"Describes the rules you agree to when using our services." Most sites have something like this, and they all start out with "By using this site you agree to..."
And they're all bullshit, like any one-party contract. There has to be an offer, consideration, and acceptance at a minimum.
An "I agree" button _might_ be enough to make that legal, but if somebody has never read those terms they are certainly not bound by them. Google could very easily make somebody sign in to use their service, but they choose to make it completely open instead.
Technically, no. You are bound by the treaties your country signed.
You mean mean, 'in theory', not 'technically'. If the local jurisdiction does not enforce the laws, then on a technical basis you are not bound by them. On a theoretical basis you may be, but who cares.
That's the law. That you choose to be a space pirate, is your own problem.
And watch settlement-free peering die quickly too as the monster ISP's declare war on the remaining independents, backed by the FCC (which __DUH__ is in their pockets already). If this happens the monster ISP's will write the new regulations behind closed doors and it'll be strongly in their favor to preferentially comply.
98% of the people who are writing these letters don't even know what the terms that are in play mean, much less are they able to understand the consequences.
I guess that's normal for a democracy - it just hits home when they're coming after your field of work.
The clinical studies showed the new propellant was no less effective.
That's not the issue. The issue is that the low-cost asthma medications that poor people bought for their kids used the CFC propellants. The FDA would not let them switch to a new propellant without spending something like $200M on a new approval study, which was not cost effective in their OTC market, so they pulled the product. Poor kids don't suddenly get expensive inhalers because their cheap ones went away.
In fairness to the writer of the simply hideous article, which is an amazing compendium of misleading nonsense, irrelevancy and outright falsehood, the research team seem to be speaking in a private language.
No kidding... I was thinking as I was reading it, "wow, this is the worst-written paper I've read in a long time". They seem to go to lengths to make it as baroque, dense, and devoid of semantically (if not syntactically) valid prose as possible.
I don't just mean that it's very technical - they seem to be engaged in active denial of communication. I spent a little time teasing apart the sections I was most interested in, but that's the opposite of the job of a paper.
I know the stereotype is that "nerds can't write" but really many of the best papers in physics are also fun to read.
There are two things you can do about it:... 98% of the people don't care much about the spying, and will vote for business as usual.
So, voting 3rd-party isn't actually doing anything about it because it's an action guaranteed to not have a result (electoral NOOP). Maybe it makes you feel warm inside, but it will have no effect on the spymasters. We don't even need to drag out Duverger's Law.
"If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it." - Sam Clemens
he said that there are some very large transformers that would be destroyed and would take 5 to 10 years to replace due to there being nowhere tooled up to replace them.
So the grid isn't being expanded anywhere in the world? Seems suspect.
One current theory on salt is that diabetics, the overweight, and blacks are higher risk groups for salt being linked to blood pressure, but for the large majority of people there is no association.
Right - genetics (and even epigenetics) play a large role. There are SNP's (single nucleotide polymorphisms) that can make a huge difference in some cases!
All of these broad-brush health advice "rules" are going to seem very quaint when we have massively-available cheap sequencing and you can go to a doc once a year to discuss the results of your latest genetic and epigenetic profile and make some alterations based on your own body and its current state.
The current guidelines may be the best approximation we have right now, but they're always wrong in a non-trivial percentage of the population.
When all (or nearly all) the flies are inside the jar, I just put it under the tap and run water over it until it fills up through the holes. Then leave it for a few minutes to drown them all, and dump it down the sink.
You can just use some apple cider vinegar with a drop of detergent and skip the labor part (just take the plastic off and dump the mess down the drain). Refill & rekill.
When it comes to copyright laws another saying applies "unjust laws serve to bring all laws into contempt.
Let us know when somebody invents laws that cannot be made unjust by the corrupt actors of a system. Until then, while somebody restricts by force what I may write on my paper with my pen, copyright itself is an unjust affront to the notion of real property (it fails before even getting to concocted notions like 'intellectual property'). We can do better than pulling guns on people in hopes of getting artists to produce more entertaining things for us (and it probably fails at even that).
a project that hasn't earned back its costs should have copyright extended for a *long* time--maybe 40 years or the lifetime of the artist, whichever is longer
All you do there is encourage (and have the public subsidize) poor business models. Instead, we should be encouraging artists to succeed (not setting up incentives for them to languish - that is not kindness).
it would be cute if that were the reason, but really what they want is to overcharge for video services and only by keeping broadband slow can they keep Internet video from entirely replacing everything else.
and yet "we need to" fine the solar plants that are frying a few birds while all the mercury from coal plants probably kills three orders of magnitude more.
