There are significant differences between the *operating* speed of a MagLev and of a conventional train.
A MagLev can run at 581 kph as its top speed and its intended operating speed is 500 kph. This is partly because of its acceleration rate and partly due to the infrastructure. It is also much much quieter allowing it to be run closer to commercial/residential buildings.
The TGV has the current top record for a conventional train at a speed of 515 kph. However, it operates at a max of 220 kph. The JR Central line in Japan operates at about 270 kph.
Now, I'm not sayinng that running a short track MagLev was the brightest thing in the world, but for a long run (San Francisco to LA for instance), it can easily outpace a plane after you take into account the thirty minutes you have to wait to get on and off.
Plus, no one is going to crash a MagLev into a building.
If Apple supported Ogg I would actually replace my current iPod to get it. I encode all my files at 384 with lame (extreme preset) and I'd love to move all my music to ogg just to save some disk space.
Of course, it is sort of a double edged sword with Apple. If they support a format that saves 30% more disk space than Apple then some people would buy the 20 gig model instead of the 30.
I'm sick and tired of kids reading all the violent books out there. A couple books I've read recently had description of sexual encouters and that's not something kids should be exposed to!
Therefore, I propose we adopt ratings for books. Anything too complex for a young mind to grasp should be rated NC-17. This of course goes for all books critical of the government as well since we can't have that. This goes double for any history books. Those things are just dangerous.
The battery life really is not great, and it continues to suck power even when you don't have it on so you have to recharge the thing constantly.
You may have to upgrade your firmware. There were a few bugs in the earlier versions of firmware that made use more juice than it should have. My iPod will play for 9-10 hours on a single charge. I recharge it about once a week (I use it a little more than an hour per day on average).
The other issues like weight, and expense are valid too, I also dislike the the touch-sensitive buttons, no manual EQ settings, no line-in.
I have real buttons on mine (2nd gen), so I don't know much about this. I do however flip the key lock switch when I stick it in my pocket since I do tend to bang the buttons somehow.
The US regulatory regime hinders mobile uptake. Mobiles aren't easily identifiable as such - most GSM-using countries push their phones onto a separate area code for ease-of-identification (e.g. UK has 01... for all landline area codes and 07... for all cellular). "Caller-Pays" isn't evenly implemented in the US - so not only do you not know if you are calling a mobile, you aren't sure if you'll pay to receive calls too! This principle makes phone service in many countries much more transparent - and hence more likely to be used. I know if I call a landline I'll pay 3-7 cents and a mobile will cost 20-50 U.S. cents per minute, but to receive I'll pay nothing - ever. As a mobile user that makes me much more likely to leave the phone on compared to my American friends. In every GSM country all providers must interoperate with each other. This is true for voice in the US, but not for all the extras such as SMS texting. Please note that this is responsible for up to 50% of the profits of GSM providers! Also, one number finds me anywhere in the world. No other system offers that.
There is one little thing you forget that is a much bigger hindrance to mobile phone usage in the US; the prevalence of a wide-spread cheap land line system.
The US has had free regional calling on land lines and stupidly cheap long distance service for so long that it doesn't make a lot of sense for some people to purchase a mobile phone.
So a huge chunk of our population that doesn't live in cities and simply has no need to be connected 24/7 can't justify spending 4-8x more money on a mobile service compared to a land line and on top of it have to purchase a phone.
That reason alone far outweighs any silly ideas of standards being the issue or the fact that switching providers is hard. I doubt very much that those issues even pop up in the mind of a new mobile customer.
I'm not even sure what the issue with caller-pays is. In the US, if you are on a land line the receiver never pays a dime. If you are a mobile line, you pay for your own air time for calling or receiving calls. Both are charged at the exact same rate (long distance charges may apply for outgoing depending on your plan though).
Further, mobile numbers usually have special exchanges, but not area codes. There is a good reason for this. The US is over 3,000 miles wide and area codes denote physical areas. If you use a land line and you dial an area code that isn't immediately near you, you will be billed for long distance service. Having a cell phone with its own area code would make it impossible for a land line owner to tell if they are getting charged for long distance service or not.
