It wouldn't help you. Windmills still have to be maintained. And, you still need reserve power when the wind dies down. If the reserve comes from batteries, the batteries will need periodic replacement, which is expensive. And if the reserve comes from offsite -- forget about the windmill and just bury your power lines.
Chrome has always auto-updated without my permission. Imagine my surprise when I see 50% CPU utilization, and I see a Setup.exe running, but I'm not installing anything that I'm aware of.
POSIX.1 defines seconds since the Epoch as a value to be interpreted as the number of seconds between a specified time and the Epoch, according to a formula for conversion from UTC equivalent to conversion on the naive basis that leap seconds are ignored and all years divisible by 4 are leap years.
I think that's the only way to do it. You need some formula to convert between epoch time and component time, and a static formula can't account for arbitrary leap seconds. For computing purposes, instead of thinking of a leap second as making the day one second longer, think of it as a one-time adjustment to your clock.
Thanks - the kernel log on one of my machines seems to indicate that the:59 was repeated. That's what I would hope for the sake of software compatibility.
All these anti-piracy efforts are predicated on the notion that piracy is bad, and that copyright is the only way or the only fair way artists can make a living.
If there are other ways for artists to make a decent living in a world where everything is copied freely, then you're completely right.
Yes, you can write all the books you want, you just can't actually sell drugs or kill people. That's the difference between censorship and law enforcement.
Why would a Unix application ever see the:60? Any time someone checks the clock, the time should be derived from Unix time (seconds since the epoch) which doesn't account for leap seconds. So to an application it should appear as a duplicate:00 or:59.
In the sense that the American government is run by Americans, sure. But the definition of government is that some people are in power and some aren't.
I'm saying it's okay for them to enforce laws. In this case, they're not doing anything to the Internet. They're making it easier for copyright holders to serve complaints. And by serving the complaint to your ISP instead of suing you, they're saving you money and court time.
It's a trade-off. People want to copy music, so it's a way for the artists to be compensated too. Yes, some people don't get any benefit for the tax, but nor do I get the benefit of every tax dollar that's spent here in the US.
Yeah, they could figure something out about the hard drive space. Just put a tiny tax on all drives if you want to, otherwise enforcement is a problem. But the real problem is copying. As I recall, the deal is that you can make a copy of something for your own use, but you can't distribute copies. In my opinion, P2P should count as distributing copies, because the effect is the same. But yes, I know there's a counter-argument.
You have a far better chance of catching them if you don't drive them underground.
If we were talking about fighting censorship, that would be a good point. But we're talking about law enforcement. Whether it's pirating or drug dealing, you can't let them carry out their business and bust them for it too. It's either legal or it's not.
We're not talking about censorship; we're talking about law enforcement. In the US and probably a few other countries, there's a difference between the two.
The blank media tax is a brilliant idea in my opinion. But yes, it seems to have been written for physical media and doesn't extend very well to the Internet.
We are supposed to have a network where we can communicate freely
You don't get to avoid your country's laws just by creating a computer network. If a terrorist group wants to use the network to plan attacks, and if I want to use it to sell drugs to kids, is that okay? Just saying. There is a line somewhere, and the governments are going to set the line for us - it's the definition of a government.
Bullshit. A store employee can't be expected to automatically know that someone is from Iran, especially if they're in the US legally. They're not selling to a foreign country. They're selling to an individual who is in the US.
I generally support a store's right to refuse a sale to anyone for any reason. Just be fair and call it racial profiling or discrimination, not a legal requirement.
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Bitcoin software is very unfriendly. The concept is alright, but the tools need more development.
It wouldn't help you. Windmills still have to be maintained. And, you still need reserve power when the wind dies down. If the reserve comes from batteries, the batteries will need periodic replacement, which is expensive. And if the reserve comes from offsite -- forget about the windmill and just bury your power lines.
