Yeah, your right it would be a stretch. Still, would it hurt to add a little clarity as to the intent? We don't want to get sued as publishers, so within the context of the service blah, blah, blah.
As a contractor I work on contracts all the time. You don't have to always wrap them in legalese. State the intent, the limitations and consideration in plain language.
I didn't miss that part. It's their opinion if publishing your novel is necessary for the service, it still doesn't say in what context or state the intent.
Youtube and any other user submitted service has similar clauses.
You realize the way that clause is written that you could use Dropbox to send a draft of your novel to your editor and Dropbox could publish it. Regardless of the intent, there has to be narrower language that would work. They could add something like "in the context of the service" which means their publishing rights are limited to the service itself.
They might need the clause, but they don't need anything nearly that broad.
I used to work with the Corps and I can tell you if there was anything that could have been done, they were doing it. They are constantly checking snow melt, rainfall, ground saturation, flow levels and modeling flooding so they know where to send sandbag crews. The Corps can get waivers from environmental policies if they feel it's justified. No one, in any government agency, is going to let a human city flood to meet environmental regulations. Not unless there were public meetings and posters, TV commercials and newspaper ads warning people in advance.
I get really sick and tired of people talking about the government like they're some giant, unified enemy. There are a few bad applies and one or two agencies we could live without, but overall the jobs government people do are necessary and, for the most part, they do a good job.
Sen. Blunt characterized the current flooding as "entirely preventable" and told reporters that he intends to force changes to the plan.
Given the volume of water the Corps is trying to manage, that statement is unbelievable hogwash. Ignorance that goes far beyond the people who try to argue "intelligent design" has a scientific basis. It reminds me of the attempts to blame poor neighborhoods for the mortgage crisis, even though the overall default rate in poor, minority neighborhoods was lower than upper-middle class white neighborhoods.
Couldn't have anything to do with snow pack and rainfall being over double the norm, it's got to be those dang environmentalists.
Using natural and man-made disasters to demigod your political opposition. We really have turned into a pathetic bunch. This tripe doesn't belong on Slashdot.
So there absolutely is a cost to allowing usage to climb with no limit and no increased price.
That's true and I agree to a point. There should be some kind of surcharge for people burning hundreds of gigs a month in traffic.
But the parent has a point. No one put a gun to the head of the teleco's and demanded they take over the internet. They took it when it was profitable, then decide they can throw their customers under the bus instead of investing in next generation infrastructure improvements.
There's got to be some balance here. My concern is the people making the decisions about what constitutes "balance" are all looking at getting cushy telecomm industry jobs when they leave government. There's no one looking out for consumer interests in those discussions.
Deputy Secretary of Defense William J. Lynn promises that the new program will not involve "monitoring, intercepting, or storing any private sector communications" by the DOD and DHS."
Because the NSA, DHS and FBI are already doing so much of that your packets would take an extra 20 minutes getting where they're going bouncing around between federal agencies spying on your online activity.
The Osage also fear that large wind farms will interfere with extracting oil and gas, from which royalties are paid in support of tribal members as the Osage retain their tribal mineral rights owned in common by members of the tribe.
There's looking out for the environment and there's looking out for number one. Now we know where they stand.
How much are they in USD? What keeps me from mailing cash to some vendor on Silk Road in a birthday card? It's no different, you're depending on someone to mail you something either way.
This is a non-issue but it keeps coming up over and over, like it has some meaning.
the idea that if you lose or destroy or whatever your computer and lose all your money isn't going to make the general public accept this
That's not how it works. If you lose your hash, then you lose your money. But that's no different than any other data loss because you didn't back up your data.
A while ago I pitched a web-based regional news system to cover small and medium markets. The idea was to use new DSLR technology and pay one-person investigators to build up coverage of under-served areas. Shoot the stories to large market standards and make the material available to major market stations for free. A lot of big stations have digital news channels and small to medium markets in the shadows of big cities could use those to improve their coverage of local events. I thought it was a good proposal but it didn't even make the first review cut. Apparently not as good as I thought.
It's not surprising the same thing is happening to small town newspapers. They're just so colonial in their approach to technology. Instead of figuring out how to make money online, they try to apply the print media model online then act surprised when it doesn't work. I think the same type of regional journalism model would work for online print. There just needs to be some way to get it off the ground until the ad revenue became self-sustaining.