Standards are useful - think of everyone using their own version of HTML. Would the internet have grown so quickly if no-one could read anyone else's webpages?
I don't remember the US Federal government mandating the use of HTML, do you? In fact, the evolution of HTML through competition by Microsoft and Netscape is a perfect example of how the free market works.
You can also make plastic out of several hundred other plants. It is certainly not unique to hemp and in fact, hemp is far from the best plant to make plastic out.
Tell you what. Let them genetically engineer hemp to exclude THC and physically alter the color/shape of the plant so it is easily distinguishable and then I'm all for legalizing it.
Until then the social issues that THC brings about is hardly worth the benefits of another source of soap.
The design of the reactor itself seems safe, but the proponents are ignoring the fact that after its 30 year lifespan, what is left over is going to remain radioactive for the next 10,000 years
Yes, but how radioactive is it after 30 years? Just because it is radioactive doesn't mean it is dangerous.
It's time to face facts. "Broadband" isn't, and won't be, until we're at least at the 1 Gbit/s rate to the home. In fact, with gigabit cards starting to become affordable, and with home networks on the rise, a gigabit link to the house may not be fast enough in only a few years.
The problem being that a 1 Gbit card easily outpaces your hard drive, your PCI bus and is able to stream pretty much any media several times real-time without any problem. There is no need for gigabit to the home right now. A 100 Mbps connection would be overly fast. Heck, you could drop your cable and simply stream 5 HDTV channels in with that (ignoring overhead:).
Oh for goodness sakes. Patrick Henry was a vigorous opponent of the Consitution and is hardly worth mentioning here. He tried to pass a bill called "Support of the Teachers of the Christian Religion" and was shut down.
James Madison summary of the First Amendment (which he authored) - Congress should not establish a religion and enforce the legal observation of it by law, nor compel men to worship God in any manner contary to their conscience, or that one sect might obtain a pre-eminence, or two combined together, and establish a religion to which they would compel others to conform (Annals of Congress, Sat Aug 15th, 1789 pages 730 - 731).
Thomas Jefferson - Believing that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their Legislature should "make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof," thus building a wall of separation between Church and State (Letter to the Danbury Baptists, 1802).
John Adams - "The United States of America have exhibited, perhaps, the first example of governments erected on the simple principles of nature; and if men are now sufficiently enlightened to disabuse themselves of artifice, imposture, hypocrisy, and superstition, they will consider this event as an era in their history. Although the detail of the formation of the American governments is at present little known or regarded either in Europe or in America, it may hereafter become an object of curiosity. It will never be pretended that any persons employed in that service had interviews with the gods, or were in any degree under the influence of Heaven, more than those at work upon ships or houses, or laboring in merchandise or agriculture; it will forever be acknowledged that these governments were contrived merely by the use of reason and the senses (A Defense of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America 1787-88).
I could go on if you like. The fact is that while most of the founding fathers believed in a diety, they realized that the government need not promote the belief in religion or god. It seems a bit silly that an almighty diety needs help convincing people they it exists using an institution dedicated to man's laws.
I know this is a bit basic, but it seems to work fine for my personal accounts.
I simply filter ever email address not in my manually added address book to a spam folder. Every person I email has an entry in my address book (automatically added).
Once in a great while, I'll go into my spam folder and check for mail that might have been filter by mistake and add any email addresses to my address book from those emails.
It is pretty difficult for a spammer to defeat this. You would have to customize spams for each person and would have to know who I email.
It has some drawbacks obviously, but all in all, I don't have any false negatives (my inbox never has spam) and I rarely see any mail filtered in my spam folder that was from people I want to talk to.
I've always had trouble getting the notion of being "forced" and "strong-armed" into upgrading a product. How do you feel like someone is trying to force you into buying an upgrade to Photoshop? Adobe's offering it and you have a choice as to whether to buy it or not -- your old version doesn't time out or stop working; they're just trying to sell a new version.
