While photovotaics don't overheat, does anyone know if these diamonds could make a decent substitute for silcon photovoltaic cells? Is the manufacturing process cheaper? Would they be more efficient?
Now you know why a Republic (rule of law) is superior to a "Democracy" (where the government acts to enact the wishes of a sheep population).
When the constituents of a Democracy are sheep, don't you then have a Republic?
ICANN doing away with publicly-elected members?
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NPR was interviewing some ICANN members the other morning. One of the callers reported that there is currently a measure being debated within ICANN to do away with publicly-elected seats. Karl Auerbach and Esther Dyson, who were guests on the show, confirmed this. (Side note: apparently Vint Cerf couldn't/wouldn't come unless his company was allowed to oversee the format and content of the interview!)
This dissolution of public representation is just plain wrong. The public votes in a member of the Chaos Computer Club and suddenly the corporate board of ICANN has the gall to discuss the removal of public representation?
Don't forget that this is the generation of young adult whose mothers were legally allowed to abort unwanted children.
Supposing that unwanted children are more likely to grow up in abusive/neglective settings, and that these children are more likely to become adults who have violent tendencies, then we have yet another possible cause for the trend of falling violence in our society.
If this forces DDR out and Rambus in, and Rambus memory doesn't get any better, can it be claimed that Rambus is hurting the public by forcing an inferior product? Can the public sue for envirnomental cleanup costs due to the more expensive Rambus manufacturing process (which I assume leads to more faulty units)?
So, interview someone who has the course notes and post it. That's freedom of the press, and a way around the tight-assed policies of these money-grubbers.
It's a shame that we have to fight against educational institutions to free information.
I'm not at all surprised that this got by unanimously. After all, Maryland and Virginia are competing viciously to attract large tech companies. I live in Baltimore, and I know that the quality of tech life goes way up as soon as you cross the border into Northern VA, and I'm sure that Maryland is lusting after the revenues that Virginia is acquiring from their hi-tech center.
Maryland and Virginia are both trying to bend over as far as they can to kiss high-tech corporate ass, because they both know that the boom in Northern Virginia could easily move to Southern Maryland, if the environment becomes more favorable. So, Virginia signs UCITA into law before Maryland can (and I'm pretty sure that Maryland would take advantage of an opportunity to become more tech corp-friendly if Virginia gave an opening), thereby securing itself as the dot-commiest state around.
The outcome, I think, will be that UCITA will be signed into law by states that want high-tech business growth. The rationale is: even legislators that are able to grasp how wrong UCITA is will still pass it into law, and assume that it will be struck down later by consumer groups. The end result will be that the state will have a record of being friendly to <$$$> high-tech corporate growth </$$$>.
I hope they do the one where the Tick was transmogrified into miniature two-headed chicken that could only speak high school French! And then he laid an egg before he was switched back1
I'm not sure exactly what constitutes legitamate cybersquatting. On a lark I decided to see if there was any free legal advice at IANAL.com, and found this message:
The Domain Name you have reached is available For Sale at DomainCollection.com Prices start at $1,500 - Find Out More!
Is this legit? They'using this site to point to their business, however the business appears to be selling domain names that they've squatted on. What are the chances of me being able to get the domain registrar to force these guys to relinquish this domain name, based on the fact that they're squatting.
If you need a simple, easy to undersand analogy, then CSS is a lock and DeCSS is a key. The DVD is a box that is locked with CSS.
First off, having the key to the lock does not give you the ability to copy the lock or the locked box. You can't touch the key to the locked box and *poof* get another locked box. That's just stupid. MasterLock, or anyone with the appropriate manufacturing device to create locked boxes, can produce copies of the lock even if they don't have a key, just as the MPAA's manufacturers, or someone with a DVD-writing device, can copy a CSS-encrypted DVD title. The key plays no part in the copying, it is irrelevant.
Now the person with the key doesn't have to care about copying, or whether there is one locked box or a million out there, he just wants to be able to open the lock that he bought, and that is the only functionality that the key provides. And there you have it.
