But I think I have never in my life seen anybody on a bike (other than myself:-) ) ever do the hand signal for stopping (and at least in our state it's required by law).
I acknowledge but plead not guilty by reason of necessity. Both the hand signal for stopping and the hand signal for turning use the same hand. If I am stopping with the intent of turning, especially when everyone else can see the stop sign or red light that I've stopped for, signaling my turn in my opinion overrides signaling my stop.
Google can introduce a paid subscription model for those few willing to pay-up for using the service without ads
Google announced "Google Contributor". When I signed up, I was told I would be put on a waitlist, and I've been on that waitlist for months with no reply. That's one of the problems with Google: "no reply."
Good luck with boycotting YouTube's advertisers when your power company, your ISP, your car insurer, your health insurer, or the gasoline chain with a station near you is running an ad campaign.
The owner of a web site owns or licenses copyright in the documents that make up the site, whether you visit or not. Doesn't ad blocking create a derivative work?
What other browser is available on netbooks? The only operating system sold on netbooks nowadays is Chrome OS. They don't make netbooks with preinstalled desktop Linux anymore, and even if you use Crouton to install a "normal" Linux distribution, a Chromebook's bootloader still prompts you "Press space to wipe all your files and reinstall Chrome OS" every time you turn it on.
Now, I'm not saying that I deliberately aim for arrogant little fucks like you who think that being on a bicycle gives you the right to block a full lane of traffic
If there were one and a half through lanes, I wouldn't be taking the lane quite as often. But often, there's one through lane and one turn lane, and I stay out of the turn lane if I'm not turning.
So long as two or more independently developed, self-hosting compilers for a language exist, with at least one as publicly available source code, a Ken Thompson attack on the public-source one is infeasible. David A. Wheeler proved it; here's the gist:
Use Visual C++, Intel C++, and Clang++ to compile g++. The binaries you get in this stage will differ, but if VC++, Intel C++, and Clang++ are uncompromised, they will have exactly the same behavior.
Use each of the three copies of g++ you compiled earlier to compile g++, disabling timestamps in the output. Because they all have the same behavior (the behavior of g++), they should all produce the same the output. Thus the binaries you get in this second stage will be identical unless one of the first compilers is compromised.
Then use free apps instead of non-free apps. A free app can be updated to use the new API of the network service while still using the old API of the operating system. F-Droid is the best known repository of free apps for Android.
It does if the hardware locks you into using the operating system that came with it, be it through a cryptographically secured bootloader or through an undocumented chipset.
A few years in tablet - hardware is a long time considering how big leaps there have been in screen quality and processing power and you still have those things even if you use an outdated OS
But how useful are "screen quality and processing power" if the device's manufacturer refuses to issue updates to correct security vulnerabilities in a device's operating system and refuses to cooperate with hobbyists making replacement operating system images?
I cart around 25GB of music and 20GB of video with me, and there are very few tablets on the market that can handle that.
You can blame the SD Card Association for making Microsoft's patented exFAT file system a requirement for devices that support microSD cards bigger than 32 GB.
Get an x86 based tablet. [...] you can run [...] Linux on the thing.
Which x86-based tablet in 7-8" and 9-11" size classes works well with Linux when paired to a Bluetooth keyboard? I've looked into it but found plenty of reports about Wi-Fi not working, Bluetooth not working, backlight adjustment not working, and most critically, suspend not working.
Have they not also ruled that the Congressional scheme of passing copyright extensions every 20 years is absolutely fine?
In its opinion in Eldred v. Ashcroft, the Supreme Court recognized this possibility of circumventing "for limited Times" in the copyright clause but that the plaintiff had not established a pattern of "legislative misbehavior". Congress has enacted only two substantial copyright term extensions since World War I (in 1976 and 1998), and a third extension in the coming decade may establish "legislative misbehavior" more clearly.
