A law like this can only be pushed through by making it Draconian at first, then filtering a little bit when protest comes in, to end up with a still draconian version with most people feeling that the stinger was removed from the law. It's a simple means of wagging the dog, and it works most of the time.
Here too: multiple domains hosted (1 IP), no major issues. Eapps works pretty good and is reliable. I use the cheapest plan, and mainly rely on mail and basic web hosting services.
As it seems - on the surface (this *is* slashdot:) - that this violates some of the basic human rights, and those are mainly covered by the ECHR in Europe (www.echr.coe.int). These kind of law suits in front of "lower" judges tend to be based on a limited set of facts (from what I can see in similar cases), and do not take into account the full extent of the law that protects these organizations - such as the European law. Takes a while though... And... IANAL -YMMV
... for advertising with a lot of important and big customers' "success stories" (such as TGV) that were in fact never real customers of Huawei/were never worth a success story. Guess they really are trying hard to set foot 'here'. (http://www.automatiseringgids.nl/nieuws/2011/41/%E2%80%98huawei-jokt-over-europese-klanten%E2%80%99)
...not a complete caching of HTTPS content (which would be pretty futile). There would only be an issue if, say, the CA system of validating what server you are talking to has got a leak, because then Amazon(/any attacker controlling (part) of the EC2 server park) could theoretically perform a real MITM (barring any legal consequences, of course). But hey, the CA system is perfect... erm... never mind...
... had it running more than a year ago already (http://tomasz.sterna.tv/2010/02/play-games-on-nokia-n900-with-ps3-sixaxis-controller/). I used to run C64 games on it using Vice - my own portable C64 game console for hotels, when used in combination with the N900 video cable. Only issue was mainly that you had to configure the keys correctly, and that some games would need some patience in that configuration.
"All of its obligations"... Not true: monthly income would amount to some 300 billion US$, making the US able to pay only *part* of its obligations (the 300 billion part). Worst is not what the US cannot pay, but what the markets think the US cannot pay (in the near future) -> that is what makes stocks crash.
I was curious so wanted to check the diversity lottery website (http://dvlottery.state.gov/) and encountered this statement: "This web site only supports Internet Explorer 6.0 and Internet Explorer 7.0.". I guess if you want to take part in the diversity lottery you have to do away with some of your freedoms to make use of say Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox or Safari. Somehow the term "diversity" does not seem to cover that bit:) Makes you also wonder who is the target audience for this lottery.
You have been smoking too much my friend (Dutch here, politically involved, I hope I know what I am talking about):
The law *addendum* to save Net Neutrality was instigated by D66, a liberal progressive party, supported by GroenLinks (left-wing libertarian progressive green), PvdA (left-wing social democratic), PVV (far right wing). CDA and VVD actually oppose this addendum to the law: they did propose a change to the law but it was soft and not very helpful in saving Net Neutrality. But, as CDA+VVD constitute the minority of the parliament, they will not have the power to stop it. Surprising enough their "virtual coalition partner" (minority government...) *is* supporting the plan of the left parties - highly confusing for some of us (me including), but good to see that this does topic does live both left and right of the center wing (traditionally that had been the CDA, but they have turned right-wing nowadays).
Thanks for the troll though, you made me react:)
...the significance of The Netherlands on the "internet-scale" is a bit higher than Chile. Let's at least hope this is not the last country adapting these laws.
Even if your pro- or con- nuclear power: the fact that Japan lost 10 GW with this disaster is something that should shake some people up. Even with the most safest nuclear power plant designs, safety is often based on a (partial) shutdown of the facility. This would mean that for large powerplants of several GW the impact when this happens (for whatever reason, not just huge disasters) is huge. By using distributed and smaller power plants, this problem can be more or less avoided. Provided that the infrastructure takes into account a possible partial loss of power, that is. And that is a big plus for alternative energy sources, like wind or solar: these can be setup distributed.
the newly formed company Fee@Ces inc. announced a breakthrough in encoding binary data in output stools. "This is great !", an employee of the Sewer City company announced proudly, "Now when I want to convey messages to my colleagues, I simply visit the bathroom and the technology takes care of the rest. And, using our technology of a series of pipes, we can even use this to work from home.". Fee@Ces did mention that inputting data back to users is a bit harder, as a spokesman said: "Users will need to properly operate the machinery involved to read out the processed stool messages. Failure in doing so can give unexpected results.". It was unclear at the time of writing what the 'unexpected result' meant, as the spokesman had to quickly take care of an 'accident' he had at the bathroom himself.
