The Thirty Years was was undeniably nasty, with high bodycount (much from disease). However, most of the harm done to civilians was a result of the "self-financing" [looting] nature of the regiments involved.
Had the leaders in 30yW been able to capture territory with less destruction, they would have. The US Civil War AFAICS is the first time the thugs had more than a wink-and-a-nod "boys will be boys" tolerence, but strategic, systematic, official orders to burn.
IP roaming looks nice & ought to be secure with the right steps (no reply from old IP:port, correct cryto negotiation with new IP:port).
But LOCAL ECHO is a big problem -- applications have to be aware of it. On CLI, many keystrokes are commands, not text to be entered. On vi in command-mode, G goes to the last line.
Personally, a bigger thing is traffic reduction, particularly keystoke combining. Nagel's algorithm is a start, but I've modded ssh to delay and buffer likely-text keystrokes for a short time (400ms) while letting likely commands through immediately to retain responsiveness. The delays aren't irksome, and I reduce outbound traffic by ~80%.
Looking a white men only gives military casualties. But both the Confederates (Forrest, Stuart) and the Union (Grant, Sherman) conducted operations destroying supplies, livestock and buildings.
While done early with the justification "to deprive enemy forces of required supplies", later actions were done to demoralize civilian populations (Atlanta). It is _impossible_ that civilian casualties were not thereby caused from starvation, (leading to disease) and exposure.
I regard the US Civil War as one of the most heinous in all history -- AFAICS, it is the first time since the Crusades that civilians were deliberately harmed as a matter of strategy and official policy. Civilians always get harmed in wars, but prior to this (and lipservice to this day) such harm was officially regretted.
Interviewers should be prepared, and ought to know the law, but many may not. I wouldn't assume the worst, and say something that permits them to save face, like:
[pause] I don't think I heard you correctly -- it sounded to me like you were asking about my [prohibited topic]. But that cannot possibly be right since [prohibited topic] questions are illegal, and this appears to be a law-abiding business. What were you asking about?
[F@cebook]: I'm sorry, but the ToS prehibits my sharing passwords with anyone, and I take my agreements seriously. No, I cannot login on your computer -- my password credentials are only on my home machine in a segregated account. I don't remember them.
Anyplace that pushes might just be testing if you're unethical. If they're really pushing 'cuz they want to be unethical, you surely do not want to work for such exploiters.
The hidden assumption here is that employee productivity is the most important and over-riding goal in actually making business decisions. It is not -- for the simple reason that employee productivity is difficult to measure and seldom measured, decreasingly so with increasing sophistication of knowledge workers.
While plenty of lip-service can be occasionally paid to productivity, usually other goals are more important. Like the boss pleasing his boss. Or the boss satisfying his psychological need to dominate subordinates.
The point is that whole-business profitability is not the only driver of management decisions, even though none dare admit such corruption.
Even if combining file transfer [ftp] and image scrolling is patent-legally considered "novel", there is the question of damages. 1993 patents ran out (in the US) in 2010, so he cannot get any ongoing damages.
Optaining "back-damages" would be highly dependant on legal procedure, but I doubt he would be entitled to [m]any if he did not inform the alleged infringers during the period of their alleged infringement. It's not like browser coders were hard to see, find or email. Just another troll.
... OK, I'll bite at the troll -- and I have not stopped beating my wife.
First, just how many women do you expect? Looking a closed-source companies is a bad comparison since all the large ones are under a form of voluntary "Affirmative Action". Defensively against lawsuits, they try to hire according to the source population (college grad) gender numbers. I know, I've done it.
Second, why do you think "open source" is all warm'n'fuzzy, kinder, gentler? I know, I've done that too -- both run a project and tried to get kernel patches accepted. F/OS is _ruthlessly_ competitive and heavily slanted towards negative feedback when you are lucky enough to get any. For good reason, the kernel maintainers are busy and justifiably concerned about code overgrowth. You have to like beating your head against the wall. And then hit just the right problem with just the right code at just the right time to get in. Get lucky a few times, and you get more attention. But its a dogged uphill battle. Perhaps not one many women [egalitairian, risk averse] are motivated to engage. But how or why should it be otherwise? Please tell. IS F/OS short of development? Would the instability of greater development be an improvment?
Finally, the only time gender is a legitimate inquiry, sexual orientation is equally important. Is there any evidence the F/OS is homophobic, racist or discriminates on other axes? Then why assume it discriminates just because there are few women?
