Please explain to me, and the rest of the audience, why the FCC, an American organization full of Bu$h appointees, should have any say whatsoever in the regulation of the internet, an international network that long ago left the sponsorship of the U$ Government?
That idea is stupid. Please stop suggesting it!
No the GP post is correct. The FCC should get full say over what American telecom companies do.
If you either already have, or are not interested in, any of the benefits that would give your country, then great. Otherwise your own government will need to deal with your own countries companies.
In the same way as your idea to give FCC control over other countries telecom is bad, we also do not want your countries government dictating what American companies can and can't do, so it is a fair deal.
Oh by the way, if you want to bash a countries government, you should at least be aware of that government. We get a new president every 8 years (sometimes every 4), and you are a good year out of date on the most basic piece of information above 'the country exists'
So the correct answer to your question is: "HA, that was a lame troll. You don't even know who bush or our president is!"
Seems to me a lot of the tier-1 providers stopped providing "internet" transit long ago, and now only provide transit to their customers (be it directly connected customers as per usual, or other web host services and data centers that are not real customers but are charged for the privileged. Go go gadget net neutrality!)
Once they decided for me and my ISP what traffic is allowed to reach me and what isn't, they stopped being tier-1 providers by any definition the networking industry uses.
It's no wonder customer carrying ISPs, and content providing hosts alike, are finding ways around this.
The only one downside to the lack of free market, is that even if most ISPs and providers peer directly and bypass the old tier-1 providers for most traffic, the government will assure the markets voice is not heard and keep those companies in business. Most of them are phone companies after all, and we already have provisions in law to pay phone companies that fail.
For all the idiots that think common carer status exists, that is one thing I wish really did exist for internet providers. Being smacked down with unreasonable penalties is the only way to get a corporation to abide by those laws and not screw over customers in the name of profits.
That didn't come across as wrapped in that way at first, but like one of those illusions that pops out when someone traces the image with a finger, I can't believe myself for not seeing it.
So, we were both making the same point. I was just facing the wrong direction while making it or something;P
is there a particular reason this was a reply to my comment?
Yes. There are other people on this site that might actually think the things you said were true.
Perhaps it is just rage for all the times I get blamed for things I don't do, but I can relate to this poor woman, even if I've never been falsely blamed for things out of my control on the sheer scale she has and is.
Many people blame others for things completely out of their control. and not even possible to be stopped by them if they wanted to. We call them bigots and racists and such usually. I don't believe you are a bigot, but you do have some misinformation.
I am sorry it came across as angry, as unfortunately that is because I am angry, just not at you personally.
Here, this might help show some ratio. The bold parts are not true:
The way you normally hear this story is all about the labels. Some lady didn't know that coffee is hot[1], and she sued McDonald's for not putting a little "caution: hot!" label on it.[2] Now they do, and that solves that. But the fact that it was really about the coffee being too hot, and the solution involved not just a label, but an actual reduction in temperature[3] makes this seem a lot more reasonable.
(Oh, and I excluded your one line of opinion from the end.)
[1] false. she knew it was hot. in fact she ordered it hot. unfortunately for her, it came at a temperature so far above hot that 'hot' would have been down right chilly compared to it. We call it 'boiling', of which 'hot' is just a small subset of.
[2] also false. she sued because the boiling water she got instead of hot water, melted her skin, flesh, tissue, and muscles off of her body. it had nothing to do with labeling, that too was all on the judge for demanding.
[3] false, not of that happening, but that it was her solution. Warning labels, nor reduction in temperature, did not in any way aid her in reaching her goal or solution which was to have McDonalds pay the hospital bill for handing her a cup of boiling water instead of the hot coffee she ordered.
There was no issues in the court case about labels.
She had boiling coffee handed to her in a cup with no lid. People want their coffee hot, not beyond boiling.
