Careful. He was not sued for the crops that "blew into his field".
He was sued for what he did the following year; planting the seed from the geneticly altered crop from the year before. The court decided that he knew, or should have known, that his crop the second year around was monsanto's patented stuff.
It has nothing to do with coherence.. beams are still "parallel" so to speak.. just out of phase.
a laser has very little to do with a beam.. common misconception. Take your average laser pointer.. take out hte columnating lens (used to create the beam) and you are left with... a laser LED, washing a room with coherent light.
Most other systems support using unsigned 32 bit integers in the place of an IP address.. after all,l that's what an IP address is. The dotted-quad notation is for human benefit, not computer.
Actually, WiFi 2.4 ISM falls right IN the common microwave oven frequencies.. and this is not a big deal.
Terminology & facts:
- Anything over 1Ghz is generally called "Microwave" though nowadays people seem to only use the word for things over 2Ghz.
- A Microwave oven operates ~2.4Ghz, however, this is for economic reasons. There is nothing particularly special about 2.4Ghz. Microwave ovens would operate a lot better at 10Ghz, but this is not economical to produce.
- The REASON the 2.4Ghz ISM band is where it is is because of things like microwave ovens...it is a "dirty" band.. prone to leakage from all kinds of devices (cordless phones, microwave ovens, etc).
I 100% agree that, given what has been accomplished with this shitty slice of 2.4Ghz.. that there should be far MORE unlicensed bands for common use. Let's get some fat/wide sections of clean spectrum back from large corporate interests and start using them similar to how we use wifi.
I am actually surprised there is not more 900Mhz ISM wireless network gear out tehre.. there used to be a bit. It topped out around 1Mbps.. but it would go through anything.
Yes, you can use 2.4Ghz ISM for a variety of things, without license.. however
If you want to SELL equipment that works in that band, like wifi stuff, you have to have it approved, and that includes full testing of interference, harmonics, power levels, etc.
I would imagine anyone producing equipment ot work in tehse bands, other than "homemade" stuff, will have to have it approved to certain standards.
Despite the naysaying, there are usually sufficient numbers of people constantly downloading this file for quite a while, making bittorrent work just great. Provided there are a few seeds left up (which there would be, form the original source)... it's at worst no worse than a normal FTP from a mirror. As soon as you get more than one person downloading, it's faster.
comparing it to edonkey is silly... apples and oranges. They are not even related.
That's odd.. becuase most hotels still accept cash. In my experience, the only time you really can't check in with cash is when you are a)young and look like you will probably trash the place and trying to check into a b) mid-range motel run by some yokel. And even then, I have the feeling if you actually said "Well I'd be happy to leave you with a security deposit as well" they will be more receptive.
Often they will not enable the phone or open the mini-bar, not without a deposit... and certainly some places just get a blank look on their face if you try to check in with cash, and don't know exaclty what to do.. some get very nervous when asking for a cash deposit.
Now.. renting a CAR, on the other hand.. that gets tough without a credit card or a fat wad of cash.
The airwaves belong to the PEOPLE, and we regulate and license them to make efficient, effective use of them, as everyone can't use the same bands at once.
So.. we dedicate some bandwidth for this, some bandwidth for that, and set the rules. I'm fine with that.
Given the current state of technology... there is no reason we cannot have MORE bands open to the public for general use, within limitations, as we have with the ISM bands.
2.4Ghz ISM is a dirty slice of spectrum, and a small one.. and we've done wonders with wifi & other technologies in it.... what would happen if we had a slice, similar in operation, that had many times the bandwidth?
Yes, nothing is that simple, there is interference to worry about, yadda yadda yadda, but does anyone really think we need to guarantee massive quantities of spectrum to cellular companies and television stations and radio stations, and leave ourselves on the receiving end of everything? After all, it's OUR spectrum.
"the U.S. has better healthcare for a lower cost than anyone else in the world"
This is the kind of thing that non-americans point at and laugh.. and it makes us think you really are delusional about your own country... the blind belief that everything done the US way is better, and that the rest of the world is a shithole.
