Is there anything in any user agreement that prohibits me renting a server in the UK, running their "UK only" iPlayer there, and retransmitting the stream over the Net to another server outside the UK for rebroadcast?
Maybe a copyright? Under UK law, don't I have a protected ability to retransmit content from one place to another for my personal consumption, the way I do in US law (if not always in US courts)?
The Wikipedia search sucks. It's case sensitive (but not always), doesn't use word stems (though it seems to sometimes), and has other inconsistent results that mix lexical and semantic matches with underwhelming effectiveness.
Now Yahoo wants the same "quality"? Their creating their most successful competitor in Google has really maimed their senses over there.
Trollmods tap Slashdot to suppress evidence that the government's phones need tapping. I guess when you're a Bush worshipper, even CIA cocaine/torture flights and Sauds are more important than regular Americans talking about them.
There's absolutely no reason for Wikipedia's admins to "allow" or forbid math proofs, or anything else, except perhaps where it's proven either libelous or clearly and presently dangerous - which has nothing to do with math.
If an article's author includes a proof, that's up to them. If later editors change or remove, it, that's up to them. If the proof isn't properly cited or otherwise corroborated, page updaters can correctly note that. And every reader should check the references of everything in the article before they rely on it.
Exactly like every other Wikipedia article.
This principle is fairly new, but it's pretty easy to understand. In fact, it's been the principle of any research source all along, no matter how "definitive", but for most math the citation was implicit in the publisher. Though the Web was in fact invented (at CERN) for precisely the problem of quickly linking citations of complex math (by physicists) among many online articles. without needing a central editor and "truth guarantor". And this is true of all publications, which have never been perfectly reliably "true", though their publishers usually liked to pretend they were - and didn't cite them.
Why bother tapping Americans' phones to search for narcotraffickers when they could just bust the CIA, which alternates torture flights with cocaine flights? Iran/Contra forever!
It seems clear to me that noise laws that are currently described in terms of the dB level allowed on the street would have to be interpreted by a judge in terms of their effect on one's eardrum. So if these beamed messages appear to the listener's ear any different (eg. louder) than if they were played from a traditional speaker on the street, regardless of their power at the transmitter, then they'd be violating the law just as much as an obnoxious megaphone. Except that the beams would annoy only one person at a time, which would only mean that they wouldn't be as liable for "public nuisance" under those noise thresholds.
So you could just sue them (if you could find them - the law really needs to require anyone doing this unsolicited to identify themselves with every message, like a traditional speaker does) under the existing noise complaint laws, if not harassment, etc. Of course, your lawyer would have to realize the physics of transmitted vs received sound power, but every lawyer reads Slashdot, right?
Because I already have a USB port, and no Firewire port, but I have some Firewire gear. I don't want to use an extra PCI slot for the Firewire (some cheap little PCs I'd like to use don't even have any), or deal with the driver complexity.
The Firewire gear is just a CD carousel, so any extra Firewire features aren't needed. Couldn't a Firewire/USB adapter just allow those Firewire devices that use only the USB features to run?
What happens when Republicans lose the White House in 2008? As a brand, Democrats didn't decline in popularity after their 2004 defeat (or after 2000). But Republicans did decline after their 2006 losses - though they'd started after their 2004 victories, and regained some shortly after the 2006 upsets. Maybe political parties act different.
Why aren't there any Firewire-<USB(-lt;PC) adapters? It's not a cheap kind of part, but why not a $50 part that can connect Firewire gear to USB ports, even if it's not full bandwidth?
OK, I expect the Representative from Hollywood to demand even more special privileges for Hollywood - that's what they send him there for. And I expect the Reps from the rest of the country to slap him down - that's the other 299 million of us send them there for.
What I'd really like to see would be a Congress enforce the Constitution, which says Congress can infringe our rights to free expression only to promote science and the useful arts by securing for limited time exclusive rights of authors to exploit their own work. Since exclusivity is at its lowest utility to protect motivating return on investment as it ever was, and free dissemination is at its greatest utility, I'd expect that limited time to be the shortest in history, at most its original 14 years, if not eliminated entirely.
But then I guess Hollywood Berman would have nothing to do.
If I were handed Microsoft in, say, 2003, I wouldn't have wasted time making Vista. I would have just written a beefed up version of Wine from scratch (to evade the GPL) to fully work. Then packaged it in a Xen-type virtualization layer that could also run multiple instances of either Linux or "Linux Windows", and just made sure all the apps run perfectly in the Windows GUI (not in the Linux GUI - remember, I'm the new Evil Microsoft CEO;). I'd make something like GNOME or KDE, but that looks like Windows, again evading the GPL to own the IP. I'd touch the GPL kernel only when it needed to be patched to work properly within my otherwise proprietary OS.
Then I'd bundle in all the crap that makes Windows work well with all kinds of other products. Proprietary drivers, bundled 3rd party apps.
