Also: are rake tines even steel anymore, or are they aluminum (even softer than steel)?
Also, about the previous comment: tool steels are a lot harder than mild steels and are much easier to scratch glass with. But you'd never make a rake out of a tool steel.
Roof rakes don't have tines. It's more like a small plow or snow shovel on the end of a long handle that you drag across your roof to remove snow. Usually the end is plastic, but I've seen aluminum as well. Some also have little rubber wheels on the side to avoid damaging the roof.
The FCC could pass regulations that will be invalidated upon Trump's inauguration, or they could avoid wasting everyone's time and do this. They took the cost-cutting choice.
The FCC is an independent agency. The president gets to appoint commissioners, designate the chairman, and suggest policy, but he does not have the authority to set the agenda or give orders. Further only 3 of the 5 commissioners may be of the same party as the president. Trump will get to appoint two new commissioners in 2017 as their terms are expiring, so the new board will almost certainly got from majority (D) to (R).
There's a big difference between the new administration overturning something the previous one had set in motion versus the outgoing administration silently dropping it. In the former case, the press might ask questions about why the policy shift occurred, in the latter, the issue might disappear without a trace.
Yep. I'm more worried that they'd have been perfectly happy paying $80,000 per bullet (that was the design!)
If it's an alternative to firing a $1,000,000 cruise missile, I could see the appeal. Not that I think this thing is a good idea, but I can understand how it got sold.
That jerk who comes to work with an active flu and infects the whole place should have to suffer with ten consecutive flus for that.
I don't know about you, but I only get 5 sick days a year. Those have to cover not only myself, but I might also have to use them if my wife is too sick to take care of the kids, or the kids are sick but my wife has to work. So if I'm sick and I can work from home I will, but if that's not possible, I'll drag myself to the office unless I'm physically incapable of doing so rather than use a sick day.
Samsung is, for the moment ay least, a multi-billion dollar company with huge pockets. Win or lose the cost of this type of court case is a blip in their budget. However for the defendant the financial risk is huge: he could lose his life savings on a case like this.
Isn't Youtube the defendant here? Google could step in here.
Nope, as long as YouTube abides by the terms of the DMCA, they are shielded from liability. This means they must take down the video when they receive a copyright claim, but must reinstate the video if the author files a counter claim. At that point, Samsung's recourse would be to sue the author.
...fans able to disseminate and see live shows via videotape
Does he really think there's little reels of tape inside smartphones?
Maybe like one of those 1960's mainframes, but smaller...
I also "tape" shows on the DVR. It's a colloquialism. Just like how shows are "filmed" in front of a live audience, even though hardly anyone uses film anymore. Musicians still release "records" even though many of them will never press any vinyl.
I think the point is that there are unethical people and lawbreakers. If the car cannot handle them correctly by identifying that the danger they face is one they created by their own incorrect behavior, then it is deficient.
In other words, humans have an implicit understanding that "person jumping out in front of traffic" and "pedestrian minding their own business who is in the path of an accident" are in two vastly different ethical positions. Colloquially, "even a dog knows the difference between being kicked and being stumbled over.â
There's no way a human is doing that moral calculus in the instant they have to make a decision when someone leaps in front of their car either. You are going to act instinctively, which for most people probably means standing on the brake with both feet. Any moral justification for your action is just going to be a post hoc rationalization. Which is also exactly what the automation will do as well (come to a precipitous stop, not the rationalizing).
The safest thing to do in such a situation is to not be driving too fast in the first place. This is where I think automated systems will really outshine people - they have an inexhaustible supply of patience and won't exceed a speed at which they can adequately respond to unexpected events. If you are going 40mph down a residential road lined with parked cars, you've created a situation where some accidents are unavoidable, yet I see people drive like that all the time.
The letter carrier will come, forget to bring the package (or maybe just not feel like delivering it?), and lie and send a "delivery attempted" update. MY wife has watched to letter carrier come and go, never approach the front door, and 10 minutes later the SMS notification pops up on our phones. A former roommate of mine once found a letter containing a check she had mailed in a pile of scattered mail in the park. I guess the carrier was feeling a little overburdened that day?
