80% efficiency for AC to DC conversion to run an LED would be absolutely awful; you can do much better than that. Electronics (basically, said AC to DC converter) to last 25000 hours shouldn't be a problem either. The CRI, on the other hand, is a major problem. Even fluorescents with > 90 CRI have poor efficiency, and they're expensive, too.
That's called "self-relief" and it's usually frowned upon in modern societies.
Which is one of the problems with modern societies. The government takes it upon itself to be the only provider of relief -- and then refuses to provide that relief. For instance, if some shady organization DDOSs your server, you can't send a guy over with an axe to cut their internet connection... but the government won't prosecute them either.
Of course there are illegal thoughts. Sex is a result of thought, so is music, so is scientific insight, so is crime. The law prohibits certain acts, but the illegal act is really only evidence of illegal thought.
Certainly not. The illegal act is the product of thought, but the thought itself is not illegal. Outside Soviet Russia, anyway. The closest you'll come is certain conspiracy laws, but they themselves are authoritarian abominations.
Look at how crimes are investigated: motive, opportunity, and intent.
That's motive, MEANS, and opportunity, for investigation. Did they have a reason to do it? Did they have the instruments by which it was done? And were they there when it was done? But in that sort of investigation, that an illegal act has been committed is not usually in question.
I'm as big a fan of "freedom of thought" as anyone.
But what are the purposes of these images, from a social/personal/psychological perspective?
If you were as big a fan of "freedom of thought" as anyone, you wouldn't ask the question. You certainly wouldn't ask it in that manner, one which implies the images are an exception to "freedom of thought". And you'd know the answer, in context, is "who gives a fuck?". One of the nice things about having freedom is it means you don't have to justify your actions, not to Authority and not to Anonymous Cowards.
The small independent hackers will always have the advantage over the large companies because they can move faster, have far less to lose and aren't hampered by silly things like "ethics" and "law".
Wait, those last two are an advantage _individuals_ have over _large companies_????
Audio/video copying (at least between formats) is usually a form of playback but with some duplication of the playback results. The only reason they have added this crap is to stop copying anyway, it's obvious that it isn't intended to stop actual playback for 'legal' uses.
Well, no, that's not obvious. Seeing as they're also using it to enforce region coding, which means stopping actual playback in some countries.
This court decision is just more proof that there's no way we can prevail through the legal system. The other side -- RIAA, MPAA, DVD-CSS, etc -- just has too many resources, too much time, and too much experience gaming the system.
So did these guys even show up in court? Or did the MPAA take them to court in some wildly inconvenient venue, wait for them not to show up, and obtain default judgements?
work for a company that assists with clinical trials across the world. One of the things we do is store medical data until the trial is over and we can send all the data to the sponsors of the trial. No trial run out of Canada has ever let us store data or back up data to the US.
Why not encrypt your backups? Sure, it's a fair bet the NSA can decrypt them, but #1, they probably aren't who you are worried about and #2, if they're really motivated, they likely aren't going to be bothered with the fact that the data is in Canada. Do you make sure all transfers to your Canadian backup centers aren't routed over US lines?
Much as I dislike the Patriot Act, I rather suspect that Patriot Act or no Patriot Act, the US government would snoop on any foreign government's data available to it. And foreign governments (even "friendly) ones would do the same to the US. The time when gentlemen didn't read other gentleman's mail is long past.
By "withhold 28% of receipts", they mean that the credit card company would withhold 28% of the payments they would otherwise pay to the merchant (and presumably send that directly to Uncle Sam), if the merchant didn't provide a TIN. They don't mean the IRS would get the actual transaction records on a routine basis.
I meant just what I said. The fact that the leader of the Jovian faction most opposed to warming mitigation measures has a name which translates most closely to "George Bush" is pure coincidence, I'm sure.
Flamebait? The moderators didn't even read what I wrote, obviously. It says forget about glory, seek interesting work and realize that payment is in money, which enables you to live. You can't eat glory, and it won't make you happy.
Sorry, no moderation points but that _isn't_ flamebait. That is informative and insightful. The most sincere recognition a corporation can give is money. Praise is cheap, and "You're doing a wonderful job but no raise this year" means either "You suck but at least you work cheap" or "We're not paying you enough so look for another job".
Programmers rarely get sincere (see above) acknowledgement for their individual accomplishments. The way to advance in this field seems to be to move diagonally -- that is, get a higher paying position at another company. It's different in some other fields; salespeople and some executives get credit for their individual accomplishments all the time. They call that credit "bonuses" or "commission" depending on their compensation plan. But programmers just don't get that. If you really want something similar, you could try independent consulting, but there's a lot more to that than programming.
Really, why go to work at all? What are they going to do, fire you? I suppose they could try to not pay you for that last four weeks, but that's just asking for a lawsuit or labor relations complaint, so they probably won't. If you feel like being a bit more conservative, go in late, leave early, and take long lunches. Or just show up each day, or even once a week, long enough for people to see you're there.
You're not really helping anyone out if you're sitting bored at your desk because you can't do your job. Not your co-workers, not the company, and not yourself. It's just a combination of stupid policies.
Same thing happens in development. At one of my prior companies, one group got major kudos (and small amounts of cash) for improving the performance of their part of the product many-fold. Well, yeah, they were able to do that because it was inefficient as hell to begin with. Meanwhile those of us whose code wasn't the bottleneck got shafted.
