Personally, if I went to France to live, and found out the government spied on me for no reason, I would be pissed even though I am not a French citizen.
Apparently you have never been a foreigner living in France, because you would be hard-pressed to find a more xenophobic government in a first-world country.
I have a big question. Why is everyone so uptight about the rights of "American citizens", and apparently not concerned about the rights of visiting foreigners in the US?
Any societal group, from a small family to a globe-spanning organized religion, will first care for their own. It's human nature.
The Windows Indexing Service uses a fair amount of disk space (approximately 30% the amount of the original files).
Weighing modern hard drive prices against the price of your time sounds like false economy on this scale. If you were storing many terabytes of important data, you'd already have a real indexing service anyways.
Now Google seems to be becoming one of those amoral companies. The new Google Desktop takes advantage of people who don't understand what is happening. Is Google going from "Do no harm" to "Anything if it makes money"?
A corporation with morals is like a coathanger with a conscience.
Corporations have one purpose: making money for the people in charge.
However, they are also useful contraptions that, overall, tend to increase everbody's standard of living. As long as we construct secure legal cages to limit their actions, things work well. When we stop being vigilant about securing that cage...when we believe that a certain company can "do no evil", we get what we deserve.
When a wolf kills a sheep, it's not being evil...it's just being a wolf. The fault lies with the gullible shepherd. In a similar vein, anybody who buys Google's "do no evil" soundbite is a fool. Google exists solely to make a small set of people lots of money. The rest of get some nice benefits, so we allow it to thrive. That doesn't mean removing the leash or closing our eyes just because it promises to play nice.
Show the First Nation's people the respect they deserve
"Showing respect" would be actually bothering to learn what tribe someone belongs to, instead of lumping everyone from Algonquins to Zunis into a single epithet. Using "First Nations" just means "I'm pretending to care, but I'm too lazy to actually give a shit."
But can you really say that making multiple complete perfect copies for your employees to review on their own time (off the clock!) is a necessary exercise of fair use when they had the option to call the employees in to take notes during a special screening in a conference room without making any copies at all?
US courts also have this wonderful concept of reasonable business practices, which stops many laws from being too broadly applied. The filmmaker and the MPAA entered into a business arrangement and in this case the MPAA followed typical procedures of which the filmmaker was clearly aware.
The best the filmmaker will get is some publicity. If he catches the MPAA legal division on a busy day and really did his homework beforehand, he might get breach of contract over the specific instructions barring copies.
Statutory damages for copyright infringement?...not a chance.
However, the list is randomly arranged for every voter. A voter can perform a post-facto verification on the number they voted for, but not the name. Now each voter can show their receipt to their boss and say of course I voted for Big_Business_Candidate...he was #3 on the list and my receipt shows I voted for #3.
It requires voters to be able to carry information in their head, but that probably should be a prerequisite for voting in the first place.
...there is also a difference of published versus unpublished information...
There is a massive difference there. Once information is published, natural ownership of the content is transferred from the author to the public. Consider US law...if authors still had natural ownership to published content, then A) granting a copyright would not be possible, since the public would lack the necessary rights to grant one, and B) expiring a copyright would violate the 4th Amendment.
Once you publish your thoughts and ideas, they don't belong to you anymore. Society naturally owns them and can do what it wants with them. However, most civilized societies find it reasonable to return some rights of ownership back to you, but certainly not ownership of the actual content.
Taking unpublished content = taking something solely owned by the author = infringing the property rights of the author = theft
Taking published content not under copyright = taking something owned by society, of which you are a member = fair game
Taking published content under copyright = taking something owned by society, but for which society has agreed to forgo some rights of ownership, giving those rights to the author = infringing the copyrights of the author = violating copyright
At any given moment, somewhere on Earth, some thermometer is recording a record high temperature. Also, at any given moment, some thermometer is also recording a record low temperature.
Humans have only been recording temperatures for about 60,000 days. There are far more than 60,000 places to measure temperature, so we should expect to see extreme temperature reports on a regular basis.
Dell sells computers, they don't invent them or the software they run. His expertise is reliability and customer support.
Dell built themselves on customer support. At one time, any Dell customer could talk to a real, English-speaking person at any time, day or night. Just like IBM in the 80s and Sony in the 90s, Dell has forgotten the one thing that made them famous. It won't be too long before Dell hits the wall. Once you expand so far that there are no more new customers and you have pissed off most of your old customers, revenue plummets hard and fast.
Last time I used an new out-of-the-box Dell (November 2005), about 30 minutes after boot-up, IE randomly started up fullscreen asking:
Would you like to see Dell's latest offers!?!?!? o YES!!! o no...I want to continue what I was doing.
