Given people make small mistakes, some of which may break law
Would you rather have a human watch the area you are in, unable to notice every tiny detail or an infallible camera/computer system that notes every transgression regardless of severity?
I, for one, welcome our weirdly biased human law enforcement officers.
Some consumers need fairly large amounts of power, but don't care when they use it. Think refrigerated warehouses -- you can turn off the refrigeration for hours to reduce load without trouble, but then they have to use more later. There was a story some time ago about frozen storage being used to save energy - during "energy available" times cool the storage down colder than normal, during "energy needed" times turn off the refrigerators and save energy. I wonder if it hurts food to take it down to -40 instead of -30?
your power meter will roll backwards if you start producing more energy than you consume and the utility has to pay you the going rate for the energy. problem is unless you have a couple of acres of panels dont expect to see alot of $$$
It depends on where you are, here in california the meter works that way, but the electric company will only pay you enough to bring your bill to zero.
But what happens on a sunny cool day where the electric company may not have a great load but they get lots of electricity from photovotalics?
Actually, they would never tell you not to take your car - they would just raise the rate you pay for electricity when your car is not attached to give you and 'incentive' to leave your car.
PG&EEEE: "So you would like to visit Vegas this weekend? Have a nice trip, see you Monday. By the way we calculate a weekend with your car unplugged will raise your electric bill by $500.00. (hope you win at the casinos!)"
You may also trade you worn-down weak old battery for a shiny new one fully charged - works both ways.
I wonder if there is chemistry that will allow you to replace the liquid part of a battery to recharge it.. the "gas" station removes the old liquid and puts it into a charging cell, and pumps in new liquid that is "charged up". Perhaps you would only need to change the car-cells every 3K miles like an oil change.
Since I can't trust any of the buttons in a pop up, I usually close them using the red X square, We call it the "Go Away Box" around here, so I've forgotten its given name. Will this work for this kind of ad? I am thinking it's safe because my OS is putting that button on a frame around the ad's window.
Yep they have a privilege, set down in law.
You know the Bible? No copyright! There are many translations of the Bible, and most of them are copyrighted. Only The original "Thee and Thou" King James version is not.
If anything, in light of duplication technology that can copy even more stuff even better, copyright is even more relevant that it was before. Before any duplication technology existed, there were only physical things. There were no recordings of medieval "Britney the Spear" and no way to copy them, so of course there would be no need of law to protect them.
Your argument is: "Well it wasn't illegal to shoot people before guns were invented, so I should be able to shoot anyone at any time" (note I said shoot, not kill don't go off on a tangent)
Some smart French guy said "The downfall of every government begins when its citizens find out they can vote themselves money from the common fund"
As for socialized medicine, When a Canadian finds out they have something serious they come to the USA to get it fixed. If they stay in Canada and wait for the socialized medicine there, they die of their ailment before their turn comes up.
Microsoft pre-installed on 99.999% of all machines.
Looks like a duck.
Everyone demanding documents come in Microsoft Formats.
Quacks like a duck.
Microsoft can force the manufacture of hardware that is unusable in another OS? (like windmodems and sometimes Wifi cards and sometimes high end video cards)
Perhaps microsoft pointed out that they *could* run this non-standard, unsupported, toy-like OS or they could run Windows the standard of business everywhere, and supported too. In other words, they employed FUD.
The only problem being that if you are in a court action, couldn't the Prosecuter sapena the tapes, and wouldn't you then be in trouble for destroying evidence if they would have shown you to be at fault. (spelling errors because IANAL)
If you have your master key they can't tell whether you override. Ok, I missed that point.
But we will never get our master keys. The whole point of "Trusted Computing" is to try to keep us from violating copyright on music, movies and software. The only way they think they can trust us with that kind of content is to tie our hands so we "can't" copy it.
If you open your computer and physically extract your key, then they will think you have a Trusted Computer. If you use it to override, they won't know. You'd would be able to get you your bank's website. Using any means to copy the keys yourself from the trusted computing chip runs into the DCMA. I, personally, would hate to be the one to be made and example of over that.
You might find some manufacturer who will sell machines with the keys published, but if that happens there will soon be a law against owning such a machine, or at least against their import and sale.
Yeah if we had the keys, then some of the points they make about virus protection and us controlling our own documents even after they leave our hands are all for the good of the computer owners. But, sorry to repeat myself, You and I will never get those keys.
Since we will never get the keys legally, we are better off with machines that don't even have the chip. If our machines have the chip, but it is off, a newer version of the OS will demand that it be turned on. Or our bank will demand it. If a large percentage of machines have the chip, the demands will come - forcing the rest of us to buy "trustworthy" machines or to allow our inactive chips to become active.
It all still simplifies down to the fact that either I have the keys for my machine If so the content industry could not trust me or my machine.
Or a third party has the keys, in which case I am no longer in control of my machine. It is not "My machine" anymore. I can no longer compile and run my own software. I can only run what my drm masters deem "trustworthy".
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No, the bug in IE will get fixed in the service pack that comes after Microsoft finds and acknowledges the bug.
The cake is a lie.
Given people make small mistakes, some of which may break law
Would you rather have a human watch the area you are in, unable to notice every tiny detail or an infallible camera/computer system that notes every transgression regardless of severity?
I, for one, welcome our weirdly biased human law enforcement officers.
"devise ways of defending our privacy..." Like Burkas for everyone?
