GNU is not about prohibiting use, it only takes effect when you distribute a GNU licensed item. All those "agreements" you click through when installing Win32 GNU licensed software is totally asinine because you don't have to agree until you distribute the software. Probably down to the packager/distributor thinking that the GPL is some kind of EULA. Which it is most definitly not. Most likely they don't know how to either remove the EULA bit from the install dialogue or to set the text to "There is no EULA with this sofware":)
i think they drive their kids to school. to keep them away from predators etc.
im not sure, i dont have kids although i did grow up and here i didnt get raped----. but some kids did.
IIRC the number of such cases (especially associated with travel to and from school) hasn't changed much in decades. But those killed/injured in road traffic "accidents" has gone up. Which is hardly a suprise considering cars are the most dangerous machines most people ever encounter. It's a somewhat classic example of being concerned to avoid some very rare "risk" whilst missing that the alternative behaviour is several orders of magnitude more dangerous.
My son's elementary school has 800 students, and despite perfect weather almost every day, exactly two (2) of them bike to school: my son and a kindergarten girl from our neighborhood. Every morning we pedal past a long line of moms in idling SUVs waiting to drop of their kid.
Wonder how many of the parents think it would be too dangerous for their kids because of the traffic (and air pollution).
Please explain how Android has a walled garden? Last time I checked I can install applications without using google play/market.
IIRC you can even divorce an Android device entirely from Google (something which can be especially desirable in the "Enterprise" market) far more easily than you can divorce an iOS device from Apple.
Social networks and other online services that claim they have a real name policy should enforce it!
They'd first need to define exactly what they mean by "real name". Is it what is on someone's birth certificate? What happens when someone dosn't have one or the country where their birth was registered no longer exists? It is also possible for someone born with more than one citizenship to have more than one birth certificate with different names on each. Especially if different languages are involved. Is it their "legal name" which can vary with both time and geography? How are people going to know what their legal name would be wherever the corporate entity running the website claims to be at the moment. Then there would be "name person is known by". Which is actually the question the Facebook example is asking. Even though these may well be psudonyms, nicknames, stage names, etc. A "real name" would have to be a set of characters (possibly involving multiple character sets) of arbitratry length. They also mention "first and last names". Not all names can be meaningfully split in such a way. (Classical Roman names being the best know example where this is impossible. Quite a few well known native born US citizens don't fit this idea very well either. e.g. "William Henry Gates III") Even where this is possible common variations include person's name, (paternal) family name; person's name, parent's name; family name, person's name; etc With it being possible for the same name to be both a personal and a family name.
Probably 90% of the problems with nuclear power could be solved by having a small number of reprocessing plants for spent fuel rods built. Understand that the fuel rods have been only around 5% "spent" and could be reprocessed into new fuel rods with the 95% of the active materials still present in them.
Which would also make nuclear fuel highly sustainable and arguably more "renewable" than so called "renewables".
I notice he has made exceptions for existing works such as "Lolita"... of course because to ban that he would be castigated.
If applied to existing works this would also include the likes of "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" and the Harry Potter series. Along with The Bible (most notably in The Torah), probably The Koran and Hansard too.
My problem with practically every software patent I've ever heard is they are patents on "ideas" not implementations.
You also have those of the form "Do X with a computer". Does it really make sense to consider using a general purpose machine to do something which is already well understood as any kind of "innovation"? (Especially if X was previously performed by a special purpose machine.)
The idea is sound in principle (government regulates corporations to keep them from being abusive). But in practice the government usually lets the corporations *write* the regulations so they regs end-up being favorable to corporations and/or allows them immunity when they abuse their power.
Even worst here is allowing foreign corporations to do this.
Better yet, tell us what you need to do - not how you think you should do it.
This can be a common issue with someone who thinks they know more than they actually do about IT.
Someone obviously needs to read data that's collected, but all the steps in between should be based on how it can be collected and how it can be accessed by the end users. Tell us those parameters first
Something about the data and "sensors" might also be a good starting point.
