* It's perfectly okay under "fair use" for a third party to help someone do something they can already legally do themselves - time-shift a television broadcast that they could have watched live. In other words, if Areo wants to put an antenna on my property or, for hotels, apartments, condos, and the like, where a "community antenna" would reasonably be located, that's legally fine under "fair use." At this point, Areo would be acting more like a cable company that offered DVR-in-the-cloud services than a pure DVR-in-the-cloud service provider. Due to changes in the law in the past few years, local cable companies cannot freely retransmit local stations. Sad, but true.
* It's not "fair use" for a third-party to help someone they cannot do themselves. For example, if I live in an area where I can't receive a particular channel due to being on the wrong side of a hill, there's no legal justification for allowing Areo to let me view it.
* It's probably not be "fair use" for a third-party to help someone record a broadcast "without errors" if they would typically be subject to "errors" while watching it live. For example, if the person could only receive a station weakly and it cut in and out a lot, or if they lived near an airport and the station cut out when a plane flew overhead, it would be legally dubious to allow Areo to allow me to record a show without reproducing the same "errors" that I would have experienced if I were using an in-home DVR setup using my in-home antenna.
What if the Supremes approve for-profit cloud DVRs but disapprove antennas that are remote from tge customer's residenc? The cloud wins, Areo's business model taks a hit, and it's unlikel the cable companies will "go Areo."
Okay, I'm more ignorant than I thought an I'm an idiot for posting without verifying that what I thought I knew was actually true.
5 minutes of Google should've made me realize that some of the things I thought I knew about EMP are based on mis-information I got years and decades ago.
The people who die in the first few minutes are going to be those who's lives are dependent on technology. That's list contains almost exclusively those in planes and those dependent on medical devices.
You forgot automobile drivers who are caught off guard by their engines stalling at the same time as those in the vehicles around them stall. There will be some car crashes and some who die as a direct result or as a result of not being able to get immediate access to adequate medical care.
If you extend "minutes" to "the first 59 minutes" then you can add more people to the list.
Interestingly, some older, non-fly-by-wire planes can be landed after a complete electrical shutdown if there is no other damage to the plane, the pilot knows what he's doing, and there is a landing strip available.
How were the Chinese dissidents supposed to find the tor-based hidden services on how to combat the Chinese government? After all, that's why the US Government invented TOR, right? Right???
I'm sure there's a secret message hidden in your gaseous emmissions, but due to the inherent hazards of internet-stink-bombs my router refuses to pass odor packets into my network.
National Security Letters work if the person receiving them is subject to US law.
The "bully stick of diplomacy" may work of the person is subject to the law of a country that wants to stay on friendly terms with the USA.
If this site is hosted in a country like North Korea (which we can probably rule out to to their self-imposed Internet near-exile), Iran, or one of a small number of other countries openly hostile with the US Government, it's highly unlikely that the US Government will be able to use "the force of law" to compromise the site itself. Far more likely is that they will have to sneak in covertly to compromise either it or the pipe leading to it, or they will find a way of "taking over" the URL without taking over the site itself.
Ah, you must've found the +1 solameitscool super-secret modification option that people with "6" Karma get to use if the computer throws a 20 on the roll of the dice when it give you mod points.
Sorry you mis-used it, it will be awhile before you get another chance.
DOH! I *knew* I should've read the freakin' article before writing that.
Obviously, the article is talking about scripting languages, languages that (typically) run inside of a hopefully-OS-independent-behavior runtime rather than a traditional compiled language that doesn't contain a lot of "runtime" between the compiled code and the operating system.
If the language specification doesn't expressly say what happen when things "outside the design" happen, then different implementations may work differently.