I really want to meet the tard that thinks interrupting your customers' work to spam them will make them happy. I also want to meet the tard manager that lets tards like that touch the product.
It's not the fault of linux if hardware manufacturers are not providing drivers.
You are dead wrong here. It is the fault of the Linux community if hardware vendors don't provide drivers.
If Microsoft had no hardware support due to lack of drivers for XP, who's fault is that? It's M$'s for not cajoling, coercing, contracting, or conscripting the vendors to write drivers.
You mean you 'cable' a digital line and 'wire' and analog one? I get it....
MediaOne ran a coax cable to my living room. I'm glad I told the technician I ordered Digital Cable, because he might not have know whether to 'wire' it or 'cable' it. What if he did the wrong one???
Do you 'cable' a DC power line? It is, technically, digtial.
If you want to dicuss semantics and etymology, don't try to invent your own rules.
Re-read the article.
Rings are laid inside the sewer pipe that have conduit clamps at the top. Steel conduit is then clamped to the rings so the conduit is running along the roof of the sewer pipe. Once the conduit is in place, pull wires are blown through the conduit, then used to pull the fiber through.
You seriously thought they were running a loose fiber line throught a live sewer pipe??
The retail price is another overhyped number that makes no difference.
3dfx and NVIDIA couldn't care less about retail marketshare--all they want is retail mindshare, with store shelves filled with huge numbers of boxes and fancy displays.
They don't care so much about retail sales because the OEM pie is much bigger./.ers are a tiny chunk of the population. Most people only have the card that came with their computer.
These companies only make a flagship product to get people talking about it--not to actually make money off it. The money comes from OEM sales of their 2nd or 3rd tier product.
It makes perfect sense for 3dfx to not release the V5/6K if it is not going to dominate the GTS2Ultra. Only the king of the hill gets the press.
This also means the statement about the V5/6K needing too much customer support is utter crap. If it could blow away the competition, they would release it.
Ford doesn't put a logo on its trucks to advertise Ford to the owner of the truck. The Netscape situation is more like the following:
Ceiling of truck covered with unremovable maps directing you to all the Ford owned places you can drive to, but nothing else
Truck asks you if you would like it to be your 'default vehicle' and changes all your car keys to only work in this truck
Low Gas light reminding you to buy some more Ford gas
Big sign behind the spare tire slot reminding you to buy another Ford tire
Congress is going to reform the voting apparatus of America, it ought to set up a publicly funded research project to do this, and fund the equipment and software as well
Geez...When will people understand?
Voting is,has been, and will always be an enterprise of the individual states. This was one of the primary reasons for the 10th Amendment.
Federal regulations on voting are bad. Actually, let me repeat that in case you missed it. Federal regulations on voting are bad. Statewise peer review of other state's elections is good. Ensure that voting access is unabridged, but otherwise leave it to the states.
I'm convinced this country has survived because the Founding Fathers were one hell of alot smarter than their successive progeny.
What the electoral college does is require the winner to have received a broad base of support across the whole country. Whoever wins, we can be sure that lots of people in lots of different places voted for him.
We do not live in a democracy, we live in a constitutional republic. Were we to live in a democracy, this nation would be called The State, not The United States. The Constitution exists to limit the powers of the national government that binds the individual states; each of which have their own state constitution, laws, government, and militia.
Democracies do not scale. The centralized infrastructure to support them cannot be guarded from corruption via peer review because the central government by nature has no peers. The viability of the US lies in the republic. States and counties are given autonomy over much of their actions with expicit regard to voting.
Cook County, Illinois, was a mess in the 1960 election. The US can absord and survive such corruption because it cannot proceed beyond that level. Voting handled on a national level is subject to fraud on a national level without the inclusion of excessive collaborators. History has plenty of democratically elected tyrants.
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Am I the only one that read the article title as:
Sony to Bundle WMDs with DVDs
talk about draconian DRM...
Personally, if I went to France to live, and found out the government spied on me for no reason, I would be pissed even though I am not a French citizen.
Apparently you have never been a foreigner living in France, because you would be hard-pressed to find a more xenophobic government in a first-world country.
I have a big question. Why is everyone so uptight about the rights of "American citizens", and apparently not concerned about the rights of visiting foreigners in the US?
Any societal group, from a small family to a globe-spanning organized religion, will first care for their own. It's human nature.
The Windows Indexing Service uses a fair amount of disk space (approximately 30% the amount of the original files).
Weighing modern hard drive prices against the price of your time sounds like false economy on this scale. If you were storing many terabytes of important data, you'd already have a real indexing service anyways.