I personally love UPS. I've never had a serious issue with them in 15 years of ordering stuff from Amazon. I know other people here have huge problems with them and that's fine. I think the point is that how good your service is depends hugely on how well run your shipper's local hub is run. My local post office is the pits, while my local UPS carriers are great. This is why Amazon should let prime members set carrier preferences. My opinion of Amazon has plummeted since they started using USPS in my area. I'd never received a package through USPS from them before last year and would like to never again.
Exactly right. If we applied the same "but it's got to be safe" hand waving that we do today to historical ventures, we'd still be sitting in Europe wondering about crossing the ocean in sail powered craft and dreaming of flying craft - and the regulations we'd have to slap on them.
I'm of the opinion that we never should have climbed down from the trees in the first place.
I'm waiting to see a self driving car navigate across Boston during a nor'easter while avoiding all the road cones and lawn chairs strewn around the street. Not to mention navigating around plows, traffic cops, potholes, double-parked cars, dealing with disabled street lights, no visible road markings, pedestrians walking down the middle of the street due to inaccessible sidewalks, and the occasional parade of wild turkeys. All of which I've seen on my daily commute.
It's nice that someone is finally running a test in a location with weather. So far it seems like most of these vehicles are just designed for puttering around southern California or the Nevada desert.
Well the reason is that if the US doesn't give up control, countries have been threatening with building their own internet infrastructure to run in parallel.
If these countries (Brazil, Russia, etc) did create a "second internet", then Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc, would all be shut off from their customers in those regions.
I get all of that, but why does that make it a good idea to then cede control of ICANN to an international body and give countries such as China an official role in internet governance globally? Right now these authoritarian regimes are limited to just fucking up their own national networks, why give them the opportunity to fuck things up globally?
Granted things are never going to go back to "the good old days" of the mid 90's in terms of laissez faire internet self-governance, but I've yet to see a convincing explanation of how this move will mitigate anti-freedom policies or the fracturing of the internet into national islands. There are going to be countries that give the finger to the international community and erect national information barriers no matter what we do.
These are domain names. It's like the Yellow Pages of the Internet. How does "censoring" a domain name prevent a particular form of expression?
How many IP addresses for how many services do you suppose the average internet user has committed to memory? I would hazard that number is 0. When a service is delisted from DNS, it might as well not exist for most people. While technically removing a DNS entry is like being delisted in the yellow pages in that the server still exists and can be accessed by those who know its address, practically a name-less server is more like a radio station that has been taken off the air. Or more precisely, it's as if the government had the ability to magically remove 108fm from everyone's radio dial: the station might be broadcasting, but it's impossible for 99.9% of the population to tune in anymore because they don't know how to build a radio.
If a company has a legit takedown notice for 10,000 items, 5 of which are wrong, it is really fair to fine them $750,000 despite having an accuracy rate of 99.95%? If it were 90% (which it probably is) then it is a problem.
Yes. When dealing in large numbers, it's more important to limit the rate of unintentional harm, not less. For example, a cure that has a fatal side effect 0.05% of the time might be acceptable if the disease was very rare and only administered to 10 people a year, but it would be totally unacceptable in a vaccine that was administered to 100,000.
For the large company, $750k is a drop in the bucket, but for one of those 5 people, you may have seriously harmed their livelihood. If the copyright violation is serious enough to issue a take down, I don't think it's unreasonable to ask that them to spend $10-30 in intern or paralegal time to verify the claim is legit instead of feeding everything through a script with no human verification.
I've got gmail, Feedly, a couple of/. tabs, and my Youtube subscriptions open right now. CPU usage is hovering between 0.02% and 0.8%. Occasionally it spikes all the way up to 2.5% -- I assume this is when either Feedly or Gmail auto-refreshes in the background. I've seen FF shit the bed before, and it definitely has some problems, but just having a few static tabs open shouldn't be tanking your CPU.
... If that is "ok to do" than pretty much all the DOJ need do is find some banana republic somewhere to hire some work out to and basically anything they do on the Internet is suddenly above and beyond the reach of law.
