Ah, good to be young and free. Get a wife, kids and a skyrocketing mortgage payment and you will be willing to sleep in doghouse for a month to get a million bucks.
I don't have the free time to read the whole book based on a cryptic recommendation. Did Neal either create a search engine or have anything to contribute to this discussion. All I read from him is the idea of suburb-sized governments instead of continent sized ones, is there any place I can get the former?
Quick! You are given a choice of a million bucks or a month of free speech (if you opt for $$$ you can resume your free speech after one month, which is a realistic processing time of a DMCA counter-notice). What is it going to be???
What we need is an alternative search engine located in a country with very strict privacy laws, permissive copyright laws and outside of reach of most US subpoenas (except ones that meet that country's standards). If it becomes popular with security-paranoid geeks, it has a shot at 0.01% of Google's money, which should be enough to sustain a medium-sized company. Any recommendations?
I am just talking about community assistance in any emergency - that is a circumstance beyond individual's control and threatening to life, health or causing massive preventable destruction of property. If you don't want to cover abortion for a woman with a dead fetus who will likely die herself otherwise, fire department should let your house burn down with you trapped inside. Women who want elective abortions or people who build houses in extreme fire/flood hazard zones should arrange for their own funding or insurance, although rescue mission to save lives in a disaster should be still done first and culprits billed later.
I am getting torrent speeds around 200K/second. Is filtering specific to some region or bittorrent client? Does Mac TCP stack confuse it in some way? It seems to me that they face a mass exodus of customers to AT&T if they really break torrents for everyone.
The damage to someone who's website is made unavailable for a time is usually far smaller than someone's whose livelihood is being given away to millions of downloaders. The law calls for ISPs to disable accounts of repeat offenders, if this is the first strike and they didn't inform the customer of the right to send a counter-notice they are assholes, although I am not sure there is any law against that.
DMCA takedown is basically a question from ISP to the content publisher on weather the material is distributed legally. The publisher can just tell Yahoo that the material is legal. In this case, the videos will be restored and subscriber's identity will be made known to the author of DMCA notice to settle the matter in court if necessary. The process is mutual and in fact the issuer of DMCA notice is liable for any damages resulting from the downtime.
Unlike DMCA counter-circumvention provision this is actually a good thing. ISP is off the hook and instead the customer and the purported copyright owner get to give up their claims or duke it out in court if they choose. Genuinely infringing material can be immediately removed from public access, ensuring that say, Photoshop source code does not make it into too many hands before the court battle is settled.
I don't know which historical game you are playing that Tampax ads do not challenge your suspension of disbelief, but I am not sure I want it even without the ads.
Honestly, I don't care if you don't. If you genuinely object, then I'd say we shouldn't force you to do so. It's too bad that the political party that you probably support does not share your sentiment.
I know, I know, that was a rhetorical question, and you really don't give a damn about forcing people to violate their beliefs How did you reach this conclusion?
Personally, I don't think 300 million people of US should all be forced to follow beliefs of a single person currently in power, rich white men, 51% of population and so on. Each community should determine it's own laws, apart from issues like environment that will inherently affect their neighbors. There should be enough communities and free migration so that any given person can choose to live in an appropriate one for his/her stage in life.
If anyone here doesn't understand an obvious workaround, or how the workaround can be fine tuned to get around any given filtering system, please let me know and I will be happy to explain.
Games are supposed to be set in an alternative reality and real-world ads damage the illusion badly. If the game is free, I can always stop playing if ads bother me too much. But if I already shelled out $50, I consider that the publisher already made a reasonable profit and have no desire to increase it further by an indeterminate amount at the expense of my user experience.
Those people in a different country chose a communist government that shot their economy to hell, not to mention killing millions of their best citizens in progress. Why should I prop their economy at the cost of my salary and job security when they still didn't admit any mistakes? If they don't like their standard of living, let them put their current government in jail and develop economy that allows ordinary citizens to afford locally made products rather than relying exclusively on exports. Which country is going to bail USA out of recession by outsourcing jobs to here?
Do you think I should be paying for other people to go and kill men, women and children in a country halfway across the world that never attacked us? Do you think John Hopkins also blocks terms like "Christianity" or "pro-life" in their database? I definitely think there is a case for paying taxes for medically necessary abortions or wars fought in response to an invasion. Elective abortions and "preemptive" wars, not so much. But medical research that merely DISCUSSES effects of abortion or prayer without actually doing either on federal dime? I think it's ridiculous to block knowledge as opposed to actions.
Time has shown that nobody will protect your privacy besides yourself. It's time for ALL Internet traffic and ALL phone traffic to be encrypted with an option to get SSL keys for each machine or phone from trusted authorities in different countries. This way a particular person asserting privacy is not labeled a terrorist, Comcast can not selectively block bittorrent, Chinese firewall is out of business and phone companies do not need immunity for spying on subscribers. IPV6 will have to be adopted anyway in the next 10 years and it included encryption, so the time is right to make both switches at once with little extra IT overhead.
