Foreign governments have no jurisdiction in international waters
except you know if your traveling though international waters to go some place international. I know my aunt (travels in a Yacht internationally) was looking for a safe way to leave a gun/ammo in international waters, then retrieve it, without scuba gear required, or looking suspicious if watched, in water of unknown depth, at low cost. Sure a GPS could get you back to within a few feet of where you dropped something, but if you sent it to a 1000' bottom, it would move a considerable distance. Basically a buoy that can be remote triggered to release up to a 1000' down in water that uses something off the shelf, maybe a flashy light, etc.
Otherwise something like this would just be sent off to float, maybe it could send out a wireless location and you just hope it wasn't caught in a current...
these pirates can be deterred (and if that fails, defeated) with small arms.
you do realize these pirates have high power rifles, and automatic machine guns, correct? And don't care if a few of them get killed taking on a ship. So small arms, that would be illegal in enough countries you couldn't go to shore with them, that only puts you on par, if your crew is better trained than the pirates, who do this for a living. I know my aunt had fire crackers that differed boats coming towards her boat. Again she never knew if they were pirates, or if they were just wanting to sell/trade/buy for some missing items... But then her boat was no million dollar prize.
makes me wonder if similar could ever become commercialized. IE you have a plane that can drop hundreds of these at precise coordinates. Every plane flight becomes a one way trip, every traveler purchases/rents a enclosed pod with wings and gps controls, crawl in at the airport. The plane just flies down the middle of the country when your closest to desired destination the plane drops your pod out at 20k feet, it glides/propels to the exact location you want. When you ready for the return flight it's loaded into a pickup/suv back to the nearest airport... (probably a taxi service, no need to leave your car at the airport) This way every airport in the US could just have around 4 flights each going "N/E/S/W" No more layovers, no swine flu exposure, no waiting at airports for flights to arrive... Although I would hate to drop through the wrong weather, or collide with a relative coming in at the same time...
by netbooks? Granted the netbooks re-directed the notebook market. INHO netbooks forced VISTA to be re-focused in Windows 7 to be somewhat efficient and smaller, (since MS had to continue XP until something from MS that ran on netbooks was available) so if you wanted more OS bloat then yeah netbooks held back the market.
It is clear the market was headed toward the MAC route, IE more bloated (but powerful) software needing more bloated hardware to have everything at a price (>=$1000). The only reason IMHO that you can buy a $500 laptop today, is because of the netbook influence, those were disappearing fast until ASUS saw a niche and jumped. pre-netbook Mobile PC's were following one of 2 options, A constantly growing larger notebook as a Desktop replacement that can be moved. Or the very pricey, everything cramed into a smaller package, priced for business use. And nothing for affordable mobile "on the plane/bus/car pool" use.
from your post, I am guessing you have heard about The Man Who Said No to Wal-Mart But it is good to read the whole thing, it is not a one sided, "walmart pushes them to produce lower quality", the end. It is just as often a push to produce at a economical quality level. IE its usually better to buy a lawn mower that lasts half as long, but costs 1/3 as much. In that case it also pushed down the price of the quality products, by forcing them to be more efficient as well.
I don't understand how news sites are going to drop from Google.
google follows the robots.txt file, so if you have that file with the content "User-agent: * Disallow:/" then google will not index any of that site. Those sites could then either sell a index to bing, or use the useragent string to detect googles indexing requests and only send google the robots.txt file with the disallow.
I think your misunderstanding their product, web surfers are googles product, they provide surfers to retailers, etc for money. Those who pay google (most websites) are googles customers. Those who are paid by google, are googles suppliers (sites hosting advertisements.) The people who use googles (mostly free) applications/web search/google app, etc we are the product. So while Google doesn't have Monopoly control over us, their product, they do currently have monopoly type control over their suppliers, and customers. Unless you are saying their are web retailers, that wouldn't be concerned with reaching Google's 71% control of their potential market? Google accounted for more than 71% of US searches in September If any major web retailers was shunned by google, and thus denied access to 71% of the marketplace, they would be done, or severely handicapped in the market. That's my definition of a monopoly anyway when all other competitors combined would limit potential customers to 1/3 of the market.
while having 50 alternatives may prevent it from having a websters definition of "monopoly", that doesn't prevent it from being legally a monopoly.
