This is where it is sorta tricky. This part has been interpereted to say that anytihng found durign a reasonable execution (aka, no searchign in pill bottles for stollen TVs) of a warrent is admissable.
The rule for physical searches is "in plain sight".
If the police are searching your home for, say, a fugitive, and you have a bong on your table, that's in plain sight.
Data mining is the exact opposite. It's taking a microscope to any minute detail you can find, but strip-searching not just an individual home, but an entire neighborhood. That's the kind of physical search that's explicitly prohibited.
Does the principle apply to wiretaps? You'd think so.
Why not use PICS/ICRA stuff? It's already built into internet explorer and proxy products.
Now, PICS is meta data on the page level, but wouldn't a page with several blocks missing just be confusing?
If you need block level meta data, perhaps you should just include RDF tags, with the proper namespace, in your XHTML.
Whichever route you choose, you still need browser makers to go along with it.
People don't want adverts.
If people don't want adverts, why do they act like they do and reward companies that advertise by buying more of their product?
From the company's point of view, feelings of like or dislike are irrelevant.
In this regard, they're much like abusive boyfriends..
Losing a customer who you couldn't server in the first place is no big loss.
Losing a customer who you overpromised, underdelivered will bite you in the ass. They'll at the very least tell other people, and they will try to get compensation from you.
They have to do something to make sure that the UN doesn't get control. The UN is so corrupt, incompetent, and inept that it make the U. S. Govt look brilliant! Think about Rwanda, Darfur and others where the UN might as well not have showed up for all the good that wasn't done. NATO had to deal with Yugoslavia because nobody in Europe trusted the UN not to screw it up worse.
Yeah, just look how badly the ITU has been at running the international dialling code system!
Oh wait.. They're actually doing a pretty darn good job at that. Quite unlike ICANN to date, really.
Copyright itself is a forced, government-granted, monopoly.
They could take the sting out of it by, for example, removing the possibility of giving a distributor an exclusive license. I say, let distributors compete amongst each other, so that Fifty Cent's album is carried by 10 different labels, some with DRM, some without.
You could also consider getting a parking page with an outfit that pays you for the privilige of plastering your site with ads. Only makes sense if it gets some "type-in traffic" though.
You can also just disable the parking, so no page at all comes up. Or change your www.-IP adress to slashdot's;-)
Too bad my pocket PC will only properly sync with Outlook. Althoug to be honest Outlook 2003 is not that bad. I would still like to try an open source based e-mail client, but until it will sync with my PDA correctly I can't make the switch.
Blame either the makers of PockerPC or the makers of Outlook for that. You'd almost think they're conspiring to prevent people from being able to switch..
3 words: Off-site backup.
The hassle isn't too great when your place burns down, or lightning strikes your box (and don't think a "surge suppressor" is going to save you), or the cops come and grab all your computer stuff. Some stuff you don't want to lose.
17 words: Shoving A DVD-R In An Envelope And Sending It To Your Mom's Place In Your Own Name
You're right that the number of babies born per adult is falling in the wealthier nations, but the survival rate of the babies is also a lot higher so I'm not convinced it is actually "harder to reproduce" than it was in centuries past.
In most Western countries, births do not even offset deaths. This means that there is a net decrease in population, immigration aside. So yes, it's harder to reproduce, seeing as historically, populations have always grown, except when there were huge disasters or epidemics (pretty big selective factors).
It is because in some countries even criminals (or in your example only accused) have rights.
When they have served there sentence they should be able to go on and have a live.
This is contrary to countries were sentences are not ment to correct ones behaviour but to ease the blood thirsty angry mob.
Which is all good and well. But the guy is dead. Dead people are typically afforded little consideration with respect to the rights normally held by, well, living people. There's a body of jurisprudence here, pretty much summed up by the "well, you can't take it with you" doctrine.
Also of note here, is that with coal and soil, we are talking about natural Uranium, not enriched uranium used in plants, which can take 100 years to return to natural radioactivity levels.
Enriched Uranium isn't a waste product, it's the fuel. The waste products are things like, well, depleted uranium, the stuff that makes its way into tank armor and ammunitions. You can enrich that again, and use the remaining U-235 in it to fuel some more reactions. Enriching, by the by, is no more than just filtering out the U-235; the U-235 isn't generated, it's mined. To get it back to "natural levels" you just mix it back in with the soil it came from in the first place!