You don't care if the company sells you proprietary or open source code. You just care about guaranteed support and some penalties to the vendor if it is not provided. Open source companies have more incentive to offer support since they can not just sell the code itself.
Unless of course we annexed Brazil and I missed it. Yes, it was called WTO. It makes supposedly sovereign countries pass intellectual property laws that are neither common sense nor in interest of their citizens. The least we can do is globalize the little individual protections we have together with restrictions.
Maybe an announcement of the first version of Slackware was. Perhaps radically different distributions like Gentoo. But for the life of me I can't understand why another ordinary desktop disto is on the front page.
So what are you saying? Students making notes in their own textbooks are lawbreakers? Study guides that suggest where to place the notes should be banned?
Daniel_k had no right to modify Creative's software. The powers not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.
Care to explain how constitution, or a constitutional law of Daniel_k's states prohibits him from distributing patches to Creative's drivers, provided that he neither distributes patched drivers directly nor do the patches contain Creative's copyrighted code in excess of fair use amount needed for interoperability.
Now, it's possible that Daniel did not release his work properly, but he sure has "powers" to modify Creative's code.
Almost as hilarious is the insistence that vendor lock-in is a good thing. It is a choice thing. If you buy a BMW, you would probably get very upset to find a Hyundai engine inside or to have to go to a Toyota dealer for service. You also shouldn't be surprised to find much cheaper car models with 80% of your feature set or gaps in model lineup - you may not be able to get a tractor or a pickup track and still keep your BMW experience without unauthorized mods. You wouldn't want either Hyundai or BMW to be the only car company on the market. Competition is good!
It's not unusual for a truly innovative technology to take 10 years to develop. Original IBM PC, first Internet connections, the first web site or the first AJAX app were all not very useful for anything practical. While Surface demo looks cool, it's not easy to develop affordable hardware or software that does more than shows little lighted ripples around objects put on the top. Besides obvious games, most software will be probably rather high and and specialized, like CAD design or astronomical modeling tools. It will therefore take a while to develop.
How badly do we need multitouch for e-mail, web browsing or posting on slashdot?
So should government and big corporate users of ODF dictate that their documents can not be processed by university students, hobbyists and small vendors? Searching through a budget documents and finding all items related to Iraq is a pretty basic transformation based on text proximity, well suited for awk/grep/sed/C. Writing an XML tool to do regular expressions search for patterns that may span text sections with different formating would be out of reach of many hobbyists. On the other hand, generating best-effort readable text when you already wrote a full ODF implementation should not strain anyone's resources.
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Ah, good to be young and free. Get a wife, kids and a skyrocketing mortgage payment and you will be willing to sleep in doghouse for a month to get a million bucks.
I don't have the free time to read the whole book based on a cryptic recommendation. Did Neal either create a search engine or have anything to contribute to this discussion. All I read from him is the idea of suburb-sized governments instead of continent sized ones, is there any place I can get the former?
Quick! You are given a choice of a million bucks or a month of free speech (if you opt for $$$ you can resume your free speech after one month, which is a realistic processing time of a DMCA counter-notice). What is it going to be???
What we need is an alternative search engine located in a country with very strict privacy laws, permissive copyright laws and outside of reach of most US subpoenas (except ones that meet that country's standards). If it becomes popular with security-paranoid geeks, it has a shot at 0.01% of Google's money, which should be enough to sustain a medium-sized company. Any recommendations?
I am just talking about community assistance in any emergency - that is a circumstance beyond individual's control and threatening to life, health or causing massive preventable destruction of property. If you don't want to cover abortion for a woman with a dead fetus who will likely die herself otherwise, fire department should let your house burn down with you trapped inside. Women who want elective abortions or people who build houses in extreme fire/flood hazard zones should arrange for their own funding or insurance, although rescue mission to save lives in a disaster should be still done first and culprits billed later.
I am getting torrent speeds around 200K/second. Is filtering specific to some region or bittorrent client? Does Mac TCP stack confuse it in some way? It seems to me that they face a mass exodus of customers to AT&T if they really break torrents for everyone.
The damage to someone who's website is made unavailable for a time is usually far smaller than someone's whose livelihood is being given away to millions of downloaders. The law calls for ISPs to disable accounts of repeat offenders, if this is the first strike and they didn't inform the customer of the right to send a counter-notice they are assholes, although I am not sure there is any law against that.