I still play Operation Flashpoint regularly. It's from 2001. I play single-player mode only.
The power ? Mission-editing: constantly recreating new missions with new concepts is much more interesting than getting online and beaten by some cheating (and sometimes: extremely good) opponent. The only problem is that it is too much work for most, who indeed just want to use 'fire-and-forget' packaged games. Which is probably why Operation Flashpoint stands alone at the top - for me, anyway. And yes, I do not care about graphics: game concepts are the most important part of the software.
...scientists discover faint traces of music using the latest telescope technologies. In a reaction, one of the scientists who discovered the phenomena explained: 'It is strange, but somehow a distant background soundwave, transported from the beginning of the big bang into the now, appears to be omnipresent in our universe.'
After further research, the soundwave was found to actually be a song, namely "I got you babe" from Sonny&Cher. Additionally, the scientists discover that the universe must have started at 5:59am, approximately. It is unclear what this discovery means.
In other news, Bill Murray said some of his repetoire is based on true facts, although he did not explain which of that.
I think you are overstating the ease with which a camera may be moved. A speed camera has to be aligned exactly (angle/height/equipment etc) to measure the correct and valid speed of a passing vehicle. You cannot simply move it within a few minutes lest your measurements are out of bounds and any ticket you write is invalid - for people that have the energy to fight it before court, that is. I know that is the situation here in The Netherlands at least.
Actually, announcing speed traps is sometimes done by the police themselves here, and transmitted using a system called "TMC" (traffic message channel). Additionally, radio channels ask people to report them and announce them on RDS. But in the end, some speed traps are never announced or the announcement is never received: last week, there was a motor driver who died as a result of a car braking for a speed trap. This could stir up debate that police, like in for example Sweden, are forced to announce the speed trap before it actually occurs.
...for the release of Duke Nukem Forever clearly means Hell has frozen over: if Duke Nukem Forever wouldn't be postponed, what would have come of us !:)
I am seeing that you feel sad today ! Would you like me to comfort you by becoming a bit italic ?
-> No
You are very stubborn today, that fits just perfectly with a bold face type ! Would you like me to change to bold ?
-> No
Ah, you probably misunderstood me and want to get a clear sans-serif font ! Yes ? ....
Clippy's offspring ?:)
...as long as 20+ years the battle on piracy (the home-grown stuff, not the
pro-stuff) has been raging in the world. It really heated up with the digital age:
CD, DVD, BluRay. The owners of the content fight for their current income, but fail
to see the lost cause.In 50 years time (hopefully less), we can sincerely look back
on these "piracy wars" and see them for what they really are: a battle for the fair
use of someones work. Currently, the balance is - even though it *seems* the other
way around - tilted far towards the distributors. The makers of the work get a very
small percentage. Piracy is - as is often discussed - just the excuse of
distributors to keep this balance tilted in that direction. It will change, but that
will take time and money - mostly money from those who take the fall for the system
as it now is (the 'bittorent users', 'downloaders' etc.). Until law makers see
this problem, and fairly solve it, it will continue. Probably the most fair way
is:
* ban all DRM
* provide a good, flat-rate, service globally to download media to own and use ; the
distribution channel doesn't even have to come from the distributors (this is their
fear...) : let anyone download from ie. bittorrent and pay that flat-rate fee. See
it as a TV license fee : you watch it, you pay it.
* as far as distribution channels are concerned: allow them to only ask a
transparent price for distribution, split the costs for "the work" and "the medium" (distribution)
clearly, and make it into law
* make sure the profits of "the work" end up with the makers of the content.
* make sure the profits of "the medium" end up with the distributors of the content
- as per the division above.
* stop all lawsuits
* if you get caught "illegally downloading", you pay a fine. The fine you pay is
equal to the fee you would have paid normally, for the period you (likely) owned
said content, and is increased with a percentage to discourage you from doing it
again (20%-50% sounds fine).
* no internet disconnections
Now that's solved, what's next ? Energy crisis ?;=)
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A law like this can only be pushed through by making it Draconian at first, then filtering a little bit when protest comes in, to end up with a still draconian version with most people feeling that the stinger was removed from the law. It's a simple means of wagging the dog, and it works most of the time.
Here too: multiple domains hosted (1 IP), no major issues. Eapps works pretty good and is reliable. I use the cheapest plan, and mainly rely on mail and basic web hosting services.
