by your reading, which I find way too broad, then the government could regulate the ownership of guns, bullets, wheat, bread, etc based on the concept that it may cross state lines and thus be "interstate commerce"
According to the supreme court, if you grow guns in your backyard for your own personal use, then yes, they can be.
(random: can anyone explain why.. you’d think it shouldn’t make any difference at this point.. I’m guessing it has something to do with network framing?)
What happened is that advances in communication at the kernel has made everything else MUCH faster. System calls like sendfile() basically tell the kernel to dump everything in the file to that port and don't bother me until you're done, which eliminates all of the syscall context switching overhead for read()ing data from the file to a buffer then write()ing the buffer to the socket and maybe a select() or epoll() thrown in there, etc.
The only way to get this benefit with openssl is if you had the file pre-encrypted on the drive somewhere, somehow (each session is a new key, so not likely to happen). You could write the file on the fly, but then you might as well just write to the network instead of writing to a file and telling the kernel to send it later.
saying they will do business in such and such way or else open themselves up to lawsuits.
That makes it worse, especially since the government typically reacts to problems rather than figuring things out in advance. It's like giving Exxon a free pass for the Valdez because they were doing everything right at the time, then adding a rule to keep people from running into reefs. Then someone runs an oil tanker into a rock.
It wouldn't be such a bad idea if people were proactively trying to come up with the best way to do things, but all we get are companies who are dedicated to ensuring that they jump not one hair higher than the regulations require and governments that keep themselves powered on the "Something must be done!" principle.
Fundamentally, this is hard. Take, for instance, fracking. How do people prove that the antifreeze they are pumping from their wells came from the drilling when it could be either a crack in the well casing as it passes through the water table or it could have been dumped 50 years ago in some mechanic's backyard and finally seeped in?
The solution we have chosen is for someone with power to say that if you want to drill a well or run a car shop, you have to follow these regulations. This isn't perfect and half the regulations were reactive and these days companies act like the regulations are the absolute minimum effort to make, but it helps keep disasters from happening before having to figure out who to sue to fix it.
Take the time to look around your local elections. The scariest things going on aren't coming out of Washington D.C. they're coming out of your DA's election campaign and behavior. Why provide bloody bandanas to the defense or tell them about the little boy who saw the guy who did it when you can railroad an innocent man and pad out your stats while another woman gets murdered? Do you elect your sheriff? What has he been doing? Is he like Joe Arpaio, grandstanding for the benefit of his Republican voters who get a hardon for prisoners in pink underwear while letting rape cases go uninvestigated so the rapists can strike again?
SOPA and TARP don't scare me one bit.
Also, having a laugh at "with us or against us" which I thought went out with Bush. A Democrat-loving dupe? Really? It's clear that Obama is continuing Bush's War on Terrah with the same level of intelligence and care for the Constitution, but Obama's not going to be the guy kicking in my door at 3AM and lying on the stand about all the heinous things I've supposedly done.
But then again, who needs a doctrine of equivalents when a patentholder can glaze the eyes of a jury while insisting that their algorithm is the only possible way to do X therefore your system must be using the algorithm. By the time you actually get to give your source code to your competitor to show that your algorithm is different, you're broke.
Except if you read the document it very clearly states it is the "Supreme Law of the land"
This slashdot post is the "Supreme Law of the Land". Ooooo now what?! Their word against mine, huh? How about we race to see who gets their supreme law enforced first.
citizens freed from jail because of the Constitution, especially the bill of rights
Meanwhile, the people who broke this so-called "law" and put the citizens there don't even get a strong word, much less a slap on the wrist and indeed, go on to win reelection by sniveling to their Republican base about how they were being tough on crime and those liberal hives of scum and villainy the ACLU and the Innocence Project and so on are unleashing rapists and murderers on our innocent citizens. If we're too chickenshit to throw cops and legislators in jail, we could at least garnish their government pensions to pay back the losses of the people whose rights they infringed.
How, then, can I make a new bicycle helmet and compete? Oh right, by buying a specification that was likely developed by one of my competitors so that they can profit from everyone else's work.
Why should the rest of us pay (with our taxes) so the manufacturers can have a free copy of the standard?
Why should the manufacturer pay? Why can't the law just say "A bicycle helment must be made of X and be shaped like Y and resist impacts up to Z mph" instead of "buy the standard for $2750"?
