He is only interested in foreign policy to the extent that other countries are forced to comply with whatever edict is issued in Washington.
Dean wants to use trade policy as his whip to crack. He supports restraining trade with countries who don't comply with our view of the world. Whether it's done with troops or with dollars, the end result is the same.
I'm not defending Bush, I just think that Dean is not much better.
That was called protectionism, i.e. I'm going to put up trade barriers to protect our inefficient workers from foriegn competition. I guess my newspeak dictionary is out of date.
Dean even calls Bush Jr. "isolationist" in regard to his foreign policy! If Bush Jr. is an isolationist, I don't want to find out what Dean thinks is going to far in interfering with other countries soverignty. Dean says "we intend to enforce our view of the world", in regard to trade policies.
He also supports requiring sales tax collection for all sales on the Internet. He opposes all measures to reduce the size or power of the federal government through cutting taxes. He asserts that most people want to pay more taxes, because we all just love big brother that much.
Yeah, Dean might have good views on gun control, abortion, and some technology issues, but in the end, he is not really concerned with liberty, in any meaningful sense.
And how exactly is it supposed to do that? Short of downloading the RPM that provides the dep to see what it contains, there's really no way to tell.
I think the real solution is to make it easy to package your own packages, something like checkinstall does, but without having to guess what the "whatprovides" should say.
And also will allow it to be installed using normal tools like apt, instead of screwed up tools that try 6 different protocols to download, of which maybe 3 will work, the rest taking 60 seconds to time out.
I think you've nailed it, and also brought up an interesting point regarding the stagnation of current games for the most part.
Now, more than ever, the technology is being shaped by the games, and not the other way around. I don't work for a graphics card company or anything, but I bet they measure their success and failure based on various 3D benchmarks, which all test the way current games will perform. This leaves people like Carmack no motivation except to make more of the same.
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I seriously doubt it.
To short the battery from the phone software, you'd need to add a pretty huge transistor/relay/something to run the current through. It's just not feasible with the size of today's phones. Not to mention the insane legal liability they would get by deliberately injuring their customers.
They are likely being honest. Lithium batteries need good protection circuitry, which is usually built into the pack itself. The cheap replacement probably lacked this protection, or the protection failed due to bad design or cheap components.
So even if the phone could somehow short the battery, a properly designed battery pack would cut off before something bad happened.
Yes, you can of course install as many as you want w/o cost. But, they will refuse any support if any boxes aren't covered.
That's not what the license says. It says in plain english, if you install it on more servers, you will buy more licenses. They reserve the right to audit you for compliance also.
Then it's simply a matter of "the support contract is nullified if such-and-such or so-and-so."
Would that even be GPL compatible? I think that that would be a de facto restriction on distribution, since few companies would be willing to lose all support after they paid all that money for it. Is taking something away from someone if they exercise their rights under the GPL permissible?
I think it would be funny for an MMORPG to mess with their whiny users sometime. Something like roving bandits that steal items when you are asleep in an inn. It would really drive home the point that you don't "own" anything in the game.
DARL: Oh, wicked, bad, naughty Linux! They have been setting alight to our code, which, I just remembered, is UNIX-like. It's not the first time we've had this problem.
GALAHAD: It's not the real UNIX?
DARL: Oh, wicked, bad, naughty, evil Linux! Oh, they are a naughty group, and they must pay the penalty -- and here in Castle SCO, we have but one punishment for setting alight the Sys V code. You must tie them down on a bed and spank them!
LINUX USERS: A spanking! A spanking!
DARL: You must spank them well. And after you have spanked them, you may deal with them as you like. And then, spank me.
VARIOUS LINUX USERS: And spank me. And me. And me.
DARL: Yes, yes, you must give us all a good spanking!
It depends on if you count worms, and what you consider "part of the OS".
Lots of software run on Linux/BSD/other unix-like systems, so if a worm uses a flaw in that software, can you really call it a Linux problem?
It's not as clear cut as it is in the proprietary software world. where programs generally run on one platform only, and MS/Apple bundles tons of stuff tightly with the OS.
There have been a couple honest to goodness Linux viruses, but none that I know of have ever spread widely. If you count worms that exploit only Linux, that have made it very far in the wild, you could probably count them on one hand.
You're joking, but SCO OpenServer does actually scout your network for other unlicensed copies of OpenServer and other SCO products. As far as I know, it just causes an output to console every few minutes warning you of the unlicensed software.
Like the other posted said, a small fee would be fine to pay for media and the time for someone to go PRESS PLAY ON TAPE.
