I want to thank Rob for keeping this site going for so long. I have been here from the first couple of months. I first visited slashdot in the fall of 2007, it really has been 12 years. Slashdot was great because they were inclusive, most people were very intelligent and the discussions were great. The other reality is that it was the place to hang out if you liked linux. Anyway, I don't frequent as often as I used to, but I love slashdot and still hope to meet Rob in person some day.
I would love to take that class. I could see all that stuff when I was playing starcraft, but I never took the time to quantify it. I really wish I would have
The constitution gives congress the power to regulate interstate commerce and somehow that is justification for making medical marijuana illigal. There is also a body of case law that these decisions depend on and that case law is important. I do agree that people do extend and embrace the constitution.
It seems that the law may ne be as clear as the person who posted this lead us to believe. Here is someone who can make legal arguments much more effectively than I (powerline)
I believe the argument here is that cangress cannot make a law that limits constitutional authority granted to the executive branch, this would require amending the constitution. As I put it, they make a much better argument than I. However, I was just hopeing to put this in perspective
Think freedom is great, except when it comes to economics? Think the free market capitalist pigs will be their own downfall? The wall street journal recently published a list of countries and sorted them by their level of economic freedom.
Policy makers who pay lip service to fighting poverty would do well to grasp the link between economic freedom and prosperity. This year the Index finds that the freest economies have a per-capita income of $29,219, more than twice that of the "mostly free" at $12,839, and more than four times that of the "mostly unfree." Put simply, misery has a cure and its name is economic freedom
Economic freedom allows countries to prosper. Sometimes at the expense of certain industries (ie programming) however, the competition and lower prices for goods mean that people (and companies) will be able to pay less for software and more for employees.
When bush protected ~5000 steel jobs a couple of years ago, it cost more than 20,000 auto industry jobs due to the increased cost of steel.
Anyway, to promote freedom in general, we have to respect the rights of employers as well as the rights of employees
I respect RMS, however, I disagree with his view of international economics.
Richard Stallman: FTAA. The World Trade Organization. NAFTA. These treaties are designed to reduce wages by making it easy for a company to say to various countries, "which of you will let us pay people the least? That's were we're headed." And if any country starts having a somewhat increased standard of living, companies say "oh, this is a bad labor climate here. You're not making a good climate for business. All the business is going to go away. You better make sure that people get paid less. You're following a foolish policy arranging for workers of your country to be paid more. You've got to make sure that your workers are the lowest paid anywhere in the world, then we'll come back. Otherwise we're all going to run away and punish you."
How can someone so for freedom, be against FREE trade. Shouldn't I be FREE to decide what country I pay workers. Shouldn't I be FREE to accept a wage of $4/hour if I can study while I work? Freedom has costs, a programming company may choose (FREEDOM) to hire an Indian instead of me. However, freedom in economics promotes wealth for the entire society. If we couldn't outsource manufacturing jobs to china and taiwon, computers would cost more than cars. Even though a few jobs are lost to foreign countries. More jobs are created here in the US as a result of the lowered costs of these goods to US businesses. Anyway, I am getting off topic. The point is if you are for freedom, you should be for free trade.
Sharp says that uses might include medical imaging, CAD, architectural mock-ups, life sciences, possibly online shopping, and of course gaming and digital imaging
Just the topic of this article showes its bias. Most people with wealth, earned it. People who sit on thier butts and get welfare are the only ones who have it distributed to them. In the future, just like now, wealth will have to be earned, probably just in an easier way
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I have a dell X5 and I can see just fine in the sun with the backlight on. You are simply not familiar with the new transflective screens
We learned that you have to stop a dictator BEFORE he can take over a region, not after.
Oh, in case you where wondering the 3rd infantry of the US is known as the rock of Marne. Why during the battle of the bulge they were fighting with two FRENCH infantries. The GERMANS were sending everything they had left to break the line. The two FRENCH infantries retreated. The 3rd infantry held firm and repelled the last major battle in Europe. Europeans should be pretty darn thankful to all the AMERICANS who are buried in their soil.