As someone who takes photos and occasionally shares them online, I'd hate to have to register every photo I take lest some big company decide that my picture is the perfect image for their ad campaign and that the lack of a copyright registration means they can just use it for whatever they want.
Would it be that hard to submit/home/jason/photos/2015/*.jpg to Copyright.gov sometime before 2029?
Great but the artists are still worse off than what they are under the current situation.
Not necessarily. Consider the case of author who wants to prepare a derivative work. Under present law, he is out of luck if the author of the original work is uncontactable. In a self-assessed intellectual property tax regime, he will at least be able to tell from whom to buy the rights from tax records.
And what happens when someone has to keep, or lower, the value of their work because they can't pay the taxes on it?
How I phrase the answer to your question depends on your answer to the following question: What happens to someone who can't afford to pay property tax on his home?
Imagine an advertisement agency buying the rights to a song because it's cheaper than paying the royalties. Not only would they then not have to pay to use the song they would get paid if the song got popular.
Some proposals make the buyout payable to the Library of Congress, the parent agency of the Copyright Office. Then the Library takes the copyright, passes the money along to the author as "just compensation" pursuant to the Fifth Amendment, and places the work under a no rights reserved license, such as the Creative Commons Zero license. Then the ad agency has the right to use the song, but so do you and I.
Because not everybody who wants to put up a website has the money for a dedicated server.
How is that relevant when deciding what platform to use for a new application?
Because you may want to develop your application to connect to an existing application's authentication framework or as an extension for an existing application.
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But I think I have never in my life seen anybody on a bike (other than myself :-) ) ever do the hand signal for stopping (and at least in our state it's required by law).
I acknowledge but plead not guilty by reason of necessity. Both the hand signal for stopping and the hand signal for turning use the same hand. If I am stopping with the intent of turning, especially when everyone else can see the stop sign or red light that I've stopped for, signaling my turn in my opinion overrides signaling my stop.
Google can introduce a paid subscription model for those few willing to pay-up for using the service without ads
Google announced "Google Contributor". When I signed up, I was told I would be put on a waitlist, and I've been on that waitlist for months with no reply. That's one of the problems with Google: "no reply."
At some point, I think you need to get your own website instead of copy-pasting your entire spiel all over Slashdot.
Good luck with boycotting YouTube's advertisers when your power company, your ISP, your car insurer, your health insurer, or the gasoline chain with a station near you is running an ad campaign.
The owner of a web site owns or licenses copyright in the documents that make up the site, whether you visit or not. Doesn't ad blocking create a derivative work?
What other browser is available on netbooks? The only operating system sold on netbooks nowadays is Chrome OS. They don't make netbooks with preinstalled desktop Linux anymore, and even if you use Crouton to install a "normal" Linux distribution, a Chromebook's bootloader still prompts you "Press space to wipe all your files and reinstall Chrome OS" every time you turn it on.
When cyclists start obeying the rules of the road
Do the rules of the road state or imply that an authorized user is entitled to a green light in a reasonable time? If so, then the road itself isn't obeying the rules of the road. Not all U.S. states have a law allowing cyclists to cross against a clearly malfunctioning red traffic signal.
A car, 50 hours of verifiable supervised driving, insurance, and fuel cost thousands of dollars. Are you buying?
So how should people who were born there afford to no longer live there?
Now, I'm not saying that I deliberately aim for arrogant little fucks like you who think that being on a bicycle gives you the right to block a full lane of traffic
If there were one and a half through lanes, I wouldn't be taking the lane quite as often. But often, there's one through lane and one turn lane, and I stay out of the turn lane if I'm not turning.
So long as two or more independently developed, self-hosting compilers for a language exist, with at least one as publicly available source code, a Ken Thompson attack on the public-source one is infeasible. David A. Wheeler proved it; here's the gist:
I've found few legitimate uses for a tablet computer versus a laptop
Which 10 inch laptop do you recommend for running Linux?
Then use free apps instead of non-free apps. A free app can be updated to use the new API of the network service while still using the old API of the operating system. F-Droid is the best known repository of free apps for Android.
