The Afghan government under Karzai (who are recognized by the world as the legal rulers of Afghanistan) has the right to pass whatever laws they like governing the running of their country. If the land the minerals sits on is land owned by the government (e.g. land owned by the government and leased to farmers to farm on) then the government gets to say who can and cant mine those minerals. If the land is owned by private individuals, the government can still set rules for the mining of those minerals.
In either case, the government has the power to set royalties for those minerals and if the western mining companies dont want to pay the royalties required, they dont get to dig the minerals out of the ground.
Although if Karzai did try such a move, the US may just repeat what happened when the US and British governments overthrew the government of Iranian president Mohammad Mosaddegh just because Mosaddegh had the balls to kick out the British AIOC oil company (who later became British Petroleum) and take over the oil for themselves.
The first is from those who say "ending Constellation will cost jobs in my state" (i.e. those who just want more pork thrown their way and more lobbying money from the contractors) and who wont accept any option other than the status quo.
The second argument is from those (including various astronauts etc) who say that the alternatives proposed by Obama will leave America without manned space flight capability for too long (forcing the US to buy expensive seats on a Soyuz to get to the ISS). They claim that the "commercial providers" Obama wants will not be able to deliver a manned booster/capsule fast enough (and have zero experience with manned booster/capsule production). This group is open to alternatives to the current program, just not the (currently non existent) alternatives Obama wants.
Since they started requiring bundling large amounts of runtime, interpreters and library code with every program written in them. That may be ok for a desktop system where you can either use the system Python/Ruby (on linux) or bundle Python/Ruby (on Windows) but its not OK for a mobile app to be shipping large amounts of runtime and library code.
I would like to see someone ask Kevin Rudd or Steven Conroy this simple question: Will the filtering system as proposed by the Labor party do anything to block the encrypted peer-to-peer networks used by hardcore pedophiles as the primary means of distribution of child pornography?
This should then force the Labor party to admit that the filtering system wont in fact stop the hardcore pedophiles in which case the followup question is "if it wont stop the pedophiles from getting access to child pornography, what is its purpose"
Its already happening with mass protests and stuff.
Only problem is, the people saying "We dont want censorship" are not the people who's votes will matter in the next election, the people who are saying "I want you to protect my kid from the evils of the internet so I don't have to" are the people who's votes will matter.
I cant find a cite for it right now but wasnt there a proposal to use DNSSEC and store keys (for encrypted web pages etc) in DNS?
That ensures that the page you are accessing is the page the URL says you are accessing and that the data is encrypted between you and that web page. It prevents man-in-the-middle attacks (by hackers, by governments, by ISPs etc). The use of DNSSEC ensures that the DNS data (including the encryption keys) hasn't been tampered with and is legitimate.
I fell the pain of dealing with the GCC back-end. I was once trying to implement support for the Windows thread-local-storage support (provided by __declspec(thread) on MS compilers) into windows GCC and gave up after being unable to understand the way the middle and back end parts worked and how to get it to emit the correct instructions (which reference the FS or GS register IIRC)
All we need is for someone with the guts (and the resources) to challenge such a cash seizure in court. Someone who has not committed any crime and who knows the cash is clean.
Where are the people willing to stand up and FIGHT for their constitutional rights in a court of law.
NOTHING short of a constitutional amendment would give the police the power to seize cash (in any amount) from someone without evidence that a crime has been committed
The only problem with BitLocker is that Microsoft made the (IMO stupid) decision to include it only in the Enterprise and Ultimate versions of Windows and not the regular Business version that most business users will be using.
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VS 2010 works just fine in XP, I have been using it as such since its release.
From reading TFA, this is about the government needing the power to take over critical infrastructure in the advent of a threat to Americas national security. So for example this allows them to take over control of (and security of) electronic control networks running things like the electricity grid if the spooks get wind of an immanent cyber attack.
Just like the feds used their power to shut down US airspace after 9/11, the feds need the power to take over, disconnect, shut down, secure or control computer systems and networks controlling critical infrastructure in the advent of a "Cyber 9/11" attack (a threat that is not just the stuff of movies like Die Hard 4.0)
Per the proposal, "Critical Infrastructure" does NOT mean Google or Facebook or Slashdot or whatever, it means things like power grids, gas plants, water systems, hospitals, emergency services, oil refineries etc.
What that doesn't explain is why home-brewing of beer is legal yet home-brewing of spirits is not even though you could produce commercial quantities of both just as easily.
