In some jurisdictions, failure to enforce a copyright can weaken a future claim. Works with patents too, and even more so with trademarks. Thus companies often like to enforce even the most worthless of copyrights, just in case they come in handy at some point in future.
Not quite sure why mind-machine interface requires graviton theory. The rest of it seems to suggest that the main use of the technology is improved control of air combat vehicles.
Complicated, but essential if you are to have any form of seperation between personal, social and family life.
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Hi Mom! I just got my new Google + account.
PS. Please don't try to look up this name, or else you'll find out about the highly detailed tentacle-porn artwork I made. With pokémon in.
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Because your current and future employers know how to google you, and will go digging up dirt when considering your employability. As you can't know who you'll be trying to work for, you can't even know what type of dirt they want. If you have ever said anything that could be seen as offensive to any religion, political party, social or economic class, sexual orientation, industry, lifestyle, race or nationality then that could cost you a job. The only options are to either use the internet pseudoanonymously, or be the most boring person ever to have lived.
We now know that they actually *do* have a uranium enrichment program, and it isn't clandestine any more. I don't know if they had it at the time of the agreement failure.
I don't know what happens in AU, but here in the UK (As I can personally verify from trying to look at the above link when it was blocked), ISPs tend not to actually give a block notice. Instead they spoof a 404 message, making it appear the file is gone. Unless the site admin is someone who checks the webserver logs and notices something is up, the owner might not even realise they have been blocked - only that they are mysteriously very unpopular in some countries. The users certainly wouldn't realise - unless you're poking around with traceroute, it just looks like a 404.
The most effective type of censorship is that in which the people don't even realise the censorship is taking place.
Javascript isn't even compiled. It's an interpreted language, as the 'script' implies. Very portable, pathetic performance. Good for making fancy websites that work well, but you don't get any serious number-crunching done.
... It's only offensive if you know what it means.
My own program to perform deconvolutions upon image data is developed as 'repornolyser' for it's obvious use. I also have a script called PonyMath that does math involving video compression, as the test file I used was a Friendship is Magic episode. Those are for my own use though.
NIS comes to mind - it wasn't renamed for PC reasons, but legal - formerly known as Yellow Pages, until the phone book of the same name took legal action over the trademark. The old name remains in use for various commands (ypcat and such) precisely because to rename the command would break a great many scripts.
Slight correction. No-one is sucking the Dead Sea - the water is so salty that even desalination is impractical. The level is dropping due to diversion of the incoming Jordan River. The blame for the resulting drop is shared between Israel, Jordan and Syria - all three of them draw large quantities of water from the Jordan River, so there isn't much left by the time it reaches the Dead Sea.
It's a nasty political mess. The 1967 Six Day War was fought because of that river. At the time, Israel drew most of their water from the river (They still do) - but Syria was upstream, and started constructing a project to divert the river for themselves. This would have completly destroyed Israel's agricultural industry and rendered parts of the country completly uninhabitable without an investment of tens of billions of dollars. When diplomacy failed to convince Syria to halt their plan, Israel launched a series of air-strikes on the constuction sites.
You can blame whoever you want, but it all comes down to the need for fresh water in a part of the world where there just isn't enough of it to go around. When such a vital resource is in such scarcity, evey country will do anything they can to secure it for themselves regardless of the consequences for others. The alternative is drought and mass-starvation, and that is no alternative at all.
Peltiers suck up energy. The area of PV panels needed would be impractical. The only use I can see for peltiers in this situation would be to cool down drinking water.
Problem: This is a protest. The government probably isn't going to approve, and that long pipe is just a very easy target. A man with an axe, or even a deniable 'accident' with a truck to lessen the diplomatic fallout, and the coolant supply is gone.
Minor correction: I was correct in my knowledge that the fabric is nothing special - it isn't some space-age superfabric made to survive harsh space conditions. I was wrong in my assumption that it was cotton. It's actually nylon. It's eventual fate is the same: Heat and sunlight will eventually cause it to break down chemically. Baring a visit from space-looters in the future or a really poorly placed meteor.
Fray. Huh. On the moon. Where there is no wind. Nothing to move the fabric at all. It'll stay up there exactly as it is until the high temperature and UV in sunlight causes the cellulose to degrade chemically. The fabric is nothing special.
A very simple way would be to just have the shutter glasses operate at a much higher frequency - say, 96Hz. Then each frame can be shown to the left eye, right eye, left eye, right eye... and then on to the next frame. Simple, elegant... but also very expensive to manufacture TFT panels capable of operating properly at a 96Hz refresh.
But against a non-hard surface, the surface would deform. At that point you have coriolis problems which would be hard on the drive. It'd still work, but it'd draw more power and wear the wheel down much faster, leaving rubbery marks on the floor.
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In some jurisdictions, failure to enforce a copyright can weaken a future claim. Works with patents too, and even more so with trademarks. Thus companies often like to enforce even the most worthless of copyrights, just in case they come in handy at some point in future.
They also have the advantage of very lax environmental protection and workplace safety laws.
Not quite sure why mind-machine interface requires graviton theory. The rest of it seems to suggest that the main use of the technology is improved control of air combat vehicles.
