Since most of the resistance to taxing the wealthy (the major sticking point in achieving a fiscal compromise) is coming from the Red States and the Red States suffer disproportionally from tornadoes, we should have NOAA drop funding for those early waring systems first.
You will sacrifice your mobile home so that some banker can make bigger yacht payments.
Aircraft will be using something like HughesNet. They might have to throttle the onboard WiFi speeds to keep everyone from streaming video simultaneously. But for web surfing, e-mail, some gaming (latency might be an issue), etc. it will be just fine. And for reasonable* prices.
* Nothing like millions of dollars per plane per year.
Yes, that's possible. But look at Salman Rushdie as an example. He put his name on his work, probably knowing that he'd incur the wrath of millions of Muslims. And that's what gives him more credibility than someone who uses a pseudonym to publish an anti Islam video on YouTube.
Huh? If a city starts selling broadband services, you don't see that as competing with both Comcast and AT&T?
Not at all. Comcast and AT&T are not common carriers. If that's what my city offers, how can they be competing with these private entities. They are two completely different products.
Not my own SSN. The only people that have that are those with a legal requirement to report financial information to government entities. Everyone else gets the SSN on the card that came with my wallet.
Slashdot has my real contact information. They are acting as the gatekeeper for my identification, should I commit some heinous transgression. Although I'm certain nobody at Slashdot Corporate Towers would hesitate for more than a millisecond to out me should the Feds come with one of their warrantless requests.
... of the last century wore a white sheet and burned crosses in people's yards.
Its one thing to stand up, identify yourself and state your beliefs. Its quite another to make statements that you are not willing to stand behind for fear of being ostracized.
The valid case for anonymity, publishing some information that threatened those in power, used to have a solution. Members of the press would offer their reputations as a proxy for that of the whistle blower. They would vet the information (albeit sometimes imperfectly) and put it into the public domain under their by-line. But this function has been eroded in the Internet age. between the Patriot Act and "think of the children", there are very few people left who have the authority to stand up against the information gathering and surveillance tools of the establishment. Perhaps we need to repair this situation rather than just handing every jerk wad the tools to absolute anonymity.
Individual patent claims are not sufficient to describe the scope of a patent. They only do so collectively. So, how is it that Marvell (or anyone else) can be held liable for violating a single claim?
Of course, I'm thinking of the infamous claim: "A microprocessor controller comprising memory, input-output and memory", which when added to prior art seems to create novel technology in the eyes of the USPTO. If one could violate a single claim, then this one alone would innovation in the computing field.
"Launch services" is certainly a niche for which a very fat profit can be extracted. Forget all that other expensive stuff that takes actual engineering and building something. That's risky. Just let us push the Big Red Button. And if something goes 'boom!' we just blame the subcontractors.
SpaceX has flattened the business model, taking on the responsibility for design, construction and launch. That allows them to do the systems analysis and eliminate redundancies that they won't need to do the launch job.
YouTube isn't exercising a "right to say thinks" of their own. They are simply providing infrastructure that allows others to do so. Just like the phone company isn't responsible for the content of the conversations they carry.
YouTube should be allowed to determine what it is saying on its network
That's a slippery slope. Once YouTube or any other content host begins exercising editorial control, they could be held liable for failing to do so. And then if they let something slip by that offends one group, that group will sue for blasphemy or some other form of imagined discrimination.
Does the NY permit allow the holder to carry their pistol? If so, it won't be of much use to potential gun thieves. If they are home the burglars stand a chance of getting shot. If the resident is away, then the gun might very well be on their person as well.
Next year, the EFF has to start a 'don't gift that copyrighted product' campaign right around Black Friday. Kids having their presents ripped out of their hands by agents of big media, Santa Claus being led off in handcuffs, etc.
Actually, it shows a lack of feel for engineering units. 3000 feet as 5000 atmospheres would imply more than one atmosphere per foot of depth. Ever dive into a pool?
Before even reaching for Google or a slide rule, common sense should give a sense that this is wrong.
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Hartmut needs to design a line of products for shaving.
Since most of the resistance to taxing the wealthy (the major sticking point in achieving a fiscal compromise) is coming from the Red States and the Red States suffer disproportionally from tornadoes, we should have NOAA drop funding for those early waring systems first.
You will sacrifice your mobile home so that some banker can make bigger yacht payments.
A cover for an iPhone that makes it look like a Motorola DynaTAC.
Some smart person will write a browser extension that says, "Sure, I'll watch your ad. Stream it right here where I'll pipe it to /dev/null".
Few if any domestic flights have power (DC or AC), in cattle class anyways.
So bring a 100 foot extension cord and reel it out up to first class.
