No, in most cases employees simply aren't permitted to work that long, even if they wish to. The "arrested" part may be incorrect, but I do believe criminal charges were filed against some independent contractors.
If Marvel can show that Cryptic has been policing its game with regards to character names, they can claim Cryptic felt a responsibility there, which should logically extend to the character configurations as well. Never mind that it's a lot more difficult to determine whether a particular body style/suit color combination gets too close than to match text strings. The law is kinda funny that way.
The purpose of the patent and copyright systems, when they were created, was to stimulate creativity and business. Now they've been turned around and twisted into a noose around the neck of the United States. I foresee countries which don't kowtow to our notion of Intellectual Property, even if they aren't allowed to export their creations to the US, will now be able to outrun us simply because they don't have to deal with the over-regulation.
Some people have more capacity than you may, and they may not currently have a desire for recreation, or may consider what they do to be "fun". Don't put them down. Don't be like the French, where you can be arrested for working more than 35 hours per week.
I had a similar problem, and by taking the code snapshots in order and shoving them into CVS, it was a great help in figuring out what changes were done when and for what reason. Obviously not as good as a commented changelog per file, but better than nothing.
Y'know, the idea of reducing Carbon Dioxide emissions and cooling our overheated world is kinda cool, but not only is it wrong-headed, but also short-sighted.
First off, there's no real proof that our CO2 is heating up the climate. There's some correlation, but it's not strong. There's more evidence that solar radiation has been increasing and causing the warm-up. It's actually a bit grandiose thinking our little civilization could affect the climate of the Earth significantly, and it may simply be untrue. If this is so, then reducing CO2 emissions won't help much.
There are also other ways to reduce the CO2 in the atmosphere instead of reducing emissions; for instance, increasing both land- and sea-based plant load. The greatest limitation to land-based farming seems to be fresh water supply, and we've made several advances in water purification technology. We've found some interesting ways of increasing plant growth in salt and marshy water as well. Plant matter from both can be converted via destructive distillation into fuels compatible with our current systems.
Frankly, I'd be very happy if we switched to fission reactors and used the electricity to split water for Hydrogen-fueled vehicles. Thing is, we simply aren't ready for it yet; we need more work on portable Hydrogen storage, and reactor technology hasn't progressed as quickly as it ought to have, thanks to the paranoia over nuclear energy. But trying to kill off our current economy before a new infrastructure were ready to go would be a big mistake.
If the movies are so bad why are people stealing them?
Simple macroeconomics. The taco shop on the corner may make lousy tacos, and you'd never buy them at $1 apiece, or even on sale at 39 cents each. If they dropped the price to a nickel, though, even you might go over there for lunch just to save the money to get something else you want or need. Piracy reduces the cost of obtaining a movie to a few cents worth of bandwidth, and with modern PCs it doesn't even tie up the machine, you can run it in the background.
But no, I wouldn't buy or download Garfield, even for free.:-P~
Right now we're burying "nuclear waste" instead of reprocessing and using it because the US Federal Government is skeered of letting Plutonium fall into the wrong hands. So instead of breeding fuel we're simply refining more Uranium and producing more waste.
There are three kinds of radioactive "waste": Useful material, like Plutonium and Thorium and various other radioactives that can be harnessed for all sorts of interesting purposes; "hot" waste, which is intensely radioactive but due to the way "half-life" works burns itself out fairly quickly, and "cool" waste, which can just be sealed up and stored, out in the open, with little danger to anyone.
On the contrary, a router is not an exceptionally fast computer, and it can be made prohibitively expensive, computing-wise, to sniff out the protocol handshake fairly easily.
I am the lead coder of a BitTorrent client. A few months back I began to receive reports of ISPs either blocking or severely throttling the upstream (to a point where the protocol became non-functional) of BitTorrent connections. As a result, I modified my codebase to by default choose a server port randomly, rather than within the default BitTorrent port range.
Lately, I've gotten more reports indicating that these ISPs that have been blocking BitTorrent have been using more sophisticated methods of detecting the protocol, by apparently sniffing the initial protocol handshake.