Last I checked, laws have consequences for breaking them. Without consequences, the Constitution is merely the supreme suggestion of the United States.
Make violation of the Constitution a criminal act, then we'll talk.
is there some device i'm missing that i just have to have?
Behold: The iPpliance line! Its sleek aluminum will make this refrigerator look just marvelous in your kitchen! The multitouch screen gives you access to all your recipe apps and integration with the Apple iTunes store makes reordering your milk a snap!
because the produce more than the standard 40 hour workers
The research says they don't. After 40 hours they start making mistakes. After a lot more than 40 hours, their mistakes start doing actual damage to the company.
farse
That's farce.
If wages and taxes for US labor dropped about 10% to 15%
The income story in America is deeply troubling. Inflation-adjusted average hourly earnings for production and nonsupervisory workers (a category that encompasses 80% of the workforce and leaves out higher-paid managers and supervisors) rose by an anemic 0.1% a year from 1979 to 2007, according to the EPI.
... and then the economy crashed. ( http://www.businessweek.com/investor/content/feb2010/pi2010025_902249.htm ) Take home pay has barely moved for decades. Meanwhile, employee productivity over the same time period doubled. In other words, employees were paid half as much for the same amount of work, and worked twice as much to keep the same pay.
US businesses would be able to hire more workers and sell more domestically made goods.
To who? The people with 15% less money to spend on your domestically made goods?
Actually, it's not only unsubstantiated, pretty much the exact opposite comes out in actual court cases against executives, where they just have to show that they haven't deprived the corporation of their services (forgot the exact technical term the courts use).
I figure the CEOs don't mind the misinformation, though, it gives them a free pass to do whatever the hell they want. And the fact that it's next to impossible to hold them accountable when they sink the company... well, they'd be paid less when they suck, except that their cousin Larry heads up the executive compensation committee, along with the CEO's best friend Bob over from Corporation X (who just happened to graciously give the CEO a spot on their executive compensation committee), combined with corporate board elections that Putin could only dream of (imagine! Being the only person on the ballot with only one box to check: "Yes"!)
The real losers here are the shareholders who don't bother to take an interest in how the company is run (beyond, of course, the next quarterly which is shaping up to look great now that we cut all the employees and have no more expenses... it's pure profit from here on out!) and would rather kick and whine when things go to shit than just sell the stock and buy a company that's competently run.
So if the increased insurance costs due to head count are $5600 per employee, you lose money by making the 1 person work more, even assuming no burnout effects like the article describes.
The American steel industry has been decimated by a union that was completely unwilling to bend to market forces and compete with cheaper steel mills in Asia
The American ____ industry has been decimated by management who figure they can go around signing whatever got people to quit waving around signs, then go through bankruptcy over and over to wipe out all the promises when they got too hard to keep.
This may apply only to Latin America, but unions there usually ally with a political party (for instance, the Socialist Party). That also alienates people
Nah, it's true here in the US too. That's why all unions are evil according to the Republicans. All of them. Except, of course, the cop unions, those swing heavily enough Republican that their various indiscretions are overlooked (the "desk jockey" being the cop analogue to the "rubber room" teacher, but you'll never hear a Republican complain about his taxes going to pay for a cop who screwed up so bad he had to be assigned to shuffling paper since the union won't let him be fired). The rest, though, are fully Democrat-supporting baby killers.
So your objections are 100% based on fantasy then?
Less fantasy, more dystopian scifi.
<LaFontaine>In a world of prosecutors who hide bloody bandannas, police labs that fake DNA tests, and cops busting down the wrong door and killing granny in the middle of the night, it isn't "fantastic" to suggest that a government employee may string together the same words in the same way as he did (though "treason" would be pushing it when there are thousands of unsolved rapes and murders that cops would love to close).
Scripting languages? Why back in my day we had toolkits that let us make only one game with none of this newfangled scripting stuff and we loved it. Uphill, in the snow, both ways, lawn etc etc etc.
So if only people who make counterfeits worth more than a nickel are charged with counterfeiting law, does that mean we should pay the *IAA in scanned pennies?
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And then sold to you in that shape by a salesman who is certain it's the right shape for your square room.
by your reading, which I find way too broad, then the government could regulate the ownership of guns, bullets, wheat, bread, etc based on the concept that it may cross state lines and thus be "interstate commerce"
According to the supreme court, if you grow guns in your backyard for your own personal use, then yes, they can be.
