Wow, that sounds like regulation gone wild. I'm all for well-considered coherent policy regimes, but not for conflicting ones with disincentives towards doing the right thing.
Yeah, I understand that point. Governments in general always prefer to see things come in to general revenue. There's a similar fight going on in Toronto about new revenue streams for transportation infrastructure and how to ensure it doesn't get diverted.
The impervious surface fee actually makes a lot of sense, and isn't simply a "rain tax".
Storm-water runoff is a negative externality that right now everyone in a community pays for regardless of their actual runoff. It's a tragedy of the commons - there's no incentive to minimize it. Charging a fee based on the area of impervious surface on a property converts that externality into a direct cost, rewarding those who minimize runoff and charging those who produce the most runoff more. A property owner need only replace impervious surfaces with pervious surfaces and they'll produce less runoff and pay less; everyone wins. It's the same idea as a carbon tax.
Warner Bros. Entertainment, Inc. and J. K. Rowling vs. RDR Books (575 F.Supp.2d 513) is a copyright lawsuit brought on 31 October 2007 by the media company Warner Bros. and Harry Potter author J. K. Rowling against RDR Books, an independent publishing company based in Muskegon, Michigan. Lawyers for Rowling and Time Warner argued that RDR's attempt to publish for profit a print facsimile of The Harry Potter Lexicon, a free online guide to the Harry Potter fictional universe, constituted an infringement of their copyright and was not protected by the affirmative defense of fair use. The trial was held from 14–17 April 2008 in the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. In September 2008, the court ruled in Rowling's favor, and publication of the book was blocked.
Ah, gotcha. I suppose their philosophy is to outsource that sort of thing to addons to keep the mainline trim, which is why they haven't integrated flashblock into the core.
You can disable plugins by going to the plugin panel of about:addons. As far as I can remember you've always been able to disable plugins through some means or another. Unless you're talking about something else?
In many large cities, tap water tastes like you are drinking out of a sewer. NYC is probably the most famous example, but it is also true elsewhere.
Um, what? Someone is actually selling bottle NYC tap water and people love it. Check out this article. Here's a choice quote:
Michael Saucier, a spokesman for the New York City Department of Environmental Protection, notes that the city's water beat 150 other municipal water systems in New York state in a taste test last summer.
some just want a solid cable that will last for 20 years
If you want a cable you're frequently moving around to last for ages, you probably don't want a "solid" one. Stranded wire will be less likely to break.
I worry about liability. While the GPL and other licenses can disclaim liability all they like, a litigious user could still file a lawsuit, forcing the developer to spend money defending themselves. I have a Firefox extension that I've avoided releasing for exactly that reason.
Plurality: A number of votes for a single candidate or position which is greater than the number of votes gained by any other single candidate or position voted for, but which is less than a majority of valid votes cast.
I won't vote for any party that promotes anti-business agenda in any way ever.
I read that a large number of businesses were upset by the Conservatives' removal of the long-form census. Businesses used the results for things like determining new store locations. Does that rule out the CPC?
he is attempting to portray himself as more edible to Canonical
Whoa, if the problem is that the people at Canonical are cannibals, someone should have brought that up way earlier! No wonder they're not getting along!
Nope. It was just on a whim because it was something I needed that moment. I brought it up in the IRC channel, the suggested solutions were well beyond the mental effort I'd earmarked for the task, and I moved on to other things. You're right though, I should file a bug.
I tried making a simple addon with JetPack (a keyboard shortcut to go back to the most recent tab), and it turns out there's no way to set a keyboard shortcut with it. I'd wager that most addons use keyboard shortcuts, so that's a pretty major feature to be missing. The JetPack API seems to be in that state - it was developed because it's a good idea (and it is!), but nobody at Moz actually uses it, so it's missing basic features needed by real-world addons.
Apple has finally updated its FileVault feature to offer high-performance, full-disk encryption for local and external drives. Current versions of OS X allow users to encrypt only their home directory, a shortcoming that allows snoops easy access to many sensitive files that by default are stored elsewhere. Under Lion, FileVault also has the ability to instantaneously wipe data from their Macs, although we're not sure this improvement will extend to flash-based solid state drives.
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Wow, that sounds like regulation gone wild. I'm all for well-considered coherent policy regimes, but not for conflicting ones with disincentives towards doing the right thing.
