Wireless is the wrong medium for high-speed internet access with the technology available today. Basically you are assuming ANYBODY can get good wifi coverage, and if it's free, it implicitly WILL suck if only from overuse and/or restrictions in service that are needed to keep it from being saturated. I'm not commenting as much on the government not being able to hire the best people, I'm questioning if that will even matter. The "Pros" have chosen to use DSL and Cable as the delivery medium, and I don't think this will change for reliable service any time soon.
City turns on city-wide wireless. Everybody with cable modems and dsl say "great, I'll cancel my service now". Slowly, that 11Mb/s (ideal) connection you connected to as the first one to use it in your neighborhood gets shared with 100 other people. Result? Speeds similar to dialup IF everything works right. Now tie in bittorrent bandwidth, and everything goes to the shitter. The only way wireless networks to work well is for there to be few enough users so they don't get congested in a given area. Once free service comes online, there will be so much congestion, nobody will WANT to be on it, and it disrupted the ability for other companies to make money on reliable services (as much as they are).
Someone will come back and point out you can get more than 11 Mb/s out of this stuff, let's assume 54Mb/s, or even 100Mb/s. In the end it will still reach saturation, everybody will have to be throttled at some low amount of bandwidth to keep things fair, and service overall will be crap. I can't even keep a 802.11B connection stable from across a room (nothing in between) due to interference, much less across a city block. Leave this stuff to the pros to figure out a reliable way to deliver internet.
I agree that many of the items listed would be out of copyright, therefor fair game, but they have stuff included up to 1957 at least, which I don't think would qualify. They are advertising "free and open" on their webpage, implying that they KNOW that there isn't any copyright issues, so this isn't about fair use. What they are doing is the same as if I took an mp3 that I didn't know where it came from, and posting it online for anybody to download. Ignorance of a copyright doesn't protect them or anybody else.
The answer is "they probably don't have a right" and will be forced to take many down. Just because you don't know who owns the copyright to something doesn't mean it doesn't HAVE an owner, it just means you may as well throw it in the trash because you can't legally do anything. For example, if you have a picture of a statue, with no information of where the picture was taken, when, by who, or who owns the copyright of the statue, can you do ANYTHING with that picture? Nope.
Nah, 2.4Ghz phones have been out for a while now. It's the 5ghz that is newer. And I don't really think it is a problem, 2.4 is "unlicensed" and if someone wanted to should be complete legal to operate a wifi jammer if they really wanted to.
Ironically enough CountZero posted a link to the article as a comment, and with my ordering was RIGHT below yours. What are the chances of that happening...
Also, they asked the wrong group of people: internet users != online dating site users. I don't think my grandma using the Internet would have any earthly idea on if they do background checks. Unless you actually ask the people that USE these services, the number is meaningless. But I'm sure they already know this, but they found the worst "sounding" statistic for the purposes of marketing they could.
I've realized this actually is a **bad** idea, for one reason: the ease in which voter fraud can be done. Think about it this way, in many areas, it is pretty much known who will win, so trying to skew the votes there won't help any. It is in the "too close to call" areas that voter fraud can be a problem, and those areas can be watched the closest. If there was a global pool of votes, than the vote in areas with a huge population of one or another party could still impact the election, and it is those areas that would be most vulnerable to the fraud in the first place (so for example a 70% vote for republican area could become 73%, skewing the election as a whole for example). So while it is a good idea if everybody were honest, I think it is a poor idea in reality. I do think that each congressional district should have it's own vote in the electorial college instead of having it dividied up state by state, which would make it a more fair and "closer" to idea, but still helping to prevent the voter fraud that a pure popular vote could promote.
You don't get it do you? Ignorance of the law is not an excuse to break the law. If you can't KNOW what the law is, how can you follow it? Someone can now pass a law that makes it illegal to talk about the hidden laws, and if you say anything, you can be locked up up, and by the way, you can't fight the law either because you have never seen it.
This isn't necessarily about the ID on it's own, what he is trying to do is make sure that the laws ARE in the public eye, so watchdogs for our freedom can keep an eye on them. That is the most important aspect of this IMHO.
So the same program can be twice as large? The biggest benefit for the 64 bit code isn't 64 bits for most people, it's that the chip has more registers. With 64 bits, you will have as much memory access as you will ever need (tm), at least in the next 5 years, so 128 bit would be overkill, and force higher memory speeds for the same results. Nah, stick with 64 bits for now.
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It takes a little bit in the common sense dept to determine what context everything is in. The problem wasn't that he consulted the Internet, the problem was he didn't think about this enough to realize the context the name "Francis Bacon" was in. He could have done the same thing with ANY source of information, not just the Internet. So this is actually a good example of how NOT to use the Internet, but applies to all sources of information.