And it would all work, it would use all the Linux development (and developers) to sell Windows. It would keep everyone's desktop looking like Windows. And it would actually work, because it would be running on Linux, which is much more reliable than Windows (which gets unmanageably complex under the hood copying all Linux's features).
No, I said that glue logic is the best FPGA app. Which is probably exactly what the FPGA you saw in a TV was doing. I was encouraging someone with an interest in FPGA, who started in electronics because they thought they could just plug digital chips together like lego, to try that natural application of FPGA.
What you did was "make a mistake" by converting "the best" into "the only". Check your facts before snidely telling me to do so.
There are already "IP core" component configs available for some things, like TCP/IP, that some SW implements in instructions. So in fact the "pipe dream" of customizing HW to accelerate SW is entirely realistic. And when FPGA reconfig speeds increase, the dream of reconfiguring as a process demands such HW will also eventually come true. But it all requires people who dream those dreams to work on it, even when other people discourage the future.
The FCC's "intent" (which is always a lawyer's creation derived from what it declared) was to open that tier for competitive access, and to protect it from the competitive advantages of the network retailer. If government "intent" or effective action is to promote a single product, that's called "crony capitalism" at best.
FWIW, this chip is really designed for mobile devices. Especially because some telcos, like Sprint, are (announced, anyway) switching to WiMAX for 4G. For stationary devices, it's not worth the extra expense to combine WiFi/WiMAX/DVB-H on a single chip that also depends on 3 other chips, one for each band/codec. Maybe once the mobile market has paid the appropriate ROI for this device, its price will drop to be competitive with the old standalone chips. Though probably combo WiFi/WiMAX chips will be available once there's demand for WiMAX.
Well, that is why I also mentioned MicroBlaze in this thread. But I was encouraging someone to start, whose original interest in electronics was based on "pluggable logic", which is a good intro to FPGAs.
The best apps for FPGA are glue logic. So if you want to lego together different digital chips, FPGA is a great way to go. And then there's a lot more, which your SW skills will help with. Take the plunge and do something new. There's plenty left to do that no one has yet before.
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What kind of commie doesn't just trust the NSA? I mean, we've got a FISA to protect us from the government and from corporations cooperating with rogue regimes, right?
It sounds like you have already been conquered and colonized by aliens receiving our active messages ;).
Is there anything in any user agreement that prohibits me renting a server in the UK, running their "UK only" iPlayer there, and retransmitting the stream over the Net to another server outside the UK for rebroadcast?
Maybe a copyright? Under UK law, don't I have a protected ability to retransmit content from one place to another for my personal consumption, the way I do in US law (if not always in US courts)?
Are you volunteering to be conquered and colonized? How far away is your planet? OTOH, if you're reading Slashdot, we've already conquered you.
The Wikipedia search sucks. It's case sensitive (but not always), doesn't use word stems (though it seems to sometimes), and has other inconsistent results that mix lexical and semantic matches with underwhelming effectiveness.
Now Yahoo wants the same "quality"? Their creating their most successful competitor in Google has really maimed their senses over there.
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Trollmods tap Slashdot to suppress evidence that the government's phones need tapping. I guess when you're a Bush worshipper, even CIA cocaine/torture flights and Sauds are more important than regular Americans talking about them.
There's absolutely no reason for Wikipedia's admins to "allow" or forbid math proofs, or anything else, except perhaps where it's proven either libelous or clearly and presently dangerous - which has nothing to do with math.
If an article's author includes a proof, that's up to them. If later editors change or remove, it, that's up to them. If the proof isn't properly cited or otherwise corroborated, page updaters can correctly note that. And every reader should check the references of everything in the article before they rely on it.
Exactly like every other Wikipedia article.
This principle is fairly new, but it's pretty easy to understand. In fact, it's been the principle of any research source all along, no matter how "definitive", but for most math the citation was implicit in the publisher. Though the Web was in fact invented (at CERN) for precisely the problem of quickly linking citations of complex math (by physicists) among many online articles. without needing a central editor and "truth guarantor". And this is true of all publications, which have never been perfectly reliably "true", though their publishers usually liked to pretend they were - and didn't cite them.
Why bother tapping Americans' phones to search for narcotraffickers when they could just bust the CIA, which alternates torture flights with cocaine flights? Iran/Contra forever!
Or maybe they need to tap phonecalls from Cheney to his Saud buddies. Iran/Contra forever!
It seems clear to me that noise laws that are currently described in terms of the dB level allowed on the street would have to be interpreted by a judge in terms of their effect on one's eardrum. So if these beamed messages appear to the listener's ear any different (eg. louder) than if they were played from a traditional speaker on the street, regardless of their power at the transmitter, then they'd be violating the law just as much as an obnoxious megaphone. Except that the beams would annoy only one person at a time, which would only mean that they wouldn't be as liable for "public nuisance" under those noise thresholds.
So you could just sue them (if you could find them - the law really needs to require anyone doing this unsolicited to identify themselves with every message, like a traditional speaker does) under the existing noise complaint laws, if not harassment, etc. Of course, your lawyer would have to realize the physics of transmitted vs received sound power, but every lawyer reads Slashdot, right?