(random: can anyone explain why.. you’d think it shouldn’t make any difference at this point.. I’m guessing it has something to do with network framing?)
What happened is that advances in communication at the kernel has made everything else MUCH faster. System calls like sendfile() basically tell the kernel to dump everything in the file to that port and don't bother me until you're done, which eliminates all of the syscall context switching overhead for read()ing data from the file to a buffer then write()ing the buffer to the socket and maybe a select() or epoll() thrown in there, etc.
The only way to get this benefit with openssl is if you had the file pre-encrypted on the drive somewhere, somehow (each session is a new key, so not likely to happen). You could write the file on the fly, but then you might as well just write to the network instead of writing to a file and telling the kernel to send it later.
Or the key agent, or ~, or...
they all still seem to be wearing the same basic hooks and passive limbs that they've had forever
That's what their insurance covers.
Please.....walk through it slowly and speak to us as though we are Labrador retrievers.
Woof. Woof woof grrrrr schnuff! Bark grr woof? Woof!
saying they will do business in such and such way or else open themselves up to lawsuits.
That makes it worse, especially since the government typically reacts to problems rather than figuring things out in advance. It's like giving Exxon a free pass for the Valdez because they were doing everything right at the time, then adding a rule to keep people from running into reefs. Then someone runs an oil tanker into a rock.
It wouldn't be such a bad idea if people were proactively trying to come up with the best way to do things, but all we get are companies who are dedicated to ensuring that they jump not one hair higher than the regulations require and governments that keep themselves powered on the "Something must be done!" principle.
Fundamentally, this is hard. Take, for instance, fracking. How do people prove that the antifreeze they are pumping from their wells came from the drilling when it could be either a crack in the well casing as it passes through the water table or it could have been dumped 50 years ago in some mechanic's backyard and finally seeped in?
The solution we have chosen is for someone with power to say that if you want to drill a well or run a car shop, you have to follow these regulations. This isn't perfect and half the regulations were reactive and these days companies act like the regulations are the absolute minimum effort to make, but it helps keep disasters from happening before having to figure out who to sue to fix it.
Take the time to look around your local elections. The scariest things going on aren't coming out of Washington D.C. they're coming out of your DA's election campaign and behavior. Why provide bloody bandanas to the defense or tell them about the little boy who saw the guy who did it when you can railroad an innocent man and pad out your stats while another woman gets murdered? Do you elect your sheriff? What has he been doing? Is he like Joe Arpaio, grandstanding for the benefit of his Republican voters who get a hardon for prisoners in pink underwear while letting rape cases go uninvestigated so the rapists can strike again?
SOPA and TARP don't scare me one bit.
Also, having a laugh at "with us or against us" which I thought went out with Bush. A Democrat-loving dupe? Really? It's clear that Obama is continuing Bush's War on Terrah with the same level of intelligence and care for the Constitution, but Obama's not going to be the guy kicking in my door at 3AM and lying on the stand about all the heinous things I've supposedly done.
You can circumvent a patent by writing your own implementation of the algorithm.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctrine_of_equivalents
Of course that may not apply where you live.
But then again, who needs a doctrine of equivalents when a patentholder can glaze the eyes of a jury while insisting that their algorithm is the only possible way to do X therefore your system must be using the algorithm. By the time you actually get to give your source code to your competitor to show that your algorithm is different, you're broke.
Except if you read the document it very clearly states it is the "Supreme Law of the land"
This slashdot post is the "Supreme Law of the Land". Ooooo now what?! Their word against mine, huh? How about we race to see who gets their supreme law enforced first.
citizens freed from jail because of the Constitution, especially the bill of rights
Meanwhile, the people who broke this so-called "law" and put the citizens there don't even get a strong word, much less a slap on the wrist and indeed, go on to win reelection by sniveling to their Republican base about how they were being tough on crime and those liberal hives of scum and villainy the ACLU and the Innocence Project and so on are unleashing rapists and murderers on our innocent citizens. If we're too chickenshit to throw cops and legislators in jail, we could at least garnish their government pensions to pay back the losses of the people whose rights they infringed.
Offering it for sale in the US is.
How, then, can I make a new bicycle helmet and compete? Oh right, by buying a specification that was likely developed by one of my competitors so that they can profit from everyone else's work.