In economics, a monopoly exists when a specific individual or an enterprise has sufficient control over a particular product or service to determine significantly the terms on which other individuals shall have access to it.
unless Cuban just watched throw mom from the train. Sounds like he is telling msft, "hey I would try to submarine google for you, if I just had enough money;);)". If someone would throw some of their advertisement money to buy some good players for me, that wouldn't count against my salary cap... And I will help you bypass the whole "Monopoly practices" that keeps you from undercutting google out of business.
When an "artist" dies, their estate is assets and savings, plus a government mandated money tree.
IP seams to be treated like any other asset, just like a business, farm land, collectibles, etc. IE it has a present value, some expected return that is not guaranteed, just like any other asset. The beetles are a good example, they created a business to hold the rights to their albums, so that the revenue wouldn't be taxed as income (lower than the 90% tax rate), but @ capital gains. If it ceased to have value the day a artist died, then the value of that asset would be greatly reduced, thus greatly reducing the value to the artist. It is very unlikely they could have gotten $47.5 million for this "IP" business if the assets could disappear overnight, it is even more unlikely that older artists, or those with shorter lifetimes would get much investment interest (IE a publisher) without some minimal time frame.
If the murders, Wolfgang Werlé and Manfred Lauber, still live in Germany then they are at the same risk. IE if one of the family or friends of the victim feel the same, it could be bad for those two. Perhaps the family are just waiting for the record to be cleared, so then their would be no legal motive. Just imagine when the police come knocking on say the victiums brothers door, "whats my motive for killing them, its not like they murdered my brother, did they?"
were this to happen tomorrow, the Earth and the other planets would continue to orbit the black hole sun exactly as they have
with the theory being that the sun would go sun->red giant->supernova->???->blackhole. pretty sure either the redgiant phase or supernova explosion would break the earth up, then most of those pieces would either escape, be caught up by the gravity of further out planets, or be sucked into that black hole. But sure if a similar sized earth object ended up back into this orbit, it would orbit just like the current earth, very slowly decaying it's orbit until it was sucked into the sun (one theory is that the radiation energy of the sun pushes us away at nearly the same rate as our drag, sans solar radiation how fast would this mass decay???)
If the school just took a cut, allowed geeks to sell points to those with lower grades. Make a bigger incentive to do really well in school. Would want to set limits, wouldn't want a poor kid selling A's to the point of Failing or Failing kids getting A's. After all (in my opinion) 90% of the point of grading is incentive, the other 10% is probably labeling who are successful...
pretty pricey solution, buy a $1000 mac for them, when it would accomplish the same to just stick a ubuntu CD into the drive? He's not saying they need all the features of a MAC, I mean MAC's are good at many things, but as much as I hate MS, it's going to be hard to claim any new computer (say a $300 windows 7 or linux netbook) would be just as safe of a net browsing PC as a $1000 MAC ( macbook is not any more immune to stupid web browsing.)
criminals and the terrorists deserve to be put into prison
careful thats not always a clear cut line, for instance bush considered only Christians to be citizens therefore anyone trying to overthrow Christianity, was trying to overthrow his country? Teaching science might not be too far from being considered a terrorist by many zealots (of which bush often listened to). With government listing to corporate interests and considering anything harmful to corporate profits, like breaking DRM, as theft. If this criminal/terrorist net doesn't include you yet, it could encompass many of your friends/family, isn't conspiring with known criminals and terrorists a crime? (best get off of Slashdot now, to be safe...)
All kinds of reasons keys are faster better than mouse. The biggest reason for me is using a laptop with gloves (and no spot for a external mouse) granted that's only a windows thing, since apple doesn't make a laptop for use below 50F. (then again most windows laptops have a pointer stick, but they are not very accurate for me)
it was proven true, intent isn't known. My only point was, their is no easy way to verify a iApp outside of apple, a customer couldn't even verify a app they were given/bought the source for. This one transmitted the info over WiFi link as well, had it only used cell link, who would know? Open-sourcing a iphone game doesn't seam too bad. To get it on a phone a player would have to pay $100 to become a developer (or $4 for the app), without that they could play it on a emulator only. The app store is supposed to eliminate duplicates. So updates would be required to give back changes, so any app the developer should have a head start in marketing spin-offs... Seams like a win-win. Besides most iphone apps don't look that difficult to code for a experienced iDeveloper, if you were just wanting to copy a existing app.