How am I supposed to use Firewire devices on my USB-only PS3/Ubuntu?
And that's not the only device that can't use Firewire.
But I didn't ask why my requirement was required. I asked why it can't be met.
Because I already have a USB port, and no Firewire port, but I have some Firewire gear. I don't want to use an extra PCI slot for the Firewire (some cheap little PCs I'd like to use don't even have any), or deal with the driver complexity.
The Firewire gear is just a CD carousel, so any extra Firewire features aren't needed. Couldn't a Firewire/USB adapter just allow those Firewire devices that use only the USB features to run?
What happens when Republicans lose the White House in 2008? As a brand, Democrats didn't decline in popularity after their 2004 defeat (or after 2000). But Republicans did decline after their 2006 losses - though they'd started after their 2004 victories, and regained some shortly after the 2006 upsets. Maybe political parties act different.
Why aren't there any Firewire-<USB(-lt;PC) adapters? It's not a cheap kind of part, but why not a $50 part that can connect Firewire gear to USB ports, even if it's not full bandwidth?
Yeah - after we sepnd 50 years blowing their minds with flybys, abductions and "cattle" (or local equivalent) mutilations.
First we have to conquer, then colonize. Then we can run SETI, to see if indeed there's anyone out there. Anyone left, that is.
OK, I expect the Representative from Hollywood to demand even more special privileges for Hollywood - that's what they send him there for. And I expect the Reps from the rest of the country to slap him down - that's the other 299 million of us send them there for.
What I'd really like to see would be a Congress enforce the Constitution, which says Congress can infringe our rights to free expression only to promote science and the useful arts by securing for limited time exclusive rights of authors to exploit their own work. Since exclusivity is at its lowest utility to protect motivating return on investment as it ever was, and free dissemination is at its greatest utility, I'd expect that limited time to be the shortest in history, at most its original 14 years, if not eliminated entirely.
But then I guess Hollywood Berman would have nothing to do.
Yes it does.
We should conquer and colonize another planet first, then send active SETI signals from there instead.
If I were handed Microsoft in, say, 2003, I wouldn't have wasted time making Vista. I would have just written a beefed up version of Wine from scratch (to evade the GPL) to fully work. Then packaged it in a Xen-type virtualization layer that could also run multiple instances of either Linux or "Linux Windows", and just made sure all the apps run perfectly in the Windows GUI (not in the Linux GUI - remember, I'm the new Evil Microsoft CEO ;). I'd make something like GNOME or KDE, but that looks like Windows, again evading the GPL to own the IP. I'd touch the GPL kernel only when it needed to be patched to work properly within my otherwise proprietary OS.
Then I'd bundle in all the crap that makes Windows work well with all kinds of other products. Proprietary drivers, bundled 3rd party apps.
And it would all work, it would use all the Linux development (and developers) to sell Windows. It would keep everyone's desktop looking like Windows. And it would actually work, because it would be running on Linux, which is much more reliable than Windows (which gets unmanageably complex under the hood copying all Linux's features).
No, I said that glue logic is the best FPGA app. Which is probably exactly what the FPGA you saw in a TV was doing. I was encouraging someone with an interest in FPGA, who started in electronics because they thought they could just plug digital chips together like lego, to try that natural application of FPGA.
What you did was "make a mistake" by converting "the best" into "the only". Check your facts before snidely telling me to do so.
There are already "IP core" component configs available for some things, like TCP/IP, that some SW implements in instructions. So in fact the "pipe dream" of customizing HW to accelerate SW is entirely realistic. And when FPGA reconfig speeds increase, the dream of reconfiguring as a process demands such HW will also eventually come true. But it all requires people who dream those dreams to work on it, even when other people discourage the future.
The FCC's "intent" (which is always a lawyer's creation derived from what it declared) was to open that tier for competitive access, and to protect it from the competitive advantages of the network retailer. If government "intent" or effective action is to promote a single product, that's called "crony capitalism" at best.
FWIW, this chip is really designed for mobile devices. Especially because some telcos, like Sprint, are (announced, anyway) switching to WiMAX for 4G. For stationary devices, it's not worth the extra expense to combine WiFi/WiMAX/DVB-H on a single chip that also depends on 3 other chips, one for each band/codec. Maybe once the mobile market has paid the appropriate ROI for this device, its price will drop to be competitive with the old standalone chips. Though probably combo WiFi/WiMAX chips will be available once there's demand for WiMAX.
As someone else pointed out, the SDR Forum would call this device an SDR.
How does anything you just said contradict anything that I just said?
Well, that is why I also mentioned MicroBlaze in this thread. But I was encouraging someone to start, whose original interest in electronics was based on "pluggable logic", which is a good intro to FPGAs.
The best apps for FPGA are glue logic. So if you want to lego together different digital chips, FPGA is a great way to go. And then there's a lot more, which your SW skills will help with. Take the plunge and do something new. There's plenty left to do that no one has yet before.