Why should the rest of us pay (with our taxes) so the manufacturers can have a free copy of the standard?
Why should the manufacturer pay? Why can't the law just say "A bicycle helment must be made of X and be shaped like Y and resist impacts up to Z mph" instead of "buy the standard for $2750"?
Last I checked, laws have consequences for breaking them. Without consequences, the Constitution is merely the supreme suggestion of the United States.
Make violation of the Constitution a criminal act, then we'll talk.
Damn, I'm going to have to call up my friends and tell them we've got a new ut2k4 mod to try out.
is there some device i'm missing that i just have to have?
Behold: The iPpliance line! Its sleek aluminum will make this refrigerator look just marvelous in your kitchen! The multitouch screen gives you access to all your recipe apps and integration with the Apple iTunes store makes reordering your milk a snap!
is because of work ethics and skills.
Or it's because the boss says so.
because the produce more than the standard 40 hour workers
The research says they don't. After 40 hours they start making mistakes. After a lot more than 40 hours, their mistakes start doing actual damage to the company.
farse
That's farce.
If wages and taxes for US labor dropped about 10% to 15%
US businesses would be able to hire more workers and sell more domestically made goods.
To who? The people with 15% less money to spend on your domestically made goods?
Actually, it's not only unsubstantiated, pretty much the exact opposite comes out in actual court cases against executives, where they just have to show that they haven't deprived the corporation of their services (forgot the exact technical term the courts use).
I figure the CEOs don't mind the misinformation, though, it gives them a free pass to do whatever the hell they want. And the fact that it's next to impossible to hold them accountable when they sink the company... well, they'd be paid less when they suck, except that their cousin Larry heads up the executive compensation committee, along with the CEO's best friend Bob over from Corporation X (who just happened to graciously give the CEO a spot on their executive compensation committee), combined with corporate board elections that Putin could only dream of (imagine! Being the only person on the ballot with only one box to check: "Yes"!)
The real losers here are the shareholders who don't bother to take an interest in how the company is run (beyond, of course, the next quarterly which is shaping up to look great now that we cut all the employees and have no more expenses... it's pure profit from here on out!) and would rather kick and whine when things go to shit than just sell the stock and buy a company that's competently run.
If it takes longer you're probably doing something wrong or you don't really know how to do your job.
Or your boss came to you and said they had to let Bob go, and gives you his responsibilities on top of your existing job.
Your pay raise commensurate with the new responsibilities is permission to keep drawing a paycheck.
So if the increased insurance costs due to head count are $5600 per employee, you lose money by making the 1 person work more, even assuming no burnout effects like the article describes.
Dammit Jim, I'm an MBA, not a mathematician!
The American steel industry has been decimated by a union that was completely unwilling to bend to market forces and compete with cheaper steel mills in Asia
The American ____ industry has been decimated by management who figure they can go around signing whatever got people to quit waving around signs, then go through bankruptcy over and over to wipe out all the promises when they got too hard to keep.
This may apply only to Latin America, but unions there usually ally with a political party (for instance, the Socialist Party). That also alienates people
Nah, it's true here in the US too. That's why all unions are evil according to the Republicans. All of them. Except, of course, the cop unions, those swing heavily enough Republican that their various indiscretions are overlooked (the "desk jockey" being the cop analogue to the "rubber room" teacher, but you'll never hear a Republican complain about his taxes going to pay for a cop who screwed up so bad he had to be assigned to shuffling paper since the union won't let him be fired). The rest, though, are fully Democrat-supporting baby killers.
So your objections are 100% based on fantasy then?
Less fantasy, more dystopian scifi.
<LaFontaine>In a world of prosecutors who hide bloody bandannas, police labs that fake DNA tests, and cops busting down the wrong door and killing granny in the middle of the night, it isn't "fantastic" to suggest that a government employee may string together the same words in the same way as he did (though "treason" would be pushing it when there are thousands of unsolved rapes and murders that cops would love to close).
Then maybe Mr. Taxpayer will think harder about voting for the next DA (or if it's an appointment, whoever appoints them).
Scripting languages? Why back in my day we had toolkits that let us make only one game with none of this newfangled scripting stuff and we loved it . Uphill, in the snow, both ways, lawn etc etc etc.
So if only people who make counterfeits worth more than a nickel are charged with counterfeiting law, does that mean we should pay the *IAA in scanned pennies?