Compare the Republicans or Democrats policies/positions to those of the Canadian Conservative party (obviously, they're conservative), the Liberal party (generally centrist) and the NDP (leftist social democrats). Both US parties are significantly right of even the conservatives.
I keep seeing this argument brought up in every "frivolous suits" story, yet I fail to see this "chilling effect on legitimate lawsuits" happening in various other countries with a loser-pays system.
Put it simply "net neutrality" is an ideological battle between engineers, who would like to define a workable scheme for traffic management, and idealogs, who think the internet is a wonderful tool for freedom but have no idea how it works.
Don't forget the ISP execs who want to make as much profit as possible for as little input as possible.
Defining it as a 2-sided debate is misleading at best.
Obama is "US liberal". From his views, he would seem to be a bit right of the Canadian conservative party. Our liberal party probably falls into "pinko commies" on the US spectrum and the NDP likely falls clear off the left edge.
Obama? Socialist? The US political spectrum has a serious rightward shift. Obama is more conservative than our conservative party! I wonder where the liberal party would be on your spectrum. or the NDP!
To have any real and lasting effect, you'd also want to:
- Disband all political parties and require all candidates to run on their own merits, rather than as a letter. - Implement strict new legislation severely limiting lobbying and campaign fund contributions. - Remove the staff of all members of congress. - Replace the first-past-the-post voting system in favour of something better, like instant runoff.
No, you can break the DRM...that's the point of the paragraph.
The "nothing in this section shall affect" means that if something in this section says that an action would be illegal, but that you are doing that action to use your fair use rights, then the action is not illegal in that instance.
that's still up for debate, as AFAIK, there has been no definite court ruling regarding the intersection of fair use and the DMCA, though that may be forthcoming in movie studios v. real networks when the case is ruled on sometime next decade.
Not defending the guy, but if it was my account, I'd be deafened by laughter if I wanted charges pressed, so the indictment strikes me as kinda justice-for-the-"important".
1) I am reasonably sure that is a violation of the Alaska Public Records Act (Alaska's FOIA implementation), given that it is putting public government records (government-duties-related emails) on non-government resources that cannot be pulled for an FOIA request.
Vista does the same thing. Just goes "hibernating..." then bounces back to the desktop. Nothing in the event log about it either. Did it on my new HP laptop out of the box, though the first trip to windows update provided a new soundcard driver which fixed that and it now hibernates fine.
What the heck kind of machines are you running? my gaming desktop (3.0ghz core 2 duo, 2GB ram, 8800GTS 640MB, 1 hard drive) draws about 240W at idle (about 360W running flat out, 20W in S3, and about 2W when off), including my old 17" CRT.
I know a total of 5 people who don't use natural gas for heating, and 4 of them use propane as they're so far out of the way the gas network doesn't reach them. only 1 guy uses non-central (heating controlled on a room by room basis) electric. In terms of raw dollars-per-joule, gas is a way better proposition. even after the latest electric rate jump (from 6 cents to 9 cents per KW-hr), gas is still about 1/3 the cost of electric heat.
Mccain is a toss-up. I kinda like the pre-2006 "maverick" version, but for the past 2 years, he's been walking the party line, which makes one wonder, if elected, will you get the old Mcain, the new Mccain, or something else? I honestly wouldn't mind the old Mccain for president, provided he doesn't get more tumors. Remember, he doesn't have to die, just become incapacitated.
As for Palin, no, hell no. Being governor/senator for Alaska doesn't count for much in my book. There are cities with more people than that state. Hell, Brad Wall would be more qualified IMO, and I don't even like that guy much.
Technically, they are still run by the Queen. Every law in Canada still needs royal assent, typically given by the Queen's representative, the Governor-General, though highly important laws (the constitution in 1982, for example) are occasionally assented by the Queen herself. Technically, they can deny assent, even though they can't practically. Just one of those things that remains as changing it is annoying, expensive (You would have to change a few lines on every single law on the books.), and pointless (It doesn't make any difference anyway, due to the technical/practical divide.).
Plus, it's also useful, as it allows for a separation between the official head of state (the GG) and the actual head of the government (the Prime Minister), basically dedicating a person to do all the ceremonial stuff, unlike in the US, where the president has to do both actual governing and the ceremonial stuff. This is further advantageous as the PM is also an Member of Parliament, so sans the GG, he/she would have to wear 3 hats.
I doubt it, as that explicitly in the law (not just the name) limits its coverage to "digital audio and digital audio devices", not video. Also, the DMCA largely expands the anti-circumvention provisions, which is the issue here, rendering the law fairly redundant for this purpose.
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For example...?
AFAIK, only California has that in the US.
Compare the Republicans or Democrats policies/positions to those of the Canadian Conservative party (obviously, they're conservative), the Liberal party (generally centrist) and the NDP (leftist social democrats). Both US parties are significantly right of even the conservatives.
I keep seeing this argument brought up in every "frivolous suits" story, yet I fail to see this "chilling effect on legitimate lawsuits" happening in various other countries with a loser-pays system.
