It is cheaper to insure for liability than a car.. but get some insurance for paying your medical bills if you get in an accident... I guess most accidents will be instant death any way so maybe it is cheap all around.
They pay some insurance. But they have a liability cap of ~$7 billion. So, I don't mean to be rude, but no, they do not pay all of their own insurance. Not by a long shot.
Yeah I no waht you mean. These people are always worred about like spelling and then they can't even contribute. I mean look a tthe great contribution your post made. You told him "hey you aren't making contribution!" That is a a hell of a contribution. I mean on a site with as many unique hits a day aw slashdot spelling and grammer isn't a big deal to worry about now then is it? I mean people don't judge things based on the way they are spelled and the grammar and it isn't like good spleling and grammer are used by anyone; we know what he meant, give the article posrter a break. If you get the maeaning thaen wyhay does ait mattehra how iotse ispelled !/?
"The others, assuming they aren't stupid, have probably wised up by now." Assuming they "aren't stupid" is a pretty big assumption for people willing to explode themselves. Hell for those not willing to explode themselves you have the even more recent example of one of the (second event) London bombers being caught in Italy because of... you guessed it: his cellphone.
I agree. I wasn't trying to say that that article had the magic number for the price of the premium we are paying but rather just that that price is definitely not zero. I do have a response to your "And we won't know unless we have more experience with nuclear disasters" comment however. Take away the current government protection and see what price the insurance companies which have the ability to cover such a disaster (are there any?) come up with. It definitely isn't zero.
I was wrong on that. That still doesn't answer why the Paul Graham stuff was in there (there is no evidence they are or are not open source and they certainly aren't internships).
No, it isn't really a reaction to "recent news," unless you consider 1957 "recent" (you could with respect to a lot of things, but not nuclear).
The Price-Anderson Act of 1957 provided indemnity coverage to protect the public from the low probability of a high-cost catastrophic nuclear accident and to encourage the development of the atomic energy industry. http://www.cato.org/pubs/regulation/regv15n1/reg15 n1-rothwell.html
While a lot of that indemnity has changed since then it is still present to a large degree.
He was responding to a post which mentioned nuclear. It is conspiciously absent from your post. What, are you just pretending it doesn't exist and the only technology we have beyond fossil fuels is solar powered sterling engines?
If nuclear plants can prove to be finacially viable on their own then I am all for lifting the regulations against new ones. The problem I have is that US population essentially pays all of their liability insurance; in that there is a federal law mandating that they don't have to have any. If they had to pay that liability and still could be finacially sucessful I would think they would have reached a pretty safe point. If they are as safe as everyone says then why do the need us to pay their insurance?
They lost that case. Just as Sega lost a case a long time ago where their hardware checking for some code and then displaying (and audibly projecting) the "Sega" splashscreen couldn't prevent others (unlicensed third-parties) from passing along this same information to make their games play. Sega had tried to say it was a trademark violation to pass their game off as approved by Sega; that would be true in anycase except one where you explicitly make your hardware only play games approved by Sega. If it had been an optional thing Sega would have won (but who would care if their 3rd party game didn't have the logo).
That isn't exactly true. The main innovation of the interface is the dragging. Google implemented the dragging of the items earlier than start.com. The guy from start, who sent in this slashback entry, even admitted it himself, saying "We did notice when google shipped their page in May and I have to admit we were like "darn, they have drag/drop before we do": http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=157898&cid=132 29038
I was just trying to point out that the first line of the article, "this has been a spectacular summer for open-source student internships," was followed by three examples, only one of which (Google's) was an example of an "open source student internship." In fact Paul Graham's aren't even internships.
Paul Graham's and the Fog Creek internships aren't necessarily open source. VNC isn't in a copyleft license, and the web backend to the system probably won't be released anyway.
"Wrong, absolutely wrong. The goal when using the GPL is to ensure that your code is never going to go proprietary and the basic freedoms taken away"--That never happens. "Your code" won't go proprietary with the BSD, it's just that "the next guy's additions" to "your code" might go proprietary; don't forget, it might go GPL as well. BSD is completely compatible with GPL, if you wanted to take anyone's BSD code today and make changes and rerelease as GPL you are freely welcome to do so.
The strengths of Gentoo seem to be its emerge system and its documentation. I think emerge beats FreeBSD's ports simply because so many people are using it that it is broken less often and the USE flags are a more consistent way of handling options than ports uses (it often varies port to port and sometimes you have things like multiple ports, i.e. portX-with-gui portX-without-gui). But I think FreeBSD still has it beat on documentation. Anyway, I am really glad linux finally got Gentoo because it really does help you learn how the system works.
The patent office is under strict scrutiny. Of course they are going to be careful on a high profile item like the iPod. So to me this doesn't really show that they are taking this level of scrutiny to everything that comes in.
You still can't really turn off sub-pixel hinting in cleartype. That powertoy lets you change the font contrast and change between two common LCD sub-pixel layouts. You still get strange coloration on the edges of fonts on a CRT with either choice.
"A podcast is a regularly produced show, like a radio show. The method of distribution, however, differs from radio. That's really all it is." Well I don't know about "millions of people," though I suspect you can't find a single podcast with a million subscribers..., but by that definition slashdot itself used to have a podcast with its "Geeks in Space" radio show that was distributed as an MP3 (not a stream) and was episodic, etc. etc. etc.: every quality you gave to define "podcast" except for the RSS stream. So I don't think those are defining qualities of a podcast; podcast is just an audio file obtained by a link from an RSS stream. It isn't just a rebranding of an old term but it certainly isn't a revolutionary thing.