She asked for reembursement for her medical bills, something like $160k, with zero dollars left over for her to keep (IE the money was to go straight from mcdonalds to the hospital billing department, not through her hands)
McDonalds was being a dick about everything, and as punishment the JUDGE said they now must pay millions to her. I'm sure she wasn't going to complain (I wouldn't) but its not like she ASKED for millions, let alone demanded or sued for it.
That poor lady keeps getting blamed for doing things she never once did... a judge did.
If you have an issue with a judge hearing the lady ask for medical bill payment, and the judge said "Oh no, you get your medical bills, plus a few million in profits from it", that is the judges fault. Go blame him.
Or maybe you went to cinema straight from school or work where you need your laptop with no chance to deposit it somewhere, or maybe you live somewhere out of the city and the next cinema is an hour of travel away so you take your laptop with you to do some work in the train, or...
Moral of the story. That is what you get for trying to pay for your entertainment.
Now people will learn their lesson and pirate it instead. Cheaper, higher quality entertainment, no people harassing you (be it other movie goers or those that are employed to show you a movie), drinks and food of a much higher quality and priced roughly 10x cheaper, and you can base it all around your own schedule.
For some reason I would have assumed these businesses would prefer to, you know, do business with you... But clearly that is not the message they are giving.
'CT technicians are trained to monitor dose levels, and some hospitals conduct checks before every scan..."There are other places where the techs might be operating more as button-pushers," said Dr. Geoffrey Rubin, a professor of radiology at Stanford University. "The user becomes a little blind to these numbers."'
So I wonder if those other-place techs are in jail for lying about their qualifications and endangering lives, after knowingly putting themselves in a position that could endanger lives if not done correctly, even after being 'trained' to know better.
If not, I want the lawyer they had to be able to claim "I was just pushing buttons, I didn't know I had to look at the display" while I am running down people I dislike in my car.
Theres still a few problems though. For one, mouse is an incredibly precise input device
Where in the article, or anywhere else for that matter, is it stated one must unplug the mouse from the computer before the touch interface turns on?
For a geek news site, that is a really non-intelligent assumption to make, one that has been proven repeatedly to not be true. With every new input device out there, they run just fine with my mouse also plugged in.
Its a device with a 1 time pad in rom (or similar). The 1 time pad could be easily read off of rom if you crack it open
At least on that point, they have planned for it already.
RSA fobs hold their secret key in RAM, not rom. The battery is held on by the plastic case and not fastened to it in Any way.
If you pop open the case, the battery comes off the contacts and you lose the key.
Additionally, the ram, firmware, and CPU (as well as LCD driver) are all the same single chip. You really do need an electron microscope to read them. I have attempted to run one through our xray machine at work as well, and the chips die is such a small nm length that you can't see anything of use anymore than photographs of any chips silicon are.
That is an image of a chip from 20 years ago. Shrink the width of the traces by a factor of 4x (at least) and now imagine how useful that same resolution image is. Most people don't even have access to an xray machine, let alone a device with the needed resolution.
Even then, all you get is firmware (which RSA is a publicly known formula, so you can get that much easier) The private key being in RAM will make it extremely hard to read out with only physical access to the fob.
This is also why the fobs have an expiration date on the back. The battery can not be replaced, by design.
And asking me for my Mother's maiden name is really that much better?
Of course not. Going from one factor authentication, to one factor authentication twice, is the same thing. There is no difference between asking for a password and another password, than simply doubling the minimum password length of the first.
Sorry, that's incorrect, name-based virtual hosts pose no problem to this.
The webserver determines which virtual host is being requested by examining the Host: field in the http header. This happens well after the tcp session has been established, and that happens after the ip address has been determined.
Yes, exactly.
So when your bookmark is http://10.1.2.3/ then the browser will connect to that IP, and send Host: 10.1.2.3
No where in that transaction does it realize 10.1.2.3 should be www.example.com
With the setup I suggested, the bookmark would have BOTH fields. www.example.com and a seperate 10.1.2.3
If the IP is given, it will not resolve www.example.com, but connect directly to 10.1.2.3 and send Host: www.example.com instead of the current method of sending Host: 10.1.2.3
When the browser looks for domain.example, it'll ask whatever resolver it uses to find an ip address to use. Once it has that ip address, it connects to it, and only then tells the webserver which host it wants.