Wonder how long it'll be before the Princeton review starts offering courses on how to beat the LEGO test? Offered only to those who can pay up, of course.
Question:
Is there any free resource on the internet that provides test prep help? I would think that the test prep tactics that the Princeton review hoards for the rich can and should be made freely (FAIB*) available to everyone via the Internet. This is a perfect example of how the Internet can benefit the disadvantaged. We talk about information wanting to be free, and this is the kind of information that should be free.
I heard NPR's Marketplace visiting this story when I turned on the radio the other evening, and about the first words I heard were "so they can play DVD's on Linux". On further listening, it seems that this show had an accurate grasp of the purpose of the DeCSS software, and also an awareness of the distortion that DVD CSS is trying to promote. IMHO NPR has reinforced its reputation for integrity and thorough invesigation once again. Love 'em!
It is so obviously wrong that even the technically unsavvy can see it with little explanation. It also would also bring the opposition of the entire internet. If they were really after links they would have served the search engines as well.
I'll bet their lawyers will likely use it to contrast the concept of linking to a DeCSS-hosting address as legal but wrong and actually hosting the link, which they'll try to fashion as less legal and more wrong.
I'm surprised they're trying this in liberal California, I can only assume that their law interpreters have found an exploitable loophole in CA law.
These stories about patents ought to come with a poll where users can vote on the obviousness of the patent. After all, this seems to be a place where those "skilled in the art" congregate. I'm surprised that we haven't already began voting and moderating the values of patents on a number of scales, including obviousness, and also defining the art where one must have relevant skill in order to determine obviousness.
Also, I'll bet there are those in the USPTO who have been shamed into reading Slashdot for a tech education. Let's give them a nice quantitative assessment. After all, nothing moves in the gov't without some numbers to quote.
If the Napster has such a solid case, then maybe they should grow the biggest cohones ever and attempt a defense without expensive lawyers. In this time of intimidation by the legal expense of weak lawsuits, maybe some should take a stand by representing themselves.
If you can gather enough advice from a lawyer friend (or maybe an free, open legal advice reposity. Any legal advice FAQ's (or HOWTO's) out there?) then maybe it would be worth rebelling in the face of expensive legal action by defending yourself. The benefit of a win is set precedence, a chance for an open-source legal community, and any little guy, to develop backbone against the market that has developed around defending your rights.
I have to admit that I'm all talk (text?) right now. I'm scared of lawyers and the power of their niche. I don't think I could stand up and defend myself against them, given that most judges and congressmen were once lawyers, and I'm a cynic who thinks nepotism and bribery will overcome the ethics of some judges. It just seems to easy for the system to ignore me there is no organized community to support me.
Since the government is responsible for the creation of complex law, it ought to divert some funds to create a online service to help simiplify the citizen's navigation of the law. But until a program like that appears on the scene, an open legal advice reposity is all we can hope for (VA Legal Systems, LegalCare, LegalNewbie?)
Sorry about the anti-capitalistic-lawyer slander, please don't sue me until I have some open legal resources with which to defend myself.
So what's the moral of the story? Find yourself a medium that you control, don't depend on renting space from other companies. How you do that is up to you.
Nice generalization, but I want to use a medium that can be accessed via the Internet, and I'm not jacked into the backbone.
Exactly how does one bypass internet service providers? Theoretically, you shouldn't have to worry about illegal censorship since the only one responsible for your content is you, not your ISP, but gov't muscle still talks.
My company is an MS whore. I believe we pay 50k / year for MS premier support. I don't think any of the other programmers use it, but the techs do when the Exchange or SQL Server crashes. From what I hear, it's usually SMS intruding, and calling support is the only way to uncover it.
I was wondering how one might design a site to entice readers to evaluate source code for a public repository, and I realized that I'm looking at a pretty interesting one here on slashdot: meta-moderation.