Yeah, if only there were a banana republic conveniently located 300 miles or so offshore with a military base or something where the US government could operate extrajudicially...
Re-enable Ctrl+Alt+Del for logins. Start/Run/netplwiz, Advanced tab, check require Ctrl+Alt+Del to login. Then it will be unambiguous when you are logging in vs cat ran across the keyboard.
Also, there should be an option for folder windows to all run in separate processes from each other and not just from the taskbar and every attempt should be made to let the user decide what folder views to restore afte r a crash.
The ability to separate explorer windows into individual processes has been around at least since 2000. It's been slightly buried in the latest version, but you can find it under View/Options/Change Folder and Search Options, View Tab, under "Advanced Settings", check "Launch folder windows in a separate process"
And if you buy the Game Pak and a Kazzo or Retrode dumper, you have a defense under 17 USC 117(a)(1) (or foreign counterparts) if someone does sue you, so long as you can afford a lawyer and don't distribute the dumps.
Actually, no. That defense doesn't work because you're format-shifting. More specifically, you're going from a format that doesn't have copyright to one that does - you are not allowed to dump ROMs, period, without a legitimate developmental reason.
It's a funny thing, but a mask programmed ROM is actually not copyrighted. It's Mask-protected (it's a M in a circle, similar to how copyright is C in a circle). Mask works have higher protections, and even though you can easily dump it, the conversion from physical to software is actually completely illegal.
That may have been true at one time, but as far as I can tell, Mask Protection in the US only extends to 10 years, so any original NES ROMs have long since fallen out of protection. The underlying software encoded in the ROM is still protected by copyright, and the game franchises that they represent are still trademarked, so anyone reproducing ROMs commercially would still be in hot water. However, at this point I think you would be within your rights to dump to ROMs in order to back up your software.
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Also: are rake tines even steel anymore, or are they aluminum (even softer than steel)?
Also, about the previous comment: tool steels are a lot harder than mild steels and are much easier to scratch glass with. But you'd never make a rake out of a tool steel.
Roof rakes don't have tines. It's more like a small plow or snow shovel on the end of a long handle that you drag across your roof to remove snow. Usually the end is plastic, but I've seen aluminum as well. Some also have little rubber wheels on the side to avoid damaging the roof.
The FCC could pass regulations that will be invalidated upon Trump's inauguration, or they could avoid wasting everyone's time and do this. They took the cost-cutting choice.
The FCC is an independent agency. The president gets to appoint commissioners, designate the chairman, and suggest policy, but he does not have the authority to set the agenda or give orders. Further only 3 of the 5 commissioners may be of the same party as the president. Trump will get to appoint two new commissioners in 2017 as their terms are expiring, so the new board will almost certainly got from majority (D) to (R).
There's a big difference between the new administration overturning something the previous one had set in motion versus the outgoing administration silently dropping it. In the former case, the press might ask questions about why the policy shift occurred, in the latter, the issue might disappear without a trace.
Yep. I'm more worried that they'd have been perfectly happy paying $80,000 per bullet (that was the design!)
If it's an alternative to firing a $1,000,000 cruise missile, I could see the appeal. Not that I think this thing is a good idea, but I can understand how it got sold.
Different heating systems? Right now, for me, natural gas is way cheaper per BTU than electricity.
That jerk who comes to work with an active flu and infects the whole place should have to suffer with ten consecutive flus for that.
I don't know about you, but I only get 5 sick days a year. Those have to cover not only myself, but I might also have to use them if my wife is too sick to take care of the kids, or the kids are sick but my wife has to work. So if I'm sick and I can work from home I will, but if that's not possible, I'll drag myself to the office unless I'm physically incapable of doing so rather than use a sick day.
Samsung is, for the moment ay least, a multi-billion dollar company with huge pockets. Win or lose the cost of this type of court case is a blip in their budget. However for the defendant the financial risk is huge: he could lose his life savings on a case like this.
Isn't Youtube the defendant here? Google could step in here.
Nope, as long as YouTube abides by the terms of the DMCA, they are shielded from liability. This means they must take down the video when they receive a copyright claim, but must reinstate the video if the author files a counter claim. At that point, Samsung's recourse would be to sue the author.