Being a person who was a chemistry major in college, I can tell you that it was VERY expensive to look up articles with chemical abstracts. I would have to wait until after 6 p.m. and then it would cost the department something like $5/min to use thier database. This was also the small school special.
Now that I am in medical school, research is like ten times easier because we have PubMed. I think that the goverment really has a responsibility to make sure all the research it funds is accessable to people anywhere in the country. I mean we paid for it, we should be able to see the results.
For those of you who don't know, to publish information to scientific journals amounts to extortions. First you have to pay for research, then when you have written your paper, you have to pay to submit it to a journal, then if they accept it you must help with publishing costs. Finally they require you to give them the copywrite to your work, and it you ever want to have another legal copy, you must purchase it from them.
If you only had one pixel. It would be able to display all of the 64,000 different colors, just not at the same time. Color depth refers to number of different colors each dot can become. It is completely independant of the number of dots on a screen
This is hillarious. The RIAA is after clear channel for not allowing new music to be distributed. Maybe radio isn't the only medium music can be distributed in. If they would just be happy with letting people use internet radio and allow napster to exist, it would do a great deal to promote their music
Believe it or not,
I remeber being corrected on an English paper when email was still new. My teacher corrected my email to E-mail. I am guessing that was the first established standard.
I think a simple cookie could stop the problem. Set a cookie with a time stamp on the front page, check for it on the other pages. Many other ways too.
This article is not fair to RedHat. Microsoft can afford to charge $2000 since they charge so much more for their operating system.
Redhat doesn't have the revenue, or the staff to offer the level of service Microsoft has. However, you can still recieve a high value product and have a lower total cost of ownership. These are real concerns, but companies need to look at the differing revenue structures and remember they didn't pay anything for their operating systems. When Redhat starts charging $300 per seat and per computer that can connect. They a company can have a reason to complain. For now, I have no pitty.
First, defendants have offered no evidence to support this assertion[Made for interoperatablility].
Second, even assuming that DeCSS runs under Linux, it concededly runs under Windows---a far more widely used operating system---as well. It therefore cannot reasonably be said that DeCSS was developed "for the sole purpose'' of achieving interoperability between Linux and DVDs.
Finally, and most important, the legislative history makes it abundantly clear that Section 1201(f) permits reverse engineering of copyrighted computer programs only and does not authorize circumvention of technological systems that control access to other copyrighted works, such as movies.21 In consequence, the reverse engineering exception does not apply.
If this doesn't worry you I don't know what will. The guy is saying that it is illigal to view your DVD unless it is specifically authorized through the key from the DVDCCA. I guess I am going to have to move to a different country. America isn't supposed to be like this.
Am I the only one who sees a conflict of interest here. I don't know how ABC can do a fair story when they are working for disney. This is the problem with the huge media companies. They can control the public opinion.
I think ABC news is usually very fair. But I don't know about this. I think upper level management might be in on this one. This is just too big for their parent company for them to take the other side.
So much for fair news reporting
geach
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I have to disagree with Bruce on the part about beta testers not being a part of the coorporation. I see no difference between beta testers, and part time employees. Beta-testers are part time employess as long as they are getting paid. I know a certain software company has changed the idea of beta testing, where people pay a nominal fee to beta test. But many companies pay real money to beta testers. As long as they recieve compensation, they should be considered employees and that still internal use.
I think that Bruce specifically mentioned this because of the problems he had with Corel and their beta license agreement. I agree with everything else though.
In the late 1800's Ice Cream was a brand new thing. I am sure many people felt that there was something wrong with all theses young folks running around with ice cream. I am sure people would look back and say, "Why would they make a law against skateboards in downtown. Or rollerblades on sidewalks."
