...and yet I keep reading slashdot comments like, "television is wide and shallow, for real news you must READ the news". Print media is no more immune to this than television, folks! The print jounalists, although they like to see themselves as the "fourth branch of government" in America, have done nothing lately to deserve that title except, perhaps, act just like the other three branches. Reprinting press releases from both government and industry are not, I repeat, not considered "investigative journalism". Start reading newspaper articles with a more critical eye -how often do you read 3/4 of an article about a topic only to find that it is actually a carefully crafted product placement? Watch for them, they are more subtle than you think. How many of you even have local papers that don't simply reformat stories from other sources? Go through your local paper and note what percentage of the copy is actually about local news (and does not mention one name brand favorably somewhere near the end of the article)-likely that is the only part of your paper that was written locally. On a larger scale, when was the last time a reporter actually followed up on a question averted? Just once I'd like to see a modern reporter actually fight for the truth.
So do you think this will mean that the only results will be the ones that any particular big media Google partner wants to push that week? To test this hypothesis, I predict that during sweeps week media searches will magically bring back results of each network partner's biggest shows...with little regard to your actual media search term.
I swear, Google is starting down the road of becoming less and less relevant. It started with search results placement...What I want is a search engine that can filter out all commercial results and just give me pure, clean information when that's what I am looking for.
Now I know where I've seen the idea before...wasn't the Mariner looking for Dry Land and trying to escape from the The Deke and his Smokers? He was about to get caught when he pulled a lever and a huge box kite fired out of the front of his catamaran and added much needed extra thrust? Then again, if you watch Waterworld enough, you will soon realize that it's just a blatent take-off of The Road Warrior (Mad Max 2), right down to the various characters and their relationships, not to mention the plotlines and situations...Oh, were we talking about kites? Yes, yes; a brilliant idea but it seems so much more troublesome than something rigidly attached to the superstructure of the ship itself...still, I wish the guy the best of luck. If this catches on (fuel savings catch on permenantly? Never happen.), he'll need more than great ideas and fine-tuning: he'll need lawyers and lot's of 'em.
That's because there is this nasty little law that allows car makers to in effect grossly inflate the stated mpg of flex-fuel vehicles %20 over what they actually get. Many good selling vehicles (i.e., pickups) actually are flex-fuel, but the only way that you'd know it is from the VIN. You see, they don't actually *care* about you being able to burn flex-fuels; what they care about is artificially raising the fleet average fuel economy rating.
Cheat number two:
MTBE was added to gasoline as an "oxygenate" to make it burn cleaner. Only one company (arco?) was making it at the time and they lobbied heavily to make sure that the specs in the law pretty much spelled out that only MTBE would fit the bill, if you will excuse the pun. It gave them a six month lead on the market until other manufacturers could ramp up. Well, it turns out MTBE is really nasty stuff that gets into ground water, and causes the birth of three headed monkeys from otherwise normal canaries. And they had no idea. Oh, and Congress is working hard to make sure that you can't sue them. Anywhoo, now that it is acknowledged that MTBE is bad, new law has been constructed that pretty much guarantees that Ethanol will replace the previous 10% by volume oxygenate. Problem is, Ethanol gets something like 20% worse mileage than MTBU (Ethanol 76,000 btu/gallon, MTBE 93,500 btu/gallon, US gas 115,000 btu/gallon). Work out the math and you see that once again, the oil industry wins big time. Under the guise of "cleaner fuel, cleaner air, cleaner water", we are going to be filling up MORE often with MORE expensive gasoline that will create MORE pollution! Oh, and Ethanol might be worse for groundwater, as it is totally mixable in water and carries lots of other things from the gas with it. Can't smell it like you can MTBU, though, so you'll be drinking it for years before you realize it. Of course, the replacement of MTBU with Ethanol was enacted within a day or so of the Big Head Cheese giving a big "I understand the concerns of the simple folk" speech about how we are going to cut our reliance on foreign oil and clean the air and water by "doing things" with alternate energy. Same time that the alternate energy budget allocations were cut. Doublespeak at it's best...
