How about getting private, secure, verifiable electronic voting right. Or if it can't be done without a paper trail, showing the limitations of electronic methods.
Or is this too easy for people who genuinely want to do it?
"Time Travel is Possible" is fun to speculate about, but that's about it.
You could have another indicator, for importance, a scale on which "Time travel" gets a 0, "Guns and crime" gets a 3, Bush and co's denial of global warming gets a 4, and that "AIDS is not a problem" gets a 5.
The way that I can get several browsers for free *is* good news for me as a browser user. One of them is mozilla, which is even better news.
How on earth does my point relate to IE bundling being OK? I'm not sure that it is OK, but that's an unrelated issue.
It might be worth competing against IE, because MS can take thier code back home, and refuse to play anymore at any time (Didn't they do that on the mac?), leaving you ahead. With GPL'd code, you don't even have that hope, but then again, you don't have a big company owning the software. Any number can play.
Proprietary Unix is dead or dying, long live open Unix, i.e. Linux and uh.. BSD.
Quality free open software is, to state the fairly obvious, a category killer, i.e. software against which it makes no business sense to compete. This is good news if you are a user, bad news if you were a competitor.
Likewise, attempting to circumvent DRM violates the well-respected and highly loved DMCA, which could land you in jail.
I am not an american or a lawyer, but isn't "reverse engineering for purpse of interoperability" allowed by the DMCA?
If you need this to get the tunes play on your ogg player, or your 4th apple (you have four or five macs, right?) then isn't it a legitimate use. And if it has a legitimate use, then it is legal software, right?
Am I the only person who believes this notion is wrong?
Nope. There are plenty of laissez-faire right wingers and "libertarians" in the USA who think it would be good idea to let companies screw everyone thay can without restriction, and let the poor rot in the streets where they fall.
Sure, it affects the other peoples lives... but don't marry some asshole with a gambling or drug addiction.
Regulation - I was also thinking of regulated drug purity and quantity, which you just don't get with illegal street drugs, or for gambling, fair odds and ability to pay and not get into debt and have your legs broken.
Anyhow, drug addiction causes crime - a statistic released last year was that around half of muggings in London were crack-related. Even if your ideology precludes simple human compasion, it's still cheaper to treat and prevent, not rely only on prosecute and punish.
Conclusion - when the government turns a consensual activity like selling drugs, sex or wagers into a crime, the amount of real violent crime is actually increased.
Yes. That's why drugs and gambling should be legalised and heavily regulated - regulated because they can and do mess peoples lives up.
And few would use it, because we have mozilla or ximian evolution for free, not to mention plenty of other graphical and text mode email clients.
On the Linux desktop there is no software monoculture - not even close, and the important players are in general security concious, and thier source is open.
Metamoderators, this is not redundant. It is is informative (IMHO). a few prior posts may have made the Africa Vs South Africa point, but none of them got highly rated, few of them suplied this much detail or links, or provided background detail on Eskom.
RTFA. The whole point of Pebble Bed Modular Reactors is that they are smal and well, modular. You can deploy several small ones, each near where they are needed.
Why do they invest more money in such technologies. They have the Sahra desert.
No thay don't. This article is about a company in South Africa, which is nowhere near the Sahara Desert. It's a bit like responding to an article on Canada by mentioning the desert in Mexico because hey, both are in North America.
A number of studies show that the radiation level of the depleted uranium in shells and tanks is not high enough to cause health problems. Your glow-in-the-dark wristwatch is more likely to cause cancer than walking near a piece of depleted uranium.
That follows only if you assume the only possbible health risk from depeleted uranium is from the radiation. It's also a heavy metal, and these are notoriusly good for health. Not.
There's also another way in which they differ. Why not blow up your glow-in-the-dark wristwatch and sprinkle the resulting dust into your aircon system, then asses the resulting risk.
Seems to me that is inevitable - like a junkie always needing a bigger fix, each press release has got to be grander than before, or else reality will set into the share price.
Actually EVD, being a later standard, hold more bits than DVD, so it's not just a way around the DVD tech licence fees.
Once EVD is rolled out in China, there's no incentive to revert to DVD via the back door... but yes, there is incentive to play your old DVDs on the player too. Bring it on. Innovation and competition is in this case good, especially if it innovates past that dumb-ass DVD region stuff.
3) Show that the contract goes beyond what is legally allowed. Come on, thats what the slashdot summary is saying. Read it. And no, it not a bad thing that the law puts limits on how cheaply you can sell your soul.
Disclaimer: IANAL, IANAA (I am not a lawyer or an American).
The autogyro was cool... they were almost crash proof.
And have lots of long bits of metal rotating at high speed. On helicopters they call them "blades". The main problem with flying cars is that you really don't want a drunk teenager trying to drive one over a residential area.
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How about getting private, secure, verifiable electronic voting right. Or if it can't be done without a paper trail, showing the limitations of electronic methods.
Or is this too easy for people who genuinely want to do it?
She has HIV, does not take any of the AZT drugs and is and has been healthy as a horse for a looong time.
The plural of anecdote is not data.
Because that nonsense costs innocent lives.
"Time Travel is Possible" is fun to speculate about, but that's about it.
You could have another indicator, for importance, a scale on which "Time travel" gets a 0, "Guns and crime" gets a 3, Bush and co's denial of global warming gets a 4, and that "AIDS is not a problem" gets a 5.
The way that I can get several browsers for free *is* good news for me as a browser user. One of them is mozilla, which is even better news.