Even better would be just letting people plug a laptop in at the station and download the video they need, but not so good if you want it for any sort of evidence (although if you need it for real evidence, you can subpoena it anyway).
I saw a lacture by someone, don't remember his name, but he was working on some amazing things to increase the range of CCD images.
Basically, you take the image at three different exposures, and then do some math voodoo on the data, dropping out the overexposed and underexposed parts of each image, then digitally combine them. It can really help with an image with huge brightness range, as is common with outdoor photography that might have shadows and sun reflections.
Advances like this, combined with advances in resolution, will make facial recognition technology slowly get better. I doubt there will be a silver bullet, but just as in similar fields like voice recognition, things will improve over time.
The difference between what you describe and what is proposed and used is that the police will have exclusive access to these street cameras.
If all cameras complete footage for any specific time were available to anyone upon request, then I would be more comfortable with it. If we can't have privacy, we might as well have transparancy.
I recently wanted to get an arrest record for an incident. I was told I would have to file a FOIA request, in person (an hour drive each way), and even then, all it would have on it was the name of the arresting officer, the person arrested, and the location. It would not contain the police report of the incident. I was told I would have to subpoena that if I wanted it.
With police acting with such secrecy, you can understand why I would be reluctant to have cameras all over the place. There are stories all the time of police abuse of databases, people blacklisted from flying because they had unpopular political beliefs, etc. I think that this would be yet another resource that would be easily abused by police if they are given exclusive access.
That said, I am in favor of police having cameras in their cars. I do think that those tapes should be available to the public upon request though (and not requiring a subpoena).
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He is only interested in foreign policy to the extent that other countries are forced to comply with whatever edict is issued in Washington.
Dean wants to use trade policy as his whip to crack. He supports restraining trade with countries who don't comply with our view of the world. Whether it's done with troops or with dollars, the end result is the same.
I'm not defending Bush, I just think that Dean is not much better.
That was called protectionism, i.e. I'm going to put up trade barriers to protect our inefficient workers from foriegn competition. I guess my newspeak dictionary is out of date.
You make the package dependent upon the presence of libfoo.so.1 and not libfoo-1.3ar78.rpm.
That's the way RPM works.
Yeah, Dean did Lessig's blog, big deal.
Before you run to vote for him, you should know his positions, most of which are not compatible with liberty.
Dean fully supports the failed War on Drugs.
Dean wants "More federal funding for all aspects of Drug War".
Dean supports a socialist command economy for medical services.
Dean even calls Bush Jr. "isolationist" in regard to his foreign policy! If Bush Jr. is an isolationist, I don't want to find out what Dean thinks is going to far in interfering with other countries soverignty. Dean says "we intend to enforce our view of the world", in regard to trade policies.
He also supports requiring sales tax collection for all sales on the Internet. He opposes all measures to reduce the size or power of the federal government through cutting taxes. He asserts that most people want to pay more taxes, because we all just love big brother that much.
Yeah, Dean might have good views on gun control, abortion, and some technology issues, but in the end, he is not really concerned with liberty, in any meaningful sense.
Then isn't this exactly what you want? If you use these RPMs, then you won't have that problem.
And how exactly is it supposed to do that? Short of downloading the RPM that provides the dep to see what it contains, there's really no way to tell.
I think the real solution is to make it easy to package your own packages, something like checkinstall does, but without having to guess what the "whatprovides" should say.
And also will allow it to be installed using normal tools like apt, instead of screwed up tools that try 6 different protocols to download, of which maybe 3 will work, the rest taking 60 seconds to time out.
I think you've nailed it, and also brought up an interesting point regarding the stagnation of current games for the most part.
Now, more than ever, the technology is being shaped by the games, and not the other way around. I don't work for a graphics card company or anything, but I bet they measure their success and failure based on various 3D benchmarks, which all test the way current games will perform. This leaves people like Carmack no motivation except to make more of the same.
I seriously doubt it.
To short the battery from the phone software, you'd need to add a pretty huge transistor/relay/something to run the current through. It's just not feasible with the size of today's phones. Not to mention the insane legal liability they would get by deliberately injuring their customers.
They are likely being honest. Lithium batteries need good protection circuitry, which is usually built into the pack itself. The cheap replacement probably lacked this protection, or the protection failed due to bad design or cheap components.
So even if the phone could somehow short the battery, a properly designed battery pack would cut off before something bad happened.
Those are just cheap OEM batteries. They are the kind that come with your remote control, and don't last very long.
They are all over ebay and surplus shops. They are safe. Most likely carbon-zinc.
