The courts have held that indecent material is protected by the First Amendment and cannot be banned entirely. It may, however, be restricted in order to avoid its broadcast during times of the day when there is a reasonable risk that children may be in the audience.
from "Congress shall make no law... abridging the freedom of speech,..."? Maybe I don't know what "abridging" means to lawyers, but m-w.com defines it as " to shorten in duration or extent ".
How does restricting the time not count as abridging?
Wow, compared to that kind of mess, ordering stuff from Newegg is crazy fast. Sure, it takes 3 days to arrive, but that is much less than "next weekend", even if it is only 1 week away.
My complaint is that they do run at 60Hz, when as you pointed out, there is nothing else in the car that runs at that frequency, and the main power is DC.
Either they use Pulse-width modulation, or I think I recall a method to increase the brightness of the LED using pulses, but my google-fu is weak.
In either case, 60Hz is horribly low, and should be much higher.
The main problem I have with the LEDs that car makers are using now in brake lights is that they FLICKER, at about 60Hz. That is especially annoying at night, where the contrast between the blinking light and the environment is much greater.
Hint: the power in a car is DC, if you need to pulse the LED to get more brightness, please use something above 250Hz, preferably >1KHz.
No, "ex post facto" in English is "from a thing done afterward."
Changing the definition of "ex post facto" refer only to laws that make consequences for past actions worse is changing the meaning of the law. In Black's Law Dictionary, the definition of "ex post facto" is as follows:
An ex post facto law is defined as "a law passed after the occurrence of a fact or commission of an act which retroactively changes the legal consequences or relations of such fact or deed. Black's Law Dictionary 662 (4th ed. 1968).
(From here, #27. Could someone that has a version of Black's Law Dictionary correct that if it is in err, please?)
Thus you can't make the consequences more or less, and you can't let someone off the hook for something they did before the law was passed.
IANAL, but I do know how to use google, and I have a bias (of course).
How can any Ex post facto law be passed at all when Article 1, Section 9 of the Constitution says "No bill of attainder or ex post facto Law shall be passed."?
There aren't any clauses in there that could be interpreted as "unless it legalizes an act", so ANY law that changes the legal ramifications of an act that occurred before that law was passed is unconstitutional.
Of course, the Constitution is an optional, irrelevant document, so none of it really matters. Just look at (Amendments 1,2,9):
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof...
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.
The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the people.
You can do that, but then when you are on the product page the big "add to shopping cart" doesn't necessarily mean "ship this from Amamzon", but could be from a merchant.
Is it worse than the Smoke from a huge fire? No. The smoke in the air does make for pretty sunsets.
Is it better than the pollution from natural gas/propane/fuel oil?
Yes, smog is bad for people with athsma, and can irritate the respiratory system. Small fires are usually better than big huge ones, and are more manageable.
Using the wood to make paper or something is probably better from an air-pollution prospective, sure. Taking trees out of forests to get back to a "natural" density of trees is good for the forests. Firewood is just one way to use that wood, and yes does create some pollution in the air. But, it is a very renewable, carbon-recycling source of heat.
And the biggest reason why using firewood is good for the environment:
The forests in most of the US are overpopulated, due to our rabid "put out all fires NOW!" attitude that was prevalent for a long time. The overpopulation leads to smaller trees that are more like kindling, and burn quite well. Yellowsone in 1988 is a good example of what happens when a forest isn't thinned, either through logging for fire.
Except that I was talking about software ASIDE from browsers, like a XML validator, crawler, etc... Stuff that deals with generic XML and is being used for xhtml.
Actually, do any browsers get the DTD? From the article, it seems like the problem is with software that processes XML, like a web crawler, not a browser.
Browsers are also pretty good about caching stuff.
Wow, that logout thing is interesting. That is a great example of why that stuff shouldn't work over a HTTP GET, but should instead require a HTTP PUT or POST. Imagine if you had a prefetch thing running, and that kept logging you out?
HTTP GET (or any other kind of retrieve action) shouldn't change the data, and should be repeatable.
I use DreamHost for that, and it is about $100/year, for 500GB.
