I do not understand why the poster of this sees Linus' behaviour as a problem. Afterall, when we talk about "Linux" we talk about a lot more than the kernel. Let Linus keep his head in the technical details... let him go for functionality. It'll get us a better kernel and improve whatever is above it. Let the Gnome and KDE people worry about the users.
Am I the only one who sees the weapon potential of satellites build to beam down 5-10MW of power?
So yeah, in peacetime you beam the power to receiver stations and sell it. Makes a nice bit of pocket change, might even pay for the maintenance... not to mention it is excellent publicity.
In wartime... well, a bunch of 5-10MW continual operation beam weapons might come in handy.
How about installing a WiFi connection? A high pole with a $75 dish and some outdoor access points can you pretty far if there is somewhere with DSL within line of sight...
They were just covering their own behinds on the off chance that the kid was a nut job. If that paper was handed in and that guy went berserk, they might be held liable.
It has long since stopped being about protecting copyright. It has become about making money.
I can understand how one can be tempted to try and earn $3000 dollar for a standard letter.
Which is very nice... except that not every country that is part of the EU has actually joined.
We still don't have a constitution because some states are trying to get an advantage (Poland would be an excellent example) and few are willing to stick their political necks out to defend one.
And last but not least, what we did accomplish was mostly internal. When it comes to international conflicts like the war in Iraq, we had the UK pinch in, France and Germany complaining... but did you ever hear a unified European voice?
We have accomplished much, but we still have a long way to go.
When the EU members actually start get things done (instead of wasting lots of their time preening and jockying for position), people might actually feel part of it and the EU might become a little less abstract. The.eu TLD is unlikely to gain popularity as long as their citizens cannot identify themselves with the EU itself.
Newly implemented code?
IPv6 has been around for more than 10 years (RFC 1883). IPv6 integration in Cisco routers ran from 2001 to 2003. Other vendors have had similar release dates. This hardly qualifies a "newly-implemented".
IPv6 is stable and ready for deployment. It has been for a long time.
The interesting part of the caps in Belgium (or at least 2 of the xDSL ISPs I used) is that they do not cut off the customer. If you go over your limits, your connection is broken and you are put on "smallband", in my case 128kbps. You are still able to surf and read your email while it it impossible to disrupt the network further. Good customer service.
You missed out on EDPnet. You pay about 35 euros, I pay 29.90 euros and 6,85 euros for my telephone line (which I use receive only). I pay 2 euros more, but I also get 2Mbps down and 256kbps upstream extra and half the surcharge for extra bw (25 cents per Gb). This has a max cap at 60Gb/month though.
Well, you might find that extremely limited (and it is) but it isn't so strange for me. In Belgium the major ISPs (Belgacom, Telenet) allow about 10Gb quota per month, with 5 euro per 5Gb for extra quota. This is expensive! Downloading a movie or even a linux distribution DVD costs you several euros on bandwidth alone.
Minor ISPs use this a nice way into the market. (For example, mine allows me 20Gb default with a 0.25 euro cents per Gb over that upto 60Gb per month).
Offcourse, all limits are openly advertised...
Exactly. I believe one of the other cases mentioned a number on the attorney fees, something around US$6800. That would require two out of three accused to settle (at US$3750) just to cover the cost of loosing one. This does not cover their own costs.
I wonder how many of the accused would still choose to settle... even if they are guilty.
This isn't intended as the New Chip Substrate... for most electronics the integration scale doesn't matter.
However, the only way I see this becoming useful is if they get the price of the actual platic circuitry lower than the current silicon chips... and i must say:
By bombarding the specially developed plastic with electrons from a particle accelerator, she was able to study rapid electrical reactions and demonstrate the new plastic's ability to conduct electricity much better than regular plastic and as well as silicon chips. That doesn't sound cheap. This sounds like a lot of trouble to determine the conductivity of the plastic which suggests to me that actually creating a working conductor longer than a single molecule might not be that straightforward.
Not quite... computer sales up, lots of Vista freebie coupons lying around and still only 20 million copies?
Vista is not going well and as far as I can tell Microsoft is doing everything it can to prop up the numbers. Two different discount programs, now this misleading press release.
I don't think Microsoft has much reason to be chuckling at all...
Please keep in mind that this is a different culture. It is easy to judge those administrators by our standards, but that does not mean that is just. I have no doubt that they have grown up in an entirely different world than our western world. The changes are coming much faster for them then they came for us (since we are driving them).
They are living in a world where the students (used to) have 24/7/365 access to the internet while a few hundred km out in the country, their 13yr old niece goes into forced marriage. Where 20 yrs ago, a women couldn't even get married if their virginity was no longer intact. I can understand that some students really do get derailed when confronted with the more questionable sides of our culture. Whether this measure will be effective is another matter altogether, but from the administrators point of view, I can understand they at least try.
I agree... let the service providers provide the service.
If you want privacy, use encryption. Unless some higly specialised entities have developed quantum computers and kept it a secret, they won't be able to break it in any time frame suitable for mass communication snooping.
Then express your opinion in a suitable manner. Don't buy their products.
Forbidding something has never made it go away. If the marketing guys think near-naked women makes things sell, then they will find a way to use near-naked women. Video, pictures, sexy voices, whatever,... you can't forbid everything. If necessary they'll put a booth babe in the game and have a "game-character" show up. Then what?
However, if they notice that too many people find their ways undignified and take their shopping and attention elsewhere, the booth babes will magically disappear.
