This is a single piece of propaganda easily traceable to the russians.
Enjoy. http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-...
P.S.
Posted this as anonymous coward, but suddenly remembered my old login.
D.S.
I am highly critical of the release of the cables. It contained very little information for the damage done. I think the decision to release those cables was because they could release them and not due to the insight they provided. My impression is that ego and publicity had a lot to do with it.
CU, Martin
On the contrary, the cables contain plenty of evidence of government wrongdoing, although not necessarily by the US government. As a Swede, it is very interesting to know that the us embassy reports that my government prefers to share information about Swedish citizens using a "strong but informal agreement" instead of having a formal agreement, as such an agreement would have to be discussed by the parliament. If the cable is correct, my government is probably violating the Swedish "grundlag", which can loosely be translated as the constitution of Sweden.
See http://www.thelocal.se/30654/20101206/
It is used a lot
as a normal autction works just like this, if you use small enough increments. Imagine me and you bidding for the same object, which I value to 1.500.000$ and you to 1.600.000$.
If 1 start with a bid of 1$, you bid two, I 3 e.t.c. Eventually you will bid 1.500.000 and I will drop out, meaning you get the object for what I think it is worth.
Right, because we all know that 9 data points is statistically significant.
9 datapoints IS statistically significant in this case. If we assume that height does not affect a persons ability to become president, the probability of getting 8 or 9 persons in the 75 percentile is
0.25**9 + 0.25**8*0.75*9, or approximately 0.000107.
A much smarter method, in my opinion, would be to check vehicle mileage of registered vehicles, and tax based on that
If you read the article, it states that the road toll will be different depending on which road is travelled and when. I.e. heavy toll for city center at 8 am, no toll for countryside at 2 am.
The odometer can't tell the difference.
Wasn't this one of the problems in the dot-bomb? Haven't companies learned that it's better to be really good at one thing, and stay out of markets for which they are not suited, rather than be mediocre and lose money hand over fist? Not that I have a problem with companies trying to innovate, but I just wonder how wise this move is for them.
You are so right!!!
Just imagine how much better off nokia would have been, had they just continued making tires and stayed out of this silly phone business.
I am no expert on the GPL, but would not incorporating linux code into solaris make that distribution of solais solaris GPLed? I doubt that is a price SUN is ready to pay.
I don't know who said it, but there is aquate saying approximately that:
just because GPLed stuff is free does not mean that it is cheap...
No, mandating open source is not good, as the best tools possible should be used.
Better is to mandate that all documents handeled by the government should be in a open and specified format, freely implementable by anyone, without licensing-fees. The same should apply for any information communicated with the government. This would create an even playingfield, and hopefully lower prices, as switching software no longer means having to perform the huge task of converting all old documents.
In a physical world example it would be like giving me a contract to sign but removing several pages from it. i.e. Not just sections that I jump over because it is awkward to review ala most EULA.
In a weak, and not applicicable physical example you're right. But let's make it more accurate. In a physical world example it would be like giving you a contract to sign and having multiple pages below the top one that you need to flip through to read, which is SUPRISE how it usually works.
Bad analogy.
In the pyhysical world, the line to sign is on the bottom of the paper at the bottom of the stack, making it impossible not to realize that there is multiple papers. If we should flollow the real world convention, the next button should be below the checkboxes, forcing you to scroll down.
I believe SerpentMage makes the point that whenever the copyright on early works featuring Mickey Mouse is about to expire, somehow copyrights seem to get extended retroactively (in the US at least). If this trend continues, nothing produced after steamboat willie will ever enter the public domain.
Thus the practical length of copyright, the time you have to wait to legally copy something produced now, is infinite.
The only works that go into PG are works in the public domain. While publishers sell dead-tree copies still, they have no copyright over the original text contained within
But the publishers still have copyright on their specific printing. Distributing scanned copies of pages probably still violates their copyright, even if distributing the OCR output does not.