We are a product of our times. I don't think we actually understand why some of these laws were passed because we live in a completely different world
geach
Kennesaw, GA does require guns
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I guess this is a law worth mentioning. I live up the road from kennesaw. Only one year after enacting this legistation, burglary was almost non-existant. I mean, if you had the choice of Burglarizing in Marietta (No gun required) or Kennesaw (Gun required) where would you go. The purpose of this law is solidarity. It is not nearly as useful if only 35% of the people own guns. Anyway, I think this is an interesting one. I am also not sure of the Constitutianaility of it. But, it does seem to work. geach
Slashdot Mirror
I want to thank Rob for keeping this site going for so long. I have been here from the first couple of months. I first visited slashdot in the fall of 2007, it really has been 12 years. Slashdot was great because they were inclusive, most people were very intelligent and the discussions were great. The other reality is that it was the place to hang out if you liked linux.
Anyway, I don't frequent as often as I used to, but I love slashdot and still hope to meet Rob in person some day.
Jonathan
Science is asking a question and figuring out a solution. The best science projects are simple and provide answers to a good question.
Example.
Does Kellogs raisin bran really have more raisins than the store brand?
Very easy to test
How much caffeine is in different drinks
Are people more likely to click on one type of website or another.
I know this is basically marketing research, but that is what REAL science is.
It is asking a question and then finding a way to answer it.
I would love to take that class. I could see all that stuff when I was playing starcraft, but I never took the time to quantify it. I really wish I would have
The constitution gives congress the power to regulate interstate commerce and somehow that is justification for making medical marijuana illigal. There is also a body of case law that these decisions depend on and that case law is important. I do agree that people do extend and embrace the constitution.
I believe the argument here is that cangress cannot make a law that limits constitutional authority granted to the executive branch, this would require amending the constitution. As I put it, they make a much better argument than I. However, I was just hopeing to put this in perspective
Think freedom is great, except when it comes to economics? Think the free market capitalist pigs will be their own downfall? The wall street journal recently published a list of countries and sorted them by their level of economic freedom.
Economic freedom allows countries to prosper. Sometimes at the expense of certain industries (ie programming) however, the competition and lower prices for goods mean that people (and companies) will be able to pay less for software and more for employees.
When bush protected ~5000 steel jobs a couple of years ago, it cost more than 20,000 auto industry jobs due to the increased cost of steel.
Anyway, to promote freedom in general, we have to respect the rights of employers as well as the rights of employees
I respect RMS, however, I disagree with his view of international economics.
How can someone so for freedom, be against FREE trade. Shouldn't I be FREE to decide what country I pay workers. Shouldn't I be FREE to accept a wage of $4/hour if I can study while I work? Freedom has costs, a programming company may choose (FREEDOM) to hire an Indian instead of me. However, freedom in economics promotes wealth for the entire society. If we couldn't outsource manufacturing jobs to china and taiwon, computers would cost more than cars. Even though a few jobs are lost to foreign countries. More jobs are created here in the US as a result of the lowered costs of these goods to US businesses. Anyway, I am getting off topic. The point is if you are for freedom, you should be for free trade.
geach
HMMM
Maybe pr0n?
pr0n is this display's "killer app"
Just the topic of this article showes its bias. Most people with wealth, earned it. People who sit on thier butts and get welfare are the only ones who have it distributed to them. In the future, just like now, wealth will have to be earned, probably just in an easier way
I have a dell X5 and I can see just fine in the sun with the backlight on. You are simply not familiar with the new transflective screens
We learned that you have to stop a dictator BEFORE he can take over a region, not after.
Oh, in case you where wondering the 3rd infantry of the US is known as the rock of Marne. Why during the battle of the bulge they were fighting with two FRENCH infantries. The GERMANS were sending everything they had left to break the line. The two FRENCH infantries retreated. The 3rd infantry held firm and repelled the last major battle in Europe. Europeans should be pretty darn thankful to all the AMERICANS who are buried in their soil.
Now that I am in medical school, research is like ten times easier because we have PubMed. I think that the goverment really has a responsibility to make sure all the research it funds is accessable to people anywhere in the country. I mean we paid for it, we should be able to see the results.
For those of you who don't know, to publish information to scientific journals amounts to extortions. First you have to pay for research, then when you have written your paper, you have to pay to submit it to a journal, then if they accept it you must help with publishing costs. Finally they require you to give them the copywrite to your work, and it you ever want to have another legal copy, you must purchase it from them.
