If the laws as written are bad then they'll get changed to better laws. Laws which people actually follow instead of laws which can be selectively enforced are better, fairer laws to start with.
And you'll be able to go into court and say "As the drone data demonstrates I only sped for about 100m while coming down a hill. My apologies, but a human mistake.
Or the drone data could prove that you were driving with traffic and not passing other speeders.
I'm just glad it doesn't work the other way around. I could put swastikas all over my website on some server in Germany, confident that the FBI would laugh at Germany if they tried to have an American citizen arrested and deported.
Apples to oranges.
The crime committed in this instance (copyright infringement) thanks to international trade agreements is illegal in NZ and the US. It would be more like someone hosting child porn in Germany. The US would then be willing to extradite since both countries share the same laws/values.
Exactly. Where is the creationist education in our classrooms? A bunch of religious status scientists and evolution "true believers" have deemed intelligent design heretical./s
I really don't get the fear of a surveillance society in public.
You know who else is watching Occupy Wall Street? OWS, The News, Police, citizens on the street etc etc...
Speeding is illegal. What's wrong with getting a ticket for flagrantly breaking the law somewhere an officer happens to not be?
If someone mugs someone and a drone sees them and follows them home... Good! If a drone sees me at 7-11 and follows me home... ummm... ok. Waste of resources. Someone must be really bored.
I know this sounds like "If you aren't going something wrong then what do you have to hide." but it's not, it's: "If you're in public, surrounded by hundreds of people who can watch what you're doing anyway what do you have to hide?"
Because x86 PCs will be able to handle Metro apps and x86 apps.
As Slashdot is often fond of pointing out, for 90% of users the capabilities of a PC are superfluous. ARM/x86 for lightweight apps and x86 exclusively for workstations.
Personally I think x86 will simply squash ARM within 18 months and it's only going to be useful to stave off the current Android/iOS onslaught but as Windows 8 moves onto the phone Microsoft needs a portable application framework which can run on their consoles, phones and PCs.
I agree. And the Sillmarillion is almost unreadable the first time. You have to read it about 3-4 times before it makes sense let alone start to make all of the connections of plot and their significance and how they work into each other. I suppose in his defense it was edited after his death so I'm sure he wanted to polish it a bit more but I'm not sure you can polish such a dense work.
I'm always very critical of work which is *excessively* complicated and impenetrable... but Tolkien's work isn't impenetrable because it's deliberately obtuse... it's impenetrable because there is just so much there.
As I'm fond of telling people who haven't read it "To put things into perspective, the LOTR trilogy and The Hobbit are about 4-5 pages and it's 200 pages long."
I would agree that in the LOTR much of his prose isn't anything *special* but certainly to dismiss such a masterpiece on one aspect of the writing is like dismissing the works of Picasso because his shading and rendering of light isn't as dramatic as Rembrandt's.
Republicans represent the employers. Democrats represent the employees.
Republicans tend to believe that the free market will ultimately solve any problem. (If people are impoverished, cut welfare and they'll get jobs which will reduce the need for welfare.)
Democrats tend to believe that the problems are the result of structural defects in the system and need a secondary framework funded by the government to solve systemic failures. e.g. poverty is the result of failures of capitalism and therefore needs fixing.
Republicans tend to believe that the individual should only be accountable for themselves and their family. This tends to appeal to rural voters since dumping trash in your yard will probably stay in your yard.
Democrats believe that the individual's actions as placed context of society must be regulated. This tends to appeal to urban voters since dumping trash in your yard will seconds later just blow into your neighbor's yard.
Democrats tend to believe that the people's liberty is infringed upon by the overreach of undemocratic corporate power and that there needs to be a strong government to represent the people's rights.
Republicans tend to believe that the people's liberty is infringed upon by the overreach of the Government and that corporate actions do not by definition infringe on our rights since the free market allows citizens to choose a different place of business unlike their government.
Ice ages take hundreds of years to get to that point. If that starts to appear to be on the horizon then we could fairly rapidly heat up the planet (as evidenced by global warming).