It is widely known that the US has one of, if not THE, most expensive healthcare systems in the world.
To be fair, Canada is right behind them.
Look at global heatlh insurance sometime.. coverage for everywhere on earth minus the US & Canada is $X, coverage for everywhere on earth PLUS the US & Canada is $X * 4
No. But as a society, we feel that everyone who lives in our society deserves equal access to healthcare, and that those of us who can pay will pay. We decided tp collectively pitch in and make sure everyone has equal treatment by the healthcare system.
Just like we decided everyone gets to use the roads and walk the streets, even though some people are "Freeloaders" who do not pay to maintain them.
Just like the local footbridge across the river.. even those from out of town or those with no jobs still get to use it, even though it was the property owner's of the city who's property taxes paid for that bridge and it's maintenance.
Nobody said this was a "natural right". It is a right we decided to grant each other.
These sorts of things happen in ANY health care system. Why?
You can never spend too much. There is ALWAYS something more you can buy, some other test to do, something else. At some point, you have to set some rules.
For every case like this of someone slipping through the system, you will find at least a proportionate number falling through in the American system.. and I suspect, more, but that's just a guess.
In Canada, we decided those rules are not going to be based on who has more money. It's as simple as that. Equal access for all. It's not perfect, by any means, but you will find that most canadians agree with the concept.
A doctor moved to the US.. well, of course. They stand to make a lot more money in the US. Despite that, we still have lots of top quality doctors finishing top quality medical schools and living out their lives in Canadian hospitals.
The onus is completely on those who choose to illegally use the software. Period. They are responsible for the outcome of what they do.
The fact that someone else COULD do something to mitigate the problem is not relevant, though it's easy to make it appear so.
Claiming this will have a huge impact on virus stuff is rediculous.. where's the proof? These viruses are so prevalent because NORMAL LEGAL USERS don't upgrade in time, and equally because MS is slow with patches.
I dislike microsoft as much as the next guy... but expecting them to not provide anything at all to those who are unlawfully using their software is absurd.
If everyone but you is vaccinated, there is no polio problem. True.
If everyone is supposed to get vaccinated, but few choose the "pirated software" route and DO NOT get faccinated, who's fault is it if they get polio?
It's also a poeple management issue. The other agenda is making sure people aren't too distracted during critical moments.. it's the same reason most airlines ask you to raise all window shades during landing.. it's so that in case something happens, you aren't sitting there wearing your walkman, not able to hear anything.
You are free to keep your copy of your current version of OSX, it will continue to serve you just fine with all the software you have.
You will find the vast majority of those whining about apple's release schedule for OSX are mostly people who do not own macs. Those who do generally seem to feel that this schedule is a good thing, that apple is delivering to them a constant increase in quality and functionality without destabilising anything, and that has value to them. I know it does to me, anyway.
DMCA letters like this do not even require a response.
The service provider must inform it's client of the notice. Once that happens:
- If the client responds with a letter explaining why the material is not infringing, that's the end of it. The ISP is not required to take down the content. The client has taken responsibility for the content in question.
- If the client does not respond: The service provider generally would remove the content, because without a response from their client, they can be held responsible for publishing the content.
if I'm standing across the mexican border, and you are on the US side, and I take you out with a high-powered rifle... and then I head on over to disneyland....
I have broken no US laws, right? Because I wasn't in the US at the time?
No. But if you sell bank robbery kits and tools, and advertise the fact, and such tools are generally, but not always, purchased by bank robbers only, it is reasonable to assume that it is likely a large portion of your client base are robbing banks.
If you were an innocent techie who had NEVER tried to steal DirecTV, and had this equipment for hobby purposes.. you would defend yourself. You would ask the courts to show proof that you stole.
However, the vast majority of these people WERE buying the stuff to steal DirecTV, and to help others do it.. gimme a break.
Why did so many people settle? Because they were GUILTY....
You are thinking of "shape of the universe" in 3d terms... where, like, there is just this "edge"....
they are talking about the 4d shape of spacetime... you can't go outside. What you will see as a 3d human is a big universe around you, all the time, no matter what.