I suspect the significantly higher excise taxes attached to distilled alcohol have something to do with it as well as the fact that most home-distillers wouldn't be doing any of the post-distillation steps commercial shops use (such as barrel aging or mixing with water) and may end up with a significantly higher proof than most of whats on the shelf at the local bottle shop.
Teaching the viewpoint that evolution is wrong (which is what a lot of these fundamentalist Christian nut-jobs seem to want to do) is like teaching that the earth is flat.
In both cases there are volumes of scientific evidences supporting the theories (evolution and round earth)
This is a low cost carrier that doesn't have an inbuilt entertainment system.
Many low cost carriers are using portable gadgets as entertainment rather than installing inbuilt systems as its cheaper to do that. (mainly because it also allows them to charge money for the entertainment more easily than with built-in systems)
Although I know of one low cost carrier that has installed individual seat back TV screens with credit card readers and you can buy access to a number of different channels from a local pay TV provider (with the signals comming over a sattelite dish somehow I would assume)
No, the real reason is that takeoff and landing is the most dangerous part of the flight and if something goes wrong, they dont want people distracted by gadgets.
What you said about "Get the politicians out of the mix" is EXACTLY what Obama wants to do (and exactly why Congress wont let him)
The Obama proposal (from my understanding) means NASA would be buying off-the-shelf space hardware (rockets, boosters, capsules, landers, whatever else) or hardware build by private industry to NASA specs. Either way, it would be built by the company in the location that is most benifical to the company and not to some politician. And using the work force that is most benifical to the company, not the workforce that some politician wants to protect. And using the best technology for the job, not outdated technology forced onto a project by a politician who wants to keep the outdated technology (and the jobs in his state that go into making it) alive.
Imagine if the the entire government bought things this way. No more $500 hammers when you could use a $50 hammer from the local hardware store that will do the job.
The apps were pulled off the market because of a DMCA take-down notice. If these apps were in fact not using any trademarks or copyrights held by The Tetris Company, their creators should file DMCA counter-notices. Then, The Tetris Company has to challenge it in court if they want to proceed.
Such a lawsuit would hopefully finally put an end to the FUD claims that The Tetris Company owns anything that even vaguely looks like Tetris. (and set a precedent for similar lawsuits over other game designs)
I dont know how the Blizzard solution works but Command & Conquer 4 contains no copy protection as such. It contains nothing that prevents you from making multiple installs on multiple computers. It contains nothing requiring a disk in the drive.
What it contains is a link between your EA account and your license for the game. When you buy and install the game (online download or physical) you link the serial number for the game to you EA account.
When you start the game, you log in with your EA account and then you can play the game. You cant log in with the same EA account on more than one PC at once which provides the piracy protection.
You do need an internet connection to play single player but that has a lot to do with the whole MMO-esque central system of points/levels/upgrades/etc rather than any specific piracy controls.
All they need to do is to require that the person who is being sued, the person who is doing the suing or both must be a resident of the UK.
That will stop 99% of the "libel shopping" where someone/some company not located in the UK sues someone else/some other company not located in the UK using UK courts just because it happens to be possible to access the alleged libelous content from a computer located in the UK.
Create a mode in IE8 (on XP as well as Vista/7) and IE9 that renders web pages identically to IE6. Make it possible for IT to set this mode via group policy so that corporate intranet pages are rendered with the mode by default.
Problem solved. Most of the web is rendered with IE8 in regular IE8 mode. The few IE6-only intranet sites get rendered with "IE6 mode" and work identically to how they worked in IE6.
Microsoft gets more sales of Windows (as companies previously stuck on IE6 can move to Windows 7 or Vista with IE8 and still have their intranet sites work in "IE6 mode") plus they dont have to spend as much money keeping IE6 going (the cost to maintain "IE6 mode" would be less than the cost to maintain IE6)
Corporations can install IE8 (and even upgrade to Vista or Windows 7) and they dont need to spend thousands of dollars on a new version of that is certified with IE8 (or pay someone to rewrite an in-house web app, sometimes one where source code, technical documents or other items have been lost)
Please do this in Australia too. Getting the Daily Telegraph, Australian, Herald-Sun, Sunday Times, Adelaide Advertiser etc off the internet would be good (there are better places to find the news that matters anyway such as the ABC)
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The Afghan government under Karzai (who are recognized by the world as the legal rulers of Afghanistan) has the right to pass whatever laws they like governing the running of their country.