I think your taking too literal reading of professional. IE any professional driver (read mail delivery, 18 wheeler operator) would be paid some additional amount to become a "Road Train" Engineer. IE they still drive their regular route, so their is no additional people, or equipment on the road. If every, over the road delivery vehicle were to become one; then plenty of options would generally be available to join some train. If the system is smart enough to handle one car gaps for entry/exit, they should be smart enough to hand off between pro drivers as well. The issue I see is that a train of 10 cars following that close means the Pro driver would have to have one hell of a clear lane to pass anyone, so that wouldn't happen. So unless special lanes were made available, the number of times this train have to slow down and speed up would consume all the fuel savings, and take longer as well. But a special "Road train" only lane could fix that. (but then a breakdown would be all the more consuming, unless mulitple "road train only" lanes were available.
I would agree, except apple's setup seams to prevent anyone but apple being able to prevent this. Most other platforms you could install a debugger/logger, but that would be banned on any phone that can access the app store. In a open development environment you could have open source apps that the customers can compile themselves insuring any suspicion can be verified in source as intent, again not option in the apple environment. Apple better have a terms of use for application developer so that these suppliers are are in-deed punishable by apple. Since again, the customer only deals with Apple for the applications, it seams to me, Apple should be the first ones to sue these developers, since they are likely to take the most damage from this.
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It's about the guide data. Tivo would sell a DVR for $199 but charge $5 a month so you could dial into their server monthly to download the guide (and some value added TVGuide stuff.) They also sold identical hardware for $350 that had a lifetime subscription. You could simply alter a few bits on the non-lifetime DVR and re-sale it for a profit as having a lifetime sub. (past tense, since I have no idea what tivo has done in the last 2 years) TIVO did deserve the hack though. They sold lifetime subscriptions for $150. Even on hardware with a service plan, the hardware failed (even under warranty) they would replace the hardware and refuse to update to lifetime subscription unless you paid another $150. This pissed off a programmer so much he went on a mission to avoid paying twice, succeded and shared it with all.
Generally (IMHO) it is OK to judge others by their stated morals. When M.Soft says it's stealing to use their software without following their "Terms of use". Even if I don't agree with them, if they turned around and ignored the GPL, then we should be allowed to throw it back at them as theft. Similar with preachers/republicans when they tell you what is immoral, then violate it themselves, they should be judged on that, and not solely on the laws or morals of a different culture that has different beliefs. Because it is clear if they violate the rules the hold most dearly, they will violate any rules anytime they think they won't get caught.
He is not going to get down to 1 ohm with telephone wire, 24 gauge (typical phone) wire has a resistance of.03 ohm/foot so as long as these rooms are at least 50 feet of wiring away, it would be 1.5 ohms to the first speaker + 1.5 ohms back. so even if all 6 of his proposed max were at this distance (4 wires, 2 for each loop) it would still be 8/3+3 thus roughly 5.5 ohms to the amplifier. Amplifier efficiency will suck, but I doubt you could come up with a very damaging configuration using phone wire and 6 speakers or less (unless it was hooked up in parallel with existing speakers that used decent speaker wire.) Using the suggestion of amplified speakers seams like a reasonable solution.
but what they are trained to do takes constant effort. Personally always on radar should be banned, because what it leads to is the cop sets in the car and waits for a winning number on the gun, then picks out the winner. They are trained that they have to be able to clearly pick out the fastest vehicle, then take a number. Anyone with a radar detector knows that is not usually how they do it. Personally I think they should integrate GPS with radar, a cop who triggers on non speeders half the time should be repramanded, if a cop looks at me and knows I am speeding, I deserve the ticket. If I am not speeding, a cop shouldn't be gathering evidence against me without any cause.