Uranium is the fuel. Other, more unstable, elements are the waste products. Those you'll only get from fission, not burning.
There is the likelihood that motherboard manufacturers will make sure that you can unofficially override the TPM chip, just like DVD player manufacturers are officially beholden to regioning, but often a simple code punched into the remote control (12345, the same as the combination lock on your luggage) overrides it. Or that they'll use handy dandy sockets so you can rip out the TPM chip and put some other chip in between the TPM chip and the motherboard (cf. sony ps/2 hacks).
This is of course totally disregarding the fact that most people are now behind routers and firewalls..
Cars are monitored by tracking their license plates using overhead cameras. The locations of these cameras are well known to the police, no need to track those, they're in a fixed place.
He was broadcasting on Digital Radio Mondiale, an AM-band digital radio service. That's the part he got slammed for. He should've done what everybody in Europe that doesn't want to comply with local broadcasting laws does, and set up a storefront operation in Luxembourg and put on one program in the middle of the night in the unintelligible Letsebuergisch language. Not that I usually hand out advice to far right nutjobs, but there.
Also, just a podcast would also have been just fine and dandy.
They're using H.264 streams (MPEG 4 part 10) at stupidly low resolution. It's broadcast, not using the same cells as the cell network, but the same sort of arrangement as over the air HDTV, if not site sharing with those broadcasters.
So once again the government/PTBs are footing the bill for people too lazy to move. *cough* New Orleans *cough* Florida *cough*
The question you seem to miss in all these cases is how much does it cost everyone in terms of lost jobs, damage to the economy, etc to just move an entire city? (especially in the case of New Orleans). If it's more cost effective to rebuild, you do it. In this case if it's cheaper to put in a big mirror to bring in light, (and it actually works to get people to stay) you do it. The cost is only 2.4 million dollars, and the EU only pays half of that. With 440 people in the town that's about $2250 per person.
Yes.. Yes, you see, New Orleans, a huge city with a populace of millions, being devastated by a storm has the exact same economical impact as BumFuck Austria with 440 people gets from young folk moving out.. At "only" $2250 per capita, why don't they just increase the town's taxes, rather than paying it out of the EU's (i.e. my) pocket? Or if the EU has to fit the bill, just pay them a $2250 bonus to move the fuck out of that town and let it die. Problem solved for ever, rather than some weird patchy spots of light added (what, they don't have light bulbs in Austria?) in the theory that this will transform the town in a hot place to be for young people.
Of course, creating jobs (in actual productive, non-bullshit industries, quite unlike the "giant mirror to warm up towns that have been in a crappy place since time eternal and never complained before" industry), or even just improving the infrastructure is right out.
Either the first batch of tests were all false positives, or the later batch were all false negatives.
The likelihood of non-remission is equal to the FP-rate**number of prior tests or FN-rate**number of later tests, whichever is greater. Seeing as how you'd really want to make sure about the later testing, and how tests will have improved over time, it's probably the FP-rate**number of prior tests which is the greater probability.
The likelihood of remission is equal to the inverse of this (1-p).
Since remission to the point of not being sero-positive anymore is unheard of (your body would have need to have gotten rid not only of the infection, but of the antibodies it created, which is what the serum contains - and these antibodies is what your body pretty much is honed to keep duplicating; this is besides no prior recorded instances of HIV remission), let's put this at a million to one likelihood. Which is still pretty good, better odds of getting cured of aids than winning the lottery.
Let's say he took 5 tests (which is a lot). Let's say the FP rate is a measly 10% (FP/NP rates for clinical tests are usually 15%, and then there's the usual hospital mixups etc.). That puts non-remission at 100.000 to one. Still an order of magnitude likelier than remission.
This is disregarding the source of the news, which has lower than one in ten odds of being correct anyway.