These days anyone with a high speed Internet account can distribute copyrighted material on a magnitude that was previous unheard of, but the laws haven't really changed.
Yes, they have. Such distribution has been criminalized even when there is no profit motive. In other words, the laws and penalties originally intended for extensive criminal organizations have now been applied to the individual, not by accident but by deliberate design.
Give me just one port, to one machine on the outside which I control, and I'll proxy everything through there... mostly using it to surf the job sites and mail out resumes to companies without this sort of policy. If a company's priorities include dedicating staff to reading employee email on a routine basis, I don't want to work there.
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80% efficiency for AC to DC conversion to run an LED would be absolutely awful; you can do much better than that. Electronics (basically, said AC to DC converter) to last 25000 hours shouldn't be a problem either. The CRI, on the other hand, is a major problem. Even fluorescents with > 90 CRI have poor efficiency, and they're expensive, too.
There are certainly PAR-38 LED lights. I doubt they meet the "> 90 CRI" requirement of the L prize, though.
If starving to death isn't beautiful, explain Hollywood and the fashion industry.
Copyright judgements not among them. (yet).
Which is one of the problems with modern societies. The government takes it upon itself to be the only provider of relief -- and then refuses to provide that relief. For instance, if some shady organization DDOSs your server, you can't send a guy over with an axe to cut their internet connection... but the government won't prosecute them either.
Certainly not. The illegal act is the product of thought, but the thought itself is not illegal. Outside Soviet Russia, anyway. The closest you'll come is certain conspiracy laws, but they themselves are authoritarian abominations.
That's motive, MEANS, and opportunity, for investigation. Did they have a reason to do it? Did they have the instruments by which it was done? And were they there when it was done? But in that sort of investigation, that an illegal act has been committed is not usually in question.
Err, or not.
Well shit, that was sloppy. Time to "Ask Slashdot" about new employment opportunities. By the way I work for T.J. Maxx in Lawrence, KS.
(posting anonymously for obvious reasons)
My employer has fancy infrared cameras that aren't hooked up to anything.
Wait, those last two are an advantage _individuals_ have over _large companies_????
Well, no, that's not obvious. Seeing as they're also using it to enforce region coding, which means stopping actual playback in some countries.
This court decision is just more proof that there's no way we can prevail through the legal system. The other side -- RIAA, MPAA, DVD-CSS, etc -- just has too many resources, too much time, and too much experience gaming the system.
So did these guys even show up in court? Or did the MPAA take them to court in some wildly inconvenient venue, wait for them not to show up, and obtain default judgements?
Why not encrypt your backups? Sure, it's a fair bet the NSA can decrypt them, but #1, they probably aren't who you are worried about and #2, if they're really motivated, they likely aren't going to be bothered with the fact that the data is in Canada. Do you make sure all transfers to your Canadian backup centers aren't routed over US lines?
Much as I dislike the Patriot Act, I rather suspect that Patriot Act or no Patriot Act, the US government would snoop on any foreign government's data available to it. And foreign governments (even "friendly) ones would do the same to the US. The time when gentlemen didn't read other gentleman's mail is long past.
By "withhold 28% of receipts", they mean that the credit card company would withhold 28% of the payments they would otherwise pay to the merchant (and presumably send that directly to Uncle Sam), if the merchant didn't provide a TIN. They don't mean the IRS would get the actual transaction records on a routine basis.
I meant just what I said. The fact that the leader of the Jovian faction most opposed to warming mitigation measures has a name which translates most closely to "George Bush" is pure coincidence, I'm sure.
Sorry, no moderation points but that _isn't_ flamebait. That is informative and insightful. The most sincere recognition a corporation can give is money. Praise is cheap, and "You're doing a wonderful job but no raise this year" means either "You suck but at least you work cheap" or "We're not paying you enough so look for another job".
Programmers rarely get sincere (see above) acknowledgement for their individual accomplishments. The way to advance in this field seems to be to move diagonally -- that is, get a higher paying position at another company. It's different in some other fields; salespeople and some executives get credit for their individual accomplishments all the time. They call that credit "bonuses" or "commission" depending on their compensation plan. But programmers just don't get that. If you really want something similar, you could try independent consulting, but there's a lot more to that than programming.
Really, why go to work at all? What are they going to do, fire you? I suppose they could try to not pay you for that last four weeks, but that's just asking for a lawsuit or labor relations complaint, so they probably won't. If you feel like being a bit more conservative, go in late, leave early, and take long lunches. Or just show up each day, or even once a week, long enough for people to see you're there.
You're not really helping anyone out if you're sitting bored at your desk because you can't do your job. Not your co-workers, not the company, and not yourself. It's just a combination of stupid policies.
Same thing happens in development. At one of my prior companies, one group got major kudos (and small amounts of cash) for improving the performance of their part of the product many-fold. Well, yeah, they were able to do that because it was inefficient as hell to begin with. Meanwhile those of us whose code wasn't the bottleneck got shafted.
The increased storm activity on Jupiter is a result of Anthropogenic Global Warming. I blame George Bush.
Give me just one port, to one machine on the outside which I control, and I'll proxy everything through there... mostly using it to surf the job sites and mail out resumes to companies without this sort of policy. If a company's priorities include dedicating staff to reading employee email on a routine basis, I don't want to work there.
So what happens if it runs indefinitely?