Not necessarily. You'd say exactly the same thing if you were an fossil fuel pigopolist working to hamstring your successor technology and preserve your business model. No dinosaur ever welcomed the coming of mammals.
Wow. You just invented bitcoins, a fixed-maximum-quantity deflationary currency.
Worries about Bitcoin being destroyed by deflation are not entirely unfounded. Unlike most currencies, which experience inflation their as founding institutions create more and more units, Bitcoin will likely experience gradual deflation with the passage of time. Bitcoin is unique in that only a small amount of units will ever be produced (twenty-one million to be exact), this number has been known since the projects inception, and the units are create at a predicable rate.
Mostly. I got bit briefly by Airpush ads, which seem to be immune to hosts redirections, which both AdAway and (my choice) AdFree use.
To locate the apps that sneak in Airpush capabilities, I use AirPush Detector, which (quoting the author) "detects other installed applications which appear to use known notification ad frameworks and offers the user the ability to easily uninstall them.... This app is open source...."
Castle Bravo (the shot you're speaking of) was a 15 megaton device. Do you know who currently has a multi-megaton device in their current warhead inventory? As far as I know, no one. The trend with nations sophisticated enough to make the really big warheads is to instead make smaller and more compact warheads with a fraction of that yield and deliver them super-accurately (CEP within a few dozen meters rather than kilometers).
As far as countries seeking nuclear capability, I can't even fathom one trying to skip the first step of a basic fission weapon (even boosted) and jumping right into multi-megaton-class fusion weapons. And those would probably be undeliverable in any military sense without either heavy bombers or heavy ballistic missiles (and Iran's current riced-out SCUDs won't cut it).
So, yeah, annihilation is seriously overstating it. The core of any large city would be obliterated by a modern nuke, and the surrounding area would be a disaster, but let's not exaggerate. One device, one city. That's plenty bad enough, right?
Really, if we could work it out, I'd take you out into the field with one of my dogs. They never lie.
I believe you. But you're arguing the wrong case. The accusation is not that the dog lied; the accusation is that the dog handler lied. In the scenario depicted, the dog gave no overtly discernible signal of interest, but somehow the officer decided it was a scent hit anyway and proceeded to search on that false probably cause.
Oh, I'm not saying you would do this, or even that the case described actually happened as described. Maybe the dog's signal was amazingly subtle, but accurately received and honestly acted on. But it's suspicious as hell. Probably cause that only the officer can attest to is inherently suspicious, and lying to secure improper probably cause isn't beyond imagination, especially with law officers who subscribe to "the ends justify any means".
I think there's another point here. Maybe it wasn't made clear in TFA (I dunno; I'm a Slashdotter, why would I read TFA?), but maybe the object lesson is "HERE is the real meaning of counterfeiting!"
Which is also the real element of risk. If you copy currency well enough, you've run afoul of laws which make copyright violation look like a picnic at the beach. And if don't copy the currency well enough, you're failing to make any point other than "RAAAWR ME MAD AT YOU". You might as well just TP their headquarters.
Well, if you're wanted to be extremely literal about it, you can argue that AT&T is legally obligated to sustain infinite download speed to infinite data, because nothing which is finite can be called "unlimited". But that would be silly.
Obvious, there's a judgment call, and the difference between a customer's judgment and AT&T's judgment is the heart of the controversy.
There's a difference between a user license and a distribution license.
No, there isn't. Even the GPL itself acknowledges this:
2. Basic Permissions.
All rights granted under this License are granted for the term of copyright on the Program, and are irrevocable provided the stated conditions are met. This License explicitly affirms your unlimited permission to run the unmodified Program. The output from running a covered work is covered by this License only if the output, given its content, constitutes a covered work. This License acknowledges your rights of fair use or other equivalent, as provided by copyright law.
You may make, run and propagate covered works* that you do not convey, without conditions so long as your license otherwise remains in force.
*A "covered work" means either the unmodified Program or a work based on the Program.
Um... I don't play much poker, but even I know that you don't raise heavily on a crap hand. You may think you're successfully bluffing, but you're not; that kind of mad-dog behavior is a tell.
So, Righthaven and their corporate overlords went all-in on an 8-high no-pair hand and rightly lost their entire stake. Yaaaaay.