Now Google seems to be becoming one of those amoral companies. The new Google Desktop takes advantage of people who don't understand what is happening. Is Google going from "Do no harm" to "Anything if it makes money"?
A corporation with morals is like a coathanger with a conscience.
Corporations have one purpose: making money for the people in charge.
However, they are also useful contraptions that, overall, tend to increase everbody's standard of living. As long as we construct secure legal cages to limit their actions, things work well. When we stop being vigilant about securing that cage...when we believe that a certain company can "do no evil", we get what we deserve.
When a wolf kills a sheep, it's not being evil...it's just being a wolf. The fault lies with the gullible shepherd. In a similar vein, anybody who buys Google's "do no evil" soundbite is a fool. Google exists solely to make a small set of people lots of money. The rest of get some nice benefits, so we allow it to thrive. That doesn't mean removing the leash or closing our eyes just because it promises to play nice.
Show the First Nation's people the respect they deserve
"Showing respect" would be actually bothering to learn what tribe someone belongs to, instead of lumping everyone from Algonquins to Zunis into a single epithet. Using "First Nations" just means "I'm pretending to care, but I'm too lazy to actually give a shit."
But can you really say that making multiple complete perfect copies for your employees to review on their own time (off the clock!) is a necessary exercise of fair use when they had the option to call the employees in to take notes during a special screening in a conference room without making any copies at all?
US courts also have this wonderful concept of reasonable business practices, which stops many laws from being too broadly applied. The filmmaker and the MPAA entered into a business arrangement and in this case the MPAA followed typical procedures of which the filmmaker was clearly aware.
The best the filmmaker will get is some publicity. If he catches the MPAA legal division on a busy day and really did his homework beforehand, he might get breach of contract over the specific instructions barring copies.
Statutory damages for copyright infringement?...not a chance.
There is a way around that issue:
Everybody sees a number next to each option:
1) Fred
2) Bob
3) Jim
However, the list is randomly arranged for every voter. A voter can perform a post-facto verification on the number they voted for, but not the name. Now each voter can show their receipt to their boss and say of course I voted for Big_Business_Candidate...he was #3 on the list and my receipt shows I voted for #3.
It requires voters to be able to carry information in their head, but that probably should be a prerequisite for voting in the first place.
...there is also a difference of published versus unpublished information...
There is a massive difference there. Once information is published, natural ownership of the content is transferred from the author to the public. Consider US law...if authors still had natural ownership to published content, then A) granting a copyright would not be possible, since the public would lack the necessary rights to grant one, and B) expiring a copyright would violate the 4th Amendment.
Once you publish your thoughts and ideas, they don't belong to you anymore. Society naturally owns them and can do what it wants with them. However, most civilized societies find it reasonable to return some rights of ownership back to you, but certainly not ownership of the actual content.
Taking unpublished content
= taking something solely owned by the author
= infringing the property rights of the author
= theft
Taking published content not under copyright
= taking something owned by society, of which you are a member
= fair game
Taking published content under copyright
= taking something owned by society, but for which society has agreed to forgo some rights of ownership, giving those rights to the author
= infringing the copyrights of the author
= violating copyright
At any given moment, somewhere on Earth, some thermometer is recording a record high temperature. Also, at any given moment, some thermometer is also recording a record low temperature.
Humans have only been recording temperatures for about 60,000 days. There are far more than 60,000 places to measure temperature, so we should expect to see extreme temperature reports on a regular basis.
Dell sells computers, they don't invent them or the software they run. His expertise is reliability and customer support.
Dell built themselves on customer support. At one time, any Dell customer could talk to a real, English-speaking person at any time, day or night. Just like IBM in the 80s and Sony in the 90s, Dell has forgotten the one thing that made them famous. It won't be too long before Dell hits the wall. Once you expand so far that there are no more new customers and you have pissed off most of your old customers, revenue plummets hard and fast.
Last time I used an new out-of-the-box Dell (November 2005), about 30 minutes after boot-up, IE randomly started up fullscreen asking:
Would you like to see Dell's latest offers!?!?!?
o YES!!!
o no...I want to continue what I was doing.
I really want to meet the tard that thinks interrupting your customers' work to spam them will make them happy. I also want to meet the tard manager that lets tards like that touch the product.
It's not the fault of linux if hardware manufacturers are not providing drivers.
You are dead wrong here. It is the fault of the Linux community if hardware vendors don't provide drivers.
If Microsoft had no hardware support due to lack of drivers for XP, who's fault is that? It's M$'s for not cajoling, coercing, contracting, or conscripting the vendors to write drivers.