It's like a haircut. It's a lot easier to go one way than the other.
Except that you can't do that. If you buy a T-Mobile 3G phone you can't use it on AT&T later. If you buy a Sprint phone you can't use it on T-Mobile and so on and so forth.
Every single 4G implementation requires a phone that only works on one network.
So you are faced with either paying $500 for a phone and being able to switch to another network before 2 years is up but selling your phone at a steep discount or you get the subsidized phone and are locked in for several years paying a $200 termination fee if you leave early.
No matter what you can't leave your carrier without losing a few hundred dollars.
He doesn't (didn't?) like Guantanamo either, it's still there. He didn't like retroactive immunity for the telcos for snooping either, it's still law.
This shocks a lot of Obama critics, but in spite of the fox news propaganda, Obama isn't in fact a dictator and has extremely limited capabilities to affect policy without the support of congressional support.
In fact such signing statements where a president objects to such individual elements is used against both Bush and Obama as example of the executive branch overstepping its authority to simply either sign or veto legislation.
The only way Obama's wishes could be imposed would be if he stopped all action in government by vetoing everything he didn't like. In which case he would be accused of being a tyrant. So he's a tyrant if he signs it, He's a tyrant if he signs it but says he won't spend any energy enforcing it and he's a tyrant if he vetoes it.
Agreed. Not only would free software not protect you but it's the wrong approach.
Open source software doesn't stop the government from infringing your constitutional rights. What you need to do is protect those above all else. And that requires *ACTION* on the part of the people. There wasn't enough outcry to stop it. If there was it wouldn't have happened.
Furthermore the obsession with open source software as a catch-all ignores the fact that it's unlikely that my 3D modeling application is going to infringe my constitutional rights somehow just as my closed source washing machine probably has minimal impact of my privacy.
Lastly you can install Linux all you want, but that won't protect you from the government installing a rootkit, unless you magically re-compile your kernel every morning and even then it's possible to sneak in a back-door. The simple truth is that if someone wants to spy on you... they will. What's important isn't whether they spy on you but that you protect your rights in a court of law so that none of that is admissible.
And even then the entire chain has to be secure... which is impossible. So if you ever attach your computer to a network you are probably using a closed insecure network. Everything is becoming a computer. To say that computers is the future is of course accurate, and Stallman I suppose is accurate in that regard... but just because my refrigerator is networked and a computer doesn't mean I need to be able to see the source code for the temperature control.
I don't think it's religiosity, I think it's just intelligence and education. Most doctors I know are very religious. However atheists do tend to be better educated, so I suspect that the correlation with prudent end of life care (if such a correlation does in fact exist) is purely coincidental more than some deep seated philosophical perspective on the after life.
If you don't accept that the earth is billions of years old because "some scientist says so" then it is unlikely you'll believe your doctor who says your father is past saving.
Yes, but what % of healthcare costs save your life? I had a rare and very deadly arm infection that hospitalized me for a week. Probably racked up a substantial portion of my life's healthcare expenses. But instead of dieing it saved my life. I am not on government healthcare so I pay for my insurance, it's expensive but being alive to enjoy my life is the best thing money can buy and you can bet your ass that if there is a 5% improvement in my chance for survival I will try it. No use for that money when I'm gone.
And they're streaming video with it 33% of the time? Hmmm.
It's a really really confusing statistic. If the average PS3/Xbox 360 owner played *games* for 6 hours a week and watched an hour of Netflix it would be "15%"
Compare that to a Wii owner who might play 40 minutes a week and play Netflix 20 minutes a week. Or maybe the average Wii owner plays 40 hours and also watches 20 hours of Netflix.
Without an absolute unit of measurement "%" means almost nothing. If I had a wii it would probably be used almost 100% for streaming.
How about the fact that rather than address radiation making its way into food and water, they merely raised the allowable amount of radiation in food and water?
This might blow your mind... but often policy makers have to juggle multiple and conflicting priorities at the same time.
