>> require all works to be registered with a for-profit registry (Google?) to be protected, that unregistered works would be "orphaned" and be usable by "good faith infringers" (Google again?)
Isn't that pretty much what Google did with books a few years ago?
>> For now, all Apple can do is improve their development toolkit and hope coders can figure out useful new wrist-based interactions.
Or, they could take their famous mountains of cash and contract developers to write the "missing" apps for their watch. But if that's too much of a gamble for Apple...
1) Buy the Apple Watch 2) Spend days or weeks of work developing an app 3) Cross your fingers to hope it goes in Apple's store 4) See your app listed with dozens of others just like it including about a dozen free options 5) ??? 6) Profit!
4) The road is covered with ice, snow, gravel, oil or other substances that eliminate your tires' ability to engage with the road.
(This is why those of us in the northern part of the country are cheering for driver-less cars, but realistically think they might only be useful six months out of the year.)
However, in my experience, those numbers are pretty low. My wife and I have been involved in 3 accidents around a mid-sized city over the past 10 years (probably about 300,000 miles, or 1 crash per 100K miles), and I remember getting into a minor fender-bender (hardly ever reported) with someone about once a year when I worked near Chicago (1 crash per 20K miles).
Can we get someone to explain how its OK for the IRS to harass people hoping to change policy but it's bad for DHS to harass people hoping to change policy?
Or do you all still feel that "since they weren't charged, it wasn't really a problem?"
(If you do, you might want to ask a person of color about traffic stops some time.)
Although the process usually involves butt-hurt, every once in a while, you DO get someone who hates [group] (blacks, Republicans, gays, Christians, whatever) to moderate their viewpoint (and often become an advocate within their community) after ENGAGING them in an open forum like reddit or Slashdot.
In fact, that's the whole principal behind America, the UN, etc. - let's TALK it out in public rather than wall ourselves off in a bunch of isolated bomb-throwing communities.
(Hillary's) view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
>> then i sit in the car the phone will go shooting out...Have not tried using one since the 90's
Ah nostalgia. That was exactly the way I lost my final flip phone. I could even point out the very California bank parking lot where it happened, only to be scooped up by an enterprising young "Dreamer" who assuredly used the money from the sale of my phone to further his education.
>> These books end up being well over 800 pages without a lot of original information...filler at the end with...publicly available information....which is why I quit buying technical books since I got that second monitor.
>> I wonder how Tsirpas will sell this to his constituents who just voted a firm "NO" to a deal without restructuring.
Same way Bush (W) sold a tax increase to those he told "no new taxes" Same way Clinton sold the Defense of Marriage act to those who voted for him to continue the progress of civil rights. Same way Bush (GW) sold illegal immigrant-friendly policies to those who voted for him to close the border. Same way Obama sold the renewal of the Patriot Act to those who voted for him to kill the program.
In short, he's a politician. I'm sure he'll manage.
Take a look at Wisconsin: an attempt to make the state's laws as restrictive as the FOIA was met with huge backlash and a unanimous vote in the Republican-led Senate against it.
>> So which party is going to commit political suicide by removing it?
I'll bite. I'll bet it's the Democrats, who start to shift more retirement benefits into services (particularly health services, food stamps and housing assistance for the elderly; all such programs currently exist) and away from cash payouts (which will be how they get some Republicans to go along). Long story short, the government will claim that your total benefit continues to increase while your cash payments drop.
(Many corporations have already piloted this model in the last 6 years with "total benefit" statements that show why it's OK there are no raises because the company picked up the tab for health insurance spikes instead, for example.)
>> fireman (Jerry, you really have to stop making those 'wee-ooh wee-ooh' sounds while you drive)
Where I live we call them "volunteer firefighters" and everyone knows to get their kids away from the streets when the town whistle sounds because a couple of pick-ups with flashing lights on their dashboards will be flying through your residential neighborhood at 3x the speed limit anytime now.
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>> require all works to be registered with a for-profit registry (Google?) to be protected, that unregistered works would be "orphaned" and be usable by "good faith infringers" (Google again?)
Isn't that pretty much what Google did with books a few years ago?
>> For now, all Apple can do is improve their development toolkit and hope coders can figure out useful new wrist-based interactions.
Or, they could take their famous mountains of cash and contract developers to write the "missing" apps for their watch. But if that's too much of a gamble for Apple...
Government wasting money. Whaaa...?
>> many in the military skip Defense Information Systems Agency
Oh, I see. This article was planted to whip military buyers back into the corral of politically-connected overspending that is DISA.
1) Buy the Apple Watch
2) Spend days or weeks of work developing an app
3) Cross your fingers to hope it goes in Apple's store
4) See your app listed with dozens of others just like it including about a dozen free options
5) ???