Well, they can pull the old MS Office trick. Change the format of the standard save type and get enough people to upgrade that everyone with older versions of Office are annoyed into upgrading because some percentage of the doc files they get in email can't be read.
Uh. The whole idea that companies run the government is absurd and frankly I'm sick and tired of hearing it from fear mongers.
If it was true monopoly laws would be thrown out, corporate taxes would be nullified, companies would have the right to vote, environmental protections would go away and corporations would be protected from lawsuits by the public.
Futher, the idea that corporations are evil is more BS.
My first gen TiBook used philips head screws. In fact, I'm kind of surprised by Apple using torx screws in their later models since they usually only do that when end-users aren't supposed to open up their machines (like on an iBook).
I always kind of wondered why they don't just run DC to the jack in houses and have one big transformer. Heck, build a transformer into the back of each jack if you're worried about energy loss.
First, how would one set up tariffs to prevent IT outsourcing? What exactly would you tax? And who pays tariffs, anyways? THE AMERICAN CONSUMER. The importing firm simply builds tariffs into their costs and the end consumer pays the bill.
Mmm. Technically speaking the tariffs should never be paid if they are correctly implemented because the cost of the outsourcing would be so high, no one would do it. I mean, that is the point. We don't give a damn about the income from the tariffs.
That being said, I have always though a more effective way of ensuring fair job selection is to force US companies that have foreign workers to abide by Federal minimum wage laws and other workers rights laws (no children working, 40 hour weeks, etc) no matter where their employees are.
You have the added benefit of ensuring that US goods are not made by sweat shops.
Does the cost of everything rise? Yes. Does it deserve to rise? Yes.
The idea that people should work packed into a small windowless building for 70 hours/week earning a fraction of minimum wage is ok because they aren't US citizens is crazy.
Now, if you had full control over the box's hardware, how difficult could it be to rig something up that grabs any channel you want it to?
Very difficult if the system is setup correctly and you have two-way communication plus neighborhood segmentation.
Step 1. Encrypt each block of channels on a neighborhood by neighborhood basis.
Step 2. Distribute smart cards with unique private keys signed by the cable company.
Step 3. Change channel block keys once per hour.
Step 4. Setup key distribution system whereby the cable box requests a new channel block decryption key once per hour using its private key to sign a request.
This system makes it fairly difficult to steal cable. If you try to clone someone else's cable box private key, the cable company will see a duplicate channel block key request.
You can't modify your cable box to ask for say, the HBO channel block key because your private key itself won't be authorized by the key distribution servers at your cable company.
You could setup an online key distribute system to dup your key out to other people in your neighborhood, but it would be limited to people in your neighborhood (since other neighborhoods have different keys).
Hell, this is how the wireless encryption/authentication WPA/802.1x EAP-TLS works come to think of it (minus the smart card itself since technically it isn't needed for anything but a handy storage device).
Why not? If you drive, you're responsible for the safe operation of your car, even if you didn't build it yourself.
Yes and if it spontaneously blows up killing people around it because of a design defect in the gas tank, it isn't the responsibility of the person who owns the car.
Since an individual can not be expected to audit Windows to find defects, it isn't reasonable for them to take responsibility for design defects in the system.
Linux has design defects. Windows has them. MacOS X has them. You can't operate a computer online with an OS that hasn't at one point or another had some remote exploit in some piece of software.
This computer license is nothing more than a ham radio operators wet dream. Back to the glory days when the only people who could communicate with people around the world were a small elite little community. Bah. Wouldn't surprise me if one of the requirements for it was to type morse code.
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Whoah whoah back up. Troll Tech? The guys who make QT? The foundation of KDE?
Huh. I don't know what to say about a man who wants to kill Linux being on the board of a company that is the foundation of one of Linux's major desktop environments.
Uh... what? Care to back this claim up? The public doesn't own jack shit of what I create, in any form. Even what I release under the GPL.
I suggest reading copyright law for clarification. It is very clear what the purpose of copyright is and the process of works 'released into the public domain' should make it very clear that the public always owned it. It is very similar to patent law (you publish an invention, the public owns it and you are granted a limited monopoly to it).