Sounds like ICANN should have their operating costs covered for the next 50 years though.
...fans able to disseminate and see live shows via videotape
Does he really think there's little reels of tape inside smartphones?
Maybe like one of those 1960's mainframes, but smaller...
I also "tape" shows on the DVR. It's a colloquialism. Just like how shows are "filmed" in front of a live audience, even though hardly anyone uses film anymore. Musicians still release "records" even though many of them will never press any vinyl.
I think the point is that there are unethical people and lawbreakers. If the car cannot handle them correctly by identifying that the danger they face is one they created by their own incorrect behavior, then it is deficient.
In other words, humans have an implicit understanding that "person jumping out in front of traffic" and "pedestrian minding their own business who is in the path of an accident" are in two vastly different ethical positions. Colloquially, "even a dog knows the difference between being kicked and being stumbled over.â
There's no way a human is doing that moral calculus in the instant they have to make a decision when someone leaps in front of their car either. You are going to act instinctively, which for most people probably means standing on the brake with both feet. Any moral justification for your action is just going to be a post hoc rationalization. Which is also exactly what the automation will do as well (come to a precipitous stop, not the rationalizing).
The safest thing to do in such a situation is to not be driving too fast in the first place. This is where I think automated systems will really outshine people - they have an inexhaustible supply of patience and won't exceed a speed at which they can adequately respond to unexpected events. If you are going 40mph down a residential road lined with parked cars, you've created a situation where some accidents are unavoidable, yet I see people drive like that all the time.
they are probably casing your place. Amazon's vehicles have a logo on them.
In Boston they are absolutely vanilla white commercial vans with a magnetic Amazon logo slapped on the side. Not exactly hard to impersonate.
The letter carrier will come, forget to bring the package (or maybe just not feel like delivering it?), and lie and send a "delivery attempted" update. MY wife has watched to letter carrier come and go, never approach the front door, and 10 minutes later the SMS notification pops up on our phones. A former roommate of mine once found a letter containing a check she had mailed in a pile of scattered mail in the park. I guess the carrier was feeling a little overburdened that day?
I personally love UPS. I've never had a serious issue with them in 15 years of ordering stuff from Amazon. I know other people here have huge problems with them and that's fine. I think the point is that how good your service is depends hugely on how well run your shipper's local hub is run. My local post office is the pits, while my local UPS carriers are great. This is why Amazon should let prime members set carrier preferences. My opinion of Amazon has plummeted since they started using USPS in my area. I'd never received a package through USPS from them before last year and would like to never again.
Exactly right. If we applied the same "but it's got to be safe" hand waving that we do today to historical ventures, we'd still be sitting in Europe wondering about crossing the ocean in sail powered craft and dreaming of flying craft - and the regulations we'd have to slap on them.
I'm of the opinion that we never should have climbed down from the trees in the first place.
You just know that they're going to get to Mars and then, and only then, discover that they forgot to include a ladder ;)
It's OK: they'll just drop the 40 feet to the surface, land on their helmet, ragdoll down a hill, and stand up about 10 seconds later.
I'm waiting to see a self driving car navigate across Boston during a nor'easter while avoiding all the road cones and lawn chairs strewn around the street. Not to mention navigating around plows, traffic cops, potholes, double-parked cars, dealing with disabled street lights, no visible road markings, pedestrians walking down the middle of the street due to inaccessible sidewalks, and the occasional parade of wild turkeys. All of which I've seen on my daily commute.
It's nice that someone is finally running a test in a location with weather. So far it seems like most of these vehicles are just designed for puttering around southern California or the Nevada desert.
I see a lot of posts about "why".
Well the reason is that if the US doesn't give up control, countries have been threatening with building their own internet infrastructure to run in parallel.
If these countries (Brazil, Russia, etc) did create a "second internet", then Google, Facebook, Twitter, etc, would all be shut off from their customers in those regions.
I get all of that, but why does that make it a good idea to then cede control of ICANN to an international body and give countries such as China an official role in internet governance globally? Right now these authoritarian regimes are limited to just fucking up their own national networks, why give them the opportunity to fuck things up globally?
