In case most of you had forgotten, Obama is basically copying John McCain who specifically mentioned doing this in the debates.
Well, Obama strikes me as a very pragmatic politician so I'm not surprised that he copies others' good ideas.
Of course at the time McCain did it Slashdot thought it was an evil intrusion of privacy. But now that Obama wants to do the exact same thing it's an enlightened 21st century idea that only some Luddite old guy like McCain could ever oppose.
I didn't see it as evil then, and I don't think everyone here agrees to that.
Your calculations are intriguing. By your logic, if enough time passes the copyright of the work will belong to everybody. Sounds to me like it converges to public domain.
The summary says it was the *Council* (not the commission) which removed the amendment. Neither the Council, nor the Commission are elected directly. See here how the governance works in the EU.
Apart from that, I agree that all representatives with legislative power in the EU should be directly elected by the people.
Don't forget that they (ESA) may not be right about the source of P2P sharing. Check your logs and the PC in question before you do anything else. It may not be correct, or it could even be a printer... (I know it's limewire and not bittoreren, but still)
Microsoft could have paid $400,000 and the Nigerians could have gone ahead and used linux anyway. Bribes only work when you trust people to stay bought.
Perhaps it's half up front, half when the "job" is done?
"after a courageous and private battle against cancer,"
They never say stuff like "after capitulating to cancer like a big pussy,"
That's because it's not the job of the patient to fight cancer, it's the job of the physician! The idea that the patient somehow fights cancer like it's a battle of wills is a classic example of The Tyranny of Positive Thinking and places an undue and inappropriate burden on cancer patients.
Why burn a copy? You can just rip & re-encode it (x264) to an MKV-file on an (external) harddrive, and play it using popcorn hour or similar. That way you can also take your movie collection with you when you visit friends.
Just make sure (in the future) the voter can't remove the smart card himself but has to wait for the machine to spit it out after the voting procedure has ended.
"Ever" is a long time. Sometimes you don't want to go for the cheapest. It all depends on the cost of the energy versus the time spend traveling. If energy was cheap enough (and the engines capable of a large constant acceleration), we'd accelerate with 1g half the way to the destination, and almost half way there turn the ship around and decelerate at 1 g.
The distances (to other planets or evene stars) we talk (or dream) about here means spending a large fraction of your life traveling. I'd even say that during "night time" on the ship, one could sleep submerged in water or similar and the ship would accelerate even more.
[...] The common forms of BitTorrent encryption uses a "shared secret". The shared secret for BitTorrent is a 20-byte key known as the "infohash". This infohash is ALSO used as the unique hash to uniquely identify a given set of files. So its ALWAYS given to the tracker, and if the tracker isn't using SSL, that means its in the clear.[...]
Well, the worlds largest tracker(I think) supports SSL for the torrent-file download. Now we just need it implemented for when the bt-client connects to (one of it's sub)domain(s) for the actual tracking...
Actually it is very much news for nerds, just not for computer nerds. There are other kinds of nerds, you know! We're a diverse, colorful and lovingly bunch. (...insensitive clod...)
"You're not quite evil enough. You're semi-evil. You're quasi-evil. You're the margarine of evil. You're the Diet Coke of evil, just one calorie, not evil enough."
-- Dr. Evil
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This sounds like the beginning of some lesbian porn flick.
In case most of you had forgotten, Obama is basically copying John McCain who specifically mentioned doing this in the debates.
Well, Obama strikes me as a very pragmatic politician so I'm not surprised that he copies others' good ideas.
Of course at the time McCain did it Slashdot thought it was an evil intrusion of privacy. But now that Obama wants to do the exact same thing it's an enlightened 21st century idea that only some Luddite old guy like McCain could ever oppose.
I didn't see it as evil then, and I don't think everyone here agrees to that.
And they'll call it Open Office eXchange Medics Language (OOXML) to create several layers of confusion.
and it's in beta - real Google style :-)
According to the Heisenburg uncertainty principle its impossible to know both where an object is precisely, and where its heading.
Indeed, however, I believe the accuracy will suffice even for your superior motor control good sir.
Your calculations are intriguing. By your logic, if enough time passes the copyright of the work will belong to everybody. Sounds to me like it converges to public domain.
At least we can be safe at night. ...Probably...
They mostly come at night... mostly...
XML Paper Specification. For a Microsoft name, it's really not lame.
Or LyX, if you like the pretty LaTeX output but aren't so keen on programming your documents.
The summary says it was the *Council* (not the commission) which removed the amendment. Neither the Council, nor the Commission are elected directly. See here how the governance works in the EU.
Apart from that, I agree that all representatives with legislative power in the EU should be directly elected by the people.
Don't forget that they (ESA) may not be right about the source of P2P sharing. Check your logs and the PC in question before you do anything else. It may not be correct, or it could even be a printer...
(I know it's limewire and not bittoreren, but still)
"Wow, what a dedicated employee! No bathroom breaks, just sitting working endlessly at his computer with at tube from his pants to this mouth."
Yes, they even recycled the blood from the dead.
Microsoft could have paid $400,000 and the Nigerians could have gone ahead and used linux anyway. Bribes only work when you trust people to stay bought.
Perhaps it's half up front, half when the "job" is done?
"after a courageous and private battle against cancer,"
They never say stuff like "after capitulating to cancer like a big pussy,"
That's because it's not the job of the patient to fight cancer, it's the job of the physician! The idea that the patient somehow fights cancer like it's a battle of wills is a classic example of The Tyranny of Positive Thinking and places an undue and inappropriate burden on cancer patients.
Why burn a copy? You can just rip & re-encode it (x264) to an MKV-file on an (external) harddrive, and play it using popcorn hour or similar. That way you can also take your movie collection with you when you visit friends.
I would rather be falsely accused of armed robbery than falsely accused of downloading music. [...]
I gather you're not black.
Just make sure (in the future) the voter can't remove the smart card himself but has to wait for the machine to spit it out after the voting procedure has ended.
"Ever" is a long time. Sometimes you don't want to go for the cheapest. It all depends on the cost of the energy versus the time spend traveling. If energy was cheap enough (and the engines capable of a large constant acceleration), we'd accelerate with 1g half the way to the destination, and almost half way there turn the ship around and decelerate at 1 g.
The distances (to other planets or evene stars) we talk (or dream) about here means spending a large fraction of your life traveling. I'd even say that during "night time" on the ship, one could sleep submerged in water or similar and the ship would accelerate even more.
[...] The common forms of BitTorrent encryption uses a "shared secret". The shared secret for BitTorrent is a 20-byte key known as the "infohash". This infohash is ALSO used as the unique hash to uniquely identify a given set of files. So its ALWAYS given to the tracker, and if the tracker isn't using SSL, that means its in the clear.[...]
Well, the worlds largest tracker(I think) supports SSL for the torrent-file download. Now we just need it implemented for when the bt-client connects to (one of it's sub)domain(s) for the actual tracking...
Maybe it's just me, but there's something odd about someone smiling so happily holding so many worms... I can't really put my finger on it...
Actually it is very much news for nerds, just not for computer nerds. There are other kinds of nerds, you know! We're a diverse, colorful and lovingly bunch.
(...insensitive clod...)
"You're not quite evil enough. You're semi-evil. You're quasi-evil. You're the margarine of evil. You're the Diet Coke of evil, just one calorie, not evil enough."
-- Dr. Evil
It's the other, other white meat, you know...
Too late