And luckily, you have that choice, but I am afraid it is you that has missed the point. Microsoft owns that software, not you. You are merely licensed to use it. By agreeing to the EULA and continuing to use Windows, you agree to whatever conditions Microsoft sets forth. The best part of it is that you *pay* for the honor of doing so. If you disagree with Microsoft's actions, you are free to use another operating system or office suite or what have you. I just wonder when that final choice will disappear; imagine if the EULA had a clause that stated, in legalese, "...and I further agree to only run Microsoft Operating Systems on this PC from this point forward". You know, all in the name of allowing Microsoft to provide better support, etc. No reason not to add a clause like that, really...
I'm sorry, but have you ever even tried running DSL on lesser hardware? I frequently use it on a P-133 laptop with...32MB of RAM. And to answer the obvious question, it's an old Itronix, that's why. I can leave it out on the patio, the sprinkler can hit it and it'll keep running. DSL works flawlessly on this platfrom, and that is using Firefox and wireless w/encryption. Yes, there is a slight delay as a new page is rendered, but it's not bad at all. Damn Small's lightness is why it is also a great choice for emulated PC's such as QEMU, VMWare and Virtual PC.
Out of curiosity, for the purpose of the DMCA, at what point does encoding end and encryption begin? For instance, ASCII could be looked at as an encryption scheme that just happens to be a very well-known standard, no (granted, in a weird, backwards kind of way)? The obvious slippery slope is Rot13. In the case of this/. story, can't any -no; EVERY- proprietary encoding scheme be considered encryption?
Actually, your CPU analogy is a very apt one. The 80286 was a terrible, terrible chip; most were used merely as a very fast 8088. Sure, it offered protected mode and with it the ability to address 16MB of memory, but since Intel assumed no one would ever want to use real mode once they tried protected, they included no way to leave protected mode! The workaround was to instruct the system (the keyboard controller actually) to do a reboot! And that 16MB of memory? If you went a byte past the top address, you wrapped back around to the bottom! No flat memory space either; instead you had to use a very clunky addressing scheme. The only thing I can say good about the 80286 is that once Intel realized that they had gone down the wrong path, they released the chip that they should have (and perhaps the one that you really meant), the 80386.
Okay, assume Lunar GPS, then. If you are going to be spending the money for a Lunar Terminal, a few satellites are just operating expenses. You'll only need a few. Heck, you could even drop three on the surface some useful distance away from your usual landing spot and be done with it.
That's how the mainframe COBOL guys used to work; they put the source up on the really big bank's mainframe and work with the banks systems people to compile it and customize it. I've worked for two companies that followed that model and let me tell you, it is really really lucrative. It is ingrained in some really big banks' cultures, be it a holdover from the true "big iron" days, but so are the wonderful amounts that you are expected to charge them. Now, you and I realize that times have changed a bit, but many banks still call it DP, not IT and consider this; once you are in, they begin to build systems and protocols around your software. Before it even goes live, they will have their technical writers creating binders just for interoperation with your system. Your software becomes part of the machine. Do you have any idea how expensive it is after a couple of years to rip all of that out and start over? Like others have said, get a good non-disclosure written by pit bull lawyers and laugh all the way to the bank. Just take care of them (the banks decision makers) by doing a good job and catering to their whims (and charging them for it) and they will take care of you.
Interesting, but I would consider a greatly reduced resolution picture to be the equivelent of an excerpt. Think of it this way; you are getting only every 100th pel, or 1/100th of the original work. That also fits the definition of an excerpt, don't you think? A lower resolution thumbnail taken in this respect IS a stylized, modified alias of the original work.
Fine, so I'll stick a mailing label on the front of my box that says "Apple". If I'm not selling it, I can label it as anything I want. Aw, what the heck; I'll be a nice guy and use one of their "offical" case labels, to make it an official Apple labeled computer.
All joking aside, I'm sure many books that examine matriarchal societies (think fertility statues) would fall into this category and be banned. Then again, I can see the Fundamentalist Christians that founded the DHS wanting to ban any reference to matriarchal societies. They predate Christianity and were the basis of many of the "Pagan" religions that Christianity squashed in its rise to power. And, they celebrate the boobie, not the pee-pee.
