Not sure why it was nominated. I guess, to get a nomination in the short story category, you don't need a huge number of nominations. It only needed 65, so really all it needs is a single blogger with the right followers to promote it.
I don't see this, on its own as a problem. People have always been promoting works they like for the awards. I think there may be a problem with some people being frozen out by cliques. All I can really say is we can't prove there isn't. Still, I think a more representative nominations system is a good thing even if it doesn't actually change the nominations.
"Queers Dig Timelords", perhaps. Really quite a tedious book, the only thing going for it is that it's gay positive. Also "If you were a dinosaur, My love" really isn't science fiction. Nor is it a story.
There are two groups. Sad Puppies, and Rabid Puppies.
Sad Puppies are based off a belief that the nominations are dominated by a clique, and wanted to get a broader spread. It was run by a different organiser this year, who offered a public poll of the works that should be nominated in the list. A lot of them actually liked Ancillary Mercy, so it's in the list.
Rabid Puppies motives are a lot harder to work out, but generally anything that's seen as too liberal will not make the list.
It's a bad bill, for sure. But it is explicit in the text that it would not require or prohibit any technology.
It does require the manufacturer to assist. It may not be possible for them to help but generally speaking, being impossible to follow the law is seen as a valid defence.
Since when is Apple a law enforcement organisation?
I was talking about the PR nightmare. This means public relations. This means that if they screw this up then it could result in Apple selling fewer phones. This is what Apple cares about.
Now, perhaps you aren't aware of the situation in the US, but that is a country where there are a large number of strongly religious people who believe that abortion is a sin. The US has, as part of its fundamental law, the right to freedom of religion. This means that these very religious people will make a lot of noise if a company seems to be supporting something they see as sinful.
These people also buy Apple products. Apple wish to sell iPhones to these people as well as moderate liberal minded people.
A lot of people feel incredibly strongly about abortion. If Siri gets a false positive when it thinks someone wants an abortion, Apple are in the PR shitter.
Try to argue in court against a judge that you didn't tell people about the secret order, go ahead, lets see how that works out for you.
I'm sure the EFF, and possibly the ACLU would be delighted to take up this challenge. Because, it's an important legal point. Can you be obligated to lie? There really isn't a lot of legal precedent for people being legally forced to do so.
This would be because there are no games for Linux only that anyone gives a shit about.
There used to be a lot of server applications that Linux was great for, and Windows was rubbish at. Windows has probably caught up a lot since then, so this may or may not be the case, but this was something that was holding Windows back.
This is smaller than Concorde, and it it has a smaller per-seat cost, so demand doesn't need to be quite as high. If the range is good enough it might open it up to some other routes as well. Dubai-Singapore-Sydney-Tokyo might be viable (although it will be a bit if a windy route).
Americans are more familiar with feet, so it makes sense to convert them. The problem is converting them too precisely. The blades are rarely going to be within 3cm of those lengths. Even fibre glass blades will expand a little due to temperature changes.
650ft and 260ft would have been sensible approximations.
As for a more sensible comparison; the blades would rise above the Empire State building's observation deck. Much easier to visualise since people have a general idea of how tall famous skyscrapers are.
1) Hosting & distributing a paper is not free. Somebody pays for the network, the electricity, and the physical hardware required.
It's not hugely expensive. Universities already have the infrastructure in place, and benefit from each other doing this, and also benefit if others extend their research.
Yes... The first one wants "anonymised click stream data", and I'd rather not give permission without knowing what it it. Others seem to want me to sign up for something that all else being equal I'd rather not do.
But it's possible that a slashdotter somewhere knows about a good alternative or can offer advice on which one to use.
It turns out though, that you're right and I'm wrong. They don't. I just get a response from some sarcastic jerk.
iPlayer is the BBC's onDemand/live streaming service.
TV in the UK is funded by a TV licence. You pay a certain amount per year for the right to watch broadcast TV. You have to pay it even if you only watch non BBC channels.
You don't need to pay it if you only watch iPlayer's onDemand service.
Laws are what people collectively agree the laws are. Why is the US Constitution the supreme law of the US? Because the populace agree. At least a sufficient portion of the populace to force the handful of dissenters to agree. Before that, various laws enacted by the British government were the supreme law of the land, but enough people disagreed to change that. Just because you interpret the law a certain way, if nobody else does, no matter how reasonable your interpretation, that is not the law.
The state governments are in a safer position, since the First Amendment specifically only limits "Congress".
Code as speech. I can see how that applies at times, but for the most part code is a tool. It is primarily functional.
But even if we do accept that it is speech, the first amendment offers a lot less protection against being compelled to "speak" then being prevented from doing so. Courts will rule that a newspaper must print an apology, for example, and has means to compel witnesses to testify (The fifth amendment protects here)
Scraping is using a computer to read data from a (human readable) website and extract formatted computer data. So an app might search the slashdot homepage, look for links with text of a certain size and colour, and produce a list of titles. That would be "scraping".
They're stylistically interesting, but don't have constant brightness across the image and have some pretty quirky distortion; which I appreciate looks good, but is usually the sort of thing photographers want to avoid.
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Have you tired a wired connection? Fixed my youTube speed issues. The amount of interference on Wi-fi in populated areas is a serious problem.