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Foreign governments have no jurisdiction in international waters
except you know if your traveling though international waters to go some place international. I know my aunt (travels in a Yacht internationally) was looking for a safe way to leave a gun/ammo in international waters, then retrieve it, without scuba gear required, or looking suspicious if watched, in water of unknown depth, at low cost. Sure a GPS could get you back to within a few feet of where you dropped something, but if you sent it to a 1000' bottom, it would move a considerable distance. Basically a buoy that can be remote triggered to release up to a 1000' down in water that uses something off the shelf, maybe a flashy light, etc.
Otherwise something like this would just be sent off to float, maybe it could send out a wireless location and you just hope it wasn't caught in a current...
these pirates can be deterred (and if that fails, defeated) with small arms.
you do realize these pirates have high power rifles, and automatic machine guns, correct? And don't care if a few of them get killed taking on a ship. So small arms, that would be illegal in enough countries you couldn't go to shore with them, that only puts you on par, if your crew is better trained than the pirates, who do this for a living.
I know my aunt had fire crackers that differed boats coming towards her boat. Again she never knew if they were pirates, or if they were just wanting to sell/trade/buy for some missing items... But then her boat was no million dollar prize.
makes me wonder if similar could ever become commercialized. IE you have a plane that can drop hundreds of these at precise coordinates. Every plane flight becomes a one way trip, every traveler purchases/rents a enclosed pod with wings and gps controls, crawl in at the airport. The plane just flies down the middle of the country when your closest to desired destination the plane drops your pod out at 20k feet, it glides/propels to the exact location you want. When you ready for the return flight it's loaded into a pickup/suv back to the nearest airport... (probably a taxi service, no need to leave your car at the airport)
This way every airport in the US could just have around 4 flights each going "N/E/S/W" No more layovers, no swine flu exposure, no waiting at airports for flights to arrive...
Although I would hate to drop through the wrong weather, or collide with a relative coming in at the same time...
call me when your high performance glider can do that averaging 130 MPH (+live person, +no oxygen).
Mobile computing is being held back
by netbooks? Granted the netbooks re-directed the notebook market. INHO netbooks forced VISTA to be re-focused in Windows 7 to be somewhat efficient and smaller, (since MS had to continue XP until something from MS that ran on netbooks was available) so if you wanted more OS bloat then yeah netbooks held back the market.
It is clear the market was headed toward the MAC route, IE more bloated (but powerful) software needing more bloated hardware to have everything at a price (>=$1000). The only reason IMHO that you can buy a $500 laptop today, is because of the netbook influence, those were disappearing fast until ASUS saw a niche and jumped. pre-netbook Mobile PC's were following one of 2 options, A constantly growing larger notebook as a Desktop replacement that can be moved. Or the very pricey, everything cramed into a smaller package, priced for business use. And nothing for affordable mobile "on the plane/bus/car pool" use.
from your post, I am guessing you have heard about The Man Who Said No to Wal-Mart But it is good to read the whole thing, it is not a one sided, "walmart pushes them to produce lower quality", the end. It is just as often a push to produce at a economical quality level. IE its usually better to buy a lawn mower that lasts half as long, but costs 1/3 as much. In that case it also pushed down the price of the quality products, by forcing them to be more efficient as well.
I don't understand how news sites are going to drop from Google.
google follows the robots.txt file, so if you have that file with the content "User-agent: * /" then google will not index any of that site. Those sites could then either sell a index to bing, or use the useragent string to detect googles indexing requests and only send google the robots.txt file with the disallow.
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I think your misunderstanding their product, web surfers are googles product, they provide surfers to retailers, etc for money. Those who pay google (most websites) are googles customers. Those who are paid by google, are googles suppliers (sites hosting advertisements.) The people who use googles (mostly free) applications/web search/google app, etc we are the product. So while Google doesn't have Monopoly control over us, their product, they do currently have monopoly type control over their suppliers, and customers.
Unless you are saying their are web retailers, that wouldn't be concerned with reaching Google's 71% control of their potential market? Google accounted for more than 71% of US searches in September
If any major web retailers was shunned by google, and thus denied access to 71% of the marketplace, they would be done, or severely handicapped in the market. That's my definition of a monopoly anyway when all other competitors combined would limit potential customers to 1/3 of the market.
while having 50 alternatives may prevent it from having a websters definition of "monopoly", that doesn't prevent it from being legally a monopoly.
