> But sometimes we get very lucky... Velociraptor vs. Protoceratops [bhigr.com].//
That looks incredibly fake to me. I just can't imagine the conditions in which these animals would die in mid fight like that and remain perfectly preserved. From the fossil it appears both animals died at exactly the same time and were preserved without being fed on by scavengers big enough to carry off a single bone.
>I'm sure I've heard that making a single backup for your own use is legal due to precedent
Nope, this is exactly what this _proposed_ change is addressing. "Backups" and "format shifting" are currently illegal to make, use of the copy is largely irrelevant here (beyond level of damages), copyright law protects against people _making_ unlicensed copies.
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>sure it's still a great browser but it doesn't really pack anything unique anymore
Opera Unite?? What other browser has a web server in it?
>People don't understand that there is an enormous gap between being able to retrieve general information on a subject and being able to answer a specific question.
Yes, but.. I did a very quick test typing the questions in to Google. For half of the questions it seemed(!) a simple most "repeated keyword string" test of the returned snippets would give the answer.
They specifically stated in the introductory material on the show that the computer doesn't have access to the internet. But I think that we are so familiar with the concept of quickly returning database results that this sort of display of computing prowess just seems a natural next step.
>3. Extend your search keywords to add "nosite". i.e. nosite:experts-exchange.com
You mean the same as "keyword -site:experts-exchange.com" but with an extra character? I don't see how that helps really don't we want Google to keep the list of sites that we don't want results from and automatically exclude those sites from our results?
Couple of points, he was a man in his early 40's - he was arrested when called the police on a teenager he picked up at the cinema and invited back to his house for sex. He knew that he would be arrested for his admission of sex with the young man; this suggests to me it was something more serious than just theft that he was reporting. I'd guess he was being blackmailed by foreign service agents, but it's a guess, it's certain that something doesn't add up in the reports that I've read. If it were a girl of the same age it wouldn't have been illegal, but he would have been shunned by most of society at the time for preying on such a young girl outside of marriage (again my opinion). He was clearly at risk of falling for a "honeytrap". I don't think he would have kept his job had be been caught picking up teen girls.
Second point he was probably bisexual from what I've read of his relationship with the woman he got engaged to. Reports say that he was out as a homosexual when he was working during the war, but his wife spent her time with him at work and outside of work too and yet still didn't know until he told her after they were engaged; so he can't have been overt.
Third, he chose hormone therapy as a "softer option" compared to prison so he wasn't forced, per se, to have hormone therapy. As a rather accomplished chemist the effects of such therapy would probably have been well understood by him. His choice of the hormone therapy suggests that he felt in some way that he needed treatment; maybe he too wasn't happy that he had a proclivity for teenage boys, maybe not.
>Your freedom to swing your words stops at deathtreats.
That should probably be true of death threats made seriously but it certainly isn't currently the case for Muslims in England and Wales, for example those that called for beheadings in protests on the street weren't even cautioned despite police presence and there was no doubt that it was not a joke.
Apply the law fairly and use cautions where the balance of probability suggests that someone was just being silly rather than serious.
>I'm not sure what's sadder. A backwoods pastor trying to provoke a reaction by book burning [...]
The book burning is the reaction.
Consider if America (Islam) had a law that said those that try to become Canadian (Christian) should be killed - wouldn't it be a reasonable reaction for Canadians to burn a copy of that law in protest? Well the Sharia punishment for apostasy is death. Burning the book that suggests that seems a not unreasonable response.
>"It's a matter of whether you can be punished for breaking a contractual obligation not to host stuff that violates the acceptable use policy."
The policy they are referring to appears to be this one:
"Any conduct that is likely to result in retaliation against the Rackspace network or website, or Rackspace's employees, officers or other agents, including engaging in behavior that results in any server being the target of a denial of service attack (DoS)."
Which means that unless you make violent threats you can't get websites taken down. But I can't imagine a Muslim group threatening violence over this, after all they keep telling us they're the religion of peace. I'm the most pious of them will continue threatening to kill us until we accede.