And as I said, with nothing but an IP in a bookmark, that part will never happen.
There is nothing to prevent the browser from using it's own cached version of the ip address and sucessfully making a connection.
Correct. There is nothing preventing it, it is only that none of them do that. My suggestion (actually the GP suggestion) is that the browsers SHOULD do that.
The page you link to states flatly that the hardware was sponsored and provided by OpenMoko. Wikipedia provides the content.
In addition, wikipedia is licensed in such a way that you are allowed to copy it. The only license I am aware of that requires one to open the source to changes made to a derived work is the GPL. The GPL has nothing to do with wikipedia. I believe their license mainly just requires you to provide credit to the wikipedia foundation, and unless it is proven otherwise, I'd say it's a safe assumption this device meets that criteria.
So the hardware is not derived from wikipedia, nor is wikipedia involved in building the hardware.
If you want to know about any license related issues to the hardware (probably patents for real hardware, copyright would only cover software on it such as firmware and OS) you will need to go talk to the openmoko people who built the device.
I would assume they are running the openmoko OS on it, which is an open source license. I didn't notice anywhere an OS stated, but as the company making the hardware has an OS already, it just seems logical to assume they would use that.
You will need to ask them about firmware licensing, as there is no safe assumption to make there. I would like to believe they will use an open firmware package, like their OS is open. But I didn't see it stated one way or the other.
Generally with hardware makers, any license fees for patents they use that belong to 3rd party companies, are paid by the maker. OpenMoko will pay all the licenses involved with any technology they use that needs it. One assumes those fees are part of the $99 price. That or they are eating it as a loss (Which would be stupid, and I hope they aren't doing that)
The main reason one can't simply record host/ip pairs right now, is due to named-based virtual web servers. Even if you put in the IP manually, without sending the correct domain in the http request, you won't get the proper page.
Having the IP as a separate field in the bookmarks would let the browser connect to any IP you put there (be it cached, or manually changed when a server is renumbered), but it would still have the needed data to send in the http request to make the webserver work properly./me smells a plugin request!
Yes, but they are badly written. Copyright law is far too long, and it's way too easy to infringe accidentally.
You can't claim the laws are badly written. I mean, they are serving -exactly- the goal desired by the people who wrote those laws.
Ok, not "exactly" since fair use still exists, as well as the first sale doctrine, and the right to make backups. But as you can already see, just give them time, and those will be gone too.
But for the most part, copyright laws are functioning exactly as intended by those who made them.
The AC presents an interesting philosophical issue here. "Do the "really" smart people "really" do better by "abiding by the rules""?
I think some recent science in the areas of biology and sociology would suggest "maybe not".
Have all of you always done better by "abiding by the rules"?
Not to sound like I am making a Clinton joke, but define "better".
For certain goals, cheating might be the best way to reach them. For other goals however, avoiding cheating might be advantageous, and in some cases the only method for reaching your goals.
It depends what you are trying to do.
Want a high score or lots of gold? Next to impossible to track such a thing in game as cheating? Don't care about game balance? In that case, I would say cheating would be the best option for those goals.
Doing something where the odds of getting caught are high, and the consequences are a perm account ban and/or loss of money, then cheating sounds like a poor option to choose (Unless your goal is to get banned, in which case it sounds like keeping your $20 or whatever and just not signing up in the first place would be better.)
It's like lying. There are some people that hate doing it. However when placed in a situation where any answer to a question but one specific answer they are looking for results in very negative results... Then it is obvious the truth is not cared about in that situation by anyone but you, and you are being forced into answering for the purpose of "Choosing the desired outcome" instead of "being honest"
Like the cop asking if you know how fast you were going;} Wrong answers include "No", "Yes, just a little fast", and obviously "No officer, at those kinds of speeds, you have to keep your eyes on the road!" The ONLY answer to not instantly get a fine imposed and higher insurance rates is "Yes officer, I was doing [speed limit minus 1-5mph] according to my speedometer."