This is about looking reall far away, and hence, really far back in time, and deducing how the universe has expanded, if it has done so uniformly, etc.
Remember, that expansion is not an expansion in 3d, like an explosion, where there is some central point.. its' a 4d explosion, where all wee see is everything moving away from everything else (at different rates, apparently, depending how far back we look)
If I had mod points (Hey, anyone know why I haven't had mod points for well over a year?) I'd mod that up.. that's actually a fairly reasonable way to think of it.
The moment you claim 330% efficiency, and in the same breath say you haven't violated the laws of physics is the moment it becomes total bullshit.
If it were 330% efficient, that would mean, for instance, it draines 100W, and puts out 330W.
Throw in a generator in a closed loop, and the device could power itself forever, while producing excess power. The world's energy problems would be solved, forver.
"Harnessing one of hte basic forces...".. bullshit.
You don't harness a force, you use it.
If you push two similar magnetic poles together, you build up potential energy.. when you stop pushing, that energy is used up moving the poles apart.
In order for gravity to work on something, it first has to be raised up in the gravitational field... (it has to go up to come down). This takes energy.. and ideally, the same amount of energy.
Now, although it's possible this guy has invented something that branches out into totall unexplored areas of physics.. it is quite unlikely... more likely he has created a nice, efficient, quiet motor, and is measuring things the wrong way.
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Careful.
He was not sued for the crops that "blew into his field".
He was sued for what he did the following year; planting the seed from the geneticly altered crop from the year before. The court decided that he knew, or should have known, that his crop the second year around was monsanto's patented stuff.
It has nothing to do with coherence.. beams are still "parallel" so to speak.. just out of phase.
a laser has very little to do with a beam.. common misconception. Take your average laser pointer.. take out hte columnating lens (used to create the beam) and you are left with... a laser LED, washing a room with coherent light.
Focusing light into fiber optics will work fine.
I think that is not quite right.
Each dot from the left, going right, signifies an 8 bit boundary.
A.B would be A is 8 bit, and B is 24 bit.
I don't believe you can use 16bit.16bit
1 becomes 0.0.0.1
1.2 becomes 1.0.0.2
1.2.3 becomes 10.2.0.3
You can also use octal or hex (at least in linux)
012 / 0xa becomes 0.0.0.10
012.013 / 0xa.0xb becomes 10.0.0.11
012.013.014 / 0xa.0xb becomes 10.11.0.12
IE removed this because only spammers used it.
Most other systems support using unsigned 32 bit integers in the place of an IP address.. after all,l that's what an IP address is. The dotted-quad notation is for human benefit, not computer.
Some systems support octal notation too.
Actually, WiFi 2.4 ISM falls right IN the common microwave oven frequencies.. and this is not a big deal.
Terminology & facts:
- Anything over 1Ghz is generally called "Microwave"
though nowadays people seem to only use the word for things over 2Ghz.
- A Microwave oven operates ~2.4Ghz, however, this is for economic reasons. There is nothing particularly special about 2.4Ghz. Microwave ovens would operate a lot better at 10Ghz, but this is not economical to produce.
- The REASON the 2.4Ghz ISM band is where it is is because of things like microwave ovens...it is a "dirty" band.. prone to leakage from all kinds of devices (cordless phones, microwave ovens, etc).
I 100% agree that, given what has been accomplished with this shitty slice of 2.4Ghz.. that there should be far MORE unlicensed bands for common use. Let's get some fat/wide sections of clean spectrum back from large corporate interests and start using them similar to how we use wifi.
I am actually surprised there is not more 900Mhz ISM wireless network gear out tehre.. there used to be a bit. It topped out around 1Mbps.. but it would go through anything.
Totally unregulated? I doubt it...
Look at ISM.
Yes, you can use 2.4Ghz ISM for a variety of things, without license.. however
If you want to SELL equipment that works in that band, like wifi stuff, you have to have it approved, and that includes full testing of interference, harmonics, power levels, etc.
I would imagine anyone producing equipment ot work in tehse bands, other than "homemade" stuff, will have to have it approved to certain standards.
