume read as almost completely different than their LinkedIn history - it even took effort to realize that the LinkedIn profile showed the contract agency, with the client company in the small print, while the resume showed only the client company, in nearly every job.)
You can pay $650 for an iPhone 4S unlocked and contract-free, then pay AT&T or T-Mobile 10 cents a minute for voice (or do one of the fixed number of minutes plans for slightly cheaper, even up to unlimited minutes,) without adding a data plan. ($375 for an iPhone 3GS, $650 for Droid Razr Maxx, etc...)
Corporate tax rate of 25%? Bull. I *NEVER* paid anywhere *NEAR* 25% in corporate taxes. I was closer to 5%. And had I been willing to pay an accountant more, I could have dropped that to my state minimum $150 every year, guaranteed. (But my business was small enough that I would have lost money paying an accountant to do the work to drop from 5% to $150.)
That only pans out if corporations don't take advantage of tax loopholes to pay lower rates. Which they almost always do. See GE, etc, some of which pay ZERO in taxes, and get refunds!
Screw the 1%, he's going to be the 1.
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Holy crap. His Income Tax payment will be double the entire budget of the Small Business Administration........
...as long as it is taxed upon "realization" at the same rate it otherwise would have been. I'm sorry, but this 15% capital gains vs. 30% (when including social security & Medicare) payroll is just insane. Bump capital gains to equal payroll, including taking cuts for social security and Medicare.
Wow. I never even got around to playing Fourth Edition... (Our gaming group was just finishing a 3.5E campaign when 4E came out - but we've played non-D&D since, and just haven't gotten back around to D&D yet.)
Is this a hard-and-firm limit? The article implies that 16 is a hard limit. 16 or fewer clues GUARANTEES multiple possible solutions, and 17 or greater GUARANTEES only one possible solution.
Yet other commenters here show that puzzles with far more than 17 clues can have multiple possible solutions. So does this mean 16 is a hard "low" limit? That there is not one single 16-clue puzzle possible that only has one possible solution?
No, but their butt is on the line then, if you retain that lawyer and have him/her represent you if tried. The lawyer can be sanctioned for giving you bad advice.
Basically, the only interpretation of the law that *REALLY* matters is the interpretation by the judge that is trying you for violating said law. What the actual letter of the law is, what a lawyers says, what the district attorney says, what a random judge says ahead of time - none of it really matters.
If the police decide to arrest you, and the district attorney decides to prosecute you, all that matters is the judge that your case is assigned to.
Yes, I have person experience with a judge who ruled in a manner that is obviously out of the bounds of a reasonable reading of state law. In my case, thankfully, it was a civil action, not a criminal action, so I was only out money in the end. (And appealing would have cost more than I was out already.)
Find your state government's online law listings. Usually it's in a state's Secretary of State or legislative web sites. Something as simple as searching for your state's name plus "laws" may be sufficient.
And, yes, Wikipedia. There is even an article on the basics of Stop and identify statutes that lists various states laws.
But remember, being difficult with the police WILL cause tension in the encounter. If they have *ANY* reason to bring you in, if you play difficult, they *WILL* bring you in. Be prepared for that if you decide to play hardball. If a police officer stops you on the street and says something like "there was just a crime nearby, I need some identification to prove you're not the criminal - and I'd like to take a look at your cell phone call history," and you do the steps I said before, he/she may very well haul you in and give you a miserable couple days. See the case of Ikenna Njoku for more on that...
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Amazon and iTunes both allow DRM-laden *DOWNLOADED* movies. No, it's not "unlimited watch for a monthly price," but it's not DRM's fault. You're picking a completely different delivery mechanism.
FireWire is a keyed-connector. That doesn't prevent them from being plugged in backward. As I have done on more than one occasion where the socket was "loose", allowing the keying to not work, allowing the plug to be plugged in backward.
Which promptly puts up to 45 Watts of power into the data pins.
Which tends to fry the device.
Cables that can't be plugged in wrong because there IS NO "wrong" are best - just plug it in. Don't worry about how you're plugging it in, if it seems like it will fit, it's good.
As others have said, the walled gardens are *EXTREMELY* safe. iOS App Store and Google Play are both *VERY* safe.
Jailbroken iPhones are targets, but most people concerned with open platforms are on Android - and sadly Google has gotten people used to "going off-reservation" for some apps. (Is Kindle Market available to install direct from Google Play yet? Or do you still need to root and side-load?)
