Yes, but a piece of music has more than one copyright. The musical notes are one copyright, and would indeed be long, long expired. But a specific performance if that music is it's own copyright. So if you want to actually share Ode to Joy, you need to either find a sufficiently old recording, or an orchestra which has performed the work and allows redistribution.
It's really easy on a regular PC or laptop - remember that sending a MAC other than the one in the card is required for transparent bridging or for hosting virtual machines. On a phone, you'd need to root/jailbreak it.
Users - regular users, the type the business hires to actually do the things that make money - no longer know what a file extension is. They know there are word files, and image files, and sound files. That's all. If extensions appeared, they would be confused, then learn to ignore them. Then they'd start renaming files in the course of their work, delete the silly bit at the end of the name, and start bothering the IT dept with support calls of 'my word is corrupt please help.'
Americans are horrible. Iraqis are horrible. Prisoners are horrible. The public are horrible. Because at the end, *people* are horrible. It's their instinctual nature: Care for your family, care for your friends, and everyone else is either an enemy or doesn't exist. Everything we have built and call society over ten thousand years of civilisation is devoted to managing this fundamental problem.
True, but this is one of those issues on which the parties are united. There's no point trying to win the support of prisoners - they can't vote, they generally don't have any great wealth to donate to a party, and they aren't socially influential. Plus the public has little to no sympathy for them. Indeed, many have the opposite of sympathy - people actually enjoy hearing that the lives of prisoners have been made a bit more miserable, and get angry upon learning that any sort of action has been taken which might make their lives more tolerable. So it does not matter if Republicans or Democrats are in charge: They'll both screw over prisoners. The only difference I can think of is that Republicans are more likely to grant Christian minsters free access to prisoners in the belief that finding Jesus will heal them of their criminal tendencies.
It's everywhere. I used to be a regular reader and commenter on Digg, years ago. It was good back then. I was part of the wave that left following two major scandals*, but when I go back there now I see that it's almost all clickbait. Not that it was completely clickbait-free eight years ago either, but it's a lot worse now.
*The 'Digg Patriots' event which revealed a small group of users had been conspiring to manipulate the site algorithms with a political agenda, and the revamping of the site which saw a sudden rush of blatantly paid-placement articles even as the operators denied ever allowing such a practice.
The tech industry has a history of companies which pioneer a field, develop new technologies, and then crash hard. The technology then gets used by later companies who can build on the mistakes. It's quite plausible that in twenty years, Tesla will no longer exist - but all the major automotive manufacturers of today will be churning out mass-produced affordable electric cars, and buried within them will be components designed by Tesla engineers.
Don't be so sure. Trump's message is simple, and has a long history of winning over a population in many countries. Patriotism, a dash of religion, demonise the other party, and blame all the evils of the country upon outsiders. It worked for Hitler. It worked for Putin. It worked for Kim Il-sung. So far, it's worked for Trump.
Not quite. Putin might want to bring back the Soviet Union - a time when a person could be proud to call themselves Russian, even if the country seldom came close to living up to the ideals it proclaimed. He still has a long way to go.
- report: get punished, possibly fired, but maybe just losing bonus - Not report: Small chance of detection, very small chance of dead crew, most likely get away with it.
I'd add hash-based links, like magnet and IPFS. They've found a niche, but are too cumbersome for general use. Perhaps the full backing of Google could make IPFS mainstream, but even then it'd only work for static content.
You'll never see 5V wiring through the home to sockets, for a very practical reason: Line drop. A fast-charge USB device draws two amps - you try to run that through fifty meters of cheap cabling, you're going to be getting quite a bit less than 5V at the socket. What you might see, though, are wall-embedded USB power supplies: You already see lots of sockets here in the UK that incorporate a little USB port, but the wall wiring is all 230V behind it. I doubt those power supplies are built to very high standards of efficiency or reliability.
True, but how often do you see brushed DC motors now? Most are brushless. They have become cheaper to make than brushes - a cheap controller chip costs less then the mechanics of brushed commutation.
