I'm sure I'm feeding a troll here, but... my interpretation is...
Their stance is that both the public (consumers in your statement above) and creators have rights. Creators' exclusive rights should not be for an absurdly-long period, but if a particular property proves to be profitable the creator has the option to extend their exclusive rights for a nominal cost. In any case all rights revert to the public within approximately one generation.
To me this seems like a very realistic and sensible way to handle copyright.
My apps all fall under the free thresholds. The "little" guy really hasn't been hurt by the changes. Google listened, and increased the number of free instance-hours to 28, allowing a free app to have a single idle instance all the time, with occasional spikes.
You do need to configure this though - I personally think that any free app should be automatically configured to be max 1 idle instance and maximum queue time.
I should note that the character who suffers panty flashes (Uiharu) never actually shows her panties to the audience IIRC. It's only her friend Saten who sees them and says what they are.
The blog post got several things wrong about the anime character "Misaka" (actually Misaka Mikoto) from To aro Majutsu no Index/To aru Kagaku no Railgun.
Firstly, she's about 15, not 11. In no way could you look at her and think she's 11. There is a clone of her who's biologically about 8 (Last Order) - maybe they mixed them up.
Secondly, the whole upskirt bit in Railgun is having a laugh at pantyshots. Mikoto wears shorts under her skirt, so she's actually immune to upskirt and panty flashes, much to the disappointment of her roommate Kuroko.
There is another character in Railgun who is constantly suffering panty flashes thanks to a friend, but it's not Misaka Mikoto.
The blog also characterises Anime as "adult comics" when as we all (should) know, it's all animation (child-oriented or adult-oriented) in Japan.
A transparent proxy shouldn't involve DNS lookups as your local machine would be resolving the hostname and sending traffic to the IP address. A non-transparent proxy (i.e. one using the HTTP proxy protocol) does do DNS lookups on the proxy server.
Of course, a transparent proxy could be doing reverse DNS lookups, but since it's impossible to determine what site you're intending to visit (machines may have multiple names) filtering based on that would potentially produce many false positives.
I think it's more likely that the Telstra DNS servers serving double duty as transparent proxies (assuming they have them) which would result in the same symptoms as you're describing.
Trust me - lots of us oppose this on principle. However, there is a massive amount of fatigue regarding this issue - every objection raised to it is either ignored or labelled as "supporting child porn".
As a result, the only way we can see to oppose it is on technical and transparency grounds. It's still being ignored, but at least we're on unassailable technical footing here - the filter is useless for its stated purpose (preventing people inadvertantly finding CP) and is trivial to bypass in any case (as admitted by Optus). And because the blocklist is private, it could be easily expanded to cover anything (for those people not technically-minded or politically-minded enough to change their DNS settings).
I chose my ISP (Internode) for several reasons - one of which being Simon Hackett's oft-stated position that they will not filter anything unless required by law.
The Xfce version has moved to Debian (which you "strongly advise against")
I was peripherally aware of the Xfce version moving to LMDE, but it hadn't consciously registered. I've never actually used it, having used LXDE for my lightweight requirements, and Gnome elsewhere (as I find it to be the best overall insterface). The reason I strongly advise against LMDE for a newbie is that it is a rolling distribution, and is still not as polished as the Ubuntu-based distributions. The Linux Mint developers themselves say to only use it if you know what you're doing, and have just introduced LMDE update packs to make it somewhat easier for people who don't want to deal with the daily hassle involved in a rolling distribution.
Using Wubi or mint4win is not a great idea as mom probably has only one partition - resulting in her not being able to access any of her files from Linux. That's not the best introduction to Linux is it?
A wubi/mint4win installation can access the host partition - check the/host path. It would be simple to set up a symlink to her Windows Documents directory. It's always advised to have someone experienced around when installing any OS.
One of the real pains about Mint is that the GUI package manager doesn't allow you to change to a mirror located nearer to you...
A very valid point. I also would like being able to configure an alternative server for apt via GUI configuration (my ISP has an unmetered download site that mirrors the ubuntu repos and I need to change/etc/apt/sources.list with each install) but it's a simple thing to change once when initially setting up.
Linux Mint is easily the most Linux-newbie-friendly distribution I've ever used. It also scales well to an experienced user. It uses an Ubuntu base (unless you use Linux Mint Debian Edition but I strongly advise against that for a newbie).