I know, let's protest the solar plant and then head out to KFC for an afterparty. We'll toast to the bureaucrats.
'ipv4 hardware' (huh? what IS that, btw? does this imply that ipv6 is not in 'hardware'? how strange to describe things)
Not sure what he was on about but, yeah, IPv4 is always in ASIC on big gear and part of the slow IPv6 adoption curve is that there is a lot of big expensive gear deployed with IPv4 in ASIC and IPv6 is only done on the anemic CPU.
We're probably 2 of 5 years into the required replacement cycle, but it is significant. One of the wrinkles with the recent Cisco "Internet is too big" bug was that the hardware has ASIC slots for 1 million IPv4 entries, 500,000 IPv6 entries, but we already have 490K IPv4 entries and if there were as much IPv6 adoption, the combined totals would break out of ASIC today and nobody wants to think about going to the CPU and main memory for core routing, ever.
For those who don't know, Argentina is on the brink of economic collapse yet again. Their occupying government has ruined the currency with wishful thinking as if it didn't just happen a decade or so ago. They've been trying to negotiate away all the bad debt they've run up and not everybody is letting them off the hook this time. Like good bureaucrats they're probably looking to tax anything that moves.
3% tax on Netflix? pfft - last time they confiscated pensions and retirement accounts. Oh, sorry, they didn't confiscate them, they replaced the negotiable cash value of them with government-backed bonds. Which rapidly fell to zero value.
FWIW, the US DoL floated an RFC on 'protecting' retirement accounts by replacing them with bonds a few years ago. Nobody should be undiversified in their retirement savings jurisdictions.
Dude, it's Slashdot, you have to say, "does learning to replace a transmission outweigh a degree in mechanical engineering?"
It's OK. We play this game:
The servers are really slow. Your app is pegging the CPU. It didn't yesterday. What did you deploy? Nothing. What did you deploy? Well, just an update to module foo. What does the update do? It adds a feature to do X. What's the big-O of your algorithm to do X?
This is where the deer-in-the-headlights look begins. And the sysadmin analyzes the "developer"s algorithm and shows him why it's n^3 and how to make it nlog(n).
Being able to swap out a transmission is good, and if you're designing a transmission you better damn well know how somebody is going to swap it out, but just because you can swap out a transmission doesn't mean you're ready to design a new one.
Car people have it easier, though, because car factories are really expensive. But that also limits the possbilities of having 999 crap new transmission designs for one brilliant one that the factory owners' employees never thought of. Mixed blessings.
> To me, that indicates a JAVA vulnerability, not a Linux vulnerability.
Right. Just like Nigerian 419 scams are conducted in English, so English is a vulnerability.
Interesting parallel - both 419 and this vulnerability stem from people who fail to utilize the absolute minimum of self-protection mechanisms.
And the attackers in both cases deliberately exploit these low-hanging fruits of incompetence. It's a good economic strategy - why pick the high fruit when you don't have to?
Of course, our worries stem from the fact that at some point all the low hanging fruit (or slow antelope if you'd rather) are gone.
I know I'll never order from Sears again (other service companies carry parts on their trucks), but I hadn't thought of just making it illegal to provide bad service...
See, you're doing the right thing there by telling you friends. I've done the same on Facebook (Sears told me that me hand-washing dishes for a month while I waited for a $70 part was reasonable under their extended warranty that I foolishly purchased and that I was lucky because people who have refrigerators that fail in the summer and have to wait six weeks for service are much more unhappy).
And I mean FOOLISHLY because, for Pete's sake, I'm in the support & service business and I never thought to ask Sears what their SLA is!
So, yeah, I'm going to buy my next appliance from the local mom&pop shop and pay more, which means I'm pre-paying for customer service I'll need later (dishwashers are essentially disposable after their warranty service now - a control board can cost $375 if it's an old enough model).
