My comments regard the ACTA agreement currently under secret negotiation. It's not that secret, and as something that has a hugely prohibitive affect on my personal and professional life, and that of my children, I am very offended by both its content and the method in which it is being developed.
Respect for the law requires respect for the governed; the ACTA treaty in no way represents my interests, and has not been carried out in a democratic or representative manner. Furthermore, it is grossly out of sync with common practice of the public and the direction in which history and technology is headed.
I don't know specifically what the result would be if ACTA is realized, but history tells us that unjust and oppressive laws tend to elicit a strong backlash. One that turns out poorly for those who enacted those laws.
One-sided negotiations conducted in secret may be a convenient way to get what you want in a law. It is also a good way to permamently lose the public's good will. It is not too late to involve representatives of the public's interest into these negotiations, and save your treaty.
An automobile is a rivalrous good; something that only one person can posses at a time. A patent licence is not; an unlimited number of licences may be issued for the same good. And a patent licence does not provide the same sort of security; multiple patents can apply to a product and most patents are worded more broadly than what they can apply to, making it difficult to know if a product is licenced or not.
Also, the "simple" solution is seriously lacking in details.
That could be viewed as flamebait, but you raise a valid point, so I'd like to offer a valid response.
Wikileak's account was not suspended because they were convicted by any government of violating any particular law. They were convicted by PayPal itself, in the court of PayPal, in a manner that does not resemble any system.
The judgement is against Jammie Thomas, not the husband. They should probably take the precaution of making deposits to an account where he is the primary account owner, assuming she doesn't file for bankruptcy. Even if she doesn't file, the law will limit how much she has to pay per month on this judgement. The court does examine her income and living expenses and comes up with something "reasonable".
Not with the stealing data bit, I don't think of copying as stealing. But attempting to monitor copying doesn't seem any more criminal, it's just one more level of copying data.
The trackback URL feature is nice, I use it the same way. This article was interesting in that I didn't know how that was being done, but it really doesn't seem that intrusive.
The story states that the suspect was a beekeeper on his way to visit relatives for Christmas. Although it appears to be the case that neither the police nor the reporters bothered to ask, it seems reasonable to assume be that the honey bottles were intended as gifts...
There's usually a 3rd-semester "Intro to Advanced Mathematics" class offered by the Math dept., that's the one to take.
A proof should satisfy the conditions of "necessary and complete" proof of the theorem in question. i.e. nothing extra, nothing missing. Applying this line of thinking to programming makes for lean, efficient code.
The Iraqi people own the oil and receive every penny for selling the oil.
In 2003, Halliburton was given an exclusive no-bid contract to handle all existing oil wells and delivery. They brought in their own (American) workers in preference to local talent. That arrangement didn't work out too well for them, but it wasn't for lack of effort. Most of Iraq's oil production has been contracted out to international corporations. The grunt work might be done by locals, but the leadership positions and guaranteed profits go elsewhere.
Jira is very good and interacts nicely with Subversion. It's the best (stable, usable) issue (bug, feature) tracking software I've used.
Confluence is stable, but I find it easy to lose track of documents in it. The search feature isn't very effective, and the interface clunky. However, it's written by Atlassian as well, so gets along with Jira. We use Confluence for sharing/storing documents and discussing more abstract design issues. It works as a Wiki in that we can post most kinds of documents, and fairly large ones.
Last time I checked both are available for free to non-profits and academic labs. I wish I had known about them back when I was in academics, much better tools than the free ones we limped along with.
Re-solving a problem rather than applying the stored solution might have survival advantages. While other species might store memories longer, there are probably other mechanisms, or perhaps just environmental context, that prevents longer memories from becoming a problem.
What I find funny is all the people insisting divB=0 is "just" a reflection of the experimental inability to find a magnetic monopole. All of those equations are "just" reflections of the experiments they summarize. I think any experimental result that contradicts the thousands that preceded it deserves a fair amount of skepticism.
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My comments regard the ACTA agreement currently under secret negotiation. It's not that secret, and as something that has a hugely prohibitive affect on my personal and professional life, and that of my children, I am very offended by both its content and the method in which it is being developed.
