The US bill does nothing to prevent a corporation from deliberately disclosing whatever they want to whomever they want - it's focused exclusively on securing those transactions from third parties.
That is, as you point out, the whole purpose of the Act. It's not "watered down" -- it's specifically designed to enable exactly what you cite (letting corporations do whatever they damn well please with your personal data) without interference from annoying State privacy laws.
Like the (you) CAN-SPAM and the new (you can) SPY Acts, the main point of both bills is the preemption of (effective) State laws. By pulling all enforcement into a single Federal authority and removing private rights of action, it becomes much less important for the drafters to include explicit language neutering the nominally-beneficial provisions of the legislation.
Done right, these laws get the Legislature some headlines for the voters while effectively insulating the campaign contributors from the risk of being held liable for doing what the Act theoretically prohibits.
Thought experiment: what would either Act have done in the case of HP spying on private parties?
What I desperately need is a reliable caching filesystem with decent performance.
The $COMPANY network is loaded with Linux workstations and servers, all with their own lotsabyte drives -- and the only things those drives are used for is a tiny system image. Meanwhile the network is getting hammered.
I might not kill to get a several-hundred-gigabyte local network cache -- but don't tempt me.
and yes, the sets have "parental controls." However:
The parents don't use those controls,
Therefore the Government has to step in For the Sake of the Children!
There are rumors that one reason the parental controls aren't being used is because the parents who want them are also dependent on their children to set them up.
The police told us that they were going to make sure that there weren't any more cases like Rodney King's, and it looks like they're on their way to delivering on that promise.
Next time, they'll have solid law to prosecute any SOB who films them at work and the recordings (being illegally obtained) won't be usable in court.
The "close relationship" between the Services and their suppliers has been very cozy now since the pre-WWII Gun Club [1]. This threatens to mess with that, and if the Petty Officers don't deep-six it, the Captains who really run acquisition will.
Next thing you know, they're going to start messing with the coffee -- it ain't gonna be pretty.
[1] OK, probably since George Washington's quartermaster. When he was in his 20s. Certainly since the people who supplied the Army of the Republic in the Civil War.
that FIC seems to be doing their best to discourage interest in the Neo1973 phone?
They may be showing it under glass, but if you search their website there is zero reference to it. Me, I've been lusting after it since December and really lusting since my Treo got crunched in February. Looks like I'll have to resurrect an old Zire instead, though.
That means (as was mentioned) that you basically replace the heat sink and fan on the CPU with the heat-to-sound-to-electricity conversion device. The net effect (as far as your CPU is concerned) is that the temperature is maintained at somewhere around 10C above ambient and instead of spreading the additional 90C worth of heat (assuming that your processor would hit 100C without heat sink) into the surrounding air, you're using it to generate electricity.
And if all I had was a totally passive system, I'd still have that 10C rise, less 3% power generation. However, that's assuming that the power generator has at least as good a thermal resistance as my present heatsink, despite putting more "stuff" in the path.
SWAG: trying to get that 3% will end up costing more in terms of fan power than the same temp rise with a totally passive system.
Yes, but you don't measure the heat difference AFTER the heat has been removed! The Carnot efficiency depends on the heat differential BEFORE the heat has been pumped, yes?
You measure the heat difference between the hot side and the cold side of the transfer. In the case of a CPU, between the CPU and ambient.
For more, you really need to understand the Second Law of Thermodynamics and Carnot engines.
Your CPU's run at less than 10C above ambient because it has a huge cooler sitting on top -- the CPU may be cool, but only bacause a lot of heat is extracted from it and pumped out of the system.
That's kind of the idea, no?
I'm really not interested in running my CPU at 100C so that the heat recovery efficiency goes from 3% to 19%, thank you.
Unless they're claiming to have found a way around the Second Law, the efficiency of any such conversion is going to utterly suck. My CPUs run less than 10C above ambient, so the absolute Carnot limit on any converter recovering that heat is going to be about 3%.
The "submit an outline of your term paper" method of hierarchical decomposition for prose that's been taught in English classes since at least the 19th Century. See first question/response immediately above.
Well, I haven't checked in a while but there was another group of users - graphic artists. Now, I know most of these guys use Macs but there is a group who do prefer windows and the lack of a Vector based image program and support for CMYK or Pantone colors was unacceptable.
The CMYK thing was solved a while back.
Vector graphics? Quite a few -- blender and inkscape for two. Being more technical than graphical, I'll just have to suggest that you have a look.
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Richard Stallman and the Deadly Hallows!
Should be well over 4000 bhp, since one bhp is 746 watts. Looks like an amazing amount of conversion loss there.
Done right, these laws get the Legislature some headlines for the voters while effectively insulating the campaign contributors from the risk of being held liable for doing what the Act theoretically prohibits.
Thought experiment: what would either Act have done in the case of HP spying on private parties?
The $COMPANY network is loaded with Linux workstations and servers, all with their own lotsabyte drives -- and the only things those drives are used for is a tiny system image. Meanwhile the network is getting hammered.
I might not kill to get a several-hundred-gigabyte local network cache -- but don't tempt me.
Meanwhile, the State of California has insisted on, and gotten, much stricter terms (including interest.)
Now, the State is suggesting that IBM should forgive their loan altogether?
Maybe, if forgiving those loans is so good an idea, the State of California should go first?
There are rumors that one reason the parental controls aren't being used is because the parents who want them are also dependent on their children to set them up.
Corrections always appreciated -- I make enough mistakes that Shannon's Theorem indicates a serious need for error correction.
Get a clue before moderating.
First spotted on the USS Lexington.
I'm guessing they're not going to like a file transfer of casablanca.mov
Next time, they'll have solid law to prosecute any SOB who films them at work and the recordings (being illegally obtained) won't be usable in court.
Next thing you know, they're going to start messing with the coffee -- it ain't gonna be pretty.
[1] OK, probably since George Washington's quartermaster. When he was in his 20s. Certainly since the people who supplied the Army of the Republic in the Civil War.
They may be showing it under glass, but if you search their website there is zero reference to it. Me, I've been lusting after it since December and really lusting since my Treo got crunched in February. Looks like I'll have to resurrect an old Zire instead, though.
For more, you really need to understand the Second Law of Thermodynamics and Carnot engines.
I'm really not interested in running my CPU at 100C so that the heat recovery efficiency goes from 3% to 19%, thank you.
Why bother?
[1] Thermodynamics, not Robotics
Sweeeeeeeet! Bubble memory is back.
Anyway, the previous article was not complimentary. Seemed appropriate somehow.
Vector graphics? Quite a few -- blender and inkscape for two. Being more technical than graphical, I'll just have to suggest that you have a look.
The "unless you have a geek handy" was with regard to researching the fix when things don't go according to plan.