... I can load that page in half that time on a machine "half" as powerful (PIII-866) with a downstream of 80KB/sec. I think something is wrong with your machine.
But far less than Konqueror is built into KDE.;) With Win, I can at least set the browser I want to use. I can't figure out how to make KDE apps use anything but Konq, which really annoys me, because Konq is horrid with css.
I think the record wasn't just that they transmitted at that speed, but that they did it over the massively long distance which they did, over oceans and all. I don't think an intra-Canadian network can really claim that they transmit as far.
OpenNIC is still active? You could have fooled me. It's been around for a year, and most of the "registrar" pages are still placeholders. I was thinking about supporting it, until I realized the lack of strong support. If people can't be bothered to write a simple CGI application, in a full year, then exactly how strong is the support?
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How far back does the life+70 years thing reach? What year is the last year for published works to be unaffected by it?
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Yes, it is (Virginia, rather). And you're most likely right.
RealNames wasn't exactly the best idea, I think we can all agree. But can anyone think of a system that is *seriously* better at everything DNS does than DNS? Even if someone could, who's to say that it would be adopted? IMO, DNS is far too entrenched to be pushed away at this point. Switching to another system would most likely be even more difficult than the switch to IPv6.
Beyond RealNames and other DNS-alternatives, it seems like once every year or two, a bunch of tech geeks get up on an anti-ICANN fit. They go off and create an alternate NIC, but about a year later, it's been mostly abandoned. It seems to me that until a large portion of the geeks (preferably those who control some of the lower-tier DNS servers) really unite and get serious, we may be stuck with ICANN, as sad as that may seem.
The 17+17 copyright law was changed in the 60's ('65, iirc). I found this out while trying to figure out if Heinlein's Stranger In a Strange Land was public domain yet (by my estimation, the original edition is, but the new version published in the 80's by some female Heinlein (daughter? ex-wife?) will be covered for a long time yet).
But, yeah, I agree. 34 years is already a lengthy time for copyright. What does Disney have it up to now? 150+?
"... local governments can limit children's access... "
Keywords: Limit, Children
Because, you know, adults can buy child porn.
Video games aren't leaving the realm of protected speech. They aren't banning them. They're saying children shouldn't have access to it, like porn, guns, alcohol, tobacco, and many other things 95%+ of America says children shouldn't have access to. And to be honest, I've played some games that I don't think children should play.
Schools are not laws? Then how do they exist? By the constitution, we have three branches of government. Legislative, Executive, and Judicial. Legislators make laws. Executives enforce those laws and enact their other constitutionally-ascribed duties. These duties do not include a national education system. There had to be a law put in place to allow the Executive branch to make a school in the first place. Therefore, schools are simply the physical manifestation of a law. There had to be a law to allow the school administration to teach these children, let alone *not teach* them by method of suspension. Anything the government does that isn't constitionally ascribed to the executive branch or made law by the legislative, is simply *not* a law.
This is, by the way, my same argument against school dress codes that inhibit speech. (By inhibiting free speech, they're breaking the first amendment, which says that congress can't make a law which inhibits free speech.)
It's even easier than that. Don't do anything. We're always moving into the future.;D
"Yesterday no longer exists, tomarrow's forever a day away and we are cellmates, held together in the shoreless stream that is today."
-- untitled, me (Theodore A. Reed)
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Using Jabber, I have always been able to get on MSN Messenger, but for weeks now, I haven't been able to get on AIM or ICQ.
I don't think legitimate pr0n is what a lot of people are upset about. Most of the people who are pissed can't buy porn through online porn sites, because they are underage (and therefore "kids") themselves.
Also, our US obsenity definitions allow for banning of pics/vids of certain fetishes (no, pedo does not count as a fetish) such as bestiality and watersports.
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... I can load that page in half that time on a machine "half" as powerful (PIII-866) with a downstream of 80KB/sec. I think something is wrong with your machine.
But far less than Konqueror is built into KDE. ;)
With Win, I can at least set the browser I want to use. I can't figure out how to make KDE apps use anything but Konq, which really annoys me, because Konq is horrid with css.
I think the record wasn't just that they transmitted at that speed, but that they did it over the massively long distance which they did, over oceans and all. I don't think an intra-Canadian network can really claim that they transmit as far.
OpenNIC is still active? You could have fooled me. It's been around for a year, and most of the "registrar" pages are still placeholders. I was thinking about supporting it, until I realized the lack of strong support. If people can't be bothered to write a simple CGI application, in a full year, then exactly how strong is the support?
How far back does the life+70 years thing reach? What year is the last year for published works to be unaffected by it?
Yes, it is (Virginia, rather). And you're most likely right.
RealNames wasn't exactly the best idea, I think we can all agree. But can anyone think of a system that is *seriously* better at everything DNS does than DNS? Even if someone could, who's to say that it would be adopted? IMO, DNS is far too entrenched to be pushed away at this point. Switching to another system would most likely be even more difficult than the switch to IPv6.
Beyond RealNames and other DNS-alternatives, it seems like once every year or two, a bunch of tech geeks get up on an anti-ICANN fit. They go off and create an alternate NIC, but about a year later, it's been mostly abandoned. It seems to me that until a large portion of the geeks (preferably those who control some of the lower-tier DNS servers) really unite and get serious, we may be stuck with ICANN, as sad as that may seem.
The 17+17 copyright law was changed in the 60's ('65, iirc). I found this out while trying to figure out if Heinlein's Stranger In a Strange Land was public domain yet (by my estimation, the original edition is, but the new version published in the 80's by some female Heinlein (daughter? ex-wife?) will be covered for a long time yet).
But, yeah, I agree. 34 years is already a lengthy time for copyright. What does Disney have it up to now? 150+?
... is the name of the language, and I fail to see what it has to do with this article.
"... local governments can limit children's access... "
Keywords: Limit, Children
Because, you know, adults can buy child porn.
Video games aren't leaving the realm of protected speech. They aren't banning them. They're saying children shouldn't have access to it, like porn, guns, alcohol, tobacco, and many other things 95%+ of America says children shouldn't have access to. And to be honest, I've played some games that I don't think children should play.
Schools are not laws? Then how do they exist? By the constitution, we have three branches of government. Legislative, Executive, and Judicial. Legislators make laws. Executives enforce those laws and enact their other constitutionally-ascribed duties. These duties do not include a national education system. There had to be a law put in place to allow the Executive branch to make a school in the first place. Therefore, schools are simply the physical manifestation of a law. There had to be a law to allow the school administration to teach these children, let alone *not teach* them by method of suspension. Anything the government does that isn't constitionally ascribed to the executive branch or made law by the legislative, is simply *not* a law.
This is, by the way, my same argument against school dress codes that inhibit speech. (By inhibiting free speech, they're breaking the first amendment, which says that congress can't make a law which inhibits free speech.)
It's even easier than that. Don't do anything. We're always moving into the future. ;D
"Yesterday no longer exists,
tomarrow's forever a day away
and we are cellmates, held together
in the shoreless stream that is today."
-- untitled, me (Theodore A. Reed)
Using Jabber, I have always been able to get on MSN Messenger, but for weeks now, I haven't been able to get on AIM or ICQ.
I don't think legitimate pr0n is what a lot of people are upset about. Most of the people who are pissed can't buy porn through online porn sites, because they are underage (and therefore "kids") themselves.
Also, our US obsenity definitions allow for banning of pics/vids of certain fetishes (no, pedo does not count as a fetish) such as bestiality and watersports.
If we give them an inch, they'll take a mile.