Either you didn't read the article very well, or it just didn't sink in, given the questions. Quote " lost in shipment to a backup center", to to answer the second question, chances are it WAS a secure offsite storage that it was going to. This also answers the first question. Third question too. And finally, for the fourth one, it is routine to make tape backups of large quantities of data and ship to an offsite storage. In the article, it didn't say anything about flying, nor baggage handlers, unless they modifed the article from when I read it.
In eve, in many space stations, they are advertising a website, that you can get a subscription to using in-game money. I won't go into details, but it is a long-standing joke in the game.
You are assuming one thing--they would have to be on the surface of Mars. If you went 20 feet below the surface, I'm sure conditions would be MUCH nicer for microbes, possibly having liquid water. Who knows until we send a probe that can actually dig into the surface and analyze what is found there.
Then state that you are LEASING the printer for a perpetual lease, with the implied understanding that you will purchase their ink for use in THEIR printer, to provide the service of printing. If you are going to do this, make it obvious, and make it understood that the cost of the product implies a revenue stream. This is how you get your cheap cellphone (you agree to pay for the service for a year), the same model should apply to printers. But Oh, golly gee, nobody will buy a printer that way. Hmmm.....
Have a modded "submission queue", and if the submission gets a +5, it gets put on the top for submission. You can have dups, but the writeups would go up in quality at least.
I agree. Glad the company I work for supports it.:) Unfortunately, many of the older load balancers at best will simply terminate the connection after replying to the first request, which by RFC is completely acceptable, as they don't have the memory to buffer several requests at once.
was detained while attempting to board Air Force One after being detected as possibly being Osama Bin Laden in disguise. He was later released after it was determined to have been a false match.
While many webservers have no problem with pipelining, it breaks many load balancing devices (except for the one made by the company I work for though... Cough Netscaler Caugh). As such, it can cause odd problems on those websites, and sometimes performance issues for the website itself. As a general rule you shouldn't do pipeling to general websites. To proxy servers, it makes more sense though, as they won't send the request out pipelined as a general rule, but you can send the requests in faster.
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Wireless is the wrong medium for high-speed internet access with the technology available today. Basically you are assuming ANYBODY can get good wifi coverage, and if it's free, it implicitly WILL suck if only from overuse and/or restrictions in service that are needed to keep it from being saturated. I'm not commenting as much on the government not being able to hire the best people, I'm questioning if that will even matter. The "Pros" have chosen to use DSL and Cable as the delivery medium, and I don't think this will change for reliable service any time soon.
City turns on city-wide wireless. Everybody with cable modems and dsl say "great, I'll cancel my service now". Slowly, that 11Mb/s (ideal) connection you connected to as the first one to use it in your neighborhood gets shared with 100 other people. Result? Speeds similar to dialup IF everything works right. Now tie in bittorrent bandwidth, and everything goes to the shitter. The only way wireless networks to work well is for there to be few enough users so they don't get congested in a given area. Once free service comes online, there will be so much congestion, nobody will WANT to be on it, and it disrupted the ability for other companies to make money on reliable services (as much as they are).
Someone will come back and point out you can get more than 11 Mb/s out of this stuff, let's assume 54Mb/s, or even 100Mb/s. In the end it will still reach saturation, everybody will have to be throttled at some low amount of bandwidth to keep things fair, and service overall will be crap. I can't even keep a 802.11B connection stable from across a room (nothing in between) due to interference, much less across a city block. Leave this stuff to the pros to figure out a reliable way to deliver internet.
I agree that many of the items listed would be out of copyright, therefor fair game, but they have stuff included up to 1957 at least, which I don't think would qualify. They are advertising "free and open" on their webpage, implying that they KNOW that there isn't any copyright issues, so this isn't about fair use. What they are doing is the same as if I took an mp3 that I didn't know where it came from, and posting it online for anybody to download. Ignorance of a copyright doesn't protect them or anybody else.
The answer is "they probably don't have a right" and will be forced to take many down. Just because you don't know who owns the copyright to something doesn't mean it doesn't HAVE an owner, it just means you may as well throw it in the trash because you can't legally do anything. For example, if you have a picture of a statue, with no information of where the picture was taken, when, by who, or who owns the copyright of the statue, can you do ANYTHING with that picture? Nope.
It's not like the response rate for my personals ads will get any lower by beaming them into space, I figured they were doing this already.
We shall see...
Nah, 2.4Ghz phones have been out for a while now. It's the 5ghz that is newer. And I don't really think it is a problem, 2.4 is "unlicensed" and if someone wanted to should be complete legal to operate a wifi jammer if they really wanted to.
