Yeah, the Srebrenica incident was not a highlight in the history of the Dutch Army. Neither is Network Solutions banning a site whose subject matter they haven't even seen... much like the Manhattan coop that wanted to kick out the US publishers of Salman Rushdie's best known work, their own neighbors, least some whack job target their building. Pussies, all. They should all convert to Islam now, the Salafi school at that, for their own sheepist protection.
I hope to Christ I'm not the only one who found the concept of "NO SNIPING" at gunbroker.com entertaining.
Well, I found it mildly amusing. I shop online for two reasons: find what's difficult to find elsewhere, and/or look for a deal on something I want. As a buyer, I have no upside to dealing with extended bidding. I don't care to play the bidding psychology game. So, I don't make a habit of shopping at gunbroker.
I may be typical of the average snipping bidder. Since I'm bidding at the end, I've already decided to push the bid up to the limit of my comfort level, and I don't care to deal with the uncertainly of proxy bidding. If snipping isn't supported, I'm not going to play.
I'd be interested in knowing if any online auction sites have data showing whether snipping added or subtracted to the average final bid, and the overall volume of sales.
I'm glad to hear someone else getting tired of the shitty shipping options to AK and HI. I'm constantly seeing "standard shipping to US", and knowing that they mean "flat rate Fedex on the mainland". On one occasion I said fuck it, and held the seller to the letter of their listing, but I haven't made a practice of it, so that I don't see any more "continental US only" than I have to.
USPS Priority Mail is the best option for us out in the "near abroad", and I really appreciate the (usually) small sellers that offer it.
Push Congress to immediately... - repeal the Capital Gains & Estate Tax holidays. - adjust the AMT income level upward, and commensurate across the board cuts to all Federal departments (spread the pain evenly).
Instruct the DoD to... - immediately submit plans to draw down Iraq theatre forces within a year to a) nothing, and b) 30k QRP garrison. - immediately submit plans to shift (X) forces pulled from Iraq to Afghanistan.
Push Congress to consider... - Expand Medicare to cover entire population, in stages. - Tweak SS contributions/payments in yearly stages to keep 50 forecast in the black.
*No one else can sell laptops to third-world countries except OLPC.* was supposed to be in italics, representing a quote from the parent, but I obviously didn't *preview* now, did I? As I preview this statement, I see that italics STILL aren't working. Now I research how to report a suspected bug in slash.
No one else can sell laptops to third-world countries except OLPC.
Negroponte is attempting to address an under-served primary education market with his vision of what would give that market the most bang for its buck. After watching the OLPC program develop that market, Intel threw together a low spec system to milk some of the action and create some future up-sell opportunities. Fair enough.
If Intel wasn't willing to modify its game plan, then they shouldn't have joined the OLPC's board. If Intel thought that they were going to talk the OLPC into dropping everything and becoming Intel's Classmate marketing arm, Intel was -to be charitable - naive.
It's interesting that you posted the link to the Mauna Kea Observatories, without noting (knowing?) that UH has been ahead of the LSST folks with its similar PanSTARRS program. Both are intended to repeatedly resurvey the sky, both sell themselves to the public with the NEO search capability, and most astronomers want them primarily for supernova detection and other deep space research.
Technically, they differ in that the LSST uses one huge cu$tom $cope, while PanSTARRS ties four smaller "commodity" research-grade scopes ganged to stare at the same piece of sky, and then post-processes the four resulting images to subtract cosmic ray detections and errors in the detectors. PanSTARRS currently has a single scope on Maui as a working prototype.
I hope that both systems become fully operational. The more eyes on the sky, the better.
This plainly shows what was obvious to those who wanted to look, that any monopoly Apple has on electronic music sales is because the record labels chose to give them one. Since they seem to be having second thoughts about that choice, they are looking at an alternative: selling straight mp3 downloads.
If Apple ever locked down the iTunes application so that users couldn't import mp3s, then we'd have a reason to whine. But, there would still be Sandisk and the rest, as well as places to buy music for them. Choices still! Imagine that.
Ah, I was thinking you might be a Tico, but then you'd be calling the Jetta a Bora. I guess I'd be dating myself to think that's a much cooler name.
