Of course, the text-to-speech program isn't illegal,
Okay, I thought it was, because of the DMCA. But apparently even with the DMCA, it's not illegal to break DRM just to access a work you own a copy of, which is cool. Of course, it can be difficult to prove that DRM-breaking is used only for legal access.
The problem is that the text-to-speech program has to break the DRM to get cleartext it can translate to speech. And yes, I believe that's illegal under current laws.
I'm not British, but doesn't getting involved in politics is the job of a monarch?
In Britain, *NOT* getting involved in politics is the job of the monarch. She is a symbolic and ceremonial head of state. Haven't you ever heard, "In Britain, the Queen reigns but does not rule"?
All San Francisco can do is mandate that cell phones sold in San Francisco have that label. This would most likely simply result in no cell phones being sold in SF; you'd have to go outside the city when you wanted to buy one.
If she did that, she wouldn't stay Queen for very long. In fact, there probably wouldn't be a monarchy for very long. Commander-in-chief or not, I doubt the UK armed forces would follow those orders.There's a long tradition in the UK of a gap--sometimes a large gap--between the powers you *officially* have, and the powers you *actually* have. The Queen understands this very well.
why is it a felony crime to access someone else's email?
Because there is a Federal law, passed by Congress, against it. You do not, however, have any *Constitutional right* against the government itself doing so, because the fourth amendment does not apply here.
You gave your emails to Google. You no longer have any fourth amendment rights to them, and the Feds can have them any time they feel like asking for them.
Except your body won't stay on NYC time. It'll align itself with the sunlight hours you're now experiencing in LA. If you're a night owl in NYC, you'll be a night owl in LA, after that period of adjustment known as "jet lag". That's what jet lag is, you know, when your body's rhythms are trying to cope with having daytime suddenly shifted several hours on it.
Once again, you are--almost everybody reading Slashdot is--so atypical that no ISP really cares about your business. No ISP is interested in implementing IPv6 just so they can say they support it because that's going not going to have any meaning to 99% of their customers.
Because I'll switch ISPs to whomever offers me IPv6 first.
Oh, wait, that would require that I have a choice...
And, to be blunt, it would require that ISPs cared in slightest. Not one customer in a thousand would switch ISPs based on whether they offer IPv6. Hell, not one customer in a hundred knows what IPv6 *is*. You're not a big enough market to be worth worrying about.
Most code metrics (except for those that specifically evaluate comments) strip out comments before compiling. However, you can always do this: print
(
"hello world\n"
) ;
Could probably split up the string too, but I'm too lazy to look up the exact syntax for that.
Wrong. There are quite a few organizations who have access to Windows source code, yet Windows is still proprietary software.
For the purposes of evaluating the Coverity Scan results, it's irrelevant whether other organizations have access to Windows source code. The question is: Does Coverity have that access, and did they use it in compiling their results? I will admit I don't know, but I sincerely doubt it. According to the article, the proprietary results are only from those who are Coverity clients.
We use coverity where I work on proprietary code and part of their service is to report, anonymously obviously, the defect count, type and lines of code etc back to coverity IF YOU WANT TO.
Am I detecting a selection bias here? Coverity can run their tests against all of open source. Coverity can run their tests only against that proprietary code that decides to use it and report the results--and it strikes me that only the better, and more open, proprietary shops would be doing this. Is Mircrosoft reporting their code? I doubt it. Is Oracle?
I can answer that question with another one: How is the ISP going to make more money with IPv6? If it's supposed to get them customers, they need to explain clearly why they're better with IPv6 to the 99% of the customer base that doesn't even know what an IP address is. It's a chicken-and-egg problem--IPv6 won't be clearly superior to the end user until most of the Internet is on it, and most of the Internet won't be on IPv6 until it's clearly superior to the end user. Nobody wants to go first and lay the groundwork for no good advantage. Let somebody else do it first; when a lot of other people are on IPv6, then we'll have a reason to move. When ISPs look at IPv6, they see a large investment of time, money and expertise that doesn't really have any convincing prospect of making them money back.
Slashdot Mirror
...do I print out the Marauder's Map?