You are looking for information that your average user wonâ(TM)t care about. Things like boot time donâ(TM)t get documented because your average user isnâ(TM)t going to have some arbitrary requirement to have their _file server_ boot in 30 seconds. Thatâ(TM)s a very weird use case. Normally you reboot a file server infrequently (unless you want to be swapping disks out constantly..). Iâ(TM)m assuming this requirement is because you plan on doing a full shutdown to insert your drives... in which case you really should be looking into hotswap
A SATA (or PATA) to USB bridge will make any drive effectivly hot swappable. Also the server can quite easily boot from an SSD.
How is giving the government more power and more information a good thing?
Typically power both corrupts and attracts the corrupt (and easily corruptable)
They have enough as it is!
That probably should be ".. more than enough..." Quite possibly less power and stronger oversight would result in a better job being done.
I don't want to ever, under any circumstances, give them access to this vast wealth of information just because you want to catch some "bad guys."
The claim of needing more powers to catch "bad guys" is made frequently. Typically without any evidence that it would actually help do this, even if used responsibly. (Also assuming that said "bad guys" are not on the "inside" in the first place. e.g. how do you keep criminals out of the police force?)
Any judicial oversight will likely just be a rubber stamp, and looking at the actions of governments throughout history, even storing this data is a terrible idea.
Lots of people appear to have short memories together with a huge amount of (typically completely unwarrented) faith in government officials.
Look it's pretty simple if you don't want to be arrested for sexually assaulting women then don't sexually assault women.
This would only work in world where there were never false accusations and identifications made. Back in the real world, with real people, this isn't unknown. There are even well documented cases of innocent people being imprisoned. Especially where politics are likely to be involved.
The problem is everything expects AC, so you'd have to do a lot of work to cut the AC cord anyway. Or do you run your AC TV from a DC source? Where do you buy a DC TV from?
When it comes to electronics devices typically a PSU which converts AC into (lower voltage) DC is used. Sometimes this is internal, sometimes it is an external component. Even over 30 years ago it was possible to find TVs which operated on 12V DC. It would be rather easier to do this with an LCD than a CRT.
And the space shuttle was designed to carry out military missions as well as civilian which is one reason why it was so large. Some missions could have been done with a smaller vessel and to a lower cost.
IIRC the size of the shuttle was part of the reason for requiring such a physically delicate heatshield.
The beauty of the shuttle was that it could land as an ordinary aircraft
Ordinary aircraft generally don't block the runway on landing. Landing it at a regular airport would be hugely disruptive.
Stop that right now. The "Too noisy" meme was started by Boeing to hurt sales of the Concorde, and it worked. You're still repeating it to this day.
A Concorde going overhead at around 1000 feet and normal cruising speed is no more noisy than a normal jet. It's the afterburners that are loud (REALLY VERY LOUD) and those are only used at take-off.
Rather depends what you are comparing it with. It probably does a lot better compared with a DC8 or B707 than an A320 or B737:)
And the accessories you're bemoaning are using a connector that is ten years old. Lets look at some other 10 year old connectors, like scsi, ps/2, serial, adb. None of those are a standard jack on new hardware anymore.
USB is closer to 20 years old. It's perfectly possible to find PS/2 keyboard and mouse connectors on new hardware. Along with parallel ports; serial ports (typically as a DIL connector on the board rather than as part of the ATX connector block); floppy and PATA ports. There are even boards which have 'SuperIO' in the chipset and BIOS configuration without any physical connections present. The SCART AV connector is also still going strong. The 3.5mm TRS mini jack appears to date from the 1950's. (But is variation on the 1â4 inch jack, first used in 1878!) Thus if it was just an issue of age then would have made more sense to think about replacing the 50+ year old connector:)
In a great many cases it's unclear what someone's "real name" actually is. Plenty of people are known by something other than their "legal name" (which in many cultures can be a "variable", especially for women.) sometimes something very different. There are also people who are known by different names in different contexts. Even those who are not actors or musicians, who are often required to have globally unique names. It's also fairly common for authors to have "pen names" for reasons including avoiding confusion with other authors; distinguishing between different genres or having a name "inappropriate" to their writings (e.g. a man writing "romance").
History and Language show otherwise. Names are representative of an idea in some languages such as Hebrew.