For example:
If the language design spec says
"If an array index is out of bounds, exit the program and return a value of ABEND_ARRAY_BOUNDS_VIOLATION to the calling program,"
that may seem very specific, but if how to "exit the program and return a value of ABEND_ARRAY_BOUNDS_VIOLATION to the calling program," isn't specified by someone (usually the operating system), then it may not be specific enough. if different operating systems specify how to do this differently, then expected "under the hood" behavior will not necessarily be consistent across operating systems.
For example, does "exit the program" mean simply returning control to the caller, or does it mean explicitly returning any resources that were previously granted to the program by the operating system first? Or is that optional? If it's optional as far as the operating system is concerned, does the language provide a compile- or run-time switch to force such a cleanup? Does returning memory to the operating system guarantee that the OS will sanitize the memory, and if not, does the language guarantee it? If the language doesn't guarantee it, does the language provide a compile- or runtime switch so the program will sanitize memory prior to returning it to the operating system?
These differences in language implementations and even differences in how operating systems handle the starting and stopping of processes can lead to differences in what the code actually does. Usually these differences are unimportant but sometimes they are very important.
Back in the days of race-based "red-lining" and "Whites-only" legally-enforced racially-segregated neighborhoods, rich and middle-class African-Americans had to live in the "non-white" part of town, along with the poor African-Americans and other non-Whites.
Once the zoning laws, deed restrictions, and race-based morgtage- and homeowners-insurance redlining disappeared, non-Whites had as much choice as white people when it came to where they wanted live. Money or lack of it still limited their choices, but their skin color was no longer a barrier.
Now, middle-class African-Americans who move into a city are likely to move into a "middle class" neighborhood, not a "Black" neighborhood.
We went from a society that had a more distinct "Black middle class" that was created out of racial discrimination into one where if there is a "Black middle class" that's distinct from a "Middle class" the distinction is much weaker than it once was, but where there is no legally-enforced racial discrimination and much less (and someday soon I hope, no) racial discrimination denying African-Americans and other non-Whites the same rights and opportunities enjoyed by White people.
I for one don't want to undo the last 50 years of racial desegregation just to bring back the distinct "Black middle class."
Likewise, I don't think we should deny today's children the ability to hear - albeit in a limited way - just to preserve "Deaf culture."
Unless you plan on doing something bad on the plane that will get you arrested or killed anyways, you also have to never be caught, even after the fact. Or at least delay your capture until all relevant criminal and civil statutes of limitations have run out.
Given that there are cameras everywhere these days, "Good luck with that."
Even then you have to worry about countries retroactively extending the statutes of limitations if their Constitutions/Basic Laws/whatever allow for it (In the last 10-20 years, California [USA] retroactively re-instated the right to sue for damages for certain decades-old torts).
To those who say "it's the bad guys who plan on hurting themselves or others once onboard" I say "You are right, that is an issue that needs to be addressed, but that's outside the scope of my comment, please start another thread."
For people who are packing light ("what fits on your backpack, no more"), increase the use of buses and provide (more?) safe/monitored parking in a "nearby" town at a reasonable price. Better yet, increase any fees paid by attendees to subsidize the cost, so those who do not use the in-city parking pay for part of the cost so as to encourage more use.
I don't know if this 2-lane highway has "full-service" shoulders on it, but if it does, get a permit from the state to allow these buses and other very-high-occupancy vehicles to use the shoulders, the same way that some roads in hurricane-areas have "full service shoulders" that are open during a hurricane evacuation.
Heck, for that matter, if the 2-lane road "could" be safely re-striped as a 3-lane road, pay to have it re-striped with the middle lane going inbound at the start and outbound at the end. Yes, that's a lot of money so barring a big donation it may not be feasible, but it's worth at least looking into.
A general word to any leader who prevents a highly-valued contributor from contributing: If enough influential downstream users don't like this, you may not have the political capital to do this the next time you think you need to do the same thing.
This is not a comment on this specific situation - I am way too ignorant to even begin to know if Linus or Sievers has the higher moral ground or for that matter if either of them have the higher moral ground. It's just a general warning that this kind of action may require spending "political capital," and political capital can run out quickly if it is not continually re-earned.
