IMHO, there's a difference between a 'good' lawyer that e.g. defends you as a person from the accusation of a serious crime or one that is solving the problems that you personally may have with your neighbour and 'bad' lawyers that are essentially only filling their own pockets by attacking or defending companies (and, sadly, also individuals) in legal battles which are only there because the legal system can be abused to gain more profits.
The first kind of lawyer is neccessary in a civilized society. I'm not very glad that so little can be done to prevent the second kind of lawyer of abusing the legal system.
But I'm sure that there must be a way to do this, because else we'll all get stuck in a lawsuit mud stifling competition, and, vastly more important, constraining the freedom of individuals in one or another way.
The lawsuits by SCO gives companies which compete with FOSS products more time to defend themselves.
It seems that this strategy works and is delaying 'progress' at least a bit (see e.g. a recent post here: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=102728&cid=875 0615).
I'm no fan of conspiracy theories at all, but in this case it should be rather easy for, lets say, MS to put some money into SCO anonymously to delay and hamper linux deployment.
Better yet. Take a CD (or, even better DVD) out of your shelf and insert it into your CD-ROM drive. If this action takes 5 seconds and a CD has approx. 700MB, you have
ACK. I'm still using gnome, but that "features are bad" attitude of the developers lets me consider switching back to KDE more and more. I hope they won't make the same mistake...
Why the hell has one to argument that there are legal uses (backup etc.) to make a good case for mod chips?
IMHO, I should be able to do what I want, with the hardware I bought. Trash it, burn in (keeping the fumes out of the environment, of course;), stomp on it or mod it!!
Why got it that far that one now has to argument that 'there are legitimate uses'?!
Sometimes I really tend to believe that all the anti-piracy ads, acts, etc. transport subliminal mind-control messages even to/.ers... this can't be true?!
Disclaimer: I never owned a gaming console, and I am not planning to buy one.
that I pay fees to the GEMA (www.gema.de) for every CD-R, CD recorder and IMHO also computers I buy nowadays in germany.
This GEMA was once invented to get the 'missing' money from the music listeners who (of course) shared the music with their friends etc.
IMHO a good thing in principle. Should be extended to consumer software as well. This prevents the *massive* invasion of privacy and the enactment of cruel laws deterring people from sharing music but pays the artists for their work. Yes, it *is* somewhat injust because it collects the money even if you do not use your CD-Rs for copyrighted work. But face the consequences if you want to prevent patronage-style payment of artists... all this DRM shit that is now popping up.
But the current state in germany is that you pay this fee AND you are not allowed to do p2p sharing of your music!!
Sorry, but I have to say this, your "standing on" SR90 is just BS. Sr90 emits betas, not alphas, so the "harmless if not swallowed/inhaled" argument does not count. If standing on bricks of SR90, you'd get radiation sickness really soon. Google it yourself.
Yes, you would hear the sonic boom of the test flight. (If you are close enough to hear it at all, of course). At supersonic speeds, the edge of the soundwaves that are produced by an object is a cone in the object's inertial frame. Regardless of the speed. The speed only changes the angle of this cone..
Speaking of germany... It is not allowed to extradite it's own citizens to any other country except the EU or to international courts (like the one in Den Haag). IMHO, this is a very good thing. This keeps the nation's sovereignity. But it does not save criminal citizens (as defined by the law of the citizen's country) from prosecution. There are still trials running here (Hamburg, I think) which deal with the mass murder of 9/11.
And, yes, if a german would e.g. hack into an U.S. company's computer and destroy data there, it would not lead to the extradition of the german to the U.S. Instead, a trial would be opened here.
ACK. Todays internet is rather tree-shaped than a grid, as it was intended to be. Because of market forces, there is often not more than one path from host A to host B. If this will get true for the power grid, one will see even more outages.
Here in germany, we have "Jugend Forscht" which seems to be remotely similar to the STS. I got into the final round twice (no prizes though) and saw a lot of winning impostors and "mommy/daddy built/invented/proved it for me"-people.
This of course doesn't mean that there are no bright people at all, but if you get a look into these contests, you realize that these are still only humans.
