Sounds an awful lot like Iridium satellites: cell phone connectivity in the middle of nowhere. Their business plan must have overlooked that there is hardly anyone in the middle of nowhere, so they went bankrupt. The primary result is satellite flashes (iridium flares) that are brighter than Venus.
The U.S. is not stopping you from reading Wikileaks
I work at a Department of Energy national lab (without nuclear weapons or other classified research). Wikileaks has been blocked since Tuesday, and we have all received a memo explicitly forbidding us from viewing the cables.
You should take a look at EVO. It was developed by CalTech for use in the high-energy physics projects at CERN. It is a Java application, no installation required, but works surprisingly well even with consumer webcams in mac and linux. You can use it for free by just registering and organizing a meeting in the 'universe' group, or you can request that your own organization is added (and still use it for free).
It has all necessary features: multiple video streams, collaborative white board, recording and replay, file storage,...
At particle physics labs around the world the meeting rooms are basically built around EVO, and polycom has virtually disappeared. It helps if you are close to one of those labs, or on an educational backbone.
The number in the comment field is just a serial number identifying the song, not the buyer. It increases by one when going to the next song on a cd, but is equal in independent purchases.
Are you sure about the watermarking?
I bought the same song twice, with a different account, different credit card, different IP address. The files are identical!
On this overview of the Wolf number for sunspot activity in the past half century, it doens't seem to be too bad. Moreover, the last maximum in 2000 (we are in a minimum of solar activity right now) was around 120, compared to an average maximum in 17xx around 100.
An additional problem is that before 1700 there was no unified way of recording sunspot information.
If you want portage for binary packages, than you have to give up the flexibility of USE flags, which is one of the reasons for which you would use portage.
Example: for firefox you would need a binary package WITH gnome-support and one WITHOUT gnome-support, one with ssl and one without ssl... Take all combinations... bang! They would all have different dependencies!
Sorry, but this official page has a good explanation, provided by the county itself. How much I would like to see a different result, this is not where it will come from...
1. Races do not exist. If intragroup variation is larger than intergroup variation, than a classification doesn't make sense. Ever tried to classify people according to their bloodtype? If you meant 'African is a *racist* label in the US' then I would probably agree...
2. Why would American be more or less national than African? You are using your premisse to prove it... Common fallacy.
I just observed that 'USAians' is a better term to refer to people who live in the US (but not in Mexico,...), than 'American' because that term refers two whole continents.
Having lived in both the European Union and the US, I have to say that your 'personal freedom' is either very narrowly defined, or you know 'old' Europe from some biased media...
Is American better than? The American continent has some 20 other countries in it! The OP was only talking about the US, so expanding to the whole continent would have been a distortion of the truth.
From the bill:
"Any person who is not the copyright owner who
knowingly electronically disseminates a commercial recording or audiovisual work without disclosing his or her true name and address, and the title of the recording or audiovisual work is punishable by a fine not exceeding two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500), imprisonment in a county jail for a period not exceeding one year, or by both that fine and imprisonment."
Conclusion: it only applies to works for which you are not the copyright owner.
staff (e.g. server admins): "the University owns works created by staff within the scope of their employment duties"
students: "Students who create academic works [...] own the copyright [...] unless: [...] the works qualify as works made for hire in the course of employment"
So, here, you lose your copyright if you are paid for it. It seems to depend on the university though... [2]
In a visit to Philips Research labs (1.5 yr ago), they made it very clear that the disc would only be used in a permanent hard-plastic cover (much like the iomega zip drives, only larger).
At least that was Philips' idea... Sony wanted to use the protective coating.
But it is much easier to stay below background pollution levels if you have a lot of small polluters! Usually laws don't prescribe maximum total emission levels.
What if I just cat/dev/urandom > Some_famous_Britney_Spears_song.mp3 ? There are many fakes out there anyway...
They are not sure of the content untill they downloaded it. And that would take a lot of time. Did they do that, or is there some 'doubt' whether you really have that copyrighted content?
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Sounds an awful lot like Iridium satellites: cell phone connectivity in the middle of nowhere. Their business plan must have overlooked that there is hardly anyone in the middle of nowhere, so they went bankrupt. The primary result is satellite flashes (iridium flares) that are brighter than Venus.
The U.S. is not stopping you from reading Wikileaks
I work at a Department of Energy national lab (without nuclear weapons or other classified research). Wikileaks has been blocked since Tuesday, and we have all received a memo explicitly forbidding us from viewing the cables.