How do we strike a balance between a piece of legislation that covers any crime that may not have been thought up yet, without prohibiting activities that are not necesserily criminal that will be invented in the future? This is something that no country has come up with yet and this is unlikely to happen any time soon due to various governments in power. (cough)
There are many such laws. For example, criminal damage. If you infringe on another's property rights by physically damaging his/her property (be it a horsebuggy, a door, or an iPod) without permission, that's a crime. Many laws are put in a technology-neutral way. The problem is that with new technologies, often the first laws to fight some sort of nuisance are framed in a technology-non-neutral choice of words. That's why there were junk-fax statutes even before e-mail spam came along.
Also, there are judges and juries determining whether a certain law should apply, even if the wording is a bit off. And to what extent (e.g. 2nd amendment - not good for carrying nuclear warheads..)
Then, finally, there's your run off the mill lawsuits, where you can get a court to compel some one to stop being a jerk and to pay damages. Not being criminal court the standards for evidence, as well as the standards for strict interpretation of the law, are a bit laxer. In general, if some one is being a jerk, you'll be able to seek judgement against them, even if what they're doing isn't a punishable offense, or even specifically legislated against - unless there's legislation spelling out it's their right to be jerks (i.e. the first amendment, though even in that case, you can slap time, manner and place restrictions on people).
It's not that the law isn't flexible. It's just that there's a process, and different ways of seeking retribution. And sometimes you don't get to act out revenge, because something isn't on the books, or, *gasp*, some one is allowed to be a jerk.
..and Muslims won't be able to drink and eat a big hearty breakfeast during Ramadan.
It's my understanding that they can, as long as they have breakfast before sunrise. And after sundown they can eat too. Don't know if the same goes for blogging though.
This isn't a problem for software distribution, really, since the good.bin file needs to start with a vector designed to enable a collision. A good-faith programmer wouldn't include that vector.
It is a problem for stuff like contracts; you draw up two versions of a contract, a good one and an evil one, let someone sign the good one, and later keep them to the clauses in the evil one.
So while there IS a very big problem, the example is a bit contrived.
Slashdot Mirror
This is where it is sorta tricky. This part has been interpereted to say that anytihng found durign a reasonable execution (aka, no searchign in pill bottles for stollen TVs) of a warrent is admissable. The rule for physical searches is "in plain sight". If the police are searching your home for, say, a fugitive, and you have a bong on your table, that's in plain sight. Data mining is the exact opposite. It's taking a microscope to any minute detail you can find, but strip-searching not just an individual home, but an entire neighborhood. That's the kind of physical search that's explicitly prohibited. Does the principle apply to wiretaps? You'd think so.
Why not use PICS/ICRA stuff? It's already built into internet explorer and proxy products. Now, PICS is meta data on the page level, but wouldn't a page with several blocks missing just be confusing? If you need block level meta data, perhaps you should just include RDF tags, with the proper namespace, in your XHTML. Whichever route you choose, you still need browser makers to go along with it.
People don't want adverts. If people don't want adverts, why do they act like they do and reward companies that advertise by buying more of their product? From the company's point of view, feelings of like or dislike are irrelevant. In this regard, they're much like abusive boyfriends..
Losing a customer who you couldn't server in the first place is no big loss. Losing a customer who you overpromised, underdelivered will bite you in the ass. They'll at the very least tell other people, and they will try to get compensation from you.
They have to do something to make sure that the UN doesn't get control. The UN is so corrupt, incompetent, and inept that it make the U. S. Govt look brilliant! Think about Rwanda, Darfur and others where the UN might as well not have showed up for all the good that wasn't done. NATO had to deal with Yugoslavia because nobody in Europe trusted the UN not to screw it up worse. Yeah, just look how badly the ITU has been at running the international dialling code system! Oh wait.. They're actually doing a pretty darn good job at that. Quite unlike ICANN to date, really.
Well, you know what they say about stopped clocks.
Copyright itself is a forced, government-granted, monopoly.
They could take the sting out of it by, for example, removing the possibility of giving a distributor an exclusive license. I say, let distributors compete amongst each other, so that Fifty Cent's album is carried by 10 different labels, some with DRM, some without.