> Electrocution actually isn't much of a risk with many HV devices - most will destroy themselves (or run up against current limiters) far before they output anywhere near the 200-250 mA needed to stop the human heart.
Uh oh. Be careful with such statements. I charged a PC power supply filtering cap (electrolytic, 100uF) to 600V and (accidentally) touched it with both hands. I flew across the room with a loud "ieek". I'm happy I survived that. Really. That was more than 250mA.
I have some other 10kV/1uF-Caps here, discharging them from 3kV (did not try more yet => destroyed my PC with them once because of EMI!) is enough fire, smoke and thunder to satisfy my pyromanic HV ego. I have never touched them, handle them with a 2m pole (literally!) and I'm also not going to go close to them (if charged) in any way.
Someone stated that caps charged with energies less than 10 Joule are safe (i.e. unlikely to be lethal - no warranty!), but take capacitors serious. In the setups described, the caps contains KILOjoules of energy and will SURELY kill you if you even get close to them (because of that nasty gap-jumping property of HV).
Yes, and speaking of germany: It says in the constitution ("Grundgesetz") that it is forbidden to extradite a german citizen to any country. IMHO a very good law.
Yes, and maybe this is a reason for looking at LISP and it's dialects? See e.g. scheme.
It supports and *encourages* functional programming but also has "set!"-operators, is almost "syntax-free" and by using macros you can adapt scheme to whatever "programming paradigm" which will pop up in the next years.
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IMHO, there's a difference between a 'good' lawyer that e.g. defends you as a person from the accusation of a serious crime or one that is solving the problems that you personally may have with your neighbour and 'bad' lawyers that are essentially only filling their own pockets by attacking or defending companies (and, sadly, also individuals) in legal battles which are only there because the legal system can be abused to gain more profits.
The first kind of lawyer is neccessary in a civilized society. I'm not very glad that so little can be done to prevent the second kind of lawyer of abusing the legal system.
But I'm sure that there must be a way to do this, because else we'll all get stuck in a lawsuit mud stifling competition, and, vastly more important, constraining the freedom of individuals in one or another way.
The lawsuits by SCO gives companies which compete with FOSS products more time to defend themselves.
5 0615).
It seems that this strategy works and is delaying 'progress' at least a bit (see e.g. a recent post here: http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=102728&cid=87
I'm no fan of conspiracy theories at all, but in this case it should be rather easy for, lets say, MS to put some money into SCO anonymously to delay and hamper linux deployment.
Better yet. Take a CD (or, even better DVD) out of your shelf and insert it into your CD-ROM drive. If this action takes 5 seconds and a CD has approx. 700MB, you have
1.12Gbps!
"Virus of the Mind".
See http://www.memecentral.com/votm.htm.
As a sidenote, there is also thhis nice (e)mail chain-letter debunking page:
http://www.memecentral.com/antidote.htm
IMHO, the everything's-a-meme-thought is a bit exaggerated today, but it is still interesting.
Yes, but they also collect fees for recordable media.
h t. shtml
See
http://www.gema.de/kunden/zpue/verguetungspflic
ACK. I'm still using gnome, but that "features are bad" attitude of the developers lets me consider switching back to KDE more and more. I hope they won't make the same mistake...
Why the hell has one to argument that there are legal uses (backup etc.) to make a good case for mod chips?
;), stomp on it or mod it!!
/.ers... this can't be true?!
IMHO, I should be able to do what I want, with the hardware I bought. Trash it, burn in (keeping the fumes out of the environment, of course
Why got it that far that one now has to argument that 'there are legitimate uses'?!
Sometimes I really tend to believe that all the anti-piracy ads, acts, etc. transport subliminal mind-control messages even to
Disclaimer: I never owned a gaming console, and I am not planning to buy one.
that I pay fees to the GEMA (www.gema.de) for every CD-R, CD recorder and IMHO also computers I buy nowadays in germany.
This GEMA was once invented to get the 'missing' money from the music listeners who (of course) shared the music with their friends etc.
IMHO a good thing in principle. Should be extended to consumer software as well.