Back on topic, naturally the only reason TFA was comparing an iMac to the dell was for the fanboy hits. If the author had gone gateway v. Dell, who'd care?
That the RIAA once again is trying to treat radio like another income stream shouldn't be a surprise. The members are part of a declining industry, so it's a natural progression in such circumstances to milk the remaining market for all it's worth. They may think they're going the cable route, with a constant stream of monthly subscriptions income.
However, at least in the US I think that their customers are already saddled with enough debt that if the choice is subscription or do without, they'll do without or continue going black market.
Yes, I did fly off the handle. No, I did not take the time to cite the sources of my grumpiness. In almost any industry, when something comes along that might cut into the big boys' action, they trot out the little guys in whichever trade association. It's like watching the US GOP cry about family farms, when what they're really trying to protect is ADM's stockholders, when they cut estate taxes.
In academic publishing, as with publishing in general, there's been a lot of consolidation. As a result, what we're really talking about in this market are Elsevier, Cinven & Candover, Blackwell, Wiley, Taylor and Francis, and Sage, covering 40% of the market, and all continuing to buy out more of the non-profit journal contracts. The economies of scale you'd expect from this hoovering haven't occurred, and it seems that while the costs of publishing these journals has risen rather moderately, the subscription rates have not: monographs in the range of 60%+ and serials 150%+ over the last ten years.
Then there's the cable TV-like bundling practices: subscribe to the whole set, or do without.
I realize that the Federal Government (in the guise of the NIH, NSF, etc) aren't paying the publishers. But, they are paying the authors who must publish the results of what their grants funded, and it's a given that they should publish in a peer reviewed journal.
If a scientific journal wants a piece of my tax dollar, they should be thanking me that they get ANY taste of the proceeds. Beyond the cost of production (editing, reviewing, web serving, rainy day reserve, and limited printings), they have no business being "well heeled" on the public dollar.
Funding their other endeavors on the profits is great, but in that case they're gonna have to sell Congress on the width and breadth of what are in fact publicly financed activities. How nice are their offices? How much are the execs paid? How much are they pissing away on boondoggles? Do they sue citizens for redistributing material that their government paid to publish?
The margins for DoD contractors are limited by law, our shit gets audited constantly, and designs developed on the Federal dime belong to the Federal Government. Gotta play if you wanna get paid.
I was also surprised that Pelosi and Reid haven't moved their sides of aisle to refuse to fund the Iraq war. My guesses are that 1) they visualized what a withdrawal will look like on TV (shitty), and wiennied out; or 2) George played his "surge" card before they could get their act together, and they decided to let that strategy play out before pulling the plug.
At this point, they've had time to get the sense of the Congress, and know for sure that the GOP ain't gonna ditch George/Dick via impeachment. Since an impeachment proceeding becomes a Congress' full time job, the Democratic leadership probably decided that it was an albatross they didn't want to hang around the necks of members running for reelection/the Presidency.
Unfortunately, the first opportunity to cut further funding came too late, so we're just going to have to wait out the '08 elections. My hope is that if - for some bizarre reason - we end up electing a pro-war GOP President, and give him a GOP majority in Congress, it'll be one of those "only Nixon could go to China" moments, and we'll by and large cut bait.
Sure, he'll prolly follow that up by locking in the capital gains and estate tax cuts, so that *my* tax bracket ends up paying the bill, but that's something I have some control over.
What they really ought to allow is desktop OS X to be virtualized on top of apple hardware (ie run OS X VM's on xserve clusters) and allow OS X server to be virtualized on top of non-apple hardware. Not allowing this is really going to hurt their server business over the next few years I suspect.
I dipped into the comments for this article *knowing* that someone was going to make something like this comment... but I gotta ask, if you're gonna ask to virtualize osx server on non-apple hardware, why not go all the way and ask for it with the desktop osx as well? I mean, where's the rationale for going half-way? Obviously, the point of wanting to host osx on non-apple hardware at all is to cut costs by either using servers you've already got, or some cheap, no-name 1U crap you plan to pick off of eBay.
And, just as obviously, by this time you *know* that Apple still considers itself a hardware company, and that the os is bundled to move the iron. Anyone other than a troll still making the unbundling the os argument hasn't been reading the business section in something like, oh, three years.