The OS has nothing to do with the hardware.
It does if the hardware locks you into using the operating system that came with it, be it through a cryptographically secured bootloader or through an undocumented chipset.
A few years in tablet - hardware is a long time considering how big leaps there have been in screen quality and processing power and you still have those things even if you use an outdated OS
But how useful are "screen quality and processing power" if the device's manufacturer refuses to issue updates to correct security vulnerabilities in a device's operating system and refuses to cooperate with hobbyists making replacement operating system images?
I cart around 25GB of music and 20GB of video with me, and there are very few tablets on the market that can handle that.
You can blame the SD Card Association for making Microsoft's patented exFAT file system a requirement for devices that support microSD cards bigger than 32 GB.
USB is the solution
Then why does Apple refuse to implement publicly documented USB device classes?
The easiest way is via Dropbox, or Google Drive, Box.net, or OneDrive
Which costs 2 GB of your ISP's monthly cap for each 1 GB that you transfer.
Get an x86 based tablet. [...] you can run [...] Linux on the thing.
Which x86-based tablet in 7-8" and 9-11" size classes works well with Linux when paired to a Bluetooth keyboard? I've looked into it but found plenty of reports about Wi-Fi not working, Bluetooth not working, backlight adjustment not working, and most critically, suspend not working.
Have they not also ruled that the Congressional scheme of passing copyright extensions every 20 years is absolutely fine?
In its opinion in Eldred v. Ashcroft , the Supreme Court recognized this possibility of circumventing "for limited Times" in the copyright clause but that the plaintiff had not established a pattern of "legislative misbehavior". Congress has enacted only two substantial copyright term extensions since World War I (in 1976 and 1998), and a third extension in the coming decade may establish "legislative misbehavior" more clearly.
But the root of the problem is movie studios' in-kind donation of campaign publicity through their co-owned news outlets. Now let me go donate to the Lessig campaign.
As someone who takes photos and occasionally shares them online, I'd hate to have to register every photo I take lest some big company decide that my picture is the perfect image for their ad campaign and that the lack of a copyright registration means they can just use it for whatever they want.
Would it be that hard to submit /home/jason/photos/2015/*.jpg to Copyright.gov sometime before 2029?
Great but the artists are still worse off than what they are under the current situation.
Not necessarily. Consider the case of author who wants to prepare a derivative work. Under present law, he is out of luck if the author of the original work is uncontactable. In a self-assessed intellectual property tax regime, he will at least be able to tell from whom to buy the rights from tax records.
And what happens when someone has to keep, or lower, the value of their work because they can't pay the taxes on it?
How I phrase the answer to your question depends on your answer to the following question: What happens to someone who can't afford to pay property tax on his home?
Imagine an advertisement agency buying the rights to a song because it's cheaper than paying the royalties. Not only would they then not have to pay to use the song they would get paid if the song got popular.
Some proposals make the buyout payable to the Library of Congress, the parent agency of the Copyright Office. Then the Library takes the copyright, passes the money along to the author as "just compensation" pursuant to the Fifth Amendment, and places the work under a no rights reserved license, such as the Creative Commons Zero license. Then the ad agency has the right to use the song, but so do you and I.
Why the fuck would you want that?
Because not everybody who wants to put up a website has the money for a dedicated server.
How is that relevant when deciding what platform to use for a new application?
Because you may want to develop your application to connect to an existing application's authentication framework or as an extension for an existing application.
Then the is question of how many years are left in optical disk drives before they are replaced by far more portable flash ram or it's equivalent.
It'll probably be a long time before 32-64 GB of removable flash memory is cheaper than stamping out one BD-ROM.
the Apple TV will have an App Store. [...] You don't get that with a Roku.
Roku apps are called channels. There are plenty of them, some unlisted (so that they don't show up in the channel store if they don't have to), and there's no $99 per year fee to develop your own channel.