Inside your home you may still be on camera, if you left your drapes open.
o\\\ Be seeing you.
your power meter will roll backwards if you start producing more energy than you consume and the utility has to pay you the going rate for the energy. problem is unless you have a couple of acres of panels dont expect to see alot of $$$
It depends on where you are, here in california the meter works that way, but the electric company will only pay you enough to bring your bill to zero.
But what happens on a sunny cool day where the electric company may not have a great load but they get lots of electricity from photovotalics?
Actually, they would never tell you not to take your car - they would just raise the rate you pay for electricity when your car is not attached to give you and 'incentive' to leave your car.
PG&EEEE: "So you would like to visit Vegas this weekend? Have a nice trip, see you Monday. By the way we calculate a weekend with your car unplugged will raise your electric bill by $500.00. (hope you win at the casinos!)"
You may also trade you worn-down weak old battery for a shiny new one fully charged - works both ways.
I wonder if there is chemistry that will allow you to replace the liquid part of a battery to recharge it.. the "gas" station removes the old liquid and puts it into a charging cell, and pumps in new liquid that is "charged up". Perhaps you would only need to change the car-cells every 3K miles like an oil change.
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.015mm = 0.00590551181 inches
"Hairs on the head 70cm / 0.35mm" from www.hairformula37.com/chemistry.htm
(just something returned by the google search of".015mm in Human Hairs")
It's a leetle hole.
Won't it be a shame if the in-the-works Windows 7 fails like Windows Vista has.
Since I can't trust any of the buttons in a pop up, I usually close them using the red X square, We call it the "Go Away Box" around here, so I've forgotten its given name. Will this work for this kind of ad? I am thinking it's safe because my OS is putting that button on a frame around the ad's window.
If anything, in light of duplication technology that can copy even more stuff even better, copyright is even more relevant that it was before. Before any duplication technology existed, there were only physical things. There were no recordings of medieval "Britney the Spear" and no way to copy them, so of course there would be no need of law to protect them.
Your argument is: "Well it wasn't illegal to shoot people before guns were invented, so I should be able to shoot anyone at any time" (note I said shoot, not kill don't go off on a tangent)
Some smart French guy said "The downfall of every government begins when its citizens find out they can vote themselves money from the common fund"
As for socialized medicine, When a Canadian finds out they have something serious they come to the USA to get it fixed. If they stay in Canada and wait for the socialized medicine there, they die of their ailment before their turn comes up.
If the scientists actually did this, why is the article adorned with Balok and not Einstein?
Surly you could have accused linux of being non-standard, unsupported, toy-like OS out in the open coward.
Unsupported: http://www.linuxquestions.org/ among hundreds of other FREE choices, not to mention the paid support that can be obtained.
non-standard: You think windows is standard? Windows is embrace and extend. They take standards and break them to people in.
Toy-like: Vista, when it works, it toy-like. Unix, Linux's grandfather, was a mature os before windows was a gleam in Bill's eye. Phht toylike.
Go back to your shadows AC.
Ok,
"Ill use what I think is the BEST office suite at any price"
Still AC sounds like SB.
Microsoft pre-installed on 99.999% of all machines.
Looks like a duck.
Everyone demanding documents come in Microsoft Formats.
Quacks like a duck.
Microsoft can force the manufacture of hardware that is
unusable in another OS? (like windmodems and sometimes Wifi
cards and sometimes high end video cards)
Smells like a duck... It's A Duck!
Windows is a monopoly shut up.
And "Ill use Microsoft regardless of it's price" is not an ideology of it's own?
This Anonymous Coward is Steve Balmer!!
Perhaps microsoft pointed out that they *could* run this non-standard, unsupported, toy-like OS or they could run Windows the standard of business everywhere, and supported too. In other words, they employed FUD.
I did RTFM and I still have questions...
Does this happen in desktop machines or only laptops?
Does this happen only when using a power saving setting or with any power setting?
Does this happen with other distributions? (Fedora 7?)
The only problem being that if you are in a court action, couldn't the Prosecuter sapena the tapes, and wouldn't you then be in trouble for destroying evidence if they would have shown you to be at fault.
(spelling errors because IANAL)
But we will never get our master keys. The whole point of "Trusted Computing" is to try to keep us from violating copyright on music, movies and software. The only way they think they can trust us with that kind of content is to tie our hands so we "can't" copy it. If you open your computer and physically extract your key, then they will think you have a Trusted Computer. If you use it to override, they won't know. You'd would be able to get you your bank's website. Using any means to copy the keys yourself from the trusted computing chip runs into the DCMA. I, personally, would hate to be the one to be made and example of over that.
You might find some manufacturer who will sell machines with the keys published, but if that happens there will soon be a law against owning such a machine, or at least against their import and sale.
Yeah if we had the keys, then some of the points they make about virus protection and us controlling our own documents even after they leave our hands are all for the good of the computer owners. But, sorry to repeat myself, You and I will never get those keys.
Since we will never get the keys legally, we are better off with machines that don't even have the chip. If our machines have the chip, but it is off, a newer version of the OS will demand that it be turned on. Or our bank will demand it. If a large percentage of machines have the chip, the demands will come - forcing the rest of us to buy "trustworthy" machines or to allow our inactive chips to become active.
It all still simplifies down to the fact that either I have the keys for my machine If so the content industry could not trust me or my machine.
Or a third party has the keys, in which case I am no longer in control of my machine. It is not "My machine" anymore. I can no longer compile and run my own software. I can only run what my drm masters deem "trustworthy".