Got the idea when I tried TV advertising for one my businesses. It was a dismal failure because I was advertising in a major market, a long way from my customer base. Small town advertisers would love a low-cost alternative that focused on their local market, but there just isn't anything.
Netflix claimed they tested it, but who was in the test group? I never heard they were working on a new interface. There was no "check out the new interface demo". Nothing. It is freaking hideous. Clumsy, bulky, slow. I think they're lying about the testing. If they would have really tested that monstrosity it would have failed miserably.
I thought about down-grading my subscription for a month in protest.
Gates would be a better option than Ballmer but that's faint praise. My dog would do a better job than Ballmer. There are certainly better options out there. People with the ability to gut the entrenched internal bureaucracy and drag Microsoft into the modern world of technology.
The age of $150 operating systems running on an $800 desktop with $400 productivity software are drawing to a close. If Microsoft wants to stay relevant, they need new ideas that come from people who aren't being stifled by mid-level managers steeped in last week's technology.
A US Attorney said SAIC Project Manager Gerald Denault was charged with accepting more than $5M in kickbacks laundered through international shell companies while steering more than $450M of city funds to the tech company behind the kickbacks.
Having worked for them, I can totally see it happening. They are constantly yammering about ethics but I never saw much in the way of internal audits or investigations. Results apparently speak louder than web-based training modules.
if that was the case then what protection do small developers have for revolutionary ideas?
Copyright, same as they do now. I agree with the court's decision in Bilski. Unless there is some machine transformation, then it's merely a generational improvement. One-click check out is a great example. That's not a revolutionary idea, it's a generational improvement of shopping carts and check out processes.
PageRank would qualify because it's machine transformation.
Overall, except in very narrow cases, software patents are a plague on progress. And the few that have a valid software patent, one that involves some kind of machine transformation, need to be required to advertise it and defend their patent to keep it. None of this submarine patent springing up years later bullshit.
The current system is how we get one company paying Microsoft $5 for a free OS. It's insane and it's wrong.
I think you're right, but it's not as clear cut as you make it out. Airliners can stall if they're going too slow or too fast. If memory serves on an A330 the range is something like 30 mph. It's a really narrow window.
When you're inside it's a lot different. In training I've had actual aircraft pitched up pretty far without being able to tell, the stall warning came as a complete surprise.
My question is whether the altimeter would work if the pitot tubes were frozen? Did the pilots know they were riding a lawn dart? 85% thrust with a 5% up angle on the nose, you can fly an A330 until it runs out of fuel. Aircraft speed will normalize in that configuration. So all I can figure is the pilots weren't able to get oriented.
The thrust was at 100% and the engines were operating normally. So they weren't following procedure. Thrust should have been at 85%. Three minutes goes fast when you're trying to sort out an emergency.
So, yeah, I can see passengers might not have known they were going to auger in, but they knew something was wrong. Engines at full thrust are pretty loud. Assume you can't feel a 16 degree nose up attitude. I don't know about 40, probably but maybe not.
Big businesses are going to have to become more flexible about how IT is provisioned and managed...
That's been true for years and it still isn't happening. Most companies don't even have their network segmented to make that possible. If they were working toward that end, they'd be separating the data from the network and isolating critical systems. It's not happening in many places I've seen.
North Carolina governor Bev Perdue will not veto a bill that will limit small town municipalities' ability to create community broadband when private industry will not go there.
Because no service can ever make the transition from "luxury" to "utility". Instead of letting a community decide for themselves if they want to provide the service, those freedom loving NC Republicans will just pass a law to protect that market for ISP's.
Freedom! *
* Except when your freedom impacts the bottom line of one of our big campaign donors. Actual freedom may vary.
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Yeah, your right it would be a stretch. Still, would it hurt to add a little clarity as to the intent? We don't want to get sued as publishers, so within the context of the service blah, blah, blah.
As a contractor I work on contracts all the time. You don't have to always wrap them in legalese. State the intent, the limitations and consideration in plain language.
I didn't miss that part. It's their opinion if publishing your novel is necessary for the service, it still doesn't say in what context or state the intent.