The parent made exactly the points I was to make. I'll add that the FEMA leadership lost what ever points they earned for not screwing the pooch this time around due to their complete lack of transparency. It's been bad enough with the unattributed propaganda videos the Administration has passed around to the media over the last six years, but faking a news conference for a heavily covered story? Gee-zus. They'd have looked more honest hiring Kevin Nealon.
As others have said here, to 'get' mathematics requires repetition until you've got a particular concept down pat. The Kumon program breaks math down into small pieces, and drills the hell out of each piece with take-home worksheets. It's basically a Japanese cram school, marketed world-wide. Their web site says they now cost around US$80 - $110/month, depending on the math level you're working on. Don't let the little kids on the home page throw you, they offer big kids math (trig, various calculus), too.
When my wife went back to school in '92, she too was suffering from a number of gaps in her previous math education, and used Kumon to fill in those gaps prior to taking a college statistics course.
Hit a dust speck straight on at, say, 1/3 C and you'll probably tear your hull apart.
This takes me back to the original "Waterworld" novelette (Analog, March, 1994, Lee Goodloe & Jerry Oltion), where a speck of dust goes through an interstellar colony ship like a small nuke, taking most of the volatiles with it. The remaining crew finds a melted iceball orbiting a gas giant, and drops a carbon/diamond straw to suck up some juice.
The Aviation Week article included some plausable speculation, that one point, perhaps the major point, for the indigenous Japanese effort is to grease the way for an F-22 buy.
Back in the late 40's/early 50's, after German/UK scientist Fuchs leaked US atomic technology to the USSR, the US cut the UK out of any atomic technology exchange. The UK exerted considerable effort to craft a H-bomb in house, and successfully tested a few in 1957. At that point, the US cut the UK back in on joint H-bomb development. The British bomb was a dead-end design, but it demonstrated a capability that the Russians had by that time matched, so there was no benefit to continuing the embargo.
In
Avaiation Week suspects that the Japanese might be making the same point, that "we can do this on our own if we have to". Perhaps this will aleveate fears in the US that an F-22 sale (and licensed production in Japan) will give Japanese (and later, Chinese) engineers access to designs and materials they'd otherwise have to put their own time and money into. Once their time and money have created the expertise, what's the point?
The research lead, Jennifer Fields, has studied a number of waste water polutants, so scanning for narcotics is just another piece of the puzzle for waste water treatment. Gone (in the US) are the days when you could just disinfect public water with chlorine at the input and shoot it straight into a river at the output.
Now, water planners have to consider a much wider range of crap, from all the acetaminophen, birth control hormones, caffeine, and - yes - dope we're pissing away, as well as the usual collection of bacteria, viruses, organic matter, pez dispensers, and whatnot. It's not only that you don't want that stuff in the water supply, you don't want it collecting in the fish from the lake, Bambi's mom in the woods, or that water you merely boiled when out camping.
So, an increasing number water districts have to collect this information anyway. All that Fields did was analyze a portion of the data more intently. If your jurisdiction plans to stick a sensor into your waste stream at a point immediately before it commingles with that from your neighbors, you'll know about it 'way ahead of time, because it would be a Major project. Frankly, most water districts are so busy trying to keep everything flowing in the right direction, they couldn't be less interested in wasting time checking on your THC-related metabolic byproducts.
I'm sure you're right, they're stalling. I'm pointing out that once in a blue moon, executives and/or their attorneys overplay their hand, thinking they've got continuances and appeals up their sleeve that ain't there.
Other than having assets seized by the Sheriff and auctioned off to settle the debt? No, none.
Which occasionally leads to an attorney for a major corporation running to the court house steps as said corporation is about to have its home office auctioned off to cover some paltry judgement. Sometimes the suits forget that the legal process does in fact have an end game, and that their team lost.
Geezuus, it's not like OpenMOSIX is unusable as is, or that there aren't alternatives. For that matter, while coding one's own cluster controller isn't trivial, it isn't string theory either. Our shop has released (eg. given away) two schedulers, and we've got another that's stayed in house. When I've strolled the booths at the SuperComputing conference, it seems that every other university is giving away their own cluster controller.