Also, there is NO standard way to transcribe names, in fact there are at least 2 ways:
1. Transliteration -- Keep the characters (and/or meaning of the name)
Assuming that either characters or pragmatics correspond. In Latin 'V' and 'U' are the same letter. (Which is partly why 'W' is called "doubleyou" rather than "doublevee".) Also meanings do not always translate between different languages Words can easly have muliple meanings. To add more confusion meanings can change over time. Even if the set of meanings for a word is unchanged the most commonly used meaning can change.
2. Translation - Keeping the phonemics
Which can easily be a one to many. As well as easily affected by regional accents.
It's also not uncommon, especially with the names of people, to pick a name in the target language more or less at random.
So for example (hypothetically), I want to order to something from Nike US because the product is not available in Australia - but I continually get re-directed back to the Australian store (and just have the US store completely blocked)... annoying and they lose my business.
There are a couple of real issues involved here. Shoe sizing systems are not always the same between different countries and a US company might not know how much to charge for shipping.
But this is talking about digital goods, which are covered by the Berne Convention, circa. 1886. Effectively all international trade of digital goods is illegal under the Berne convention. If Steam can't sell you something in your country, then they probably don't have the legal right to. To establish free trade in digital goods, you'd have to overhaul the entire international copyright system, not a simple undertaking.
Or you could simply declare that later treaties such as NAFTA or Maastricht supercede this by creating transnational areas with the same rules.
Companies love to talk about free markets, but they hate to operate on them. Free to them means not the free flow of goods and services, it means the freedom to do whatever they like. Steam for instance, topical, even has two tiers for europe; western and eastern, with different prices and catalogues.
In this context "whatever the like" includes breaking the law.
Imagine if they had two tiers for the US!
The real surprise is that they don't. Authorities in the EU tend to be for more agressive about persuing such crooks than those in the US.
For software, there are language and legal issues which differ from country to country, and a software maker may prefer to have these handled by a "distributor/importer" who gouges the consumer.
This may be the claim, but how often is software from the likes of Microsoft available in anything other than "US English"? (Including the EULA.)
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GNU is not about prohibiting use, it only takes effect when you distribute a GNU licensed item. All those "agreements" you click through when installing Win32 GNU licensed software is totally asinine because you don't have to agree until you distribute the software. :)
Probably down to the packager/distributor thinking that the GPL is some kind of EULA. Which it is most definitly not. Most likely they don't know how to either remove the EULA bit from the install dialogue or to set the text to "There is no EULA with this sofware"
i think they drive their kids to school. to keep them away from predators etc. im not sure, i dont have kids although i did grow up and here i didnt get raped----. but some kids did.
IIRC the number of such cases (especially associated with travel to and from school) hasn't changed much in decades. But those killed/injured in road traffic "accidents" has gone up. Which is hardly a suprise considering cars are the most dangerous machines most people ever encounter.
It's a somewhat classic example of being concerned to avoid some very rare "risk" whilst missing that the alternative behaviour is several orders of magnitude more dangerous.
My son's elementary school has 800 students, and despite perfect weather almost every day, exactly two (2) of them bike to school: my son and a kindergarten girl from our neighborhood. Every morning we pedal past a long line of moms in idling SUVs waiting to drop of their kid.
Wonder how many of the parents think it would be too dangerous for their kids because of the traffic (and air pollution).
If my company is in the EU, but not the UK, I can't get a ".uk" domain name?
Amazon S.a.r.L manages to have amazon.co.uk., amazon.de., amazon.fr., etc. But not amazon.lu. Even though they are actually based in Luxembourg.
Please explain how Android has a walled garden? Last time I checked I can install applications without using google play/market.
IIRC you can even divorce an Android device entirely from Google (something which can be especially desirable in the "Enterprise" market) far more easily than you can divorce an iOS device from Apple.
Social networks and other online services that claim they have a real name policy should enforce it!
They'd first need to define exactly what they mean by "real name".
Is it what is on someone's birth certificate? What happens when someone dosn't have one or the country where their birth was registered no longer exists? It is also possible for someone born with more than one citizenship to have more than one birth certificate with different names on each. Especially if different languages are involved.
Is it their "legal name" which can vary with both time and geography? How are people going to know what their legal name would be wherever the corporate entity running the website claims to be at the moment.