Put it simply "net neutrality" is an ideological battle between engineers, who would like to define a workable scheme for traffic management, and idealogs, who think the internet is a wonderful tool for freedom but have no idea how it works.
Don't forget the ISP execs who want to make as much profit as possible for as little input as possible.
Defining it as a 2-sided debate is misleading at best.
Obama is "US liberal". From his views, he would seem to be a bit right of the Canadian conservative party. Our liberal party probably falls into "pinko commies" on the US spectrum and the NDP likely falls clear off the left edge.
Obama? Socialist? The US political spectrum has a serious rightward shift. Obama is more conservative than our conservative party! I wonder where the liberal party would be on your spectrum. or the NDP!
To have any real and lasting effect, you'd also want to:
- Disband all political parties and require all candidates to run on their own merits, rather than as a letter.
- Implement strict new legislation severely limiting lobbying and campaign fund contributions.
- Remove the staff of all members of congress.
- Replace the first-past-the-post voting system in favour of something better, like instant runoff.
No, you can break the DRM...that's the point of the paragraph.
The "nothing in this section shall affect" means that if something in this section says that an action would be illegal, but that you are doing that action to use your fair use rights, then the action is not illegal in that instance.
that's still up for debate, as AFAIK, there has been no definite court ruling regarding the intersection of fair use and the DMCA, though that may be forthcoming in movie studios v. real networks when the case is ruled on sometime next decade.
They have brains. They rent them out to various corporations, so they're not in their heads very often.
AFAIK (can't seem to get at TFA to check), no.
Not defending the guy, but if it was my account, I'd be deafened by laughter if I wanted charges pressed, so the indictment strikes me as kinda justice-for-the-"important".
It's news because this is the first time we detected one before it hit and were able to track its descent.
1) I am reasonably sure that is a violation of the Alaska Public Records Act (Alaska's FOIA implementation), given that it is putting public government records (government-duties-related emails) on non-government resources that cannot be pulled for an FOIA request.
For once, I think this thing is tangentially on topic, being as I'm reasonably sure this is some kind of language AI project.
Sure, you have the fair use rights, but you can't break any sort of content protection/DRM/etc. to exercise those rights.
Basically, you can copy anything you like under fair use, so long as the producer/distributor made no effort whatsoever to prevent you from doing so.
As opposed to profit-motivated corporations deciding what healthcare you can and can't have?
Vista does the same thing. Just goes "hibernating..." then bounces back to the desktop. Nothing in the event log about it either. Did it on my new HP laptop out of the box, though the first trip to windows update provided a new soundcard driver which fixed that and it now hibernates fine.
95%+?! the BEST I have seen is about 87%, and I'm pretty sure they're playing games with the temperature to get that rating.
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What the heck kind of machines are you running? my gaming desktop (3.0ghz core 2 duo, 2GB ram, 8800GTS 640MB, 1 hard drive) draws about 240W at idle (about 360W running flat out, 20W in S3, and about 2W when off), including my old 17" CRT.
I would guess you either have a piece of hardware or driver that isn't fully ACPI-compatible or you don't have drive space for the hibernate file.
I know a total of 5 people who don't use natural gas for heating, and 4 of them use propane as they're so far out of the way the gas network doesn't reach them. only 1 guy uses non-central (heating controlled on a room by room basis) electric. In terms of raw dollars-per-joule, gas is a way better proposition. even after the latest electric rate jump (from 6 cents to 9 cents per KW-hr), gas is still about 1/3 the cost of electric heat.
Mccain is a toss-up. I kinda like the pre-2006 "maverick" version, but for the past 2 years, he's been walking the party line, which makes one wonder, if elected, will you get the old Mcain, the new Mccain, or something else? I honestly wouldn't mind the old Mccain for president, provided he doesn't get more tumors. Remember, he doesn't have to die, just become incapacitated.
As for Palin, no, hell no. Being governor/senator for Alaska doesn't count for much in my book. There are cities with more people than that state. Hell, Brad Wall would be more qualified IMO, and I don't even like that guy much.
Technically, they are still run by the Queen. Every law in Canada still needs royal assent, typically given by the Queen's representative, the Governor-General, though highly important laws (the constitution in 1982, for example) are occasionally assented by the Queen herself. Technically, they can deny assent, even though they can't practically. Just one of those things that remains as changing it is annoying, expensive (You would have to change a few lines on every single law on the books.), and pointless (It doesn't make any difference anyway, due to the technical/practical divide.).
Plus, it's also useful, as it allows for a separation between the official head of state (the GG) and the actual head of the government (the Prime Minister), basically dedicating a person to do all the ceremonial stuff, unlike in the US, where the president has to do both actual governing and the ceremonial stuff. This is further advantageous as the PM is also an Member of Parliament, so sans the GG, he/she would have to wear 3 hats.
I doubt it, as that explicitly in the law (not just the name) limits its coverage to "digital audio and digital audio devices", not video. Also, the DMCA largely expands the anti-circumvention provisions, which is the issue here, rendering the law fairly redundant for this purpose.
How many of those companies/developers are located in the US?