They were big honking connectors with big fat cables, but at least you didn't have to worry about which end went where. Plus, every cable was an extension cable.
Due to the lack of enough (or any?) use of a random-event-generator, some early versions of the original Pac-Man arcade game had "canned solutions" that worked for every level. After the hardest level, the hardest level just repeated itself forever. One version ended at the "5th key" and another at the "9th key."
I say "some early versions" - it might be "all versions." I don't know if there were any other versions of the official Pac Man arcade game back in its heyday.
... used to be easy to do. Then the companies got wind that people were using them to "see through clothing" and made it impractical for most hobbyists.
Google Glass is one thing but as soon as people clamor OMG to the press and politicians loud enough, commercial companies will be afraid to market this to consumers and legislators may step in to criminalize the un-disclosed use of "IR vision" for non-"legitimate" (e.g. security cameras) use or even criminalize all non-"legitimate" IR use in public places.
Come to think if it, I might be in favor of rules allowing for civil-court action for failing to disclosure of "see through clothing-capable" photography done in places accessible to the public.
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See, when I was a kid, we had this thing called the postal service. It was great. If you had a piece of paper.
What is this "paper" of which you speak?
What's the legal justification for such a ruling?
The legal justification would be that
* It's perfectly okay under "fair use" for a third party to help someone do something they can already legally do themselves - time-shift a television broadcast that they could have watched live. In other words, if Areo wants to put an antenna on my property or, for hotels, apartments, condos, and the like, where a "community antenna" would reasonably be located, that's legally fine under "fair use." At this point, Areo would be acting more like a cable company that offered DVR-in-the-cloud services than a pure DVR-in-the-cloud service provider. Due to changes in the law in the past few years, local cable companies cannot freely retransmit local stations. Sad, but true.
* It's not "fair use" for a third-party to help someone they cannot do themselves. For example, if I live in an area where I can't receive a particular channel due to being on the wrong side of a hill, there's no legal justification for allowing Areo to let me view it.
* It's probably not be "fair use" for a third-party to help someone record a broadcast "without errors" if they would typically be subject to "errors" while watching it live. For example, if the person could only receive a station weakly and it cut in and out a lot, or if they lived near an airport and the station cut out when a plane flew overhead, it would be legally dubious to allow Areo to allow me to record a show without reproducing the same "errors" that I would have experienced if I were using an in-home DVR setup using my in-home antenna.
What if the Supremes approve for-profit cloud DVRs but disapprove antennas that are remote from tge customer's residenc? The cloud wins, Areo's business model taks a hit, and it's unlikel the cable companies will "go Areo."
Okay, I'm more ignorant than I thought an I'm an idiot for posting without verifying that what I thought I knew was actually true.
5 minutes of Google should've made me realize that some of the things I thought I knew about EMP are based on mis-information I got years and decades ago.
Memo to self: Do homework fist, THEN post to /.
The people who die in the first few minutes are going to be those who's lives are dependent on technology. That's list contains almost exclusively those in planes and those dependent on medical devices.
You forgot automobile drivers who are caught off guard by their engines stalling at the same time as those in the vehicles around them stall. There will be some car crashes and some who die as a direct result or as a result of not being able to get immediate access to adequate medical care.
If you extend "minutes" to "the first 59 minutes" then you can add more people to the list.
Interestingly, some older, non-fly-by-wire planes can be landed after a complete electrical shutdown if there is no other damage to the plane, the pilot knows what he's doing, and there is a landing strip available.
... there wasn't any search engine for TOR?
How were the Chinese dissidents supposed to find the tor-based hidden services on how to combat the Chinese government? After all, that's why the US Government invented TOR, right? Right???
I'm sure there's a secret message hidden in your gaseous emmissions, but due to the inherent hazards of internet-stink-bombs my router refuses to pass odor packets into my network.