Yeah, I understand that point. Governments in general always prefer to see things come in to general revenue. There's a similar fight going on in Toronto about new revenue streams for transportation infrastructure and how to ensure it doesn't get diverted.
The impervious surface fee actually makes a lot of sense, and isn't simply a "rain tax".
Storm-water runoff is a negative externality that right now everyone in a community pays for regardless of their actual runoff. It's a tragedy of the commons - there's no incentive to minimize it. Charging a fee based on the area of impervious surface on a property converts that externality into a direct cost, rewarding those who minimize runoff and charging those who produce the most runoff more. A property owner need only replace impervious surfaces with pervious surfaces and they'll produce less runoff and pay less; everyone wins. It's the same idea as a carbon tax.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warner_Bros._and_J._K._Rowling_v._RDR_Books
Ah, gotcha. I suppose their philosophy is to outsource that sort of thing to addons to keep the mainline trim, which is why they haven't integrated flashblock into the core.
You can disable plugins by going to the plugin panel of about:addons. As far as I can remember you've always been able to disable plugins through some means or another. Unless you're talking about something else?
There'd be nothing stopping the artist (or their estate) from selling it too.
It's checked for me before the last couple of updates. Maybe it's a setting somewhere?
In many large cities, tap water tastes like you are drinking out of a sewer. NYC is probably the most famous example, but it is also true elsewhere.
Um, what? Someone is actually selling bottle NYC tap water and people love it. Check out this article. Here's a choice quote:
Michael Saucier, a spokesman for the New York City Department of Environmental Protection, notes that the city's water beat 150 other municipal water systems in New York state in a taste test last summer.
some just want a solid cable that will last for 20 years
If you want a cable you're frequently moving around to last for ages, you probably don't want a "solid" one. Stranded wire will be less likely to break.
Why would Sony make a move which would lead to *fewer* sales because a competitor "complained"?
s/competitor/supplier/
Tomato was the only firmware I could get to be stable on a WRT54GL. It was a rock though. Give it a look.
I worry about liability. While the GPL and other licenses can disclaim liability all they like, a litigious user could still file a lawsuit, forcing the developer to spend money defending themselves. I have a Firefox extension that I've avoided releasing for exactly that reason.
What you're describing is a "plurality."
Majority: More than half (50%) of some group
Plurality: A number of votes for a single candidate or position which is greater than the number of votes gained by any other single candidate or position voted for, but which is less than a majority of valid votes cast.
I was here for the G20, it went perfectly.
Did you watch the Fifth Estate G20 follow-up episode?
I'm one of the very large group -- one might say the majority, by the way -- who refuses to vote.
One might say "the majority," but one would be wrong. 59% of the electorate voted in the last election.
I won't vote for any party that promotes anti-business agenda in any way ever.
I read that a large number of businesses were upset by the Conservatives' removal of the long-form census. Businesses used the results for things like determining new store locations. Does that rule out the CPC?
Form loads over http. However the action of the form is https.
In this scenario, an attacker can MITM the serving of the insecure http login page and change the form's action to an http URL.
he is attempting to portray himself as more edible to Canonical
Whoa, if the problem is that the people at Canonical are cannibals, someone should have brought that up way earlier! No wonder they're not getting along!
Someone's beat me to it: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=584064
Nope. It was just on a whim because it was something I needed that moment. I brought it up in the IRC channel, the suggested solutions were well beyond the mental effort I'd earmarked for the task, and I moved on to other things. You're right though, I should file a bug.
No kidding. The department, the faculty, the prof, and likely the student organization all have funds earmarked for conferences.
I tried making a simple addon with JetPack (a keyboard shortcut to go back to the most recent tab), and it turns out there's no way to set a keyboard shortcut with it. I'd wager that most addons use keyboard shortcuts, so that's a pretty major feature to be missing. The JetPack API seems to be in that state - it was developed because it's a good idea (and it is!), but nobody at Moz actually uses it, so it's missing basic features needed by real-world addons.
Oh, good news, I was wrong!
Apple has finally updated its FileVault feature to offer high-performance, full-disk encryption for local and external drives. Current versions of OS X allow users to encrypt only their home directory, a shortcoming that allows snoops easy access to many sensitive files that by default are stored elsewhere. Under Lion, FileVault also has the ability to instantaneously wipe data from their Macs, although we're not sure this improvement will extend to flash-based solid state drives.
Still no word on decent built-in encryption. Whole disk encryption out of the box and encrypted Time Machine backups, then we're talking.