If I create a work and hold the copyright on that work, google has no right to provide copies of that work without my permission, and they cannot say, "you can opt out!". That's backwards according to long established law.
How would you feel if a library had to get permission from copyright holders before offering books? It seems to me that there are some circumstances where an opt-out makes more sense than an opt-in.
... and have successfully communicated with 4 out of 23 patients previously thought to be in a coma.
A vegetative state is by definition where there is no detectable awareness. You could legitimately say that they were "previously thought to be in a vegetative state," but if you detect awareness then they are in a coma.
I would say that it would be more likely that proper English would be taught in the same way that cursive is: cool to know and useful in rare circumstances but not relevant most of the time.
That can be really dangerous though. In all of science, engineering, medicine, history, and philosophy it is important to be extremely precise in your wording in order to properly convey ideas. If you don't teach people the necessary language tools to do this early on then they will have a much higher barrier to enter these fields and we will have even more trouble pushing innovation forward.
*I'm sure a lot more fields that I can't think of at the moment.
Then take steps that will actually encourage people to be aware of the problem, like teaching them about the bystander effect. But punishing people who most likely didn't even know such a law exists does nothing but give us satisfaction with the thought that we wouldn't do that sort of thing, when of course, we likely would.
Prosecuting people for such cases usually gets a lot of media coverage and brings attention to the issue. I'm not sure I agree with such a tactic, but in all honesty a lot of people don't notice moral issues unless they have some sort of incentive (positive or negative) to do so.
All new goods, and all services, would be part of the tax. That means that EVERYONE who buys anything new, or even gets a haircut, will pay the tax. Including illegal aliens, prostitutes, under the table employees, foreign visitors, EVERYONE.
You cannot wave a magic wand and convince people to pay taxes on cash transactions. It is unfortunate, but in practice the world does not follow ideal rules.
The IRS shouldn't even exist. Why tax productive work? Why not tax consumption? The more you buy, the more tax you pay. If you save and are thrifty, the less tax you pay....
Because then the people that earn a crap-ton of money and don't "technically" buy anything (and if they do it's not in this country) don't end up paying taxes. Since that's where a significant portion of the government's revenue comes from you'd have to end up dicking over the people who are poor or unemployed. If you do that you will get crap like in my state where shanty towns start springing up all over the place, because all of the shelters are gone or filled, and you'll have to expend even more resources to protect the "haves" from the "have nots".
This isn't a Windows specific problem. The fundamental problem is the user/process model that's been popular since the inception of UNIX (maybe even earlier, I don't know enough about Multics to say): the idea that only users have identities and programs run under the identity (and permissions) of the user who runs it. If I'm running a game, there's no reason why it needs access to my tax spreadsheets, etc...
You mean like SELinux? Brought to you by the NSA since 2000 and included in the kernel since 2003? I remember when it first became enabled in Fedora and broke all my games that used PunkBuster...
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And after that I hear the ridiculous appeals from administrators who claim they don't have enough money to fix broken windows, paint the walls or other basic maintenance, because they pissed it all away on technology that is useless in 4 years and literally junk in 8. I want to cry when they say they need to raise my taxes for it.
No, those are completely different budgets and not at the discretion of the administration (at least in both states where I've lived). The taxpayers (or more precisely, the legislatures they elect) are willing to piss money away on soon-to-be-worthless technology but they are not willing to front the money for building maintenance.
No problem, depending on the tools you have you could look for large quantities of DNS traffic as a "first guess." However, I'm assuming you work in an environment where a reactive response to a security problem is insufficient, or you would not be pursuing such restrictions. If memory serves, SSH over DNS uses TXT records to do its dirty work so you could look into denying all TXT requests not made by your own servers* (provided that this does not break something your organization needs).
*If you use Sender Policy Framework, or a variety of other technologies, then your servers will need to resolve TXT records.
Sure. Proxy intercepts DNS requests and forwards them to our Internal DNS servers. Firewall has a rule to block outbound DNS requests except those by our internal servers. The internal servers are only allowed outbound requests to our ISPs DNS servers.
Except that's not how SSH over DNS works. On the server end someone installs a custom DNS server on a machine and sets that machine as authoritative for a domain. On the client end the PC sends a seemingly benign request through your local DNS servers, which forward that request to the authoritative domain (running the custom DNS server). The custom DNS server then decodes the "benign" request, passes it off to the SSH server, retrieves the reply, then encodes it so that it can be sent back to the client PC.
Any perfectly square wave requires an infinate amount of sine waves to be replicated (or: consists of the same).
You cannot perfectly create a square wave from sine waves, even if you had an infinite number of them. This problem occurs with any jump discontinuity and is referred to as the Gibbs phenomenon.