Indeed the only objection that I can see them having is there "we cave to terrorist threats against free speech" provision:
"Any conduct that is likely to result in retaliation against the Rackspace network or website, or Rackspace's employees, officers or other agents, including engaging in behavior that results in any server being the target of a denial of service attack (DoS)."
TB's spam filter for me barely works. It keep displaying things that are almost identical to junk I've already marked. Does it work well for you? I've tried restarting the training a couple of times but it never seems to do any good.
I'd suggest that you combine this idea with plans for a really great day out - make it so that later the handprint piece is a springboard into the memories of that day together.
If the burglar wears a high-vis vest or some technicians coveralls and carries a clipboard or handheld computer then they won't be stopped. If you're in an area with a lot of vigilance then they may need to wear a "locksmith" high-vis or drive a second-hand utility company vehicle.
>That is going to set up a feedback loop where people say "hey, the guardian has more content than the Times does, why am I reading the times." Then fewer people produce content for the Times, fewer people read the Times, etc etc etc.
I'd have thought you go to The Times because News Corp own [seemingly] half the worlds press and probably share stories between sister papers. The Times could be run at a loss for a long time before Murdoch has to limit the number of bottles of Cristal he washes his fleet of Lear jets in.
I also used to read The Times [of London] but only really for the letters pages and some major headlines. Now I use Google News, but I still miss The Times letters as an indicator of British views.
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>You'd think they'd be more like trademark than property, in that respect? //
Trademarks are [intellectual] property and can be sold, rented, etc..
> But sometimes we get very lucky... Velociraptor vs. Protoceratops [bhigr.com]. //
That looks incredibly fake to me. I just can't imagine the conditions in which these animals would die in mid fight like that and remain perfectly preserved. From the fossil it appears both animals died at exactly the same time and were preserved without being fed on by scavengers big enough to carry off a single bone.
The system I'm currently using is 768MB on 1.1GHz Athlon. It's a bit slow, especially for LibreOffice, but totally usable.
I'm running Kubuntu 11.04 on it. Of course I've stripped out most of the KDE stuff running background services.
Actually it used to be that "audio" CDs were charged more than data CDs in order to apply just this sort of "private copy tax".
I don't think it was formalised in anyway, it's just that the main media producers also owned the [blank] CD production companies.
>however time shifting is explicitly legal [
Unless you watch it twice or simply keep a copy beyond the first viewing.
Destroy that old Red Dwarf you taped off BBC2 now you tortuous infringer!!
>I'm sure I've heard that making a single backup for your own use is legal due to precedent
Nope, this is exactly what this _proposed_ change is addressing. "Backups" and "format shifting" are currently illegal to make, use of the copy is largely irrelevant here (beyond level of damages), copyright law protects against people _making_ unlicensed copies.
>sure it's still a great browser but it doesn't really pack anything unique anymore
Opera Unite?? What other browser has a web server in it?
Who's accountable for this? £200k of public money for what amounts to a novelty - nothing of value was saved. Crazy indeed.
Quite a coup by the owners of those copies of publicly published papers.
>People don't understand that there is an enormous gap between being able to retrieve general information on a subject and being able to answer a specific question.
Yes, but .. I did a very quick test typing the questions in to Google. For half of the questions it seemed(!) a simple most "repeated keyword string" test of the returned snippets would give the answer.
They specifically stated in the introductory material on the show that the computer doesn't have access to the internet. But I think that we are so familiar with the concept of quickly returning database results that this sort of display of computing prowess just seems a natural next step.
>3. Extend your search keywords to add "nosite". i.e. nosite:experts-exchange.com
You mean the same as "keyword -site:experts-exchange.com" but with an extra character? I don't see how that helps really don't we want Google to keep the list of sites that we don't want results from and automatically exclude those sites from our results?
s/daughter/son
Roald Dahl apparently co-invented a shunt that was fitted to his daughter to drain a fluid build up.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wade-Dahl-Till_valve
Perhaps that can be bedtime story for tonight. (I heard about it on a BBC Radio4 programme during the recent Roald Dahl season).
>Change != bad
Not even when that change hides all the line beginnings under the menu unless you reduce the font-size to unreadably small?
Half the text is cropped by an overhanging left-menu if I use my normal text size. Gah!