If you do not publish a work however, a member of the public can't come in and force you to do so. That is a violation of other laws. In that case, the public doesn't own it (I don't believe). Well, unless you die without a benefactor.
Actually, the public owns the songs not the music labels. The public owns all creative works at their inception. The music labels are granted through copyright law the limited right to copy the songs.
You infringe upon that right when you make a copy. That is the reason why copyright infringement is not stealing in any sense of the word. You are not "stealing" the right to copy the song. You can't steal a right. You can only infringe upon it.
It is sort of like trespassing. You can't steal the right to walk on someone's property. You can only infringe upon their rights to limit who gains access to the property (trespass).
The minimum wage in most Europe countries is double or more that of the US (e.g. 4.20 pounds in the UK), so tipping is not necessary except for exceptional instances. Strangely enough, this doesn't affect the quality of service perhaps because most people in Europe consider politeness to be something they should give and receive without needing to be paid for it.
In California, minimum wage is $6.75/hour (~4.21 pounds) plus some multipliers if you work more than a certain number of hours per day/week. In bigger cities a waiter can easily make double that without tips.
However, you are still expected to pay tip, because of the high cost of living and frankly because it is a shitty job. It takes quite a bit of effort to stand for 8 hours, be friendly, quick and polite even in the face of unruly customers.
That doesn't mean you have to pay a tip. There have been many many times where either I had no money or the service was sub-par in which I didn't tip at all.
Plus, for something like delivery it is also used as a bit of a bribe to get your food faster.:)
power plants worked long before the internet was created. no important computer controlling very important things should ever be put on the internet.
Network connections != internet connections. Current power systems have network connections since it is kind of nice to be able to monitor it from time to time. They typically run over fiber rings independent from the power grid itself.
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There are significant differences between the *operating* speed of a MagLev and of a conventional train.
A MagLev can run at 581 kph as its top speed and its intended operating speed is 500 kph. This is partly because of its acceleration rate and partly due to the infrastructure. It is also much much quieter allowing it to be run closer to commercial/residential buildings.
The TGV has the current top record for a conventional train at a speed of 515 kph. However, it operates at a max of 220 kph. The JR Central line in Japan operates at about 270 kph.
Now, I'm not sayinng that running a short track MagLev was the brightest thing in the world, but for a long run (San Francisco to LA for instance), it can easily outpace a plane after you take into account the thirty minutes you have to wait to get on and off.
Plus, no one is going to crash a MagLev into a building.
If Apple supported Ogg I would actually replace my current iPod to get it. I encode all my files at 384 with lame (extreme preset) and I'd love to move all my music to ogg just to save some disk space.
Of course, it is sort of a double edged sword with Apple. If they support a format that saves 30% more disk space than Apple then some people would buy the 20 gig model instead of the 30.
I'm sick and tired of kids reading all the violent books out there. A couple books I've read recently had description of sexual encouters and that's not something kids should be exposed to!
Therefore, I propose we adopt ratings for books. Anything too complex for a young mind to grasp should be rated NC-17. This of course goes for all books critical of the government as well since we can't have that. This goes double for any history books. Those things are just dangerous.
Won't someone please think of the children?
The battery life really is not great, and it continues to suck power even when you don't have it on so you have to recharge the thing constantly.
You may have to upgrade your firmware. There were a few bugs in the earlier versions of firmware that made use more juice than it should have. My iPod will play for 9-10 hours on a single charge. I recharge it about once a week (I use it a little more than an hour per day on average).
The other issues like weight, and expense are valid too, I also dislike the the touch-sensitive buttons, no manual EQ settings, no line-in.
I have real buttons on mine (2nd gen), so I don't know much about this. I do however flip the key lock switch when I stick it in my pocket since I do tend to bang the buttons somehow.