Except that superconducting power transmission lines are likely to be buried along with their cooling systems. There are a couple of places on Earth where overhead superconducting power lines might work year round, but there's really not much call for a power grid in Antarctica.
Actually not only is that a good idea, but Antarctica could definitely use some long haul power transmission lines. While I don't think the usual 'grid' method would be worth while (at least financially) a ring or star where each major end point had at least 2 and possibly 3 legs out, for some basic redundancy.
The weather in Vostok for example, where there is a research compound for sure (It is the only one I personally keep tabs on, but for all I know there is more than one) and such places, and their slightly more remote sensor grids could benefit from such a power supply.
One of the colder days just this week is at -90 F (-68 C) with a -126 F (89 C) wind chill factor. In the March-April months I've seen as low as -120 F (-84 C) with -160 F (-107 C) wind chills.
I'm not sure what the peak temperatures in the summer months are, but assuming the range isn't too wild, that could simplify the cooling systems needed just by taking advantage of the environment. Of course the reverse is also true. A wide range of temperatures between highs and lows would most likely complicate the cooling systems to be able to maintain a steady cold environment for the super conducting material.
Do whatever is best for you, because who cares about everyone else. In the end we all die anyway, so there's no reason I shouldn't do what's best for me to enjoy it while I can.
Because, by similar logic, some people feel that in the end everyone will die anyway, but until that end gets here, we all have to live together. And pissing off everyone around you will only hinder any goals you have to enjoy it while you can, while at the same time helping others can result in returns from those other people that are far far more enjoyable than what one can do alone.
To each their own, but not everyone is made happy or miserable by the same things.
Hey, mainstream media does it all the time! If it's not acceptable, why do they get to do it?
Because them doing it or not has no reflection on if it is acceptable. It's not acceptable despite the media doing it. It would be equally not acceptable if the media did not do it.
The real question is, why do YOU feel it is acceptable, and that 'the media does it' is a legit excuse for you?
Java is a perfectly good language but it seems that there are a group of Slashdotters that automatically dismiss anything written in Java. Generally their views seem to be based on false rumour put about when Java first got off the ground.
In all fairness, when Java first got off the ground, those rumors weren't false!
But yes, most all of the issues with speed and JiTC have not been problems for some time now, and the compatibility issue, while still exists, has been reduced to "Works with Suns JVM" or "Works with MS JVM" etc, and are now just 'annoying' implementation details instead of actual 'problems'.
STOP ADVERTISING TO ME WHEN I'VE ALREADY PAID FOR YOUR PRODUCT, ASSHOLE.
I take it you don't watch basic cable TV or basic satellite TV. You pay for it, but it still has ads.
I would venture a guess that he would scream the same thing at the cable company as well;}
I know I did when I still watched TV. I too canceled my cable TV service. If I am to be treated like I am free loading, then I damn sure going to be getting it for free or not at all.
If the game/show/song/thing costs so much more to make than they expect to get back in sales, someone has done something very very wrong.
If your game/show/song/thing sucks so very badly that you can't price it at AT LEAST what it cost to make, then perhaps your game/show/song/thing shouldn't exist after all, and the world will very likely be a better place for it.
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Please explain to me, and the rest of the audience, why the FCC, an American organization full of Bu$h appointees, should have any say whatsoever in the regulation of the internet, an international network that long ago left the sponsorship of the U$ Government?
That idea is stupid. Please stop suggesting it!
No the GP post is correct. The FCC should get full say over what American telecom companies do.
If you either already have, or are not interested in, any of the benefits that would give your country, then great. Otherwise your own government will need to deal with your own countries companies.
In the same way as your idea to give FCC control over other countries telecom is bad, we also do not want your countries government dictating what American companies can and can't do, so it is a fair deal.
Oh by the way, if you want to bash a countries government, you should at least be aware of that government.
