>consoles would require stronger tooling as compared to silicon based moulds
It already takes quite a lot of effort to cut through silicon. What are they making the consoles out of, battleship armor?
It isn't about what the consoles are made of, the issue is the silicon molds wouldn't survive the higher production volume and the new higher end tooling takes longer to procure.
I don't mean to be a knob but I think the fault doesn't particularly lie with the vendor.
I view it differently. The vender advised the work. If I called up Toyota and asked advice about something for my 10 year old truck*, while it might be out of warranty if their advice resulted in major damage I think they should be liable for something.
I'd go along with this if the work was performed by a Toyota authorized shop. If it was done by yourself or by the corner gas station mechanic Toyota has no control over the work being done correctly.
I hope those webcams catch me flipping Bill G the middle finger.
What happens if a kid strips in front of the webcam. Does the operator of the service get arrested for child pornography?
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There goes the anonymity of cash transactions!
How so? There already is a serial number printed on each note, all this would do would make it possible to grab the serial number via RF technology in addition to optical scaning technology. Unless they introduce the requirement that a street vendor with his cart full of hot dogs must also have the technology to record the currency serial number and your serial number its not much of a concern.
Did you intentionally block out the insurance license example?
No but that suffers from the same notion of physical presence. Besides, advertising isn't conducting business, its a solicitation to do so.
You'd have to check against every single list in existence whose restrictions you might be subject to.
That's why I favor simpler options like a family friendly tld, or an "adult spam only allowed here" tld. However, those have had a difficult time getting off the ground.
No kidding:-) but these "Do-Not-" lists are here now and could easily catch on as a thing-to-do by politicians who want to look good.
If every rinky dink municipality decides to do this it would get prohibitively expensive to send an e-mail.
No, it would get prohibitively expensive to send an unsolicited, obscene email.
Thats only one of the categories on Michigan's list, see https://www.protectmichild.com/compliance.html/ for the full list. Theres a bit of scary wording stating "...include, but are not necessarily limited to:" which could encompass anything they feel like.
Most "rinky dink municipalities" realize that the state is the most appropriate level to handle the problem. Besides, the federal government would intervene before it got to that point.
You have a higher opinion of government than I do:-)
Of course, if that happens, all the childless slashdotters will inexplicably become spammer's rights activists again.
Don't get stuck on focusing only on child protection. This "Do-Not-" list approach could be applied towards any category of e-mail to any category of recipient.
You are oversimplifying the commerce clause. The fact that a business operates across state lines does not preclude individual states from applying their own restrictions, as long as they do not contradict federal regulations. For example, you still pay state and local sales tax on things you buy in a local store, even if none of the products sold were actually produced in the state.
This example deals with a physical product in a physical store. How would this translate to e-mail sent and received electronically?
How would one determine which Do-Not-Email list to examine? Even if there were some reliable method of mapping a domain to a physical location the person using the e-mail address could live somewhere else entirely. You'd have to check against every single list in existence whose restrictions you might be subject to.
A fee is charged per contact point checked to cover the cost of maintaining the registry and enforcing the law. The fee is currently set at seven tenths of a cent ($0.007).
If every rinky dink municipality decides to do this it would get prohibitively expensive to send an e-mail.
That being said, I seem to recall a case a few years ago about compiled lists and copyright. Something like a company that wanted the copyright on their customer list because someone else was using it. Does anybody else remember something like that? I don't remember the outcome.
In essence Rural Telephone Service Company was trying to deny Feist Publications from including Rurals listings in a wider scope phone book. They were slapped down for a variety of reasons. Some of the more interesting comments were
"But there is nothing remotely creative about arranging names alphabetically in a white pages directory"
and
"That there can be no valid copyright in facts is universally understood"
"True AI" makes one stop and think, if the development of Artificial Intelligence is realized then it wouldn't be "artificial", it would be a "real" intelligence.
They should put the computers in the middle of the library, with big screens you can't hide with your body, so every passer-by can see what you're viewing. That'll stop all abuses of the system.
It would also stop a lot of people who are concerned with their privacy from using the system. Suppose you wanted to do research on an embarrassing medical condition you were suffering from. Would you want that clearly displayed to all the other library patrons?
220V@60A is just two 30-amp lines - the neutral wires are tied together, and the hot wires are used for power. Not a big deal.
But compare this to the typical residential 15A/20A 110V circuit. This is a staggering power requirement compaired to most consumer toys. Presumably that spec is for the worst case peak power drain. What I'd like to know is what the average power draw is expected to be.
In it they recommend Home network subscribers should receive a/48 allocation. So if you want to block a specific 'home' just block that specific/48 subnet.
> How can you patent software? The same way you patent a novel.
But you don't patent a novel, you copyright it. There's a big difference between the two in the process of obtaining it and protections granted once obtained.
> Please read the patent license (link is in the writeup).
Perhaps, but where in the draft does it say there *is* a patent license? The only thing it says is "I certify that any applicable patent or other IPR claims of which I am aware have been disclosed" but I see no indication that there actually is one.
This is touching upon the "Is The Lone Coder Dead? thread but how does someone who wants to implement Domain Keys discover that there's a patent license?
If the answer is do do a search, whats the point of having the patent boilerplate in an RFC?