OpenMOSIX is neat, but it ain't the end all be all, and it's been my experience that any shop that's serious about running a cluster manages to find/attract someone with the chops to get it up and running. Can just any elementary school pull one together for "free"? Maybe not. For them, there's Pooch or AppleSeed.
Per the DailyTech: Music artists and labels represented by SoundExchange say they are being treated unfairly, receiving less than a fair amount of money being generated by online radio stations.
If I'm not mistaken, the only income that internet radio is generating - if any - is via click-through ads. The revenue per click has been dropping for years, and unlike OTA radio, an i-station should be able to readily document just what the total listenership is. I think it's pretty clear that it ain't much on either count.
Therefore, the SoundExchange position on what a fair royalty rate is must be influenced by one or both of two factors: 1) a desire to demolish internet radio until the corporate members are able to put together their own services. They'll be paying themselves royalties, so the rate is unimportant.
2) at parties, SoundExchange players get to talking after doing a few lines, going on yet again how everything's on the net nowadays, wow look at Google's market cap, with the result that huge numbers tumbled out. More than a few people from the Library of Congress were obviously sharing the same mirror, or this whole idea would have been forgotten the next morning.
You're saying that Gordon Brown worries as much about selling the next Harry Potter book as he does about preventing the next bombing?
Sure, it seems stupid right now. But, over the long haul, yes he will. Were he still Chancellor of the Exchequer, he'd care even more.
Stepping back up the thread to whether this was a thorn in the US Government's side, anything that causes major lobbying groups to suck up space in a Congressional Rep's/Senator's/President's schedule for bitching and moaning counts as a thorn.
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Yeah, the Srebrenica incident was not a highlight in the history of the Dutch Army. Neither is Network Solutions banning a site whose subject matter they haven't even seen... much like the Manhattan coop that wanted to kick out the US publishers of Salman Rushdie's best known work, their own neighbors, least some whack job target their building. Pussies, all. They should all convert to Islam now, the Salafi school at that, for their own sheepist protection.
I hope to Christ I'm not the only one who found the concept of "NO SNIPING" at gunbroker.com entertaining.
Well, I found it mildly amusing. I shop online for two reasons: find what's difficult to find elsewhere, and/or look for a deal on something I want. As a buyer, I have no upside to dealing with extended bidding. I don't care to play the bidding psychology game. So, I don't make a habit of shopping at gunbroker.
I may be typical of the average snipping bidder. Since I'm bidding at the end, I've already decided to push the bid up to the limit of my comfort level, and I don't care to deal with the uncertainly of proxy bidding. If snipping isn't supported, I'm not going to play.
I'd be interested in knowing if any online auction sites have data showing whether snipping added or subtracted to the average final bid, and the overall volume of sales.
I'm glad to hear someone else getting tired of the shitty shipping options to AK and HI. I'm constantly seeing "standard shipping to US", and knowing that they mean "flat rate Fedex on the mainland". On one occasion I said fuck it, and held the seller to the letter of their listing, but I haven't made a practice of it, so that I don't see any more "continental US only" than I have to.
USPS Priority Mail is the best option for us out in the "near abroad", and I really appreciate the (usually) small sellers that offer it.
Push Congress to immediately...
- repeal the Capital Gains & Estate Tax holidays.
- adjust the AMT income level upward, and commensurate across the board cuts to all Federal departments (spread the pain evenly).
Instruct the DoD to...
- immediately submit plans to draw down Iraq theatre forces within a year to a) nothing, and b) 30k QRP garrison.
- immediately submit plans to shift (X) forces pulled from Iraq to Afghanistan.
Push Congress to consider...
- Expand Medicare to cover entire population, in stages.
- Tweak SS contributions/payments in yearly stages to keep 50 forecast in the black.
*No one else can sell laptops to third-world countries except OLPC.* was supposed to be in italics, representing a quote from the parent, but I obviously didn't *preview* now, did I? As I preview this statement, I see that italics STILL aren't working. Now I research how to report a suspected bug in slash.
No one else can sell laptops to third-world countries except OLPC.
