Basicly, because you can convert US$ to L$, gamble at a second life casino,potentially win L$ and convert back to US$, there are questions about whether it falls under US anti-internet-gambling laws. Linden Labs is just trying to cover all the bases and clearly demonstrate that they are willing to cooperate with the FBI on this.
From reading the rules, the car has to be price competitive which rules out all the cars using expensive materials such as aluminum, carbon fiber, composite plastics and whatever else.
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A good place to start would be to bust whatever myths exist that cause the "soccer moms" to buy minivans and SUVs instead of station wagons. A good station wagon can carry the kids and the shopping just as easily as an SUV or a minivan and because it isn't so big and heavy and because it doesn't have 4 x 4 will probably get better mileage.
Unless this contract with EMI prevents Apple from selling DRM free music from other labels, does this mean that anyone who wants to sell their music DRM free can negotiate this kind of deal? Or is Apple going to come up with some excuse as to why they can sell music from EMI with no DRM but cant sell music from ? Now that they have this DRM free music from EMI, they can't claim any technical reasons for why they won't let the small labels sell DRM free...
It has nothing to do with blocking money moving out of the country. What its really about is protecting the gambling tax revenues derived from the big US based gambling organizations (such as the Vegas casinos and the state lotteries in various states). And about protecting the revenues of those same US based gambling organizations (such as the big corporations who own all the Vegas casinos)
The technology to turn sugar cane into ethanol is well established and proven. The equipment needed is readily available off the shelf. And if it wasnt for a handful of hick sugar farmers in Florida dictating US trade and tariff policy, the sugar cane required to fuel the plants could easily come from any number of countries including Brazil and Australia (both of whom would very much like to be able to sell sugar to the US both for human consumption and for biofuel production)
Most of the people who want "net neutrality" probably don't want to ban QOS outright.
This is what I think ISPs should be prohibited from doing: 1.Discriminating or throttling or blocking based on source/destination addresses (and that includes forcing companies like google to pay more if they want full speed over the ISPs network)
2.Applying any kind of throttling based on port number. QOS is fine (that is, giving VoIP packets priority over BitTorrent packets) but throttling is NOT. If a network link is 1.5MBps and no-one wants to send traffic other than BitTorrent traffic over that link, the BitTorrent traffic should be able to use the entire 1.5MBps link (obviously if someone starts sending VoIP packets, then the network link wont accept as many BitTorrent packets and the BitTorrent download will slow down). This would specifically prevent the (increasingly common) practice where ISPs give you 1.5MBps or whatever speed but no matter how perfect the network conditions, BitTorrent or Emule or whatever else is limited so it can never go over 128KBps or 256KBps or whatever. Write in an exemption for cases where there is a direct threat to the network or to another network (e.g. someone spewing out packets as part of a DDOS attack)
These measures would still allow ISPs to completely block ports used by malware as well as measures like blocking port 25 to cut off spam zombies. And it would allow ISPs to apply QOS so that your VoIP packets have higher priority than the BitTorrent packets. But it would prevent ISPs from deciding that if you access CNN.com you can have the full 1.5MBps speed (assuming the rest of the network can handle that) but if you access YouTube.com or download something over BitTorrent, you cannot ever get more than 256KBps unless you pay extra for it (or google pays extra for it in the case of YouTube)
You have Vista Home, Vista Home Premium, Vista Business, Vista Enterprise and Vista Ultimate.
IMO, Vista Enterprise shouldn't exist with the bitlocker and other "enterprise" features being either made available in Vista Business or as some kind of add-on.
The "N" versions need to exist to comply with anti-trust rulings and really are just the normal versions with windows media player files removed from the CD/DVD and the installer.
That would basically leave 4 editions of vista, Home Basic, Home Premium, Business and Ultimate
I suspect the limited format support has to do with: 1.not wanting to pay royalties for formats and codecs they don't need 2.not wanting to take up space on the unit for formats and codecs they don't need and 3.possibly not wanting to support certain formats seen more on pirated or illegally copied content than on legitimate content.
Aliens and flying saucers may not exist but anyone who has seen something flying in the sky (bird, airplane or anything else) and cannot identify what it is has seen a UFO. More to the point, many secret "black" aircraft (both projects like the SR71, B2, F117 and U2 that have been revealed already and projects we don't know about) would be considered UFOs to anyone who doesn't know what they are.