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I do not understand why the poster of this sees Linus' behaviour as a problem. Afterall, when we talk about "Linux" we talk about a lot more than the kernel. Let Linus keep his head in the technical details... let him go for functionality. It'll get us a better kernel and improve whatever is above it. Let the Gnome and KDE people worry about the users.
Correction, "All MALE Americans suck because..."
Am I the only one who sees the weapon potential of satellites build to beam down 5-10MW of power? So yeah, in peacetime you beam the power to receiver stations and sell it. Makes a nice bit of pocket change, might even pay for the maintenance... not to mention it is excellent publicity. In wartime... well, a bunch of 5-10MW continual operation beam weapons might come in handy.
How about installing a WiFi connection? A high pole with a $75 dish and some outdoor access points can you pretty far if there is somewhere with DSL within line of sight...
They were just covering their own behinds on the off chance that the kid was a nut job. If that paper was handed in and that guy went berserk, they might be held liable.
It has long since stopped being about protecting copyright. It has become about making money. I can understand how one can be tempted to try and earn $3000 dollar for a standard letter.
Which is very nice... except that not every country that is part of the EU has actually joined.
We still don't have a constitution because some states are trying to get an advantage (Poland would be an excellent example) and few are willing to stick their political necks out to defend one.
And last but not least, what we did accomplish was mostly internal. When it comes to international conflicts like the war in Iraq, we had the UK pinch in, France and Germany complaining... but did you ever hear a unified European voice?
We have accomplished much, but we still have a long way to go.
When the EU members actually start get things done (instead of wasting lots of their time preening and jockying for position), people might actually feel part of it and the EU might become a little less abstract. The .eu TLD is unlikely to gain popularity as long as their citizens cannot identify themselves with the EU itself.
As a disclaimer, yes, I am a European citizen.
If you raise your kids well, they will recognize what is a game and what isn't... and in the end, that is the issue here.
IPv6 is stable and ready for deployment. It has been for a long time.
... any scheme or artifice to defraud, or for obtaining money or property by means of false or fraudulent pretenses,IANAL, but that does not seem to include personal information.
The interesting part of the caps in Belgium (or at least 2 of the xDSL ISPs I used) is that they do not cut off the customer. If you go over your limits, your connection is broken and you are put on "smallband", in my case 128kbps. You are still able to surf and read your email while it it impossible to disrupt the network further. Good customer service.
You missed out on EDPnet. You pay about 35 euros, I pay 29.90 euros and 6,85 euros for my telephone line (which I use receive only). I pay 2 euros more, but I also get 2Mbps down and 256kbps upstream extra and half the surcharge for extra bw (25 cents per Gb). This has a max cap at 60Gb/month though.
Well, you might find that extremely limited (and it is) but it isn't so strange for me. In Belgium the major ISPs (Belgacom, Telenet) allow about 10Gb quota per month, with 5 euro per 5Gb for extra quota. This is expensive! Downloading a movie or even a linux distribution DVD costs you several euros on bandwidth alone.
Minor ISPs use this a nice way into the market. (For example, mine allows me 20Gb default with a 0.25 euro cents per Gb over that upto 60Gb per month).
Offcourse, all limits are openly advertised...
I hope you can understand that no-one else in the world shares even your minimal believe in the US government?
Exactly. I believe one of the other cases mentioned a number on the attorney fees, something around US$6800. That would require two out of three accused to settle (at US$3750) just to cover the cost of loosing one. This does not cover their own costs.
I wonder how many of the accused would still choose to settle... even if they are guilty.
Yes. But they would never have done that if they could just grab a few cm of the plastic and put a current on it.
However, the only way I see this becoming useful is if they get the price of the actual platic circuitry lower than the current silicon chips... and i must say:
By bombarding the specially developed plastic with electrons from a particle accelerator, she was able to study rapid electrical reactions and demonstrate the new plastic's ability to conduct electricity much better than regular plastic and as well as silicon chips. That doesn't sound cheap. This sounds like a lot of trouble to determine the conductivity of the plastic which suggests to me that actually creating a working conductor longer than a single molecule might not be that straightforward.
Not quite... computer sales up, lots of Vista freebie coupons lying around and still only 20 million copies? Vista is not going well and as far as I can tell Microsoft is doing everything it can to prop up the numbers. Two different discount programs, now this misleading press release. I don't think Microsoft has much reason to be chuckling at all...
exactly... especially when you get get caught in Missoula County with said "Stuff"
Please keep in mind that this is a different culture. It is easy to judge those administrators by our standards, but that does not mean that is just. I have no doubt that they have grown up in an entirely different world than our western world. The changes are coming much faster for them then they came for us (since we are driving them).
They are living in a world where the students (used to) have 24/7/365 access to the internet while a few hundred km out in the country, their 13yr old niece goes into forced marriage. Where 20 yrs ago, a women couldn't even get married if their virginity was no longer intact. I can understand that some students really do get derailed when confronted with the more questionable sides of our culture. Whether this measure will be effective is another matter altogether, but from the administrators point of view, I can understand they at least try.
I agree... let the service providers provide the service. If you want privacy, use encryption. Unless some higly specialised entities have developed quantum computers and kept it a secret, they won't be able to break it in any time frame suitable for mass communication snooping.
2010, it'll be just in time to be too slow.
Damned, she was generous.
Forbidding something has never made it go away. If the marketing guys think near-naked women makes things sell, then they will find a way to use near-naked women. Video, pictures, sexy voices, whatever,... you can't forbid everything. If necessary they'll put a booth babe in the game and have a "game-character" show up. Then what?
However, if they notice that too many people find their ways undignified and take their shopping and attention elsewhere, the booth babes will magically disappear.