This prevents the *massive* invasion of privacy and the enactment of cruel laws deterring people from sharing music but pays the artists for their work. Yes, it *is* somewhat injust because it collects the money even if you do not use your CD-Rs for copyrighted work. But face the consequences if you want to prevent patronage-style payment of artists... all this DRM shit that is now popping up.
But the current state in germany is that you pay this fee AND you are not allowed to do p2p sharing of your music!!
Sorry, but I have to say this, your "standing on" SR90 is just BS. Sr90 emits betas, not alphas, so the "harmless if not swallowed/inhaled" argument does not count. If standing on bricks of SR90, you'd get radiation sickness really soon. Google it yourself.
Hey, let's change orbit of that thing and have another space station, this time on a real celestial body :)
Well then, just buy three windows XPs for each Linux :)
Yes, you would hear the sonic boom of the test flight. (If you are close enough to hear it at all, of course).
At supersonic speeds, the edge of the soundwaves that are produced by an object is a cone in the object's inertial frame. Regardless of the speed. The speed only changes the angle of this cone..
Speaking of germany...
It is not allowed to extradite it's own citizens to any other country except the EU or to international courts (like the one in Den Haag).
IMHO, this is a very good thing. This keeps the nation's sovereignity. But it does not save criminal citizens (as defined by the law of the citizen's country) from prosecution. There are still trials running here (Hamburg, I think) which deal with the mass murder of 9/11.
And, yes, if a german would e.g. hack into an U.S. company's computer and destroy data there, it would not lead to the extradition of the german to the U.S. Instead, a trial would be opened here.
I don't want to ridicule that statement. But the automobile paid off in the economic sense after much shorter time.
> [...] calls/~ed it "dX" ("dX: A minimal RUP process").
;)
And we all know that dX is only an infinitesimal step in a space coordinate (i.e. forward).
No wonder why no projects get done with XP
Which IMHO also makes the World in the Film 'Matrix' impossible.
ACK. Todays internet is rather tree-shaped than a grid, as it was intended to be. Because of market forces, there is often not more than one path from host A to host B.
If this will get true for the power grid, one will see even more outages.
Here in germany, we have "Jugend Forscht" which seems to be remotely similar to the STS. I got into the final round twice (no prizes though) and saw a lot of winning impostors and "mommy/daddy built/invented/proved it for me"-people.
This of course doesn't mean that there are no bright people at all, but if you get a look into these contests, you realize that these are still only humans.
Except that this was probably never a case for the court, rather a case to be discussed privately by Mr. & Mrs. Clinton?
I think this paragraph proves this. Would anyone except /.ers really read it to the end?! :)
C'mon, mods, this is NOT A TROLL. This is a serious question IMHO!
> Electrocution actually isn't much of a risk with many HV devices - most will destroy themselves (or run up against current limiters) far before they output anywhere near the 200-250 mA needed to stop the human heart.
Uh oh. Be careful with such statements. I charged a PC power supply filtering cap (electrolytic, 100uF) to 600V and (accidentally) touched it with both hands. I flew across the room with a loud "ieek". I'm happy I survived that. Really. That was more than 250mA.
I have some other 10kV/1uF-Caps here, discharging them from 3kV (did not try more yet => destroyed my PC with them once because of EMI!) is enough fire, smoke and thunder to satisfy my pyromanic HV ego. I have never touched them, handle them with a 2m pole (literally!) and I'm also not going to go close to them (if charged) in any way.
Someone stated that caps charged with energies less than 10 Joule are safe (i.e. unlikely to be lethal - no warranty!), but take capacitors serious. In the setups described, the caps contains KILOjoules of energy and will SURELY kill you if you even get close to them (because of that nasty gap-jumping property of HV).
Yes, and speaking of germany: It says in the constitution ("Grundgesetz") that it is forbidden to extradite a german citizen to any country. IMHO a very good law.
Yes, and maybe this is a reason for looking at LISP and it's dialects?
See e.g. scheme.
It supports and *encourages* functional programming but also has "set!"-operators, is almost "syntax-free" and by using macros you can adapt scheme to whatever "programming paradigm" which will pop up in the next years.
Thanks alot for this link!!
I was looking for this (or a similar C/C++ -> JVM bytecode converter) since YEARS!