Symbian is effectively dead (the former leader of malware,) and Palm is all but buried at this point. Not sure about CrackBerry's ecosystem. Microsoft's is basically as safe as Apple's.
That leaves Android as the only reasonable target for malware. Sort of like how in the '80s, Macintosh was the primary target for viruses, as it was the most likely to be networked - then as Windows got internet-connected, it became the prime target.
I think you need to research how government-mandated insurance works... The government doesn't make a dime off the insurance companies. And socializing would mean the exact OPPOSITE of what you claim - socializing would make the GOVERNMENT own the liabilities, and the PEOPLE own the profits.
Note: I'm not saying that socialism is good - mostly because "pure" socialism has never happened. Nor has "pure" communism. Every country that claimed to be communist ended up as a dictatorship under the veneer of communism. Pure socialism and pure communism are always doomed to fail because people are inherently greedy - corrupting the systems.
Gene Roddenberry's original Star Trek is as close to "pure communism" that has ever been portrayed. And like in Star Trek: we couldn't handle that system at present. (I don't think we ever will.)
This is news because it is someone giving free stuff to open source developers!
Solely as a thank you for being developers that helped them succeed.
Wow. Troll? No - truth.
Go ahead and play politics - but if your mission is "...to empower a global volunteer community to collect and develop the world's knowledge and to make it available to everyone for free, for any purpose." then to me "make it available to everyone" is primary take away.
"Make available to everyone" means *MAKE AVAILABLE*. They're not the Free Software Foundation. They're not GNU, they're not even Creative Commons. Their mission is to make the information available to as many people as possible. To me, this means that supporting closed FORMATS for open INFORMATION gets to the maximum number of people.
They also specifically call out that they are about "free content" - notably SEPARATING it from "open content". The part of the content they care about is the freedom of the CONTENT itself. Public Domain, CC-licensed, etc. The mission of Wikimedia doesn't mention supporting OPEN content as a priority. And that is as it should be!
Yes - it's called "most people don't care what their computer or mobile phone runs - they just want things to work when they click/tap them."
When a kid in middle school, working on a Windows XP computer that the district can't afford to replace, and can barely afford to (under)pay an IT staff to maintain, accesses Wikipedia to do research for a report, and can't view the video because IE doesn't support Ogg, that kid gives up on Wikipedia.
When a grandma, working on her iPhone, tries to watch a short video about a topic she's interested in, and can't, she gives up on Wikipedia.
You're absolutely right - it is wrong. And Wikimedia stubbornly sticking to "free only!" doesn't fix it. Even a giant "YOU NEED AN OPEN PLATFORM TO VIEW THIS - CLICK HERE TO FIND OUT MORE!" when you try to view a video will only scare people away, not get them to move to open platforms.
If the kerfuffle over this has one positive outcome - it will be the insufferable, ridiculously self-righteous Wikimedia users leaving en masse and making Wikimedia a much nicer place to contribute again...
Y'all are wusses. ROT-1053 or nothing.
You're right, the US Code of Federal Regulations (CFRs,) only affect the USA, and had no impact on the ozone layer (well, except the one banning CFCs, see below.)
Chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs,) on the other hand, have had a scientifically-demonstrated effect on the ozone layer, and have been banned essentially world-wide since 1994.
Since I'm an AE dropout (from Embry-Riddle, even,) it sounds perfect! :-P
Yup, I've used similar on my phone (and before that, my Palm device,) to control my HTPC for a decade now.
While it's nice to have something truly built-in on both sides, rather than my current solution, a kb/mouse VNC client on the phone and a VNC server on the HTPC, it's still rather unnecessary to make a big deal.
Not to mention that it's really only the iWork name that is going away.
The same basic functionality will continue, only branded as iCloud, and presumably new versions of the iWork apps are about to come out that work with the new iCloud implementation.
Now every time they turn email notifications back on that I don't want, it won't go to one of the email addresses I ever check... (It was already linked to my 'spam attractor' email that I only check once a week.)
There is a bento place nearby that serves both Buffalo (Bison, dammit! But they call it Buffalo,) and Elk. The Elk is *VERY* hit-and-miss. Even the best I've had, I didn't like.