Couple of points, he was a man in his early 40's - he was arrested when called the police on a teenager he picked up at the cinema and invited back to his house for sex. He knew that he would be arrested for his admission of sex with the young man; this suggests to me it was something more serious than just theft that he was reporting. I'd guess he was being blackmailed by foreign service agents, but it's a guess, it's certain that something doesn't add up in the reports that I've read. If it were a girl of the same age it wouldn't have been illegal, but he would have been shunned by most of society at the time for preying on such a young girl outside of marriage (again my opinion). He was clearly at risk of falling for a "honeytrap". I don't think he would have kept his job had be been caught picking up teen girls.
Second point he was probably bisexual from what I've read of his relationship with the woman he got engaged to. Reports say that he was out as a homosexual when he was working during the war, but his wife spent her time with him at work and outside of work too and yet still didn't know until he told her after they were engaged; so he can't have been overt.
Third, he chose hormone therapy as a "softer option" compared to prison so he wasn't forced, per se, to have hormone therapy. As a rather accomplished chemist the effects of such therapy would probably have been well understood by him. His choice of the hormone therapy suggests that he felt in some way that he needed treatment; maybe he too wasn't happy that he had a proclivity for teenage boys, maybe not.
>Your freedom to swing your words stops at deathtreats.
That should probably be true of death threats made seriously but it certainly isn't currently the case for Muslims in England and Wales, for example those that called for beheadings in protests on the street weren't even cautioned despite police presence and there was no doubt that it was not a joke.
Apply the law fairly and use cautions where the balance of probability suggests that someone was just being silly rather than serious.
>I'm not sure what's sadder. A backwoods pastor trying to provoke a reaction by book burning [...]
The book burning is the reaction.
Consider if America (Islam) had a law that said those that try to become Canadian (Christian) should be killed - wouldn't it be a reasonable reaction for Canadians to burn a copy of that law in protest? Well the Sharia punishment for apostasy is death. Burning the book that suggests that seems a not unreasonable response.
>"It's a matter of whether you can be punished for breaking a contractual obligation not to host stuff that violates the acceptable use policy."
The policy they are referring to appears to be this one:
"Any conduct that is likely to result in retaliation against the Rackspace network or website, or Rackspace's employees, officers or other agents, including engaging in behavior that results in any server being the target of a denial of service attack (DoS)."
Which means that unless you make violent threats you can't get websites taken down. But I can't imagine a Muslim group threatening violence over this, after all they keep telling us they're the religion of peace. I'm the most pious of them will continue threatening to kill us until we accede.
Indeed the only objection that I can see them having is there "we cave to terrorist threats against free speech" provision:
"Any conduct that is likely to result in retaliation against the Rackspace network or website, or Rackspace's employees, officers or other agents, including engaging in behavior that results in any server being the target of a denial of service attack (DoS)."
TB's spam filter for me barely works. It keep displaying things that are almost identical to junk I've already marked. Does it work well for you? I've tried restarting the training a couple of times but it never seems to do any good.
http://mockingbirdnyc.blogspot.com/2010/02/this-american-life-letter-day-saint.html you can listen for free there; I didn't check the copyright terms.
I'd suggest that you combine this idea with plans for a really great day out - make it so that later the handprint piece is a springboard into the memories of that day together.
If the burglar wears a high-vis vest or some technicians coveralls and carries a clipboard or handheld computer then they won't be stopped. If you're in an area with a lot of vigilance then they may need to wear a "locksmith" high-vis or drive a second-hand utility company vehicle.
>That is going to set up a feedback loop where people say "hey, the guardian has more content than the Times does, why am I reading the times." Then fewer people produce content for the Times, fewer people read the Times, etc etc etc.
I'd have thought you go to The Times because News Corp own [seemingly] half the worlds press and probably share stories between sister papers. The Times could be run at a loss for a long time before Murdoch has to limit the number of bottles of Cristal he washes his fleet of Lear jets in.
Ditto but not really for DRM reasons.
I also used to read The Times [of London] but only really for the letters pages and some major headlines. Now I use Google News, but I still miss The Times letters as an indicator of British views.