Then there would be "name person is known by". Which is actually the question the Facebook example is asking. Even though these may well be psudonyms, nicknames, stage names, etc. A "real name" would have to be a set of characters (possibly involving multiple character sets) of arbitratry length. They also mention "first and last names". Not all names can be meaningfully split in such a way. (Classical Roman names being the best know example where this is impossible. Quite a few well known native born US citizens don't fit this idea very well either. e.g. "William Henry Gates III") Even where this is possible common variations include person's name, (paternal) family name; person's name, parent's name; family name, person's name; etc With it being possible for the same name to be both a personal and a family name.
Probably 90% of the problems with nuclear power could be solved by having a small number of reprocessing plants for spent fuel rods built. Understand that the fuel rods have been only around 5% "spent" and could be reprocessed into new fuel rods with the 95% of the active materials still present in them.
Which would also make nuclear fuel highly sustainable and arguably more "renewable" than so called "renewables".
I notice he has made exceptions for existing works such as "Lolita" ... of course because to ban that he would be castigated.
If applied to existing works this would also include the likes of "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo" and the Harry Potter series. Along with The Bible (most notably in The Torah), probably The Koran and Hansard too.
My problem with practically every software patent I've ever heard is they are patents on "ideas" not implementations.
You also have those of the form "Do X with a computer". Does it really make sense to consider using a general purpose machine to do something which is already well understood as any kind of "innovation"? (Especially if X was previously performed by a special purpose machine.)
The idea is sound in principle (government regulates corporations to keep them from being abusive). But in practice the government usually lets the corporations *write* the regulations so they regs end-up being favorable to corporations and/or allows them immunity when they abuse their power.
Even worst here is allowing foreign corporations to do this.
Better yet, tell us what you need to do - not how you think you should do it.
This can be a common issue with someone who thinks they know more than they actually do about IT.
Someone obviously needs to read data that's collected, but all the steps in between should be based on how it can be collected and how it can be accessed by the end users. Tell us those parameters first
Something about the data and "sensors" might also be a good starting point.
You are looking for information that your average user wonâ(TM)t care about. Things like boot time donâ(TM)t get documented because your average user isnâ(TM)t going to have some arbitrary requirement to have their _file server_ boot in 30 seconds. Thatâ(TM)s a very weird use case. Normally you reboot a file server infrequently (unless you want to be swapping disks out constantly..). Iâ(TM)m assuming this requirement is because you plan on doing a full shutdown to insert your drives... in which case you really should be looking into hotswap
A SATA (or PATA) to USB bridge will make any drive effectivly hot swappable. Also the server can quite easily boot from an SSD.
How is giving the government more power and more information a good thing?
..." Quite possibly less power and stronger oversight would result in a better job being done.
Typically power both corrupts and attracts the corrupt (and easily corruptable)
They have enough as it is!
That probably should be ".. more than enough
I don't want to ever, under any circumstances, give them access to this vast wealth of information just because you want to catch some "bad guys."
The claim of needing more powers to catch "bad guys" is made frequently. Typically without any evidence that it would actually help do this, even if used responsibly. (Also assuming that said "bad guys" are not on the "inside" in the first place. e.g. how do you keep criminals out of the police force?)
Any judicial oversight will likely just be a rubber stamp, and looking at the actions of governments throughout history, even storing this data is a terrible idea.
Lots of people appear to have short memories together with a huge amount of (typically completely unwarrented) faith in government officials.
Look it's pretty simple if you don't want to be arrested for sexually assaulting women then don't sexually assault women.
This would only work in world where there were never false accusations and identifications made.
Back in the real world, with real people, this isn't unknown. There are even well documented cases of innocent people being imprisoned. Especially where politics are likely to be involved.
Sexual harrassment doesn't come from youth. It comes from being an asswipe.
Which is a personality trait.
Asswipeness knows no age.
Or gender or orientation for that matter.
The problem is everything expects AC, so you'd have to do a lot of work to cut the AC cord anyway. Or do you run your AC TV from a DC source? Where do you buy a DC TV from?
When it comes to electronics devices typically a PSU which converts AC into (lower voltage) DC is used. Sometimes this is internal, sometimes it is an external component. Even over 30 years ago it was possible to find TVs which operated on 12V DC. It would be rather easier to do this with an LCD than a CRT.