No, of course not. I'm sure that bit of brilliant revisionism just came to him in the last week or so. As you said, if he'd thought of it and intended it back then, he would have said it back then. The whole thing stinks of a coverup, but a very blunt and clumsy "Because I am the VP and I said so" coverup.
Not Bush directly, no. Didn't need to. However, a day or two after the war started, Bush gave Cheney the same power to "declassify" information that Clinton granted the position of President. So, as long as Scooter claims that he got his information about Valerie from the VP, he is in the clear. You see, as Vice President, Cheney doesn't have to actually go through any of that peskey paperwork to declassify anything; he just has to let the information out and then it is de facto declassified. Neat, huh? Game over and nobody goes to jail.
That lawsuit was about misleading claims regarding the speed/distance of Netgear WiFi products. As much as I love class action lawyers, what exactly was the damage here? Did the person that brought the suit have to purchase an extra WAP for adequate coverage due to the difference between stated performance and actual? No; as I have read, there were no damages, just someone upset that a manufacturer had packaging that claimed lab results rather than real world. And yet, people that bought the specified Netgear products are griping that the settlement is 15% off any purchase from the Netgear.com store. Guess what? In this case, you deserve...nothing. And, by the way, cars don't really get the gas mileage they promise on the ads, either. Carl's Jr. hamburgers aren't actually five inches tall and they don't bounce like a ball when they hit a hard surface. Drinking Budwiser won't really make you more attractive to the opposite sex.
Okay, that last one might be true, but the rest are called "advertising". Consider it the bastard stepfather of class action Law. I challenge you to find a "reasonable person" that believes in either one.
So, on the one hand, gambling (online) is wrong. On the other, since the politicians are being funded -oops, I mean the bill is being funded- by brick-n-mortar gambling interests inside the U.S., gambling is okay (in person). And this is how law is made...
Don't forget to also wag your finger at the Senate, which in an even bigger story, has now decided that there is no need to investigate this whole "domestic spying" thingy.
So, you have one branch saying, "Let's see what really happened" and the other two saying, "Nothing to see here; move along, move along".
Funny, I would think that companies such as Video Without Boundaries or any of the others that sell Cable Card Linux powered set top boxes would have to make their source code available, just like every other Linux powered device out there...they tout using Linux, but no mention of the GPL nor source code anythere on their site that I can find. Get them to release their source and I bet you just might find the Cable Card support you are looking for.
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Oh, right (nodding head appreciatively), now I...Zzzzzzz
...and yet I keep reading slashdot comments like, "television is wide and shallow, for real news you must READ the news". Print media is no more immune to this than television, folks! The print jounalists, although they like to see themselves as the "fourth branch of government" in America, have done nothing lately to deserve that title except, perhaps, act just like the other three branches. Reprinting press releases from both government and industry are not, I repeat, not considered "investigative journalism". Start reading newspaper articles with a more critical eye -how often do you read 3/4 of an article about a topic only to find that it is actually a carefully crafted product placement? Watch for them, they are more subtle than you think. How many of you even have local papers that don't simply reformat stories from other sources? Go through your local paper and note what percentage of the copy is actually about local news (and does not mention one name brand favorably somewhere near the end of the article)-likely that is the only part of your paper that was written locally. On a larger scale, when was the last time a reporter actually followed up on a question averted? Just once I'd like to see a modern reporter actually fight for the truth.
I swear, Google is starting down the road of becoming less and less relevant. It started with search results placement...What I want is a search engine that can filter out all commercial results and just give me pure, clean information when that's what I am looking for.
Now I know where I've seen the idea before...wasn't the Mariner looking for Dry Land and trying to escape from the The Deke and his Smokers? He was about to get caught when he pulled a lever and a huge box kite fired out of the front of his catamaran and added much needed extra thrust? Then again, if you watch Waterworld enough, you will soon realize that it's just a blatent take-off of The Road Warrior (Mad Max 2), right down to the various characters and their relationships, not to mention the plotlines and situations...Oh, were we talking about kites? Yes, yes; a brilliant idea but it seems so much more troublesome than something rigidly attached to the superstructure of the ship itself...still, I wish the guy the best of luck. If this catches on (fuel savings catch on permenantly? Never happen.), he'll need more than great ideas and fine-tuning: he'll need lawyers and lot's of 'em.
