What speech laws did Weimar Germany have? In practice, at least, virtually anything was permitted, from the revolutionary far-left to the revolutionary far-right, and everything in between. Hitler was never arrested for his speech; the only time he was arrested (1923), was because he led an armed paramilitary group to attempt a coup.
I don't see much evidence that it has to do with criticism of Israel. The laws in Germany are mostly used to target the domestic far-right, NPD types, who don't really like Israel.
I noticed it most obviously when I lived in L.A., but what even counts as a "petty crime" seems to vary with the wealth of the area. If your middle-class house gets burglarized, that's a run-of-the-mill police report that doesn't get much investigation. But if a mansion in Beverly Hills is burglarized, now that's taken seriously.
Depends a lot on what kind of neighborhood you live in. Like airlines, police reserve their highest level of "customer service" for the wealthiest patrons.
Yes, I think it's saying that object storage should get byte-range access, not that POSIX should; POSIX, as well as basically any local filesystem API, already does.
A lot of object-storage systems do already have byte-range access, though, implemented via HTTP range requests. They're not nice seekable streams, but if the specific functionality you want is to retrieve a range of bytes from a file, that's already here.
It's not just Beijing that has really bad air, although I agree that it's not all of China. Other very polluted cities include: Xian, Tianjin, Guangzhou, Shenyang, Nanjing, etc.
These are more techie-oriented rather than for general desktop use (they don't have shiny GUI sync clients, and are aimed at Linux/BSD users), but two I'd recommend:
rsync.net. Remote ZFS filesystem you can scp files to, or access over ssh via a restricted shell that supports a range of backup tools. For encrypted backups, if you're on a unix machine, you can point duplicity at it. They've been around a long time, and have a warrant canary, though if you encrypt the files client-side with something like duplicity, they won't even have your data in the first place.
Tarsnap. Encrypted, deduplicating incremental backup. The encrypted blobs are stored on Amazon S3. Custom client that by design keeps them from ever seeing the unencrypted data.
There's an interesting, fairly even-handed look at that hypothesis at RationalWiki. As with many things in social science, it's tricky to really prove this kind of macro-scale hypothesis with airtight evidence, but there is some suggestive evidence.
Americans of the frontier era were illegal immigrants even by the USA's own laws. The U.S. at various points in its history signed treaties with Indian tribes agreeing to settlement boundaries, and enacted them into domestic law, such as the various nonintercourse acts. Many people simply ignored these laws and illegally crossed the borders, squatting on land on the other side. Once enough of them did, they were retroactively legalized, what you might call "amnesty".
And specifically in Minnesota, the state's criminal libel statute was recently struck down. Previously, certain kinds of libel in MN were criminal rather than only civil offenses, though still misdemeanors, not felonies.
Yeah, most offices these days have showers. I think all new ones are required to.
The UK isn't particularly hot though, so you'll likely sweat only on the three days a year of what passes for summer. Rain can be dealt with by simply wearing waterproof clothing, like people do in the Netherlands and Denmark, both drizzly countries that have long since figured out how to set up bike infrastructure.
I was also confused, but from some Googling it looks like it's a phrase that's frequently been used in this particular fight, by supporters of the cycle-route plan, to ridicule opponents of the plan. Possibly okay to assume your reader would recognize the phrase if this were a London newspaper, but on Slashdot less likely.
The phrase "old men in limos" with acronym "OMILs" appears to have been coined by Chris Boardman, an Olympic cyclist, as a riposte to the term MAMIL, or "middle-aged man in lycra".
It was later picked up by Boris Johnson's administration, e.g. here's an article from June in which London's cycling commissioner says,
"It was at times nightmarishly difficult to manage this, and we saw some absolutely ferocious resistance, kicking and screaming, and we saw a lot more passive resistance, heel digging and foot dragging from whom Olympic cyclist Chris Boardman called Old Men in Limos; you've heard of the MAMILs, those were the OMILs. A lot of objections, which would nearly always start with the words 'Of course I support cycling...'"
I find it easier to just buy some decent phone, using whatever criteria you want to shop for on the phone side (price, features, etc.), and then if you want extra battery life, buy an external battery that can charge the phone via USB. They're small/light enough these days that I just keep one in my laptop bag, which I usually have with me. If you're more the outdoor/hiking type, you can get a version that doubles as an LED flashlight. Lets me go about 2x as long without having the kind of big/fat phone you'd need for a big internal battery.
And then there is this question: "What is the future when more and more work can be done by intelligent machines instead of people, or only done by people in partnership with those machines?"
People have been asking this question for literally 150 years or so. Even if we restrict our horizon to things published in the last month, there's quite a bit. Do we need another take on this? And from... Tim O'Reilly?
factory machines that don't need humans to run them, and many other changes the 1950s and 1960s futurists didn't expect to see
No, this is exactly what they expected to see. The main thing they were wrong about is that they expected to see it within 20 years.
Japan's newest reactors are indeed of a modern design, but the specific plant whose restart is discussed in this article, Sendai, is still a 2nd-generation plant. It's a newer one than Fukushima (1984 vs. 1971), but not a 3rd-generation plant.
Nice arbitrage play! Seems like it'd be a little tricky to get away with, since Uber's app phones home with locations for them to track the progress of the trip. You'd have to run the app in a rooted phone that's running some kind of route-planning simulator, with enough nondeterminism that it looks realistic. But probably not impossible.
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The real reason Slashdotters don't like emoji is that this site, in 2015, still can't properly display Unicode anyway.
Then as now, any speech that could potentially disturb the public peace can be punished with multi-year prison sentences.