In the case of the Japanese Crisis you had a country devastated by an enormous disaster with people freezing in makeshift shelters with inadequate food and water.
Now you could say "sorry everyone you don't get to eat today." Or you can say "Here is some food that's irradiated above what in a normal situation we would expect but over a short period of time is a better alternative than hunger and malnutrition."
Wrong. There are both civil and criminal consequences to sending out false DMCA takedown notices on material you don't own the copyright to. People have countersued and been awarded over $100,000 in damages as a result of being slapped with a false take-down.
More precisely: maybe MS doesn't have anything against open source projects that don't compete with their own products.
I would choose a similar but slight variation.
Maybe it's because Microsoft writes its policies with a team of lawyers and Opensource is so far off their radar they accidentally squash it every now and then when trying to prevent legitimate abuses.
I suspect this is the largest single cause for any "hostility" towards Open Source... they just forget it exists and forget to make special exceptions for fringe licensing cases.
Some lawyer somewhere says
"We need to make sure we don't get sued if someone submits an app that isn't theirs." "Good point! Let's add a clause to our EULA: 'The submitter of all apps must swear that they are the intellectual property owner of this app.'" "Perfect! Drinks all around, good day of work people!"
2 days later on slashdot...
"MICROSOFT'S INSIDIOUS PLOY TO RAILROAD OPEN SOURCE ON WINDOWS!"
Well but that's kind of a binary response. I think a hybrid approach serves the motion picture industry best.
*Keep your secret sauce secret!* If you've developed something new and novel then open source isn't going to improve it you're just giving away the labors of your intellect. There is absolutely not benefit from giving away your recipe for success.
*Open source the rest!* Your secret sauce if it's a mo-cap algorithm can return the tracking/skeletal data without giving away how you derived it from the RAW data. Make all of the translators, interfaces and UI open source. This is how most vfx studios prefer to receive their tools since they will inevitably want to customize it and work it into their pipeline.
If it's something that's been done 1,000 times and nobody does it better or worse then you only benefit from getting the community to help create your product. The community is great at uncreative and uninspired work. The community is not going to improve your novel motion capture algorithm.
Except that these companies do extensive user testing and have found that these new UIs are faster than the old alternative for the vast majority of users.
So they aren't being condescending, users are just superstitious. "The earth is round." "IS NOT! IT OBVIOUSLY IS FLAT!" "Ok.... Ummm.. you're wrong." "STOP BEING CONDESCENDING!"
There doesn't seem to be any corruption here on either side. Most of Falcone's money went to Chris Dodd and Guiliani in 2008. He didn't donate to the Obama campaign.
This looks like a case where a corporation and a politician's motives align. Obama wants nation wide broadband and he doesn't want to spend any money on it. If Lightsquared could deliver 10mbps to every corner of the country then he could accomplish his goals.
It looks less and less likely that this'll work but this seems more like a case of optimism trumping realism than Quid Pro Quo corruption.
I have no political ties to LightSquared but considering they're trying to blanket the nation in broadband... I'm really hoping they resolve these interference issues as well. Not because I voted for Obama but because I want to see technology succeed. I also want to see white-space succeed which is another initiative the Obama white-house has advocated for. Again, not because of my voting registration but because I agree with their stated agenda of increasing access to highspeed internet.
You don't have to meet every single one of the requirements. Those were just 7 examples of things that would make a persuasive case that you're a journalist.
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So does this phase-out mean I won't be able to use the 4 VGA CRTs [...]?
What a waste of perfectly functional equipment.
What a waste of money.
12c a kwh on average in the US. .12 * 8 hours a day * 30 * 365 / 1000 = $10 a year.
about 30watts over an LCD.
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You can get a used LCD for $30 on craiglist no problem. By 2015 you would have broken even and had a nicer monitor by throwing away the CRTs.
If the laws as written are bad then they'll get changed to better laws. Laws which people actually follow instead of laws which can be selectively enforced are better, fairer laws to start with.