Youtube and any other user submitted service has similar clauses.
You realize the way that clause is written that you could use Dropbox to send a draft of your novel to your editor and Dropbox could publish it. Regardless of the intent, there has to be narrower language that would work. They could add something like "in the context of the service" which means their publishing rights are limited to the service itself.
They might need the clause, but they don't need anything nearly that broad.
Counting on the manufacturer for safety testing. What could go wrong?
I used to work with the Corps and I can tell you if there was anything that could have been done, they were doing it. They are constantly checking snow melt, rainfall, ground saturation, flow levels and modeling flooding so they know where to send sandbag crews. The Corps can get waivers from environmental policies if they feel it's justified. No one, in any government agency, is going to let a human city flood to meet environmental regulations. Not unless there were public meetings and posters, TV commercials and newspaper ads warning people in advance.
I get really sick and tired of people talking about the government like they're some giant, unified enemy. There are a few bad applies and one or two agencies we could live without, but overall the jobs government people do are necessary and, for the most part, they do a good job.
Gah! My mistake. It's early...
Sen. Blunt characterized the current flooding as "entirely preventable" and told reporters that he intends to force changes to the plan.
Given the volume of water the Corps is trying to manage, that statement is unbelievable hogwash. Ignorance that goes far beyond the people who try to argue "intelligent design" has a scientific basis. It reminds me of the attempts to blame poor neighborhoods for the mortgage crisis, even though the overall default rate in poor, minority neighborhoods was lower than upper-middle class white neighborhoods.
Couldn't have anything to do with snow pack and rainfall being over double the norm, it's got to be those dang environmentalists.
Using natural and man-made disasters to demigod your political opposition. We really have turned into a pathetic bunch. This tripe doesn't belong on Slashdot.
So there absolutely is a cost to allowing usage to climb with no limit and no increased price.
That's true and I agree to a point. There should be some kind of surcharge for people burning hundreds of gigs a month in traffic.
But the parent has a point. No one put a gun to the head of the teleco's and demanded they take over the internet. They took it when it was profitable, then decide they can throw their customers under the bus instead of investing in next generation infrastructure improvements.
There's got to be some balance here. My concern is the people making the decisions about what constitutes "balance" are all looking at getting cushy telecomm industry jobs when they leave government. There's no one looking out for consumer interests in those discussions.
Deputy Secretary of Defense William J. Lynn promises that the new program will not involve "monitoring, intercepting, or storing any private sector communications" by the DOD and DHS."
Because the NSA, DHS and FBI are already doing so much of that your packets would take an extra 20 minutes getting where they're going bouncing around between federal agencies spying on your online activity.
The Osage also fear that large wind farms will interfere with extracting oil and gas, from which royalties are paid in support of tribal members as the Osage retain their tribal mineral rights owned in common by members of the tribe.
There's looking out for the environment and there's looking out for number one. Now we know where they stand.
It's straining their bond market to pay for it. Apparently they think the investment is worth it.
Lucky we have all the answers here, otherwise I'd wonder what they knew that we didn't.
How much are they in USD? What keeps me from mailing cash to some vendor on Silk Road in a birthday card? It's no different, you're depending on someone to mail you something either way.
This is a non-issue but it keeps coming up over and over, like it has some meaning.
the idea that if you lose or destroy or whatever your computer and lose all your money isn't going to make the general public accept this
That's not how it works. If you lose your hash, then you lose your money. But that's no different than any other data loss because you didn't back up your data.
A while ago I pitched a web-based regional news system to cover small and medium markets. The idea was to use new DSLR technology and pay one-person investigators to build up coverage of under-served areas. Shoot the stories to large market standards and make the material available to major market stations for free. A lot of big stations have digital news channels and small to medium markets in the shadows of big cities could use those to improve their coverage of local events. I thought it was a good proposal but it didn't even make the first review cut. Apparently not as good as I thought.
It's not surprising the same thing is happening to small town newspapers. They're just so colonial in their approach to technology. Instead of figuring out how to make money online, they try to apply the print media model online then act surprised when it doesn't work. I think the same type of regional journalism model would work for online print. There just needs to be some way to get it off the ground until the ad revenue became self-sustaining.