Eccentricity of the lunar orbit only comprises a difference of about 42,000 km.... or.14 light-seconds. 140 milliseconds of latency difference between apogee and perigee. Or half an eyeblink.
Even simple in-code comments help cut down the time required to understand the thought process behind the code.
Developer docs are sorely needed, true, in many projects. But to my mind, the more grating lack is USER documentation. You know, decent manuals on how to use the software. No amount of commenting code will ever help with that, and I suspect is the area where non-developer contributors can help out the most.
So, you're saying... OMG BAD PEOPLE MAY KILL ME FOR MY MONIEZ!
This is neither news, nor medically relevant. And if Mom had just hired a rent-a-killer, the relative good of transplantable organs wouldn't have occured. So... in even your worst accusation, the outcome is better than thousands (millions?) of murders-for-gain that happen every year.
How is this bad?
For what little it's worth, here's my take on this
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Doctors are human. That means they're fallible, both potentially by well-intentioned accident and by ill-intentioned malice. For all of that, they still hold the proverbially power of life or death over their patients, including me. I don't distrust a doctor any less because he may declare me dead before I "really die" than I would because he may accidentally prescribe a medication neither of us knew I was deathly allergic to, or because he may have an under-the-table life insurance policy on me and the settlement on that would make his next couple of Lexus payments.
I live until I die. After that, if the tissues which once sustained my life can be of use to someone else after I'm done with them, terrific. Leave enough of my lifeless corpse for my family to mourn me in whatever fashion they prefer (I won't care, so whatever is sufficient for them is sufficient) and get the maximum benefit to others that you can.
And, in enabling the public to annotate the digital rendition of the treaty text, and storing that annotation in a backing server technology, clearly infringing on Amazon's novel, non-obvious, and highly valuable patent.
The man is clearly an intellectual property scofflaw on the same level as Kim Dotcom. Amazon lawsuit incoming in 5...4...3....
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Not necessarily. You'd say exactly the same thing if you were an fossil fuel pigopolist working to hamstring your successor technology and preserve your business model. No dinosaur ever welcomed the coming of mammals.
Wow. You just invented bitcoins, a fixed-maximum-quantity deflationary currency.
---- Someone better go read Rene Descartes....
That pedantic ol' windbag? I think not.
<POOF!> <crickets>
You have Debian running on a modern mobile device? Do tell!
And by "running" I mean "with full telephony functionality".
A Nokia N9 or N900, maybe, I could see. But those aren't representative of "modern mobile device".
What? He's doing gay pr0n for the love of it?
Wait. I think I may have missed a context switch somewhere in there...
Mostly. I got bit briefly by Airpush ads, which seem to be immune to hosts redirections, which both AdAway and (my choice) AdFree use.
To locate the apps that sneak in Airpush capabilities, I use AirPush Detector, which (quoting the author) "detects other installed applications which appear to use known notification ad frameworks and offers the user the ability to easily uninstall them.... This app is open source...."
Castle Bravo (the shot you're speaking of) was a 15 megaton device. Do you know who currently has a multi-megaton device in their current warhead inventory? As far as I know, no one. The trend with nations sophisticated enough to make the really big warheads is to instead make smaller and more compact warheads with a fraction of that yield and deliver them super-accurately (CEP within a few dozen meters rather than kilometers).
As far as countries seeking nuclear capability, I can't even fathom one trying to skip the first step of a basic fission weapon (even boosted) and jumping right into multi-megaton-class fusion weapons. And those would probably be undeliverable in any military sense without either heavy bombers or heavy ballistic missiles (and Iran's current riced-out SCUDs won't cut it).
So, yeah, annihilation is seriously overstating it. The core of any large city would be obliterated by a modern nuke, and the surrounding area would be a disaster, but let's not exaggerate. One device, one city. That's plenty bad enough, right?
When elephants fight, it is the grass that suffers.
-- Kikuyu proverb
Really, if we could work it out, I'd take you out into the field with one of my dogs. They never lie.
I believe you. But you're arguing the wrong case. The accusation is not that the dog lied; the accusation is that the dog handler lied. In the scenario depicted, the dog gave no overtly discernible signal of interest, but somehow the officer decided it was a scent hit anyway and proceeded to search on that false probably cause.