I'd go for 48V rather than 24V if I was doing that. Lower loss, smaller cables, and there's a great deal of telecoms and networking equipment already designed for 48V, which means mass-produced power supplies. But it's not going to happen, because you'll never be able to convince domestic users to throw out all their appliances and buy new ones. Plus there are a few appliances - refrigerators, air conditioning, cooking - which will never be able to take 48V at any sane current, so you'd just end up running a whole parallel power system anyway.
Most British sockets do not contain GFCIs - we call them RCDs. But there are exceptions - sockets for use in high-risk areas do indeed have built-in RCDs. We also have polarised plugs. All connectors have a protective earth too, but not all appliance cables use it. A UK kettle will always have any metal parts in contact with the water connected to that protective earth, in case of an element fault.
English wiring is actually far superior to the US, and has a few slight advantages over the rest of Europe.
For one, we're on 230V domestic, not 110 - which means no need to have two-phase power in domestic use for heavy loads. The really heavy appliances like showers and cookers might need wiring directly into the breaker panel, but it's still single phase all over. We also have sockets with a few built-in safety mechanisms - an internal fuse in the plug so every appliances gets it's own fuse, rated to the appliance, and the sockets have a safety shutter mechanism which is keyed to the earth pin on the plug - if that pin isn't in the socket won't open, so you can't stick a fork in it.
Microsoft used to have an exact opposite of that licence - back when their war with open source was at it's peak, some of their development licenses had a clause referring to 'identified software.' It doesn't only forbid developers from releasing source code, it forbids them from utilising open-source development tools or libraries, and even from allowing their software to be distributed on the same media as open source software. This dates from the 'M$' era though, when they were at the most aggressively anticompetative - believe they have toned it down now, but you can still find the clause in licences for some of their older products.
Here's an example from the Windows XP Embedded licence: --- Identified Software. Your license rights to the SOFTWARE PRODUCT are conditioned upon you (a) not incorporating Identified Software into, or combining Identified Software with, the SOFTWARE PRODUCT or a derivative work thereof; (b) not distributing Identified Software in conjunction with the SOFTWARE PRODUCT or a derivative work thereof; and (c) not using Identified Software in the development of a derivative work of the SOFTWARE PRODUCT. “Identified Software” means software which is licensed pursuant to terms that directly or indirectly (i) create, or purport to create, obligations for Microsoft with respect to the SOFTWARE PRODUCT or derivative work thereof or (ii) grant, or purport to grant, to any third party any rights or immunities under Microsoft’s intellectual property or proprietary rights in the SOFTWARE PRODUCT or derivative work thereof. Identified Software includes, without limitation, any software that requires as a condition of use, modification and/or distribution of such software that other software incorporated into, derived from or distributed with such software be (a) disclosed or distributed in source code form; (b) be licensed for the purpose of making derivative works; or (c) be redistributable at no charge.
But in software, someone has to pay. Fix your cake analogy: The cakes are made in a batch now. Once they are made, everyone gets a cake... but whoever wants their cake first needs to pay for the entire batch, and watch everyone else enjoy the cake they just paid for.
Everyone is going to do the economically sensible thing: Wait until someone else is hungry enough to foot the bill for the entire batch, and then enjoy free cake.
It's a big ocean. Dumping heat into it isn't going to have any wide-scale effect, even a few megawatts. It'll be enough to screw up a local ecosystem, but that's all. Remember most nuclear and coal-burning power stations already have this issue - they either dump the heat into the sea if costal, or into a river, or into the atmosphere using a cooling tower. Heat has to go somewhere.
I should have worded it better, but there's still a weird double standard. Consider the Kendrick Lamar incident: He was able to perform a song with the forbidden word in, but when a white fan tries to sing exactly the same words she was immediately stopped due to crowd anger.
I've read a couple of articles on conservative sites about flag placement, and recall they stressed the importance of flying the Christian flag above the American one. The intended message of doing so is "I'm a Christian first, and an American second."
There are laws in every state defining unacceptable characteristics for businesses to turn away a customer. Some of those states include sexual orientation on the list. As far as I am aware, none of them includes political affiliation. There's nothing to stop a state from passing a law to change that, if enough legislators decided it was a good idea.
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Yes, but a piece of music has more than one copyright. The musical notes are one copyright, and would indeed be long, long expired. But a specific performance if that music is it's own copyright. So if you want to actually share Ode to Joy, you need to either find a sufficiently old recording, or an orchestra which has performed the work and allows redistribution.