In economics, a monopoly exists when a specific individual or an enterprise has sufficient control over a particular product or service to determine significantly the terms on which other individuals shall have access to it.
unless Cuban just watched throw mom from the train. Sounds like he is telling msft, "hey I would try to submarine google for you, if I just had enough money ;) ;)". If someone would throw some of their advertisement money to buy some good players for me, that wouldn't count against my salary cap... And I will help you bypass the whole "Monopoly practices" that keeps you from undercutting google out of business.
When an "artist" dies, their estate is assets and savings, plus a government mandated money tree.
IP seams to be treated like any other asset, just like a business, farm land, collectibles, etc. IE it has a present value, some expected return that is not guaranteed, just like any other asset.
The beetles are a good example, they created a business to hold the rights to their albums, so that the revenue wouldn't be taxed as income (lower than the 90% tax rate), but @ capital gains.
If it ceased to have value the day a artist died, then the value of that asset would be greatly reduced, thus greatly reducing the value to the artist. It is very unlikely they could have gotten $47.5 million for this "IP" business if the assets could disappear overnight, it is even more unlikely that older artists, or those with shorter lifetimes would get much investment interest (IE a publisher) without some minimal time frame.
If the murders, Wolfgang Werlé and Manfred Lauber, still live in Germany then they are at the same risk. IE if one of the family or friends of the victim feel the same, it could be bad for those two. Perhaps the family are just waiting for the record to be cleared, so then their would be no legal motive. Just imagine when the police come knocking on say the victiums brothers door, "whats my motive for killing them, its not like they murdered my brother, did they?"
were this to happen tomorrow, the Earth and the other planets would continue to orbit the black hole sun exactly as they have
with the theory being that the sun would go sun->red giant->supernova->???->blackhole. pretty sure either the redgiant phase or supernova explosion would break the earth up, then most of those pieces would either escape, be caught up by the gravity of further out planets, or be sucked into that black hole. But sure if a similar sized earth object ended up back into this orbit, it would orbit just like the current earth, very slowly decaying it's orbit until it was sucked into the sun (one theory is that the radiation energy of the sun pushes us away at nearly the same rate as our drag, sans solar radiation how fast would this mass decay???)
If the school just took a cut, allowed geeks to sell points to those with lower grades. Make a bigger incentive to do really well in school. Would want to set limits, wouldn't want a poor kid selling A's to the point of Failing or Failing kids getting A's.
After all (in my opinion) 90% of the point of grading is incentive, the other 10% is probably labeling who are successful...
pretty pricey solution, buy a $1000 mac for them, when it would accomplish the same to just stick a ubuntu CD into the drive? He's not saying they need all the features of a MAC, I mean MAC's are good at many things, but as much as I hate MS, it's going to be hard to claim any new computer (say a $300 windows 7 or linux netbook) would be just as safe of a net browsing PC as a $1000 MAC ( macbook is not any more immune to stupid web browsing.)
meant to include a link to the GWB quote: No, I don't know that atheists should be considered as citizens, nor should they be considered patriots. This is one nation under God.
criminals and the terrorists deserve to be put into prison
careful thats not always a clear cut line, for instance bush considered only Christians to be citizens therefore anyone trying to overthrow Christianity, was trying to overthrow his country? Teaching science might not be too far from being considered a terrorist by many zealots (of which bush often listened to). With government listing to corporate interests and considering anything harmful to corporate profits, like breaking DRM, as theft. If this criminal/terrorist net doesn't include you yet, it could encompass many of your friends/family, isn't conspiring with known criminals and terrorists a crime? (best get off of Slashdot now, to be safe...)
All kinds of reasons keys are faster better than mouse. The biggest reason for me is using a laptop with gloves (and no spot for a external mouse) granted that's only a windows thing, since apple doesn't make a laptop for use below 50F. (then again most windows laptops have a pointer stick, but they are not very accurate for me)
what a great idea, wonder why no one has thought of that? could it be that the price of power would have to triple to make it affordable?
would have to increase to nearly $165 per pound in 1981 dollars before the breeder would become financially competitive
it was proven true, intent isn't known. My only point was, their is no easy way to verify a iApp outside of apple, a customer couldn't even verify a app they were given/bought the source for. This one transmitted the info over WiFi link as well, had it only used cell link, who would know?