How, then, did nobody from either the KPD or the NSDAP end up in jail for their extremely large volume of speech disturbing the public peace?
What speech laws did Weimar Germany have? In practice, at least, virtually anything was permitted, from the revolutionary far-left to the revolutionary far-right, and everything in between. Hitler was never arrested for his speech; the only time he was arrested (1923), was because he led an armed paramilitary group to attempt a coup.
If Facebook doesn't like Germany's laws, they can quit offering their service in Germany. That's their prerogative.
I don't see much evidence that it has to do with criticism of Israel. The laws in Germany are mostly used to target the domestic far-right, NPD types, who don't really like Israel.
I noticed it most obviously when I lived in L.A., but what even counts as a "petty crime" seems to vary with the wealth of the area. If your middle-class house gets burglarized, that's a run-of-the-mill police report that doesn't get much investigation. But if a mansion in Beverly Hills is burglarized, now that's taken seriously.
Depends a lot on what kind of neighborhood you live in. Like airlines, police reserve their highest level of "customer service" for the wealthiest patrons.
Yes, I think it's saying that object storage should get byte-range access, not that POSIX should; POSIX, as well as basically any local filesystem API, already does.
A lot of object-storage systems do already have byte-range access, though, implemented via HTTP range requests. They're not nice seekable streams, but if the specific functionality you want is to retrieve a range of bytes from a file, that's already here.
Is ZFS-on-Linux production ready yet?
It's not just Beijing that has really bad air, although I agree that it's not all of China. Other very polluted cities include: Xian, Tianjin, Guangzhou, Shenyang, Nanjing, etc.
depends, corncob or calabash?
These are more techie-oriented rather than for general desktop use (they don't have shiny GUI sync clients, and are aimed at Linux/BSD users), but two I'd recommend:
rsync.net. Remote ZFS filesystem you can scp files to, or access over ssh via a restricted shell that supports a range of backup tools. For encrypted backups, if you're on a unix machine, you can point duplicity at it. They've been around a long time, and have a warrant canary, though if you encrypt the files client-side with something like duplicity, they won't even have your data in the first place.
Tarsnap. Encrypted, deduplicating incremental backup. The encrypted blobs are stored on Amazon S3. Custom client that by design keeps them from ever seeing the unencrypted data.
There's an interesting, fairly even-handed look at that hypothesis at RationalWiki. As with many things in social science, it's tricky to really prove this kind of macro-scale hypothesis with airtight evidence, but there is some suggestive evidence.
Americans of the frontier era were illegal immigrants even by the USA's own laws. The U.S. at various points in its history signed treaties with Indian tribes agreeing to settlement boundaries, and enacted them into domestic law, such as the various nonintercourse acts. Many people simply ignored these laws and illegally crossed the borders, squatting on land on the other side. Once enough of them did, they were retroactively legalized, what you might call "amnesty".
Unfortunately for the martians, yankee illegals are notoriously hard to keep out. Ask the Cherokee how that worked out for them...
And specifically in Minnesota, the state's criminal libel statute was recently struck down. Previously, certain kinds of libel in MN were criminal rather than only civil offenses, though still misdemeanors, not felonies.
Yeah, most offices these days have showers. I think all new ones are required to.
The UK isn't particularly hot though, so you'll likely sweat only on the three days a year of what passes for summer. Rain can be dealt with by simply wearing waterproof clothing, like people do in the Netherlands and Denmark, both drizzly countries that have long since figured out how to set up bike infrastructure.
I was also confused, but from some Googling it looks like it's a phrase that's frequently been used in this particular fight, by supporters of the cycle-route plan, to ridicule opponents of the plan. Possibly okay to assume your reader would recognize the phrase if this were a London newspaper, but on Slashdot less likely.
The phrase "old men in limos" with acronym "OMILs" appears to have been coined by Chris Boardman, an Olympic cyclist, as a riposte to the term MAMIL, or "middle-aged man in lycra".
It was later picked up by Boris Johnson's administration, e.g. here's an article from June in which London's cycling commissioner says,
There's no need to use a home printer nowadays. With the rise of ecommerce, you can order a nicely preprinted copy online and have it delivered!
I find it easier to just buy some decent phone, using whatever criteria you want to shop for on the phone side (price, features, etc.), and then if you want extra battery life, buy an external battery that can charge the phone via USB. They're small/light enough these days that I just keep one in my laptop bag, which I usually have with me. If you're more the outdoor/hiking type, you can get a version that doubles as an LED flashlight. Lets me go about 2x as long without having the kind of big/fat phone you'd need for a big internal battery.
People have been asking this question for literally 150 years or so. Even if we restrict our horizon to things published in the last month, there's quite a bit. Do we need another take on this? And from... Tim O'Reilly?
No, this is exactly what they expected to see. The main thing they were wrong about is that they expected to see it within 20 years.
Japan's newest reactors are indeed of a modern design, but the specific plant whose restart is discussed in this article, Sendai, is still a 2nd-generation plant. It's a newer one than Fukushima (1984 vs. 1971), but not a 3rd-generation plant.
I'm afraid legacy accents are no longer supported; the supported 20-year transition period expired on January 1 of this year.
Move to Soviet Nordland and you can have both good healthcare and fast internet. :) No sun, though.
Nice arbitrage play! Seems like it'd be a little tricky to get away with, since Uber's app phones home with locations for them to track the progress of the trip. You'd have to run the app in a rooted phone that's running some kind of route-planning simulator, with enough nondeterminism that it looks realistic. But probably not impossible.