That's not data that travels to my speakers?
You mean you 'cable' a digital line and 'wire' and analog one? I get it....
MediaOne ran a coax cable to my living room. I'm glad I told the technician I ordered Digital Cable, because he might not have know whether to 'wire' it or 'cable' it. What if he did the wrong one???
Do you 'cable' a DC power line? It is, technically, digtial.
If you want to dicuss semantics and etymology, don't try to invent your own rules.
Re-read the article. Rings are laid inside the sewer pipe that have conduit clamps at the top. Steel conduit is then clamped to the rings so the conduit is running along the roof of the sewer pipe. Once the conduit is in place, pull wires are blown through the conduit, then used to pull the fiber through. You seriously thought they were running a loose fiber line throught a live sewer pipe??
The retail price is another overhyped number that makes no difference.
/.ers are a tiny chunk of the population. Most people only have the card that came with their computer.
3dfx and NVIDIA couldn't care less about retail marketshare--all they want is retail mindshare, with store shelves filled with huge numbers of boxes and fancy displays.
They don't care so much about retail sales because the OEM pie is much bigger.
These companies only make a flagship product to get people talking about it--not to actually make money off it. The money comes from OEM sales of their 2nd or 3rd tier product.
It makes perfect sense for 3dfx to not release the V5/6K if it is not going to dominate the GTS2Ultra. Only the king of the hill gets the press.
This also means the statement about the V5/6K needing too much customer support is utter crap. If it could blow away the competition, they would release it.
The French vox populi on this issue would cause half the /. population to retch. The judge really nailed the general French sentiment in his ruling.
We don't want this content.
We understand it's difficult to filter, but...
If you want to do business here, figure it out.
This is no dangerous precedent; this isn't the top of a slippery slope; this is how things are.
It's not America's business to 'liberate' people who are not asking for 'American' liberty.
I hope we have these things at BattleBots pretty damn soon. heh heh heh...
Ford doesn't put a logo on its trucks to advertise Ford to the owner of the truck. The Netscape situation is more like the following:
Ceiling of truck covered with unremovable maps directing you to all the Ford owned places you can drive to, but nothing else
Truck asks you if you would like it to be your 'default vehicle' and changes all your car keys to only work in this truck
Low Gas light reminding you to buy some more Ford gas
Big sign behind the spare tire slot reminding you to buy another Ford tire
Keep reading further down that link you posted.
If you are going to selectively quote, don't link to the page that also invalidates your spin.
States still have the right to deny those liberties for matters of state security.
Slavery is not an issue of state security, voter tampering is.
Congress is going to reform the voting apparatus of America, it ought to set up a publicly funded research project to do this, and fund the equipment and software as well
Geez...When will people understand?
Voting is,has been, and will always be an enterprise of the individual states. This was one of the primary reasons for the 10th Amendment.
Federal regulations on voting are bad. Actually, let me repeat that in case you missed it. Federal regulations on voting are bad. Statewise peer review of other state's elections is good. Ensure that voting access is unabridged, but otherwise leave it to the states.
I'm convinced this country has survived because the Founding Fathers were one hell of alot smarter than their successive progeny.
IIRC, Didn't 3dfx recently merge with/buyout STB and their entire line of card manufacturing?
Seems really odd to ditch the card manufacturing business after acquiring a card manufacturer
Congress shall make no law abridging the freedom of speech...
/.ers) learn to read.???
The states can do as they please.
When will people (especially
What the electoral college does is require the winner to have received a broad base of support across the whole country. Whoever wins, we can be sure that lots of people in lots of different places voted for him.
We do not live in a democracy, we live in a constitutional republic. Were we to live in a democracy, this nation would be called The State, not The United States. The Constitution exists to limit the powers of the national government that binds the individual states; each of which have their own state constitution, laws, government, and militia.
Democracies do not scale. The centralized infrastructure to support them cannot be guarded from corruption via peer review because the central government by nature has no peers. The viability of the US lies in the republic. States and counties are given autonomy over much of their actions with expicit regard to voting.
Cook County, Illinois, was a mess in the 1960 election. The US can absord and survive such corruption because it cannot proceed beyond that level. Voting handled on a national level is subject to fraud on a national level without the inclusion of excessive collaborators. History has plenty of democratically elected tyrants.
This was my first reaction too, but when I started playing with his math myself, I discovered that an orthogonal method keeps the math much simpler.
If you look closely, the triangular lattice is composed entirely of right triangles before deformation.
nt.
At least the Missouri senator lost by a good margin.
Then again, he had some stiff competition