Duh; they'll use pairs of surplus Dish Network dishes to span the gaps!
That's because there is this nasty little law that allows car makers to in effect grossly inflate the stated mpg of flex-fuel vehicles %20 over what they actually get. Many good selling vehicles (i.e., pickups) actually are flex-fuel, but the only way that you'd know it is from the VIN. You see, they don't actually *care* about you being able to burn flex-fuels; what they care about is artificially raising the fleet average fuel economy rating.
Cheat number two:
MTBE was added to gasoline as an "oxygenate" to make it burn cleaner. Only one company (arco?) was making it at the time and they lobbied heavily to make sure that the specs in the law pretty much spelled out that only MTBE would fit the bill, if you will excuse the pun. It gave them a six month lead on the market until other manufacturers could ramp up. Well, it turns out MTBE is really nasty stuff that gets into ground water, and causes the birth of three headed monkeys from otherwise normal canaries. And they had no idea. Oh, and Congress is working hard to make sure that you can't sue them. Anywhoo, now that it is acknowledged that MTBE is bad, new law has been constructed that pretty much guarantees that Ethanol will replace the previous 10% by volume oxygenate. Problem is, Ethanol gets something like 20% worse mileage than MTBU (Ethanol 76,000 btu/gallon, MTBE 93,500 btu/gallon, US gas 115,000 btu/gallon). Work out the math and you see that once again, the oil industry wins big time. Under the guise of "cleaner fuel, cleaner air, cleaner water", we are going to be filling up MORE often with MORE expensive gasoline that will create MORE pollution! Oh, and Ethanol might be worse for groundwater, as it is totally mixable in water and carries lots of other things from the gas with it. Can't smell it like you can MTBU, though, so you'll be drinking it for years before you realize it. Of course, the replacement of MTBU with Ethanol was enacted within a day or so of the Big Head Cheese giving a big "I understand the concerns of the simple folk" speech about how we are going to cut our reliance on foreign oil and clean the air and water by "doing things" with alternate energy. Same time that the alternate energy budget allocations were cut. Doublespeak at it's best...
And luckily, you have that choice, but I am afraid it is you that has missed the point. Microsoft owns that software, not you. You are merely licensed to use it. By agreeing to the EULA and continuing to use Windows, you agree to whatever conditions Microsoft sets forth. The best part of it is that you *pay* for the honor of doing so. If you disagree with Microsoft's actions, you are free to use another operating system or office suite or what have you. I just wonder when that final choice will disappear; imagine if the EULA had a clause that stated, in legalese, "...and I further agree to only run Microsoft Operating Systems on this PC from this point forward". You know, all in the name of allowing Microsoft to provide better support, etc. No reason not to add a clause like that, really...
I'm sorry, but have you ever even tried running DSL on lesser hardware? I frequently use it on a P-133 laptop with...32MB of RAM. And to answer the obvious question, it's an old Itronix, that's why. I can leave it out on the patio, the sprinkler can hit it and it'll keep running. DSL works flawlessly on this platfrom, and that is using Firefox and wireless w/encryption. Yes, there is a slight delay as a new page is rendered, but it's not bad at all. Damn Small's lightness is why it is also a great choice for emulated PC's such as QEMU, VMWare and Virtual PC.
Out of curiosity, for the purpose of the DMCA, at what point does encoding end and encryption begin? For instance, ASCII could be looked at as an encryption scheme that just happens to be a very well-known standard, no (granted, in a weird, backwards kind of way)? The obvious slippery slope is Rot13. In the case of this /. story, can't any -no; EVERY- proprietary encoding scheme be considered encryption?
Actually, your CPU analogy is a very apt one. The 80286 was a terrible, terrible chip; most were used merely as a very fast 8088. Sure, it offered protected mode and with it the ability to address 16MB of memory, but since Intel assumed no one would ever want to use real mode once they tried protected, they included no way to leave protected mode! The workaround was to instruct the system (the keyboard controller actually) to do a reboot! And that 16MB of memory? If you went a byte past the top address, you wrapped back around to the bottom! No flat memory space either; instead you had to use a very clunky addressing scheme. The only thing I can say good about the 80286 is that once Intel realized that they had gone down the wrong path, they released the chip that they should have (and perhaps the one that you really meant), the 80386.