Chrome has always auto-updated without my permission. Imagine my surprise when I see 50% CPU utilization, and I see a Setup.exe running, but I'm not installing anything that I'm aware of.
POSIX.1 defines seconds since the Epoch as a value to be interpreted as the number of seconds between a specified time and the Epoch, according to a formula for conversion from UTC equivalent to conversion on the naive basis that leap seconds are ignored and all years divisible by 4 are leap years.
I think that's the only way to do it. You need some formula to convert between epoch time and component time, and a static formula can't account for arbitrary leap seconds. For computing purposes, instead of thinking of a leap second as making the day one second longer, think of it as a one-time adjustment to your clock.
Yeah, I understand that the :60 exists in the real world. But from a computing standpoint, a small approximation seems to make things much easier.
Thanks - the kernel log on one of my machines seems to indicate that the :59 was repeated. That's what I would hope for the sake of software compatibility.
All these anti-piracy efforts are predicated on the notion that piracy is bad, and that copyright is the only way or the only fair way artists can make a living.
If there are other ways for artists to make a decent living in a world where everything is copied freely, then you're completely right.
The thing you have the remember about the internet is that it is a country. It should have it's own governing body and rules
I would go for that, and I love the idea. The governments just don't agree.
Yes, you can write all the books you want, you just can't actually sell drugs or kill people. That's the difference between censorship and law enforcement.
There's no entitlement to expect people to pay for your work rather than stealing it?
Why would a Unix application ever see the :60? Any time someone checks the clock, the time should be derived from Unix time (seconds since the epoch) which doesn't account for leap seconds. So to an application it should appear as a duplicate :00 or :59.
In the sense that the American government is run by Americans, sure. But the definition of government is that some people are in power and some aren't.
I'm saying it's okay for them to enforce laws. In this case, they're not doing anything to the Internet. They're making it easier for copyright holders to serve complaints. And by serving the complaint to your ISP instead of suing you, they're saving you money and court time.
It's a trade-off. People want to copy music, so it's a way for the artists to be compensated too. Yes, some people don't get any benefit for the tax, but nor do I get the benefit of every tax dollar that's spent here in the US.
Yeah, they could figure something out about the hard drive space. Just put a tiny tax on all drives if you want to, otherwise enforcement is a problem. But the real problem is copying. As I recall, the deal is that you can make a copy of something for your own use, but you can't distribute copies. In my opinion, P2P should count as distributing copies, because the effect is the same. But yes, I know there's a counter-argument.
You have a far better chance of catching them if you don't drive them underground.
If we were talking about fighting censorship, that would be a good point. But we're talking about law enforcement. Whether it's pirating or drug dealing, you can't let them carry out their business and bust them for it too. It's either legal or it's not.
Censorship shouldn't exist.
We're not talking about censorship; we're talking about law enforcement. In the US and probably a few other countries, there's a difference between the two.
The blank media tax is a brilliant idea in my opinion. But yes, it seems to have been written for physical media and doesn't extend very well to the Internet.
Letting other people surf through my IP? Doesn't sound like a good idea to me.
We are supposed to have a network where we can communicate freely
You don't get to avoid your country's laws just by creating a computer network. If a terrorist group wants to use the network to plan attacks, and if I want to use it to sell drugs to kids, is that okay? Just saying. There is a line somewhere, and the governments are going to set the line for us - it's the definition of a government.
How about if you pair two of these robots against each other? Deadlock?
I was about to say that surfing YouTube via https is a little paranoid, but actually, maybe I should start doing that.
Bullshit. A store employee can't be expected to automatically know that someone is from Iran, especially if they're in the US legally. They're not selling to a foreign country. They're selling to an individual who is in the US.
I generally support a store's right to refuse a sale to anyone for any reason. Just be fair and call it racial profiling or discrimination, not a legal requirement.
Yeah, but can you imagine Larry Page giving a meeting in Hawking's voice?
Yes, I remember the ATR joke from long ago. :)