From where I sit, I would much rather see 100 guilty people get to keep their ill-gotten gains (due to an ending of the practice of law enforcement and government agencies seizing money and assets without even needing any real proof that someone has done something wrong, let alone a guilty conviction) than see a single innocent have their assets taken.
If there is evidence of an actual crime, they can get a court order to seize the assets and if there is a guilty verdict, they can keep the seized assets. Otherwise they shouldn't be allowed to do this crap. And yes I say that even when the intended targets of the assets seizures are organized crime gangs, drug runners, terrorists and other generally nasty people.
Donkey Kong uses discrete analog components for its sound and its hardware is documented both through the schematics and the MAME driver implementation of said discrete sound.
The reason the US stopped reprocessing nuclear waste from its reactors is because one of the steps in the process results in weapons-grade material and there was (and still is with the terror threat) a proliferation risk.
Here in Australia voting is compulsory and it doesn't make a difference, we still get the same kind of politicians unwilling to say NO to the USA (doesn't matter if its liberal or labor, both will do whatever the US government and the big US corporations want)
Whats it going to take for people in New Zealand to elect a government willing to say NO to the USA, to big US corporations and to totally one-sided and unfair trade agreements like this?
Blame the combination of Telstra (who don't particularly like the idea of a network it has no control over and earns no money from as would have been the case for a FTTP NBN), Foxtel (who see a high speed network killing off their overpriced crappy pay TV offering) and the big movie/TV companies (who see a high speed network as leading to increased levels of piracy)
Big multinationals are lying about where income is earned so they can get away with paying less tax in countries that have higher tax rates.
A solution to the problem would be to require companies to list in their annual reports exactly where the income was earned (with strong penalties for lying about where the income came from and powers for regulators to investigate such things) so they are forced to pay tax on earnings in the country they earned the revenue in.
Here in Australia, most ATMs give out a combination of $20s and $50s. I have seen a few ATMs (the one that springs to mind was near a casino) that give out $100s but never any that give out smaller stuff than $20s.
Its not always the case that the car companies (German or otherwise) get what they want from the EU.
Take the case of refrigerant gasses for car air conditioners. Until recently, cars in the EU were using a refrigerant called r134a which is bad for the environment. The EU introduced regulations requiring a switch for new cars to a refrigerant called r1234yf which is a lot less damaging to the environment.
Mercedes however refuses to use r1234yf because they claim that its it a lot less safe than r134a if there is a leak or a fire. Mercedes instead says it wants to use carbon dioxide as a refrigerant going forward (since it doesn't have the fire risk of r1234yf and is actually less harmful to the environment than both r1234yf and r134a) and continue using r134a until it can switch over to carbon dioxide.
There is a big fight going on right now over the issue with Mercedes saying r1234yf is unsafe because of the fire risk and various bodies (including the EU and French authorities) arguing that the fire risk isn't as great as Mercedes says it is and the environmental risk of continuing to use r134a outweighs it.
Does your ISP tell your customers that they do this kind of proxying and why? If you tell customers that you need to do it to stop SPAM on your networks, people will be less likely to shoot off at the mouth and say "hey, ISPs are blocking encryption so they can spy on all my emails" or whatever as in the tech-dirt article.
I thought Microsoft had dropped all support for Internet Explorer 6 and Windows XP? If not, they should and force people still stuck on IE6 to upgrade.
If you have ever downloaded something from BitTorrent, you have also distributed it (I know of no BitTorrent client that will download an entire file and not upload a single byte of it to anyone else)
Like this vehicle, it folds the wings away for driving on the road. But unlike this vehicle (at least from what I can see), they have both a weight exemption from the FAA so it can be classified as a "light sport" aircraft and flown on a "sport pilot license" (which is much easier to get than a full regular pilot license) AND an exemption from the NHTSA to use lightweight motorcycle tires and a lightweight polycarbonate windscreen to keep weight down instead of the heavier automobile tires and safety glass windscreen normally required on cars.
It may not be shipping to customers yet but they have shown actual production-intent models as part of their flight testing and drive testing.
I cant find details of just what the kernel change was but it seems like the hardware feature is a feature to detect that the laptop is undergoing a sudden shock and shut off the hard disk (move the heads out of the way) to prevent damage to the platters.
All 3 commercial networks as well as the ABC (government owned station) air cartoons on various of their channels on Saturday Morning (and at other times of the day/week for that matter)
Heck, its 5:30pm here and one network is airing an episode of Scooby Doo...