As it seems - on the surface (this *is* slashdot :) - that this violates some of the basic human rights, and those are mainly covered by the ECHR in Europe (www.echr.coe.int). These kind of law suits in front of "lower" judges tend to be based on a limited set of facts (from what I can see in similar cases), and do not take into account the full extent of the law that protects these organizations - such as the European law. Takes a while though... And... IANAL -YMMV
... for advertising with a lot of important and big customers' "success stories" (such as TGV) that were in fact never real customers of Huawei/were never worth a success story. Guess they really are trying hard to set foot 'here'. (http://www.automatiseringgids.nl/nieuws/2011/41/%E2%80%98huawei-jokt-over-europese-klanten%E2%80%99)
...PPTP/VPN (server) is disabled in DD-WRT. That pretty much chokes it.
...not a complete caching of HTTPS content (which would be pretty futile). There would only be an issue if, say, the CA system of validating what server you are talking to has got a leak, because then Amazon(/any attacker controlling (part) of the EC2 server park) could theoretically perform a real MITM (barring any legal consequences, of course). But hey, the CA system is perfect... erm... never mind...
...must have gotten an order in again. I wonder when we find the golden planet, with some nice fjords, of course.
... had it running more than a year ago already (http://tomasz.sterna.tv/2010/02/play-games-on-nokia-n900-with-ps3-sixaxis-controller/). I used to run C64 games on it using Vice - my own portable C64 game console for hotels, when used in combination with the N900 video cable. Only issue was mainly that you had to configure the keys correctly, and that some games would need some patience in that configuration.
"All of its obligations"... Not true: monthly income would amount to some 300 billion US$, making the US able to pay only *part* of its obligations (the 300 billion part). Worst is not what the US cannot pay, but what the markets think the US cannot pay (in the near future) -> that is what makes stocks crash.
This is a pretty absurd thing, and I don't want to take the risk to fall into the same trap.
I was curious so wanted to check the diversity lottery website (http://dvlottery.state.gov/) and encountered this statement: "This web site only supports Internet Explorer 6.0 and Internet Explorer 7.0.". I guess if you want to take part in the diversity lottery you have to do away with some of your freedoms to make use of say Google Chrome, Mozilla Firefox or Safari. :) Makes you also wonder who is the target audience for this lottery.
Somehow the term "diversity" does not seem to cover that bit
You have been smoking too much my friend (Dutch here, politically involved, I hope I know what I am talking about): The law *addendum* to save Net Neutrality was instigated by D66, a liberal progressive party, supported by GroenLinks (left-wing libertarian progressive green), PvdA (left-wing social democratic), PVV (far right wing). CDA and VVD actually oppose this addendum to the law: they did propose a change to the law but it was soft and not very helpful in saving Net Neutrality. But, as CDA+VVD constitute the minority of the parliament, they will not have the power to stop it. Surprising enough their "virtual coalition partner" (minority government...) *is* supporting the plan of the left parties - highly confusing for some of us (me including), but good to see that this does topic does live both left and right of the center wing (traditionally that had been the CDA, but they have turned right-wing nowadays). Thanks for the troll though, you made me react :)
...the significance of The Netherlands on the "internet-scale" is a bit higher than Chile. Let's at least hope this is not the last country adapting these laws.
...before you move over here we expect you to learn Nederlands goed ;=) (you even have to do an exam in a Dutch Embassy of your choice)
Dumb idea though. But the good news is: as long as you are higher educated and have a good income nobody gives a f... if you only talk English.
...as in Royal Philips Electronics - a consumer electronics company.
Even if your pro- or con- nuclear power: the fact that Japan lost 10 GW with this disaster is something that should shake some people up. Even with the most safest nuclear power plant designs, safety is often based on a (partial) shutdown of the facility. This would mean that for large powerplants of several GW the impact when this happens (for whatever reason, not just huge disasters) is huge.
By using distributed and smaller power plants, this problem can be more or less avoided. Provided that the infrastructure takes into account a possible partial loss of power, that is. And that is a big plus for alternative energy sources, like wind or solar: these can be setup distributed.
the newly formed company Fee@Ces inc. announced a breakthrough in encoding binary data in output stools.
"This is great !", an employee of the Sewer City company announced proudly, "Now when I want to convey messages to my colleagues, I simply visit the bathroom and the technology takes care of the rest. And, using our technology of a series of pipes, we can even use this to work from home.".