Negroponte is attempting to address an under-served primary education market with his vision of what would give that market the most bang for its buck. After watching the OLPC program develop that market, Intel threw together a low spec system to milk some of the action and create some future up-sell opportunities. Fair enough.
If Intel wasn't willing to modify its game plan, then they shouldn't have joined the OLPC's board. If Intel thought that they were going to talk the OLPC into dropping everything and becoming Intel's Classmate marketing arm, Intel was -to be charitable - naive.
It's interesting that you posted the link to the Mauna Kea Observatories, without noting (knowing?) that UH has been ahead of the LSST folks with its similar PanSTARRS program. Both are intended to repeatedly resurvey the sky, both sell themselves to the public with the NEO search capability, and most astronomers want them primarily for supernova detection and other deep space research.
Technically, they differ in that the LSST uses one huge cu$tom $cope, while PanSTARRS ties four smaller "commodity" research-grade scopes ganged to stare at the same piece of sky, and then post-processes the four resulting images to subtract cosmic ray detections and errors in the detectors. PanSTARRS currently has a single scope on Maui as a working prototype.
I hope that both systems become fully operational. The more eyes on the sky, the better.
This plainly shows what was obvious to those who wanted to look, that any monopoly Apple has on electronic music sales is because the record labels chose to give them one. Since they seem to be having second thoughts about that choice, they are looking at an alternative: selling straight mp3 downloads.
If Apple ever locked down the iTunes application so that users couldn't import mp3s, then we'd have a reason to whine. But, there would still be Sandisk and the rest, as well as places to buy music for them. Choices still! Imagine that.
Ah, I was thinking you might be a Tico, but then you'd be calling the Jetta a Bora. I guess I'd be dating myself to think that's a much cooler name.
Back on topic, naturally the only reason TFA was comparing an iMac to the dell was for the fanboy hits. If the author had gone gateway v. Dell, who'd care?
That the RIAA once again is trying to treat radio like another income stream shouldn't be a surprise. The members are part of a declining industry, so it's a natural progression in such circumstances to milk the remaining market for all it's worth. They may think they're going the cable route, with a constant stream of monthly subscriptions income.
However, at least in the US I think that their customers are already saddled with enough debt that if the choice is subscription or do without, they'll do without or continue going black market.
Yes, I did fly off the handle. No, I did not take the time to cite the sources of my grumpiness. In almost any industry, when something comes along that might cut into the big boys' action, they trot out the little guys in whichever trade association. It's like watching the US GOP cry about family farms, when what they're really trying to protect is ADM's stockholders, when they cut estate taxes.
In academic publishing, as with publishing in general, there's been a lot of consolidation. As a result, what we're really talking about in this market are Elsevier, Cinven & Candover, Blackwell, Wiley, Taylor and Francis, and Sage, covering 40% of the market, and all continuing to buy out more of the non-profit journal contracts. The economies of scale you'd expect from this hoovering haven't occurred, and it seems that while the costs of publishing these journals has risen rather moderately, the subscription rates have not: monographs in the range of 60%+ and serials 150%+ over the last ten years.
Then there's the cable TV-like bundling practices: subscribe to the whole set, or do without.
I realize that the Federal Government (in the guise of the NIH, NSF, etc) aren't paying the publishers. But, they are paying the authors who must publish the results of what their grants funded, and it's a given that they should publish in a peer reviewed journal.
If a scientific journal wants a piece of my tax dollar, they should be thanking me that they get ANY taste of the proceeds. Beyond the cost of production (editing, reviewing, web serving, rainy day reserve, and limited printings), they have no business being "well heeled" on the public dollar.
Funding their other endeavors on the profits is great, but in that case they're gonna have to sell Congress on the width and breadth of what are in fact publicly financed activities. How nice are their offices? How much are the execs paid? How much are they pissing away on boondoggles? Do they sue citizens for redistributing material that their government paid to publish?
The margins for DoD contractors are limited by law, our shit gets audited constantly, and designs developed on the Federal dime belong to the Federal Government. Gotta play if you wanna get paid.
