It's like saying, "Let's work really hard on our steam technology and maybe it'll turn into atomic energy."
That is more or less how technology is developed, in a macro sense. We sure couldn't have skipped the industrial revolution and gone straight to atomic.
You can't expect technology for interstellar colonisation* just to exist in the future without resources spent on research and development at some intermediate future point. Not having the tech now is the reason to start working on it. Now. Perhaps we could start with a manned mission to Mars!
* It's a bit of an absurd success threshold to set (We'll be seeing ROI long before we hit that point), but I'll allow it.
As a publicly traded company, Google has a fiduciary duty to maximize return on investment for the shareholders... This is no different than any other public company.
This is one of statements that have been repeated so many times people just accept at face value it, but it is a harmful over-simplification. To start with, corporations have various regulatory responsibility that come before shareholders. After that, a corporation's responsibility to its shareholders is defined by the company at incorporation. It is not some global truth or law that they must maximise return unless they have undertaken to do so. There are many for-profit companies that do not have profit as a primary goal.
Tried it. Learned my lesson. The place is choked with CP. I'm talking actual rape here - not merely the kind of naked kiddie pictures that get you sent to a federal prison these days. This is stuff you NEVER see on the internet. The real, horrific, deal. There may be "safe" areas, but I couldn't find any, and I didn't exactly want to hang around to find out.
I want something like Freenet to exist. I believe we have the right to unregulated communication, individuals should just suck it up when they are offended rather then resorting to censorship and control. But Freenet appears to be used by criminals exclusively. I couldn't see any evidence of the kind of crypto-hippy idealism I expected.
I'm not going back anywhere near that cess-pit, and I'm not helping to enable it.
They were trying to establish a common-law precedent. North Americans seem to be thrown by this a lot (overly fixated on the Constitution is my guess). But in a country using the Common Law system, that IS a new law. Hence the selection of a soft target in a smaller economy.
That way only the people benefiting from counterfeit goods/blatant copyright infringement are negatively impacted, which I think most people can agree to a certain degree, probably needed to be cracked down on anyways.
It hasn't actually been shown that copyright infringement is doing any damage AT ALL. We only have the "interests" who stand to gain from erosion of our rights telling us it is so.
So no, I don't think the copyright cartel needs to be thrown a bone at all. They already ate all the meat!
Vendors were already going to make devices to run Windows 8, and everyone was happy. Microsoft specifically asked vendors to build a device that can only run Windows 8.
The world is too small for nations to be so xenophobic, unless they want to wall themselves in like China and North Korea (and I'm sure there are other examples).
Like the United States of America?
Okay, okay, that was rather trollish. But ALL government seeks increased control, it's just the nature of the beast. Don't fall into the trap of thinking you are safe. "Land of the Free" rings pretty hollow these days.
Christ, you can get more insightful discussion on pretty much any given topic on Reddit these days./r/sopa certainly had a bigger impact then slashdot on this issue. How many representatives showed up here to argue the case? How many of them even know what/. is?
He was joking. The possibility was first raised by Edward Teller, but it was ruled out long before the test by showing radiative losses exceeded energy production. The story goes that Oppenheimer mentioned it passing to Arthur Compton, who had the bad judgment to mention it to the Whitehouse. After that the scientists never heard the end of it
It's akin to a scientist at the LHC taking bets about ending the world through creation of a black hole.
I'm no friend of the tobacco lobby, but the two things are like chalk and cheese. The tobacco companies are suing because of legislation that limits freedoms. They feel they are being harmed unfairly. The music industry is suing because legislation that limits freedoms does not exist. They feel that everybody else are not being harmed unfairly enough!
Okay, I hate console ports as much as the next guy, but you have to be pretty jaded if you think vanilla TES5 is a horrible experience on the PC to begin with. The UI is a mess and the textures could be better quality, but mods are already starting to address both problems (no modding for TES5? You tripping, bro? They designed the freaking thing as a mod platform, and the new scripting tools are much more powerful then anything available before). And I really don't believe that the experience system was "streamlined" for the sake of console players, but was just natural evolution - the new system still has heaps of depth and at least feels fresh.
EVERYBODY is terrible at typography. Even most book publishers. On the other hand, programmers are more likely to know about tools like LaTeX so have a better chance then most.