And, no offense to my wife, but she sucks at preparing meat dishes - and while I can do a decent job on meat dishes, I have tried once (my grandfather was an avid hunter-for-food, and gave me a frozen chunk,) and did a horrible job on Elk. Even my grandmother's preparation was "iffy".
But there are a few other meat types that I just don't like the taste of, that others love (turkey, for example.) So it's probably a combination of iffy preparation and just plain dislike.
Yeah, I'm not big on hunting - largely because I think hunting for "sport" is stupid, if I hunt, I'll hunt because I want to eat what I caught. Considering I have yet to find a place to hunt Angus Beef Stock, and Elk tastes like crap, I won't be hunting anytime soon.
But *THIS* is interesting. I enjoy target shooting, and this would be an activity the difficulty of hunting, without worrying about having to haul/clean/eat something I have no interest in eating.
I am on the "interview" team at work (interviewing candidates,) and I usually try to search for each applicant on LinkedIn, etc. I have noticed that when job titles differ from resume to LinkedIn, they are almost uniformly less-inflated on LinkedIn. (One applicant's resume read as almost completely different than their LinkedIn history - it even took effort to realize that the LinkedIn profile showed the contract agency, with the client company in the small print, while the resume showed only the client company, in nearly every job.)
You can pay $650 for an iPhone 4S unlocked and contract-free, then pay AT&T or T-Mobile 10 cents a minute for voice (or do one of the fixed number of minutes plans for slightly cheaper, even up to unlimited minutes,) without adding a data plan. ($375 for an iPhone 3GS, $650 for Droid Razr Maxx, etc...)
Corporate tax rate of 25%? Bull. I *NEVER* paid anywhere *NEAR* 25% in corporate taxes. I was closer to 5%. And had I been willing to pay an accountant more, I could have dropped that to my state minimum $150 every year, guaranteed. (But my business was small enough that I would have lost money paying an accountant to do the work to drop from 5% to $150.)
That only pans out if corporations don't take advantage of tax loopholes to pay lower rates. Which they almost always do. See GE, etc, some of which pay ZERO in taxes, and get refunds!
Holy crap. His Income Tax payment will be double the entire budget of the Small Business Administration........
...as long as it is taxed upon "realization" at the same rate it otherwise would have been. I'm sorry, but this 15% capital gains vs. 30% (when including social security & Medicare) payroll is just insane. Bump capital gains to equal payroll, including taking cuts for social security and Medicare.
Wow. I never even got around to playing Fourth Edition... (Our gaming group was just finishing a 3.5E campaign when 4E came out - but we've played non-D&D since, and just haven't gotten back around to D&D yet.)
Is this a hard-and-firm limit? The article implies that 16 is a hard limit. 16 or fewer clues GUARANTEES multiple possible solutions, and 17 or greater GUARANTEES only one possible solution.
Yet other commenters here show that puzzles with far more than 17 clues can have multiple possible solutions. So does this mean 16 is a hard "low" limit? That there is not one single 16-clue puzzle possible that only has one possible solution?
No, but their butt is on the line then, if you retain that lawyer and have him/her represent you if tried. The lawyer can be sanctioned for giving you bad advice.
Basically, the only interpretation of the law that *REALLY* matters is the interpretation by the judge that is trying you for violating said law. What the actual letter of the law is, what a lawyers says, what the district attorney says, what a random judge says ahead of time - none of it really matters.
If the police decide to arrest you, and the district attorney decides to prosecute you, all that matters is the judge that your case is assigned to.
Yes, I have person experience with a judge who ruled in a manner that is obviously out of the bounds of a reasonable reading of state law. In my case, thankfully, it was a civil action, not a criminal action, so I was only out money in the end. (And appealing would have cost more than I was out already.)
Find your state government's online law listings. Usually it's in a state's Secretary of State or legislative web sites. Something as simple as searching for your state's name plus "laws" may be sufficient.
And, yes, Wikipedia. There is even an article on the basics of Stop and identify statutes that lists various states laws.
But remember, being difficult with the police WILL cause tension in the encounter. If they have *ANY* reason to bring you in, if you play difficult, they *WILL* bring you in. Be prepared for that if you decide to play hardball. If a police officer stops you on the street and says something like "there was just a crime nearby, I need some identification to prove you're not the criminal - and I'd like to take a look at your cell phone call history," and you do the steps I said before, he/she may very well haul you in and give you a miserable couple days. See the case of Ikenna Njoku for more on that...