Close but not quite. Case study: Australia. The vast majority of connections are DSL - some 4.2M subscriptions of 7.0M households with internet access at Jun 2009 [ABS: 8153.0]. Only one ISP - Internode - provides consumer access to end-to-end IPv6 and they describe it as a trial. They provide no support for it. There is only one consumer-grade DSL router with end-to-end IPv6 support and it's manufactured by Cisco.
The VAST majority of consumer infrastructure is not yet ready. Of course, that's the slowest upgrade path: most users/devices, highest proportional cost ($300 for a new router is six months of connection fees - and for no visible benefit?). If you don't believe me just look at the prevelance of IE6. Still.
The backbone is ready. Large IT industry corporations are ready. Most small-medium IT corps are getting there. Consumers are not.
In Wisconsin, conviction for possession of child porn requires proof of intent.
WI Code s 948.12(1m)(a) and (b) require merely that the defendant knows that they possess the material and that they know the character and content of the material.
The fucked up thing isn't that this guy is getting convicted. The fucked up thing is what he did is a crime. It shouldn't be but under the law as it stands, he's guilty as hell.
Whoever you're dealing with certainly has the option to require a different form of payment. Yes, that includes the government.
Well, kinda. When it comes down to it your failure to pay is a breach of contract and that can be rectified generally only by financial compensation. There are some, very limited, circumstances when specific performance can be awarded but when it comes down to questions like credit cards, money is money is money.
Now, the seller can refuse to sell except on certain conditions... but if they've agreed to accept payment and no precondition is stipulated then they must accept cash.
So for applications with extreme changes in power requirements, you're going to have a lot of wasted potential energy.
Even wasting 90% of the energy it'll still be more efficient, more environmentally friendly and longer lasting than any current alternative. Just because an improvement doesn't take us to perfection doesn't mean we should ignore the improvement!
Facebook advertisers choose the subset of people to whom to display their ads. So of course the algo is simple. I wouldn't be surprised if ads went to "Any Male Not Exclusively Interested In Women" because that's easy, and the lower your specificity, the lower your CPM.
Sigh. Martial law is where the military is in control. The military is not in control. The executive is in control and uses the domestic enforcement agency (police).
Excessive use of executive power (which we DO see) is not the same as martial law (which we DON'T see).
No question, you did the right thing by leaving this product. But this reason to leave a product applies equally to FOSS and closed software. Poor design is poor design wherever it is.
(In fact some might argue that by giving you the ability to read the source and determine just how bad the product was, FOSS enabled you to make a more informed decision... but let's not get bogged down)
If your data isn't complex enough to require a RDBMS, you almost certainly don't need a program.
Ok, so this is an outright lie - if you're storing a list of integers, you don't need a relational database. But what I'm tired of is people not understanding their data. A LOT of data is relational and proper, normalised storage is generally non-trivial. Of course, well-structured data leads to a well-structured program leads to fun buzzwords like extensibility.
The fix is dead-simple: the browser should load all "a:visited" images, regardless of whether or not it will display them.
I never, ever thought I'd write a post with "mod parent up" in the subject line but this is genius. Perfect solution to all these web-bug issues and really just another form of prefetching.
Can we prevent those attacks? Most likely, and with a little time.
Alas, no*. That's the point of DoS: government datacentres have incredible security, hardened buildings that can survive a nuke... but when it comes to it you can cut the fibre and there's no communication. Radio-based data transport is even worse: broadcast some strong noise and there's no more data.
* Ok, so content servers can use geographically diverse distribution points to limit DoS but most people don't have that... hell, even wikipedia only has three data centres (ergo what, six fibre lines?) you'd need to take out.
Your software was available at a price. People purchased it. Enough people that you could make a living.
Someone put it on the internet. That may make you angry but it hasn't caused you to lose so much income that you've changed profession. It hasn't stopped you developing software.
With software your real market (these post-shareware days) is companies who can afford to pay $2000 for a copy of Adobe CS. I use Illustrator and Photoshop to design backgrounds for myself; if I didn't have them, I'd use paint. But using them myself, for personal purposes, means that when I go work for Big Company X I ask them to get Adobe Photoshop -- not GIMP. The companies will do this.
Now consider music. Most musicians can make their money off gigs and merch. I'm still going to go to concerts and buy a t-shirt. I'll probably even buy an occasional CD if it has some value. Venues will still have broadcast licenses. Songs that make it big on the radio still get huge payouts from compulsory licensing agencies.
I guess my point is that creators get less money - of course they do. And that's pretty disappointing for them I'm sure. The rest of us get more value - everyone gets music, software for non-commercial use etc. And creators still get enough to live on. They're no longer the super-rich but not even Britney is in it for the money. It's economics. If creators are more interested in money than what they're creating, they'll go into investment banking. Good on them.
