Class mobility in the USA is worse than any other industrialised country. The UK does not fair much better coming second bottom. It was a bigish news item a couple of weeks ago in the UK because the situation was deterioated significantly in the last 30 years according to a new report.
In many legal juristictions it is possible for the copyright holder to later on retroactively change their mind and consequently the license. This is why for official FSF projects the copyright has to be assigned to the FSF. It is also why the KDE Free Qt foundation exists for example.
The problem is that the USA spends more on paper work for billing in the health care system, than the UK spends on it's entire health care system. Now those figures are a decade old, but I doubt they have changed significantly, and I know that the USA has a population about six times that of the UK. However that is a huge amount of money that is not being spent productively.
I recently read (in the last year) about a study that showed that the health outcomes (aka life expectancy) of the top socio-economic group in the USA where worse than the lowest in the UK. That has to be a terrible inditment of the USA way of doing things.
Hum, in the UK all ballot boxes (while still sealed) are taken to a central location for counting under police escort. Any boxes with a broken seal will be put to one side and investigated (most likely rejected). Makes oversight of the counting easier.
Rubbish, paper votes can be counted rapidly. Very rapidly if there is a will, just take a look a UK parliamentary elections as an example. They can get the result for a constituency in less than an hour after the polls close.
Basically vote counting has trivial to extract parallelism, and scales very well. The problem in Florida is having a stupid punched card system which is then tried to be counted by machines. A simple piece of paper with a cross, and counted by hand works much better.
Nope, in the United Kingdom all elections are held on a Thursday for reasons that nobody seems to actually know about. In fact parlimentary elections can only be held on a Thursday when parliment would otherwise have been in session further restricting the dates of elections.
However a paper ballot is as you say 100% transparent, and the counting is a highly parallizable problem, leading to quick counting. Typically in a UK parlimentary election the ballot closes at 10pm and all the results are known by lunch time the next day, with the vast majority known before day break.
You do realize in the United Kingdom (where this pertains to) the ballots are only secret because nobody actually bothers to cross reference the ballot paper serial number against the electoral register where the serial number of the ballot paper was noted down against your name and number?
In theory the idea is that if there is alergations of ballot paper tampering then we can go back and ask the person who they voted for and check the ballot paper. Not that it ever happens in practice, even when there has been electoral fraud (case of the Literal Democrate in Devon for example)
Add to that there are some incredibly cheap colour lasers now, and online and walk in services to put your photos on real photographic paper it seals the deal entirely.
No, the problem is that under current UK copyright law, copying a CD to your iPod is as illegal as downloading it from some P2P network. He is reasonably recognizing that this needs to change as firstly nobody takes any notice of it anyway, and secondly in for a penny in for a pound; if copy the CD to the iPod is illegal then I might as well download it anyway.
Since when was being sued by a multi million pound corporation for a huge sum of money that would potentially bankrupt yourself as a private individual for something you did not do *not* terrifying?
Given that the RIAA are doing this systematically and a large number of people would classify it as terrifying then by your definition it is terrorism.
The problem is that you are equating being terrified with physical violence.
Wrong what we are trying to do is count the number of Si atoms in a sphere so we can say sphere X has a mass of Y, and then use the sphere to calibrate other masses. We already have a number for how many silicon atoms in a kilogram, and once we can count atoms precisely enough that preexisting number will be fixed.
No, because only iron can rust and the reference kilogram is not made of iron. So while it might have oxidised a bit it has not rusted, and will never rust:-)
It's extremely unlikely that the spehere has a mass of exactly one kilogram. What you do is assign a mass to an individual Si atom, and count the number of atoms in the sphere. You then have a mass for that sphere. The more accurately you can count the atoms the more accurate the mass assigned to the sphere.
The idea behind this is that rather than having a absolute reference mass in a vault in Paris, we can create new reference masses at will, so we can have additional ones in London, one in New York, one in Tokyo etc. with no need to refer them back to the one in Paris.