Granted things are never going to go back to "the good old days" of the mid 90's in terms of laissez faire internet self-governance, but I've yet to see a convincing explanation of how this move will mitigate anti-freedom policies or the fracturing of the internet into national islands. There are going to be countries that give the finger to the international community and erect national information barriers no matter what we do.
These are domain names. It's like the Yellow Pages of the Internet. How does "censoring" a domain name prevent a particular form of expression?
How many IP addresses for how many services do you suppose the average internet user has committed to memory? I would hazard that number is 0. When a service is delisted from DNS, it might as well not exist for most people. While technically removing a DNS entry is like being delisted in the yellow pages in that the server still exists and can be accessed by those who know its address, practically a name-less server is more like a radio station that has been taken off the air. Or more precisely, it's as if the government had the ability to magically remove 108fm from everyone's radio dial: the station might be broadcasting, but it's impossible for 99.9% of the population to tune in anymore because they don't know how to build a radio.
If a company has a legit takedown notice for 10,000 items, 5 of which are wrong, it is really fair to fine them $750,000 despite having an accuracy rate of 99.95%? If it were 90% (which it probably is) then it is a problem.
Yes. When dealing in large numbers, it's more important to limit the rate of unintentional harm, not less. For example, a cure that has a fatal side effect 0.05% of the time might be acceptable if the disease was very rare and only administered to 10 people a year, but it would be totally unacceptable in a vaccine that was administered to 100,000.
For the large company, $750k is a drop in the bucket, but for one of those 5 people, you may have seriously harmed their livelihood. If the copyright violation is serious enough to issue a take down, I don't think it's unreasonable to ask that them to spend $10-30 in intern or paralegal time to verify the claim is legit instead of feeding everything through a script with no human verification.
I've got gmail, Feedly, a couple of /. tabs, and my Youtube subscriptions open right now. CPU usage is hovering between 0.02% and 0.8%. Occasionally it spikes all the way up to 2.5% -- I assume this is when either Feedly or Gmail auto-refreshes in the background. I've seen FF shit the bed before, and it definitely has some problems, but just having a few static tabs open shouldn't be tanking your CPU.
The bank can link the check number back to you account. The check itself doesn't identify you, but it's not anonymous.
Why would anyone need to shoot it down? The whole thing is a bomb!. /s
... If that is "ok to do" than pretty much all the DOJ need do is find some banana republic somewhere to hire some work out to and basically anything they do on the Internet is suddenly above and beyond the reach of law.
Yeah, if only there were a banana republic conveniently located 300 miles or so offshore with a military base or something where the US government could operate extrajudicially...
Re-enable Ctrl+Alt+Del for logins. Start/Run/netplwiz, Advanced tab, check require Ctrl+Alt+Del to login. Then it will be unambiguous when you are logging in vs cat ran across the keyboard.
Also, there should be an option for folder windows to all run in separate processes from each other and not just from the taskbar and every attempt should be made to let the user decide what folder views to restore afte r a crash.
The ability to separate explorer windows into individual processes has been around at least since 2000. It's been slightly buried in the latest version, but you can find it under View/Options/Change Folder and Search Options, View Tab, under "Advanced Settings", check "Launch folder windows in a separate process"
I want my monkey man!
Actually, no. That defense doesn't work because you're format-shifting. More specifically, you're going from a format that doesn't have copyright to one that does - you are not allowed to dump ROMs, period, without a legitimate developmental reason.
It's a funny thing, but a mask programmed ROM is actually not copyrighted. It's Mask-protected (it's a M in a circle, similar to how copyright is C in a circle). Mask works have higher protections, and even though you can easily dump it, the conversion from physical to software is actually completely illegal.
That may have been true at one time, but as far as I can tell, Mask Protection in the US only extends to 10 years, so any original NES ROMs have long since fallen out of protection. The underlying software encoded in the ROM is still protected by copyright, and the game franchises that they represent are still trademarked, so anyone reproducing ROMs commercially would still be in hot water. However, at this point I think you would be within your rights to dump to ROMs in order to back up your software.