It's not anywhere near the point where creators are unable to continue to create because of piracy. Come back and see me when it has a real impact. Until that time, be happy that more people are seeing your content.
Different cultures evidently produce terrorists at different rates. That seems factual.
The issue here is really how you define terrorism. Do you define it by the level of violence - in which case does Southern US culture get a high score for its gun-related violence? Or do you define it by motivation? This is quite common - terrorism is for a political end.
If you define it by motivation, one could conclude that there are simply more Muslims being oppressed than any other single cultural group. This probably isn't far off true -- and saying that people from a Muslim culture should therefore be persecuted (which is what profiling is, really) will perpetuate the problem by increasing oppression (both perceived and actual).
The real "full potential of the internet" is that it allows the government to ignore people on a more massive scale than ever before.
The full potential of the internet is in making information accessible. Imagine it - budget drilldowns from full budget down to agency expenditure. Everything that should be visible under FOI just a few clicks away.
If this is done properly - and that's a big if - we could have the data automatically available. We could have truly transparent government. Anything put on file is instantly available online, unless it's given a security classification. Too much for you? How about just file indices. Knowing what documents exist, even if you can't see the contents, would be incredible.
...I honestly can't recall the last time I typed an address in the address field as opposed to the search field.
The whole point about bookmarking is that it's a known location that doesn't change, even if who's more popular does. Not everyone is searching for the best match to a generic keyword; sometimes we want a particular entity. For that we need something that is guaranteed to take us to that entity, that can't be hijacked by a googlebomb.
And how about non-HTTP uses of DNS, like email? Should we replace these with firstname.surname@[google:where do I find firstname surname?] ? Or do we need something that's a fixed relation between something memorable (like a name) and an entity (like a person or company)?
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Close but not quite. Case study: Australia. The vast majority of connections are DSL - some 4.2M subscriptions of 7.0M households with internet access at Jun 2009 [ABS: 8153.0]. Only one ISP - Internode - provides consumer access to end-to-end IPv6 and they describe it as a trial. They provide no support for it. There is only one consumer-grade DSL router with end-to-end IPv6 support and it's manufactured by Cisco.
The VAST majority of consumer infrastructure is not yet ready. Of course, that's the slowest upgrade path: most users/devices, highest proportional cost ($300 for a new router is six months of connection fees - and for no visible benefit?). If you don't believe me just look at the prevelance of IE6. Still.
The backbone is ready. Large IT industry corporations are ready. Most small-medium IT corps are getting there. Consumers are not.
In Wisconsin, conviction for possession of child porn requires proof of intent.
WI Code s 948.12(1m)(a) and (b) require merely that the defendant knows that they possess the material and that they know the character and content of the material.
The fucked up thing isn't that this guy is getting convicted. The fucked up thing is what he did is a crime. It shouldn't be but under the law as it stands, he's guilty as hell.
IAALStudent (in Australia).
Whoever you're dealing with certainly has the option to require a different form of payment.
Yes, that includes the government.
Well, kinda. When it comes down to it your failure to pay is a breach of contract and that can be rectified generally only by financial compensation. There are some, very limited, circumstances when specific performance can be awarded but when it comes down to questions like credit cards, money is money is money.
Now, the seller can refuse to sell except on certain conditions... but if they've agreed to accept payment and no precondition is stipulated then they must accept cash.
IANAL, IAALStudent
So for applications with extreme changes in power requirements, you're going to have a lot of wasted potential energy.
Even wasting 90% of the energy it'll still be more efficient, more environmentally friendly and longer lasting than any current alternative. Just because an improvement doesn't take us to perfection doesn't mean we should ignore the improvement!
... a random slashdot link.
Fixed that for you.
Facebook advertisers choose the subset of people to whom to display their ads. So of course the algo is simple. I wouldn't be surprised if ads went to "Any Male Not Exclusively Interested In Women" because that's easy, and the lower your specificity, the lower your CPM.
...we almost have de facto martial law...
Sigh. Martial law is where the military is in control. The military is not in control. The executive is in control and uses the domestic enforcement agency (police).
Excessive use of executive power (which we DO see) is not the same as martial law (which we DON'T see).
No question, you did the right thing by leaving this product. But this reason to leave a product applies equally to FOSS and closed software. Poor design is poor design wherever it is.
(In fact some might argue that by giving you the ability to read the source and determine just how bad the product was, FOSS enabled you to make a more informed decision... but let's not get bogged down)
Oregon euthanasia has a residency requirement...
If your data isn't complex enough to require a RDBMS, you almost certainly don't need a program.