The fact the reference SI spheres all have slightly different masses is not important. As long as we know exactly what the mass of each sphere is, then it can be used to calibrate other secondary masses, which can in turn be used to calibrate/produce tertiary masses.
Thing is that the RSA patent should never have been granted. Firstly the algorithm had previously been "invented" by Clifford Cocks working at GCHQ. Now admittedly this was kept a secret, however it clearly means that the algorithm was obvious to someone skilled in the arts and denied. Secondly the algorithm was an implementation of a much earlier idea by James H. Ellis that was widely known in the field, but nobody who had worked on the problem had the mathematical skill to work it out.
The RSA patent is a classic example of a bad software patent. This is enhanced by the fact that on the surface it looks like a good one.
Well here in good old blighty the Dell service hobbit does arrive in four hours and I don't live or work in a major metropolitan area either. I know because I have had to call them out. The total incident time from actual drive failure, to failure being picked up, to replacement drive in the array was about two and half hours.
You won't get a four hour service if you live in the highlands and islands of Scotland, but pretty much everywhere else you will.
You must be working to old figures. The GDP of the EU is larger than that of the USA in 2006 according to both the IMF and the World Bank. The IMF figures have the EU economy at 882 billion USD or some 7.2% larger.
There are two reasons behind this, firstly the EU has this neat trick of expanding, so for example just taking in Romania and Bulgaria at the beginning of the year will boost the EU GDP in the region of 300 billion USD for 2007 year. That makes catch up tough for the USA even if the EU economy was stagnant.
Secondly most of the recent additions to the EU have been ex Warsaw Pact or Soviet bloc countries who's economies having had the choke of communism released are growing at a rapid rate, making catch up for the USA harder still. The EU grow is predicted higher than the USA through 2008 by the World Bank for example.
I am sure that they are. However it is standard business practice when you purchase in bulk and credibly project to purchase zillions that you get steep discounts.
Something like 70% of English born "soccer" aka football players in the English Premier League where born between September and December. That is *WAY* out from what you might expect if your age when you sign up to a junior team had no bearing on how successful you might be. The start date for the school year in England is September, making a September born child the oldest in the class and statistically bigger and stronger.
While conceptually you are correct, reality gets in the way. So for example being able to run faster on account of being older puts you in a better position when playing football. You therefore appear better despite having a lack of skill over your younger classmates. You end up in the school football team and they don't, consequently they tend to drop football.
If you look at the hand size of goal keepers in the Premiership it is substantially above average. Please explain that one if it is all about skill?
I looked at Amazon S3, however it turns out to cost the same over a 12 month period to buy a network attached hard disk, an ADSL router, small UPS and pay for connection and 12 months broadband at my brothers home 200 miles away, then do daily rsyncs. After year one the costs with this route plummet to the broadband connection and the electricity. The Amazon costs stay the same year on year.
Even a DLT VS4 drive and half a dozen tapes is cheaper over a two year period than Amazon S3.
If you actually followed the story at the time, the vast bulk of the email lost was stuff that had already been downloaded at least once from their mail servers and customers had just left it there. Very few unread emails where actually lost, and Plus.Net don't advertise their email service as something that you can leave emails on. It is strictly a store and forward service, with a webmail option for when you are travelling.
There was a flaw in the third party software they where using for web mail, and they suffered from a zero day attack. Hardly Plus.Nets fault. On those grounds everyone using Microsoft software would be in for trouble.
On the plus side they are activating their spam filtering for free, which was previously a paid for service.
As a Plus.Net customer I have not actually been effected, as I ditch all email addressed directly to the account, as I have a domain hosted with them, and that does not appear to have been effected.
Slashdot Mirror
Class mobility in the USA is worse than any other industrialised country. The UK does not fair much better coming second bottom. It was a bigish news item a couple of weeks ago in the UK because the situation was deterioated significantly in the last 30 years according to a new report.