What the OP wants is to make it illegal for a Mom & Pop store to ever exist, because only the big megalocorps like Sears could ever afford to stock huge quantities of parts (and even Sears has closed down its branch parts counters in this economy). So, to the OP - screw you for being a corporate water carrier and enemy of the small business owner - you are what's wrong with society. If you want a service *PAY FOR IT*. Asshole.
"extreme" browsers like me. I run anywhere from 30 to 150 tabs open at a time. I'd say a nice average would be around 60 tabs
It's not Firefox and that's not extreme. I was just doing some Javascript profiling this weekend on slow performance with 1630 tabs (Tree Style Tabs, of course), with the winners for CPU eaters being HTTPS Everywhere 4.0's SSLObservatory and SessionRestore.
As much as I appreciate the EFF's efforts, I wound up disabling 4.0. Maybe 4.0.1 will be back with a vengeance.
Anyway, Firefox wasn't crashing, it was slow. Probably one of your in-profile databases got corrupted at some point ('restore from backup' is the most likely "fix"). I'm on Fedora 20, running stock Firefox.
It's only free if you're OK with 720p output, limited input, and not being able to move your source material to a different editor. The latter is actually the bigger risk because if Lightworks goes away (let's hope not) there'd be no way to buy the 'pro' version and get your data exported.
Otherwise it's $279 or you're on a subscription plan. It's probably still the best choice available, but be aware you don't just go buy a GoPro or a Nikon and plan on dazzling folks with the HD output with free Lightworks. From what I've seen, even iMovie parity on Linux costs $79/yr.
Even if you're very frugal and can use Free, it's probably smart to buy a month once in a while and export your projects.
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I hadn't heard of it, and I have been an Amazon Prime member for a few years...
Same here, which means they never advertised it on their own site, which means they didn't want it to succeed for some reason.
Lord knows they've have no problem advertising the Fire Phone or various Kindles over the years.
"Describes the rules you agree to when using our services." Most sites have something like this, and they all start out with "By using this site you agree to..."
And they're all bullshit, like any one-party contract. There has to be an offer, consideration, and acceptance at a minimum.
An "I agree" button _might_ be enough to make that legal, but if somebody has never read those terms they are certainly not bound by them. Google could very easily make somebody sign in to use their service, but they choose to make it completely open instead.
Technically, no.
You are bound by the treaties your country signed.
You mean mean, 'in theory', not 'technically'. If the local jurisdiction does not enforce the laws, then on a technical basis you are not bound by them. On a theoretical basis you may be, but who cares.
That's the law. That you choose to be a space pirate, is your own problem.
You can't take the sky from me!
And watch settlement-free peering die quickly too as the monster ISP's declare war on the remaining independents, backed by the FCC (which __DUH__ is in their pockets already). If this happens the monster ISP's will write the new regulations behind closed doors and it'll be strongly in their favor to preferentially comply.
98% of the people who are writing these letters don't even know what the terms that are in play mean, much less are they able to understand the consequences.
I guess that's normal for a democracy - it just hits home when they're coming after your field of work.
The clinical studies showed the new propellant was no less effective.
That's not the issue. The issue is that the low-cost asthma medications that poor people bought for their kids used the CFC propellants. The FDA would not let them switch to a new propellant without spending something like $200M on a new approval study, which was not cost effective in their OTC market, so they pulled the product. Poor kids don't suddenly get expensive inhalers because their cheap ones went away.
In fairness to the writer of the simply hideous article, which is an amazing compendium of misleading nonsense, irrelevancy and outright falsehood, the research team seem to be speaking in a private language.
No kidding ... I was thinking as I was reading it, "wow, this is the worst-written paper I've read in a long time". They seem to go to lengths to make it as baroque, dense, and devoid of semantically (if not syntactically) valid prose as possible.
I don't just mean that it's very technical - they seem to be engaged in active denial of communication. I spent a little time teasing apart the sections I was most interested in, but that's the opposite of the job of a paper.
I know the stereotype is that "nerds can't write" but really many of the best papers in physics are also fun to read.