All those people who have reported UFO sightings near Area 51 are probably right, they most likely DID see UFOs. Since the prime use of Area 51 is to test secret aircraft in a way that makes sure that no-one finds out about them, most of the air operations out of the base would have appeared as UFOs to anyone except the few people working on whatever top secret project it is.
As to why countries like America have not released their "UFO" files, its more likely to be because said files could contain information about "black" projects (those of the US, those of allied powers and those of enemy powers such as the Russians). Some of those aircraft are still flying (and some may well still be "top secret") and the US probably doesn't want information about aircraft that may still be used now or in the future to be made public.
If the Russians truly want WTO membership, they are going to have no choice but to shut down sites like allofmp3.com (or failing that, stop allofmp3.com selling RIAA music and/or allowing western users onto their service)
On the other hand, the US has been "fighting" with South American drug lords that flood the streets of America with illegal substances for decades and they haven't been able to stop the flow there.
If the RIAA can get the Russians to shut down allofmp3.com, why cant we (as a society, as internet users, as ISPs who have to deal with this crap etc) use the same pressure to get the Russians, Chinese or whoever to go arrest the people who are WRITING the malware in the first place and lock them up somewhere where they have no computers or internet access and can't use their malware skills to write even more malware. If the malware is being written in the USA, we can do the same thing there too. If enough of the people with the skills (which are above what your average work-a-day.NET coder would have) can be locked up, wouldn't that make it harder for these networks to keep operating? Also, while we are at it, lets do the same for the "Mr Bigs" that actually FUND these networks. Maybe we need to find a way to convince men like G.W.Bush that said "Mr Bigs" are terrorists:)
What the bots are doing is instead of directly sending spam out to the wide world from the zombie machine, they are reading the SMTP server settings from mail clients like Outlook and relaying mail through that instead (to avoid blocks on port 25 by ISPs)
The problem is that if Verizon upgrades the CO, they have to let other companies come in and offer service over that equipment (which means less profit for Verizon and less ability to control what people do with the service). Fiber on the other hand Verizon controls completely and doesn't have to let anyone else on it.
Nintendo won the Tengen case because Tengen illegally obtained proprietary information about the NES lockout chip. Several other companies found ways to defeat the lockout chip without using any proprietary information and Nintendo couldn't shut them down (IIRC Nintendo tried to shut down Color Dreams and failed)
"The specifications covered by this license cannot be used in programs released under the GPL" (or rather, license terms that are intended to have the same effect without mentioning the GPL by name)
I don't know anything much about DirectX10 but if you can build a somewhat functional DX9->OpenGL translation layer (see Wine, WineX/Cdega) then in theory it should be possible to build either a DX10->DX9 translation layer or (more likely) a DX10->OpenGL translation layer.
Farmers in Africa, Asia, South America and others would step in.
Look at, for example, TV sets. Enough companies manufacture TV sets that no one company can exert any real market power. The same would be true with, say, wheat. Enough farmers or companies or whoever (in America and elsewhere) would produce wheat that no one farmer can exert any real power over the market price. And its produced in enough countries in this world that localized weather patterns are less of a factor.
Remember also that an increasing chunk of that corn is Genetically Modified corn. And even where farmers don't want to grow GM corn, companies like Monsanto are using dirty tricks to get them to grow the GM corn anyway. And if that doesn't work, Monsanto heavies raid the farm and "find" GM corn that the farmer hasn't paid for (some of the things Monsanto heavies do would probably make the BSA look good)
Why do you think the US is the only country in the world that uses corn sweetener instead of sugar (beet or cane) in Coca-Cola?
They are probably also worried about things like the open source Second Life client being ported to PS3 linux (and hurting profits for their rip-off online environment)
Here in Australia, McDonald's is making a lot of noise in its ads and marketing and in what you see when you go past the store (and presumably inside the store too but I haven't been inside one in years) about healthier options including "lighter choices" and food approved by the Heart Foundation. They have also rolled out a much healthier kids meal option (Pasta Zoo).
Other fast food chains seem to be offering or emphasizing healthy food that is on their menus although in general not as much as McDonald's. The only major chain that doesn't seem to be doing anything at all about how healthy their food is is KFC but thats most likely because even if you put all the scientists in the world with relavent skills in the same room working on the problem, you still wouldn't be able to make KFC fried chicken anything vaguely resembling healthy:)
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Basicly, because you can convert US$ to L$, gamble at a second life casino,potentially win L$ and convert back to US$, there are questions about whether it falls under US anti-internet-gambling laws. Linden Labs is just trying to cover all the bases and clearly demonstrate that they are willing to cooperate with the FBI on this.