In many legal juristictions it is possible for the copyright holder to later on retroactively change their mind and consequently the license. This is why for official FSF projects the copyright has to be assigned to the FSF. It is also why the KDE Free Qt foundation exists for example.
The problem is that the USA spends more on paper work for billing in the health care system, than the UK spends on it's entire health care system. Now those figures are a decade old, but I doubt they have changed significantly, and I know that the USA has a population about six times that of the UK. However that is a huge amount of money that is not being spent productively.
I recently read (in the last year) about a study that showed that the health outcomes (aka life expectancy) of the top socio-economic group in the USA where worse than the lowest in the UK. That has to be a terrible inditment of the USA way of doing things.
Hum, in the UK all ballot boxes (while still sealed) are taken to a central location for counting under police escort. Any boxes with a broken seal will be put to one side and investigated (most likely rejected). Makes oversight of the counting easier.
Rubbish, paper votes can be counted rapidly. Very rapidly if there is a will, just take a look a UK parliamentary elections as an example. They can get the result for a constituency in less than an hour after the polls close.
Basically vote counting has trivial to extract parallelism, and scales very well. The problem in Florida is having a stupid punched card system which is then tried to be counted by machines. A simple piece of paper with a cross, and counted by hand works much better.
Nope, in the United Kingdom all elections are held on a Thursday for reasons that nobody seems to actually know about. In fact parlimentary elections can only be held on a Thursday when parliment would otherwise have been in session further restricting the dates of elections.
However a paper ballot is as you say 100% transparent, and the counting is a highly parallizable problem, leading to quick counting. Typically in a UK parlimentary election the ballot closes at 10pm and all the results are known by lunch time the next day, with the vast majority known before day break.
You do realize in the United Kingdom (where this pertains to) the ballots are only secret because nobody actually bothers to cross reference the ballot paper serial number against the electoral register where the serial number of the ballot paper was noted down against your name and number?
In theory the idea is that if there is alergations of ballot paper tampering then we can go back and ask the person who they voted for and check the ballot paper. Not that it ever happens in practice, even when there has been electoral fraud (case of the Literal Democrate in Devon for example)
That's fine I will just lease it :-) I am sure if you have one million pounds that you can find a lawyer to find some weasel way around the contract.
Add to that there are some incredibly cheap colour lasers now, and online and walk in services to put your photos on real photographic paper it seals the deal entirely.
Funny you should mention Dickens, because the USA totally ignored his copyrights....
No, the problem is that under current UK copyright law, copying a CD to your iPod is as illegal as downloading it from some P2P network. He is reasonably recognizing that this needs to change as firstly nobody takes any notice of it anyway, and secondly in for a penny in for a pound; if copy the CD to the iPod is illegal then I might as well download it anyway.
Since when was being sued by a multi million pound corporation for a huge sum of money that would potentially bankrupt yourself as a private individual for something you did not do *not* terrifying?
Given that the RIAA are doing this systematically and a large number of people would classify it as terrifying then by your definition it is terrorism.
The problem is that you are equating being terrified with physical violence.
Wrong what we are trying to do is count the number of Si atoms in a sphere so we can say sphere X has a mass of Y, and then use the sphere to calibrate other masses. We already have a number for how many silicon atoms in a kilogram, and once we can count atoms precisely enough that preexisting number will be fixed.
They don't. What is important is to know the mass of the sphere preciesely not for the sphere to be precisely one kilogram.
No, because only iron can rust and the reference kilogram is not made of iron. So while it might have oxidised a bit it has not rusted, and will never rust :-)
It's extremely unlikely that the spehere has a mass of exactly one kilogram. What you do is assign a mass to an individual Si atom, and count the number of atoms in the sphere. You then have a mass for that sphere. The more accurately you can count the atoms the more accurate the mass assigned to the sphere.