If the land the minerals sits on is land owned by the government (e.g. land owned by the government and leased to farmers to farm on) then the government gets to say who can and cant mine those minerals. If the land is owned by private individuals, the government can still set rules for the mining of those minerals.
In either case, the government has the power to set royalties for those minerals and if the western mining companies dont want to pay the royalties required, they dont get to dig the minerals out of the ground.
Although if Karzai did try such a move, the US may just repeat what happened when the US and British governments overthrew the government of Iranian president Mohammad Mosaddegh just because Mosaddegh had the balls to kick out the British AIOC oil company (who later became British Petroleum) and take over the oil for themselves.
The first is from those who say "ending Constellation will cost jobs in my state" (i.e. those who just want more pork thrown their way and more lobbying money from the contractors) and who wont accept any option other than the status quo.
The second argument is from those (including various astronauts etc) who say that the alternatives proposed by Obama will leave America without manned space flight capability for too long (forcing the US to buy expensive seats on a Soyuz to get to the ISS). They claim that the "commercial providers" Obama wants will not be able to deliver a manned booster/capsule fast enough (and have zero experience with manned booster/capsule production). This group is open to alternatives to the current program, just not the (currently non existent) alternatives Obama wants.
Since they started requiring bundling large amounts of runtime, interpreters and library code with every program written in them. That may be ok for a desktop system where you can either use the system Python/Ruby (on linux) or bundle Python/Ruby (on Windows) but its not OK for a mobile app to be shipping large amounts of runtime and library code.
I would like to see someone ask Kevin Rudd or Steven Conroy this simple question:
Will the filtering system as proposed by the Labor party do anything to block the encrypted peer-to-peer networks used by hardcore pedophiles as the primary means of distribution of child pornography?
This should then force the Labor party to admit that the filtering system wont in fact stop the hardcore pedophiles in which case the followup question is "if it wont stop the pedophiles from getting access to child pornography, what is its purpose"
Its already happening with mass protests and stuff.
Only problem is, the people saying "We dont want censorship" are not the people who's votes will matter in the next election, the people who are saying "I want you to protect my kid from the evils of the internet so I don't have to" are the people who's votes will matter.
I cant find a cite for it right now but wasnt there a proposal to use DNSSEC and store keys (for encrypted web pages etc) in DNS?
That ensures that the page you are accessing is the page the URL says you are accessing and that the data is encrypted between you and that web page. It prevents man-in-the-middle attacks (by hackers, by governments, by ISPs etc). The use of DNSSEC ensures that the DNS data (including the encryption keys) hasn't been tampered with and is legitimate.
I fell the pain of dealing with the GCC back-end.
I was once trying to implement support for the Windows thread-local-storage support (provided by __declspec(thread) on MS compilers) into windows GCC and gave up after being unable to understand the way the middle and back end parts worked and how to get it to emit the correct instructions (which reference the FS or GS register IIRC)
All we need is for someone with the guts (and the resources) to challenge such a cash seizure in court. Someone who has not committed any crime and who knows the cash is clean.
Where are the people willing to stand up and FIGHT for their constitutional rights in a court of law.
NOTHING short of a constitutional amendment would give the police the power to seize cash (in any amount) from someone without evidence that a crime has been committed
Me, I want to see someone do Bagpipe Hero.
If your dongles wont work on Windows 7 x64, you could always move to Windows 7 32-bit instead
The only problem with BitLocker is that Microsoft made the (IMO stupid) decision to include it only in the Enterprise and Ultimate versions of Windows and not the regular Business version that most business users will be using.
VS 2010 works just fine in XP, I have been using it as such since its release.
Didn't Pipe (the guys who just opened PPC-1) talk about a cable to New Zealand (possibly as an extention of PPC-1)?
From reading TFA, this is about the government needing the power to take over critical infrastructure in the advent of a threat to Americas national security. So for example this allows them to take over control of (and security of) electronic control networks running things like the electricity grid if the spooks get wind of an immanent cyber attack.
Just like the feds used their power to shut down US airspace after 9/11, the feds need the power to take over, disconnect, shut down, secure or control computer systems and networks controlling critical infrastructure in the advent of a "Cyber 9/11" attack (a threat that is not just the stuff of movies like Die Hard 4.0)
Per the proposal, "Critical Infrastructure" does NOT mean Google or Facebook or Slashdot or whatever, it means things like power grids, gas plants, water systems, hospitals, emergency services, oil refineries etc.
What that doesn't explain is why home-brewing of beer is legal yet home-brewing of spirits is not even though you could produce commercial quantities of both just as easily.