There are two things you can do about it: ...
98% of the people don't care much about the spying, and will vote for business as usual.
So, voting 3rd-party isn't actually doing anything about it because it's an action guaranteed to not have a result (electoral NOOP). Maybe it makes you feel warm inside, but it will have no effect on the spymasters. We don't even need to drag out Duverger's Law.
"If voting made any difference they wouldn't let us do it." - Sam Clemens
he said that there are some very large transformers that would be destroyed and would take 5 to 10 years to replace due to there being nowhere tooled up to replace them.
So the grid isn't being expanded anywhere in the world? Seems suspect.
One current theory on salt is that diabetics, the overweight, and blacks are higher risk groups for salt being linked to blood pressure, but for the large majority of people there is no association.
Right - genetics (and even epigenetics) play a large role. There are SNP's (single nucleotide polymorphisms) that can make a huge difference in some cases!
All of these broad-brush health advice "rules" are going to seem very quaint when we have massively-available cheap sequencing and you can go to a doc once a year to discuss the results of your latest genetic and epigenetic profile and make some alterations based on your own body and its current state.
The current guidelines may be the best approximation we have right now, but they're always wrong in a non-trivial percentage of the population.
maybe I'm the only one who cares most about how far they got ... maps here and here.
When all (or nearly all) the flies are inside the jar, I just put it under the tap and run water over it until it fills up through the holes. Then leave it for a few minutes to drown them all, and dump it down the sink.
You can just use some apple cider vinegar with a drop of detergent and skip the labor part (just take the plastic off and dump the mess down the drain). Refill & rekill.
When it comes to copyright laws another saying applies "unjust laws serve to bring all laws into contempt.
Let us know when somebody invents laws that cannot be made unjust by the corrupt actors of a system. Until then, while somebody restricts by force what I may write on my paper with my pen, copyright itself is an unjust affront to the notion of real property (it fails before even getting to concocted notions like 'intellectual property'). We can do better than pulling guns on people in hopes of getting artists to produce more entertaining things for us (and it probably fails at even that).
a project that hasn't earned back its costs should have copyright extended for a *long* time--maybe 40 years or the lifetime of the artist, whichever is longer
All you do there is encourage (and have the public subsidize) poor business models. Instead, we should be encouraging artists to succeed (not setting up incentives for them to languish - that is not kindness).
it would be cute if that were the reason, but really what they want is to overcharge for video services and only by keeping broadband slow can they keep Internet video from entirely replacing everything else.
one can produce elmental mercury from ore with alchemy. At least that's what I'd assume you'd call it.
and yet "we need to" fine the solar plants that are frying a few birds while all the mercury from coal plants probably kills three orders of magnitude more.
I know, let's protest the solar plant and then head out to KFC for an afterparty. We'll toast to the bureaucrats.
'ipv4 hardware' (huh? what IS that, btw? does this imply that ipv6 is not in 'hardware'? how strange to describe things)
Not sure what he was on about but, yeah, IPv4 is always in ASIC on big gear and part of the slow IPv6 adoption curve is that there is a lot of big expensive gear deployed with IPv4 in ASIC and IPv6 is only done on the anemic CPU.
We're probably 2 of 5 years into the required replacement cycle, but it is significant. One of the wrinkles with the recent Cisco "Internet is too big" bug was that the hardware has ASIC slots for 1 million IPv4 entries, 500,000 IPv6 entries, but we already have 490K IPv4 entries and if there were as much IPv6 adoption, the combined totals would break out of ASIC today and nobody wants to think about going to the CPU and main memory for core routing, ever.
Apparently, all they have to do is stop trying to trademark the name (which is clearly derived from Twitter). That's it.
So how much free PR is this little "disaster" going to net them?
Feel free to check back on the 25th and prove me wrong (unless they're actually out of money).
For those who don't know, Argentina is on the brink of economic collapse yet again. Their occupying government has ruined the currency with wishful thinking as if it didn't just happen a decade or so ago. They've been trying to negotiate away all the bad debt they've run up and not everybody is letting them off the hook this time. Like good bureaucrats they're probably looking to tax anything that moves.