The US regulatory regime hinders mobile uptake. Mobiles aren't easily identifiable as such - most GSM-using countries push their phones onto a separate area code for ease-of-identification (e.g. UK has 01... for all landline area codes and 07... for all cellular). "Caller-Pays" isn't evenly implemented in the US - so not only do you not know if you are calling a mobile, you aren't sure if you'll pay to receive calls too! This principle makes phone service in many countries much more transparent - and hence more likely to be used. I know if I call a landline I'll pay 3-7 cents and a mobile will cost 20-50 U.S. cents per minute, but to receive I'll pay nothing - ever. As a mobile user that makes me much more likely to leave the phone on compared to my American friends. In every GSM country all providers must interoperate with each other. This is true for voice in the US, but not for all the extras such as SMS texting. Please note that this is responsible for up to 50% of the profits of GSM providers! Also, one number finds me anywhere in the world. No other system offers that.
There is one little thing you forget that is a much bigger hindrance to mobile phone usage in the US; the prevalence of a wide-spread cheap land line system.
The US has had free regional calling on land lines and stupidly cheap long distance service for so long that it doesn't make a lot of sense for some people to purchase a mobile phone.
So a huge chunk of our population that doesn't live in cities and simply has no need to be connected 24/7 can't justify spending 4-8x more money on a mobile service compared to a land line and on top of it have to purchase a phone.
That reason alone far outweighs any silly ideas of standards being the issue or the fact that switching providers is hard. I doubt very much that those issues even pop up in the mind of a new mobile customer.
I'm not even sure what the issue with caller-pays is. In the US, if you are on a land line the receiver never pays a dime. If you are a mobile line, you pay for your own air time for calling or receiving calls. Both are charged at the exact same rate (long distance charges may apply for outgoing depending on your plan though).
Further, mobile numbers usually have special exchanges, but not area codes. There is a good reason for this. The US is over 3,000 miles wide and area codes denote physical areas. If you use a land line and you dial an area code that isn't immediately near you, you will be billed for long distance service. Having a cell phone with its own area code would make it impossible for a land line owner to tell if they are getting charged for long distance service or not.
Standards are useful - think of everyone using their own version of HTML. Would the internet have grown so quickly if no-one could read anyone else's webpages?
I don't remember the US Federal government mandating the use of HTML, do you? In fact, the evolution of HTML through competition by Microsoft and Netscape is a perfect example of how the free market works.
Competition drives innovation.
No high quality printer compares to what you can do in the darkroom.
No? What about a Lightjet?
You can also make plastic out of several hundred other plants. It is certainly not unique to hemp and in fact, hemp is far from the best plant to make plastic out.
Tell you what. Let them genetically engineer hemp to exclude THC and physically alter the color/shape of the plant so it is easily distinguishable and then I'm all for legalizing it.
Until then the social issues that THC brings about is hardly worth the benefits of another source of soap.
The design of the reactor itself seems safe, but the proponents are ignoring the fact that after its 30 year lifespan, what is left over is going to remain radioactive for the next 10,000 years
Yes, but how radioactive is it after 30 years? Just because it is radioactive doesn't mean it is dangerous.
It's time to face facts. "Broadband" isn't, and won't be, until we're at least at the 1 Gbit/s rate to the home. In fact, with gigabit cards starting to become affordable, and with home networks on the rise, a gigabit link to the house may not be fast enough in only a few years.
:).
The problem being that a 1 Gbit card easily outpaces your hard drive, your PCI bus and is able to stream pretty much any media several times real-time without any problem. There is no need for gigabit to the home right now. A 100 Mbps connection would be overly fast. Heck, you could drop your cable and simply stream 5 HDTV channels in with that (ignoring overhead
Oh for goodness sakes. Patrick Henry was a vigorous opponent of the Consitution and is hardly worth mentioning here. He tried to pass a bill called "Support of the Teachers of the Christian Religion" and was shut down.
James Madison summary of the First Amendment (which he authored) - Congress should not establish a religion and enforce the legal observation of it by law, nor compel men to worship God in any manner contary to their conscience, or that one sect might obtain a pre-eminence, or two combined together, and establish a religion to which they would compel others to conform (Annals of Congress, Sat Aug 15th, 1789 pages 730 - 731).