Depending on hardware capabilities there are heavyweight (Gnome, KDE) and lightweight (Xfce, LXDE) versions.
You can install it using mintinstall (wubi) from inside Windows (you need to use the CD version for this, but it's then very simple to upgrade to the DVD version once you're inside Linux Mint). Doing this means you can dual-boot without repartitioning - for your mum this sounds like the best option.
GOG no longer relies on IP geolocation services to determine what country you're in, although they use it as an initial determinant. But if you happen to have one of the very very many IP addresses that are "incorrectly" identified as Australian, you can go into your profile and tell them what country you're "really" in.
Strangely enough, GOG decided to stop relying on geolocation services shortly after they were forced to give higher prices to Australians on The Witcher 2 by the local publisher.
They are still working out a few quirks before declaring it production ready - for example, they do not yet have unmetered data working (for this reason, they do not publish an IPv4 address for the internode download mirror and other similar sites).
I use a Billion 7800N ADSL router. The only quirk I've found is that it doesn't publish its own link-local address as the IPv6 DNS server - it publishes my ISP's DNS servers. This means that I need to manually configure the DNSv6 settings on each of my local machines to lookup IPv4 clients on my LAN. I'm hoping this will be fixed in a future firmware update.
I just recently modded my mate's old, unused xbox by hotswapping. Took quite a while to find a combination of computers, DVD players and cable combinations that allowed me to successfully hotswap, but eventually managed it.
Installed xbmc4xbox on it (as the default dashboard) and it plays 480p h.264 very nicely over s-video. I'll be installing the stable release when I can steal the xbox for a day or so.
Now, it doesn't look as good as 720p, but until they get a TV that does 720p it will do the job just fine for them. It wasn't being used for anything else. I can take anything they want to watch and transcode it to 480p for them.
The one thing I do find is that the font sizes are a bit small with Confluence - I modded it to increase the smaller font sizes somewhat, and repositioned a few elements.
BTW 10% fan speed is all you need, and you can set it from within xbmc4xbox.
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The for loop has been defined in terms of iterators and iterables since Python 2.2.
Generators are simply a way to easily create iterators.
Iterators may save memory (especially for ulta-huge datasets). They may also save time (loading that ultra-huge dataset into memory all at once might make your program pause for 10 minutes - not a good user experience).
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Guido has stated quite publically that anyone is welcome to fork any version of Python - this exact topic has been discussed many times on python-dev (the mailing list for development of Python). Of course, it's up to them to maintain and popularise the fork.
What they don't get to do is call it Python. "Python" is a trademark of the Python Software Foundation when the term is used to refer to a programming language.
The fork could be called a "Python-like" language, or even claim to be "Python-compatible"*.
A "donkey vote" is when you blindly vote for the first person/party on the ballot paper. This is why every party wants to be first on the paper (and why the position is randomly selected in Australia) - a lot of "donkeys" select it if they don't have a specific party they want to put first.
Turning in an invalid ballot paper is called an "informal vote".
90lb ~= 40kg. I had a girlfriend who was 45kg and I found her to be about the perfect weight. Of course, she was also only 150cm (5ft) tall... 180cm (6ft) and 40kg... urgh!
Hmm - wasn't aware this was given to the defense and prosecution. In any case, I'm a software engineer* and wasn't challenged. The defense appeared to be challenging young and middle-aged women - it was a domestic violence case and I'm guessing they considered them most likely to be antagonistic to the defendent.
* At least according to my previous employer... it's probably as good a two-word description of my job as anything else, even if I'm not technically an engineer.
In Australia, when the jurors enter the jury room at the beginning of the day, all phones, computers or anything which could be used to communicate with the outside world is taken and locked away. At the end of the day the jurors get them back.
This is standard procedure, to reduce the chance of evidence contamination. Jurors are also required not to perform their own investigations, or to talk about the case with anyone outside of the jury room, both during the trial and after the trial concludes. Breaking these rules can lead to prosecution. I'm always amazed at the stories of jurors in the US talking about trials, why they made their decisions, etc. Here in Australia that would get you locked up.
Then again, jury selection is also very different in Australia. Neither the defence nor prosecution can ask any questions of the potential jurors. Each time I've been up for jury duty (I've served once) the process was as follows (this was for the Supreme Court of NSW - other courts may be somewhat different):
1. Potential jurors asked to be excused. Those who were excused were informed that they would be re-summonsed within about 6 weeks. When you're selected for jury duty in Australia, eventually you will have to allow yourself to be part of the jury pool. You're also informed at this point that by turning up for selection, you've avoided a fine of between $1100-2200. Forms regarding payment options are filled out at this time as well.