Again, just what do you expect? Look at it -- the US Consititution almost exclusively acts to limit the powers of both leglislative and executive branches. Of course they are going to object and find loopholes and squeeze past any way they can. Weasles gonna weasle!
A bigger issue is the tremendous amounts of money spent or controlled through legislation. This gives lots of incentive to lobby. And difficulty stopping big spenders.
The courts who have always been a bit of a safeguard for minority rights, have largely been disempowered by populism and the curious notion that democacy is a goal rather than a method of achieve a goal. Both the Left and the Right whine mightily about "Legislating from the Bench" when rulings go against them. Never mind that the judges do not legislate but rather strike down legislation, the epithet tars them.
Just what do you expect? First, concentrated interests learn through trial-and-error how to influence, control and capture their most relevant regulators and legislators. Once this is done (Sonny Bono copyright extention of 1995), they look to extend their power and influence further afield, in this case to foreign governments.
This is just business as usual and the concentrated interests can pay for it. The real problem is the dilute interests (public at large) does not individually have enough money at stake to do anything. This inertia allows the concentrated interests to prevail. The US Constitution protects against some abuses, but more active measures are necessary. A static, defensive strategy always loses in the long term.
No direct complaint about TFA (pretty pictures, nice analysis) but just _why_ were USAF recon photos released? This smells like more propaganda blackwash, like the [non] nukes.
Sure, everyone says NK has nukes after two tests. But look carefuly at those tests -- both sub-kiloton in yield. 0.5 - 0.7 kt . AFAIK, it is _extremely_ difficult to design reliable pits in that range. Much easier and safer to go for the typical 15 kt yield (less Pu/HEU). OTOH, it would be simple to make 0.5 kt from ANFO (ammonium nitrate - fuel oil) explosive in a mine with chosen radiowaste at the mine-mouth to leave the desired radioisotope signature.
The US mil-ind complex must be desperate to keep that bogeyman alive. China needs both whipping boys (NK, Burma) to corral its peoples.
Half my 6 USB chargers claim 1+A output, the other half 500 mA (older). Who knows what they really do?
I strongly expect Raz went for USB power to avoid all the national electrical approvals necessary for wallwarts. Remember, this is a shoe-string outfit. Just get a phone charger with someone else' approvals. They probably chose micro- over mini- because the former are more likely to make 700+ (iPod & smartphone draws).
The Raz' closest competitor are the plugs (Sheeva, Guru, Pogo-,...) and they are OK for ssh. Arduino is fine as a microcontroller, but is no GP computer.
What is unique and very interesting about the Raz is HDMI output. It can easily be a small xterm, or any other app you can compile for ARMv5t and stick on the SD card. Or email / web-browser on the network model. Not fast, but useable.
This is rather some news, because up until now, Amazon Kindles have used *.AZW which is *.MOBI (mobile book) based. _NOT_ *.EPUB which is a main competitor.
I do not see anything about compression, which is my main reason for preferring EPUB over MOBI . The files are ~50% smaller unless there are photos/dwgs.
I thought labor law was a state-by-state issue. TYhe connection between labor & production to Interstate Commerce is tenuous in the extreme.
As for paid vs indirectly compensated overtime, for me the issue is easy: if the work is time-based (work this shift) OT should be paid for all salary levels. if the work is task-based (finish this project) it might not be.
Unpaid OT implies unpunished undertime! If you cannot take an afternoon off, you really should not be working unpaid OT. If you are, you are taking a cut in pay and rewarding bad behaviour (mgmt pushing).
Well, if you're in the US, you could lobby to get the relevant technologies, software and hardware controlled by the Export Administration. Yes, the US has had export restrictions for 220+ years, since banning the export of long straight pine logs the Royal Navy wanted for masts & spars.
New and revised ECCNs get published in the Federal Register daily. But they only apply to the US, so you just may be exporting jobs.
You'd better think long and hard about what you want to control. Crisco would not be happy if hardware (routers) were controlled. IBM, Oracle and others will not be happy if your try to control software. It won't be easy to write.
I would have thought my "forced legal enlistment" was a clue I had a clue.
Yes, they are clining to an old "business model" in the larger sense of even governments having a business model. They depend largely on the consent of the governed, which the old DDR found out.
Yes, fundamentally the Bundestag has to make the changes, but had the GEMA possessed the merest shadow of a clue, they would suggested some and served as offical focus.