Thomas Jefferson - Believing that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their Legislature should "make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof," thus building a wall of separation between Church and State (Letter to the Danbury Baptists, 1802).
John Adams - "The United States of America have exhibited, perhaps, the first example of governments erected on the simple principles of nature; and if men are now sufficiently enlightened to disabuse themselves of artifice, imposture, hypocrisy, and superstition, they will consider this event as an era in their history. Although the detail of the formation of the American governments is at present little known or regarded either in Europe or in America, it may hereafter become an object of curiosity. It will never be pretended that any persons employed in that service had interviews with the gods, or were in any degree under the influence of Heaven, more than those at work upon ships or houses, or laboring in merchandise or agriculture; it will forever be acknowledged that these governments were contrived merely by the use of reason and the senses (A Defense of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America 1787-88).
I could go on if you like. The fact is that while most of the founding fathers believed in a diety, they realized that the government need not promote the belief in religion or god. It seems a bit silly that an almighty diety needs help convincing people they it exists using an institution dedicated to man's laws.
The API for drivers should be static at least for the stable revision of the kernel. This would allow binary drivers to actually work properly.
Windows and MacOS seem to do it.
I know this is a bit basic, but it seems to work fine for my personal accounts.
I simply filter ever email address not in my manually added address book to a spam folder. Every person I email has an entry in my address book (automatically added).
Once in a great while, I'll go into my spam folder and check for mail that might have been filter by mistake and add any email addresses to my address book from those emails.
It is pretty difficult for a spammer to defeat this. You would have to customize spams for each person and would have to know who I email.
It has some drawbacks obviously, but all in all, I don't have any false negatives (my inbox never has spam) and I rarely see any mail filtered in my spam folder that was from people I want to talk to.
I've always had trouble getting the notion of being "forced" and "strong-armed" into upgrading a product. How do you feel like someone is trying to force you into buying an upgrade to Photoshop? Adobe's offering it and you have a choice as to whether to buy it or not -- your old version doesn't time out or stop working; they're just trying to sell a new version.
Well, they can pull the old MS Office trick. Change the format of the standard save type and get enough people to upgrade that everyone with older versions of Office are annoyed into upgrading because some percentage of the doc files they get in email can't be read.
Uh. The whole idea that companies run the government is absurd and frankly I'm sick and tired of hearing it from fear mongers.
If it was true monopoly laws would be thrown out, corporate taxes would be nullified, companies would have the right to vote, environmental protections would go away and corporations would be protected from lawsuits by the public.
Futher, the idea that corporations are evil is more BS.
My first gen TiBook used philips head screws. In fact, I'm kind of surprised by Apple using torx screws in their later models since they usually only do that when end-users aren't supposed to open up their machines (like on an iBook).
I always kind of wondered why they don't just run DC to the jack in houses and have one big transformer. Heck, build a transformer into the back of each jack if you're worried about energy loss.
First, how would one set up tariffs to prevent IT outsourcing? What exactly would you tax? And who pays tariffs, anyways? THE AMERICAN CONSUMER. The importing firm simply builds tariffs into their costs and the end consumer pays the bill.
Mmm. Technically speaking the tariffs should never be paid if they are correctly implemented because the cost of the outsourcing would be so high, no one would do it. I mean, that is the point. We don't give a damn about the income from the tariffs.
That being said, I have always though a more effective way of ensuring fair job selection is to force US companies that have foreign workers to abide by Federal minimum wage laws and other workers rights laws (no children working, 40 hour weeks, etc) no matter where their employees are.
You have the added benefit of ensuring that US goods are not made by sweat shops.
Does the cost of everything rise? Yes. Does it deserve to rise? Yes.
The idea that people should work packed into a small windowless building for 70 hours/week earning a fraction of minimum wage is ok because they aren't US citizens is crazy.
Now, if you had full control over the box's hardware, how difficult could it be to rig something up that grabs any channel you want it to?
Very difficult if the system is setup correctly and you have two-way communication plus neighborhood segmentation.