From reading the rules, the car has to be price competitive which rules out all the cars using expensive materials such as aluminum, carbon fiber, composite plastics and whatever else.
A good place to start would be to bust whatever myths exist that cause the "soccer moms" to buy minivans and SUVs instead of station wagons.
A good station wagon can carry the kids and the shopping just as easily as an SUV or a minivan and because it isn't so big and heavy and because it doesn't have 4 x 4 will probably get better mileage.
Unless this contract with EMI prevents Apple from selling DRM free music from other labels, does this mean that anyone who wants to sell their music DRM free can negotiate this kind of deal? Or is Apple going to come up with some excuse as to why they can sell music from EMI with no DRM but cant sell music from ? Now that they have this DRM free music from EMI, they can't claim any technical reasons for why they won't let the small labels sell DRM free...
It has nothing to do with blocking money moving out of the country. What its really about is protecting the gambling tax revenues derived from the big US based gambling organizations (such as the Vegas casinos and the state lotteries in various states). And about protecting the revenues of those same US based gambling organizations (such as the big corporations who own all the Vegas casinos)
The technology to turn sugar cane into ethanol is well established and proven.
The equipment needed is readily available off the shelf.
And if it wasnt for a handful of hick sugar farmers in Florida dictating US trade and tariff policy, the sugar cane required to fuel the plants could easily come from any number of countries including Brazil and Australia (both of whom would very much like to be able to sell sugar to the US both for human consumption and for biofuel production)
Most of the people who want "net neutrality" probably don't want to ban QOS outright.
This is what I think ISPs should be prohibited from doing:
1.Discriminating or throttling or blocking based on source/destination addresses (and that includes forcing companies like google to pay more if they want full speed over the ISPs network)
2.Applying any kind of throttling based on port number. QOS is fine (that is, giving VoIP packets priority over BitTorrent packets) but throttling is NOT. If a network link is 1.5MBps and no-one wants to send traffic other than BitTorrent traffic over that link, the BitTorrent traffic should be able to use the entire 1.5MBps link (obviously if someone starts sending VoIP packets, then the network link wont accept as many BitTorrent packets and the BitTorrent download will slow down). This would specifically prevent the (increasingly common) practice where ISPs give you 1.5MBps or whatever speed but no matter how perfect the network conditions, BitTorrent or Emule or whatever else is limited so it can never go over 128KBps or 256KBps or whatever. Write in an exemption for cases where there is a direct threat to the network or to another network (e.g. someone spewing out packets as part of a DDOS attack)
These measures would still allow ISPs to completely block ports used by malware as well as measures like blocking port 25 to cut off spam zombies. And it would allow ISPs to apply QOS so that your VoIP packets have higher priority than the BitTorrent packets. But it would prevent ISPs from deciding that if you access CNN.com you can have the full 1.5MBps speed (assuming the rest of the network can handle that) but if you access YouTube.com or download something over BitTorrent, you cannot ever get more than 256KBps unless you pay extra for it (or google pays extra for it in the case of YouTube)
You have Vista Home, Vista Home Premium, Vista Business, Vista Enterprise and Vista Ultimate.
IMO, Vista Enterprise shouldn't exist with the bitlocker and other "enterprise" features being either made available in Vista Business or as some kind of add-on.
The "N" versions need to exist to comply with anti-trust rulings and really are just the normal versions with windows media player files removed from the CD/DVD
and the installer.
That would basically leave 4 editions of vista, Home Basic, Home Premium, Business and Ultimate
Remember, the Mercury and Gemini capsules were launched on top of the same rockets that were sitting in silos carrying nuclear warheads.
I suspect the limited format support has to do with:
1.not wanting to pay royalties for formats and codecs they don't need
2.not wanting to take up space on the unit for formats and codecs they don't need
and 3.possibly not wanting to support certain formats seen more on pirated or illegally copied content than on legitimate content.
Aliens and flying saucers may not exist but anyone who has seen something flying in the sky (bird, airplane or anything else) and cannot identify what it is has seen a UFO. More to the point, many secret "black" aircraft (both projects like the SR71, B2, F117 and U2 that have been revealed already and projects we don't know about) would be considered UFOs to anyone who doesn't know what they are.
All those people who have reported UFO sightings near Area 51 are probably right, they most likely DID see UFOs. Since the prime use of Area 51 is to test secret aircraft in a way that makes sure that no-one finds out about them, most of the air operations out of the base would have appeared as UFOs to anyone except the few people working on whatever top secret project it is.