In essence it's a DRM flag that says "don't allow this broadcast to be copied, recorded or anything else". So you can't record it to video tape or on your Tivo or any other device.
The FCC release explicitly states "The flag does not restrict copying in any way." and Compliance refers to what the covered demodulator can do with the broadcast content. If the flag is present, the content can be sent in one of several permissible ways, including (1) over an analog output, e.g. to existing analog equipment;
I would interpret "over an analog output" to cover recording it to video tape.
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From the description its more of a waldo (remote manipulator) than a robot. There's no mention of preprogrammed autonomous action.
not "degrees Kelvin"
No, not since 1968 when it was renamed.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/K...
>consoles would require stronger tooling as compared to silicon based moulds
It already takes quite a lot of effort to cut through silicon. What are they making the consoles out of, battleship armor?
It isn't about what the consoles are made of, the issue is the silicon molds wouldn't survive the higher production volume and the new higher end tooling takes longer to procure.
I don't mean to be a knob but I think the fault doesn't particularly lie with the vendor.
I view it differently. The vender advised the work. If I called up Toyota and asked advice about something for my 10 year old truck*, while it might be out of warranty if their advice resulted in major damage I think they should be liable for something.
I'd go along with this if the work was performed by a Toyota authorized shop. If it was done by yourself or by the corner gas station mechanic Toyota has no control over the work being done correctly.
What happens if a kid strips in front of the webcam. Does the operator of the service get arrested for child pornography?
Unless they introduce the requirement that a street vendor with his cart full of hot dogs must also have the technology to record the currency serial number and your serial number its not much of a concern.
No kidding
Thats only one of the categories on Michigan's list, see https://www.protectmichild.com/compliance.html/ for the full list. Theres a bit of scary wording stating "...include, but are not necessarily limited to:" which could encompass anything they feel like.
You have a higher opinion of government than I do
Don't get stuck on focusing only on child protection. This "Do-Not-" list approach could be applied towards any category of e-mail to any category of recipient.
How would one determine which Do-Not-Email list to examine? Even if there were some reliable method of mapping a domain to a physical location the person using the e-mail address could live somewhere else entirely. You'd have to check against every single list in existence whose restrictions you might be subject to.
Taking the Michigan list as an example one has to pay a fee to check their list https://www.protectmichild.com/compliance.html
If every rinky dink municipality decides to do this it would get
prohibitively expensive to send an e-mail.
It was all non-existent
You remember correctly http://www.law.cornell.edu/copyright/cases/499_US
In essence Rural Telephone Service Company was trying to deny Feist Publications from including Rurals listings in a wider scope phone book. They were slapped down for a variety of reasons. Some of the more interesting comments were and
"True AI" makes one stop and think, if the development of Artificial Intelligence is realized then it wouldn't be "artificial", it would be a "real" intelligence.
IMHO a better term would be Machine Intelligence.
Presumably that spec is for the worst case peak power drain. What I'd like to know is what the average power draw is expected to be.
My blocklist is going to end up being 6.2e^29 lines long
/48 allocation. So if you want to block a specific 'home' just block that specific /48 subnet.
No, it wont. Instead of individual IP addresses you'll need to block subnets.
Take a look at RFC 3177 IAB/IESG Recommendations on IPv6 Address Allocations to Sites
ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3177.txt
In it they recommend Home network subscribers should receive a
> How can you patent software? The same way you patent a novel.
But you don't patent a novel, you copyright it. There's a big difference between the two in the process of obtaining it and protections granted once obtained.
According to http://www.snopes.com/business/consumer/bastard.as p there's no supporting evidence for it.
>I think that the most secure OS is the one easiest to keep up-to-date because the most common reason for hacking is uninstalled patches.
:-)
I'd have to disagree with this. MS-Windows has a fairly easy update mechanism but there's no way I would call it a secure OS
Making it easy to apply patches certainly contributes to keeping it secure but you need to start with the underlying architecture being secure first.
To me it sounded like I was playing a 78 RPM record at 33 1/3. I've heard livelier funeral marches.
> Please read the patent license (link is in the writeup).
Perhaps, but where in the draft does it say there *is* a patent license? The only thing it says is "I certify that any applicable patent or other IPR claims of which I am aware have been disclosed" but I see no indication that there actually is one.
This is touching upon the "Is The Lone Coder Dead? thread but how does someone who wants to implement Domain Keys discover that there's a patent license?
If the answer is do do a search, whats the point of having the patent boilerplate in an RFC?
The FCC release explicitly states "The flag does not restrict copying in any way." and
Compliance refers to what the covered demodulator can do with the broadcast content. If the flag is present, the content can be sent in one of several permissible ways, including (1) over an analog output, e.g. to existing analog equipment;
I would interpret "over an analog output" to cover recording it to video tape.
I just looked and easily found it on http://gutenberg.net.au/plusfifty.html.
Specificly http://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks02/0200161.zip
I prefer MiB (mebibyte) to denote 2**20 bytes. Its easier to spot the difference between MiB and MB.
See http://physics.nist.gov/cuu/Units/binary.html for details.
The asahi.com story had a quote ``If we tried to make it like a dog, Sony had already registered that idea,''
It could simply be how it was translated but perhaps Japan has a different legal mechanism where one 'registers' an idea instead of 'patenting' it.