National Security Letters work if the person receiving them is subject to US law.
The "bully stick of diplomacy" may work of the person is subject to the law of a country that wants to stay on friendly terms with the USA.
If this site is hosted in a country like North Korea (which we can probably rule out to to their self-imposed Internet near-exile), Iran, or one of a small number of other countries openly hostile with the US Government, it's highly unlikely that the US Government will be able to use "the force of law" to compromise the site itself. Far more likely is that they will have to sneak in covertly to compromise either it or the pipe leading to it, or they will find a way of "taking over" the URL without taking over the site itself.
ack -- posting to undo mod error
Ah, you must've found the +1 solameitscool super-secret modification option that people with "6" Karma get to use if the computer throws a 20 on the roll of the dice when it give you mod points.
Sorry you mis-used it, it will be awhile before you get another chance.
I'm not sure how this would profit them - unless there is some unknown backdoor in TOR.
Unknown back doors - as opposed to those backdoors known by secret-government-types?
I take it there's not a whole lot of comments because everybody's on TOR browsing summary address.
Ah, in that case, don't worry.
They'll be back the day after tomorrow, when tor has returned results...
Now there you go again, being overly optimistic.
Kermet was just a terminal emulator
Kermit allowed for file transfers.
Wikipedia entry for Kermit, as of 23:20, 28 January 2014.
DOH! I *knew* I should've read the freakin' article before writing that.
Obviously, the article is talking about scripting languages, languages that (typically) run inside of a hopefully-OS-independent-behavior runtime rather than a traditional compiled language that doesn't contain a lot of "runtime" between the compiled code and the operating system.
If the language specification doesn't expressly say what happen when things "outside the design" happen, then different implementations may work differently.
For example:
If the language design spec says
"If an array index is out of bounds, exit the program and return a value of ABEND_ARRAY_BOUNDS_VIOLATION to the calling program,"
that may seem very specific, but if how to "exit the program and return a value of ABEND_ARRAY_BOUNDS_VIOLATION to the calling program," isn't specified by someone (usually the operating system), then it may not be specific enough. if different operating systems specify how to do this differently, then expected "under the hood" behavior will not necessarily be consistent across operating systems.
For example, does "exit the program" mean simply returning control to the caller, or does it mean explicitly returning any resources that were previously granted to the program by the operating system first? Or is that optional? If it's optional as far as the operating system is concerned, does the language provide a compile- or run-time switch to force such a cleanup? Does returning memory to the operating system guarantee that the OS will sanitize the memory, and if not, does the language guarantee it? If the language doesn't guarantee it, does the language provide a compile- or runtime switch so the program will sanitize memory prior to returning it to the operating system?
These differences in language implementations and even differences in how operating systems handle the starting and stopping of processes can lead to differences in what the code actually does. Usually these differences are unimportant but sometimes they are very important.
Back in the days of race-based "red-lining" and "Whites-only" legally-enforced racially-segregated neighborhoods, rich and middle-class African-Americans had to live in the "non-white" part of town, along with the poor African-Americans and other non-Whites.
Once the zoning laws, deed restrictions, and race-based morgtage- and homeowners-insurance redlining disappeared, non-Whites had as much choice as white people when it came to where they wanted live. Money or lack of it still limited their choices, but their skin color was no longer a barrier.
Now, middle-class African-Americans who move into a city are likely to move into a "middle class" neighborhood, not a "Black" neighborhood.
We went from a society that had a more distinct "Black middle class" that was created out of racial discrimination into one where if there is a "Black middle class" that's distinct from a "Middle class" the distinction is much weaker than it once was, but where there is no legally-enforced racial discrimination and much less (and someday soon I hope, no) racial discrimination denying African-Americans and other non-Whites the same rights and opportunities enjoyed by White people.
I for one don't want to undo the last 50 years of racial desegregation just to bring back the distinct "Black middle class."
