The press release straight from the horse's mouth can be found right here.
Seems to me, they're saying that you have to prove yourself worthy in order to get one of these licenses, plus pay a whole lot of money. So, even though they seem to say that they're open sourcing it, they're really just loosening the reigns a little on a still closed source program.
Think like the old cowboy movies. The good guy wore the white hat, the bad guy was the wanker in the black hat. And grey hats are people somewhere in between, they do some good things, but they also do some bad things.
Looks like for once the initial ruling goes towards the side in the right. Although I can't see this causing the MPAA to pack up and go home; I don't see this thing ending until it gets up to the Supreme Court. Now if we can only get congresspeople that will get rid of the DCMA.
Hey, this could create some very interesting times. Couples bored with their sex lives could have some real "role reversal". Or the next Jaques Cousteu could have gills genetically "grown" so that they could be underwater for a longer period of time. Of course, there will be people calling for the continued genetic purity of the human race, but we need to kick start evolution again.
And I see your Lizard Man and I raise you Jocelyn Wildenstein (I hope I spelled her name right).
Seriously, folks, this box seems like something designed to be put in the corner of some sound stage to stream the footage to other parts of the world, not for a webserver or games box. Though I'd still love to see what kind of a frame rate it would give in Q3
Yes, but those non-people things can help solve problems. Some people think of solving these inequalities in a way that doesn't require people to spend every minute of their living day in order to solve a problem that's been going on since, oh, the beginning of time. Hunger and opression are not something that happened overnight, they've always been there.
Okay, Mr. Martinez, I'll bite. This experiment is very important, and can end up helping everyone.
First a few facts. Most of SETI is passive, i.e. just throwing something on unused systems and let it sit in the background collecting data. Araceibo, the radio observatory used for this, has a small instrument package on it that collects the data while other scientists do the searches for the other whos whats and whys of this universe. If you don't think that searching for the answers of where we came from and why we're here, you need a bit more curiosity. It takes very few resources, and will not cause crops to fail, people to revolt, the nukes to go off, as you seem to be suggesting.
Second, helping starving people is noble, if the people want true help and not just a handout. Most of the problem is that the leadership in the countries where most of the starving people live are extremely opressive, and any attempt to change will be met with protest and fighting. You have to give these people things that they don't want, like freedoms of mental, social, and economical choice, no pseudo-democracies, no "people's" rebellions that 99.99% of the time quickly fall into.
Unless you can get people to throw down their want to arbitrarily control someone else, then we will continue to have opression, regardless on who's in control.
FYI, ReBoot is computer animation, not anime. And, I am assuming that anime/animation has a large following here, just like any topic would here. I personally think that this is relavent, but if you don't, don't click the link. It's pretty obvious through all the flame wars around here (you did remember the asbestos underwear, right?) that the subtitle of this site should be YMMV.
BTW, Americans who try to repel an attack or a robbery using a gun are more likely to wind up dead than those who don't. This is a fact. Check your own government's statistics if you don't believe it.
There's a lot of evidence out there that refutes that, such as the fact that usually the statictics used compare people who kill the attacker against those who are killed by the attacker. They don't look at the attackers who are scared off by the person just wielding the gun, which is a rather significant number (Justice dept. estimates that self defensive usages of firearms occur between 1.5 and 2.5 million times anually.) Of course, the media never reports on people saved by having a gun, except occasionally in the fkyspeck of the police blotter section.
First off, just browsing through the sites, it seems that they're just collections of info from physical records, and can be dealt with as such. The phone/address lookups, unless the people who run the sites are out of it, seem to reference to the CO of your phone prefix. So, even though you live in Town A, if your CO is in Town B, it will give the ZIP of Town B. Also, this means that you can deal with this information just like any phone book, by choosing to have an unlisted number.