We get a new president every 8 years (sometimes every 4), and you are a good year out of date on the most basic piece of information above 'the country exists'
So the correct answer to your question is: "HA, that was a lame troll. You don't even know who bush or our president is!"
Seems to me a lot of the tier-1 providers stopped providing "internet" transit long ago, and now only provide transit to their customers (be it directly connected customers as per usual, or other web host services and data centers that are not real customers but are charged for the privileged. Go go gadget net neutrality!)
Once they decided for me and my ISP what traffic is allowed to reach me and what isn't, they stopped being tier-1 providers by any definition the networking industry uses.
It's no wonder customer carrying ISPs, and content providing hosts alike, are finding ways around this.
The only one downside to the lack of free market, is that even if most ISPs and providers peer directly and bypass the old tier-1 providers for most traffic, the government will assure the markets voice is not heard and keep those companies in business. Most of them are phone companies after all, and we already have provisions in law to pay phone companies that fail.
For all the idiots that think common carer status exists, that is one thing I wish really did exist for internet providers. Being smacked down with unreasonable penalties is the only way to get a corporation to abide by those laws and not screw over customers in the name of profits.
Did I miss the headline where Google bought back all outstanding shares and converted itself into a non-profit corporation?
Meh, it was probably in the article linked in the summary which none of us read ;}
I miss the days when society was sensible. I'm not that old but
That's funny, I was just going to reply to say I am 500 years old and don't remember those days at all :P
Ok, now it makes sense. And now I feel stupid.
That didn't come across as wrapped in that way at first, but like one of those illusions that pops out when someone traces the image with a finger, I can't believe myself for not seeing it.
So, we were both making the same point. I was just facing the wrong direction while making it or something ;P
My apologies for the pointless rant.
is there a particular reason this was a reply to my comment?
Yes. There are other people on this site that might actually think the things you said were true.
Perhaps it is just rage for all the times I get blamed for things I don't do, but I can relate to this poor woman, even if I've never been falsely blamed for things out of my control on the sheer scale she has and is.
Many people blame others for things completely out of their control. and not even possible to be stopped by them if they wanted to. We call them bigots and racists and such usually. I don't believe you are a bigot, but you do have some misinformation.
I am sorry it came across as angry, as unfortunately that is because I am angry, just not at you personally.
Here, this might help show some ratio. The bold parts are not true:
The way you normally hear this story is all about the labels. Some lady didn't know that coffee is hot[1], and she sued McDonald's for not putting a little "caution: hot!" label on it.[2] Now they do, and that solves that. But the fact that it was really about the coffee being too hot, and the solution involved not just a label, but an actual reduction in temperature[3] makes this seem a lot more reasonable.
(Oh, and I excluded your one line of opinion from the end.)
[1] false. she knew it was hot. in fact she ordered it hot. unfortunately for her, it came at a temperature so far above hot that 'hot' would have been down right chilly compared to it. We call it 'boiling', of which 'hot' is just a small subset of.
[2] also false. she sued because the boiling water she got instead of hot water, melted her skin, flesh, tissue, and muscles off of her body. it had nothing to do with labeling, that too was all on the judge for demanding.
[3] false, not of that happening, but that it was her solution. Warning labels, nor reduction in temperature, did not in any way aid her in reaching her goal or solution which was to have McDonalds pay the hospital bill for handing her a cup of boiling water instead of the hot coffee she ordered.
There was no issues in the court case about labels.
She had boiling coffee handed to her in a cup with no lid. People want their coffee hot, not beyond boiling.
She asked for reembursement for her medical bills, something like $160k, with zero dollars left over for her to keep (IE the money was to go straight from mcdonalds to the hospital billing department, not through her hands)
McDonalds was being a dick about everything, and as punishment the JUDGE said they now must pay millions to her.
I'm sure she wasn't going to complain (I wouldn't) but its not like she ASKED for millions, let alone demanded or sued for it.
That poor lady keeps getting blamed for doing things she never once did... a judge did.