I would guess it's less about VPNs than about stopping people running bittorrent.
It's really easy on a regular PC or laptop - remember that sending a MAC other than the one in the card is required for transparent bridging or for hosting virtual machines. On a phone, you'd need to root/jailbreak it.
Users - regular users, the type the business hires to actually do the things that make money - no longer know what a file extension is. They know there are word files, and image files, and sound files. That's all. If extensions appeared, they would be confused, then learn to ignore them. Then they'd start renaming files in the course of their work, delete the silly bit at the end of the name, and start bothering the IT dept with support calls of 'my word is corrupt please help.'
Users stopped entering the www. long ago. Any web site operator already needs to work on the assumption that many won't.
Americans are horrible. Iraqis are horrible. Prisoners are horrible. The public are horrible. Because at the end, *people* are horrible. It's their instinctual nature: Care for your family, care for your friends, and everyone else is either an enemy or doesn't exist. Everything we have built and call society over ten thousand years of civilisation is devoted to managing this fundamental problem.
True, but this is one of those issues on which the parties are united. There's no point trying to win the support of prisoners - they can't vote, they generally don't have any great wealth to donate to a party, and they aren't socially influential. Plus the public has little to no sympathy for them. Indeed, many have the opposite of sympathy - people actually enjoy hearing that the lives of prisoners have been made a bit more miserable, and get angry upon learning that any sort of action has been taken which might make their lives more tolerable. So it does not matter if Republicans or Democrats are in charge: They'll both screw over prisoners. The only difference I can think of is that Republicans are more likely to grant Christian minsters free access to prisoners in the belief that finding Jesus will heal them of their criminal tendencies.
It's everywhere. I used to be a regular reader and commenter on Digg, years ago. It was good back then. I was part of the wave that left following two major scandals*, but when I go back there now I see that it's almost all clickbait. Not that it was completely clickbait-free eight years ago either, but it's a lot worse now.
*The 'Digg Patriots' event which revealed a small group of users had been conspiring to manipulate the site algorithms with a political agenda, and the revamping of the site which saw a sudden rush of blatantly paid-placement articles even as the operators denied ever allowing such a practice.
The tech industry has a history of companies which pioneer a field, develop new technologies, and then crash hard. The technology then gets used by later companies who can build on the mistakes. It's quite plausible that in twenty years, Tesla will no longer exist - but all the major automotive manufacturers of today will be churning out mass-produced affordable electric cars, and buried within them will be components designed by Tesla engineers.
Don't be so sure. Trump's message is simple, and has a long history of winning over a population in many countries. Patriotism, a dash of religion, demonise the other party, and blame all the evils of the country upon outsiders. It worked for Hitler. It worked for Putin. It worked for Kim Il-sung. So far, it's worked for Trump.
Not quite. Putin might want to bring back the Soviet Union - a time when a person could be proud to call themselves Russian, even if the country seldom came close to living up to the ideals it proclaimed. He still has a long way to go.
- report: get punished, possibly fired, but maybe just losing bonus
- Not report: Small chance of detection, very small chance of dead crew, most likely get away with it.
I'd add hash-based links, like magnet and IPFS. They've found a niche, but are too cumbersome for general use. Perhaps the full backing of Google could make IPFS mainstream, but even then it'd only work for static content.
You'll never see 5V wiring through the home to sockets, for a very practical reason: Line drop. A fast-charge USB device draws two amps - you try to run that through fifty meters of cheap cabling, you're going to be getting quite a bit less than 5V at the socket. What you might see, though, are wall-embedded USB power supplies: You already see lots of sockets here in the UK that incorporate a little USB port, but the wall wiring is all 230V behind it. I doubt those power supplies are built to very high standards of efficiency or reliability.
True, but how often do you see brushed DC motors now? Most are brushless. They have become cheaper to make than brushes - a cheap controller chip costs less then the mechanics of brushed commutation.