Oh, I'm not saying you would do this, or even that the case described actually happened as described. Maybe the dog's signal was amazingly subtle, but accurately received and honestly acted on. But it's suspicious as hell. Probably cause that only the officer can attest to is inherently suspicious, and lying to secure improper probably cause isn't beyond imagination, especially with law officers who subscribe to "the ends justify any means".
If you don't like it, try and figure out a reason why it's not a drug.
Yeah, why can't it be like alcohol, which is clearly not a drug. No. Wait.
I think there's another point here. Maybe it wasn't made clear in TFA (I dunno; I'm a Slashdotter, why would I read TFA?), but maybe the object lesson is "HERE is the real meaning of counterfeiting!"
Which is also the real element of risk. If you copy currency well enough, you've run afoul of laws which make copyright violation look like a picnic at the beach. And if don't copy the currency well enough, you're failing to make any point other than "RAAAWR ME MAD AT YOU". You might as well just TP their headquarters.
AAAH! My database got Westinghoused! Where're my backups?!??!
What, they have a webmail service too?
IMAP all the way, baby. IMAP all the way. (Or, "It's IMAP all the way down.")
Well, if you're wanted to be extremely literal about it, you can argue that AT&T is legally obligated to sustain infinite download speed to infinite data, because nothing which is finite can be called "unlimited". But that would be silly.
Obvious, there's a judgment call, and the difference between a customer's judgment and AT&T's judgment is the heart of the controversy.
There's a difference between a user license and a distribution license.
No, there isn't. Even the GPL itself acknowledges this:
-- GNU General Public License V3
That's right: an explicit and conditional use license. A very generous one, compared to proprietary EULAs, but nonetheless, a use license.
Um... I don't play much poker, but even I know that you don't raise heavily on a crap hand. You may think you're successfully bluffing, but you're not; that kind of mad-dog behavior is a tell.
So, Righthaven and their corporate overlords went all-in on an 8-high no-pair hand and rightly lost their entire stake. Yaaaaay.
ADS is a Raytheon product. They're already pretty good at high-energy microwave systems. And the know a little about tubes, since that was their original product line.
Eccentricity of the lunar orbit only comprises a difference of about 42,000 km.... or .14 light-seconds. 140 milliseconds of latency difference between apogee and perigee. Or half an eyeblink.
Not much of a difference, there.
Even simple in-code comments help cut down the time required to understand the thought process behind the code.
Developer docs are sorely needed, true, in many projects. But to my mind, the more grating lack is USER documentation. You know, decent manuals on how to use the software. No amount of commenting code will ever help with that, and I suspect is the area where non-developer contributors can help out the most.
You forgot Bitcoins.
That's ok, so did everyone else.
So, you're saying... OMG BAD PEOPLE MAY KILL ME FOR MY MONIEZ!
This is neither news, nor medically relevant. And if Mom had just hired a rent-a-killer, the relative good of transplantable organs wouldn't have occured. So... in even your worst accusation, the outcome is better than thousands (millions?) of murders-for-gain that happen every year.
How is this bad?
Doctors are human. That means they're fallible, both potentially by well-intentioned accident and by ill-intentioned malice. For all of that, they still hold the proverbially power of life or death over their patients, including me. I don't distrust a doctor any less because he may declare me dead before I "really die" than I would because he may accidentally prescribe a medication neither of us knew I was deathly allergic to, or because he may have an under-the-table life insurance policy on me and the settlement on that would make his next couple of Lexus payments.
I live until I die. After that, if the tissues which once sustained my life can be of use to someone else after I'm done with them, terrific. Leave enough of my lifeless corpse for my family to mourn me in whatever fashion they prefer (I won't care, so whatever is sufficient for them is sufficient) and get the maximum benefit to others that you can.
F that. I'd settle for understanding how magnets work.
<deftly bringing the thread almost back on-topic.>
So, henceforth, I will only refer to my PC as a soupspoon.
I trust you won't be using your soupspoon without spoonguard. That would be more irresponsible than running Windows 8.
And, in enabling the public to annotate the digital rendition of the treaty text, and storing that annotation in a backing server technology, clearly infringing on Amazon's novel, non-obvious, and highly valuable patent.
The man is clearly an intellectual property scofflaw on the same level as Kim Dotcom. Amazon lawsuit incoming in 5...4...3....