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It is cheaper to insure for liability than a car.. but get some insurance for paying your medical bills if you get in an accident... I guess most accidents will be instant death any way so maybe it is cheap all around.
They pay some insurance. But they have a liability cap of ~$7 billion. So, I don't mean to be rude, but no, they do not pay all of their own insurance. Not by a long shot.
Yeah I no waht you mean. These people are always worred about like spelling and then they can't even contribute. I mean look a tthe great contribution your post made. You told him "hey you aren't making contribution!" That is a a hell of a contribution. I mean on a site with as many unique hits a day aw slashdot spelling and grammer isn't a big deal to worry about now then is it? I mean people don't judge things based on the way they are spelled and the grammar and it isn't like good spleling and grammer are used by anyone; we know what he meant, give the article posrter a break. If you get the maeaning thaen wyhay does ait mattehra how iotse ispelled !/?
"The others, assuming they aren't stupid, have probably wised up by now." Assuming they "aren't stupid" is a pretty big assumption for people willing to explode themselves. Hell for those not willing to explode themselves you have the even more recent example of one of the (second event) London bombers being caught in Italy because of... you guessed it: his cellphone.
I agree. I wasn't trying to say that that article had the magic number for the price of the premium we are paying but rather just that that price is definitely not zero. I do have a response to your "And we won't know unless we have more experience with nuclear disasters" comment however. Take away the current government protection and see what price the insurance companies which have the ability to cover such a disaster (are there any?) come up with. It definitely isn't zero.
I was wrong on that. That still doesn't answer why the Paul Graham stuff was in there (there is no evidence they are or are not open source and they certainly aren't internships).
No, it isn't really a reaction to "recent news," unless you consider 1957 "recent" (you could with respect to a lot of things, but not nuclear).
While a lot of that indemnity has changed since then it is still present to a large degree.
He was responding to a post which mentioned nuclear. It is conspiciously absent from your post. What, are you just pretending it doesn't exist and the only technology we have beyond fossil fuels is solar powered sterling engines?
If nuclear plants can prove to be finacially viable on their own then I am all for lifting the regulations against new ones. The problem I have is that US population essentially pays all of their liability insurance; in that there is a federal law mandating that they don't have to have any. If they had to pay that liability and still could be finacially sucessful I would think they would have reached a pretty safe point. If they are as safe as everyone says then why do the need us to pay their insurance?
Not to mention there is a firewire port on the PS2...
They lost that case. Just as Sega lost a case a long time ago where their hardware checking for some code and then displaying (and audibly projecting) the "Sega" splashscreen couldn't prevent others (unlicensed third-parties) from passing along this same information to make their games play. Sega had tried to say it was a trademark violation to pass their game off as approved by Sega; that would be true in anycase except one where you explicitly make your hardware only play games approved by Sega. If it had been an optional thing Sega would have won (but who would care if their 3rd party game didn't have the logo).
That isn't exactly true. The main innovation of the interface is the dragging. Google implemented the dragging of the items earlier than start.com. The guy from start, who sent in this slashback entry, even admitted it himself, saying "We did notice when google shipped their page in May and I have to admit we were like "darn, they have drag/drop before we do": http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=157898&cid=132 29038
I was just trying to point out that the first line of the article, "this has been a spectacular summer for open-source student internships," was followed by three examples, only one of which (Google's) was an example of an "open source student internship." In fact Paul Graham's aren't even internships.
Validation on a free online learning library for the NSF.
Paul Graham's and the Fog Creek internships aren't necessarily open source. VNC isn't in a copyleft license, and the web backend to the system probably won't be released anyway.
"Wrong, absolutely wrong. The goal when using the GPL is to ensure that your code is never going to go proprietary and the basic freedoms taken away"--That never happens. "Your code" won't go proprietary with the BSD, it's just that "the next guy's additions" to "your code" might go proprietary; don't forget, it might go GPL as well. BSD is completely compatible with GPL, if you wanted to take anyone's BSD code today and make changes and rerelease as GPL you are freely welcome to do so.
PS2 did it before them, so whoever did it there should take that prize.
The strengths of Gentoo seem to be its emerge system and its documentation. I think emerge beats FreeBSD's ports simply because so many people are using it that it is broken less often and the USE flags are a more consistent way of handling options than ports uses (it often varies port to port and sometimes you have things like multiple ports, i.e. portX-with-gui portX-without-gui). But I think FreeBSD still has it beat on documentation. Anyway, I am really glad linux finally got Gentoo because it really does help you learn how the system works.
The patent office is under strict scrutiny. Of course they are going to be careful on a high profile item like the iPod. So to me this doesn't really show that they are taking this level of scrutiny to everything that comes in.
Except we are dealing with real life, not Matlock fan fiction.
You can't dual license your code after doing that.
You still can't really turn off sub-pixel hinting in cleartype. That powertoy lets you change the font contrast and change between two common LCD sub-pixel layouts. You still get strange coloration on the edges of fonts on a CRT with either choice.
"A podcast is a regularly produced show, like a radio show. The method of distribution, however, differs from radio. That's really all it is." Well I don't know about "millions of people," though I suspect you can't find a single podcast with a million subscribers..., but by that definition slashdot itself used to have a podcast with its "Geeks in Space" radio show that was distributed as an MP3 (not a stream) and was episodic, etc. etc. etc.: every quality you gave to define "podcast" except for the RSS stream. So I don't think those are defining qualities of a podcast; podcast is just an audio file obtained by a link from an RSS stream. It isn't just a rebranding of an old term but it certainly isn't a revolutionary thing.
It isn't infinite if time is a discrete series of steps. Planck lengths and all.
Only because they were the lowest bidder.