I'm wondering if anyone has considered setting up a server like slashdot for code, allowing code modules to be submitted publicly like articles, with some header that describes the code. Interested readers could click to see the full code as well comments that others have made, and of course they are free to submit comments of their own. And if their inputs are valuable (reflected by ratings numbers), they may even be invited to meta-moderate new submissions and comments.
Ending note: How is meta-moderation working out on slashdot? Most of comments I see (generally score 3+) are worthy of the rating, but is there any abuse? Any comments getting excessively down-moderated? Just curious.
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As opposed to winers.
Yeah, I was thinking to protect against this a camera orbiting Mars would be a wise investment, to get a different perspective where Earth's blind.
While photovotaics don't overheat, does anyone know if these diamonds could make a decent substitute for silcon photovoltaic cells? Is the manufacturing process cheaper? Would they be more efficient?
When the constituents of a Democracy are sheep, don't you then have a Republic?
NPR was interviewing some ICANN members the other morning. One of the callers reported that there is currently a measure being debated within ICANN to do away with publicly-elected seats. Karl Auerbach and Esther Dyson, who were guests on the show, confirmed this. (Side note: apparently Vint Cerf couldn't/wouldn't come unless his company was allowed to oversee the format and content of the interview!)
This dissolution of public representation is just plain wrong. The public votes in a member of the Chaos Computer Club and suddenly the corporate board of ICANN has the gall to discuss the removal of public representation?
It's okay, I thought all of California was hot and sunny too, until I moved to San Francisco. Oops!!!
Deathmatch ain't the only reason I'm so white.
Don't forget that this is the generation of young adult whose mothers were legally allowed to abort unwanted children.
Supposing that unwanted children are more likely to grow up in abusive/neglective settings, and that these children are more likely to become adults who have violent tendencies, then we have yet another possible cause for the trend of falling violence in our society.
If this forces DDR out and Rambus in, and Rambus memory doesn't get any better, can it be claimed that Rambus is hurting the public by forcing an inferior product? Can the public sue for envirnomental cleanup costs due to the more expensive Rambus manufacturing process (which I assume leads to more faulty units)?
On the other hand, someone hooked you all up with some pretty good AI, so I'll keep coming back.
It's a shame that we have to fight against educational institutions to free information.
I'm not at all surprised that this got by unanimously. After all, Maryland and Virginia are competing viciously to attract large tech companies. I live in Baltimore, and I know that the quality of tech life goes way up as soon as you cross the border into Northern VA, and I'm sure that Maryland is lusting after the revenues that Virginia is acquiring from their hi-tech center.
Maryland and Virginia are both trying to bend over as far as they can to kiss high-tech corporate ass, because they both know that the boom in Northern Virginia could easily move to Southern Maryland, if the environment becomes more favorable. So, Virginia signs UCITA into law before Maryland can (and I'm pretty sure that Maryland would take advantage of an opportunity to become more tech corp-friendly if Virginia gave an opening), thereby securing itself as the dot-commiest state around.
The outcome, I think, will be that UCITA will be signed into law by states that want high-tech business growth. The rationale is: even legislators that are able to grasp how wrong UCITA is will still pass it into law, and assume that it will be struck down later by consumer groups. The end result will be that the state will have a record of being friendly to <$$$> high-tech corporate growth </$$$>.
I hope they do the one where the Tick was transmogrified into miniature two-headed chicken that could only speak high school French! And then he laid an egg before he was switched back1
Sorry about the bad link. Here: www.ianal.com
The Domain Name you have reached is available For Sale at DomainCollection.com Prices start at $1,500 - Find Out More!
Is this legit? They'using this site to point to their business, however the business appears to be selling domain names that they've squatted on. What are the chances of me being able to get the domain registrar to force these guys to relinquish this domain name, based on the fact that they're squatting.
First off, having the key to the lock does not give you the ability to copy the lock or the locked box. You can't touch the key to the locked box and *poof* get another locked box. That's just stupid. MasterLock, or anyone with the appropriate manufacturing device to create locked boxes, can produce copies of the lock even if they don't have a key, just as the MPAA's manufacturers, or someone with a DVD-writing device, can copy a CSS-encrypted DVD title. The key plays no part in the copying, it is irrelevant.