Nearly anybody can be a software "designer", you just need an over-developed sense of style and, crucially, the ability to listen to actual school-trained professionals.
You might have that backwards. If death meant copyright would transfered, the author's family (or whoever it was left to) now have a motive for murder. If copyright passes to public domain there is no way to profit from the authors death.
We all had that right till some asshole came along and invented Intellectual Property. There isn't exactly a natural right to be paid for you work either you know, especially for a REPRODUCTION of your work. We all just play a legal fiction in the name of progress.
Surely you don't need a full size USB port? Almost every Android device has either a micro or mini USB port (except for Samsung tablets, what were they thinking?), so as long as you are on 3.1 you should be fine.
Samsung's phones don't suck as much as Motorola, sure. But don't discount HTC. I'd take one of their solid alloy unibody phones over a chintzy plastic Samsung any day. It's not just the physical construction either. Users seem to love Sense, but Touchwiz is universally loathed.
Online, there are plenty of websites that will sell you a bag or a shoe that looks just like an expensive brand for a fraction of the cost. SOPA is meant to block access to such websites, which are often hosted offshore where US law enforcement agencies cannot touch them.
I thought that was why we had Customs at the border and all those lovely intellectual property treaties with other nations. Guess not.
Tell me about it. Only a fool would believe that catching a company selling it's customers to one single, foreign government is a sign of some kind of trend. India is special.
I don't know about you, but 'd kind of expect law enforcement to do its job.
If law enforcement can't effectively do something about it because of broken laws, only then would expect the governement to do something... fix the laws.
I would absolutely NOT be happy if my government waived the perp's rights with a label like "terrorist" or "enemy combatant". I would defend the rights of a fellow citizen, even if he wronged me.
How the fuck can the state justify inprisonment of fraud victims? The attack highlights willful injustice perputrated by the Israeli state on it's own people - no wonder the dude is labeled a terrorist.
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It's like saying, "Let's work really hard on our steam technology and maybe it'll turn into atomic energy."
That is more or less how technology is developed, in a macro sense. We sure couldn't have skipped the industrial revolution and gone straight to atomic.
You can't expect technology for interstellar colonisation* just to exist in the future without resources spent on research and development at some intermediate future point. Not having the tech now is the reason to start working on it. Now. Perhaps we could start with a manned mission to Mars!
* It's a bit of an absurd success threshold to set (We'll be seeing ROI long before we hit that point), but I'll allow it.
As a publicly traded company, Google has a fiduciary duty to maximize return on investment for the shareholders... This is no different than any other public company.
This is one of statements that have been repeated so many times people just accept at face value it, but it is a harmful over-simplification. To start with, corporations have various regulatory responsibility that come before shareholders. After that, a corporation's responsibility to its shareholders is defined by the company at incorporation. It is not some global truth or law that they must maximise return unless they have undertaken to do so. There are many for-profit companies that do not have profit as a primary goal.
Tried it. Learned my lesson. The place is choked with CP. I'm talking actual rape here - not merely the kind of naked kiddie pictures that get you sent to a federal prison these days. This is stuff you NEVER see on the internet. The real, horrific, deal. There may be "safe" areas, but I couldn't find any, and I didn't exactly want to hang around to find out.
I want something like Freenet to exist. I believe we have the right to unregulated communication, individuals should just suck it up when they are offended rather then resorting to censorship and control. But Freenet appears to be used by criminals exclusively. I couldn't see any evidence of the kind of crypto-hippy idealism I expected.
I'm not going back anywhere near that cess-pit, and I'm not helping to enable it.
This is a lawsuit, not a new law.
They were trying to establish a common-law precedent. North Americans seem to be thrown by this a lot (overly fixated on the Constitution is my guess). But in a country using the Common Law system, that IS a new law. Hence the selection of a soft target in a smaller economy.
Honestly... this was all covered in the summary.
It wasn't so much hardened, as much as it was just made on such a crude process (over 1 micrometer) it was largely unaffected by radiation.
Very well said, Sir/Madam.
That way only the people benefiting from counterfeit goods/blatant copyright infringement are negatively impacted, which I think most people can agree to a certain degree, probably needed to be cracked down on anyways.
It hasn't actually been shown that copyright infringement is doing any damage AT ALL. We only have the "interests" who stand to gain from erosion of our rights telling us it is so.