My response was this letter. The next iteration of the BitTorrent protocol is already being planned, and if this sort of behavior spreads, the new protocol's handshake will be made nearly impossible to sniff out. Yes, it's true BitTorrent is being misused for trading pirated content, but it's also being used for good purposes, such as publishing Linux distros, and in some cases it is practically impossible to obtain content without doing so via BitTorrent.
This will of course make it difficult to meter how much network traffic is being used by BitTorrent, or to throttle it moderately, but the purpose of BitTorrent is to distribute content, and all other concerns come second.
Slashdot is not a TV or radio network. There is no reason for it to give "equal time" or avoid showing bias. It's "news for nerds" - it doesn't claim to be nonpartisan (or partisan).
Except that it used to be a place to read about really cool stuff, really neat stuff, things on topic for the online community, not stuffed with politicking. And maybe you don't mind Taco's obvious bias, but it gives me agita, and I don't need it. I want my old Slashdot back! Maybe things will be back (or closer) to normal after the election.
Reading about the "pin header" reminds me of the IBM PCjr, the most over/underengineered computer I've ever seen. Some of the hardware on the system was milspec and rock-solid; I can only assume that IBM simply had sources where they could get 'em for peanuts. Most of the I/O off the back was on a bunch of header connectors. Cheap-cheap.
barawn is right, the way it's available, just use the chip with everything on it, and connect any ports you aren't planning on including to a header on the board for future expansion.
I strongly suggest you NOT try to back-up your HVAC system unless you expect the electric to be down for extended periods of time (several days); if you do, you'll almost certainly want a generator. Your furnace isn't simply electrically controlled, the fans are electrically powered, and fan motors will pull a lot of amps when they start up. Unless you have a beefy and expensive UPS it won't be able to handle the load, and if you're going to pay that much, you might as well get a generator. It'll run a lot longer than a UPS (unless you have a closet full of batteries), and you'll have the added benefit of being able to run your computers off it and charge their UPSes back up.
Can we sponsor this sort of lottery without government intervention? Fund it with voluntary contributions, then choose someone randomly off the rolls after the election? Frankly, I think it's a good idea, but as a libertarian I think deriving the jackpot from stolen (taxed) funds is wrong. I'd be happy to donate into the pot.
Not all chips are for that purpose, y'know. (Though I will admit, that's what kind of chip is most popular.) There are also hacks that improve general performance without stressing the motor badly, at the expense of a bit of extra fuel consumption, and if things were more open, I think you'd see some that would actually increase mileage.
The lack of access to the "low-level systems" of the vehicle is actually unfortunate in many ways; one of the biggest bugaboos with auto enthusiasts is the lack of an easy-to-interface-to, standardized engine operating computer. Instead people have to buy expensive "chips" to change their vehicle's performance regime.
I can't see the internet's actual infrastructure collapsing; the potential for adding additional load handling is enormous. I can, however, see several common sub-protocols collapsing and being replaced. In fact, I welcome it.
The biggest culprit is email, which is currently hopelessly overburdened with spam. The solutions that have been presented are IMO simply inadequate, and I'm waiting for SMTP to dry up and disappear. I suspect that its successor will be tied to a new, killer instant messaging app.
The web does have some issues as well, but internet Darwinism is taking place and should eventually solve the problem all by itself. People are more likely to forward pages to friends that do NOT pop-under 15 different advertisements and invite you to install a half-dozen spyware apps.
Uhm. Districts are important because they are the population bases on which members of the House of Representatives are elected. What alternative do you propose to determine which Congressmen get elected to office?
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No, in most cases employees simply aren't permitted to work that long, even if they wish to. The "arrested" part may be incorrect, but I do believe criminal charges were filed against some independent contractors.
If Marvel can show that Cryptic has been policing its game with regards to character names, they can claim Cryptic felt a responsibility there, which should logically extend to the character configurations as well. Never mind that it's a lot more difficult to determine whether a particular body style/suit color combination gets too close than to match text strings. The law is kinda funny that way.