You could also consider getting a parking page with an outfit that pays you for the privilige of plastering your site with ads. Only makes sense if it gets some "type-in traffic" though. You can also just disable the parking, so no page at all comes up. Or change your www.-IP adress to slashdot's ;-)
Too bad my pocket PC will only properly sync with Outlook. Althoug to be honest Outlook 2003 is not that bad. I would still like to try an open source based e-mail client, but until it will sync with my PDA correctly I can't make the switch. Blame either the makers of PockerPC or the makers of Outlook for that. You'd almost think they're conspiring to prevent people from being able to switch..
3 words: Off-site backup. The hassle isn't too great when your place burns down, or lightning strikes your box (and don't think a "surge suppressor" is going to save you), or the cops come and grab all your computer stuff. Some stuff you don't want to lose. 17 words: Shoving A DVD-R In An Envelope And Sending It To Your Mom's Place In Your Own Name
You're right that the number of babies born per adult is falling in the wealthier nations, but the survival rate of the babies is also a lot higher so I'm not convinced it is actually "harder to reproduce" than it was in centuries past. In most Western countries, births do not even offset deaths. This means that there is a net decrease in population, immigration aside. So yes, it's harder to reproduce, seeing as historically, populations have always grown, except when there were huge disasters or epidemics (pretty big selective factors).
I know that this is also the case for most of Europe (except certain remote regions of Transylvania).
It is because in some countries even criminals (or in your example only accused) have rights. When they have served there sentence they should be able to go on and have a live. This is contrary to countries were sentences are not ment to correct ones behaviour but to ease the blood thirsty angry mob. Which is all good and well. But the guy is dead. Dead people are typically afforded little consideration with respect to the rights normally held by, well, living people. There's a body of jurisprudence here, pretty much summed up by the "well, you can't take it with you" doctrine.
Also of note here, is that with coal and soil, we are talking about natural Uranium, not enriched uranium used in plants, which can take 100 years to return to natural radioactivity levels.
Enriched Uranium isn't a waste product, it's the fuel. The waste products are things like, well, depleted uranium, the stuff that makes its way into tank armor and ammunitions. You can enrich that again, and use the remaining U-235 in it to fuel some more reactions. Enriching, by the by, is no more than just filtering out the U-235; the U-235 isn't generated, it's mined. To get it back to "natural levels" you just mix it back in with the soil it came from in the first place!
Uranium is the fuel. Other, more unstable, elements are the waste products. Those you'll only get from fission, not burning.
Now if you REALLY don't want to be recognized, then you could/should fill in the whole head with a bright yellow smiley face!
Surely you mean a blue, cap-wearing smiley with text rotating around it?
There is the likelihood that motherboard manufacturers will make sure that you can unofficially override the TPM chip, just like DVD player manufacturers are officially beholden to regioning, but often a simple code punched into the remote control (12345, the same as the combination lock on your luggage) overrides it. Or that they'll use handy dandy sockets so you can rip out the TPM chip and put some other chip in between the TPM chip and the motherboard (cf. sony ps/2 hacks).
This is of course totally disregarding the fact that most people are now behind routers and firewalls..
Cars are monitored by tracking their license plates using overhead cameras. The locations of these cameras are well known to the police, no need to track those, they're in a fixed place.
He was broadcasting on Digital Radio Mondiale, an AM-band digital radio service. That's the part he got slammed for. He should've done what everybody in Europe that doesn't want to comply with local broadcasting laws does, and set up a storefront operation in Luxembourg and put on one program in the middle of the night in the unintelligible Letsebuergisch language. Not that I usually hand out advice to far right nutjobs, but there.
Also, just a podcast would also have been just fine and dandy.
They're using H.264 streams (MPEG 4 part 10) at stupidly low resolution. It's broadcast, not using the same cells as the cell network, but the same sort of arrangement as over the air HDTV, if not site sharing with those broadcasters.
So once again the government/PTBs are footing the bill for people too lazy to move. *cough* New Orleans *cough* Florida *cough*
The question you seem to miss in all these cases is how much does it cost everyone in terms of lost jobs, damage to the economy, etc to just move an entire city? (especially in the case of New Orleans). If it's more cost effective to rebuild, you do it. In this case if it's cheaper to put in a big mirror to bring in light, (and it actually works to get people to stay) you do it. The cost is only 2.4 million dollars, and the EU only pays half of that. With 440 people in the town that's about $2250 per person.
