So wait. To get out of turning your email address over to B&N you have to give your email address to B&N? ** Holds hand up **
Anyway there's nothing one-sided about this. You are perfectly free to make a list of all of the companies that do business with you and sell the list to whoever you like.
One difference is that the claims of exaggeration by Jews is a lie made up by Holocaust deniers like you. The estimates of the number of Jews killed in the Holocaust wasn't made by the Jews, it was made by the war historians from still-available evidence.
The exaggerations by the record companies were made by the record companies and are based on "lost sales" with no evidence.
A clever Toronto survey found that panhandlers made about $30 a day. That's not much of a living. I spent about 20 minutes chatting with a panhandler outside the Chinese Garden in Vancouver who told me a wonderful hard luck story. It was well worth the $5 I gave him.
First off. facial recognition is already widely used -- by casinos. The way it works is that if it matches you to a known cheat (or maybe MIT Math Major) then they just either watch you or bar you from the casino. They don't waste any time chasing down false positives. They just continue to improve their software, which is probably better than the commercial stuff now.
The simplest thing is for TSA to do is to just make an extra check on your documentation and bar you from flying if anything is amiss. Why spend any time tracking anything? When has the TSA ever had to reveal or explain anything they do?
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To start with, I'd suggest anyone who had an email blocked contact yahoo! and ask why they are reading and censoring your email in violation of their own privacy policy.
Hspice and Pspice are popular commercial, closed source versions of Spice. I wonder if Spice would be used more or less if it had been GPL? It certainly resulted in a lot of money that did not go to the original developers.
What do you mean "switched to". The patent office has always just searched their own database. Its up to the filer to provide prior art and why their patent is new. When you file, the examiner just shakes a can or something and gives you a random list of unrelated patents and asks you why yours isn't covered by them. Its clear they haven't read yours or the other patents, they just have similar words in the title. After that you are approved. I'm speaking from going through this in 1982 and it was the same long before that.
One goal of UEFI is so that the hardware vendors (Intel) will not have to publish detailed specs. You will only be able to access your hardware as they want.
You can already only access your hardware as they want. The difference is there'll be a single, publicly available spec, rather than random half-documented vendor-specific interfaces, where the only thing they actually tested was their equally shoddy windows driver. The OS signing is a real concern, but unified, standardized hardware interfaces are a major plus
I'm looking at the difference between the DVD drive in my computer, where I can currently read and write raw bits, and the DVD drive in my HTS - which interacts with code on the DVD to lock me out from skipping ads or the FBI warning. What are the chances that UEFI is going to give me all the capabilities that I currently have? You think the driver for Sony DVD drives will let you dump raw bits from Sony music?
That would not fly in the US. I do believe that in some countries universities may have copyright claim on student work but this is simply not the case in the US unless there is a contract and funding making it a work for hire or copyright assignment. I am not aware of any US schools which have such requirements and I study and practice in the field of education.
Well, then you aren't paying attention. Here's the rules MIT has - it looks like they get the copyright if they paid for any part of your research or you used their facilities, which means almost everybody.
If a photon has rest mass, then why isn't its relativistic mass at C infinite? Did the Lorentz transformation break and nobody told me?
Also, I always thought that C was only a constant in a vacuum. Not only is the Earth not a vacuum, but its gravitational field is bending local space, which should also affect C.
While light on some details, the article does indicate that "It sits on top of BIOS", which means you should be able to get into the BIOS to change things. It also sits either in NAND memory or a hard drive partition, (Compaq servers, anyone?) and so can be physically replaced to put Linux in as an OS instead of WinDoze8.
Looks like all the paranoia is wasted again!
The article is badly worded. It "sits on top of BIOS" on machines that HAVE a BIOS. New machines will just boot UEFI. If you remove UEFI you will have a brick.
If you have a 64-bit UEFI, you will not be able to boot a 32-bit OS.
If you have security enabled you will not be able to boot an unsigned OS.
One goal of UEFI is so that the hardware vendors (Intel) will not have to publish detailed specs. You will only be able to access your hardware as they want.
Looks like they sometimes are out to get the paranoids.
Mostly false. First, there is no such legal term as "intellectual property". Second, there is no ownership concept over "ideas", that's bizarre.
Copyright protects "works" which covers all recordings in any form of a performance, show, piece of music, etc. As I said, distributing copies would violate copyright so don't make it sound like I'm advocating that or claiming that they lost their rights. That's not what I said. What I'm saying is that the copyright owners have a hard time claiming damages if they did not keep a copy of the work.