The idea behind this is that rather than having a absolute reference mass in a vault in Paris, we can create new reference masses at will, so we can have additional ones in London, one in New York, one in Tokyo etc. with no need to refer them back to the one in Paris.
The fact the reference SI spheres all have slightly different masses is not important. As long as we know exactly what the mass of each sphere is, then it can be used to calibrate other secondary masses, which can in turn be used to calibrate/produce tertiary masses.
Thing is that the RSA patent should never have been granted. Firstly the algorithm had previously been "invented" by Clifford Cocks working at GCHQ. Now admittedly this was kept a secret, however it clearly means that the algorithm was obvious to someone skilled in the arts and denied. Secondly the algorithm was an implementation of a much earlier idea by James H. Ellis that was widely known in the field, but nobody who had worked on the problem had the mathematical skill to work it out.
The RSA patent is a classic example of a bad software patent. This is enhanced by the fact that on the surface it looks like a good one.
Well here in good old blighty the Dell service hobbit does arrive in four hours and I don't live or work in a major metropolitan area either. I know because I have had to call them out. The total incident time from actual drive failure, to failure being picked up, to replacement drive in the array was about two and half hours.
You won't get a four hour service if you live in the highlands and islands of Scotland, but pretty much everywhere else you will.
You must be working to old figures. The GDP of the EU is larger than that of the USA in 2006 according to both the IMF and the World Bank. The IMF figures have the EU economy at 882 billion USD or some 7.2% larger.
There are two reasons behind this, firstly the EU has this neat trick of expanding, so for example just taking in Romania and Bulgaria at the beginning of the year will boost the EU GDP in the region of 300 billion USD for 2007 year. That makes catch up tough for the USA even if the EU economy was stagnant.
Secondly most of the recent additions to the EU have been ex Warsaw Pact or Soviet bloc countries who's economies having had the choke of communism released are growing at a rapid rate, making catch up for the USA harder still. The EU grow is predicted higher than the USA through 2008 by the World Bank for example.
Perhaps, but Ann Summers is a U.K. firm so US law and practice will have no bearing whatsoever in a U.K. court of law.
I am sure that they are. However it is standard business practice when you purchase in bulk and credibly project to purchase zillions that you get steep discounts.
Something like 70% of English born "soccer" aka football players in the English Premier League where born between September and December. That is *WAY* out from what you might expect if your age when you sign up to a junior team had no bearing on how successful you might be. The start date for the school year in England is September, making a September born child the oldest in the class and statistically bigger and stronger.
While conceptually you are correct, reality gets in the way. So for example being able to run faster on account of being older puts you in a better position when playing football. You therefore appear better despite having a lack of skill over your younger classmates. You end up in the school football team and they don't, consequently they tend to drop football.
If you look at the hand size of goal keepers in the Premiership it is substantially above average. Please explain that one if it is all about skill?
I looked at Amazon S3, however it turns out to cost the same over a 12 month period to buy a network attached hard disk, an ADSL router, small UPS and pay for connection and 12 months broadband at my brothers home 200 miles away, then do daily rsyncs. After year one the costs with this route plummet to the broadband connection and the electricity. The Amazon costs stay the same year on year.
Even a DLT VS4 drive and half a dozen tapes is cheaper over a two year period than Amazon S3.
If you actually followed the story at the time, the vast bulk of the email lost was stuff that had already been downloaded at least once from their mail servers and customers had just left it there. Very few unread emails where actually lost, and Plus.Net don't advertise their email service as something that you can leave emails on. It is strictly a store and forward service, with a webmail option for when you are travelling.
There was a flaw in the third party software they where using for web mail, and they suffered from a zero day attack. Hardly Plus.Nets fault. On those grounds everyone using Microsoft software would be in for trouble.
On the plus side they are activating their spam filtering for free, which was previously a paid for service.
As a Plus.Net customer I have not actually been effected, as I ditch all email addressed directly to the account, as I have a domain hosted with them, and that does not appear to have been effected.