2. Those who were not excused were told that they are exempt from any future jury summonses for at least 1 year.
3. Those who were not excused were told about the case. At that point anyone who already knew particulars about the case, knew any of the defendant, witnesses, or felt they hadany other reason that they could not be impartial about the case were excused.
4. One at a time, jurors were randomly selected from the remaining pool. Each of the defence and prosecution could "challenge" (reject) any juror, but only by looking at them (i.e. there are no questions whatsoever). The defence and prosecution could each challenge a maximum of 5 jurors.
5. Once 12 jurors went unchallenged, the rest of the jury pool was dismissed.
6. The 12 jurors were sworn in and informed of their responsibilities, then taken to the jury room.
7. Once the trial concluded the jury was dismissed, and were told how long they are exempt from jury summonses (at least 3 years, but can be longer at the judge's discretion, depending on length of trial, etc).
Exactly when did Julian Assange or anyone from WikiLeaks "... tak[e] classified documents from your government offices and reproduc[e] them online"?
They published documents they were given by someone else (the actual leaker, who is suspected to be Manning) - much like every news organisation has done with the cables as they've been released. Except the news organisations have been picking and choosing for greatest dramatic effect/"reader interest" i.e. publishing the cables that are most likely to have a destablising effect on world politics.
I sold my PS3 just before my 1-year warranty ran out, after it had been replaced twice - 1 hardware failure, and one firmware bricking. I just didn't trust it anymore, and with future firmware bricking going to cost me a motza I got out while I still could.
Since I got it with my TV and only ever used it as a media centre, I used the money I got to fund most of my first HTPC build.
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No - I'd rather that the criminals who have caused this situation be prosecuted.
Ooh - bittorrent trackers can have TOS, can't they?
The following acts are considered violations of these Terms of Service. Additional acts may be considered violations at the owner's discretion.
1. Being a member/employee of the United States Department of Justice.
2. Being a member/employee of the RIAA and/or associated organisations.
3. Being a member/employee of the MPAA and/or associated organisations.
Actually, Mint can be installed into pretty much any filesystem - you just have to set it up first.
For example (a bit out of date, but should still work):
http://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=42&t=40961
I'm sure I'm feeding a troll here, but ... my interpretation is ...
Their stance is that both the public (consumers in your statement above) and creators have rights. Creators' exclusive rights should not be for an absurdly-long period, but if a particular property proves to be profitable the creator has the option to extend their exclusive rights for a nominal cost. In any case all rights revert to the public within approximately one generation.
To me this seems like a very realistic and sensible way to handle copyright.
My apps all fall under the free thresholds. The "little" guy really hasn't been hurt by the changes. Google listened, and increased the number of free instance-hours to 28, allowing a free app to have a single idle instance all the time, with occasional spikes.
You do need to configure this though - I personally think that any free app should be automatically configured to be max 1 idle instance and maximum queue time.
http://googleappengine.blogspot.com/2011/09/few-adjustments-to-app-engines-upcoming.html
I misread this as "can expect to have your nut cut off" and my immediate thought was "will they allow you to choose which one?"
I should note that the character who suffers panty flashes (Uiharu) never actually shows her panties to the audience IIRC. It's only her friend Saten who sees them and says what they are.
The blog post got several things wrong about the anime character "Misaka" (actually Misaka Mikoto) from To aro Majutsu no Index/To aru Kagaku no Railgun.
Firstly, she's about 15, not 11. In no way could you look at her and think she's 11. There is a clone of her who's biologically about 8 (Last Order) - maybe they mixed them up.
Secondly, the whole upskirt bit in Railgun is having a laugh at pantyshots. Mikoto wears shorts under her skirt, so she's actually immune to upskirt and panty flashes, much to the disappointment of her roommate Kuroko.
There is another character in Railgun who is constantly suffering panty flashes thanks to a friend, but it's not Misaka Mikoto.
The blog also characterises Anime as "adult comics" when as we all (should) know, it's all animation (child-oriented or adult-oriented) in Japan.
A transparent proxy shouldn't involve DNS lookups as your local machine would be resolving the hostname and sending traffic to the IP address. A non-transparent proxy (i.e. one using the HTTP proxy protocol) does do DNS lookups on the proxy server.