This raises an interesting legal question. If I have a copy of a missing TV show episode, what claim would the copyright owner have if they don't have a copy? If I distribute it I'm violating the copyright. But I'm not taking anything from the owner because they can't do the same. The whole point of copyright is to preserve the right to distribute for the owners. In particular, it's NOT to prevent old episodes from being watched so that people will watch new episodes. Copyright is only for protecting that work, not other works using the same trademarks or characters.
That's it -- a space launch is ALL shipping and handling. No wonder NASA failed to keep the shuttle program going. They should have given it to someone who knows how to transport stuff inexpensively, the US Postal Service. While FedEx charges me $30.00 to send an envelope door-to-door across country, USPS does it for $0.44. The only large cost would be converting the shuttle fleet to right-hand drive. Then we'll have those costs down in no time.
PS - there's one diaper-wearing astronaut who would be perfect working for the postal system!
The other point to note is that these servers have UPS. UPS batteries are DC, and it is inefficient to have AC power in -> convert to DC to charge batteries -> Convert battery back to AC to power the computer -> Convert to DC to power the various components.
Better is: AC into rack -> convert to DC and charge batteries in each server -> have DC-DC converters to power the components.
Telephone equipment (NEBS) all works this way. Also, 48V is considered safe, ie. unlikely to kill you if you touch it.
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So wait. To get out of turning your email address over to B&N you have to give your email address to B&N? ** Holds hand up **
Anyway there's nothing one-sided about this. You are perfectly free to make a list of all of the companies that do business with you and sell the list to whoever you like.
One difference is that the claims of exaggeration by Jews is a lie made up by Holocaust deniers like you. The estimates of the number of Jews killed in the Holocaust wasn't made by the Jews, it was made by the war historians from still-available evidence.
The exaggerations by the record companies were made by the record companies and are based on "lost sales" with no evidence.
A clever Toronto survey found that panhandlers made about $30 a day. That's not much of a living. I spent about 20 minutes chatting with a panhandler outside the Chinese Garden in Vancouver who told me a wonderful hard luck story. It was well worth the $5 I gave him.
First off. facial recognition is already widely used -- by casinos. The way it works is that if it matches you to a known cheat (or maybe MIT Math Major) then they just either watch you or bar you from the casino. They don't waste any time chasing down false positives. They just continue to improve their software, which is probably better than the commercial stuff now.
The simplest thing is for TSA to do is to just make an extra check on your documentation and bar you from flying if anything is amiss. Why spend any time tracking anything? When has the TSA ever had to reveal or explain anything they do?
OS -> X11 (or equivalent) -> GDM (or equivalent) -> Gnome (or equivalent) -> Metacity (or equivalent) -> Nautilus (or equivalent)
In the above, 'Metacity' would be the window manager, I believe. I may be wrong on the above though. I'm not a Gnome fan, so my usage is fairly basic.
Incorrect. Metacity was the Window manager in Gnome 2. In Gnome 3 the developers just stabs you in the eye. Can you tell I switched to KDE?
Are you joking?
http://www.tgdaily.com/security-features/51469-dhs-fails-cyber-security-audit
The NSA may know something about security, but the government as a whole certainly doesn't.
You are talking about the Tempest standards which have been around since before 1980 (not sure how long before - it's existence was classified then).
To start with, I'd suggest anyone who had an email blocked contact yahoo! and ask why they are reading and censoring your email in violation of their own privacy policy.
http://info.yahoo.com/privacy/us/yahoo/
Better might be to contact their office at:
Yahoo! Inc.
Customer Care - Privacy Policy Issues
701 First Avenue
Sunnyvale, CA 94089
(408) 349-5070
Hspice and Pspice are popular commercial, closed source versions of Spice. I wonder if Spice would be used more or less if it had been GPL? It certainly resulted in a lot of money that did not go to the original developers.
What do you mean "switched to". The patent office has always just searched their own database. Its up to the filer to provide prior art and why their patent is new. When you file, the examiner just shakes a can or something and gives you a random list of unrelated patents and asks you why yours isn't covered by them. Its clear they haven't read yours or the other patents, they just have similar words in the title. After that you are approved. I'm speaking from going through this in 1982 and it was the same long before that.
Isn't "looking in two different places for something you want" the definition of "search"?
I haven't seen anyone post it yet, but if your interest is in human-like intelligence, read an AI critic like Searle.