I ran Gentoo for a while and my system actually got a little tiny bit faster over time as big heavy packages got rebuilt with newer GCC versions that optimized the package better than the last GCC version did.
Of course that didn't make up for the fact that it could take the best part of 3 days or more for the ancient Pentium 4 I was running it on to do a full emerge pass if certain larger packages all happened to be updated at once.
Most of the arguments about population density/demand/etc that apply to high speed rail in Japan (or more to the point in Europe) would very much apply to a super-fast train linking, say, Grand Central Terminal in NYC to, say, Union station in Washington DC.
I did a 6 month student internship with Motorola software development (basically 6 months of full time work that counted towards my degree) and I can tell you that phones being in development for a year or more isn't unusual for the industry, especially if its totally new hardware rather than a variant of existing hardware. Plus, remember that these guys are voulnteers and not doing this fulll time.
As for the CPU choice, it has been chosen so that the Neo900 can be backwards compatible with the N900. Plus, its actually possible to GET this CPU wheras you cant even get Qualcomm parts (and the info you need to actually use them) unless you are really big and well established.
The Neo900 isn't meant to compete with the Galaxy S or iPhone, its meant to be a phone that takes all the good things about the N900 (physical keyboard, full Linux/X setup, openness) and make it better (faster CPU, more memory, better cellular radio, better WiFi, better Bluetooth, NFC support, more security, more control over the hardware)
Disclaimer:I own a N900 (and in fact am typing this reply on it) and would sign up for a Neo900 preorder if I could afford it. I am also involved in reverse engineering and code work for the N900 and Neo900.
For example, if eBay no longer owns PayPal (or has any connection to it) they no longer have the incentive to force people to accept it (or like they did in Australia before they got in trouble for it, make PayPal the only method of payment).
Also maybe this will impact the ability of eBay to do certain things they do now like holding money from an eBay auction instead of releasing it to the seller straight away.
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From where I sit, I would much rather see 100 guilty people get to keep their ill-gotten gains (due to an ending of the practice of law enforcement and government agencies seizing money and assets without even needing any real proof that someone has done something wrong, let alone a guilty conviction) than see a single innocent have their assets taken.
If there is evidence of an actual crime, they can get a court order to seize the assets and if there is a guilty verdict, they can keep the seized assets. Otherwise they shouldn't be allowed to do this crap. And yes I say that even when the intended targets of the assets seizures are organized crime gangs, drug runners, terrorists and other generally nasty people.
Donkey Kong uses discrete analog components for its sound and its hardware is documented both through the schematics and the MAME driver implementation of said discrete sound.
The reason the US stopped reprocessing nuclear waste from its reactors is because one of the steps in the process results in weapons-grade material and there was (and still is with the terror threat) a proliferation risk.
They were just acting on orders from their corporate masters...
Here in Australia voting is compulsory and it doesn't make a difference, we still get the same kind of politicians unwilling to say NO to the USA (doesn't matter if its liberal or labor, both will do whatever the US government and the big US corporations want)
Whats it going to take for people in New Zealand to elect a government willing to say NO to the USA, to big US corporations and to totally one-sided and unfair trade agreements like this?
Blame the combination of Telstra (who don't particularly like the idea of a network it has no control over and earns no money from as would have been the case for a FTTP NBN), Foxtel (who see a high speed network killing off their overpriced crappy pay TV offering) and the big movie/TV companies (who see a high speed network as leading to increased levels of piracy)
Iraq's nuclear program was basically stopped by the Israeli attack on the Osirak reactor.
Big multinationals are lying about where income is earned so they can get away with paying less tax in countries that have higher tax rates.
A solution to the problem would be to require companies to list in their annual reports exactly where the income was earned (with strong penalties for lying about where the income came from and powers for regulators to investigate such things) so they are forced to pay tax on earnings in the country they earned the revenue in.
Here in Australia, most ATMs give out a combination of $20s and $50s. I have seen a few ATMs (the one that springs to mind was near a casino) that give out $100s but never any that give out smaller stuff than $20s.
Its not always the case that the car companies (German or otherwise) get what they want from the EU.
Take the case of refrigerant gasses for car air conditioners. Until recently, cars in the EU were using a refrigerant called r134a which is bad for the environment. The EU introduced regulations requiring a switch for new cars to a refrigerant called r1234yf which is a lot less damaging to the environment.