I'd go for 48V rather than 24V if I was doing that. Lower loss, smaller cables, and there's a great deal of telecoms and networking equipment already designed for 48V, which means mass-produced power supplies. But it's not going to happen, because you'll never be able to convince domestic users to throw out all their appliances and buy new ones. Plus there are a few appliances - refrigerators, air conditioning, cooking - which will never be able to take 48V at any sane current, so you'd just end up running a whole parallel power system anyway.
You're not allowed to touch any of it... but in practice, no-one ever respects that law in their own home.
Most British sockets do not contain GFCIs - we call them RCDs. But there are exceptions - sockets for use in high-risk areas do indeed have built-in RCDs. We also have polarised plugs. All connectors have a protective earth too, but not all appliance cables use it. A UK kettle will always have any metal parts in contact with the water connected to that protective earth, in case of an element fault.
English wiring is actually far superior to the US, and has a few slight advantages over the rest of Europe.
For one, we're on 230V domestic, not 110 - which means no need to have two-phase power in domestic use for heavy loads. The really heavy appliances like showers and cookers might need wiring directly into the breaker panel, but it's still single phase all over. We also have sockets with a few built-in safety mechanisms - an internal fuse in the plug so every appliances gets it's own fuse, rated to the appliance, and the sockets have a safety shutter mechanism which is keyed to the earth pin on the plug - if that pin isn't in the socket won't open, so you can't stick a fork in it.
Microsoft used to have an exact opposite of that licence - back when their war with open source was at it's peak, some of their development licenses had a clause referring to 'identified software.' It doesn't only forbid developers from releasing source code, it forbids them from utilising open-source development tools or libraries, and even from allowing their software to be distributed on the same media as open source software. This dates from the 'M$' era though, when they were at the most aggressively anticompetative - believe they have toned it down now, but you can still find the clause in licences for some of their older products.
Here's an example from the Windows XP Embedded licence:
---
Identified Software. Your license rights to the SOFTWARE PRODUCT are conditioned upon you
(a) not incorporating Identified Software into, or combining Identified Software with, the
SOFTWARE PRODUCT or a derivative work thereof; (b) not distributing Identified Software in
conjunction with the SOFTWARE PRODUCT or a derivative work thereof; and (c) not using
Identified Software in the development of a derivative work of the SOFTWARE PRODUCT.
“Identified Software” means software which is licensed pursuant to terms that directly or indirectly
(i) create, or purport to create, obligations for Microsoft with respect to the SOFTWARE PRODUCT
or derivative work thereof or (ii) grant, or purport to grant, to any third party any rights or
immunities under Microsoft’s intellectual property or proprietary rights in the SOFTWARE
PRODUCT or derivative work thereof. Identified Software includes, without limitation, any
software that requires as a condition of use, modification and/or distribution of such software that
other software incorporated into, derived from or distributed with such software be (a) disclosed or
distributed in source code form; (b) be licensed for the purpose of making derivative works; or (c) be
redistributable at no charge.
But in software, someone has to pay.
Fix your cake analogy: The cakes are made in a batch now. Once they are made, everyone gets a cake... but whoever wants their cake first needs to pay for the entire batch, and watch everyone else enjoy the cake they just paid for.
Everyone is going to do the economically sensible thing: Wait until someone else is hungry enough to foot the bill for the entire batch, and then enjoy free cake.
It's a big ocean. Dumping heat into it isn't going to have any wide-scale effect, even a few megawatts. It'll be enough to screw up a local ecosystem, but that's all. Remember most nuclear and coal-burning power stations already have this issue - they either dump the heat into the sea if costal, or into a river, or into the atmosphere using a cooling tower. Heat has to go somewhere.
I should have worded it better, but there's still a weird double standard. Consider the Kendrick Lamar incident: He was able to perform a song with the forbidden word in, but when a white fan tries to sing exactly the same words she was immediately stopped due to crowd anger.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/new...
I've read a couple of articles on conservative sites about flag placement, and recall they stressed the importance of flying the Christian flag above the American one. The intended message of doing so is "I'm a Christian first, and an American second."
There are laws in every state defining unacceptable characteristics for businesses to turn away a customer. Some of those states include sexual orientation on the list. As far as I am aware, none of them includes political affiliation. There's nothing to stop a state from passing a law to change that, if enough legislators decided it was a good idea.