Doctors require a license as a way for laymen to distinguish between a quack who might kill you and someone learned who might kill you.
Structural engineers need a license so you can have a reasonable expectation that what they design wont fall down on people.
It isn't unusual to have to have a license to work in a particular field. What is unusual is to be required to have a license for a field relatively unrelated. It's rediculous to require structural engineers to get a medical license just because they build hospitals.
Since both presidential candidates are in congress, they way that they vote on this bill should be the tipping point for anyone on the fence between the two. Unless of course they both vote for this, then they should both be tarred and feathered.
Heck, we should tar and feather them anyway...every presidential candidate should learn what it feels like before they reach that office.
Except that there is no dispute over the sovereignty of Alaska. The state government and the US government agree that it is part of the US.
Tibet and Taiwan both insist that they are separate countries from China with their own governments. Much of the rest of the world (at least the non-communist west) considers Tibet and Taiwan as separate from China.
China's request is akin to your crazy neighbor telling Google that your house shouldn't be on the city map because he wants it too look like the entire neighborhood belongs to him.
Is the pole on the back so you can pick up chicks and have them dance?
At least you'd know why the guy behind you was following so close.
Big screen plus being in traffic... I bet officers handing out tickets would get some very interesting excuses.
I'm a girl. I'm not into cars. I drive a low end toyota because it was cheap and gets great gas mileage.
But. that. car. is. HAWT!
I just need to convince 110,000 suckers to give me 1 dollar each.
Actually, a lot of new artists that have the equipment but can't get a record label deal, publish their work and put it up at places like iTunes. Since mastering a CD doesn't take a big studio anymore, more individual artists and new bands can get their work out to the public easier than ever before.
If you don't belive me, check out AudioBody for one example of this.
I guess it's just the kid in me, but now I want it turned on even more just to see what will really happen.
Maybe they should schedual the first start for one of the predicted end dates ala the Mayans and Egyptans. The Hadron collider builders should also play "It's the End of the World as We Know It" by REM the day it starts.
If laws were written like software, wouldn't it follow that the legal system would mysteriously and suddenly crash with an obscure message at least a few times a week?
This is like a burglar complaining that the cops investigated a burglary and traced the goods to his house. Actually it's more like the neighborhood association looking through your window at your stereo and cd collection and deciding there is no way you could have bought so you must be guilty of theft.
Most evils of the world get their start with good intentions.
Putting up signs, indicating a "free speech zone", inherantly means speech is limited elsewhere. This may start with the good intention of ensuring peaceful classes. Once we cross the line of limiting basic rights in this fashion, good intentions will fall to government control.
Most states already have laws outlining the rules for having a peaceful protest (ie standing a certain distance away from the building of those being protested, allowing entry etc). These laws do not interfere with the first amendment.
These materials seem to behave in similar ways as olivene (and some pyroxene's). The chemical bonds bend in certain ways when force is applied in a prefered direction.
And remember, energy dissapation is the sum of all those bonds moving in response to the force applied. A few hundred billion bonds, just moving a tiny bit each, adds up to a lot of energy.
"However, this says nothing about the bandwidth you are allowed to use. This is today's top issue. We really need another definition to describe this." Unlimited, at the very least means you can use it any time you want as it is 'always on'.
6MB/s (download rate) should be sufficent to describe the bandwidth allowed for use (if that is indeed what the contract says). It is afterall a useage rate. One that the user can not exceed (without violating his contract). The rate defines the maximum limit of use per unit of time. A rate sets the definition for, during agiven amount of time, the maximum MB which can be downloaded.
The providers forgot to account for the large number of seconds in a month (30 days). 60s/m * 60 m/h * 24 h/d * 30 d/month = 2592000 s/month If the provider limits the rate to 6 MB/s, per month that works out to be: 6 MB/s * 2592000 s/month = 15552000 MB/month (15187.5 GB/month = 14.83 TB/month).