Likewise, I don't think we should deny today's children the ability to hear - albeit in a limited way - just to preserve "Deaf culture."
Getting on the plane is only part of the "game."
Unless you plan on doing something bad on the plane that will get you arrested or killed anyways, you also have to never be caught, even after the fact. Or at least delay your capture until all relevant criminal and civil statutes of limitations have run out.
Given that there are cameras everywhere these days, "Good luck with that."
Even then you have to worry about countries retroactively extending the statutes of limitations if their Constitutions/Basic Laws/whatever allow for it (In the last 10-20 years, California [USA] retroactively re-instated the right to sue for damages for certain decades-old torts).
To those who say "it's the bad guys who plan on hurting themselves or others once onboard" I say "You are right, that is an issue that needs to be addressed, but that's outside the scope of my comment, please start another thread."
For people who are packing light ("what fits on your backpack, no more"), increase the use of buses and provide (more?) safe/monitored parking in a "nearby" town at a reasonable price. Better yet, increase any fees paid by attendees to subsidize the cost, so those who do not use the in-city parking pay for part of the cost so as to encourage more use.
I don't know if this 2-lane highway has "full-service" shoulders on it, but if it does, get a permit from the state to allow these buses and other very-high-occupancy vehicles to use the shoulders, the same way that some roads in hurricane-areas have "full service shoulders" that are open during a hurricane evacuation.
Heck, for that matter, if the 2-lane road "could" be safely re-striped as a 3-lane road, pay to have it re-striped with the middle lane going inbound at the start and outbound at the end. Yes, that's a lot of money so barring a big donation it may not be feasible, but it's worth at least looking into.
... everyone suffers.
A general word to any leader who prevents a highly-valued contributor from contributing: If enough influential downstream users don't like this, you may not have the political capital to do this the next time you think you need to do the same thing.
This is not a comment on this specific situation - I am way too ignorant to even begin to know if Linus or Sievers has the higher moral ground or for that matter if either of them have the higher moral ground. It's just a general warning that this kind of action may require spending "political capital," and political capital can run out quickly if it is not continually re-earned.
They were big honking connectors with big fat cables, but at least you didn't have to worry about which end went where. Plus, every cable was an extension cable.
They aren't the only hermaphroditic connectors available.
Due to the lack of enough (or any?) use of a random-event-generator, some early versions of the original Pac-Man arcade game had "canned solutions" that worked for every level. After the hardest level, the hardest level just repeated itself forever. One version ended at the "5th key" and another at the "9th key."
I say "some early versions" - it might be "all versions." I don't know if there were any other versions of the official Pac Man arcade game back in its heyday.
Great if you want the astronauts throwing up all the time
So THAT'S why the typical rotating amusement-park space station is smaller than your other typical rotating space stations!
... used to be easy to do. Then the companies got wind that people were using them to "see through clothing" and made it impractical for most hobbyists.
Google Glass is one thing but as soon as people clamor OMG to the press and politicians loud enough, commercial companies will be afraid to market this to consumers and legislators may step in to criminalize the un-disclosed use of "IR vision" for non-"legitimate" (e.g. security cameras) use or even criminalize all non-"legitimate" IR use in public places.
Come to think if it, I might be in favor of rules allowing for civil-court action for failing to disclosure of "see through clothing-capable" photography done in places accessible to the public.
They were recalled for saying "no antibiotics" on the package but having measurable amounts of them in the product.
In my dream world, this should have been a joint effort by the FDA and the Federal Trade Commission.
Or to put it another way, if someone feels the need to say "XYZ is settled science" that's a clue that it might not be.
We teach preschoolers some specific examples of abstract algebra:
Today is Friday. Friday is the 6th day of the week. What day will it be 3 days from now? *hold up a calendar*
It is 11 o'clock. What time will it be two hours from now? *hold up an analog clock and point to the hour hand*
You get the idea.