The purpose of the patent and copyright systems, when they were created, was to stimulate creativity and business. Now they've been turned around and twisted into a noose around the neck of the United States. I foresee countries which don't kowtow to our notion of Intellectual Property, even if they aren't allowed to export their creations to the US, will now be able to outrun us simply because they don't have to deal with the over-regulation.
Some people have more capacity than you may, and they may not currently have a desire for recreation, or may consider what they do to be "fun". Don't put them down. Don't be like the French, where you can be arrested for working more than 35 hours per week.
Yup. That sort of thing happens a lot.
Should the votes be recounted because the Libertarians or Greens think they may win? No.
Should the votes be recounted because Kerry may have won, and not Bush? Er, I doubt it, but maybe.
Should the votes be recounted as a check on how well the new computerized systems tallied the votes? Definitely.
I had a similar problem, and by taking the code snapshots in order and shoving them into CVS, it was a great help in figuring out what changes were done when and for what reason. Obviously not as good as a commented changelog per file, but better than nothing.
Never said it was so, never said it wasn't so. I don't know. Neither do you.
Y'know, the idea of reducing Carbon Dioxide emissions and cooling our overheated world is kinda cool, but not only is it wrong-headed, but also short-sighted.
First off, there's no real proof that our CO2 is heating up the climate. There's some correlation, but it's not strong. There's more evidence that solar radiation has been increasing and causing the warm-up. It's actually a bit grandiose thinking our little civilization could affect the climate of the Earth significantly, and it may simply be untrue. If this is so, then reducing CO2 emissions won't help much.
There are also other ways to reduce the CO2 in the atmosphere instead of reducing emissions; for instance, increasing both land- and sea-based plant load. The greatest limitation to land-based farming seems to be fresh water supply, and we've made several advances in water purification technology. We've found some interesting ways of increasing plant growth in salt and marshy water as well. Plant matter from both can be converted via destructive distillation into fuels compatible with our current systems.
Frankly, I'd be very happy if we switched to fission reactors and used the electricity to split water for Hydrogen-fueled vehicles. Thing is, we simply aren't ready for it yet; we need more work on portable Hydrogen storage, and reactor technology hasn't progressed as quickly as it ought to have, thanks to the paranoia over nuclear energy. But trying to kill off our current economy before a new infrastructure were ready to go would be a big mistake.
If the movies are so bad why are people stealing them?
:-P~
Simple macroeconomics. The taco shop on the corner may make lousy tacos, and you'd never buy them at $1 apiece, or even on sale at 39 cents each. If they dropped the price to a nickel, though, even you might go over there for lunch just to save the money to get something else you want or need. Piracy reduces the cost of obtaining a movie to a few cents worth of bandwidth, and with modern PCs it doesn't even tie up the machine, you can run it in the background.
But no, I wouldn't buy or download Garfield, even for free.
Right now we're burying "nuclear waste" instead of reprocessing and using it because the US Federal Government is skeered of letting Plutonium fall into the wrong hands. So instead of breeding fuel we're simply refining more Uranium and producing more waste.
There are three kinds of radioactive "waste": Useful material, like Plutonium and Thorium and various other radioactives that can be harnessed for all sorts of interesting purposes; "hot" waste, which is intensely radioactive but due to the way "half-life" works burns itself out fairly quickly, and "cool" waste, which can just be sealed up and stored, out in the open, with little danger to anyone.
On the contrary, a router is not an exceptionally fast computer, and it can be made prohibitively expensive, computing-wise, to sniff out the protocol handshake fairly easily.
I am the lead coder of a BitTorrent client. A few months back I began to receive reports of ISPs either blocking or severely throttling the upstream (to a point where the protocol became non-functional) of BitTorrent connections. As a result, I modified my codebase to by default choose a server port randomly, rather than within the default BitTorrent port range.
Lately, I've gotten more reports indicating that these ISPs that have been blocking BitTorrent have been using more sophisticated methods of detecting the protocol, by apparently sniffing the initial protocol handshake.