Step 1. Encrypt each block of channels on a neighborhood by neighborhood basis.
Step 2. Distribute smart cards with unique private keys signed by the cable company.
Step 3. Change channel block keys once per hour.
Step 4. Setup key distribution system whereby the cable box requests a new channel block decryption key once per hour using its private key to sign a request.
This system makes it fairly difficult to steal cable. If you try to clone someone else's cable box private key, the cable company will see a duplicate channel block key request.
You can't modify your cable box to ask for say, the HBO channel block key because your private key itself won't be authorized by the key distribution servers at your cable company.
You could setup an online key distribute system to dup your key out to other people in your neighborhood, but it would be limited to people in your neighborhood (since other neighborhoods have different keys).
Hell, this is how the wireless encryption/authentication WPA/802.1x EAP-TLS works come to think of it (minus the smart card itself since technically it isn't needed for anything but a handy storage device).
Of course I could be missing something obvious.
Why not? If you drive, you're responsible for the safe operation of your car, even if you didn't build it yourself.
Yes and if it spontaneously blows up killing people around it because of a design defect in the gas tank, it isn't the responsibility of the person who owns the car.
Since an individual can not be expected to audit Windows to find defects, it isn't reasonable for them to take responsibility for design defects in the system.
Linux has design defects. Windows has them. MacOS X has them. You can't operate a computer online with an OS that hasn't at one point or another had some remote exploit in some piece of software.
This computer license is nothing more than a ham radio operators wet dream. Back to the glory days when the only people who could communicate with people around the world were a small elite little community. Bah. Wouldn't surprise me if one of the requirements for it was to type morse code.
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Whoah whoah back up. Troll Tech? The guys who make QT? The foundation of KDE?
Huh. I don't know what to say about a man who wants to kill Linux being on the board of a company that is the foundation of one of Linux's major desktop environments.
Uh... what? Care to back this claim up? The public doesn't own jack shit of what I create, in any form. Even what I release under the GPL.
I suggest reading copyright law for clarification. It is very clear what the purpose of copyright is and the process of works 'released into the public domain' should make it very clear that the public always owned it. It is very similar to patent law (you publish an invention, the public owns it and you are granted a limited monopoly to it).
If you do not publish a work however, a member of the public can't come in and force you to do so. That is a violation of other laws. In that case, the public doesn't own it (I don't believe). Well, unless you die without a benefactor.
RIAA has the right of ownership to the songs.
Actually, the public owns the songs not the music labels. The public owns all creative works at their inception. The music labels are granted through copyright law the limited right to copy the songs.
You infringe upon that right when you make a copy. That is the reason why copyright infringement is not stealing in any sense of the word. You are not "stealing" the right to copy the song. You can't steal a right. You can only infringe upon it.
It is sort of like trespassing. You can't steal the right to walk on someone's property. You can only infringe upon their rights to limit who gains access to the property (trespass).
The minimum wage in most Europe countries is double or more that of the US (e.g. 4.20 pounds in the UK), so tipping is not necessary except for exceptional instances. Strangely enough, this doesn't affect the quality of service perhaps because most people in Europe consider politeness to be something they should give and receive without needing to be paid for it.
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In California, minimum wage is $6.75/hour (~4.21 pounds) plus some multipliers if you work more than a certain number of hours per day/week. In bigger cities a waiter can easily make double that without tips.
However, you are still expected to pay tip, because of the high cost of living and frankly because it is a shitty job. It takes quite a bit of effort to stand for 8 hours, be friendly, quick and polite even in the face of unruly customers.
That doesn't mean you have to pay a tip. There have been many many times where either I had no money or the service was sub-par in which I didn't tip at all.
Plus, for something like delivery it is also used as a bit of a bribe to get your food faster.
power plants worked long before the internet was created. no important computer controlling very important things should ever be put on the internet.
Network connections != internet connections. Current power systems have network connections since it is kind of nice to be able to monitor it from time to time. They typically run over fiber rings independent from the power grid itself.