And you'll be able to go into court and say "As the drone data demonstrates I only sped for about 100m while coming down a hill. My apologies, but a human mistake.
Or the drone data could prove that you were driving with traffic and not passing other speeders.
I'm just glad it doesn't work the other way around. I could put swastikas all over my website on some server in Germany, confident that the FBI would laugh at Germany if they tried to have an American citizen arrested and deported.
Apples to oranges.
The crime committed in this instance (copyright infringement) thanks to international trade agreements is illegal in NZ and the US. It would be more like someone hosting child porn in Germany. The US would then be willing to extradite since both countries share the same laws/values.
Exactly. Where is the creationist education in our classrooms? A bunch of religious status scientists and evolution "true believers" have deemed intelligent design heretical. /s
Protesting wall street? Drones.
I really don't get the fear of a surveillance society in public.
You know who else is watching Occupy Wall Street? OWS, The News, Police, citizens on the street etc etc...
Speeding is illegal. What's wrong with getting a ticket for flagrantly breaking the law somewhere an officer happens to not be?
If someone mugs someone and a drone sees them and follows them home... Good! If a drone sees me at 7-11 and follows me home... ummm... ok. Waste of resources. Someone must be really bored.
I know this sounds like "If you aren't going something wrong then what do you have to hide." but it's not, it's: "If you're in public, surrounded by hundreds of people who can watch what you're doing anyway what do you have to hide?"
Because x86 PCs will be able to handle Metro apps and x86 apps.
As Slashdot is often fond of pointing out, for 90% of users the capabilities of a PC are superfluous. ARM/x86 for lightweight apps and x86 exclusively for workstations.
Personally I think x86 will simply squash ARM within 18 months and it's only going to be useful to stave off the current Android/iOS onslaught but as Windows 8 moves onto the phone Microsoft needs a portable application framework which can run on their consoles, phones and PCs.
I agree. And the Sillmarillion is almost unreadable the first time. You have to read it about 3-4 times before it makes sense let alone start to make all of the connections of plot and their significance and how they work into each other. I suppose in his defense it was edited after his death so I'm sure he wanted to polish it a bit more but I'm not sure you can polish such a dense work.
I'm always very critical of work which is *excessively* complicated and impenetrable... but Tolkien's work isn't impenetrable because it's deliberately obtuse... it's impenetrable because there is just so much there.
As I'm fond of telling people who haven't read it "To put things into perspective, the LOTR trilogy and The Hobbit are about 4-5 pages and it's 200 pages long."
I would agree that in the LOTR much of his prose isn't anything *special* but certainly to dismiss such a masterpiece on one aspect of the writing is like dismissing the works of Picasso because his shading and rendering of light isn't as dramatic as Rembrandt's.
Republicans represent the employers.
Democrats represent the employees.
Republicans tend to believe that the free market will ultimately solve any problem. (If people are impoverished, cut welfare and they'll get jobs which will reduce the need for welfare.)
Democrats tend to believe that the problems are the result of structural defects in the system and need a secondary framework funded by the government to solve systemic failures. e.g. poverty is the result of failures of capitalism and therefore needs fixing.
Republicans tend to believe that the individual should only be accountable for themselves and their family. This tends to appeal to rural voters since dumping trash in your yard will probably stay in your yard.
Democrats believe that the individual's actions as placed context of society must be regulated. This tends to appeal to urban voters since dumping trash in your yard will seconds later just blow into your neighbor's yard.
Democrats tend to believe that the people's liberty is infringed upon by the overreach of undemocratic corporate power and that there needs to be a strong government to represent the people's rights.
Republicans tend to believe that the people's liberty is infringed upon by the overreach of the Government and that corporate actions do not by definition infringe on our rights since the free market allows citizens to choose a different place of business unlike their government.
Ice ages take hundreds of years to get to that point. If that starts to appear to be on the horizon then we could fairly rapidly heat up the planet (as evidenced by global warming).
It's like a haircut. It's a lot easier to go one way than the other.