Ironically enough CountZero posted a link to the article as a comment, and with my ordering was RIGHT below yours. What are the chances of that happening...
nobody uses an old cordless phone that for all intent purposes jams the signal, like the one my neighbors use... and use... and use....
Also, they asked the wrong group of people: internet users != online dating site users. I don't think my grandma using the Internet would have any earthly idea on if they do background checks. Unless you actually ask the people that USE these services, the number is meaningless. But I'm sure they already know this, but they found the worst "sounding" statistic for the purposes of marketing they could.
I've realized this actually is a **bad** idea, for one reason: the ease in which voter fraud can be done. Think about it this way, in many areas, it is pretty much known who will win, so trying to skew the votes there won't help any. It is in the "too close to call" areas that voter fraud can be a problem, and those areas can be watched the closest. If there was a global pool of votes, than the vote in areas with a huge population of one or another party could still impact the election, and it is those areas that would be most vulnerable to the fraud in the first place (so for example a 70% vote for republican area could become 73%, skewing the election as a whole for example). So while it is a good idea if everybody were honest, I think it is a poor idea in reality. I do think that each congressional district should have it's own vote in the electorial college instead of having it dividied up state by state, which would make it a more fair and "closer" to idea, but still helping to prevent the voter fraud that a pure popular vote could promote.
You don't get it do you? Ignorance of the law is not an excuse to break the law. If you can't KNOW what the law is, how can you follow it? Someone can now pass a law that makes it illegal to talk about the hidden laws, and if you say anything, you can be locked up up, and by the way, you can't fight the law either because you have never seen it.
This isn't necessarily about the ID on it's own, what he is trying to do is make sure that the laws ARE in the public eye, so watchdogs for our freedom can keep an eye on them. That is the most important aspect of this IMHO.
So the same program can be twice as large? The biggest benefit for the 64 bit code isn't 64 bits for most people, it's that the chip has more registers. With 64 bits, you will have as much memory access as you will ever need (tm), at least in the next 5 years, so 128 bit would be overkill, and force higher memory speeds for the same results. Nah, stick with 64 bits for now.
It takes a little bit in the common sense dept to determine what context everything is in. The problem wasn't that he consulted the Internet, the problem was he didn't think about this enough to realize the context the name "Francis Bacon" was in. He could have done the same thing with ANY source of information, not just the Internet. So this is actually a good example of how NOT to use the Internet, but applies to all sources of information.
Either you didn't read the article very well, or it just didn't sink in, given the questions. Quote " lost in shipment to a backup center", to to answer the second question, chances are it WAS a secure offsite storage that it was going to. This also answers the first question. Third question too. And finally, for the fourth one, it is routine to make tape backups of large quantities of data and ship to an offsite storage. In the article, it didn't say anything about flying, nor baggage handlers, unless they modifed the article from when I read it.
In eve, in many space stations, they are advertising a website, that you can get a subscription to using in-game money. I won't go into details, but it is a long-standing joke in the game.
If I make a mp3 of silence that is 1 minute 5 seconds long, am I sampling their work, and would it be considered a derivitive work?
You are assuming one thing--they would have to be on the surface of Mars. If you went 20 feet below the surface, I'm sure conditions would be MUCH nicer for microbes, possibly having liquid water. Who knows until we send a probe that can actually dig into the surface and analyze what is found there.
Then state that you are LEASING the printer for a perpetual lease, with the implied understanding that you will purchase their ink for use in THEIR printer, to provide the service of printing. If you are going to do this, make it obvious, and make it understood that the cost of the product implies a revenue stream. This is how you get your cheap cellphone (you agree to pay for the service for a year), the same model should apply to printers. But Oh, golly gee, nobody will buy a printer that way. Hmmm.....
Have a modded "submission queue", and if the submission gets a +5, it gets put on the top for submission. You can have dups, but the writeups would go up in quality at least.
I agree. Glad the company I work for supports it. :) Unfortunately, many of the older load balancers at best will simply terminate the connection after replying to the first request, which by RFC is completely acceptable, as they don't have the memory to buffer several requests at once.
How about "sociopath goes to jail after doing something malicious on the Internet" which ironically, covers quite a few stories on Slashdot.
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was detained while attempting to board Air Force One after being detected as possibly being Osama Bin Laden in disguise. He was later released after it was determined to have been a false match.
Some of these are BAD to do. In particular:
user_pref("network.http.pipelining", true);
While many webservers have no problem with pipelining, it breaks many load balancing devices (except for the one made by the company I work for though... Cough Netscaler Caugh). As such, it can cause odd problems on those websites, and sometimes performance issues for the website itself. As a general rule you shouldn't do pipeling to general websites. To proxy servers, it makes more sense though, as they won't send the request out pipelined as a general rule, but you can send the requests in faster.
Huh? How do you get that?