GEMA - yet another association which has failed to adapt to newer technology and now is clawing at air while it sinks into fiscal bankruptcy. The moral bankruptcy came much earlier, when its' ur-members advocated the forced legal enlistment (enslavement) of authors (rather than works).
"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake" [Napoleon] Even by the low standards for such dinosaurs, GEMA appears unusually stupid. This is more stupidity and will hasten their demise--the publicity of their unreasonableness with encourage further bypassing/non-compliance. Eventually, the Piratenpartei will administer a coup-de-grace.
Please look at the gaming industry. It has grown considerably larger than movies even though the product is comparatively easy to copy illicitly. Nevermind the occasional whining about lost revenues, it is big and healthy. Why do people pay, then? At least partly because they want to, to reward production and encourage development.
Precisely! Arguments from Mark Twain through to the 1995 Sonny Bono copyright extention are invalid and possibly unconstituional:
Since copyright is to encourage writers and artists to create, it must be prospective and not retroactive. Retroactive grants ("extentions") cannot influence creation already made!
Second, as a prospective inducement, copyright is subject to the power of compound interest -- 15 years is close to 25 and 95 is not much more when discounted at commercial rates of interest. A short term would be sufficient inducement/reward, and longer terms are wasteful and hobble society. Patents only run 17 years! Why should copyrights be longer? The value of series like Sherlock Holmes, StarTrek/Wars was initially in the creation, but now is mostly in the preceptions (mindshare) of society at large. The claim has lapsed.
Since the copyright owner is the one who profits from their exclusive legislatively-granted monopoly, they _should_ bear the costs of enforcement. Who else can decide that enforcement is worthwhile? Blanket enforcement is far too chilling on free speech and fair use. Not that the RIAA recognizes either, so why recognize them?
Nevermind the moribund notion of entrapment or the diluted notion of wiretap, stingray is simply unauthorized access to a computer. Cracking.
The phone is a computer which is being accessed and tricked into doing things the owner does not authorize. You might call this a search, but it is not because it is made without announcement, ala sneak'n'peek. Wiping the logs is excellent evidence of the perps (Feds) guilt.
Yes, IIRC IQ was normed at 100 (and spanned at sd=15) in the 1940s based on US GI testing. Averages have drifted slightly down, but sd has not changed.
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Had the leaders in 30yW been able to capture territory with less destruction, they would have. The US Civil War AFAICS is the first time the thugs had more than a wink-and-a-nod "boys will be boys" tolerence, but strategic, systematic, official orders to burn.
IP roaming looks nice & ought to be secure with the right steps (no reply from old IP:port, correct cryto negotiation with new IP:port).
But LOCAL ECHO is a big problem -- applications have to be aware of it. On CLI, many keystrokes are commands, not text to be entered. On vi in command-mode, G goes to the last line.
Personally, a bigger thing is traffic reduction, particularly keystoke combining. Nagel's algorithm is a start, but I've modded ssh to delay and buffer likely-text keystrokes for a short time (400ms) while letting likely commands through immediately to retain responsiveness. The delays aren't irksome, and I reduce outbound traffic by ~80%.
Looking a white men only gives military casualties. But both the Confederates (Forrest, Stuart) and the Union (Grant, Sherman) conducted operations destroying supplies, livestock and buildings.
While done early with the justification "to deprive enemy forces of required supplies", later actions were done to demoralize civilian populations (Atlanta). It is _impossible_ that civilian casualties were not thereby caused from starvation, (leading to disease) and exposure.
I regard the US Civil War as one of the most heinous in all history -- AFAICS, it is the first time since the Crusades that civilians were deliberately harmed as a matter of strategy and official policy. Civilians always get harmed in wars, but prior to this (and lipservice to this day) such harm was officially regretted.
Interviewers should be prepared, and ought to know the law, but many may not. I wouldn't assume the worst, and say something that permits them to save face, like:
[pause] I don't think I heard you correctly -- it sounded to me like you were asking about my [prohibited topic]. But that cannot possibly be right since [prohibited topic] questions are illegal, and this appears to be a law-abiding business. What were you asking about?
[F@cebook]: I'm sorry, but the ToS prehibits my sharing passwords with anyone, and I take my agreements seriously. No, I cannot login on your computer -- my password credentials are only on my home machine in a segregated account. I don't remember them.