That's ironic. Just today Firefox on Ubuntu (Lucid) was updated to default to Yahoo search...
And what difference would it make? log(10^3) is still smaller than log(10^6)...
You should take a look at EVO . It was developed by CalTech for use in the high-energy physics projects at CERN. It is a Java application, no installation required, but works surprisingly well even with consumer webcams in mac and linux. You can use it for free by just registering and organizing a meeting in the 'universe' group, or you can request that your own organization is added (and still use it for free). It has all necessary features: multiple video streams, collaborative white board, recording and replay, file storage,... At particle physics labs around the world the meeting rooms are basically built around EVO, and polycom has virtually disappeared. It helps if you are close to one of those labs, or on an educational backbone.
Please, stay away from ROOT if you have the option! You could use EPICS or CODA for DAQ code.
Delays and ballooning expenses: some reform at NASA is in order...
Even 'nucular' made it into Merriam-Webster...
The number in the comment field is just a serial number identifying the song, not the buyer. It increases by one when going to the next song on a cd, but is equal in independent purchases.
I bought the same song twice, with a different account, different credit card, different IP address. The files are identical!
On this overview of the Wolf number for sunspot activity in the past half century, it doens't seem to be too bad. Moreover, the last maximum in 2000 (we are in a minimum of solar activity right now) was around 120, compared to an average maximum in 17xx around 100.
An additional problem is that before 1700 there was no unified way of recording sunspot information.
If you want portage for binary packages, than you have to give up the flexibility of USE flags, which is one of the reasons for which you would use portage. Example: for firefox you would need a binary package WITH gnome-support and one WITHOUT gnome-support, one with ssl and one without ssl... Take all combinations... bang! They would all have different dependencies!
Sorry, but this official page has a good explanation, provided by the county itself. How much I would like to see a different result, this is not where it will come from...
Thank you, I sent it to myself ;-)
1. Races do not exist. If intragroup variation is larger than intergroup variation, than a classification doesn't make sense. Ever tried to classify people according to their bloodtype? If you meant 'African is a *racist* label in the US' then I would probably agree... 2. Why would American be more or less national than African? You are using your premisse to prove it... Common fallacy. I just observed that 'USAians' is a better term to refer to people who live in the US (but not in Mexico,...), than 'American' because that term refers two whole continents.
Inference: Africans live by definition in South-Africa.
Having lived in both the European Union and the US, I have to say that your 'personal freedom' is either very narrowly defined, or you know 'old' Europe from some biased media...
Is American better than? The American continent has some 20 other countries in it! The OP was only talking about the US, so expanding to the whole continent would have been a distortion of the truth.
From the bill: "Any person who is not the copyright owner who knowingly electronically disseminates a commercial recording or audiovisual work without disclosing his or her true name and address, and the title of the recording or audiovisual work is punishable by a fine not exceeding two thousand five hundred dollars ($2,500), imprisonment in a county jail for a period not exceeding one year, or by both that fine and imprisonment." Conclusion: it only applies to works for which you are not the copyright owner.
Quotes from copyright policy[1] of umich:
Ref.[2]: http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=165831&hi ghlight=copyright+university
staff (e.g. server admins): "the University owns works created by staff within the scope of their employment duties"
students: "Students who create academic works [...] own the copyright [...] unless: [...] the works qualify as works made for hire in the course of employment"
So, here, you lose your copyright if you are paid for it. It seems to depend on the university though... [2]
Ref.[1]: http://www.copyright.umich.edu/print-policy.html
Most universities have the policy that on everything you write while you are paid by them, they have the copyright. That means: no GPL possible!
In a visit to Philips Research labs (1.5 yr ago), they made it very clear that the disc would only be used in a permanent hard-plastic cover (much like the iomega zip drives, only larger). At least that was Philips' idea... Sony wanted to use the protective coating.
But it is much easier to stay below background pollution levels if you have a lot of small polluters! Usually laws don't prescribe maximum total emission levels.
What if I just cat /dev/urandom > Some_famous_Britney_Spears_song.mp3 ? There are many fakes out there anyway...
They are not sure of the content untill they downloaded it. And that would take a lot of time. Did they do that, or is there some 'doubt' whether you really have that copyrighted content?
Not immediately, first to the Moon and Mars :-) We'll see if we have some money/credibility left after that...