Except that you can't do that. If you buy a T-Mobile 3G phone you can't use it on AT&T later. If you buy a Sprint phone you can't use it on T-Mobile and so on and so forth.
Every single 4G implementation requires a phone that only works on one network.
So you are faced with either paying $500 for a phone and being able to switch to another network before 2 years is up but selling your phone at a steep discount or you get the subsidized phone and are locked in for several years paying a $200 termination fee if you leave early.
No matter what you can't leave your carrier without losing a few hundred dollars.
He doesn't (didn't?) like Guantanamo either, it's still there. He didn't like retroactive immunity for the telcos for snooping either, it's still law.
This shocks a lot of Obama critics, but in spite of the fox news propaganda, Obama isn't in fact a dictator and has extremely limited capabilities to affect policy without the support of congressional support.
In fact such signing statements where a president objects to such individual elements is used against both Bush and Obama as example of the executive branch overstepping its authority to simply either sign or veto legislation.
The only way Obama's wishes could be imposed would be if he stopped all action in government by vetoing everything he didn't like. In which case he would be accused of being a tyrant. So he's a tyrant if he signs it, He's a tyrant if he signs it but says he won't spend any energy enforcing it and he's a tyrant if he vetoes it.
Agreed. Not only would free software not protect you but it's the wrong approach.
Open source software doesn't stop the government from infringing your constitutional rights. What you need to do is protect those above all else. And that requires *ACTION* on the part of the people. There wasn't enough outcry to stop it. If there was it wouldn't have happened.
Furthermore the obsession with open source software as a catch-all ignores the fact that it's unlikely that my 3D modeling application is going to infringe my constitutional rights somehow just as my closed source washing machine probably has minimal impact of my privacy.
Lastly you can install Linux all you want, but that won't protect you from the government installing a rootkit, unless you magically re-compile your kernel every morning and even then it's possible to sneak in a back-door. The simple truth is that if someone wants to spy on you... they will. What's important isn't whether they spy on you but that you protect your rights in a court of law so that none of that is admissible.
And even then the entire chain has to be secure... which is impossible. So if you ever attach your computer to a network you are probably using a closed insecure network. Everything is becoming a computer. To say that computers is the future is of course accurate, and Stallman I suppose is accurate in that regard... but just because my refrigerator is networked and a computer doesn't mean I need to be able to see the source code for the temperature control.
I don't think it's religiosity, I think it's just intelligence and education. Most doctors I know are very religious. However atheists do tend to be better educated, so I suspect that the correlation with prudent end of life care (if such a correlation does in fact exist) is purely coincidental more than some deep seated philosophical perspective on the after life.
If you don't accept that the earth is billions of years old because "some scientist says so" then it is unlikely you'll believe your doctor who says your father is past saving.
Yes, but what % of healthcare costs save your life? I had a rare and very deadly arm infection that hospitalized me for a week. Probably racked up a substantial portion of my life's healthcare expenses. But instead of dieing it saved my life. I am not on government healthcare so I pay for my insurance, it's expensive but being alive to enjoy my life is the best thing money can buy and you can bet your ass that if there is a 5% improvement in my chance for survival I will try it. No use for that money when I'm gone.
Wait, are they saying the Galaxy Tab or Galaxy Tab 10.1 won't get it? Because the 10.1 has only been out for 6 mont--oh I see what you're doing there.
There was already at least one $150k fine for a fake DMCA notice. They certainly exist.
And they're streaming video with it 33% of the time? Hmmm.
It's a really really confusing statistic. If the average PS3/Xbox 360 owner played *games* for 6 hours a week and watched an hour of Netflix it would be "15%"
Compare that to a Wii owner who might play 40 minutes a week and play Netflix 20 minutes a week. Or maybe the average Wii owner plays 40 hours and also watches 20 hours of Netflix.
Without an absolute unit of measurement "%" means almost nothing. If I had a wii it would probably be used almost 100% for streaming.