3% tax on Netflix? pfft - last time they confiscated pensions and retirement accounts. Oh, sorry, they didn't confiscate them, they replaced the negotiable cash value of them with government-backed bonds. Which rapidly fell to zero value.
FWIW, the US DoL floated an RFC on 'protecting' retirement accounts by replacing them with bonds a few years ago. Nobody should be undiversified in their retirement savings jurisdictions.
Dude, it's Slashdot, you have to say, "does learning to replace a transmission outweigh a degree in mechanical engineering?"
It's OK. We play this game:
This is where the deer-in-the-headlights look begins. And the sysadmin analyzes the "developer"s algorithm and shows him why it's n^3 and how to make it nlog(n).
Being able to swap out a transmission is good, and if you're designing a transmission you better damn well know how somebody is going to swap it out, but just because you can swap out a transmission doesn't mean you're ready to design a new one.
Car people have it easier, though, because car factories are really expensive. But that also limits the possbilities of having 999 crap new transmission designs for one brilliant one that the factory owners' employees never thought of. Mixed blessings.
> To me, that indicates a JAVA vulnerability, not a Linux vulnerability.
Right. Just like Nigerian 419 scams are conducted in English, so English is a vulnerability.
Interesting parallel - both 419 and this vulnerability stem from people who fail to utilize the absolute minimum of self-protection mechanisms.
And the attackers in both cases deliberately exploit these low-hanging fruits of incompetence. It's a good economic strategy - why pick the high fruit when you don't have to?
Of course, our worries stem from the fact that at some point all the low hanging fruit (or slow antelope if you'd rather) are gone.
sudo rm -r /
It has advantage of removing all viruses.
Just the ones alphabetically before /lib*/libc+
Watch out - those crazy virus writers will start statically linking!
I know I'll never order from Sears again (other service companies carry parts on their trucks), but I hadn't thought of just making it illegal to provide bad service...
See, you're doing the right thing there by telling you friends. I've done the same on Facebook (Sears told me that me hand-washing dishes for a month while I waited for a $70 part was reasonable under their extended warranty that I foolishly purchased and that I was lucky because people who have refrigerators that fail in the summer and have to wait six weeks for service are much more unhappy).
And I mean FOOLISHLY because, for Pete's sake, I'm in the support & service business and I never thought to ask Sears what their SLA is!
So, yeah, I'm going to buy my next appliance from the local mom&pop shop and pay more, which means I'm pre-paying for customer service I'll need later (dishwashers are essentially disposable after their warranty service now - a control board can cost $375 if it's an old enough model).
What the OP wants is to make it illegal for a Mom & Pop store to ever exist, because only the big megalocorps like Sears could ever afford to stock huge quantities of parts (and even Sears has closed down its branch parts counters in this economy). So, to the OP - screw you for being a corporate water carrier and enemy of the small business owner - you are what's wrong with society. If you want a service *PAY FOR IT*. Asshole.
"extreme" browsers like me. I run anywhere from 30 to 150 tabs open at a time. I'd say a nice average would be around 60 tabs
It's not Firefox and that's not extreme. I was just doing some Javascript profiling this weekend on slow performance with 1630 tabs (Tree Style Tabs, of course), with the winners for CPU eaters being HTTPS Everywhere 4.0's SSLObservatory and SessionRestore.
As much as I appreciate the EFF's efforts, I wound up disabling 4.0. Maybe 4.0.1 will be back with a vengeance.
Anyway, Firefox wasn't crashing, it was slow. Probably one of your in-profile databases got corrupted at some point ('restore from backup' is the most likely "fix"). I'm on Fedora 20, running stock Firefox.
It's free and pretty powerful.
It's only free if you're OK with 720p output, limited input, and not being able to move your source material to a different editor. The latter is actually the bigger risk because if Lightworks goes away (let's hope not) there'd be no way to buy the 'pro' version and get your data exported.
Otherwise it's $279 or you're on a subscription plan. It's probably still the best choice available, but be aware you don't just go buy a GoPro or a Nikon and plan on dazzling folks with the HD output with free Lightworks. From what I've seen, even iMovie parity on Linux costs $79/yr.
Even if you're very frugal and can use Free, it's probably smart to buy a month once in a while and export your projects.