Acording to your analogy, it is ok for me to publish your phonenumber ( analogy www.intetntia.com) recommending people to tap in an extra number which just happends to cause your answering machine to replay messages (analogy alsi1028dmayrkslau_report.pdf or whatever was used) in order to listen to the messages left by your boyfrend/girlfriend/dealer/all of the above. After all the messages are accessible from a public network by sending a simple request.
The fact that Intetia was stupid as mud when they put the report on the server does not mean that Reuters has a right to cash in on that stupidity.
I regret to inform you that a major newspaper in my country (Sweden btw.) was recently convicted, and sentenced to pay
fines for racist statments submitted to their public discussion forum.
If i remember correctly they where fined because they previously deleted comments made by users, hence they where exercising editorial control, hence they where liable for the content. Had they not deleated messages, they would probably not have been found guilty. I believe this means that a Swedish slashdot would be safe as long as the editors do not selectively delete messages based on their content. The verdict still sucks though.
Why do you assume that money not spent on the net will simply vanish from the economy?
If I want a CD I will buy it from the cheapest source. If this tax drives the online price above the price in my local store, I will buy the record locally. Hence the lower spending online will probably be offset almost totally by higher spending offline.
No, the entire purpose of region encoding is the fact that the studios don't want to have to do world-wide releases of movies when they hit the theatres, because the movies are often released on DVD in North America at nearly the same time as the theatrical release of them overseas.
If that was true movies made before DVD's where invented would not be region encoded. They are, hence at least part of the reason for using region encoding is the ability to set different prices in different regions, thus increasig profits by adjusting prices to what the local market will pay.
(besides, from all reports, region 1 [North American] DVDs are consistently cheaper than any other region)
This supports the idea of charging what the market is ready to pay in different regions. Probably because DVD's are less common in non-US regions, and hence owned by early adopters who are ready to pay a higher price for the movies.
You can yell from the mountaintops how great it is to steal from people but the fact remains: there are plenty of folks who live off those DVD dollars. Movies aren't released around
the world simultaneously (albeit a few of the bigger blockbusters), so sometimes a Region 1 DVD will appear in the states before it's even in theaters across the Atlantic/Pacific.
Region coding is not (only) about different release dates in different countries. If it was only about different release dates, all movies predating the invention of DVDs would be region free.
As an example we may take Annie Hall, released 1977. Looking att www.amazon.com and www.amazon.co.uk, this is avalible with region 1 and region 2 (at slightly different prices)
Now, what is the most likely purpouse for incuring the slightly larger cost of producing, shipping and storing two different editions:
1. United artists want to prevent Europeans/Aussies from buying the DVD before the 1977 theatre premiere.
2. United artists want to maximize their profits by being able to set different prices on different markets.
People can complain about region coding all they want, but the solid evidence supporting the practice is right here.
If different release dates was the only concern, older movies, and movies with worldwide premieres would be region free. The release-date explanation does however have a nicer ring than the more probable cause of increasing profits by preventing parallell import.
If you are auctioning off the names, what is stopping the looser of such an auction from contacting the holder of an address, buy it directly and renew it, paying a nominal fee?
The article itself does not mention auctions, maybe the poster is jumping to conclutions. This scheme seems to involve not notifying the holders of a domain that they controll something valuable.
Anyone know how long the rail would have to be to get a craft to Mach 2-3 with survivable acceleration? Perhaps one of those supersonic ramjets could take over at that point - they need to
be supersonic to light up, don't they?
You'd still save shedloads of fuel - and increase payload, and thats the point, right?
Don't know how long the rail would have to be (2 g accel to 600m/s would give roughly 9000 m). I do know that some people talked about this at the isabe conference in chattanooga 1997. The general idea is to build a maglev up a mountain, place a rocket/shuttle on the sled, accelerate up, drop the sled in a parashute and light the ramjet engine.
This would reduce the oxygene needed, as you would burn oxygene from the atmosphere.
They were however talking about unmanned vessels, hence no need to make the acceleration survivable.
I guess you don't want to accelerate people to Mach2 before trying to start the engine...