DMCA takedown is basically a question from ISP to the content publisher on weather the material is distributed legally. The publisher can just tell Yahoo that the material is legal. In this case, the videos will be restored and subscriber's identity will be made known to the author of DMCA notice to settle the matter in court if necessary. The process is mutual and in fact the issuer of DMCA notice is liable for any damages resulting from the downtime.
Unlike DMCA counter-circumvention provision this is actually a good thing. ISP is off the hook and instead the customer and the purported copyright owner get to give up their claims or duke it out in court if they choose. Genuinely infringing material can be immediately removed from public access, ensuring that say, Photoshop source code does not make it into too many hands before the court battle is settled.
I don't know which historical game you are playing that Tampax ads do not challenge your suspension of disbelief, but I am not sure I want it even without the ads.
Personally, I don't think 300 million people of US should all be forced to follow beliefs of a single person currently in power, rich white men, 51% of population and so on. Each community should determine it's own laws, apart from issues like environment that will inherently affect their neighbors. There should be enough communities and free migration so that any given person can choose to live in an appropriate one for his/her stage in life.
If anyone here doesn't understand an obvious workaround, or how the workaround can be fine tuned to get around any given filtering system, please let me know and I will be happy to explain.
Games are supposed to be set in an alternative reality and real-world ads damage the illusion badly. If the game is free, I can always stop playing if ads bother me too much. But if I already shelled out $50, I consider that the publisher already made a reasonable profit and have no desire to increase it further by an indeterminate amount at the expense of my user experience.
How do they distinguish encrypted traffic from an ordinary download of a zip or a jpeg?
Those people in a different country chose a communist government that shot their economy to hell, not to mention killing millions of their best citizens in progress. Why should I prop their economy at the cost of my salary and job security when they still didn't admit any mistakes? If they don't like their standard of living, let them put their current government in jail and develop economy that allows ordinary citizens to afford locally made products rather than relying exclusively on exports. Which country is going to bail USA out of recession by outsourcing jobs to here?
Do you think I should be paying for other people to go and kill men, women and children in a country halfway across the world that never attacked us? Do you think John Hopkins also blocks terms like "Christianity" or "pro-life" in their database? I definitely think there is a case for paying taxes for medically necessary abortions or wars fought in response to an invasion. Elective abortions and "preemptive" wars, not so much. But medical research that merely DISCUSSES effects of abortion or prayer without actually doing either on federal dime? I think it's ridiculous to block knowledge as opposed to actions.
Time has shown that nobody will protect your privacy besides yourself. It's time for ALL Internet traffic and ALL phone traffic to be encrypted with an option to get SSL keys for each machine or phone from trusted authorities in different countries. This way a particular person asserting privacy is not labeled a terrorist, Comcast can not selectively block bittorrent, Chinese firewall is out of business and phone companies do not need immunity for spying on subscribers. IPV6 will have to be adopted anyway in the next 10 years and it included encryption, so the time is right to make both switches at once with little extra IT overhead.
You don't care if the company sells you proprietary or open source code. You just care about guaranteed support and some penalties to the vendor if it is not provided. Open source companies have more incentive to offer support since they can not just sell the code itself.
Maybe an announcement of the first version of Slackware was. Perhaps radically different distributions like Gentoo. But for the life of me I can't understand why another ordinary desktop disto is on the front page.
So what are you saying? Students making notes in their own textbooks are lawbreakers? Study guides that suggest where to place the notes should be banned?
Care to explain how constitution, or a constitutional law of Daniel_k's states prohibits him from distributing patches to Creative's drivers, provided that he neither distributes patched drivers directly nor do the patches contain Creative's copyrighted code in excess of fair use amount needed for interoperability.
Now, it's possible that Daniel did not release his work properly, but he sure has "powers" to modify Creative's code.
It's not unusual for a truly innovative technology to take 10 years to develop. Original IBM PC, first Internet connections, the first web site or the first AJAX app were all not very useful for anything practical. While Surface demo looks cool, it's not easy to develop affordable hardware or software that does more than shows little lighted ripples around objects put on the top. Besides obvious games, most software will be probably rather high and and specialized, like CAD design or astronomical modeling tools. It will therefore take a while to develop.
How badly do we need multitouch for e-mail, web browsing or posting on slashdot?
NASA: Retransmit, please.
silence...
(two hours passes)...
PROBE: I am in the bottom of the geyser with a broken neck. There are no obvious exits. Should I try to resurrect myself?
So should government and big corporate users of ODF dictate that their documents can not be processed by university students, hobbyists and small vendors? Searching through a budget documents and finding all items related to Iraq is a pretty basic transformation based on text proximity, well suited for awk/grep/sed/C. Writing an XML tool to do regular expressions search for patterns that may span text sections with different formating would be out of reach of many hobbyists. On the other hand, generating best-effort readable text when you already wrote a full ODF implementation should not strain anyone's resources.