Aircraft will be using something like HughesNet. They might have to throttle the onboard WiFi speeds to keep everyone from streaming video simultaneously. But for web surfing, e-mail, some gaming (latency might be an issue), etc. it will be just fine. And for reasonable* prices.
* Nothing like millions of dollars per plane per year.
Yes, that's possible. But look at Salman Rushdie as an example. He put his name on his work, probably knowing that he'd incur the wrath of millions of Muslims. And that's what gives him more credibility than someone who uses a pseudonym to publish an anti Islam video on YouTube.
Huh? If a city starts selling broadband services, you don't see that as competing with both Comcast and AT&T?
Not at all. Comcast and AT&T are not common carriers. If that's what my city offers, how can they be competing with these private entities. They are two completely different products.
Not my own SSN. The only people that have that are those with a legal requirement to report financial information to government entities. Everyone else gets the SSN on the card that came with my wallet.
If you want not retarded internet, your single only option is to move out off the continent.
Or get your municipality to run their own fiber as a public utility.
I want common carrier broadband. AT&T doesn't offer it, nor does Comcast. So there's no issue of public entities competing with private business here.
Slashdot has my real contact information. They are acting as the gatekeeper for my identification, should I commit some heinous transgression. Although I'm certain nobody at Slashdot Corporate Towers would hesitate for more than a millisecond to out me should the Feds come with one of their warrantless requests.
Its one thing to stand up, identify yourself and state your beliefs. Its quite another to make statements that you are not willing to stand behind for fear of being ostracized.
The valid case for anonymity, publishing some information that threatened those in power, used to have a solution. Members of the press would offer their reputations as a proxy for that of the whistle blower. They would vet the information (albeit sometimes imperfectly) and put it into the public domain under their by-line. But this function has been eroded in the Internet age. between the Patriot Act and "think of the children", there are very few people left who have the authority to stand up against the information gathering and surveillance tools of the establishment. Perhaps we need to repair this situation rather than just handing every jerk wad the tools to absolute anonymity.
Actually, I'd like to see the photos that the FBI/CIA/NSA sent to each Senator with the understanding that they'd better vote the right way. Or else.
Uh, ..... actually no, I wouldn't.
At this point, I'm not certain that McAfee, in his drug fueled haze, is certain whether he is the real McAfee or the double.
I wonder what would happen if US colleges (or even earlier in our educational system) let students have free reign, and really specialize.
We'd have a bumper crop of PhDs in Call of Duty: Black Ops.
Strip clubs, peep shows. Return Times Square to the greatness that it once was.
I do have a grocery reward card, but I use one I found in the parking lot.
Hey! I lost mine in the parking lot.
Stop buying cheap beer.
Individual patent claims are not sufficient to describe the scope of a patent. They only do so collectively. So, how is it that Marvell (or anyone else) can be held liable for violating a single claim?
Of course, I'm thinking of the infamous claim: "A microprocessor controller comprising memory, input-output and memory", which when added to prior art seems to create novel technology in the eyes of the USPTO. If one could violate a single claim, then this one alone would innovation in the computing field.
"Launch services" is certainly a niche for which a very fat profit can be extracted. Forget all that other expensive stuff that takes actual engineering and building something. That's risky. Just let us push the Big Red Button. And if something goes 'boom!' we just blame the subcontractors.
SpaceX has flattened the business model, taking on the responsibility for design, construction and launch. That allows them to do the systems analysis and eliminate redundancies that they won't need to do the launch job.
You can if you are Carnegie Mellon University and you are not getting your cut of the accreditation business.
YouTube isn't exercising a "right to say thinks" of their own. They are simply providing infrastructure that allows others to do so. Just like the phone company isn't responsible for the content of the conversations they carry.
YouTube should be allowed to determine what it is saying on its network
That's a slippery slope. Once YouTube or any other content host begins exercising editorial control, they could be held liable for failing to do so. And then if they let something slip by that offends one group, that group will sue for blasphemy or some other form of imagined discrimination.
Does the NY permit allow the holder to carry their pistol? If so, it won't be of much use to potential gun thieves. If they are home the burglars stand a chance of getting shot. If the resident is away, then the gun might very well be on their person as well.
Next year, the EFF has to start a 'don't gift that copyrighted product' campaign right around Black Friday. Kids having their presents ripped out of their hands by agents of big media, Santa Claus being led off in handcuffs, etc.
Actually, it shows a lack of feel for engineering units. 3000 feet as 5000 atmospheres would imply more than one atmosphere per foot of depth. Ever dive into a pool?
Before even reaching for Google or a slide rule, common sense should give a sense that this is wrong.