Slashdot Mirror
This is a single piece of propaganda easily traceable to the russians.
Enjoy.
http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-...
P.S.
Posted this as anonymous coward, but suddenly remembered my old login.
D.S.
I am highly critical of the release of the cables. It contained very little information for the damage done. I think the decision to release those cables was because they could release them and not due to the insight they provided. My impression is that ego and publicity had a lot to do with it.
CU, Martin
On the contrary, the cables contain plenty of evidence of government wrongdoing, although not necessarily by the US government. As a Swede, it is very interesting to know that the us embassy reports that my government prefers to share information about Swedish citizens using a "strong but informal agreement" instead of having a formal agreement, as such an agreement would have to be discussed by the parliament. If the cable is correct, my government is probably violating the Swedish "grundlag", which can loosely be translated as the constitution of Sweden. See http://www.thelocal.se/30654/20101206/
It is used a lot as a normal autction works just like this, if you use small enough increments. Imagine me and you bidding for the same object, which I value to 1.500.000$ and you to 1.600.000$. If 1 start with a bid of 1$, you bid two, I 3 e.t.c. Eventually you will bid 1.500.000 and I will drop out, meaning you get the object for what I think it is worth.
I don't know who said it, but there is aquate saying approximately that:
No, mandating open source is not good, as the best tools possible should be used.
Better is to mandate that all documents handeled by the government should be in a open and specified format, freely implementable by anyone, without licensing-fees. The same should apply for any information communicated with the government. This would create an even playingfield, and hopefully lower prices, as switching software no longer means having to perform the huge task of converting all old documents.
I believe SerpentMage makes the point that whenever the copyright on early works featuring Mickey Mouse is about to expire, somehow copyrights seem to get extended retroactively (in the US at least). If this trend continues, nothing produced after steamboat willie will ever enter the public domain.
Thus the practical length of copyright, the time you have to wait to legally copy something produced now, is infinite.
kjafd means nothing in Swedish.
Acording to your analogy, it is ok for me to publish your phonenumber ( analogy www.intetntia.com) recommending people to tap in an extra number which just happends to cause your answering machine to replay messages (analogy alsi1028dmayrkslau_report.pdf or whatever was used) in order to listen to the messages left by your boyfrend/girlfriend/dealer/all of the above. After all the messages are accessible from a public network by sending a simple request.
The fact that Intetia was stupid as mud when they put the report on the server does not mean that Reuters has a right to cash in on that stupidity.
Why do you assume that money not spent on the net will simply vanish from the economy?
If I want a CD I will buy it from the cheapest source. If this tax drives the online price above the price in my local store, I will buy the record locally. Hence the lower spending online will probably be offset almost totally by higher spending offline.
Region coding is not (only) about different release dates in different countries. If it was only about different release dates, all movies predating the invention of DVDs would be region free.
As an example we may take Annie Hall, released 1977. Looking att www.amazon.com and www.amazon.co.uk, this is avalible with region 1 and region 2 (at slightly different prices)
Now, what is the most likely purpouse for incuring the slightly larger cost of producing, shipping and storing two different editions:
- 1. United artists want to prevent Europeans/Aussies from buying the DVD before the 1977 theatre premiere.
-
2. United artists want to maximize their profits by being able to set different prices on different markets.
People can complain about region coding all they want, but the solid evidence supporting the practice is right here.If different release dates was the only concern, older movies, and movies with worldwide premieres would be region free. The release-date explanation does however have a nicer ring than the more probable cause of increasing profits by preventing parallell import.
If you are auctioning off the names, what is stopping the looser of such an auction from contacting the holder of an address, buy it directly and renew it, paying a nominal fee?
The article itself does not mention auctions, maybe the poster is jumping to conclutions. This scheme seems to involve not notifying the holders of a domain that they controll something valuable.
They were however talking about unmanned vessels, hence no need to make the acceleration survivable. I guess you don't want to accelerate people to Mach2 before trying to start the engine...