Despite the naysaying, there are usually sufficient numbers of people constantly downloading this file for quite a while, making bittorrent work just great. Provided there are a few seeds left up (which there would be, form the original source)... it's at worst no worse than a normal FTP from a mirror. As soon as you get more than one person downloading, it's faster.
comparing it to edonkey is silly... apples and oranges. They are not even related.
That's odd.. becuase most hotels still accept cash.
In my experience, the only time you really can't check in with cash is when you are a)young and look like you will probably trash the place and trying to check into a b) mid-range motel run by some yokel. And even then, I have the feeling if you actually said "Well I'd be happy to leave you with a security deposit as well" they will be more receptive.
Often they will not enable the phone or open the mini-bar, not without a deposit... and certainly some places just get a blank look on their face if you try to check in with cash, and don't know exaclty what to do.. some get very nervous when asking for a cash deposit.
Now.. renting a CAR, on the other hand.. that gets tough without a credit card or a fat wad of cash.
I would love to see regulation get more.. open.
What do I mean?
No "auctions".. or it just becomes about profit.
The airwaves belong to the PEOPLE, and we regulate and license them to make efficient, effective use of them, as everyone can't use the same bands at once.
So.. we dedicate some bandwidth for this, some bandwidth for that, and set the rules. I'm fine with that.
Given the current state of technology... there is no reason we cannot have MORE bands open to the public for general use, within limitations, as we have with the ISM bands.
2.4Ghz ISM is a dirty slice of spectrum, and a small one.. and we've done wonders with wifi & other technologies in it.... what would happen if we had a slice, similar in operation, that had many times the bandwidth?
Yes, nothing is that simple, there is interference to worry about, yadda yadda yadda, but does anyone really think we need to guarantee massive quantities of spectrum to cellular companies and television stations and radio stations, and leave ourselves on the receiving end of everything? After all, it's OUR spectrum.
"the U.S. has better healthcare for a lower cost than anyone else in the world"
This is the kind of thing that non-americans point at and laugh.. and it makes us think you really are delusional about your own country... the blind belief that everything done the US way is better, and that the rest of the world is a shithole.
It is widely known that the US has one of, if not THE, most expensive healthcare systems in the world.
To be fair, Canada is right behind them.
Look at global heatlh insurance sometime.. coverage for everywhere on earth minus the US & Canada is $X, coverage for everywhere on earth PLUS the US & Canada is $X * 4
No. But as a society, we feel that everyone who lives in our society deserves equal access to healthcare, and that those of us who can pay will pay.
We decided tp collectively pitch in and make sure everyone has equal treatment by the healthcare system.
Just like we decided everyone gets to use the roads and walk the streets, even though some people are "Freeloaders" who do not pay to maintain them.
Just like the local footbridge across the river.. even those from out of town or those with no jobs still get to use it, even though it was the property owner's of the city who's property taxes paid for that bridge and it's maintenance.
Nobody said this was a "natural right". It is a right we decided to grant each other.
These sorts of things happen in ANY health care system. Why?
You can never spend too much. There is ALWAYS something more you can buy, some other test to do, something else. At some point, you have to set some rules.
For every case like this of someone slipping through the system, you will find at least a proportionate number falling through in the American system.. and I suspect, more, but that's just a guess.
In Canada, we decided those rules are not going to
be based on who has more money. It's as simple as that. Equal access for all. It's not perfect, by any means, but you will find that most canadians agree with the concept.
A doctor moved to the US.. well, of course. They stand to make a lot more money in the US. Despite that, we still have lots of top quality doctors finishing top quality medical schools and living out their lives in Canadian hospitals.
I still don't buy it with regards to windows.
The onus is completely on those who choose to illegally use the software. Period. They are responsible for the outcome of what they do.
The fact that someone else COULD do something to mitigate the problem is not relevant, though it's easy to make it appear so.
Claiming this will have a huge impact on virus stuff is rediculous.. where's the proof? These viruses are so prevalent because NORMAL LEGAL USERS don't upgrade in time, and equally because MS is slow with patches.