Anyplace that pushes might just be testing if you're unethical. If they're really pushing 'cuz they want to be unethical, you surely do not want to work for such exploiters.
The hidden assumption here is that employee productivity is the most important and over-riding goal in actually making business decisions. It is not -- for the simple reason that employee productivity is difficult to measure and seldom measured, decreasingly so with increasing sophistication of knowledge workers.
While plenty of lip-service can be occasionally paid to productivity, usually other goals are more important. Like the boss pleasing his boss. Or the boss satisfying his psychological need to dominate subordinates.
The point is that whole-business profitability is not the only driver of management decisions, even though none dare admit such corruption.
Even if combining file transfer [ftp] and image scrolling is patent-legally considered "novel", there is the question of damages. 1993 patents ran out (in the US) in 2010, so he cannot get any ongoing damages.
Optaining "back-damages" would be highly dependant on legal procedure, but I doubt he would be entitled to [m]any if he did not inform the alleged infringers during the period of their alleged infringement. It's not like browser coders were hard to see, find or email. Just another troll.
... OK, I'll bite at the troll -- and I have not stopped beating my wife.
First, just how many women do you expect? Looking a closed-source companies is a bad comparison since all the large ones are under a form of voluntary "Affirmative Action". Defensively against lawsuits, they try to hire according to the source population (college grad) gender numbers. I know, I've done it.
Second, why do you think "open source" is all warm'n'fuzzy, kinder, gentler? I know, I've done that too -- both run a project and tried to get kernel patches accepted. F/OS is _ruthlessly_ competitive and heavily slanted towards negative feedback when you are lucky enough to get any. For good reason, the kernel maintainers are busy and justifiably concerned about code overgrowth. You have to like beating your head against the wall. And then hit just the right problem with just the right code at just the right time to get in. Get lucky a few times, and you get more attention. But its a dogged uphill battle. Perhaps not one many women [egalitairian, risk averse] are motivated to engage. But how or why should it be otherwise? Please tell. IS F/OS short of development? Would the instability of greater development be an improvment?
Finally, the only time gender is a legitimate inquiry, sexual orientation is equally important. Is there any evidence the F/OS is homophobic, racist or discriminates on other axes? Then why assume it discriminates just because there are few women?
A bigger issue is the tremendous amounts of money spent or controlled through legislation. This gives lots of incentive to lobby. And difficulty stopping big spenders.
The courts who have always been a bit of a safeguard for minority rights, have largely been disempowered by populism and the curious notion that democacy is a goal rather than a method of achieve a goal. Both the Left and the Right whine mightily about "Legislating from the Bench" when rulings go against them. Never mind that the judges do not legislate but rather strike down legislation, the epithet tars them.
Just what do you expect? First, concentrated interests learn through trial-and-error how to influence, control and capture their most relevant regulators and legislators. Once this is done (Sonny Bono copyright extention of 1995), they look to extend their power and influence further afield, in this case to foreign governments.
This is just business as usual and the concentrated interests can pay for it. The real problem is the dilute interests (public at large) does not individually have enough money at stake to do anything. This inertia allows the concentrated interests to prevail. The US Constitution protects against some abuses, but more active measures are necessary. A static, defensive strategy always loses in the long term.
No direct complaint about TFA (pretty pictures, nice analysis) but just _why_ were USAF recon photos released? This smells like more propaganda blackwash, like the [non] nukes.
Sure, everyone says NK has nukes after two tests. But look carefuly at those tests -- both sub-kiloton in yield. 0.5 - 0.7 kt . AFAIK, it is _extremely_ difficult to design reliable pits in that range. Much easier and safer to go for the typical 15 kt yield (less Pu/HEU). OTOH, it would be simple to make 0.5 kt from ANFO (ammonium nitrate - fuel oil) explosive in a mine with chosen radiowaste at the mine-mouth to leave the desired radioisotope signature.
The US mil-ind complex must be desperate to keep that bogeyman alive. China needs both whipping boys (NK, Burma) to corral its peoples.
Half my 6 USB chargers claim 1+A output, the other half 500 mA (older). Who knows what they really do?
I strongly expect Raz went for USB power to avoid all the national electrical approvals necessary for wallwarts. Remember, this is a shoe-string outfit. Just get a phone charger with someone else' approvals. They probably chose micro- over mini- because the former are more likely to make 700+ (iPod & smartphone draws).
The Raz' closest competitor are the plugs (Sheeva, Guru, Pogo-, ...) and they are OK for ssh. Arduino is fine as a microcontroller, but is no GP computer.