Open-sourcing a iphone game doesn't seam too bad. To get it on a phone a player would have to pay $100 to become a developer (or $4 for the app), without that they could play it on a emulator only. The app store is supposed to eliminate duplicates. So updates would be required to give back changes, so any app the developer should have a head start in marketing spin-offs... Seams like a win-win. Besides most iphone apps don't look that difficult to code for a experienced iDeveloper, if you were just wanting to copy a existing app.
I think your taking too literal reading of professional. IE any professional driver (read mail delivery, 18 wheeler operator) would be paid some additional amount to become a "Road Train" Engineer. IE they still drive their regular route, so their is no additional people, or equipment on the road. If every, over the road delivery vehicle were to become one; then plenty of options would generally be available to join some train. If the system is smart enough to handle one car gaps for entry/exit, they should be smart enough to hand off between pro drivers as well.
The issue I see is that a train of 10 cars following that close means the Pro driver would have to have one hell of a clear lane to pass anyone, so that wouldn't happen. So unless special lanes were made available, the number of times this train have to slow down and speed up would consume all the fuel savings, and take longer as well.
But a special "Road train" only lane could fix that. (but then a breakdown would be all the more consuming, unless mulitple "road train only" lanes were available.
I would agree, except apple's setup seams to prevent anyone but apple being able to prevent this. Most other platforms you could install a debugger/logger, but that would be banned on any phone that can access the app store. In a open development environment you could have open source apps that the customers can compile themselves insuring any suspicion can be verified in source as intent, again not option in the apple environment. Apple better have a terms of use for application developer so that these suppliers are are in-deed punishable by apple. Since again, the customer only deals with Apple for the applications, it seams to me, Apple should be the first ones to sue these developers, since they are likely to take the most damage from this.
It's about the guide data. Tivo would sell a DVR for $199 but charge $5 a month so you could dial into their server monthly to download the guide (and some value added TVGuide stuff.) They also sold identical hardware for $350 that had a lifetime subscription. You could simply alter a few bits on the non-lifetime DVR and re-sale it for a profit as having a lifetime sub. (past tense, since I have no idea what tivo has done in the last 2 years) TIVO did deserve the hack though. They sold lifetime subscriptions for $150. Even on hardware with a service plan, the hardware failed (even under warranty) they would replace the hardware and refuse to update to lifetime subscription unless you paid another $150. This pissed off a programmer so much he went on a mission to avoid paying twice, succeded and shared it with all.
Generally (IMHO) it is OK to judge others by their stated morals. When M.Soft says it's stealing to use their software without following their "Terms of use". Even if I don't agree with them, if they turned around and ignored the GPL, then we should be allowed to throw it back at them as theft. Similar with preachers/republicans when they tell you what is immoral, then violate it themselves, they should be judged on that, and not solely on the laws or morals of a different culture that has different beliefs. Because it is clear if they violate the rules the hold most dearly, they will violate any rules anytime they think they won't get caught.
He is not going to get down to 1 ohm with telephone wire, 24 gauge (typical phone) wire has a resistance of .03 ohm/foot so as long as these rooms are at least 50 feet of wiring away, it would be 1.5 ohms to the first speaker + 1.5 ohms back. so even if all 6 of his proposed max were at this distance (4 wires, 2 for each loop) it would still be 8/3+3 thus roughly 5.5 ohms to the amplifier. Amplifier efficiency will suck, but I doubt you could come up with a very damaging configuration using phone wire and 6 speakers or less (unless it was hooked up in parallel with existing speakers that used decent speaker wire.)
Using the suggestion of amplified speakers seams like a reasonable solution.
but what they are trained to do takes constant effort. Personally always on radar should be banned, because what it leads to is the cop sets in the car and waits for a winning number on the gun, then picks out the winner. They are trained that they have to be able to clearly pick out the fastest vehicle, then take a number. Anyone with a radar detector knows that is not usually how they do it. Personally I think they should integrate GPS with radar, a cop who triggers on non speeders half the time should be repramanded, if a cop looks at me and knows I am speeding, I deserve the ticket. If I am not speeding, a cop shouldn't be gathering evidence against me without any cause.