And the space shuttle was designed to carry out military missions as well as civilian which is one reason why it was so large. Some missions could have been done with a smaller vessel and to a lower cost.
IIRC the size of the shuttle was part of the reason for requiring such a physically delicate heatshield.
The beauty of the shuttle was that it could land as an ordinary aircraft
Ordinary aircraft generally don't block the runway on landing. Landing it at a regular airport would be hugely disruptive.
Stop that right now. The "Too noisy" meme was started by Boeing to hurt sales of the Concorde, and it worked. You're still repeating it to this day.
:)
A Concorde going overhead at around 1000 feet and normal cruising speed is no more noisy than a normal jet. It's the afterburners that are loud (REALLY VERY LOUD) and those are only used at take-off.
Rather depends what you are comparing it with. It probably does a lot better compared with a DC8 or B707 than an A320 or B737
And the accessories you're bemoaning are using a connector that is ten years old. Lets look at some other 10 year old connectors, like scsi, ps/2, serial, adb. None of those are a standard jack on new hardware anymore.
:)
USB is closer to 20 years old. It's perfectly possible to find PS/2 keyboard and mouse connectors on new hardware. Along with parallel ports; serial ports (typically as a DIL connector on the board rather than as part of the ATX connector block); floppy and PATA ports. There are even boards which have 'SuperIO' in the chipset and BIOS configuration without any physical connections present.
The SCART AV connector is also still going strong. The 3.5mm TRS mini jack appears to date from the 1950's. (But is variation on the 1â4 inch jack, first used in 1878!) Thus if it was just an issue of age then would have made more sense to think about replacing the 50+ year old connector
In a great many cases it's unclear what someone's "real name" actually is. Plenty of people are known by something other than their "legal name" (which in many cultures can be a "variable", especially for women.) sometimes something very different.
There are also people who are known by different names in different contexts.
Even those who are not actors or musicians, who are often required to have globally unique names. It's also fairly common for authors to have "pen names" for reasons including avoiding confusion with other authors; distinguishing between different genres or having a name "inappropriate" to their writings (e.g. a man writing "romance").
History and Language show otherwise. Names are representative of an idea in some languages such as Hebrew.
Also, there is NO standard way to transcribe names, in fact there are at least 2 ways:
1. Transliteration -- Keep the characters (and/or meaning of the name)
Assuming that either characters or pragmatics correspond. In Latin 'V' and 'U' are the same letter. (Which is partly why 'W' is called "doubleyou" rather than "doublevee".) Also meanings do not always translate between different languages Words can easly have muliple meanings. To add more confusion meanings can change over time. Even if the set of meanings for a word is unchanged the most commonly used meaning can change.
2. Translation - Keeping the phonemics
Which can easily be a one to many. As well as easily affected by regional accents.
It's also not uncommon, especially with the names of people, to pick a name in the target language more or less at random.
So for example (hypothetically), I want to order to something from Nike US because the product is not available in Australia - but I continually get re-directed back to the Australian store (and just have the US store completely blocked) ... annoying and they lose my business.
There are a couple of real issues involved here. Shoe sizing systems are not always the same between different countries and a US company might not know how much to charge for shipping.
But this is talking about digital goods, which are covered by the Berne Convention, circa. 1886. Effectively all international trade of digital goods is illegal under the Berne convention. If Steam can't sell you something in your country, then they probably don't have the legal right to. To establish free trade in digital goods, you'd have to overhaul the entire international copyright system, not a simple undertaking.
Or you could simply declare that later treaties such as NAFTA or Maastricht supercede this by creating transnational areas with the same rules.
Companies love to talk about free markets, but they hate to operate on them. Free to them means not the free flow of goods and services, it means the freedom to do whatever they like.
Steam for instance, topical, even has two tiers for europe; western and eastern, with different prices and catalogues.
In this context "whatever the like" includes breaking the law.
Imagine if they had two tiers for the US!
The real surprise is that they don't. Authorities in the EU tend to be for more agressive about persuing such crooks than those in the US.
For software, there are language and legal issues which differ from country to country, and a software maker may prefer to have these handled by a "distributor/importer" who gouges the consumer.
This may be the claim, but how often is software from the likes of Microsoft available in anything other than "US English"? (Including the EULA.)