I was also surprised that Pelosi and Reid haven't moved their sides of aisle to refuse to fund the Iraq war. My guesses are that 1) they visualized what a withdrawal will look like on TV (shitty), and wiennied out; or 2) George played his "surge" card before they could get their act together, and they decided to let that strategy play out before pulling the plug.
At this point, they've had time to get the sense of the Congress, and know for sure that the GOP ain't gonna ditch George/Dick via impeachment. Since an impeachment proceeding becomes a Congress' full time job, the Democratic leadership probably decided that it was an albatross they didn't want to hang around the necks of members running for reelection/the Presidency.
Unfortunately, the first opportunity to cut further funding came too late, so we're just going to have to wait out the '08 elections. My hope is that if - for some bizarre reason - we end up electing a pro-war GOP President, and give him a GOP majority in Congress, it'll be one of those "only Nixon could go to China" moments, and we'll by and large cut bait.
Sure, he'll prolly follow that up by locking in the capital gains and estate tax cuts, so that *my* tax bracket ends up paying the bill, but that's something I have some control over.
What they really ought to allow is desktop OS X to be virtualized on top of apple hardware (ie run OS X VM's on xserve clusters) and allow OS X server to be virtualized on top of non-apple hardware. Not allowing this is really going to hurt their server business over the next few years I suspect.
I dipped into the comments for this article *knowing* that someone was going to make something like this comment... but I gotta ask, if you're gonna ask to virtualize osx server on non-apple hardware, why not go all the way and ask for it with the desktop osx as well? I mean, where's the rationale for going half-way? Obviously, the point of wanting to host osx on non-apple hardware at all is to cut costs by either using servers you've already got, or some cheap, no-name 1U crap you plan to pick off of eBay.
And, just as obviously, by this time you *know* that Apple still considers itself a hardware company, and that the os is bundled to move the iron. Anyone other than a troll still making the unbundling the os argument hasn't been reading the business section in something like, oh, three years.
The parent made exactly the points I was to make. I'll add that the FEMA leadership lost what ever points they earned for not screwing the pooch this time around due to their complete lack of transparency. It's been bad enough with the unattributed propaganda videos the Administration has passed around to the media over the last six years, but faking a news conference for a heavily covered story? Gee-zus. They'd have looked more honest hiring Kevin Nealon.
As others have said here, to 'get' mathematics requires repetition until you've got a particular concept down pat. The Kumon program breaks math down into small pieces, and drills the hell out of each piece with take-home worksheets. It's basically a Japanese cram school, marketed world-wide. Their web site says they now cost around US$80 - $110/month, depending on the math level you're working on. Don't let the little kids on the home page throw you, they offer big kids math (trig, various calculus), too.
When my wife went back to school in '92, she too was suffering from a number of gaps in her previous math education, and used Kumon to fill in those gaps prior to taking a college statistics course.
Hit a dust speck straight on at, say, 1/3 C and you'll probably tear your hull apart.
This takes me back to the original "Waterworld" novelette (Analog, March, 1994, Lee Goodloe & Jerry Oltion), where a speck of dust goes through an interstellar colony ship like a small nuke, taking most of the volatiles with it. The remaining crew finds a melted iceball orbiting a gas giant, and drops a carbon/diamond straw to suck up some juice.
The Aviation Week article included some plausable speculation, that one point, perhaps the major point, for the indigenous Japanese effort is to grease the way for an F-22 buy.
Back in the late 40's/early 50's, after German/UK scientist Fuchs leaked US atomic technology to the USSR, the US cut the UK out of any atomic technology exchange. The UK exerted considerable effort to craft a H-bomb in house, and successfully tested a few in 1957. At that point, the US cut the UK back in on joint H-bomb development. The British bomb was a dead-end design, but it demonstrated a capability that the Russians had by that time matched, so there was no benefit to continuing the embargo.
In
Avaiation Week suspects that the Japanese might be making the same point, that "we can do this on our own if we have to". Perhaps this will aleveate fears in the US that an F-22 sale (and licensed production in Japan) will give Japanese (and later, Chinese) engineers access to designs and materials they'd otherwise have to put their own time and money into. Once their time and money have created the expertise, what's the point?