It's very difficult to buy loose Lion cells, so if you bought them, it wouldn't be accidental, you'd have to be looking for them most likely.
Yes, you can of course install as many as you want w/o cost. But, they will refuse any support if any boxes aren't covered.
That's not what the license says. It says in plain english, if you install it on more servers, you will buy more licenses. They reserve the right to audit you for compliance also.
Then it's simply a matter of "the support contract is nullified if such-and-such or so-and-so."
Would that even be GPL compatible? I think that that would be a de facto restriction on distribution, since few companies would be willing to lose all support after they paid all that money for it. Is taking something away from someone if they exercise their rights under the GPL permissible?
Or just make everyone play Nethack for a few hours, so they will learn to get over losing their kick-ass items all the time. :)
I agree with you (and modded you up for it)
Not anymore!
Poor AC. Guess you didn't know that AC isn't very anonymous at all.
I think it would be funny for an MMORPG to mess with their whiny users sometime. Something like roving bandits that steal items when you are asleep in an inn. It would really drive home the point that you don't "own" anything in the game.
DARL: Oh, wicked, bad, naughty Linux! They have been setting
alight to our code, which, I just remembered, is UNIX-like.
It's not the first time we've had this problem.
GALAHAD: It's not the real UNIX?
DARL: Oh, wicked, bad, naughty, evil Linux! Oh, they are a naughty
group, and they must pay the penalty -- and here in Castle
SCO, we have but one punishment for setting alight the
Sys V code. You must tie them down on a bed and spank them!
LINUX USERS: A spanking! A spanking!
DARL: You must spank them well. And after you have spanked them,
you may deal with them as you like. And then, spank me.
VARIOUS LINUX USERS: And spank me. And me. And me.
DARL: Yes, yes, you must give us all a good spanking!
LINUX USERS: A spanking! A spanking!
DARL: And after the spanking, the oral sex.
LINUX USERS: Oral sex! Oral sex!
It depends on if you count worms, and what you consider "part of the OS".
Lots of software run on Linux/BSD/other unix-like systems, so if a worm uses a flaw in that software, can you really call it a Linux problem?
It's not as clear cut as it is in the proprietary software world. where programs generally run on one platform only, and MS/Apple bundles tons of stuff tightly with the OS.
There have been a couple honest to goodness Linux viruses, but none that I know of have ever spread widely. If you count worms that exploit only Linux, that have made it very far in the wild, you could probably count them on one hand.
Yeah, but what would such liability mean for free software? Or companies like Red Hat?
You're joking, but SCO OpenServer does actually scout your network for other unlicensed copies of OpenServer and other SCO products. As far as I know, it just causes an output to console every few minutes warning you of the unlicensed software.
Heh, yeah, but they could just arrest anyone wearing a mask in front of the camera.
Like the other posted said, a small fee would be fine to pay for media and the time for someone to go PRESS PLAY ON TAPE.
Even better would be just letting people plug a laptop in at the station and download the video they need, but not so good if you want it for any sort of evidence (although if you need it for real evidence, you can subpoena it anyway).
It's illegal to weak a mask in public in many states in the US.
Technology marches on.
I saw a lacture by someone, don't remember his name, but he was working on some amazing things to increase the range of CCD images.
Basically, you take the image at three different exposures, and then do some math voodoo on the data, dropping out the overexposed and underexposed parts of each image, then digitally combine them. It can really help with an image with huge brightness range, as is common with outdoor photography that might have shadows and sun reflections.
Advances like this, combined with advances in resolution, will make facial recognition technology slowly get better. I doubt there will be a silver bullet, but just as in similar fields like voice recognition, things will improve over time.
if it is properly used
The big caveat.
The difference between what you describe and what is proposed and used is that the police will have exclusive access to these street cameras.
If all cameras complete footage for any specific time were available to anyone upon request, then I would be more comfortable with it. If we can't have privacy, we might as well have transparancy.
I recently wanted to get an arrest record for an incident. I was told I would have to file a FOIA request, in person (an hour drive each way), and even then, all it would have on it was the name of the arresting officer, the person arrested, and the location. It would not contain the police report of the incident. I was told I would have to subpoena that if I wanted it.
With police acting with such secrecy, you can understand why I would be reluctant to have cameras all over the place. There are stories all the time of police abuse of databases, people blacklisted from flying because they had unpopular political beliefs, etc. I think that this would be yet another resource that would be easily abused by police if they are given exclusive access.
That said, I am in favor of police having cameras in their cars. I do think that those tapes should be available to the public upon request though (and not requiring a subpoena).
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