So much for that whole FCC "cannot cause interference" bit, eh?
Okay, assume Lunar GPS, then. If you are going to be spending the money for a Lunar Terminal, a few satellites are just operating expenses. You'll only need a few. Heck, you could even drop three on the surface some useful distance away from your usual landing spot and be done with it.
Only on Slashdot can you use the terms "boobie" and "pee-pee" in your post and get modded as "insightful".
That's how the mainframe COBOL guys used to work; they put the source up on the really big bank's mainframe and work with the banks systems people to compile it and customize it. I've worked for two companies that followed that model and let me tell you, it is really really lucrative. It is ingrained in some really big banks' cultures, be it a holdover from the true "big iron" days, but so are the wonderful amounts that you are expected to charge them. Now, you and I realize that times have changed a bit, but many banks still call it DP, not IT and consider this; once you are in, they begin to build systems and protocols around your software. Before it even goes live, they will have their technical writers creating binders just for interoperation with your system. Your software becomes part of the machine. Do you have any idea how expensive it is after a couple of years to rip all of that out and start over? Like others have said, get a good non-disclosure written by pit bull lawyers and laugh all the way to the bank. Just take care of them (the banks decision makers) by doing a good job and catering to their whims (and charging them for it) and they will take care of you.
Interesting, but I would consider a greatly reduced resolution picture to be the equivelent of an excerpt. Think of it this way; you are getting only every 100th pel, or 1/100th of the original work. That also fits the definition of an excerpt, don't you think? A lower resolution thumbnail taken in this respect IS a stylized, modified alias of the original work.
Fine, so I'll stick a mailing label on the front of my box that says "Apple". If I'm not selling it, I can label it as anything I want. Aw, what the heck; I'll be a nice guy and use one of their "offical" case labels, to make it an official Apple labeled computer.
All joking aside, I'm sure many books that examine matriarchal societies (think fertility statues) would fall into this category and be banned. Then again, I can see the Fundamentalist Christians that founded the DHS wanting to ban any reference to matriarchal societies. They predate Christianity and were the basis of many of the "Pagan" religions that Christianity squashed in its rise to power. And, they celebrate the boobie, not the pee-pee.
No, of course not. I'm sure that bit of brilliant revisionism just came to him in the last week or so. As you said, if he'd thought of it and intended it back then, he would have said it back then. The whole thing stinks of a coverup, but a very blunt and clumsy "Because I am the VP and I said so" coverup.
Not Bush directly, no. Didn't need to. However, a day or two after the war started, Bush gave Cheney the same power to "declassify" information that Clinton granted the position of President. So, as long as Scooter claims that he got his information about Valerie from the VP, he is in the clear. You see, as Vice President, Cheney doesn't have to actually go through any of that peskey paperwork to declassify anything; he just has to let the information out and then it is de facto declassified. Neat, huh? Game over and nobody goes to jail.
Okay, that last one might be true, but the rest are called "advertising". Consider it the bastard stepfather of class action Law. I challenge you to find a "reasonable person" that believes in either one.
So, on the one hand, gambling (online) is wrong. On the other, since the politicians are being funded -oops, I mean the bill is being funded- by brick-n-mortar gambling interests inside the U.S., gambling is okay (in person). And this is how law is made...
...You mean like how he "pardoned" Skippy, or Sparky or whatever his name is (Scooter) during the time between the shooting and the Fox interview?
So, you have one branch saying, "Let's see what really happened" and the other two saying, "Nothing to see here; move along, move along".
Funny, I would think that companies such as Video Without Boundaries or any of the others that sell Cable Card Linux powered set top boxes would have to make their source code available, just like every other Linux powered device out there...they tout using Linux, but no mention of the GPL nor source code anythere on their site that I can find. Get them to release their source and I bet you just might find the Cable Card support you are looking for.