Ok, so this is an outright lie - if you're storing a list of integers, you don't need a relational database. But what I'm tired of is people not understanding their data. A LOT of data is relational and proper, normalised storage is generally non-trivial. Of course, well-structured data leads to a well-structured program leads to fun buzzwords like extensibility.
I compiled my own OS image, I can run whatever I want (I encrypt ALL data, messages, and calls).
What apps do you use for this? Have you put the image online somewhere?
The fix is dead-simple: the browser should load all "a:visited" images, regardless of whether or not it will display them.
I never, ever thought I'd write a post with "mod parent up" in the subject line but this is genius. Perfect solution to all these web-bug issues and really just another form of prefetching.
I believe they find a supernova on 1 image out of 9000
You mean she looked at OVER 9000 IMAGES?
It's called the antrhopic principle.
The anthropomorphic principle would be that the stars are smiling on us...
Can we prevent those attacks? Most likely, and with a little time.
Alas, no*. That's the point of DoS: government datacentres have incredible security, hardened buildings that can survive a nuke... but when it comes to it you can cut the fibre and there's no communication. Radio-based data transport is even worse: broadcast some strong noise and there's no more data.
* Ok, so content servers can use geographically diverse distribution points to limit DoS but most people don't have that... hell, even wikipedia only has three data centres (ergo what, six fibre lines?) you'd need to take out.
"Fascism should more properly be called corporatism, since it is the merger of state and corporate power"-- Mussolini
[Citation needed]
You're right, this isn't as bad. That doesn't make it not bad. It's still injustice and ANY injustice must be fought. That was kinda MLK's point...
Your software was available at a price. People purchased it. Enough people that you could make a living.
Someone put it on the internet. That may make you angry but it hasn't caused you to lose so much income that you've changed profession. It hasn't stopped you developing software.
With software your real market (these post-shareware days) is companies who can afford to pay $2000 for a copy of Adobe CS. I use Illustrator and Photoshop to design backgrounds for myself; if I didn't have them, I'd use paint. But using them myself, for personal purposes, means that when I go work for Big Company X I ask them to get Adobe Photoshop -- not GIMP. The companies will do this.
Now consider music. Most musicians can make their money off gigs and merch. I'm still going to go to concerts and buy a t-shirt. I'll probably even buy an occasional CD if it has some value. Venues will still have broadcast licenses. Songs that make it big on the radio still get huge payouts from compulsory licensing agencies.
I guess my point is that creators get less money - of course they do. And that's pretty disappointing for them I'm sure. The rest of us get more value - everyone gets music, software for non-commercial use etc. And creators still get enough to live on. They're no longer the super-rich but not even Britney is in it for the money. It's economics. If creators are more interested in money than what they're creating, they'll go into investment banking. Good on them.
It's not anywhere near the point where creators are unable to continue to create because of piracy. Come back and see me when it has a real impact. Until that time, be happy that more people are seeing your content.
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Goatse are ineffective lawyers? Who would've thought!
Different cultures evidently produce terrorists at different rates. That seems factual.
The issue here is really how you define terrorism. Do you define it by the level of violence - in which case does Southern US culture get a high score for its gun-related violence? Or do you define it by motivation? This is quite common - terrorism is for a political end.
If you define it by motivation, one could conclude that there are simply more Muslims being oppressed than any other single cultural group. This probably isn't far off true -- and saying that people from a Muslim culture should therefore be persecuted (which is what profiling is, really) will perpetuate the problem by increasing oppression (both perceived and actual).
There is no "East Yemen".
Correct. Because when insulting countries in your TV comedy, it's generally best to keep them fake.
Well, you're forgetting the offset caused by JFK's assassination...
How many presidential elections don't make it into the historical record?
Well there was Cthulu in 2000 (BC)...
The real "full potential of the internet" is that it allows the government to ignore people on a more massive scale than ever before.
The full potential of the internet is in making information accessible. Imagine it - budget drilldowns from full budget down to agency expenditure. Everything that should be visible under FOI just a few clicks away.
If this is done properly - and that's a big if - we could have the data automatically available. We could have truly transparent government. Anything put on file is instantly available online, unless it's given a security classification. Too much for you? How about just file indices. Knowing what documents exist, even if you can't see the contents, would be incredible.
I live in hope.
...I honestly can't recall the last time I typed an address in the address field as opposed to the search field.
The whole point about bookmarking is that it's a known location that doesn't change, even if who's more popular does. Not everyone is searching for the best match to a generic keyword; sometimes we want a particular entity. For that we need something that is guaranteed to take us to that entity, that can't be hijacked by a googlebomb.
And how about non-HTTP uses of DNS, like email? Should we replace these with firstname.surname@[google:where do I find firstname surname?] ? Or do we need something that's a fixed relation between something memorable (like a name) and an entity (like a person or company)?