It is not the customer's fault that the provider relied on people using far less than the contracted rate specifies in order to adequatly deliver their product to all customers. Very few (if any private individuals)) actually uses their full 6MB/s. Afterall, that would be about 14TB/month, an incredable amount for all but some of the largest scientific projects.
What about putting some hidden cap on all this, say 100 GB/Month. While you might still be able to achieve a rate of 6 MB/s, you just use up your limit faster. So downloading nearly continuously at 6MB/s, that 100 GB/month restriction reduces the previously unlimited, always availiable, connection to 4 days of use. So, 4 days of the rate that is contracted, or 30 days of some much, much, smaller rate.
IANAL but... Listing one rate on the contract and then, intentionally limiting customers to another unspecified rate via a cap, sounds an awful lot like consumer fraud.
So if the schools are the ones that put out the lawyers. And the RIAA takes on the schools. Doesn't it follow that they are then automatically outgunned in their own game?
I am also a physicist. And while I obey the second law, biology does things with it that most physicists would think are abhorent. This is why Biology is a separate field than thermodynamics and physics.
If biology, and more to the point metabolism, stricly went by the second law of thermodynamics, the chemical reactions that govern life would probably not even happen in cells. There is just not enough energy in those environments to either create or break the bonds needed to drive the reaction. This is why the body has enzymes, they drive these reactions which, strictly under the second law, wouldn't happen in the cellular environment.
The idea of the calorie is fundamentally flawed. This concept is based on how many BTU's are given off by the oxidation of a particular substance. Why is this flawed? Because it isn't a measure of all the various metabolic pathways that substance may or may not go through. Again, the kilocalorie is only the amount of energy given off by a substances reaction with oxygen. So, the same substance that gave 100 kilocalories (we usually just call them calories) in a pure oxidation reaction, may upon entering the body be immediatly converted to something else, say a fat molecule, and not make those 100 calories immediatly availiable to the organism that consumed it.
Everyone seems to want to simplefy the complexities of an individuals metabolism so that they can condemn other for not being the perfect weight or size. Afterall, if obesity can be put into terms so simple as the second law of thermodynamics, then it should be simple for everyone to overcome. But life and the metabolic pathway will not be shoehorned into an overly simplistic explanation just because we want the problem to go away.
If loosing weight were easy, no one would be overweight.
However, a lot of the cuts comming are not because projects are being mishandled or not meeting their goals. For instance, the National Solar Observatory wants to bring the Advanced Technology Solar Telescope (ATST) online (construction has not started yet) and wants to consolidate and move it's headquarters to wherever the ATST gets built. In order to accomplish this, the NSO needs to come up with 30 million dollars. The NSF told the NSO in the report to find programs to cut to come up with the 30 million because the NSF isn't going to give the NSO all the funds to do this and keep the other projects going. This means cutting a lot of programs within the NSO, including the early closure of Sunspot, NM, the McMath-Peirce Solar telescope, and shutting down the Global Oscillation Network Group (GONG).
I work for the GONG, gong.nso.edu , one of the projects which everyone was surprised was reccomended to be cut. We provide continuous (as in 24/7) once per minute images (intensity, velocity, and magnetograms) of the sun. A rather large volume of data for the solar physics community. We also do a lot of "in house" science with our data products. In the last year we have done a lot of work to help support the STEREO satellite which was just launched. A recent previous reccomendation was for GONG to continue until this solar cycle ends (~2016). It was a bit of a surprise in the NSO when we found out the news, to say the least.
However, the Senior Review is only a recommendation to the NSF. The NSF, with input from the scientific community, can accept or reject the recommendations. Also, keep in mind that nothing is going to be shut down immediatly. There are community meetings scheduled for January so that scientists can respond.
OMG run for the hills all the land lines are out too!
People lived through emergencies of all kinds before there were cell phones, or any sort of phones at all.
Really think about what happens when there is a massive emergency: "All circuts are currently busy, please try again"... thats right phone service goes right out the window, special magical paint or not.
