On the other hand, here in Belgium it was ruled by a judge last week that one of the internet providers (Scarlet) should install a filter on its customers' data traffic to prevent them from downloading copyrighted material:
And they plan to take the other ISPs to court as well if they don't install those filters. Luckily, the ISPs don't like to do that, due to high costs and because one could easily circumvent it. But if the court orders it...
I live in NYC. There are no unused frequencies. None. Nada. Zip. Zilch. There were a few before the FCC relaxed rules on small stations a couple of years ago. Now there's nothing left.
There's a solution: buy a Japanese radio and a Japanese transmitter, and use the frequencies 76 to 87.5 MHz...
Don't know if you could still read the text on your radio then though, and I also don't know what other things you may interfere with at those frequencies... But my MP3 player never seems to pick any signals, so I guess it should be safe (but maybe not legal of course).
This is about like being disappointed that no one now makes your favorite sliderule with the fancy new base 2 logarithms built-in. Why would anyone settle for a model of an RC car with a working gearbox?
Ugh, all those fancy shaped blocks. For me it's no fun anymore when you can't use the blocks to build something out of it yourself anymore because the shapes of those blocks just don't allow them to be used for anything else. I want normal old style bricks and radars for Technik.
Qt3 doesn't support kerning; Qt4 will support it, so future is bright on that
the spaces between letters is caused by the fact that the program cannot show the font in the exact size on your screen, given the poor resolution current displays still have. (well, not entirely: it can do that, but then you get fuzzy texts like in pdf files). KWord has to adjust your font to the nearest pixel size, but that means the letters will be scaled a little bit, which causes gaps to appear between the letters. When you print the page, there shouldn't be any problem in spacing.
It could launch an era of "personal" genomics in which ordinary people can learn their complete DNA code for less than the cost of a wide-screen television.
Fine, but why would I want to know my DNA sequence. It's fun to know off course, but usefull?
I'm just asking myself: if you're in a place where EULA's do stand in court, and you replace the EULA before agreeing to it, can the company sue you when you're doing something against the original EULA?
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On the other hand, here in Belgium it was ruled by a judge last week that one of the internet providers (Scarlet) should install a filter on its customers' data traffic to prevent them from downloading copyrighted material:
http://www.legalday.com/commentaries/clintons/SA_S carlet_Internet_Sharing.html
And they plan to take the other ISPs to court as well if they don't install those filters. Luckily, the ISPs don't like to do that, due to high costs and because one could easily circumvent it. But if the court orders it...
Let's just see where it will go...
There's a solution: buy a Japanese radio and a Japanese transmitter, and use the frequencies 76 to 87.5 MHz...
Don't know if you could still read the text on your radio then though, and I also don't know what other things you may interfere with at those frequencies... But my MP3 player never seems to pick any signals, so I guess it should be safe (but maybe not legal of course).
'cause it's a very informative post, and insightful too
Not to mention that it's also very funny
I WIN
Don't be so happy yet, 'cause you have no idea what you've just won with your first post.
Let me post a "+5 insightful" post then for all your moderating pleasure
Then you'll be thrilled by tomorrow's story: making your own OMG UNICORNS signs!
So it isn't true?
Damn, 8th time that happened to me today
It could launch an era of "personal" genomics in which ordinary people can learn their complete DNA code for less than the cost of a wide-screen television.
Fine, but why would I want to know my DNA sequence. It's fun to know off course, but usefull?
Slashdot, the only place where you get modded "Score: 5, Funny" with a post like that...
I'm just asking myself: if you're in a place where EULA's do stand in court, and you replace the EULA before agreeing to it, can the company sue you when you're doing something against the original EULA?
Good idea, and perhaps they should introduce a "Hurricane Release Candidate 1" after "Hurricane Beta"
Epsilon won't be particularly destructive. It'll be tiny.
Don't overestimate the mathematical knowledge of a slashdot audience...