As to why countries like America have not released their "UFO" files, its more likely to be because said files could contain information about "black" projects (those of the US, those of allied powers and those of enemy powers such as the Russians). Some of those aircraft are still flying (and some may well still be "top secret") and the US probably doesn't want information about aircraft that may still be used now or in the future to be made public.
If the Russians truly want WTO membership, they are going to have no choice but to shut down sites like allofmp3.com (or failing that, stop allofmp3.com selling RIAA music and/or allowing western users onto their service)
On the other hand, the US has been "fighting" with South American drug lords that flood the streets of America with illegal substances for decades and they haven't been able to stop the flow there.
If the RIAA can get the Russians to shut down allofmp3.com, why cant we (as a society, as internet users, as ISPs who have to deal with this crap etc) use the same pressure to get the Russians, Chinese or whoever to go arrest the people who are WRITING the malware in the first place and lock them up somewhere where they have no computers or internet access and can't use their malware skills to write even more malware. If the malware is being written in the USA, we can do the same thing there too. If enough of the people with the skills (which are above what your average work-a-day .NET coder would have) can be locked up, wouldn't that make it harder for these networks to keep operating? Also, while we are at it, lets do the same for the "Mr Bigs" that actually FUND these networks. Maybe we need to find a way to convince men like G.W.Bush that said "Mr Bigs" are terrorists :)
What the bots are doing is instead of directly sending spam out to the wide world from the zombie machine, they are reading the SMTP server settings from mail clients like Outlook and relaying mail through that instead (to avoid blocks on port 25 by ISPs)
The problem is that if Verizon upgrades the CO, they have to let other companies come in and offer service over that equipment (which means less profit for Verizon and less ability to control what people do with the service).
Fiber on the other hand Verizon controls completely and doesn't have to let anyone else on it.
Nintendo won the Tengen case because Tengen illegally obtained proprietary information about the NES lockout chip. Several other companies found ways to defeat the lockout chip without using any proprietary information and Nintendo couldn't shut them down (IIRC Nintendo tried to shut down Color Dreams and failed)
"The specifications covered by this license cannot be used in programs released under the GPL" (or rather, license terms that are intended to have the same effect without mentioning the GPL by name)
I don't know anything much about DirectX10 but if you can build a somewhat functional DX9->OpenGL translation layer (see Wine, WineX/Cdega) then in theory it should be possible to build either a DX10->DX9 translation layer or (more likely) a DX10->OpenGL translation layer.
Farmers in Africa, Asia, South America and others would step in.
Look at, for example, TV sets. Enough companies manufacture TV sets that no one company can exert any real market power. The same would be true with, say, wheat. Enough farmers or companies or whoever (in America and elsewhere) would produce wheat that no one farmer can exert any real power over the market price. And its produced in enough countries in this world that localized weather patterns are less of a factor.
The same is true of most other commodities.
If you cant produce corn at a profit without the government paying you, you should produce something else that CAN turn a profit.
If there were no farm subsidies in this world, the world would be a better place.
Remember also that an increasing chunk of that corn is Genetically Modified corn.
And even where farmers don't want to grow GM corn, companies like Monsanto are using dirty tricks to get them to grow the GM corn anyway. And if that doesn't work, Monsanto heavies raid the farm and "find" GM corn that the farmer hasn't paid for (some of the things Monsanto heavies do would probably make the BSA look good)
Why do you think the US is the only country in the world that uses corn sweetener instead of sugar (beet or cane) in Coca-Cola?
More to the point, why are they even allowing smoking in the closed environment of a submarine in the first place?
They are probably also worried about things like the open source Second Life client being ported to PS3 linux (and hurting profits for their rip-off online environment)
Google clearly seems to be removing Viacom content as fast as Viacom sends take-down notices so why doesn't DMCA safe harbor apply to Google?
Here in Australia, McDonald's is making a lot of noise in its ads and marketing and in what you see when you go past the store (and presumably inside the store too but I haven't been inside one in years) about healthier options including "lighter choices" and food approved by the Heart Foundation. They have also rolled out a much healthier kids meal option (Pasta Zoo).
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Other fast food chains seem to be offering or emphasizing healthy food that is on their menus although in general not as much as McDonald's. The only major chain that doesn't seem to be doing anything at all about how healthy their food is is KFC but thats most likely because even if you put all the scientists in the world with relavent skills in the same room working on the problem, you still wouldn't be able to make KFC fried chicken anything vaguely resembling healthy