Also, there are companies out there that have subscription services that will perform almost real time searches through the public records and those records are incredibly accurate. These services don't have an "opt out", which is why collection agencies, subpeona services, etc subscribe to them, because it means that they can find a client and serve them in an afternoon
Have I been smoking that three dollar crack again, 'cuz I seem to recall that the Terminator played by Arnold in the original was the T-808, and that in the second, he's a T-101.
Usually, by this close to the release date they've got a decent amount of product in storage waiting to be sold. So it seems to me that they're probably going to also raise the price a few dollars to make up for this sudden change of heart.
Interoperability, plain and simple. This isn't like putting a Yugo engine in a Ferrari, this is more along the lines of someone who speaks both English and Spanish. Sure you can get along pretty well if you only know one language, but you can talk to a larger market if you speak two.
You could always tape a piece of paper, cardboard, etc. over the offending area of your monitor so that the banner bar can throw as many ads as it wants, and you can surf to your heart's content.
Of course, if this attention sensitive interface gets implemented, then it'll recognize that the top of the screen has become a spot you never look at, and move the bar somewhere else.
The exceptions are those that use "Olympic" or one of its derivations to leech off the IOC's reputation, and I think Olympicsex might qualify there.
I disagree here. Personally, when I think of olympic, I think of huge, as in an ego of olympic proportions. As long as they don't show, or pretend to show, graphic displays of olympic contenders mating, I don't see a problem there.
Of course, your last point sums it up best, it should be handled on a case by case basis, not by claiming that any website that has olympic in it is infringing, as the IOC seems to think.
So, Mr. Katz, I'm having trouble imagining the bloodbath, can you name a few? The double decker highways collapsing in Oakland or Japan? I'm sure a foolish company put in an earthquake resistant bid for those, and I'm sure they weren't the low bidder. Some government official decided those highways didn't need to be earthquake resistant, maybe we should execute them.
Another Example for you: The Interstate 5, Cal Highway 14 Interchange. The Sylmar Quake in '71 knocked it down, a photo of the wreckage was even featured on one of the Doobie Brothers albums (can't remember which one). They rebuilt it the exact same way, and what do you know, it fell down the on the next big quake that came in the area, Northridge in '94. Now that's not just bad design, thats reimplementation of a failed design. We should be knee deep in the heads of Caltrans engineers after that.
I'll give that it would be difficult to properly implement a secure E-Voting system, but it would be far from impossible to do. First, they'd have to register to vote electronically, just you have to do to vote absentee. Next, the registrar's office mails you back your paper e-voting ballot with an identity key to enter in at the poll site. Finally, you make all of the E-Voting software open source that anyone who wants to verify the anonymity and security of the site can see that it won't tie your name to who you voted for and will guarantee the security of the election process.
This way, those who want to vote electronically can, and the election process can go on.
SuSE has got it in their distro too (is there anything they don't have?) Unfortunately, they've hidden it in the unsorted section on their second CD on the current distro (6.4), but it works once you find it.
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Seems to me, they're saying that you have to prove yourself worthy in order to get one of these licenses, plus pay a whole lot of money. So, even though they seem to say that they're open sourcing it, they're really just loosening the reigns a little on a still closed source program.
Think like the old cowboy movies. The good guy wore the white hat, the bad guy was the wanker in the black hat. And grey hats are people somewhere in between, they do some good things, but they also do some bad things.
Looks like for once the initial ruling goes towards the side in the right. Although I can't see this causing the MPAA to pack up and go home; I don't see this thing ending until it gets up to the Supreme Court. Now if we can only get congresspeople that will get rid of the DCMA.
And I see your Lizard Man and I raise you Jocelyn Wildenstein (I hope I spelled her name right).
Seriously, folks, this box seems like something designed to be put in the corner of some sound stage to stream the footage to other parts of the world, not for a webserver or games box. Though I'd still love to see what kind of a frame rate it would give in Q3
Yes, but those non-people things can help solve problems. Some people think of solving these inequalities in a way that doesn't require people to spend every minute of their living day in order to solve a problem that's been going on since, oh, the beginning of time. Hunger and opression are not something that happened overnight, they've always been there.