So no, I don't think the copyright cartel needs to be thrown a bone at all. They already ate all the meat!
Vendors were already going to make devices to run Windows 8, and everyone was happy. Microsoft specifically asked vendors to build a device that can only run Windows 8.
The world is too small for nations to be so xenophobic, unless they want to wall themselves in like China and North Korea (and I'm sure there are other examples).
Like the United States of America?
Okay, okay, that was rather trollish. But ALL government seeks increased control, it's just the nature of the beast. Don't fall into the trap of thinking you are safe. "Land of the Free" rings pretty hollow these days.
Christ, you can get more insightful discussion on pretty much any given topic on Reddit these days. /r/sopa certainly had a bigger impact then slashdot on this issue. How many representatives showed up here to argue the case? How many of them even know what /. is?
/. has gone to the dogs my friend.
He was joking. The possibility was first raised by Edward Teller, but it was ruled out long before the test by showing radiative losses exceeded energy production. The story goes that Oppenheimer mentioned it passing to Arthur Compton, who had the bad judgment to mention it to the Whitehouse. After that the scientists never heard the end of it
It's akin to a scientist at the LHC taking bets about ending the world through creation of a black hole.
I'm no friend of the tobacco lobby, but the two things are like chalk and cheese. The tobacco companies are suing because of legislation that limits freedoms. They feel they are being harmed unfairly. The music industry is suing because legislation that limits freedoms does not exist. They feel that everybody else are not being harmed unfairly enough!
Okay, I hate console ports as much as the next guy, but you have to be pretty jaded if you think vanilla TES5 is a horrible experience on the PC to begin with. The UI is a mess and the textures could be better quality, but mods are already starting to address both problems (no modding for TES5? You tripping, bro? They designed the freaking thing as a mod platform, and the new scripting tools are much more powerful then anything available before). And I really don't believe that the experience system was "streamlined" for the sake of console players, but was just natural evolution - the new system still has heaps of depth and at least feels fresh.
Government.
EVERYBODY is terrible at typography. Even most book publishers. On the other hand, programmers are more likely to know about tools like LaTeX so have a better chance then most.
Nearly anybody can be a software "designer", you just need an over-developed sense of style and, crucially, the ability to listen to actual school-trained professionals.
You might have that backwards. If death meant copyright would transfered, the author's family (or whoever it was left to) now have a motive for murder. If copyright passes to public domain there is no way to profit from the authors death.
We all had that right till some asshole came along and invented Intellectual Property. There isn't exactly a natural right to be paid for you work either you know, especially for a REPRODUCTION of your work. We all just play a legal fiction in the name of progress.
Surely you don't need a full size USB port? Almost every Android device has either a micro or mini USB port (except for Samsung tablets, what were they thinking?), so as long as you are on 3.1 you should be fine.
Samsung's phones don't suck as much as Motorola, sure. But don't discount HTC. I'd take one of their solid alloy unibody phones over a chintzy plastic Samsung any day. It's not just the physical construction either. Users seem to love Sense, but Touchwiz is universally loathed.
Online, there are plenty of websites that will sell you a bag or a shoe that looks just like an expensive brand for a fraction of the cost. SOPA is meant to block access to such websites, which are often hosted offshore where US law enforcement agencies cannot touch them.
I thought that was why we had Customs at the border and all those lovely intellectual property treaties with other nations. Guess not.
Tell me about it. Only a fool would believe that catching a company selling it's customers to one single, foreign government is a sign of some kind of trend. India is special.
"OS updates manditory" was one of the great selling points they had over Android, now it's "OS updates available to carrier on request". Yeah.
I predict Windows Mobile "fragmentation" stories and much gnashing of teeth.
I don't know about you, but 'd kind of expect law enforcement to do its job.
If law enforcement can't effectively do something about it because of broken laws, only then would expect the governement to do something... fix the laws.
I would absolutely NOT be happy if my government waived the perp's rights with a label like "terrorist" or "enemy combatant". I would defend the rights of a fellow citizen, even if he wronged me.
What if I am a suspect one day? What if you are?
How the fuck can the state justify inprisonment of fraud victims? The attack highlights willful injustice perputrated by the Israeli state on it's own people - no wonder the dude is labeled a terrorist.