Respect for the law requires respect for the governed; the ACTA treaty in no way represents my interests, and has not been carried out in a democratic or representative manner. Furthermore, it is grossly out of sync with common practice of the public and the direction in which history and technology is headed.
I don't know specifically what the result would be if ACTA is realized, but history tells us that unjust and oppressive laws tend to elicit a strong backlash. One that turns out poorly for those who enacted those laws.
One-sided negotiations conducted in secret may be a convenient way to get what you want in a law. It is also a good way to permamently lose the public's good will. It is not too late to involve representatives of the public's interest into these negotiations, and save your treaty.
But I don't see the connection. How does "it" refer to this law?
Also, the "simple" solution is seriously lacking in details.
As always, it's not the crime, it's the coverup.
That could be viewed as flamebait, but you raise a valid point, so I'd like to offer a valid response. Wikileak's account was not suspended because they were convicted by any government of violating any particular law. They were convicted by PayPal itself, in the court of PayPal, in a manner that does not resemble any system.
the bittorent let them get into the upload stream, that's why the damages multiplied so fast
The judgement is against Jammie Thomas, not the husband. They should probably take the precaution of making deposits to an account where he is the primary account owner, assuming she doesn't file for bankruptcy. Even if she doesn't file, the law will limit how much she has to pay per month on this judgement. The court does examine her income and living expenses and comes up with something "reasonable".
Well I think the government should try to shut down everyone. Natural selection will weed out the irresponsible dissenters.
And you're real lucky I'm out of mod points, budy.
Not with the stealing data bit, I don't think of copying as stealing. But attempting to monitor copying doesn't seem any more criminal, it's just one more level of copying data.
The trackback URL feature is nice, I use it the same way. This article was interesting in that I didn't know how that was being done, but it really doesn't seem that intrusive.
The story states that the suspect was a beekeeper on his way to visit relatives for Christmas. Although it appears to be the case that neither the police nor the reporters bothered to ask, it seems reasonable to assume be that the honey bottles were intended as gifts...
There's usually a 3rd-semester "Intro to Advanced Mathematics" class offered by the Math dept., that's the one to take.
A proof should satisfy the conditions of "necessary and complete" proof of the theorem in question. i.e. nothing extra, nothing missing. Applying this line of thinking to programming makes for lean, efficient code.
The Iraqi people own the oil and receive every penny for selling the oil.
In 2003, Halliburton was given an exclusive no-bid contract to handle all existing oil wells and delivery. They brought in their own (American) workers in preference to local talent. That arrangement didn't work out too well for them, but it wasn't for lack of effort. Most of Iraq's oil production has been contracted out to international corporations. The grunt work might be done by locals, but the leadership positions and guaranteed profits go elsewhere.
There are no ideal solutions yet. Although there are an unbelievable number of non-ideal ones available.
Jira is very good and interacts nicely with Subversion. It's the best (stable, usable) issue (bug, feature) tracking software I've used. Confluence is stable, but I find it easy to lose track of documents in it. The search feature isn't very effective, and the interface clunky. However, it's written by Atlassian as well, so gets along with Jira. We use Confluence for sharing/storing documents and discussing more abstract design issues. It works as a Wiki in that we can post most kinds of documents, and fairly large ones. Last time I checked both are available for free to non-profits and academic labs. I wish I had known about them back when I was in academics, much better tools than the free ones we limped along with.
It appears to me one could violate the law with a cell phone in, say, a sports bar.
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Can anyone else here confirm that?
Re-solving a problem rather than applying the stored solution might have survival advantages. While other species might store memories longer, there are probably other mechanisms, or perhaps just environmental context, that prevents longer memories from becoming a problem.
That's pretty cool.
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What I find funny is all the people insisting divB=0 is "just" a reflection of the experimental inability to find a magnetic monopole. All of those equations are "just" reflections of the experiments they summarize. I think any experimental result that contradicts the thousands that preceded it deserves a fair amount of skepticism.
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