Yes.. Yes, you see, New Orleans, a huge city with a populace of millions, being devastated by a storm has the exact same economical impact as BumFuck Austria with 440 people gets from young folk moving out.. At "only" $2250 per capita, why don't they just increase the town's taxes, rather than paying it out of the EU's (i.e. my) pocket? Or if the EU has to fit the bill, just pay them a $2250 bonus to move the fuck out of that town and let it die. Problem solved for ever, rather than some weird patchy spots of light added (what, they don't have light bulbs in Austria?) in the theory that this will transform the town in a hot place to be for young people.
Of course, creating jobs (in actual productive, non-bullshit industries, quite unlike the "giant mirror to warm up towns that have been in a crappy place since time eternal and never complained before" industry), or even just improving the infrastructure is right out.
Either the first batch of tests were all false positives, or the later batch were all false negatives. The likelihood of non-remission is equal to the FP-rate**number of prior tests or FN-rate**number of later tests, whichever is greater. Seeing as how you'd really want to make sure about the later testing, and how tests will have improved over time, it's probably the FP-rate**number of prior tests which is the greater probability. The likelihood of remission is equal to the inverse of this (1-p). Since remission to the point of not being sero-positive anymore is unheard of (your body would have need to have gotten rid not only of the infection, but of the antibodies it created, which is what the serum contains - and these antibodies is what your body pretty much is honed to keep duplicating; this is besides no prior recorded instances of HIV remission), let's put this at a million to one likelihood. Which is still pretty good, better odds of getting cured of aids than winning the lottery. Let's say he took 5 tests (which is a lot). Let's say the FP rate is a measly 10% (FP/NP rates for clinical tests are usually 15%, and then there's the usual hospital mixups etc.). That puts non-remission at 100.000 to one. Still an order of magnitude likelier than remission. This is disregarding the source of the news, which has lower than one in ten odds of being correct anyway.
How do we strike a balance between a piece of legislation that covers any crime that may not have been thought up yet, without prohibiting activities that are not necesserily criminal that will be invented in the future? This is something that no country has come up with yet and this is unlikely to happen any time soon due to various governments in power. (cough)
There are many such laws. For example, criminal damage. If you infringe on another's property rights by physically damaging his/her property (be it a horsebuggy, a door, or an iPod) without permission, that's a crime. Many laws are put in a technology-neutral way. The problem is that with new technologies, often the first laws to fight some sort of nuisance are framed in a technology-non-neutral choice of words. That's why there were junk-fax statutes even before e-mail spam came along.
Also, there are judges and juries determining whether a certain law should apply, even if the wording is a bit off. And to what extent (e.g. 2nd amendment - not good for carrying nuclear warheads..)
Then, finally, there's your run off the mill lawsuits, where you can get a court to compel some one to stop being a jerk and to pay damages. Not being criminal court the standards for evidence, as well as the standards for strict interpretation of the law, are a bit laxer. In general, if some one is being a jerk, you'll be able to seek judgement against them, even if what they're doing isn't a punishable offense, or even specifically legislated against - unless there's legislation spelling out it's their right to be jerks (i.e. the first amendment, though even in that case, you can slap time, manner and place restrictions on people).
It's not that the law isn't flexible. It's just that there's a process, and different ways of seeking retribution. And sometimes you don't get to act out revenge, because something isn't on the books, or, *gasp*, some one is allowed to be a jerk.
..and Muslims won't be able to drink and eat a big hearty breakfeast during Ramadan.
It's my understanding that they can, as long as they have breakfast before sunrise. And after sundown they can eat too. Don't know if the same goes for blogging though.
That it's like some idiot US TV producer decided dub Monty Python into American idiom. It might even be funny, but it just wouldn't be the same.
;-)
Or, heaven forbid, in German! Can you imagine the Lumberjack song in German?! That just wouldn't work.
This isn't a problem for software distribution, really, since the good.bin file needs to start with a vector designed to enable a collision. A good-faith programmer wouldn't include that vector.
It is a problem for stuff like contracts; you draw up two versions of a contract, a good one and an evil one, let someone sign the good one, and later keep them to the clauses in the evil one.
So while there IS a very big problem, the example is a bit contrived.