Mercedes however refuses to use r1234yf because they claim that its it a lot less safe than r134a if there is a leak or a fire. Mercedes instead says it wants to use carbon dioxide as a refrigerant going forward (since it doesn't have the fire risk of r1234yf and is actually less harmful to the environment than both r1234yf and r134a) and continue using r134a until it can switch over to carbon dioxide.
There is a big fight going on right now over the issue with Mercedes saying r1234yf is unsafe because of the fire risk and various bodies (including the EU and French authorities) arguing that the fire risk isn't as great as Mercedes says it is and the environmental risk of continuing to use r134a outweighs it.
Does your ISP tell your customers that they do this kind of proxying and why? If you tell customers that you need to do it to stop SPAM on your networks, people will be less likely to shoot off at the mouth and say "hey, ISPs are blocking encryption so they can spy on all my emails" or whatever as in the tech-dirt article.
I thought Microsoft had dropped all support for Internet Explorer 6 and Windows XP?
If not, they should and force people still stuck on IE6 to upgrade.
If you have ever downloaded something from BitTorrent, you have also distributed it (I know of no BitTorrent client that will download an entire file and not upload a single byte of it to anyone else)
It wont have any impact on that since this case is about copyrights and not patents.
+1 to this, I bet you couldn't even get gigabit from you to even Google severs and kit, let alone the rest of the internet.
Like this vehicle, it folds the wings away for driving on the road. But unlike this vehicle (at least from what I can see), they have both a weight exemption from the FAA so it can be classified as a "light sport" aircraft and flown on a "sport pilot license" (which is much easier to get than a full regular pilot license) AND an exemption from the NHTSA to use lightweight motorcycle tires and a lightweight polycarbonate windscreen to keep weight down instead of the heavier automobile tires and safety glass windscreen normally required on cars.
It may not be shipping to customers yet but they have shown actual production-intent models as part of their flight testing and drive testing.
I cant find details of just what the kernel change was but it seems like the hardware feature is a feature to detect that the laptop is undergoing a sudden shock and shut off the hard disk (move the heads out of the way) to prevent damage to the platters.
All 3 commercial networks as well as the ABC (government owned station) air cartoons on various of their channels on Saturday Morning (and at other times of the day/week for that matter)
Heck, its 5:30pm here and one network is airing an episode of Scooby Doo...
In places like Manhattan, the local authority charges parking taxes which the hotels then have to pass on to the customer.
I ran Gentoo for a while and my system actually got a little tiny bit faster over time as big heavy packages got rebuilt with newer GCC versions that optimized the package better than the last GCC version did.
Of course that didn't make up for the fact that it could take the best part of 3 days or more for the ancient Pentium 4 I was running it on to do a full emerge pass if certain larger packages all happened to be updated at once.
Most of the arguments about population density/demand/etc that apply to high speed rail in Japan (or more to the point in Europe) would very much apply to a super-fast train linking, say, Grand Central Terminal in NYC to, say, Union station in Washington DC.
I did a 6 month student internship with Motorola software development (basically 6 months of full time work that counted towards my degree) and I can tell you that phones being in development for a year or more isn't unusual for the industry, especially if its totally new hardware rather than a variant of existing hardware. Plus, remember that these guys are voulnteers and not doing this fulll time.
As for the CPU choice, it has been chosen so that the Neo900 can be backwards compatible with the N900. Plus, its actually possible to GET this CPU wheras you cant even get Qualcomm parts (and the info you need to actually use them) unless you are really big and well established.
The Neo900 isn't meant to compete with the Galaxy S or iPhone, its meant to be a phone that takes all the good things about the N900 (physical keyboard, full Linux/X setup, openness) and make it better (faster CPU, more memory, better cellular radio, better WiFi, better Bluetooth, NFC support, more security, more control over the hardware)
Disclaimer:I own a N900 (and in fact am typing this reply on it) and would sign up for a Neo900 preorder if I could afford it. I am also involved in reverse engineering and code work for the N900 and Neo900.
For example, if eBay no longer owns PayPal (or has any connection to it) they no longer have the incentive to force people to accept it (or like they did in Australia before they got in trouble for it, make PayPal the only method of payment).
Also maybe this will impact the ability of eBay to do certain things they do now like holding money from an eBay auction instead of releasing it to the seller straight away.
If you want a phone that doesn't lock you into proprietary crap-ware, wait for the Neo900. Or buy a used N900.