They can understand it just fine.
I dislike microsoft as much as the next guy... but expecting them to not provide anything at all to those who are unlawfully using their software is absurd.
If everyone but you is vaccinated, there is no polio problem. True.
If everyone is supposed to get vaccinated, but few choose the "pirated software" route and DO NOT get faccinated, who's fault is it if they get polio?
It's also a poeple management issue.
The other agenda is making sure people aren't too distracted during critical moments.. it's the same reason most airlines ask you to raise all window shades during landing.. it's so that in case something happens, you aren't sitting there wearing your walkman, not able to hear anything.
I don't think sco has anything on the options market at all.. I tried to find some on cboe a while ago, nothing there.
Xcode is not part of jaguar.. so I don't get it? Of course it's not there..... it's a 10.3 program. it's not free.
Then again, Microsoft may support XP for years, but you will pay for the dev tools.
You are free to keep your copy of your current version of OSX, it will continue to serve you just fine with all the software you have.
You will find the vast majority of those whining about apple's release schedule for OSX are mostly people who do not own macs. Those who do generally seem to feel that this schedule is a good thing, that apple is delivering to them a constant increase in quality and functionality without destabilising anything, and that has value to them. I know it does to me, anyway.
DMCA letters like this do not even require a response.
The service provider must inform it's client of the notice. Once that happens:
- If the client responds with a letter explaining why the material is not infringing, that's the end of it. The ISP is not required to take down the content. The client has taken responsibility for the content in question.
- If the client does not respond: The service provider generally would remove the content, because without a response from their client, they can be held responsible for publishing the content.
SO let me get this straight.
if I'm standing across the mexican border, and you are on the US side, and I take you out with a high-powered rifle... and then I head on over to disneyland....
I have broken no US laws, right? Because I wasn't in the US at the time?
As a a geek living in latin america, I can tell you I've never seen or heard of anyone using Connectiva Linux.
Everyone uses redhat, lots of debian, etc... just like in USia
No. But if you sell bank robbery kits and tools, and advertise the fact, and such tools are generally, but not always, purchased by bank robbers only, it is reasonable to assume that it is likely a large portion of your client base are robbing banks.
If you were an innocent techie who had NEVER tried to steal DirecTV, and had this equipment for hobby purposes.. you would defend yourself. You would ask the courts to show proof that you stole.
However, the vast majority of these people WERE buying the stuff to steal DirecTV, and to help others do it.. gimme a break.
Why did so many people settle? Because they were GUILTY....
You are thinking of "shape of the universe" in 3d terms... where, like, there is just this "edge"....
they are talking about the 4d shape of spacetime... you can't go outside. What you will see as a 3d human is a big universe around you, all the time, no matter what.
This is about looking reall far away, and hence, really far back in time, and deducing how the universe has expanded, if it has done so uniformly, etc.
Remember, that expansion is not an expansion in 3d, like an explosion, where there is some central point.. its' a 4d explosion, where all wee see is everything moving away from everything else (at different rates, apparently, depending how far back we look)
If I had mod points (Hey, anyone know why I haven't had mod points for well over a year?) I'd mod that up.. that's actually a fairly reasonable way to think of it.
The moment you claim 330% efficiency, and in the same breath say you haven't violated the laws of physics is the moment it becomes total bullshit.
If it were 330% efficient, that would mean, for instance, it draines 100W, and puts out 330W.
Throw in a generator in a closed loop, and the device could power itself forever, while producing excess power. The world's energy problems would be solved, forver.
"Harnessing one of hte basic forces...".. bullshit.
You don't harness a force, you use it.
If you push two similar magnetic poles together, you build up potential energy.. when you stop pushing, that energy is used up moving the poles apart.
In order for gravity to work on something, it first has to be raised up in the gravitational field... (it has to go up to come down). This takes energy.. and ideally, the same amount of energy.
Now, although it's possible this guy has invented something that branches out into totall unexplored areas of physics.. it is quite unlikely... more likely he has created a nice, efficient, quiet motor, and is measuring things the wrong way.
Nothing has over 100% efficiency, sorry.