I do host a tiny site on it, but nothing special, and not very big at all. (The good news is that you can't slashdot my webcams on there because DH provides a lot of transfer speed and size)
The main weakness of DH is the amazingly slow database stuff (at least when I used it with Gallery2), but you don't care about that.
What matters is the worst possible case scenario for how a law could be interpreted, and how the scope of the law could creep. DMCA, Patriot[sic] Act, Commerce Clause, etc...
In this case: even if the removal of funding doesn't occur immediately, if it is in the law it will most likely be used.
When was the last time that the government said "no, I don't need more power"?
Linux is just the kernel, right? GNU/Linux would be an operating system.
Ubuntu is an Operating System, that uses the Linux Kernel. So is Gentoo, RedHat, CentOS, Mandrake, etc...
Is Linux From Scratch easy to use? I would say "not really" How about Ubuntu? (Ubuntu, in the live disc, was able to recognize and use the wifi card and odd screen resolution on my laptop, so it very much gets my vote for "easy to use")
Does Linus speak for Red Hat, Novel, and SuSe? I wouldn't think so, unless he has invested enough in those companies to have a large enough share of the stocks.
Of course Linus speaks for Linux, since he is in charge of which patches get accepted into the stock kernel.
Maybe they are missing the fine print on that slogan: "Just because you want something doesn't mean you are going to get it"
Why not S-expressions?
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S-expressions (think the lisp format) are much nicer, more compact, and easier to use than XML, while sharing almost all of the same properties otherwise.
Pointing out that it might be very difficult to buy a DVD while traveling and having it play is definitely useful, since Region 1 only covers US and Canada.
A good question is whether the region coding check on Panasonic/Matsushita drives occur when the disc is mounted, or can a software dvd player with DeCSS play the DVD correctly?
The original article didn't mention movies at all, so your mention of DVD region coding is a bit odd, since you didn't specify that region locks only are a problem with DVD Movies.
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from "Congress shall make no law
Maybe I don't know what "abridging" means to lawyers, but m-w.com defines it as " to shorten in duration or extent ".
How does restricting the time not count as abridging?
Wow, compared to that kind of mess, ordering stuff from Newegg is crazy fast. Sure, it takes 3 days to arrive, but that is much less than "next weekend", even if it is only 1 week away.
My complaint is that they do run at 60Hz, when as you pointed out, there is nothing else in the car that runs at that frequency, and the main power is DC.
Either they use Pulse-width modulation, or I think I recall a method to increase the brightness of the LED using pulses, but my google-fu is weak.
In either case, 60Hz is horribly low, and should be much higher.
The main problem I have with the LEDs that car makers are using now in brake lights is that they FLICKER, at about 60Hz. That is especially annoying at night, where the contrast between the blinking light and the environment is much greater.
Hint: the power in a car is DC, if you need to pulse the LED to get more brightness, please use something above 250Hz, preferably >1KHz.
FTFY
Changing the definition of "ex post facto" refer only to laws that make consequences for past actions worse is changing the meaning of the law. In Black's Law Dictionary, the definition of "ex post facto" is as follows:
(From here, #27. Could someone that has a version of Black's Law Dictionary correct that if it is in err, please?)
Thus you can't make the consequences more or less, and you can't let someone off the hook for something they did before the law was passed.
IANAL, but I do know how to use google, and I have a bias (of course).
There aren't any clauses in there that could be interpreted as "unless it legalizes an act", so ANY law that changes the legal ramifications of an act that occurred before that law was passed is unconstitutional.
Of course, the Constitution is an optional, irrelevant document, so none of it really matters. Just look at (Amendments 1,2,9):
Isn't that just a manifestation of "no publicity is bad publicity"?
Of course, the "Steisand effect" is very specific: an attempt to block information spreads it instead.
You can do that, but then when you are on the product page the big "add to shopping cart" doesn't necessarily mean "ship this from Amamzon", but could be from a merchant.
Is it bad? Yes.
Is it worse than the Smoke from a huge fire? No. The smoke in the air does make for pretty sunsets.