Modern scientific publishing is extortion
If you only had one pixel. It would be able to display all of the 64,000 different colors, just not at the same time. Color depth refers to number of different colors each dot can become. It is completely independant of the number of dots on a screen
This is hillarious. The RIAA is after clear channel for not allowing new music to be distributed. Maybe radio isn't the only medium music can be distributed in. If they would just be happy with letting people use internet radio and allow napster to exist, it would do a great deal to promote their music
Believe it or not,
I remeber being corrected on an English paper when email was still new. My teacher corrected my email to E-mail. I am guessing that was the first established standard.
I prefer email though
Geach
Redhat doesn't have the revenue, or the staff to offer the level of service Microsoft has. However, you can still recieve a high value product and have a lower total cost of ownership. These are real concerns, but companies need to look at the differing revenue structures and remember they didn't pay anything for their operating systems. When Redhat starts charging $300 per seat and per computer that can connect. They a company can have a reason to complain. For now, I have no pitty.
Geach
Second, even assuming that DeCSS runs under Linux, it concededly runs under Windows---a far more widely used operating system---as well. It therefore cannot reasonably be said that DeCSS was developed "for the sole purpose'' of achieving interoperability between Linux and DVDs.
Finally, and most important, the legislative history makes it abundantly clear that Section 1201(f) permits reverse engineering of copyrighted computer programs only and does not authorize circumvention of technological systems that control access to other copyrighted works, such as movies.21 In consequence, the reverse engineering exception does not apply.
If this doesn't worry you I don't know what will. The guy is saying that it is illigal to view your DVD unless it is specifically authorized through the key from the DVDCCA. I guess I am going to have to move to a different country. America isn't supposed to be like this.
Jonathan
Am I the only one who sees a conflict of interest here. I don't know how ABC can do a fair story when they are working for disney. This is the problem with the huge media companies. They can control the public opinion.
I think ABC news is usually very fair. But I don't know about this. I think upper level management might be in on this one. This is just too big for their parent company for them to take the other side.
So much for fair news reporting
geach
I have to disagree with Bruce on the part about beta testers not being a part of the coorporation. I see no difference between beta testers, and part time employees. Beta-testers are part time employess as long as they are getting paid. I know a certain software company has changed the idea of beta testing, where people pay a nominal fee to beta test. But many companies pay real money to beta testers. As long as they recieve compensation, they should be considered employees and that still internal use.
I think that Bruce specifically mentioned this because of the problems he had with Corel and their beta license agreement. I agree with everything else though.
geach
In the late 1800's Ice Cream was a brand new thing. I am sure many people felt that there was something wrong with all theses young folks running around with ice cream. I am sure people would look back and say, "Why would they make a law against skateboards in downtown. Or rollerblades on sidewalks."
We are a product of our times. I don't think we actually understand why some of these laws were passed because we live in a completely different world
geach
I guess this is a law worth mentioning. I live up the road from kennesaw. Only one year after enacting this legistation, burglary was almost non-existant. I mean, if you had the choice of Burglarizing in Marietta (No gun required) or Kennesaw (Gun required) where would you go. The purpose of this law is solidarity. It is not nearly as useful if only 35% of the people own guns. Anyway, I think this is an interesting one. I am also not sure of the Constitutianaility of it. But, it does seem to work. geach
Hmm, Lucent bought a company, nexabit networks, earlier this year that sells a 1TB/s router. Not 100 TB but still pretty fast geach
Mutt,
Barks like a puppy,
Bites like a Dog.
geach
(mutt user)
(mutt is an E-mail client for the Enlightened)
(mutt is a productivity device)
(mutt is the end all be all)
(mutt is truly open)
(mutt is good for chasing of bad cat>'s)
(mutt is man's best friend)
(mutt it does a body good)
I didn't see anything about Cell phones in that article. It looked like something that you would use at home if you can't get DSL or a Cable modem.
However, I do think this is great. I can't get DSL or Cable where I live, and I know I would be interested in that kind of bandwidth.
geach