The telephone directory doesn't also supply information on your political views and taste in porn. A google-check on someone does.
Complicated, but essential if you are to have any form of seperation between personal, social and family life.
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Hi Mom! I just got my new Google + account.
PS. Please don't try to look up this name, or else you'll find out about the highly detailed tentacle-porn artwork I made. With pokémon in.
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Because your current and future employers know how to google you, and will go digging up dirt when considering your employability. As you can't know who you'll be trying to work for, you can't even know what type of dirt they want. If you have ever said anything that could be seen as offensive to any religion, political party, social or economic class, sexual orientation, industry, lifestyle, race or nationality then that could cost you a job. The only options are to either use the internet pseudoanonymously, or be the most boring person ever to have lived.
We now know that they actually *do* have a uranium enrichment program, and it isn't clandestine any more. I don't know if they had it at the time of the agreement failure.
I don't know what happens in AU, but here in the UK (As I can personally verify from trying to look at the above link when it was blocked), ISPs tend not to actually give a block notice. Instead they spoof a 404 message, making it appear the file is gone. Unless the site admin is someone who checks the webserver logs and notices something is up, the owner might not even realise they have been blocked - only that they are mysteriously very unpopular in some countries. The users certainly wouldn't realise - unless you're poking around with traceroute, it just looks like a 404.
The most effective type of censorship is that in which the people don't even realise the censorship is taking place.
Javascript isn't even compiled. It's an interpreted language, as the 'script' implies. Very portable, pathetic performance. Good for making fancy websites that work well, but you don't get any serious number-crunching done.
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It's only offensive if you know what it means.
My own program to perform deconvolutions upon image data is developed as 'repornolyser' for it's obvious use. I also have a script called PonyMath that does math involving video compression, as the test file I used was a Friendship is Magic episode. Those are for my own use though.
L vs Cats... hmm. Death Note crossover with Felidae? That would be... no. Just no.
NIS comes to mind - it wasn't renamed for PC reasons, but legal - formerly known as Yellow Pages, until the phone book of the same name took legal action over the trademark. The old name remains in use for various commands (ypcat and such) precisely because to rename the command would break a great many scripts.
Also heavy.
Slight correction. No-one is sucking the Dead Sea - the water is so salty that even desalination is impractical. The level is dropping due to diversion of the incoming Jordan River. The blame for the resulting drop is shared between Israel, Jordan and Syria - all three of them draw large quantities of water from the Jordan River, so there isn't much left by the time it reaches the Dead Sea.
It's a nasty political mess. The 1967 Six Day War was fought because of that river. At the time, Israel drew most of their water from the river (They still do) - but Syria was upstream, and started constructing a project to divert the river for themselves. This would have completly destroyed Israel's agricultural industry and rendered parts of the country completly uninhabitable without an investment of tens of billions of dollars. When diplomacy failed to convince Syria to halt their plan, Israel launched a series of air-strikes on the constuction sites.
You can blame whoever you want, but it all comes down to the need for fresh water in a part of the world where there just isn't enough of it to go around. When such a vital resource is in such scarcity, evey country will do anything they can to secure it for themselves regardless of the consequences for others. The alternative is drought and mass-starvation, and that is no alternative at all.
Peltiers suck up energy. The area of PV panels needed would be impractical. The only use I can see for peltiers in this situation would be to cool down drinking water.
Problem: This is a protest. The government probably isn't going to approve, and that long pipe is just a very easy target. A man with an axe, or even a deniable 'accident' with a truck to lessen the diplomatic fallout, and the coolant supply is gone.
Minor correction: I was correct in my knowledge that the fabric is nothing special - it isn't some space-age superfabric made to survive harsh space conditions. I was wrong in my assumption that it was cotton. It's actually nylon. It's eventual fate is the same: Heat and sunlight will eventually cause it to break down chemically. Baring a visit from space-looters in the future or a really poorly placed meteor.
It's practical value is nothing. It's economic value is what someone will pay for it. Thus it's worth $60,000.
Fray. Huh. On the moon. Where there is no wind. Nothing to move the fabric at all. It'll stay up there exactly as it is until the high temperature and UV in sunlight causes the cellulose to degrade chemically. The fabric is nothing special.
It's easier to understand if you just say that 'its' falls into the same gramatical class as 'his' and 'hers.'
HDCP was designed for DVI. HDMI came later. The only difference DRMwise is that HDCP support is optional on DVI devices, but manditory on HDMI.
A very simple way would be to just have the shutter glasses operate at a much higher frequency - say, 96Hz. Then each frame can be shown to the left eye, right eye, left eye, right eye... and then on to the next frame. Simple, elegant... but also very expensive to manufacture TFT panels capable of operating properly at a 96Hz refresh.
I didn't say it wouldn't work. I said it would work, but soft surfaces would wear the ball out faster than hard surfaces.
But against a non-hard surface, the surface would deform. At that point you have coriolis problems which would be hard on the drive. It'd still work, but it'd draw more power and wear the wheel down much faster, leaving rubbery marks on the floor.
Patients would work out where they need to tape a magnet to get high?