The taxpayer gave you Millions if not Billions back in the 90's for infrastructure upgrades. And now, a decade later, with YOU posting record profits, and infrastructure being upgraded at a rate comparable to snails pace, you have the gall to ask for more money from the taxpayers, i.e. your CUSTOMERS?
Pardon me Big Telco, but FUCK YOU!
That is because they have a legal obligation to their shareholders, not their customers. Since the taxpayers did not become shareholders in this process they have no legal obligation to do anything except increase the return for their shareholders. Since they received 200B USD in the 90s the only way they can do that (besides asking for more money) is to try and be as ruthless as possible.
I also know about VNC, but trying to walk someone through opening up ports on their router that thinks their Internet is broken when their homepage gets changed is not realistic.
Why don't you just use Reverse VNC so you're the one who has to setup ports? RealVNC provides an easy option for Windows users to "Add a New Client": Using WinVNC
My phone keeps the time just fine when out of reception. Likely better than an old pocket watch. What kind of brick-phone do you have?
I know that my phone doesn't keep accurate time even with reception and even though I'm just a few miles away from NIST. At the moment it's only off by 10 seconds, but it's been as bad as 3 minutes. My wristwatch, on the otherhand, is guaranteed to be accurate within a 5 second drift over a full year (and it's not a fancy watch). I wouldn't be surprised if the phone manufacturers know that they can get away with using crappy crystal oscillators and just re-syncing the time regularly.
lesson plans are generally not produced at school, typically they are created off the clock at home.
That's not true, most courses in the US use canned lesson plans that the district pays a small fortune to obtain. My father is a school administrator (and has been for districts large and small) and I can tell you a significant portion of the budget goes to buying lesson plans*. Look into it and you'll learn that "entrepreneurs" have been making a lot of money off of educating your children.
* On a slightly unrelated note, some districts even have policies that tell teachers they may not deviate from the lesson plans. I even know teachers that have been fired over this issue.
The people a the bar I occasionally visit who order these drinks (particularly the ones with energy drinks) seem to have a certain type of personality that would lend itself to the actions observed.
That might have something to do with that most people have been trained "don't mix uppers with downers." So, I'd say this falls under the category of people who do stupid things intentionally because they want to be rebellious.
The problem with using robots.txt, from his POV, is that it's purely advisory, and requires the cooperation of the spider in question. Yes, I'm sure that Google's spider is configured to honor it, but as long as it can be ignored, people like Murdoch are sure that it will be because that's what they'd do.
Just like a restraining order can be ignored? There will be significant consequences if any search engines started ignoring the robots.txt file. People have tried it before and it never ends well for them. Honestly, I don't know what he really expects Google to do - put up a billboard for Faux News for every news related query? They're never going to pay him to index his site and I doubt any court would be dumb enough to make them.
... However, he seems to have read them differently to me. He says that Gmail uses agree to google disclosing the information in response to a lawful request (ie, a subpoena) and somehow reads from this that users dont have any expectation of privacy....
And how would that be "screwing" you? Seems to me that it would be considering a factor that has a correlation, if not an effect, upon an outcome. That's pretty much the basis of actuarial science.
Watch Gattaca and get back with us. I would argue that a responsible society would provide extra help to such people, rather than punishing them for something that they have no control over.
I'm curious, why is the Plank-length "So-called"? Hasn't it been firmly established as a unit of measurement?
It's a unit of measurement derived from dimensional analysis. Some believe that the Planck length is the unit that describes the quantization of space, but this assertion has not successfully been tested.
There might not be "full-featured Windows" on ARM, but saying there's no Windows at all on ARM is just ignorance.
They're probably subscribing to the argument that if it does not support Win32 then it does not "run Windows programs" and is therefore "not Windows." While this is technically incorrect, it is true from a practical sense for most people.
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How would you feel if a library had to get permission from copyright holders before offering books? It seems to me that there are some circumstances where an opt-out makes more sense than an opt-in.
A vegetative state is by definition where there is no detectable awareness. You could legitimately say that they were "previously thought to be in a vegetative state," but if you detect awareness then they are in a coma.
That can be really dangerous though. In all of science, engineering, medicine, history, and philosophy it is important to be extremely precise in your wording in order to properly convey ideas. If you don't teach people the necessary language tools to do this early on then they will have a much higher barrier to enter these fields and we will have even more trouble pushing innovation forward.
*I'm sure a lot more fields that I can't think of at the moment.
Prosecuting people for such cases usually gets a lot of media coverage and brings attention to the issue. I'm not sure I agree with such a tactic, but in all honesty a lot of people don't notice moral issues unless they have some sort of incentive (positive or negative) to do so.
You cannot wave a magic wand and convince people to pay taxes on cash transactions. It is unfortunate, but in practice the world does not follow ideal rules.
