"FCC Claims Regulatory Power Over Home Computers"? By extension, yes, but the Ars Technica piece describes this as being mostly in the context of the broadcast flag on HDTV transmissions.
And, whether we like it or not, the Federal Communications Commission does have regulatory authority over interstate communications. It was set up specifically to regulate interstate communications.
The question (and the lawsuit) is, does this authority extend to what is done with a broadcast after it has been transmitted and received?
In the US election we are voting for more than just President. There's also House of Representatives, Senate (in some states), various State elections, various State ballot questions, various County elections, various County ballot questions, and various city/town elections and ballot issues. So you have different ballots for every one of the 6000 or so counties, some of which have multiple different ballotas within the counties depending on the other localities within the county.
The US does have a 2 round system where you can select from a multiplicity of candidates who are, eventually, narrowed down to two major candidates. The first round is called 'the primaries and caucuses', and voter turnout tends to be limited to the most politically oriented. Which is how we ended up with Dubya vs Gore, then Dubya vs Kerry.
Not going back is an incentive. It's worked for some people I know.
And the US does have a sort of levels system. There's time off for good behavoir, parole, sentencing itself can be affected by a variety of things. (I know one person who got 6 months from a state court for manslaughter, and one who got that from traffic court for a moving violation.) A person can go to a minimum security Club Fed, a medium security place, might be on work release. There's Maximum Security. Prisoners can depending on behavoir, be sent from one type of prison to another.
and wasn't just a Fedora issue. I hadn't heard about it, as I don't run Windows on my home machine, until I had to install it here at work. The main thing is to not let it futz with the partition tables at all during an install.
The Yucca Mountain facility is the best we're likely to find (Unless you think there's any site that can be proven utterly safe for 10k years) and certainly better than what we're doing now. So in terms of science and engineering it's the best choice.
Politically it's also a big win. Nevada has a low population, so it has few Representatives in the House. Plus, it voted for the Dear Leader despite his approval of Yucca Mountain. So if any locals do object, there's no real leverage for them politically.
They're all moving over to their local cable and telephone companies. Which have even lower security than AOL. Expect more worms, viruses, and general whackiness than when AOL was between them and the Wild Wild Net
Got up at 0500, at the poll (at Langley HS) at 0600, out at 0630. By the time I left there were well over 100 people in line to vote. Line snaked around the gym, through the door, and around the outside of the gym.
Also, Brazil is getting bitched at by the IAEA for working on uranium enrichment, possibly as part of an atomic bomb project. So 'Boom' may not be a good word here.
Actually, the US did lots of planning. The politicians just decided to ignore it. To quote from The Atlantic
The U.S. occupation of Iraq is a debacle not because the government did no planning but because a vast amount of expert planning was willfully ignored by the people in charge.
Maybe set up non-public WISPs. Or do quick 'n' dirty telco solutions in places with no infrastructure. We're a large USian arms merchant (not Halliburton) looking for alternatives to stringing cable or doing satellite bounces.
Christ, if we could get some equipment to play with we could make some supplier very happy.
A hardware guy with a compiler makes a better programmer than a software guy with a soldering iron does an electrician.
I'm a programmer who used to do industrial automation. I know what I'm talking about here. I was the guy with the slodering iron. Also the oscilloscope, Vom, various test leads, crimper, and laptop with programming tools. I was much less dangerous with the laptop. Less likely to find the bad ground on the 480VAC systems too.
I'm a Professional Programmer doing Serious Work for Real Money, which often involves looking through Other People's Code, and software is shit. I will never forget looking through some code and, just before some Deep Magic, seeing/*Why did I do this?*/
Sturgeon's Law states that 90% of SF is shit. Well, >99% of software is.
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Well, until the recent VOIP ruling. I think that is more dodgy than the broadcast flag.
And, whether we like it or not, the Federal Communications Commission does have regulatory authority over interstate communications. It was set up specifically to regulate interstate communications.
The question (and the lawsuit) is, does this authority extend to what is done with a broadcast after it has been transmitted and received?
Are you just voting for MP? Or are there Province, county, and town elections and ballot initiatives on there as well?
In the US election we are voting for more than just President. There's also House of Representatives, Senate (in some states), various State elections, various State ballot questions, various County elections, various County ballot questions, and various city/town elections and ballot issues. So you have different ballots for every one of the 6000 or so counties, some of which have multiple different ballotas within the counties depending on the other localities within the county.
The US does have a 2 round system where you can select from a multiplicity of candidates who are, eventually, narrowed down to two major candidates. The first round is called 'the primaries and caucuses', and voter turnout tends to be limited to the most politically oriented. Which is how we ended up with Dubya vs Gore, then Dubya vs Kerry.
And the US does have a sort of levels system. There's time off for good behavoir, parole, sentencing itself can be affected by a variety of things. (I know one person who got 6 months from a state court for manslaughter, and one who got that from traffic court for a moving violation.) A person can go to a minimum security Club Fed, a medium security place, might be on work release. There's Maximum Security. Prisoners can depending on behavoir, be sent from one type of prison to another.
Man. That'd be nice. A "war on X" I could support.
Modulate the phasing of the tachychron particles.
"Bimbos of the Death Sun"?
and wasn't just a Fedora issue. I hadn't heard about it, as I don't run Windows on my home machine, until I had to install it here at work. The main thing is to not let it futz with the partition tables at all during an install.
Politically it's also a big win. Nevada has a low population, so it has few Representatives in the House. Plus, it voted for the Dear Leader despite his approval of Yucca Mountain. So if any locals do object, there's no real leverage for them politically.
They're all moving over to their local cable and telephone companies. Which have even lower security than AOL. Expect more worms, viruses, and general whackiness than when AOL was between them and the Wild Wild Net
Got up at 0500, at the poll (at Langley HS) at 0600, out at 0630. By the time I left there were well over 100 people in line to vote. Line snaked around the gym, through the door, and around the outside of the gym.
Also, Brazil is getting bitched at by the IAEA for working on uranium enrichment, possibly as part of an atomic bomb project. So 'Boom' may not be a good word here.
Christ, if we could get some equipment to play with we could make some supplier very happy.
Very comforting to know how easy it is to wire the safeties on nuclear weapons up backwards.
Q1 2006. Seriously. My employer has been looking into doing stuff with 802.16 but can't get prices on any hardware to test with.
That may have been a processor limitation rather than a language one. I know the 16 bit x86 processors had 64k segments.
Man, first they take God out of the schools, now they're taking him out of the monsters. What next?
"Tripods" would work better as a mini-series.
I'm a programmer who used to do industrial automation. I know what I'm talking about here. I was the guy with the slodering iron. Also the oscilloscope, Vom, various test leads, crimper, and laptop with programming tools. I was much less dangerous with the laptop. Less likely to find the bad ground on the 480VAC systems too.
Sturgeon's Law states that 90% of SF is shit. Well, >99% of software is.
Even more frightening than programmers with screwdrivers.
Not having parenthesis in a pointer to function is fairly normal for functions that take no parameters.