What is unique and very interesting about the Raz is HDMI output. It can easily be a small xterm, or any other app you can compile for ARMv5t and stick on the SD card. Or email / web-browser on the network model. Not fast, but useable.
This is rather some news, because up until now, Amazon Kindles have used *.AZW which is *.MOBI (mobile book) based. _NOT_ *.EPUB which is a main competitor.
I do not see anything about compression, which is my main reason for preferring EPUB over MOBI . The files are ~50% smaller unless there are photos/dwgs.
While the photog owns copyright in asny pictures taken, the subjects of the photo also have rights. Why else do newsies get signed releases?
Once you discover a undesireable photo, why not send a DMCA takedown notice to the offending site (Facebook?)
Excuuuuse me if I'm "so last millenium", but what are ads? I browse the web with `links`in gorgeous 149col x 143rows of text!
... wouldn't they Bust it? Given enough chances, even the improbable happens.
I thought labor law was a state-by-state issue. TYhe connection between labor & production to Interstate Commerce is tenuous in the extreme.
As for paid vs indirectly compensated overtime, for me the issue is easy: if the work is time-based (work this shift) OT should be paid for all salary levels. if the work is task-based (finish this project) it might not be.
Unpaid OT implies unpunished undertime! If you cannot take an afternoon off, you really should not be working unpaid OT. If you are, you are taking a cut in pay and rewarding bad behaviour (mgmt pushing).
Well, if you're in the US, you could lobby to get the relevant technologies, software and hardware controlled by the Export Administration. Yes, the US has had export restrictions for 220+ years, since banning the export of long straight pine logs the Royal Navy wanted for masts & spars.
New and revised ECCNs get published in the Federal Register daily. But they only apply to the US, so you just may be exporting jobs.
You'd better think long and hard about what you want to control. Crisco would not be happy if hardware (routers) were controlled. IBM, Oracle and others will not be happy if your try to control software. It won't be easy to write.
Yes, they are clining to an old "business model" in the larger sense of even governments having a business model. They depend largely on the consent of the governed, which the old DDR found out.
Yes, fundamentally the Bundestag has to make the changes, but had the GEMA possessed the merest shadow of a clue, they would suggested some and served as offical focus.
GEMA - yet another association which has failed to adapt to newer technology and now is clawing at air while it sinks into fiscal bankruptcy. The moral bankruptcy came much earlier, when its' ur-members advocated the forced legal enlistment (enslavement) of authors (rather than works).
"Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake" [Napoleon] Even by the low standards for such dinosaurs, GEMA appears unusually stupid. This is more stupidity and will hasten their demise--the publicity of their unreasonableness with encourage further bypassing/non-compliance. Eventually, the Piratenpartei will administer a coup-de-grace.
Please look at the gaming industry. It has grown considerably larger than movies even though the product is comparatively easy to copy illicitly. Nevermind the occasional whining about lost revenues, it is big and healthy. Why do people pay, then? At least partly because they want to, to reward production and encourage development.
Since copyright is to encourage writers and artists to create, it must be prospective and not retroactive. Retroactive grants ("extentions") cannot influence creation already made!
Second, as a prospective inducement, copyright is subject to the power of compound interest -- 15 years is close to 25 and 95 is not much more when discounted at commercial rates of interest. A short term would be sufficient inducement/reward, and longer terms are wasteful and hobble society. Patents only run 17 years! Why should copyrights be longer? The value of series like Sherlock Holmes, StarTrek/Wars was initially in the creation, but now is mostly in the preceptions (mindshare) of society at large. The claim has lapsed.
Since the copyright owner is the one who profits from their exclusive legislatively-granted monopoly, they _should_ bear the costs of enforcement. Who else can decide that enforcement is worthwhile? Blanket enforcement is far too chilling on free speech and fair use. Not that the RIAA recognizes either, so why recognize them?
The phone is a computer which is being accessed and tricked into doing things the owner does not authorize. You might call this a search, but it is not because it is made without announcement, ala sneak'n'peek. Wiping the logs is excellent evidence of the perps (Feds) guilt.
Evolution isn't just about numbers of offspring, it is more about numbers of grandchildren. Quality matters.
Yes, IIRC IQ was normed at 100 (and spanned at sd=15) in the 1940s based on US GI testing. Averages have drifted slightly down, but sd has not changed.