Is it better than the pollution from natural gas/propane/fuel oil?
Yes, smog is bad for people with athsma, and can irritate the respiratory system. Small fires are usually better than big huge ones, and are more manageable.
Using the wood to make paper or something is probably better from an air-pollution prospective, sure. Taking trees out of forests to get back to a "natural" density of trees is good for the forests. Firewood is just one way to use that wood, and yes does create some pollution in the air. But, it is a very renewable, carbon-recycling source of heat.
And the biggest reason why using firewood is good for the environment:
The forests in most of the US are overpopulated, due to our rabid "put out all fires NOW!" attitude that was prevalent for a long time. The overpopulation leads to smaller trees that are more like kindling, and burn quite well. Yellowsone in 1988 is a good example of what happens when a forest isn't thinned, either through logging for fire.
Except that I was talking about software ASIDE from browsers, like a XML validator, crawler, etc...
Stuff that deals with generic XML and is being used for xhtml.
Actually, do any browsers get the DTD?
From the article, it seems like the problem is with software that processes XML, like a web crawler, not a browser.
Browsers are also pretty good about caching stuff.
W3C already says how long the DTD should be cached for: 90 days, using the Cache-Control HTTP header, which is set to "max-age=7776000" (seconds).
Hmmm, "ISO and OOXML: Dirty tricks from MS" would make a good book.
(I wouldn't write it, though, I suck at English.)
Wow, that logout thing is interesting. That is a great example of why that stuff shouldn't work over a HTTP GET, but should instead require a HTTP PUT or POST. Imagine if you had a prefetch thing running, and that kept logging you out?
HTTP GET (or any other kind of retrieve action) shouldn't change the data, and should be repeatable.
I use DreamHost for that, and it is about $100/year, for 500GB.
I do host a tiny site on it, but nothing special, and not very big at all. (The good news is that you can't slashdot my webcams on there because DH provides a lot of transfer speed and size)
The main weakness of DH is the amazingly slow database stuff (at least when I used it with Gallery2), but you don't care about that.
What matters is the worst possible case scenario for how a law could be interpreted, and how the scope of the law could creep. DMCA, Patriot[sic] Act, Commerce Clause, etc...
In this case: even if the removal of funding doesn't occur immediately, if it is in the law it will most likely be used.
When was the last time that the government said "no, I don't need more power"?
A few major ones are Prohibition and the 55 MPH speed limit
Linux is just the kernel, right? GNU/Linux would be an operating system.
Ubuntu is an Operating System, that uses the Linux Kernel.
So is Gentoo, RedHat, CentOS, Mandrake, etc...
Is Linux From Scratch easy to use? I would say "not really"
How about Ubuntu? (Ubuntu, in the live disc, was able to recognize and use the wifi card and odd screen resolution on my laptop, so it very much gets my vote for "easy to use")
Does Linus speak for Red Hat, Novel, and SuSe? I wouldn't think so, unless he has invested enough in those companies to have a large enough share of the stocks.
Of course Linus speaks for Linux, since he is in charge of which patches get accepted into the stock kernel.
Maybe they are missing the fine print on that slogan:
"Just because you want something doesn't mean you are going to get it"
S-expressions (think the lisp format) are much nicer, more compact, and easier to use than XML, while sharing almost all of the same properties otherwise.
For example:
<tag1>
<tag2>
<tag3/>
</tag2>
<tag1>
becomes:
(tag1
(tag2
(tag3)
)
)
It shouldn't matter what the data is, the point is that they deleted data after looking at it.
XP (|)
(This being slashdot, that is purely hypothetical, of course...)
You are right, sorry. I should be more polite.
Pointing out that it might be very difficult to buy a DVD while traveling and having it play is definitely useful, since Region 1 only covers US and Canada.
A good question is whether the region coding check on Panasonic/Matsushita drives occur when the disc is mounted, or can a software dvd player with DeCSS play the DVD correctly?
The original article didn't mention movies at all, so your mention of DVD region coding is a bit odd, since you didn't specify that region locks only are a problem with DVD Movies.