I suspect the significantly higher excise taxes attached to distilled alcohol have something to do with it as well as the fact that most home-distillers wouldn't be doing any of the post-distillation steps commercial shops use (such as barrel aging or mixing with water) and may end up with a significantly higher proof than most of whats on the shelf at the local bottle shop.
Teaching the viewpoint that evolution is wrong (which is what a lot of these fundamentalist Christian nut-jobs seem to want to do) is like teaching that the earth is flat.
In both cases there are volumes of scientific evidences supporting the theories (evolution and round earth)
This is a low cost carrier that doesn't have an inbuilt entertainment system.
Many low cost carriers are using portable gadgets as entertainment rather than installing inbuilt systems as its cheaper to do that. (mainly because it also allows them to charge money for the entertainment more easily than with built-in systems)
Although I know of one low cost carrier that has installed individual seat back TV screens with credit card readers and you can buy access to a number of different channels from a local pay TV provider (with the signals comming over a sattelite dish somehow I would assume)
No, the real reason is that takeoff and landing is the most dangerous part of the flight and if something goes wrong, they dont want people distracted by gadgets.
What you said about "Get the politicians out of the mix" is EXACTLY what Obama wants to do (and exactly why Congress wont let him)
The Obama proposal (from my understanding) means NASA would be buying off-the-shelf space hardware (rockets, boosters, capsules, landers, whatever else) or hardware build by private industry to NASA specs. Either way, it would be built by the company in the location that is most benifical to the company and not to some politician. And using the work force that is most benifical to the company, not the workforce that some politician wants to protect. And using the best technology for the job, not outdated technology forced onto a project by a politician who wants to keep the outdated technology (and the jobs in his state that go into making it) alive.
Imagine if the the entire government bought things this way. No more $500 hammers when you could use a $50 hammer from the local hardware store that will do the job.
The apps were pulled off the market because of a DMCA take-down notice.
If these apps were in fact not using any trademarks or copyrights held by The Tetris Company, their creators should file DMCA counter-notices.
Then, The Tetris Company has to challenge it in court if they want to proceed.
Such a lawsuit would hopefully finally put an end to the FUD claims that The Tetris Company owns anything that even vaguely looks like Tetris. (and set a precedent for similar lawsuits over other game designs)
I dont know how the Blizzard solution works but Command & Conquer 4 contains no copy protection as such. It contains nothing that prevents you from making multiple installs on multiple computers. It contains nothing requiring a disk in the drive.
What it contains is a link between your EA account and your license for the game. When you buy and install the game (online download or physical) you link the serial number for the game to you EA account.
When you start the game, you log in with your EA account and then you can play the game. You cant log in with the same EA account on more than one PC at once which provides the piracy protection.
You do need an internet connection to play single player but that has a lot to do with the whole MMO-esque central system of points/levels/upgrades/etc rather than any specific piracy controls.
All they need to do is to require that the person who is being sued, the person who is doing the suing or both must be a resident of the UK.
That will stop 99% of the "libel shopping" where someone/some company not located in the UK sues someone else/some other company not located in the UK using UK courts just because it happens to be possible to access the alleged libelous content from a computer located in the UK.
Create a mode in IE8 (on XP as well as Vista/7) and IE9 that renders web pages identically to IE6.
Make it possible for IT to set this mode via group policy so that corporate intranet pages are rendered with the mode by default.
Problem solved. Most of the web is rendered with IE8 in regular IE8 mode. The few IE6-only intranet sites get rendered with "IE6 mode" and work identically to how they worked in IE6.
Microsoft gets more sales of Windows (as companies previously stuck on IE6 can move to Windows 7 or Vista with IE8 and still have their intranet sites work in "IE6 mode") plus they dont have to spend as much money keeping IE6 going (the cost to maintain "IE6 mode" would be less than the cost to maintain IE6)
Corporations can install IE8 (and even upgrade to Vista or Windows 7) and they dont need to spend thousands of dollars on a new version of that is certified with IE8 (or pay someone to rewrite an in-house web app, sometimes one where source code, technical documents or other items have been lost)
Don't EOL XP or end security updates for XP. Just EOL IE6 and say "if you want security updates for XP, you MUST run XP SP3 and you MUST run IE8"
Please do this in Australia too.
Getting the Daily Telegraph, Australian, Herald-Sun, Sunday Times, Adelaide Advertiser etc off the internet would be good (there are better places to find the news that matters anyway such as the ABC)