If you have an issue with a judge hearing the lady ask for medical bill payment, and the judge said "Oh no, you get your medical bills, plus a few million in profits from it", that is the judges fault. Go blame him.
after hearing about the women who drop hot coffee on herself and sued McDonalds because they didnt warn *coffee* was *hot*
You heard wrong, that never happened.
Given the troll mod, I'm sure you don't care about 'facts' and little annoyances like that thou, so I won't bore you.
Or maybe you went to cinema straight from school or work where you need your laptop with no chance to deposit it somewhere, or maybe you live somewhere out of the city and the next cinema is an hour of travel away so you take your laptop with you to do some work in the train, or...
Moral of the story. That is what you get for trying to pay for your entertainment.
Now people will learn their lesson and pirate it instead. Cheaper, higher quality entertainment, no people harassing you (be it other movie goers or those that are employed to show you a movie), drinks and food of a much higher quality and priced roughly 10x cheaper, and you can base it all around your own schedule.
For some reason I would have assumed these businesses would prefer to, you know, do business with you... But clearly that is not the message they are giving.
'CT technicians are trained to monitor dose levels, and some hospitals conduct checks before every scan..."There are other places where the techs might be operating more as button-pushers," said Dr. Geoffrey Rubin, a professor of radiology at Stanford University. "The user becomes a little blind to these numbers."'
So I wonder if those other-place techs are in jail for lying about their qualifications and endangering lives, after knowingly putting themselves in a position that could endanger lives if not done correctly, even after being 'trained' to know better.
If not, I want the lawyer they had to be able to claim "I was just pushing buttons, I didn't know I had to look at the display" while I am running down people I dislike in my car.
Theres still a few problems though. For one, mouse is an incredibly precise input device
Where in the article, or anywhere else for that matter, is it stated one must unplug the mouse from the computer before the touch interface turns on?
For a geek news site, that is a really non-intelligent assumption to make, one that has been proven repeatedly to not be true. With every new input device out there, they run just fine with my mouse also plugged in.
Its a device with a 1 time pad in rom (or similar). The 1 time pad could be easily read off of rom if you crack it open
At least on that point, they have planned for it already.
RSA fobs hold their secret key in RAM, not rom.
The battery is held on by the plastic case and not fastened to it in Any way.
If you pop open the case, the battery comes off the contacts and you lose the key.
Additionally, the ram, firmware, and CPU (as well as LCD driver) are all the same single chip.
You really do need an electron microscope to read them. I have attempted to run one through our xray machine at work as well, and the chips die is such a small nm length that you can't see anything of use anymore than photographs of any chips silicon are.
http://www.svtii.com/images/IC_Chip2_SVTI.gif
That is an image of a chip from 20 years ago. Shrink the width of the traces by a factor of 4x (at least) and now imagine how useful that same resolution image is.
Most people don't even have access to an xray machine, let alone a device with the needed resolution.
Even then, all you get is firmware (which RSA is a publicly known formula, so you can get that much easier)
The private key being in RAM will make it extremely hard to read out with only physical access to the fob.
This is also why the fobs have an expiration date on the back. The battery can not be replaced, by design.
And asking me for my Mother's maiden name is really that much better?
Of course not. Going from one factor authentication, to one factor authentication twice, is the same thing.
There is no difference between asking for a password and another password, than simply doubling the minimum password length of the first.
The parent suggested two factor authentication.
Sorry, that's incorrect, name-based virtual hosts pose no problem to this.
The webserver determines which virtual host is being requested by examining the Host: field in the http header. This happens well after the tcp session has been established, and that happens after the ip address has been determined.
Yes, exactly.
So when your bookmark is http://10.1.2.3/ then the browser will connect to that IP, and send Host: 10.1.2.3
No where in that transaction does it realize 10.1.2.3 should be www.example.com
With the setup I suggested, the bookmark would have BOTH fields.
www.example.com and a seperate 10.1.2.3
If the IP is given, it will not resolve www.example.com, but connect directly to 10.1.2.3 and send Host: www.example.com instead of the current method of sending Host: 10.1.2.3
When the browser looks for domain.example, it'll ask whatever resolver it uses to find an ip address to use. Once it has that ip address, it connects to it, and only then tells the webserver which host it wants.