Cell phones have no bussiness inside a theater where people paid to see a show. There is NOTHING to preclude people from walking out to the lobby every 10 minutes to check for a missed call if it is that important for them.
Kudos to the developers of this paint... the world needs it.
World of Warcraft may indeed be a public area as defined by the courts (IANAL). However, time and again, in their EULA they say they are NOT a public forum. Political discussions, race discussions, religious discussions etc are punishable there. World of Warcraft is NOT a soapbox.
It is just as public as any other place, however no one complains about the restraunt owner who throws out a diner who insists on lecturing the other diners. Why not? Because it is disturbing the other diners. Since the establishment is a place where people can expect a quiet meal, the owner/manager has every right to provide that atmosphere.
Why shouldn't Blizard have the same right? They are in the bussiness of providing a certain atmosphere in their entertainment venue. They do not have to provide a soapbox for people who would like to speak out on any issue, and within all rights can usher people out for disturbing the atmosphere they created.
The article didn't say, but certainly the MPAA would have a stipulation in any service agreements between themselves and any film-makers. I bet in that agreement there is a clause that states copies may be created for internal review purposes.
this is, however, just speculation.,
I don't think that would hold up. (IANAL) The MPAA was specifically told by the copyright holder not to make copies. By accepting the DVD they were agreeing to the copyright holder's stipulations on use in a verbal contract. Which would either be considered a change to the origional contract or a new contract. Terms to which the MPAA agreed.
Even under fair use, I think the MPAA might have a tough time of it if they made more than one copy and they handed out copies to their employees (distribution).
At the same time, if the DVD was CSS encoded, as other have said, that is a violation of the DMCA.
One thing we should have learned from the SCO case is that just because you intend to bring legal action against someone you do not have to have the offending material in hand. You can request the offender to give you a copy per discovery. So, their claim that they were making copies to potentially bring legal suit seems a bit smoke and mirrorish to me.
Again. IANAL so my opinions may not be based in any sort of reality.;)
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Doctors require a license as a way for laymen to distinguish between a quack who might kill you and someone learned who might kill you. Structural engineers need a license so you can have a reasonable expectation that what they design wont fall down on people. It isn't unusual to have to have a license to work in a particular field. What is unusual is to be required to have a license for a field relatively unrelated. It's rediculous to require structural engineers to get a medical license just because they build hospitals.
Since both presidential candidates are in congress, they way that they vote on this bill should be the tipping point for anyone on the fence between the two. Unless of course they both vote for this, then they should both be tarred and feathered.
Heck, we should tar and feather them anyway...every presidential candidate should learn what it feels like before they reach that office.
Except that there is no dispute over the sovereignty of Alaska. The state government and the US government agree that it is part of the US.
Tibet and Taiwan both insist that they are separate countries from China with their own governments. Much of the rest of the world (at least the non-communist west) considers Tibet and Taiwan as separate from China.
China's request is akin to your crazy neighbor telling Google that your house shouldn't be on the city map because he wants it too look like the entire neighborhood belongs to him.
But I couldn't get it to fold my clothes. Damn!
Is the pole on the back so you can pick up chicks and have them dance? At least you'd know why the guy behind you was following so close. Big screen plus being in traffic... I bet officers handing out tickets would get some very interesting excuses.
I'm a girl. I'm not into cars. I drive a low end toyota because it was cheap and gets great gas mileage. But. that. car. is. HAWT! I just need to convince 110,000 suckers to give me 1 dollar each.
Actually, a lot of new artists that have the equipment but can't get a record label deal, publish their work and put it up at places like iTunes. Since mastering a CD doesn't take a big studio anymore, more individual artists and new bands can get their work out to the public easier than ever before. If you don't belive me, check out AudioBody for one example of this.
What happens when your mom mistakes your new computer for a real mug and pours her hot tea in it? Does this make the cd rom tray a real cupholder now?
I guess it's just the kid in me, but now I want it turned on even more just to see what will really happen.
Maybe they should schedual the first start for one of the predicted end dates ala the Mayans and Egyptans. The Hadron collider builders should also play "It's the End of the World as We Know It" by REM the day it starts.
