In the UK (I don't know where you are) "the law provides a specific right to use a public highway: the right to pass and re-pass along the highway (including the pavement), and the right to make ordinary and ‘reasonable use’ of the highway."
there is a law of "obstructing the highway" which is a criminal offence. If you were staring into someone's bedroom window, I would consider that an offence if I were on the jury. If you were using a telescope from your bedroom into someone else's, though, that's another thing entirely, but I would be less than astonished to find a law against that. Society can be expected to protect itself against dangerous people, and it can be quite broad about who it classifies as "dangerous" sometimes.
Actually that probably is illegal. Public property is not freely available for any use whatsoever. Pavements are for getting from one place to another. Any other use, such as setting up a tent to sleep in, selling things, busking, and (quite possibly) standing and staring into someone's bedroom are not legitimate, legal uses of common property.
That's a window with nothing on the other side - a screen is a window with an LCD slapped up against the other side. Big difference. The light will still wash out the LCD image, but you will not be distracted by a coherent reflection of yourself or your surroundings.
Further reading indicates that the moth-eye coating removes the air-glass surface interface that causes the reflection, so the fraction of light that would have ben reflected passes straight through instead. So then it hits the screen below... what happens then I'm not sure, I guess some of it is converted to heat and the rest is scattered back. Since the amount of light that is reflected at the air-glass surface is quite low anyway, I doubt that this will make a significant change one way or the other to the temperature or to the effect of daylight on the screen, but the removal of a coherent reflection while maintaining a touch-sensitive interface is still a significant benefit.
It must be scattering it, if the post is in any way accurate about it being just an uneven surface. Which means you will still get just as much light reflected off the screen on a sunny day, but the reflection won't form a coherent image to distract you from the screen image. So it's a step forward but it isn't magic.
And if that policy says something like "if you are given adequate advance warning of a fire, and you fail to take safe and reasonable steps to secure the more valuable and portable assets, then your claim may be contested"? Sure, it would be in more fancy legalese, but IANAL.
What do you mean by "threatening"? 100 miles away? 50? 10? A small wastpaper basket fire in an office across the street? The OP says he is in a "pre-evacuation area", would you run in panic when an evacuation has not been called for? If so, I wouldn't pay you very much either.
You risk your life every time you go to work. Every decision you make has an element of risk/reward in it.
So if this worm deploys itself onto a machine, it should deploy the source as well? Or, could it just deploy a link to the source, and since the software itself by its very nature tries to hide itself, could it hide the link?
This is the internet. An opinion must be an exaggerated parody of an opinion, or it is considered worthless and derisory. I demand that either you agree that they should train the entire UK population to be CS teachers, or that they should shut up and do nothing!
Instead of playing a game of "who do I believe", why don't you use your own head and figure it out for yourself? Figuring out the relative cost and benefits of space solar energy is elementary.
A better idea would be (say) 20 years from filing or 5 years from the date of first sale, whichever is sooner. 20 years might be a bit generous...
That's a great example of why making laws is difficult. That would lead to companies splitting into two entities, one of which creates the patent, and the other of which licences it (but only implements part of the patent, so the full patented invention itself has never gone on sale), so the first gets to keep the patent for longer. Or, if licencing it in part invokes the 5 year timer, then they just sit on it for 20 years and then sue for backdated royalties.
I think varying the duration by market sector to account for such things as clinical trials is a better way to handle it.
It isn't a web browser, it's a mini web browser. Much like how Pluto isn't a planet, it's a dwarf planet. Opera Mini doesn't browse the web, it browses a rendering proxy running on Opera's servers.
I don't trust any online storage supplier to be around for ever so I will always have two online storage services going and will keep everything that I care about on both.
Will it hot-swap and reconfigure itself like Drobo? Can you just replace a small drive with a larger one and get the space increase? (I know you won't get 100% - I think the formula is "total of all disk sizes minus the largest disk")
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In the UK (I don't know where you are) "the law provides a specific right to use a public highway: the right to pass and re-pass along the highway (including the pavement), and the right to make ordinary and ‘reasonable use’ of the highway."
From: http://www.yourrights.org.uk/yourrights/the-right-of-peaceful-protest/using-the-highway.html
there is a law of "obstructing the highway" which is a criminal offence. If you were staring into someone's bedroom window, I would consider that an offence if I were on the jury. If you were using a telescope from your bedroom into someone else's, though, that's another thing entirely, but I would be less than astonished to find a law against that. Society can be expected to protect itself against dangerous people, and it can be quite broad about who it classifies as "dangerous" sometimes.