Of course, a transparent proxy could be doing reverse DNS lookups, but since it's impossible to determine what site you're intending to visit (machines may have multiple names) filtering based on that would potentially produce many false positives.
I think it's more likely that the Telstra DNS servers serving double duty as transparent proxies (assuming they have them) which would result in the same symptoms as you're describing.
Trust me - lots of us oppose this on principle. However, there is a massive amount of fatigue regarding this issue - every objection raised to it is either ignored or labelled as "supporting child porn".
As a result, the only way we can see to oppose it is on technical and transparency grounds. It's still being ignored, but at least we're on unassailable technical footing here - the filter is useless for its stated purpose (preventing people inadvertantly finding CP) and is trivial to bypass in any case (as admitted by Optus). And because the blocklist is private, it could be easily expanded to cover anything (for those people not technically-minded or politically-minded enough to change their DNS settings).
I chose my ISP (Internode) for several reasons - one of which being Simon Hackett's oft-stated position that they will not filter anything unless required by law.
I was peripherally aware of the Xfce version moving to LMDE, but it hadn't consciously registered. I've never actually used it, having used LXDE for my lightweight requirements, and Gnome elsewhere (as I find it to be the best overall insterface). The reason I strongly advise against LMDE for a newbie is that it is a rolling distribution, and is still not as polished as the Ubuntu-based distributions. The Linux Mint developers themselves say to only use it if you know what you're doing, and have just introduced LMDE update packs to make it somewhat easier for people who don't want to deal with the daily hassle involved in a rolling distribution.
A wubi/mint4win installation can access the host partition - check the /host path. It would be simple to set up a symlink to her Windows Documents directory. It's always advised to have someone experienced around when installing any OS.
A very valid point. I also would like being able to configure an alternative server for apt via GUI configuration (my ISP has an unmetered download site that mirrors the ubuntu repos and I need to change /etc/apt/sources.list with each install) but it's a simple thing to change once when initially setting up.
Linux Mint is easily the most Linux-newbie-friendly distribution I've ever used. It also scales well to an experienced user. It uses an Ubuntu base (unless you use Linux Mint Debian Edition but I strongly advise against that for a newbie).
Depending on hardware capabilities there are heavyweight (Gnome, KDE) and lightweight (Xfce, LXDE) versions.
You can install it using mintinstall (wubi) from inside Windows (you need to use the CD version for this, but it's then very simple to upgrade to the DVD version once you're inside Linux Mint). Doing this means you can dual-boot without repartitioning - for your mum this sounds like the best option.
GOG no longer relies on IP geolocation services to determine what country you're in, although they use it as an initial determinant. But if you happen to have one of the very very many IP addresses that are "incorrectly" identified as Australian, you can go into your profile and tell them what country you're "really" in.
Strangely enough, GOG decided to stop relying on geolocation services shortly after they were forced to give higher prices to Australians on The Witcher 2 by the local publisher.
My ISP (Internode - Australia) has had a long-running IPv6 dual-stack trial, and is due to take it to production later this year.
http://ipv6.internode.on.net/
They are still working out a few quirks before declaring it production ready - for example, they do not yet have unmetered data working (for this reason, they do not publish an IPv4 address for the internode download mirror and other similar sites).
I use a Billion 7800N ADSL router. The only quirk I've found is that it doesn't publish its own link-local address as the IPv6 DNS server - it publishes my ISP's DNS servers. This means that I need to manually configure the DNSv6 settings on each of my local machines to lookup IPv4 clients on my LAN. I'm hoping this will be fixed in a future firmware update.
I just recently modded my mate's old, unused xbox by hotswapping. Took quite a while to find a combination of computers, DVD players and cable combinations that allowed me to successfully hotswap, but eventually managed it.
Installed xbmc4xbox on it (as the default dashboard) and it plays 480p h.264 very nicely over s-video. I'll be installing the stable release when I can steal the xbox for a day or so.
Now, it doesn't look as good as 720p, but until they get a TV that does 720p it will do the job just fine for them. It wasn't being used for anything else. I can take anything they want to watch and transcode it to 480p for them.
The one thing I do find is that the font sizes are a bit small with Confluence - I modded it to increase the smaller font sizes somewhat, and repositioned a few elements.