And as I said, with nothing but an IP in a bookmark, that part will never happen.
There is nothing to prevent the browser from using it's own cached version of the ip address and sucessfully making a connection.
Correct. There is nothing preventing it, it is only that none of them do that.
My suggestion (actually the GP suggestion) is that the browsers SHOULD do that.
But it is the iPhone. Not the jesusPhone.
At least not until you install the jesusPhone theme...
First, the hardware is not derived from Wikipedia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WikiReader begs to differ. :P
Begs to differ how?
The page you link to states flatly that the hardware was sponsored and provided by OpenMoko.
Wikipedia provides the content.
In addition, wikipedia is licensed in such a way that you are allowed to copy it.
The only license I am aware of that requires one to open the source to changes made to a derived work is the GPL. The GPL has nothing to do with wikipedia. I believe their license mainly just requires you to provide credit to the wikipedia foundation, and unless it is proven otherwise, I'd say it's a safe assumption this device meets that criteria.
So the hardware is not derived from wikipedia, nor is wikipedia involved in building the hardware.
If you want to know about any license related issues to the hardware (probably patents for real hardware, copyright would only cover software on it such as firmware and OS) you will need to go talk to the openmoko people who built the device.
I would assume they are running the openmoko OS on it, which is an open source license. I didn't notice anywhere an OS stated, but as the company making the hardware has an OS already, it just seems logical to assume they would use that.
You will need to ask them about firmware licensing, as there is no safe assumption to make there. I would like to believe they will use an open firmware package, like their OS is open. But I didn't see it stated one way or the other.
Generally with hardware makers, any license fees for patents they use that belong to 3rd party companies, are paid by the maker. OpenMoko will pay all the licenses involved with any technology they use that needs it. One assumes those fees are part of the $99 price. That or they are eating it as a loss (Which would be stupid, and I hope they aren't doing that)
That feature would be very handy.
The main reason one can't simply record host/ip pairs right now, is due to named-based virtual web servers.
Even if you put in the IP manually, without sending the correct domain in the http request, you won't get the proper page.
Having the IP as a separate field in the bookmarks would let the browser connect to any IP you put there (be it cached, or manually changed when a server is renumbered), but it would still have the needed data to send in the http request to make the webserver work properly. /me smells a plugin request!
Yes, but they are badly written. Copyright law is far too long, and it's way too easy to infringe accidentally.
You can't claim the laws are badly written. I mean, they are serving -exactly- the goal desired by the people who wrote those laws.
Ok, not "exactly" since fair use still exists, as well as the first sale doctrine, and the right to make backups. But as you can already see, just give them time, and those will be gone too.
But for the most part, copyright laws are functioning exactly as intended by those who made them.
That of course is the root of the problem.
The AC presents an interesting philosophical issue here. "Do the "really" smart people "really" do better by "abiding by the rules""?
I think some recent science in the areas of biology and sociology would suggest "maybe not".
Have all of you always done better by "abiding by the rules"?
Not to sound like I am making a Clinton joke, but define "better".
For certain goals, cheating might be the best way to reach them.
For other goals however, avoiding cheating might be advantageous, and in some cases the only method for reaching your goals.
It depends what you are trying to do.
Want a high score or lots of gold? Next to impossible to track such a thing in game as cheating? Don't care about game balance? In that case, I would say cheating would be the best option for those goals.
Doing something where the odds of getting caught are high, and the consequences are a perm account ban and/or loss of money, then cheating sounds like a poor option to choose (Unless your goal is to get banned, in which case it sounds like keeping your $20 or whatever and just not signing up in the first place would be better.)