My response was this letter. The next iteration of the BitTorrent protocol is already being planned, and if this sort of behavior spreads, the new protocol's handshake will be made nearly impossible to sniff out. Yes, it's true BitTorrent is being misused for trading pirated content, but it's also being used for good purposes, such as publishing Linux distros, and in some cases it is practically impossible to obtain content without doing so via BitTorrent.
This will of course make it difficult to meter how much network traffic is being used by BitTorrent, or to throttle it moderately, but the purpose of BitTorrent is to distribute content, and all other concerns come second.
I think the bigger issue here isn't that the ATM's run Windows, but that some are connected to networks that can be accessed from the Internet.
Running on a private network isn't enough to keep yourself secure. Worms can come in any time a machine is swapped.
Slashdot is not a TV or radio network. There is no reason for it to give "equal time" or avoid showing bias. It's "news for nerds" - it doesn't claim to be nonpartisan (or partisan).
Except that it used to be a place to read about really cool stuff, really neat stuff, things on topic for the online community, not stuffed with politicking. And maybe you don't mind Taco's obvious bias, but it gives me agita, and I don't need it. I want my old Slashdot back! Maybe things will be back (or closer) to normal after the election.
Reading about the "pin header" reminds me of the IBM PCjr, the most over/underengineered computer I've ever seen. Some of the hardware on the system was milspec and rock-solid; I can only assume that IBM simply had sources where they could get 'em for peanuts. Most of the I/O off the back was on a bunch of header connectors. Cheap-cheap.
barawn is right, the way it's available, just use the chip with everything on it, and connect any ports you aren't planning on including to a header on the board for future expansion.
You're assuming they're running an open access point.
I strongly suggest you NOT try to back-up your HVAC system unless you expect the electric to be down for extended periods of time (several days); if you do, you'll almost certainly want a generator. Your furnace isn't simply electrically controlled, the fans are electrically powered, and fan motors will pull a lot of amps when they start up. Unless you have a beefy and expensive UPS it won't be able to handle the load, and if you're going to pay that much, you might as well get a generator. It'll run a lot longer than a UPS (unless you have a closet full of batteries), and you'll have the added benefit of being able to run your computers off it and charge their UPSes back up.
Can we sponsor this sort of lottery without government intervention? Fund it with voluntary contributions, then choose someone randomly off the rolls after the election? Frankly, I think it's a good idea, but as a libertarian I think deriving the jackpot from stolen (taxed) funds is wrong. I'd be happy to donate into the pot.
Not all chips are for that purpose, y'know. (Though I will admit, that's what kind of chip is most popular.) There are also hacks that improve general performance without stressing the motor badly, at the expense of a bit of extra fuel consumption, and if things were more open, I think you'd see some that would actually increase mileage.
The lack of access to the "low-level systems" of the vehicle is actually unfortunate in many ways; one of the biggest bugaboos with auto enthusiasts is the lack of an easy-to-interface-to, standardized engine operating computer. Instead people have to buy expensive "chips" to change their vehicle's performance regime.
Can I opt for a -$100 upgrade and use other certain free OSes ?
No, but if you install Linux without starting your car, you can transfer your license to someone whose car has no OS...
I can't see the internet's actual infrastructure collapsing; the potential for adding additional load handling is enormous. I can, however, see several common sub-protocols collapsing and being replaced. In fact, I welcome it.
The biggest culprit is email, which is currently hopelessly overburdened with spam. The solutions that have been presented are IMO simply inadequate, and I'm waiting for SMTP to dry up and disappear. I suspect that its successor will be tied to a new, killer instant messaging app.
The web does have some issues as well, but internet Darwinism is taking place and should eventually solve the problem all by itself. People are more likely to forward pages to friends that do NOT pop-under 15 different advertisements and invite you to install a half-dozen spyware apps.
Uhm. Districts are important because they are the population bases on which members of the House of Representatives are elected. What alternative do you propose to determine which Congressmen get elected to office?
It'd take tens of thousands of downloaders to slashdot a tracker on even a marginal server.