So far, I haven't read of such measurements being done. Anyone know if it's actually feasible, and so, what the number may be?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravitational_wave
One goal of UEFI is so that the hardware vendors (Intel) will not have to publish detailed specs. You will only be able to access your hardware as they want.
You can already only access your hardware as they want. The difference is there'll be a single, publicly available spec, rather than random half-documented vendor-specific interfaces, where the only thing they actually tested was their equally shoddy windows driver. The OS signing is a real concern, but unified, standardized hardware interfaces are a major plus
I'm looking at the difference between the DVD drive in my computer, where I can currently read and write raw bits, and the DVD drive in my HTS - which interacts with code on the DVD to lock me out from skipping ads or the FBI warning. What are the chances that UEFI is going to give me all the capabilities that I currently have? You think the driver for Sony DVD drives will let you dump raw bits from Sony music?
That would not fly in the US. I do believe that in some countries universities may have copyright claim on student work but this is simply not the case in the US unless there is a contract and funding making it a work for hire or copyright assignment. I am not aware of any US schools which have such requirements and I study and practice in the field of education.
Well, then you aren't paying attention. Here's the rules MIT has - it looks like they get the copyright if they paid for any part of your research or you used their facilities, which means almost everybody.
http://hst.mit.edu/servlet/ControllerServlet?handler=PublicHandler&action=browse&pageId=457#Intellectual_Property_Copyright_Publication
If a photon has rest mass, then why isn't its relativistic mass at C infinite? Did the Lorentz transformation break and nobody told me?
Also, I always thought that C was only a constant in a vacuum. Not only is the Earth not a vacuum, but its gravitational field is bending local space, which should also affect C.
FBI Feeble Bozo's Inside
I think we're all bozos on this bust.
Yes, but when you turn off the security in order to boot another OS will you still be able to boot Windows? Doubt it.
While light on some details, the article does indicate that "It sits on top of BIOS", which means you should be able to get into the BIOS to change things. It also sits either in NAND memory or a hard drive partition, (Compaq servers, anyone?) and so can be physically replaced to put Linux in as an OS instead of WinDoze8.
Looks like all the paranoia is wasted again!
The article is badly worded. It "sits on top of BIOS" on machines that HAVE a BIOS. New machines will just boot UEFI.
If you remove UEFI you will have a brick.
If you have a 64-bit UEFI, you will not be able to boot a 32-bit OS.
If you have security enabled you will not be able to boot an unsigned OS.
One goal of UEFI is so that the hardware vendors (Intel) will not have to publish detailed specs. You will only be able to access your hardware as they want.
Looks like they sometimes are out to get the paranoids.
My aporogies.
They do have a North Korean Youtube. All of the content is Kim Jong Il singing "I'm so Lonely"
Mostly false. First, there is no such legal term as "intellectual property". Second, there is no ownership concept over "ideas", that's bizarre.
Copyright protects "works" which covers all recordings in any form of a performance, show, piece of music, etc. As I said, distributing copies would violate copyright so don't make it sound like I'm advocating that or claiming that they lost their rights. That's not what I said. What I'm saying is that the copyright owners have a hard time claiming damages if they did not keep a copy of the work.
This raises an interesting legal question. If I have a copy of a missing TV show episode, what claim would the copyright owner have if they don't have a copy? If I distribute it I'm violating the copyright. But I'm not taking anything from the owner because they can't do the same. The whole point of copyright is to preserve the right to distribute for the owners. In particular, it's NOT to prevent old episodes from being watched so that people will watch new episodes. Copyright is only for protecting that work, not other works using the same trademarks or characters.
That's it -- a space launch is ALL shipping and handling. No wonder NASA failed to keep the shuttle program going. They should have given it to someone who knows how to transport stuff inexpensively, the US Postal Service. While FedEx charges me $30.00 to send an envelope door-to-door across country, USPS does it for $0.44. The only large cost would be converting the shuttle fleet to right-hand drive. Then we'll have those costs down in no time.
PS - there's one diaper-wearing astronaut who would be perfect working for the postal system!
The other point to note is that these servers have UPS. UPS batteries are DC, and it is inefficient to have AC power in -> convert to DC to charge batteries -> Convert battery back to AC to power the computer -> Convert to DC to power the various components.
Better is: AC into rack -> convert to DC and charge batteries in each server -> have DC-DC converters to power the components.
Telephone equipment (NEBS) all works this way. Also, 48V is considered safe, ie. unlikely to kill you if you touch it.