oops - conflating Java with the Flash update which just came out, that's what wants to install Chrome. Point is the same - it's not evil or permanent, the user is given a choice which is reversable.
This is not significantly different than the current behavior of asking to install Chrome. It could be much worse, and want to install some adware toolbar. Is it really so hard, if you don't uncheck the box, to reset the search provider to the one you want?
"Anything sensitive is encrypted, but it's all in Dropbox, which is synced as soon as I alter a file."
That's not proper backup. What if you change the file in an unintended way, don't realize it until a few days later, and want to retrieve an earlier revision?
The infrastructure is built upon right-of-way and spectrum which belongs to the public. It is not a free market, and the invisible hand cannot operate effectively. Hence the need for a regulated market.
If you want to change that so the companies must negotiate rights-of-way with every property owner whose land they cross, then you can argue that regulation isn't proper. But until then, regulation protects the public's interest in seeing that its resources are used efficiently.
What's nonsense is locking civil time to atomic time. There would be no need for leap seconds if civil time simply remained linked to astronomical time, as it was for millenia.
Oh, and NIST - at least the person responsible for the leap second file they distribute (Judah Levine) - really has a very poor understanding of how leap seconds work. He's actually stated that "In the legal definition of UTC, a leap second is "forgotten" once it happens." That is, of course, completely incorrect. No wonder NIST wants to drop them, they don't understand them.
The problem is systems which are poorly designed, and cannot properly handle leap seconds. That includes every POSIX system. Handling a leap second is fundamentally no different than handling a leap year. You have a minute with 61 seconds instead of 60, just like you have a month with 29 days instead of 28. But despite leap seconds existing since long before POSIX, the definers provided no means of enumerating a 61 second minute.
Counting the same second twice or changing the length of a second, both are doing it wrong.
He didn't say anything about hardened steel. If it will go through 7/8" of hardened steel, it would likely easily penetrate 1" of common hot rolled steel plate.
A business follows well defined depreciation rules for capital investments, and deducting the cost of meals is subject to myriad rules, so your flippant "the answer is yes to both" is lacking.
.The point is, since you quite obviously missed it, that the accounting and tax rules for businesses and individuals are very different, so any argument that punishments must be made on an equitable basis are invalid.
The hair Putin doesn't have is better than the hair Trump does. But, overall a fair comparison - they're both overcompensating, megalomaniacal sociopaths.
Newbie. I worked for the first Commodore PET reseller east of the Rockies. Sold (and built, for some of them), IMSAI, North Star, Cromemco, Apple, PET, Osbourne, Xerox, IBM PC, Compaq and others.
Yes, "PC" was used for things other than the IBM PC.
As proof of my claim, I present the "NEC PC-8001," which preceded the IBM PC by 2 years. "PC" does not refer exclusively to IBM PCs, although after they were introduced they were often called just "PCs." Then there were "PC clones," and "PC compatibles," and "PC" most often referred to that architecture, because most of the PCs were that type. But not exclusively, and such usage was clear from context. The Amiga can properly be referred to as a PC.
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Whoosh. Oracle isn't leaving anything on your floor, unless you invite them to.
He's got a whole piece of cloth he cut it from.
Oracle can package Java any way they want, including with "opt-outs." Downloading/installing Java is a voluntary choice the user makes.
oops - conflating Java with the Flash update which just came out, that's what wants to install Chrome. Point is the same - it's not evil or permanent, the user is given a choice which is reversable.
This is not significantly different than the current behavior of asking to install Chrome. It could be much worse, and want to install some adware toolbar. Is it really so hard, if you don't uncheck the box, to reset the search provider to the one you want?
"Anything sensitive is encrypted, but it's all in Dropbox, which is synced as soon as I alter a file."
That's not proper backup. What if you change the file in an unintended way, don't realize it until a few days later, and want to retrieve an earlier revision?
" Give me $100 and I'll pray for your recovery. It might work."
Sounds like a good deal compared to paying an MD $200 and a pharmacist $100 for antibiotics when you have a viral infection.
The infrastructure is built upon right-of-way and spectrum which belongs to the public. It is not a free market, and the invisible hand cannot operate effectively. Hence the need for a regulated market.
If you want to change that so the companies must negotiate rights-of-way with every property owner whose land they cross, then you can argue that regulation isn't proper. But until then, regulation protects the public's interest in seeing that its resources are used efficiently.
People who need sub-second accurate time use TAI. Civil needs would be met just fine by a return to GMT, instead of UTC.
"my entire town only has about 2gbps of backhaul to it" - sims 2
Dear Sims 2,
Maybe you can get the player who's running your town to buy an expansion pack which allows more bandwidth.
What's nonsense is locking civil time to atomic time. There would be no need for leap seconds if civil time simply remained linked to astronomical time, as it was for millenia.
Oh, and NIST - at least the person responsible for the leap second file they distribute (Judah Levine) - really has a very poor understanding of how leap seconds work. He's actually stated that "In the legal definition of UTC, a leap second is "forgotten" once it happens." That is, of course, completely incorrect. No wonder NIST wants to drop them, they don't understand them.
The problem is systems which are poorly designed, and cannot properly handle leap seconds. That includes every POSIX system. Handling a leap second is fundamentally no different than handling a leap year. You have a minute with 61 seconds instead of 60, just like you have a month with 29 days instead of 28. But despite leap seconds existing since long before POSIX, the definers provided no means of enumerating a 61 second minute.
Counting the same second twice or changing the length of a second, both are doing it wrong.
OK, make it a crime, with a 1 pence fine for each track copied.
He didn't say anything about hardened steel. If it will go through 7/8" of hardened steel, it would likely easily penetrate 1" of common hot rolled steel plate.
"get them to pay fines/taxes on revenue"
In the EU, they call that VAT.
...and the other has blackjack and hookers.
A business follows well defined depreciation rules for capital investments, and deducting the cost of meals is subject to myriad rules, so your flippant "the answer is yes to both" is lacking.
.The point is, since you quite obviously missed it, that the accounting and tax rules for businesses and individuals are very different, so any argument that punishments must be made on an equitable basis are invalid.
The difference between revenue and profit is well defined for a corporation. What is it for an individual? Are food and shelter part of COGS?
The hair Putin doesn't have is better than the hair Trump does. But, overall a fair comparison - they're both overcompensating, megalomaniacal sociopaths.
"Still comments need to be separated in the three distinct classes of comment, threats, intent to deceive for gain and opinions."
Sounds like the New York Times - content, ads, editorials. I may have gotten the order wrong.
Newbie. I worked for the first Commodore PET reseller east of the Rockies. Sold (and built, for some of them), IMSAI, North Star, Cromemco, Apple, PET, Osbourne, Xerox, IBM PC, Compaq and others.
Yes, "PC" was used for things other than the IBM PC.
Yes, your shit memory is BS.
As proof of my claim, I present the "NEC PC-8001," which preceded the IBM PC by 2 years. "PC" does not refer exclusively to IBM PCs, although after they were introduced they were often called just "PCs." Then there were "PC clones," and "PC compatibles," and "PC" most often referred to that architecture, because most of the PCs were that type. But not exclusively, and such usage was clear from context. The Amiga can properly be referred to as a PC.
"PC comes from "IBM PC"."
No, it doesn't. It was in use before there was an IBM PC, along with "personal computer" and "microcomputer." History proves you wrong.
Of course it is. "PC" and "personal computer" were in use well before the IBM PC came along.
Even Commodore called it a personal computer.
Why sell ads, when you can sell the ability to let ads be seen?
Attacking his every statement with an ad hominem only hurts your argument.