Fee@Ces did mention that inputting data back to users is a bit harder, as a spokesman said: "Users will need to properly operate the machinery involved to read out the processed stool messages. Failure in doing so can give unexpected results.". It was unclear at the time of writing what the 'unexpected result' meant, as the spokesman had to quickly take care of an 'accident' he had at the bathroom himself.
I still play Operation Flashpoint regularly. It's from 2001. I play single-player mode only.
The power ? Mission-editing: constantly recreating new missions with new concepts is much more interesting than getting online and beaten by some cheating (and sometimes: extremely good) opponent.
The only problem is that it is too much work for most, who indeed just want to use 'fire-and-forget' packaged games. Which is probably why Operation Flashpoint stands alone at the top - for me, anyway. And yes, I do not care about graphics: game concepts are the most important part of the software.
...scientists discover faint traces of music using the latest telescope technologies. In a reaction, one of the scientists who discovered the phenomena explained: 'It is strange, but somehow a distant background soundwave, transported from the beginning of the big bang into the now, appears to be omnipresent in our universe.'
After further research, the soundwave was found to actually be a song, namely "I got you babe" from Sonny&Cher.
Additionally, the scientists discover that the universe must have started at 5:59am, approximately. It is unclear what this discovery means.
In other news, Bill Murray said some of his repetoire is based on true facts, although he did not explain which of that.
Que the famous Dr. Strangelove movie with this scene: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hWP_rEWG2xk
I think you are overstating the ease with which a camera may be moved. A speed camera has to be aligned exactly (angle/height/equipment etc) to measure the correct and valid speed of a passing vehicle. You cannot simply move it within a few minutes lest your measurements are out of bounds and any ticket you write is invalid - for people that have the energy to fight it before court, that is. I know that is the situation here in The Netherlands at least.
Actually, announcing speed traps is sometimes done by the police themselves here, and transmitted using a system called "TMC" (traffic message channel). Additionally, radio channels ask people to report them and announce them on RDS.
But in the end, some speed traps are never announced or the announcement is never received: last week, there was a motor driver who died as a result of a car braking for a speed trap. This could stir up debate that police, like in for example Sweden, are forced to announce the speed trap before it actually occurs.
but somehow it failed miserably and I didn't see anything. I used these. What am I doing wrong ?
PS should I perhaps print them on glossy paper ?
)
...for the release of Duke Nukem Forever clearly means Hell has frozen over: if Duke Nukem Forever wouldn't be postponed, what would have come of us ! :)
I am seeing that you feel sad today ! Would you like me to comfort you by becoming a bit italic ?
.... :)
-> No
You are very stubborn today, that fits just perfectly with a bold face type ! Would you like me to change to bold ?
-> No
Ah, you probably misunderstood me and want to get a clear sans-serif font ! Yes ?
Clippy's offspring ?
...as long as 20+ years the battle on piracy (the home-grown stuff, not the pro-stuff) has been raging in the world. It really heated up with the digital age: CD, DVD, BluRay. The owners of the content fight for their current income, but fail to see the lost cause.In 50 years time (hopefully less), we can sincerely look back on these "piracy wars" and see them for what they really are: a battle for the fair use of someones work. Currently, the balance is - even though it *seems* the other way around - tilted far towards the distributors. The makers of the work get a very small percentage. Piracy is - as is often discussed - just the excuse of distributors to keep this balance tilted in that direction. It will change, but that will take time and money - mostly money from those who take the fall for the system as it now is (the 'bittorent users', 'downloaders' etc.).
;=)
Until law makers see this problem, and fairly solve it, it will continue. Probably the most fair way is:
* ban all DRM
* provide a good, flat-rate, service globally to download media to own and use ; the distribution channel doesn't even have to come from the distributors (this is their fear...) : let anyone download from ie. bittorrent and pay that flat-rate fee. See it as a TV license fee : you watch it, you pay it.
* as far as distribution channels are concerned: allow them to only ask a transparent price for distribution, split the costs for "the work" and "the medium" (distribution) clearly, and make it into law
* make sure the profits of "the work" end up with the makers of the content.
* make sure the profits of "the medium" end up with the distributors of the content - as per the division above.
* stop all lawsuits
* if you get caught "illegally downloading", you pay a fine. The fine you pay is equal to the fee you would have paid normally, for the period you (likely) owned said content, and is increased with a percentage to discourage you from doing it again (20%-50% sounds fine).
* no internet disconnections
Now that's solved, what's next ? Energy crisis ?