It's like lying. There are some people that hate doing it. However when placed in a situation where any answer to a question but one specific answer they are looking for results in very negative results... Then it is obvious the truth is not cared about in that situation by anyone but you, and you are being forced into answering for the purpose of "Choosing the desired outcome" instead of "being honest"
Like the cop asking if you know how fast you were going ;}
Wrong answers include "No", "Yes, just a little fast", and obviously "No officer, at those kinds of speeds, you have to keep your eyes on the road!"
The ONLY answer to not instantly get a fine imposed and higher insurance rates is "Yes officer, I was doing [speed limit minus 1-5mph] according to my speedometer."
Except that superconducting power transmission lines are likely to be buried along with their cooling systems. There are a couple of places on Earth where overhead superconducting power lines might work year round, but there's really not much call for a power grid in Antarctica.
Actually not only is that a good idea, but Antarctica could definitely use some long haul power transmission lines.
While I don't think the usual 'grid' method would be worth while (at least financially) a ring or star where each major end point had at least 2 and possibly 3 legs out, for some basic redundancy.
The weather in Vostok for example, where there is a research compound for sure (It is the only one I personally keep tabs on, but for all I know there is more than one) and such places, and their slightly more remote sensor grids could benefit from such a power supply.
One of the colder days just this week is at -90 F (-68 C) with a -126 F (89 C) wind chill factor.
In the March-April months I've seen as low as -120 F (-84 C) with -160 F (-107 C) wind chills.
I'm not sure what the peak temperatures in the summer months are, but assuming the range isn't too wild, that could simplify the cooling systems needed just by taking advantage of the environment.
Of course the reverse is also true. A wide range of temperatures between highs and lows would most likely complicate the cooling systems to be able to maintain a steady cold environment for the super conducting material.
Do whatever is best for you, because who cares about everyone else. In the end we all die anyway, so there's no reason I shouldn't do what's best for me to enjoy it while I can.
Because, by similar logic, some people feel that in the end everyone will die anyway, but until that end gets here, we all have to live together. And pissing off everyone around you will only hinder any goals you have to enjoy it while you can, while at the same time helping others can result in returns from those other people that are far far more enjoyable than what one can do alone.
To each their own, but not everyone is made happy or miserable by the same things.
Just tell me which UNIX command you would use to get instructions on a program and deny that this isn't intentional.
The one that stands for manual?
Personally I have never heard of a womanual...
Although apparently Google has! Learn something new every day.
Besides, any true hacker doesn't read the manual, they read the source :P
Hey, mainstream media does it all the time! If it's not acceptable, why do they get to do it?
Because them doing it or not has no reflection on if it is acceptable.
It's not acceptable despite the media doing it. It would be equally not acceptable if the media did not do it.
The real question is, why do YOU feel it is acceptable, and that 'the media does it' is a legit excuse for you?
Java is a perfectly good language but it seems that there are a group of Slashdotters that automatically dismiss anything written in Java. Generally their views seem to be based on false rumour put about when Java first got off the ground.
In all fairness, when Java first got off the ground, those rumors weren't false!
But yes, most all of the issues with speed and JiTC have not been problems for some time now, and the compatibility issue, while still exists, has been reduced to "Works with Suns JVM" or "Works with MS JVM" etc, and are now just 'annoying' implementation details instead of actual 'problems'.
STOP ADVERTISING TO ME WHEN I'VE ALREADY PAID FOR YOUR PRODUCT, ASSHOLE.
I take it you don't watch basic cable TV or basic satellite TV. You pay for it, but it still has ads.
I would venture a guess that he would scream the same thing at the cable company as well ;}
I know I did when I still watched TV. I too canceled my cable TV service.
If I am to be treated like I am free loading, then I damn sure going to be getting it for free or not at all.
If the game/show/song/thing costs so much more to make than they expect to get back in sales, someone has done something very very wrong.
If your game/show/song/thing sucks so very badly that you can't price it at AT LEAST what it cost to make, then perhaps your game/show/song/thing shouldn't exist after all, and the world will very likely be a better place for it.