First a few facts. Most of SETI is passive, i.e. just throwing something on unused systems and let it sit in the background collecting data. Araceibo, the radio observatory used for this, has a small instrument package on it that collects the data while other scientists do the searches for the other whos whats and whys of this universe. If you don't think that searching for the answers of where we came from and why we're here, you need a bit more curiosity. It takes very few resources, and will not cause crops to fail, people to revolt, the nukes to go off, as you seem to be suggesting.
Second, helping starving people is noble, if the people want true help and not just a handout. Most of the problem is that the leadership in the countries where most of the starving people live are extremely opressive, and any attempt to change will be met with protest and fighting. You have to give these people things that they don't want, like freedoms of mental, social, and economical choice, no pseudo-democracies, no "people's" rebellions that 99.99% of the time quickly fall into.
Unless you can get people to throw down their want to arbitrarily control someone else, then we will continue to have opression, regardless on who's in control.
Read the articles again. They say that the affected memory is mapped as used by the patch, so it will indeed give you less than you paid for.
FYI, ReBoot is computer animation, not anime. And, I am assuming that anime/animation has a large following here, just like any topic would here. I personally think that this is relavent, but if you don't, don't click the link. It's pretty obvious through all the flame wars around here (you did remember the asbestos underwear, right?) that the subtitle of this site should be YMMV.
Of course, on the bright side, I've got a hospital named after me.
Also, there are companies out there that have subscription services that will perform almost real time searches through the public records and those records are incredibly accurate. These services don't have an "opt out", which is why collection agencies, subpeona services, etc subscribe to them, because it means that they can find a client and serve them in an afternoon
Have I been smoking that three dollar crack again, 'cuz I seem to recall that the Terminator played by Arnold in the original was the T-808, and that in the second, he's a T-101.
Usually, by this close to the release date they've got a decent amount of product in storage waiting to be sold. So it seems to me that they're probably going to also raise the price a few dollars to make up for this sudden change of heart.
Of course they'd have to change the name to the X11R6.4 Files, but it's a minor thing.
Interoperability, plain and simple. This isn't like putting a Yugo engine in a Ferrari, this is more along the lines of someone who speaks both English and Spanish. Sure you can get along pretty well if you only know one language, but you can talk to a larger market if you speak two.
Of course, if this attention sensitive interface gets implemented, then it'll recognize that the top of the screen has become a spot you never look at, and move the bar somewhere else.
Don't know 'bout a dehydrated keg, but I've got some dehydrated water for you :-)
I disagree here. Personally, when I think of olympic, I think of huge, as in an ego of olympic proportions. As long as they don't show, or pretend to show, graphic displays of olympic contenders mating, I don't see a problem there.
Of course, your last point sums it up best, it should be handled on a case by case basis, not by claiming that any website that has olympic in it is infringing, as the IOC seems to think.
No, gas prices are cheaper in the US for a simple reason, it's less taxed. In Europe, gas is 4x more because there are 4x more taxes.
Another Example for you: The Interstate 5, Cal Highway 14 Interchange. The Sylmar Quake in '71 knocked it down, a photo of the wreckage was even featured on one of the Doobie Brothers albums (can't remember which one). They rebuilt it the exact same way, and what do you know, it fell down the on the next big quake that came in the area, Northridge in '94. Now that's not just bad design, thats reimplementation of a failed design. We should be knee deep in the heads of Caltrans engineers after that.
Why, back in my day everyone was a whole lot younger and there weren't so durn many dead people
This way, those who want to vote electronically can, and the election process can go on.
Not from what I've heard, but from a reliable drunken lunatic source I have heard that they've started attending Hope Chapel (local church in my area)
SuSE has got it in their distro too (is there anything they don't have?) Unfortunately, they've hidden it in the unsorted section on their second CD on the current distro (6.4), but it works once you find it.