Not sure why it was nominated. I guess, to get a nomination in the short story category, you don't need a huge number of nominations. It only needed 65, so really all it needs is a single blogger with the right followers to promote it.
I don't see this, on its own as a problem. People have always been promoting works they like for the awards. I think there may be a problem with some people being frozen out by cliques. All I can really say is we can't prove there isn't. Still, I think a more representative nominations system is a good thing even if it doesn't actually change the nominations.
"Queers Dig Timelords", perhaps. Really quite a tedious book, the only thing going for it is that it's gay positive. Also "If you were a dinosaur, My love" really isn't science fiction. Nor is it a story.
There are two groups. Sad Puppies, and Rabid Puppies.
Sad Puppies are based off a belief that the nominations are dominated by a clique, and wanted to get a broader spread. It was run by a different organiser this year, who offered a public poll of the works that should be nominated in the list. A lot of them actually liked Ancillary Mercy, so it's in the list.
Rabid Puppies motives are a lot harder to work out, but generally anything that's seen as too liberal will not make the list.
An internal combustion engine is a type of heat engine. Even says so in the wikipedia link you provided.
It's true. Come over here and you can buy a Mediterranean island for a few bucks.
It's a bad bill, for sure. But it is explicit in the text that it would not require or prohibit any technology.
It does require the manufacturer to assist. It may not be possible for them to help but generally speaking, being impossible to follow the law is seen as a valid defence.
Since when is Apple a law enforcement organisation?
I was talking about the PR nightmare. This means public relations. This means that if they screw this up then it could result in Apple selling fewer phones. This is what Apple cares about.
Now, perhaps you aren't aware of the situation in the US, but that is a country where there are a large number of strongly religious people who believe that abortion is a sin. The US has, as part of its fundamental law, the right to freedom of religion. This means that these very religious people will make a lot of noise if a company seems to be supporting something they see as sinful.
These people also buy Apple products. Apple wish to sell iPhones to these people as well as moderate liberal minded people.
A lot of people feel incredibly strongly about abortion. If Siri gets a false positive when it thinks someone wants an abortion, Apple are in the PR shitter.
Seems sensible. Although, if this is an April fool, it's reddit doing so rather than slashdot. This has been mentioned on a bunch of other sites.
My advice - assume the internet is a lie until tomorrow. Preferably the afternoon to deal with timezones.
I'm sure the EFF, and possibly the ACLU would be delighted to take up this challenge. Because, it's an important legal point. Can you be obligated to lie? There really isn't a lot of legal precedent for people being legally forced to do so.
This would be because there are no games for Linux only that anyone gives a shit about.
There used to be a lot of server applications that Linux was great for, and Windows was rubbish at. Windows has probably caught up a lot since then, so this may or may not be the case, but this was something that was holding Windows back.
This is smaller than Concorde, and it it has a smaller per-seat cost, so demand doesn't need to be quite as high. If the range is good enough it might open it up to some other routes as well. Dubai-Singapore-Sydney-Tokyo might be viable (although it will be a bit if a windy route).
Are you sure they don't? A mid 80's Cray-2 managed 1.9 GFLopS. I gather ARMs have been able to do that for a while, and the GPUs manage a lot more.
Americans are more familiar with feet, so it makes sense to convert them. The problem is converting them too precisely. The blades are rarely going to be within 3cm of those lengths. Even fibre glass blades will expand a little due to temperature changes.
650ft and 260ft would have been sensible approximations.
As for a more sensible comparison; the blades would rise above the Empire State building's observation deck. Much easier to visualise since people have a general idea of how tall famous skyscrapers are.
It's not hugely expensive. Universities already have the infrastructure in place, and benefit from each other doing this, and also benefit if others extend their research.
As far as I know, aerial photography has been legal for a very long time. And ultimately, that's all a UAV is doing here.
Perhaps there should be tighter restrictions, or at least stricter rules on disclosure - but at the moment there simply aren't.
Yes... The first one wants "anonymised click stream data", and I'd rather not give permission without knowing what it it. Others seem to want me to sign up for something that all else being equal I'd rather not do.
But it's possible that a slashdotter somewhere knows about a good alternative or can offer advice on which one to use.
It turns out though, that you're right and I'm wrong. They don't. I just get a response from some sarcastic jerk.
iPlayer is the BBC's onDemand/live streaming service.
TV in the UK is funded by a TV licence. You pay a certain amount per year for the right to watch broadcast TV. You have to pay it even if you only watch non BBC channels.
You don't need to pay it if you only watch iPlayer's onDemand service.
Now I want it. Except without crippling my security.
Is there an alternative?
Not since the 14th amendment.
Code as speech. I can see how that applies at times, but for the most part code is a tool. It is primarily functional.
But even if we do accept that it is speech, the first amendment offers a lot less protection against being compelled to "speak" then being prevented from doing so. Courts will rule that a newspaper must print an apology, for example, and has means to compel witnesses to testify (The fifth amendment protects here)
Scraping is using a computer to read data from a (human readable) website and extract formatted computer data. So an app might search the slashdot homepage, look for links with text of a certain size and colour, and produce a list of titles. That would be "scraping".
They're stylistically interesting, but don't have constant brightness across the image and have some pretty quirky distortion; which I appreciate looks good, but is usually the sort of thing photographers want to avoid.
I would urge you to heed your own advice here.