BTW 10% fan speed is all you need, and you can set it from within xbmc4xbox.
The for loop has been defined in terms of iterators and iterables since Python 2.2.
Generators are simply a way to easily create iterators.
Iterators may save memory (especially for ulta-huge datasets). They may also save time (loading that ultra-huge dataset into memory all at once might make your program pause for 10 minutes - not a good user experience).
Guido has stated quite publically that anyone is welcome to fork any version of Python - this exact topic has been discussed many times on python-dev (the mailing list for development of Python). Of course, it's up to them to maintain and popularise the fork.
What they don't get to do is call it Python. "Python" is a trademark of the Python Software Foundation when the term is used to refer to a programming language.
The fork could be called a "Python-like" language, or even claim to be "Python-compatible"*.
* for some level of "compatible".
Wrong terminology.
A "donkey vote" is when you blindly vote for the first person/party on the ballot paper. This is why every party wants to be first on the paper (and why the position is randomly selected in Australia) - a lot of "donkeys" select it if they don't have a specific party they want to put first.
Turning in an invalid ballot paper is called an "informal vote".
90lb ~= 40kg. I had a girlfriend who was 45kg and I found her to be about the perfect weight. Of course, she was also only 150cm (5ft) tall ... 180cm (6ft) and 40kg ... urgh!
Hmm - wasn't aware this was given to the defense and prosecution. In any case, I'm a software engineer* and wasn't challenged. The defense appeared to be challenging young and middle-aged women - it was a domestic violence case and I'm guessing they considered them most likely to be antagonistic to the defendent.
* At least according to my previous employer ... it's probably as good a two-word description of my job as anything else, even if I'm not technically an engineer.
In Australia, when the jurors enter the jury room at the beginning of the day, all phones, computers or anything which could be used to communicate with the outside world is taken and locked away. At the end of the day the jurors get them back.
This is standard procedure, to reduce the chance of evidence contamination. Jurors are also required not to perform their own investigations, or to talk about the case with anyone outside of the jury room, both during the trial and after the trial concludes. Breaking these rules can lead to prosecution. I'm always amazed at the stories of jurors in the US talking about trials, why they made their decisions, etc. Here in Australia that would get you locked up.
Then again, jury selection is also very different in Australia. Neither the defence nor prosecution can ask any questions of the potential jurors. Each time I've been up for jury duty (I've served once) the process was as follows (this was for the Supreme Court of NSW - other courts may be somewhat different):
1. Potential jurors asked to be excused. Those who were excused were informed that they would be re-summonsed within about 6 weeks. When you're selected for jury duty in Australia, eventually you will have to allow yourself to be part of the jury pool. You're also informed at this point that by turning up for selection, you've avoided a fine of between $1100-2200. Forms regarding payment options are filled out at this time as well.
2. Those who were not excused were told that they are exempt from any future jury summonses for at least 1 year.
3. Those who were not excused were told about the case. At that point anyone who already knew particulars about the case, knew any of the defendant, witnesses, or felt they hadany other reason that they could not be impartial about the case were excused.
4. One at a time, jurors were randomly selected from the remaining pool. Each of the defence and prosecution could "challenge" (reject) any juror, but only by looking at them (i.e. there are no questions whatsoever). The defence and prosecution could each challenge a maximum of 5 jurors.
5. Once 12 jurors went unchallenged, the rest of the jury pool was dismissed.
6. The 12 jurors were sworn in and informed of their responsibilities, then taken to the jury room.
7. Once the trial concluded the jury was dismissed, and were told how long they are exempt from jury summonses (at least 3 years, but can be longer at the judge's discretion, depending on length of trial, etc).
Exactly when did Julian Assange or anyone from WikiLeaks "... tak[e] classified documents from your government offices and reproduc[e] them online"?
They published documents they were given by someone else (the actual leaker, who is suspected to be Manning) - much like every news organisation has done with the cables as they've been released. Except the news organisations have been picking and choosing for greatest dramatic effect/"reader interest" i.e. publishing the cables that are most likely to have a destablising effect on world politics.
I sold my PS3 just before my 1-year warranty ran out, after it had been replaced twice - 1 hardware failure, and one firmware bricking. I just didn't trust it anymore, and with future firmware bricking going to cost me a motza I got out while I still could.
Since I got it with my TV and only ever used it as a media centre, I used the money I got to fund most of my first HTPC build.
You can tell the difference?