6) Profit!
>> this is a prime target for a hacking/blackmail scheme
My first thought was that the entire point of the site was to BE a blackmail scheme.
>> Eastern North America was the only major region to experience below-average annual temperatures.
Yeah, world take THAT. We're number f***ing one! USA! USA! USA!
4) The road is covered with ice, snow, gravel, oil or other substances that eliminate your tires' ability to engage with the road.
(This is why those of us in the northern part of the country are cheering for driver-less cars, but realistically think they might only be useful six months out of the year.)
Insurance companies have this information at their fingertips. Here are some public numbers:
1.2-1.5 deaths for every 100M miles travelled
185 crashes for every 100M miles travelled (or 300 if only 45% are reported)
From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... and http://www.caranddriver.com/fe...
However, in my experience, those numbers are pretty low. My wife and I have been involved in 3 accidents around a mid-sized city over the past 10 years (probably about 300,000 miles, or 1 crash per 100K miles), and I remember getting into a minor fender-bender (hardly ever reported) with someone about once a year when I worked near Chicago (1 crash per 20K miles).
Asked. Received. Was not disappointed.
Can we get someone to explain how its OK for the IRS to harass people hoping to change policy but it's bad for DHS to harass people hoping to change policy?
Or do you all still feel that "since they weren't charged, it wasn't really a problem?"
(If you do, you might want to ask a person of color about traffic stops some time.)
By 2017 the brand name of Nokia will probably have as much worth as the IBM Simon does to cell phone consumers.
So much for "an open conversation about race."
Although the process usually involves butt-hurt, every once in a while, you DO get someone who hates [group] (blacks, Republicans, gays, Christians, whatever) to moderate their viewpoint (and often become an advocate within their community) after ENGAGING them in an open forum like reddit or Slashdot.
In fact, that's the whole principal behind America, the UN, etc. - let's TALK it out in public rather than wall ourselves off in a bunch of isolated bomb-throwing communities.
I know, but then they DID it. Anyway...
You only think you're kidding.
https://www.google.com/webhp?q...
(Hillary's) view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it.
>> then i sit in the car the phone will go shooting out...Have not tried using one since the 90's
Ah nostalgia. That was exactly the way I lost my final flip phone. I could even point out the very California bank parking lot where it happened, only to be scooped up by an enterprising young "Dreamer" who assuredly used the money from the sale of my phone to further his education.
>> Reddit, but with maps
My first thought was "Wikipedia, with maps" (Shudder)
And who's still running Firefox? (Besides as a test browser for web dev, of course.)
>> they'll start punishing drivers by converting traffic lanes into bike lanes
Not sure where you live but this is already common in the midwest.
>> These books end up being well over 800 pages without a lot of original information...filler at the end with...publicly available information. ...which is why I quit buying technical books since I got that second monitor.
>> Pluto, the dwarf planet that is the former ninth planet from the sun
Thanks for the explanation - as Slashdot readers, we needed it.
>> I wonder how Tsirpas will sell this to his constituents who just voted a firm "NO" to a deal without restructuring.
Same way Bush (W) sold a tax increase to those he told "no new taxes"
Same way Clinton sold the Defense of Marriage act to those who voted for him to continue the progress of civil rights.
Same way Bush (GW) sold illegal immigrant-friendly policies to those who voted for him to close the border.
Same way Obama sold the renewal of the Patriot Act to those who voted for him to kill the program.
In short, he's a politician. I'm sure he'll manage.
Take a look at Wisconsin: an attempt to make the state's laws as restrictive as the FOIA was met with huge backlash and a unanimous vote in the Republican-led Senate against it.
http://www.jsonline.com/news/w...
Why not just dump the FOIA and let people electronically read what they want whenever? Think of it like "body cameras for politicians."
>> So which party is going to commit political suicide by removing it?
I'll bite. I'll bet it's the Democrats, who start to shift more retirement benefits into services (particularly health services, food stamps and housing assistance for the elderly; all such programs currently exist) and away from cash payouts (which will be how they get some Republicans to go along). Long story short, the government will claim that your total benefit continues to increase while your cash payments drop.
(Many corporations have already piloted this model in the last 6 years with "total benefit" statements that show why it's OK there are no raises because the company picked up the tab for health insurance spikes instead, for example.)
>> fireman (Jerry, you really have to stop making those 'wee-ooh wee-ooh' sounds while you drive)
Where I live we call them "volunteer firefighters" and everyone knows to get their kids away from the streets when the town whistle sounds because a couple of pick-ups with flashing lights on their dashboards will be flying through your residential neighborhood at 3x the speed limit anytime now.