I should probably say "unlawful" rather than "illegal".
Actually that probably is illegal. Public property is not freely available for any use whatsoever. Pavements are for getting from one place to another. Any other use, such as setting up a tent to sleep in, selling things, busking, and (quite possibly) standing and staring into someone's bedroom are not legitimate, legal uses of common property.
If you put a "no entry" sign on your driveway, is it stealing for me to read it?
Downloading a file that is listed in robots.txt (and therefore is by inference available for humans to access through a browser) is illegal?
That's a window with nothing on the other side - a screen is a window with an LCD slapped up against the other side. Big difference. The light will still wash out the LCD image, but you will not be distracted by a coherent reflection of yourself or your surroundings.
Further reading indicates that the moth-eye coating removes the air-glass surface interface that causes the reflection, so the fraction of light that would have ben reflected passes straight through instead. So then it hits the screen below... what happens then I'm not sure, I guess some of it is converted to heat and the rest is scattered back. Since the amount of light that is reflected at the air-glass surface is quite low anyway, I doubt that this will make a significant change one way or the other to the temperature or to the effect of daylight on the screen, but the removal of a coherent reflection while maintaining a touch-sensitive interface is still a significant benefit.
It must be scattering it, if the post is in any way accurate about it being just an uneven surface. Which means you will still get just as much light reflected off the screen on a sunny day, but the reflection won't form a coherent image to distract you from the screen image. So it's a step forward but it isn't magic.
And if that policy says something like "if you are given adequate advance warning of a fire, and you fail to take safe and reasonable steps to secure the more valuable and portable assets, then your claim may be contested"? Sure, it would be in more fancy legalese, but IANAL.
What do you mean by "threatening"? 100 miles away? 50? 10? A small wastpaper basket fire in an office across the street? The OP says he is in a "pre-evacuation area", would you run in panic when an evacuation has not been called for? If so, I wouldn't pay you very much either.
You risk your life every time you go to work. Every decision you make has an element of risk/reward in it.
He's only asking how to save the physical kit, I assume the critical data is already handled.
So if this worm deploys itself onto a machine, it should deploy the source as well? Or, could it just deploy a link to the source, and since the software itself by its very nature tries to hide itself, could it hide the link?
This is the internet. An opinion must be an exaggerated parody of an opinion, or it is considered worthless and derisory. I demand that either you agree that they should train the entire UK population to be CS teachers, or that they should shut up and do nothing!
So why didn't they push one of the new ultra-cheap Android devices?
Assuming that "junk dna" would be random is like assuming that the junk mail in my bin is just random letters of the alphabet.
Seriously, if a remote chat started talking to me like that, I'd say "Oh, hi Kim, I didn't know you were online".
I see your infographic and raise you a Randall:
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/plugged-in/2011/11/22/xkcd-the-cost-of-electricity/
Instead of playing a game of "who do I believe", why don't you use your own head and figure it out for yourself? Figuring out the relative cost and benefits of space solar energy is elementary.
Yeah, it's not exactly rocket science. Wait...
Whereas you are an exemplar of reason and erudite discourse. Bravo!
A better idea would be (say) 20 years from filing or 5 years from the date of first sale, whichever is sooner. 20 years might be a bit generous...
That's a great example of why making laws is difficult. That would lead to companies splitting into two entities, one of which creates the patent, and the other of which licences it (but only implements part of the patent, so the full patented invention itself has never gone on sale), so the first gets to keep the patent for longer. Or, if licencing it in part invokes the 5 year timer, then they just sit on it for 20 years and then sue for backdated royalties.
I think varying the duration by market sector to account for such things as clinical trials is a better way to handle it.
It isn't a web browser, it's a mini web browser. Much like how Pluto isn't a planet, it's a dwarf planet. Opera Mini doesn't browse the web, it browses a rendering proxy running on Opera's servers.
I don't trust any online storage supplier to be around for ever so I will always have two online storage services going and will keep everything that I care about on both.
Thanks, that makes sense to me.
Sure, RAID is not a backup, but a backup device that uses RAID is still a backup device.
Will it hot-swap and reconfigure itself like Drobo? Can you just replace a small drive with a larger one and get the space increase? (I know you won't get 100% - I think the formula is "total of all disk sizes minus the largest disk")