If laws were written like software, wouldn't it follow that the legal system would mysteriously and suddenly crash with an obscure message at least a few times a week?
Most evils of the world get their start with good intentions.
Putting up signs, indicating a "free speech zone", inherantly means speech is limited elsewhere. This may start with the good intention of ensuring peaceful classes. Once we cross the line of limiting basic rights in this fashion, good intentions will fall to government control.
Most states already have laws outlining the rules for having a peaceful protest (ie standing a certain distance away from the building of those being protested, allowing entry etc). These laws do not interfere with the first amendment.
These materials seem to behave in similar ways as olivene (and some pyroxene's). The chemical bonds bend in certain ways when force is applied in a prefered direction.
And remember, energy dissapation is the sum of all those bonds moving in response to the force applied. A few hundred billion bonds, just moving a tiny bit each, adds up to a lot of energy.
Have a tissue, I think your nose must be stuffy.
the only thing that should be illegal about this case is not answering to the US Congress.
"- A household where working computers are thrown out on a yearly basis and replaced with new ones because that's "easier".
- A household where computers with sensitive records are just left out on the curb."
Sounds like it's time to go dumpster diving in your neighborhood.
From the article:
"They want to restrict access to publicly-funded research results by requiring that everyone pay a fee to see it."
If the research is funded by the public, didn't we already pay to see it?
"However, this says nothing about the bandwidth you are allowed to use. This is today's top issue. We really need another definition to describe this."
Unlimited, at the very least means you can use it any time you want as it is 'always on'.
6MB/s (download rate) should be sufficent to describe the bandwidth allowed for use (if that is indeed what the contract says). It is afterall a useage rate. One that the user can not exceed (without violating his contract). The rate defines the maximum limit of use per unit of time. A rate sets the definition for, during agiven amount of time, the maximum MB which can be downloaded.
The providers forgot to account for the large number of seconds in a month (30 days).
60s/m * 60 m/h * 24 h/d * 30 d/month = 2592000 s/month
If the provider limits the rate to 6 MB/s, per month that works out to be: 6 MB/s * 2592000 s/month = 15552000 MB/month (15187.5 GB/month = 14.83 TB/month).
It is not the customer's fault that the provider relied on people using far less than the contracted rate specifies in order to adequatly deliver their product to all customers. Very few (if any private individuals)) actually uses their full 6MB/s. Afterall, that would be about 14TB/month, an incredable amount for all but some of the largest scientific projects.
What about putting some hidden cap on all this, say 100 GB/Month. While you might still be able to achieve a rate of 6 MB/s, you just use up your limit faster. So downloading nearly continuously at 6MB/s, that 100 GB/month restriction reduces the previously unlimited, always availiable, connection to 4 days of use. So, 4 days of the rate that is contracted, or 30 days of some much, much, smaller rate.
IANAL but...
Listing one rate on the contract and then, intentionally limiting customers to another unspecified rate via a cap, sounds an awful lot like consumer fraud.
So if the schools are the ones that put out the lawyers. And the RIAA takes on the schools. Doesn't it follow that they are then automatically outgunned in their own game?
"I am a physicist..."
I am also a physicist. And while I obey the second law, biology does things with it that most physicists would think are abhorent. This is why Biology is a separate field than thermodynamics and physics.
If biology, and more to the point metabolism, stricly went by the second law of thermodynamics, the chemical reactions that govern life would probably not even happen in cells. There is just not enough energy in those environments to either create or break the bonds needed to drive the reaction. This is why the body has enzymes, they drive these reactions which, strictly under the second law, wouldn't happen in the cellular environment.
The idea of the calorie is fundamentally flawed. This concept is based on how many BTU's are given off by the oxidation of a particular substance. Why is this flawed? Because it isn't a measure of all the various metabolic pathways that substance may or may not go through. Again, the kilocalorie is only the amount of energy given off by a substances reaction with oxygen. So, the same substance that gave 100 kilocalories (we usually just call them calories) in a pure oxidation reaction, may upon entering the body be immediatly converted to something else, say a fat molecule, and not make those 100 calories immediatly availiable to the organism that consumed it.