Now the person with the key doesn't have to care about copying, or whether there is one locked box or a million out there, he just wants to be able to open the lock that he bought, and that is the only functionality that the key provides. And there you have it.
Question:
Is there any free resource on the internet that provides test prep help? I would think that the test prep tactics that the Princeton review hoards for the rich can and should be made freely (FAIB*) available to everyone via the Internet. This is a perfect example of how the Internet can benefit the disadvantaged. We talk about information wanting to be free, and this is the kind of information that should be free.
*FAIB = free as in beer.
It gets used enough to warrant an acronym, IMHO.
I heard NPR's Marketplace visiting this story when I turned on the radio the other evening, and about the first words I heard were "so they can play DVD's on Linux". On further listening, it seems that this show had an accurate grasp of the purpose of the DeCSS software, and also an awareness of the distortion that DVD CSS is trying to promote. IMHO NPR has reinforced its reputation for integrity and thorough invesigation once again. Love 'em!
I'll bet their lawyers will likely use it to contrast the concept of linking to a DeCSS-hosting address as legal but wrong and actually hosting the link, which they'll try to fashion as less legal and more wrong.
I'm surprised they're trying this in liberal California, I can only assume that their law interpreters have found an exploitable loophole in CA law.
Is it okay to import coca leaves to Holland?
6 POINTS, EH?
Also, I'll bet there are those in the USPTO who have been shamed into reading Slashdot for a tech education. Let's give them a nice quantitative assessment. After all, nothing moves in the gov't without some numbers to quote.
If you can gather enough advice from a lawyer friend (or maybe an free, open legal advice reposity. Any legal advice FAQ's (or HOWTO's) out there?) then maybe it would be worth rebelling in the face of expensive legal action by defending yourself. The benefit of a win is set precedence, a chance for an open-source legal community, and any little guy, to develop backbone against the market that has developed around defending your rights.
I have to admit that I'm all talk (text?) right now. I'm scared of lawyers and the power of their niche. I don't think I could stand up and defend myself against them, given that most judges and congressmen were once lawyers, and I'm a cynic who thinks nepotism and bribery will overcome the ethics of some judges. It just seems to easy for the system to ignore me there is no organized community to support me.
Since the government is responsible for the creation of complex law, it ought to divert some funds to create a online service to help simiplify the citizen's navigation of the law. But until a program like that appears on the scene, an open legal advice reposity is all we can hope for (VA Legal Systems, LegalCare, LegalNewbie?)
Sorry about the anti-capitalistic-lawyer slander, please don't sue me until I have some open legal resources with which to defend myself.
Nice generalization, but I want to use a medium that can be accessed via the Internet, and I'm not jacked into the backbone.
Exactly how does one bypass internet service providers? Theoretically, you shouldn't have to worry about illegal censorship since the only one responsible for your content is you, not your ISP, but gov't muscle still talks.
My company is an MS whore. I believe we pay 50k / year for MS premier support. I don't think any of the other programmers use it, but the techs do when the Exchange or SQL Server crashes. From what I hear, it's usually SMS intruding, and calling support is the only way to uncover it.
I was wondering how one might design a site to entice readers to evaluate source code for a public repository, and I realized that I'm looking at a pretty interesting one here on slashdot: meta-moderation.
I'm wondering if anyone has considered setting up a server like slashdot for code, allowing code modules to be submitted publicly like articles, with some header that describes the code. Interested readers could click to see the full code as well comments that others have made, and of course they are free to submit comments of their own. And if their inputs are valuable (reflected by ratings numbers), they may even be invited to meta-moderate new submissions and comments.
Ending note: How is meta-moderation working out on slashdot? Most of comments I see (generally score 3+) are worthy of the rating, but is there any abuse? Any comments getting excessively down-moderated? Just curious.