How about the fact that rather than address radiation making its way into food and water, they merely raised the allowable amount of radiation in food and water?
This might blow your mind... but often policy makers have to juggle multiple and conflicting priorities at the same time.
In the case of the Japanese Crisis you had a country devastated by an enormous disaster with people freezing in makeshift shelters with inadequate food and water.
Now you could say "sorry everyone you don't get to eat today." Or you can say "Here is some food that's irradiated above what in a normal situation we would expect but over a short period of time is a better alternative than hunger and malnutrition."
Wrong. There are both civil and criminal consequences to sending out false DMCA takedown notices on material you don't own the copyright to. People have countersued and been awarded over $100,000 in damages as a result of being slapped with a false take-down.
More precisely: maybe MS doesn't have anything against open source projects that don't compete with their own products.
I would choose a similar but slight variation.
Maybe it's because Microsoft writes its policies with a team of lawyers and Opensource is so far off their radar they accidentally squash it every now and then when trying to prevent legitimate abuses.
I suspect this is the largest single cause for any "hostility" towards Open Source... they just forget it exists and forget to make special exceptions for fringe licensing cases.
Some lawyer somewhere says
"We need to make sure we don't get sued if someone submits an app that isn't theirs."
"Good point! Let's add a clause to our EULA:
'The submitter of all apps must swear that they are the intellectual property owner of this app.'"
"Perfect! Drinks all around, good day of work people!"
2 days later on slashdot...
"MICROSOFT'S INSIDIOUS PLOY TO RAILROAD OPEN SOURCE ON WINDOWS!"
Oops!
Well but that's kind of a binary response. I think a hybrid approach serves the motion picture industry best.
*Keep your secret sauce secret!*
If you've developed something new and novel then open source isn't going to improve it you're just giving away the labors of your intellect. There is absolutely not benefit from giving away your recipe for success.
*Open source the rest!*
Your secret sauce if it's a mo-cap algorithm can return the tracking/skeletal data without giving away how you derived it from the RAW data. Make all of the translators, interfaces and UI open source. This is how most vfx studios prefer to receive their tools since they will inevitably want to customize it and work it into their pipeline.
If it's something that's been done 1,000 times and nobody does it better or worse then you only benefit from getting the community to help create your product. The community is great at uncreative and uninspired work. The community is not going to improve your novel motion capture algorithm.
Except that these companies do extensive user testing and have found that these new UIs are faster than the old alternative for the vast majority of users.
So they aren't being condescending, users are just superstitious. "The earth is round." "IS NOT! IT OBVIOUSLY IS FLAT!" "Ok.... Ummm.. you're wrong." "STOP BEING CONDESCENDING!"
There doesn't seem to be any corruption here on either side. Most of Falcone's money went to Chris Dodd and Guiliani in 2008. He didn't donate to the Obama campaign.
This looks like a case where a corporation and a politician's motives align. Obama wants nation wide broadband and he doesn't want to spend any money on it. If Lightsquared could deliver 10mbps to every corner of the country then he could accomplish his goals.
It looks less and less likely that this'll work but this seems more like a case of optimism trumping realism than Quid Pro Quo corruption.
Yeah but that was 2010.
It's true that the Democratic party received about $20k from Falcone in 2010. But the Republican Party received nearly $50k in 2008.
If you go through his political contributions he tended to shotgun across party lines. And none of the money in 08 was for Obama. It was almost exclusively for Senatorial candidates and Giuliani and Chris Dodd.
http://www.campaignmoney.com/political/contributions/philip-falcone.asp?cycle=08
I have no political ties to LightSquared but considering they're trying to blanket the nation in broadband... I'm really hoping they resolve these interference issues as well. Not because I voted for Obama but because I want to see technology succeed. I also want to see white-space succeed which is another initiative the Obama white-house has advocated for. Again, not because of my voting registration but because I agree with their stated agenda of increasing access to highspeed internet.
You don't have to meet every single one of the requirements. Those were just 7 examples of things that would make a persuasive case that you're a journalist.