Everyone seems to want to simplefy the complexities of an individuals metabolism so that they can condemn other for not being the perfect weight or size. Afterall, if obesity can be put into terms so simple as the second law of thermodynamics, then it should be simple for everyone to overcome. But life and the metabolic pathway will not be shoehorned into an overly simplistic explanation just because we want the problem to go away.
If loosing weight were easy, no one would be overweight.
In an ideal world, you are right.
However, a lot of the cuts comming are not because projects are being mishandled or not meeting their goals. For instance, the National Solar Observatory wants to bring the Advanced Technology Solar Telescope (ATST) online (construction has not started yet) and wants to consolidate and move it's headquarters to wherever the ATST gets built. In order to accomplish this, the NSO needs to come up with 30 million dollars. The NSF told the NSO in the report to find programs to cut to come up with the 30 million because the NSF isn't going to give the NSO all the funds to do this and keep the other projects going. This means cutting a lot of programs within the NSO, including the early closure of Sunspot, NM, the McMath-Peirce Solar telescope, and shutting down the Global Oscillation Network Group (GONG).
I work for the GONG, gong.nso.edu , one of the projects which everyone was surprised was reccomended to be cut. We provide continuous (as in 24/7) once per minute images (intensity, velocity, and magnetograms) of the sun. A rather large volume of data for the solar physics community. We also do a lot of "in house" science with our data products. In the last year we have done a lot of work to help support the STEREO satellite which was just launched. A recent previous reccomendation was for GONG to continue until this solar cycle ends (~2016). It was a bit of a surprise in the NSO when we found out the news, to say the least.
However, the Senior Review is only a recommendation to the NSF. The NSF, with input from the scientific community, can accept or reject the recommendations. Also, keep in mind that nothing is going to be shut down immediatly. There are community meetings scheduled for January so that scientists can respond.
His parents could make it much more difficult and bury lots of metal crap in their yard. It would be just like using AOL to search for anything...
OMG run for the hills all the land lines are out too!
People lived through emergencies of all kinds before there were cell phones, or any sort of phones at all.
Really think about what happens when there is a massive emergency: "All circuts are currently busy, please try again"... thats right phone service goes right out the window, special magical paint or not.
Cell phones have no bussiness inside a theater where people paid to see a show. There is NOTHING to preclude people from walking out to the lobby every 10 minutes to check for a missed call if it is that important for them.
Kudos to the developers of this paint... the world needs it.
World of Warcraft may indeed be a public area as defined by the courts (IANAL). However, time and again, in their EULA they say they are NOT a public forum. Political discussions, race discussions, religious discussions etc are punishable there. World of Warcraft is NOT a soapbox.
It is just as public as any other place, however no one complains about the restraunt owner who throws out a diner who insists on lecturing the other diners. Why not? Because it is disturbing the other diners. Since the establishment is a place where people can expect a quiet meal, the owner/manager has every right to provide that atmosphere.
Why shouldn't Blizard have the same right? They are in the bussiness of providing a certain atmosphere in their entertainment venue. They do not have to provide a soapbox for people who would like to speak out on any issue, and within all rights can usher people out for disturbing the atmosphere they created.
Even under fair use, I think the MPAA might have a tough time of it if they made more than one copy and they handed out copies to their employees (distribution).
At the same time, if the DVD was CSS encoded, as other have said, that is a violation of the DMCA.
One thing we should have learned from the SCO case is that just because you intend to bring legal action against someone you do not have to have the offending material in hand. You can request the offender to give you a copy per discovery. So, their claim that they were making copies to potentially bring legal suit seems a bit smoke and mirrorish to me.
Again. IANAL so my opinions may not be based in any sort of reality.
So if I use my middle finger will Apple know that I'm flipping them off?