Because then the people that earn a crap-ton of money and don't "technically" buy anything (and if they do it's not in this country) don't end up paying taxes. Since that's where a significant portion of the government's revenue comes from you'd have to end up dicking over the people who are poor or unemployed. If you do that you will get crap like in my state where shanty towns start springing up all over the place, because all of the shelters are gone or filled, and you'll have to expend even more resources to protect the "haves" from the "have nots".
You mean like SELinux? Brought to you by the NSA since 2000 and included in the kernel since 2003? I remember when it first became enabled in Fedora and broke all my games that used PunkBuster...
No, those are completely different budgets and not at the discretion of the administration (at least in both states where I've lived). The taxpayers (or more precisely, the legislatures they elect) are willing to piss money away on soon-to-be-worthless technology but they are not willing to front the money for building maintenance.
No problem, depending on the tools you have you could look for large quantities of DNS traffic as a "first guess." However, I'm assuming you work in an environment where a reactive response to a security problem is insufficient, or you would not be pursuing such restrictions. If memory serves, SSH over DNS uses TXT records to do its dirty work so you could look into denying all TXT requests not made by your own servers* (provided that this does not break something your organization needs).
*If you use Sender Policy Framework, or a variety of other technologies, then your servers will need to resolve TXT records.
Except that's not how SSH over DNS works. On the server end someone installs a custom DNS server on a machine and sets that machine as authoritative for a domain. On the client end the PC sends a seemingly benign request through your local DNS servers, which forward that request to the authoritative domain (running the custom DNS server). The custom DNS server then decodes the "benign" request, passes it off to the SSH server, retrieves the reply, then encodes it so that it can be sent back to the client PC.
Good luck blocking SSH over DNS.
You cannot perfectly create a square wave from sine waves, even if you had an infinite number of them. This problem occurs with any jump discontinuity and is referred to as the Gibbs phenomenon.
Ahem.. (clears throat). FUCK YOU!
The taxpayer gave you Millions if not Billions back in the 90's for infrastructure upgrades. And now, a decade later, with YOU posting record profits, and infrastructure being upgraded at a rate comparable to snails pace, you have the gall to ask for more money from the taxpayers, i.e. your CUSTOMERS?
Pardon me Big Telco, but FUCK YOU!
That is because they have a legal obligation to their shareholders, not their customers. Since the taxpayers did not become shareholders in this process they have no legal obligation to do anything except increase the return for their shareholders. Since they received 200B USD in the 90s the only way they can do that (besides asking for more money) is to try and be as ruthless as possible.
Alternatively, you can irradiate it...
Why don't you just use Reverse VNC so you're the one who has to setup ports? RealVNC provides an easy option for Windows users to "Add a New Client":
Using WinVNC
My phone keeps the time just fine when out of reception. Likely better than an old pocket watch. What kind of brick-phone do you have?
I know that my phone doesn't keep accurate time even with reception and even though I'm just a few miles away from NIST. At the moment it's only off by 10 seconds, but it's been as bad as 3 minutes. My wristwatch, on the otherhand, is guaranteed to be accurate within a 5 second drift over a full year (and it's not a fancy watch). I wouldn't be surprised if the phone manufacturers know that they can get away with using crappy crystal oscillators and just re-syncing the time regularly.
That's not true, most courses in the US use canned lesson plans that the district pays a small fortune to obtain. My father is a school administrator (and has been for districts large and small) and I can tell you a significant portion of the budget goes to buying lesson plans*. Look into it and you'll learn that "entrepreneurs" have been making a lot of money off of educating your children.
* On a slightly unrelated note, some districts even have policies that tell teachers they may not deviate from the lesson plans. I even know teachers that have been fired over this issue.
I say we charge them with treason, that way they only need to fail to find a way around the rules once and they can never represent anyone ever again.
That might have something to do with that most people have been trained "don't mix uppers with downers." So, I'd say this falls under the category of people who do stupid things intentionally because they want to be rebellious.
Just like a restraining order can be ignored? There will be significant consequences if any search engines started ignoring the robots.txt file. People have tried it before and it never ends well for them. Honestly, I don't know what he really expects Google to do - put up a billboard for Faux News for every news related query? They're never going to pay him to index his site and I doubt any court would be dumb enough to make them.
Then why does congress get this kind of protection when private citizens suspected of a crime do not?
You could always suggest that gmail support PGP encryption:
http://mail.google.com/support/bin/static.py?page=suggestions.cs
Watch Gattaca and get back with us. I would argue that a responsible society would provide extra help to such people, rather than punishing them for something that they have no control over.
It's a unit of measurement derived from dimensional analysis. Some believe that the Planck length is the unit that describes the quantization of space, but this assertion has not successfully been tested.
They're probably subscribing to the argument that if it does not support Win32 then it does not "run Windows programs" and is therefore "not Windows." While this is technically incorrect, it is true from a practical sense for most people.