How on earth does my point relate to IE bundling being OK? I'm not sure that it is OK, but that's an unrelated issue.
It might be worth competing against IE, because MS can take thier code back home, and refuse to play anymore at any time (Didn't they do that on the mac?), leaving you ahead. With GPL'd code, you don't even have that hope, but then again, you don't have a big company owning the software. Any number can play.
Proprietary Unix is dead or dying, long live open Unix, i.e. Linux and uh.. BSD.
Quality free open software is, to state the fairly obvious, a category killer, i.e. software against which it makes no business sense to compete. This is good news if you are a user, bad news if you were a competitor.
"Google's a very nice system, but compared to my vision, it's pathetic" - Jim Allchin, Microsoft
Yeah, well that's vapourware for you. Compared to my vision of "software that just works"(tm) todays computers are all pathetic.
All thanks for the engineers at google for making something really hard work really well, while Jim is still waving his arms around.
Likewise, attempting to circumvent DRM violates the well-respected and highly loved DMCA, which could land you in jail.
I am not an american or a lawyer, but isn't "reverse engineering for purpse of interoperability" allowed by the DMCA?
If you need this to get the tunes play on your ogg player, or your 4th apple (you have four or five macs, right?) then isn't it a legitimate use. And if it has a legitimate use, then it is legal software, right?
*sigh* if only...
This is old news. These may be other glowing fish, as they are from Taiwan, but you can get the details
Here or here
Am I the only person who believes this notion is wrong?
Nope. There are plenty of laissez-faire right wingers and "libertarians" in the USA who think it would be good idea to let companies screw everyone thay can without restriction, and let the poor rot in the streets where they fall.
Sure, it affects the other peoples lives... but don't marry some asshole with a gambling or drug addiction.
Regulation - I was also thinking of regulated drug purity and quantity, which you just don't get with illegal street drugs, or for gambling, fair odds and ability to pay and not get into debt and have your legs broken.
Anyhow, drug addiction causes crime - a statistic released last year was that around half of muggings in London were crack-related. Even if your ideology precludes simple human compasion, it's still cheaper to treat and prevent, not rely only on prosecute and punish.
Conclusion - when the government turns a consensual activity like selling drugs, sex or wagers into a crime, the amount of real violent crime is actually increased.
Yes. That's why drugs and gambling should be legalised and heavily regulated - regulated because they can and do mess peoples lives up.
Uh, not hatred for ignorance. You may not know this, but not all Americans are ignorant.
I don't think it's wrong to express a bit of emotion at ignorance on this scale.
And few would use it, because we have mozilla or ximian evolution for free, not to mention plenty of other graphical and text mode email clients.
On the Linux desktop there is no software monoculture - not even close, and the important players are in general security concious, and thier source is open.
Metamoderators, this is not redundant. It is is informative (IMHO). a few prior posts may have made the Africa Vs South Africa point, but none of them got highly rated, few of them suplied this much detail or links, or provided background detail on Eskom.
This article is about a company in South Africa, which is nowhere near the Sahara Desert.
If we're talking solar power, actually they have completely other Deserts there - the Kalahari and Namib deserts and the Karoo semi-desert region.
Yes, I am replying to myself.
It is good to see Africa (of all nations!)
At the risk of redundancy, Africa is not a nation. The article poster meant to say "South Africa", which is.
This technology has been around for at least 30 years.
And it is possible that it has improved in that time.
What about transmission losses?
RTFA. The whole point of Pebble Bed Modular Reactors is that they are smal and well, modular. You can deploy several small ones, each near where they are needed.
Why do they invest more money in such technologies. They have the Sahra desert.
No thay don't. This article is about a company in South Africa, which is nowhere near the Sahara Desert. It's a bit like responding to an article on Canada by mentioning the desert in Mexico because hey, both are in North America.
Thank you sir for syaing this before I did, and better than I could have.
"Africa's state-run utility giant Eskom" indeed!
A number of studies show that the radiation level of the depleted uranium in shells and tanks is not high enough to cause health problems. Your glow-in-the-dark wristwatch is more likely to cause cancer than walking near a piece of depleted uranium.
That follows only if you assume the only possbible health risk from depeleted uranium is from the radiation. It's also a heavy metal, and these are notoriusly good for health. Not.
There's also another way in which they differ. Why not blow up your glow-in-the-dark wristwatch and sprinkle the resulting dust into your aircon system, then asses the resulting risk.
But they've overreached.
Seems to me that is inevitable - like a junkie always needing a bigger fix, each press release has got to be grander than before, or else reality will set into the share price.
Actually EVD, being a later standard, hold more bits than DVD, so it's not just a way around the DVD tech licence fees.
... but yes, there is incentive to play your old DVDs on the player too. Bring it on. Innovation and competition is in this case good, especially if it innovates past that dumb-ass DVD region stuff.
Once EVD is rolled out in China, there's no incentive to revert to DVD via the back door
then the options become:
3) Show that the contract goes beyond what is legally allowed. Come on, thats what the slashdot summary is saying. Read it. And no, it not a bad thing that the law puts limits on how cheaply you can sell your soul.
Disclaimer: IANAL, IANAA (I am not a lawyer or an American).
The autogyro was cool ... they were almost crash proof.
And have lots of long bits of metal rotating at high speed. On helicopters they call them "blades". The main problem with flying cars is that you really don't want a drunk teenager trying to drive one over a residential area.
The second may be legal in the USA. Both are corrupt.