After a quick look back at the diffs, you're right, Slaby gets to change one license almost will, but needs to ask for the others:
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath5k_base.c
* Copyright (c) 2007 Jiri Slaby
* All rights reserved.
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath5k.h
* Copyright (c) 2004-2007 Reyk Floeter
* Copyright (c) 2006-2007 Nick Kossifidis
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath5k_base.h
* Copyright (c) 2002-2007 Sam Leffler, Errno Consulting
+++ b/drivers/net/wireless/ath5k_hw.c
* Copyright (c) 2006-2007 Nick Kossifidis
* Copyright (c) 2007 Jiri Slaby
Perhaps there's a thread with Floeter, Kossifidis, and Leffler giving him the green light, but I didn't see one.
The research lead, Jennifer Fields, has studied a number of waste water polutants, so scanning for narcotics is just another piece of the puzzle for waste water treatment. Gone (in the US) are the days when you could just disinfect public water with chlorine at the input and shoot it straight into a river at the output.
Now, water planners have to consider a much wider range of crap, from all the acetaminophen, birth control hormones, caffeine, and - yes - dope we're pissing away, as well as the usual collection of bacteria, viruses, organic matter, pez dispensers, and whatnot. It's not only that you don't want that stuff in the water supply, you don't want it collecting in the fish from the lake, Bambi's mom in the woods, or that water you merely boiled when out camping.
So, an increasing number water districts have to collect this information anyway. All that Fields did was analyze a portion of the data more intently. If your jurisdiction plans to stick a sensor into your waste stream at a point immediately before it commingles with that from your neighbors, you'll know about it 'way ahead of time, because it would be a Major project. Frankly, most water districts are so busy trying to keep everything flowing in the right direction, they couldn't be less interested in wasting time checking on your THC-related metabolic byproducts.
I'm sure you're right, they're stalling. I'm pointing out that once in a blue moon, executives and/or their attorneys overplay their hand, thinking they've got continuances and appeals up their sleeve that ain't there.
Other than having assets seized by the Sheriff and auctioned off to settle the debt? No, none.
Which occasionally leads to an attorney for a major corporation running to the court house steps as said corporation is about to have its home office auctioned off to cover some paltry judgement. Sometimes the suits forget that the legal process does in fact have an end game, and that their team lost.
Geezuus, it's not like OpenMOSIX is unusable as is, or that there aren't alternatives. For that matter, while coding one's own cluster controller isn't trivial, it isn't string theory either. Our shop has released (eg. given away) two schedulers, and we've got another that's stayed in house. When I've strolled the booths at the SuperComputing conference, it seems that every other university is giving away their own cluster controller.
OpenMOSIX is neat, but it ain't the end all be all, and it's been my experience that any shop that's serious about running a cluster manages to find/attract someone with the chops to get it up and running. Can just any elementary school pull one together for "free"? Maybe not. For them, there's Pooch or AppleSeed.
Per the DailyTech: Music artists and labels represented by SoundExchange say they are being treated unfairly, receiving less than a fair amount of money being generated by online radio stations.
If I'm not mistaken, the only income that internet radio is generating - if any - is via click-through ads. The revenue per click has been dropping for years, and unlike OTA radio, an i-station should be able to readily document just what the total listenership is. I think it's pretty clear that it ain't much on either count.
Therefore, the SoundExchange position on what a fair royalty rate is must be influenced by one or both of two factors:
1) a desire to demolish internet radio until the corporate members are able to put together their own services. They'll be paying themselves royalties, so the rate is unimportant.
2) at parties, SoundExchange players get to talking after doing a few lines, going on yet again how everything's on the net nowadays, wow look at Google's market cap, with the result that huge numbers tumbled out. More than a few people from the Library of Congress were obviously sharing the same mirror, or this whole idea would have been forgotten the next morning.
You're saying that Gordon Brown worries as much about selling the next Harry Potter book as he does about preventing the next bombing?
Sure, it seems stupid right now. But, over the long haul, yes he will. Were he still Chancellor of the Exchequer, he'd care even more.
Stepping back up the thread to whether this was a thorn in the US Government's side, anything that causes major lobbying groups to suck up space in a Congressional Rep's/Senator's/President's schedule for bitching and moaning counts as a thorn.