Got the idea when I tried TV advertising for one my businesses. It was a dismal failure because I was advertising in a major market, a long way from my customer base. Small town advertisers would love a low-cost alternative that focused on their local market, but there just isn't anything.
Netflix claimed they tested it, but who was in the test group? I never heard they were working on a new interface. There was no "check out the new interface demo". Nothing. It is freaking hideous. Clumsy, bulky, slow. I think they're lying about the testing. If they would have really tested that monstrosity it would have failed miserably.
I thought about down-grading my subscription for a month in protest.
hey, that's the world we live in. Suck it up.
We can do better.
a law prohibiting the transmission or display of an image that is likely to 'frighten, intimidate or cause emotional distress to' anyone who sees it.
I could post my portrait and scare a good number of people.
How bad would secession really be?
Film at 11. Or maybe they'll use another surrogate, like SCO.
Gates would be a better option than Ballmer but that's faint praise. My dog would do a better job than Ballmer. There are certainly better options out there. People with the ability to gut the entrenched internal bureaucracy and drag Microsoft into the modern world of technology.
The age of $150 operating systems running on an $800 desktop with $400 productivity software are drawing to a close. If Microsoft wants to stay relevant, they need new ideas that come from people who aren't being stifled by mid-level managers steeped in last week's technology.
A US Attorney said SAIC Project Manager Gerald Denault was charged with accepting more than $5M in kickbacks laundered through international shell companies while steering more than $450M of city funds to the tech company behind the kickbacks.
Having worked for them, I can totally see it happening. They are constantly yammering about ethics but I never saw much in the way of internal audits or investigations. Results apparently speak louder than web-based training modules.
if that was the case then what protection do small developers have for revolutionary ideas?
Copyright, same as they do now. I agree with the court's decision in Bilski. Unless there is some machine transformation, then it's merely a generational improvement. One-click check out is a great example. That's not a revolutionary idea, it's a generational improvement of shopping carts and check out processes.
PageRank would qualify because it's machine transformation.
Overall, except in very narrow cases, software patents are a plague on progress. And the few that have a valid software patent, one that involves some kind of machine transformation, need to be required to advertise it and defend their patent to keep it. None of this submarine patent springing up years later bullshit.
The current system is how we get one company paying Microsoft $5 for a free OS. It's insane and it's wrong.
They had to know...
I think you're right, but it's not as clear cut as you make it out. Airliners can stall if they're going too slow or too fast. If memory serves on an A330 the range is something like 30 mph. It's a really narrow window.
When you're inside it's a lot different. In training I've had actual aircraft pitched up pretty far without being able to tell, the stall warning came as a complete surprise.
My question is whether the altimeter would work if the pitot tubes were frozen? Did the pilots know they were riding a lawn dart? 85% thrust with a 5% up angle on the nose, you can fly an A330 until it runs out of fuel. Aircraft speed will normalize in that configuration. So all I can figure is the pilots weren't able to get oriented.
The thrust was at 100% and the engines were operating normally. So they weren't following procedure. Thrust should have been at 85%. Three minutes goes fast when you're trying to sort out an emergency.
So, yeah, I can see passengers might not have known they were going to auger in, but they knew something was wrong. Engines at full thrust are pretty loud. Assume you can't feel a 16 degree nose up attitude. I don't know about 40, probably but maybe not.
Big businesses are going to have to become more flexible about how IT is provisioned and managed...
That's been true for years and it still isn't happening. Most companies don't even have their network segmented to make that possible. If they were working toward that end, they'd be separating the data from the network and isolating critical systems. It's not happening in many places I've seen.
North Carolina governor Bev Perdue will not veto a bill that will limit small town municipalities' ability to create community broadband when private industry will not go there.
Because no service can ever make the transition from "luxury" to "utility". Instead of letting a community decide for themselves if they want to provide the service, those freedom loving NC Republicans will just pass a law to protect that market for ISP's.
Freedom! *
* Except when your freedom impacts the bottom line of one of our big campaign donors. Actual freedom may vary.
Seems off to use a tunnel to get drugs from one part of a city over to another part of a city.
It simply proves they're kinda new at the drug smuggling game, eh.