Today, an old favorite: Find the verb!
You know that's actually a real thing, right? The Mormons in particular are pretty well known for it.
Okay, I thought it was, because of the DMCA. But apparently even with the DMCA, it's not illegal to break DRM just to access a work you own a copy of, which is cool. Of course, it can be difficult to prove that DRM-breaking is used only for legal access.
The problem is that the text-to-speech program has to break the DRM to get cleartext it can translate to speech. And yes, I believe that's illegal under current laws.
Bah. Any true thief makes bill-trailing getaway in a Fiat 500.
I don't like sports and I wouldn't get my news from TV programs if you paid me. I think the networks are in trouble with me.
In Britain, *NOT* getting involved in politics is the job of the monarch. She is a symbolic and ceremonial head of state. Haven't you ever heard, "In Britain, the Queen reigns but does not rule"?
All San Francisco can do is mandate that cell phones sold in San Francisco have that label. This would most likely simply result in no cell phones being sold in SF; you'd have to go outside the city when you wanted to buy one.
If she did that, she wouldn't stay Queen for very long. In fact, there probably wouldn't be a monarchy for very long. Commander-in-chief or not, I doubt the UK armed forces would follow those orders.There's a long tradition in the UK of a gap--sometimes a large gap--between the powers you *officially* have, and the powers you *actually* have. The Queen understands this very well.
But your key. The bank doesn't get one. If the bank had access, fourth amendment would not apply.
Because there is a Federal law, passed by Congress, against it. You do not, however, have any *Constitutional right* against the government itself doing so, because the fourth amendment does not apply here.
I would guess that they are arguing that email is not a paper or effect.
He's not talking about the sound system. Engine noise and road noise from modern cars is considerably less than what it used to be.
Except your body won't stay on NYC time. It'll align itself with the sunlight hours you're now experiencing in LA. If you're a night owl in NYC, you'll be a night owl in LA, after that period of adjustment known as "jet lag". That's what jet lag is, you know, when your body's rhythms are trying to cope with having daytime suddenly shifted several hours on it.
The bugger ain't dead yet!
Abbot and Costello meet Harryhausen!
...I will battle a troop of animated skeletons. Now where did I put Diablo II...?
Once again, you are--almost everybody reading Slashdot is--so atypical that no ISP really cares about your business. No ISP is interested in implementing IPv6 just so they can say they support it because that's going not going to have any meaning to 99% of their customers.
And, to be blunt, it would require that ISPs cared in slightest. Not one customer in a thousand would switch ISPs based on whether they offer IPv6. Hell, not one customer in a hundred knows what IPv6 *is*. You're not a big enough market to be worth worrying about.
Most code metrics (except for those that specifically evaluate comments) strip out comments before compiling. However, you can always do this:
print
(
"hello world\n"
)
;
Could probably split up the string too, but I'm too lazy to look up the exact syntax for that.
For the purposes of evaluating the Coverity Scan results, it's irrelevant whether other organizations have access to Windows source code. The question is: Does Coverity have that access, and did they use it in compiling their results? I will admit I don't know, but I sincerely doubt it. According to the article, the proprietary results are only from those who are Coverity clients.
Am I detecting a selection bias here? Coverity can run their tests against all of open source. Coverity can run their tests only against that proprietary code that decides to use it and report the results--and it strikes me that only the better, and more open, proprietary shops would be doing this. Is Mircrosoft reporting their code? I doubt it. Is Oracle?
I can answer that question with another one: How is the ISP going to make more money with IPv6? If it's supposed to get them customers, they need to explain clearly why they're better with IPv6 to the 99% of the customer base that doesn't even know what an IP address is. It's a chicken-and-egg problem--IPv6 won't be clearly superior to the end user until most of the Internet is on it, and most of the Internet won't be on IPv6 until it's clearly superior to the end user. Nobody wants to go first and lay the groundwork for no good advantage. Let somebody else do it first; when a lot of other people are on IPv6, then we'll have a reason to move. When ISPs look at IPv6, they see a large investment of time, money and expertise that doesn't really have any convincing prospect of making them money back.