Maybe this is just because they have to be proactive about keeping their trademark or something. I don't know. Stupid.:)
The problem is that afaict there is no penalty for overreaching when enforcing your trademark but there is a VERY significant penalty (loss of enforcability of the trademark) for nor reaching far enough.
Ironically, the agreement was that Apple Computers could never use their "Apple" in association with music... iTunes = whoops? Reply to This Parent
Afaict it went something like
Apple records sued apple computer in a dubious (the two companies at the time were in totally different markets) trademark lawsuit Apple computer settled with an agreement that they would keep out of the music buisness (which I guess made sense at the time) Apple computer launched itunes Apple records sued apple computer againclaiming that running itunes was a violation of their previous agreement Apple computer settled by buying all rights to the apple trademark from apple records and then licensing them back to apple records. In the process apple computer renamed themselves to Apple inc. Soon after this settlement the beatles music was finally posted on itunes.
Afaict if you want to actually play the game you still have to buy (or pirate....) a copy to get the game content. The source releases only tend to include the code.
Because your system has a hardcoded list of certificates for trusted certification authorities. These root certificates are then used by the certification authorities to sign the intermediate certificates which are used to sign the certificates issued to end user services. This is just the same as how things already work for https.
It's not a perfect system mainly because the CAs may not be as trustworthy as they should be but it should be enough to keep the low level criminals under control.
For something like a medical radiation source I think you would have a hardware watchdog timer. If the control hardware doesn't get an update after a set time interval then it assumes the system has crashed and shuts off.
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I was under the impression that the federal reserve was created by an act of congress and as such can be disbanded, restructured or ordered to do stuff in the same manner.
If the people designing the system have any sense then it will only feed power back to the house when used in conjunction with a specifically designed base unit which manages the complications of safely feeding power to the house and possiblly to the grid (note: even if you want to feed both the house and the grid you probablly want to do it through seperate connections so you can continue to feed the house when the grid drops out).
For comparision the electricity prices from my provider are
13.36p per kwh single rate 16.23p per kwh dual rate daytime 6.28p per kwh dual rate nighttime
So if your storage is more than about 50% efficient overall then you would be saving on electricity costs (though other costs of the storage system may eiliminate the savings).
A 240V, 30A circuit won't feed as much as you might think. That circuit could feed four 15 amp 110 circuits
If those 15A circuits were fully loaded yes.
That might power your fridge, several lights and maybe a TV.
All of those things take very little power unless you are peppering your ceiling with downlights or something. Probablly under 1KW between them. For comparison 240V 30A works out to 7.2KW
You probablly would have to do without whole house electric heating or AC (a single room electric heater or a window AC unit could be accomodated provided it was turned off when the electricity was needed in the kitchen) and be careful with the kitchen appliances and if you are in america you would have to be careful about balancing stuff between the two hot lines but it's nowhere near as bad as you make out.
You'd probably have to choose between running the gas powered furnace and the television (a hard decision for some I know).
backfeeding an entire neighbourhood isn't going to happen but i'd think backfeeding a small group of houses is well within the realm of possibility if no high power equipment happens to be turned on at the time.
I'd think the best bet for the return channel (assuming you didn't want to use RF) would be to use IR. By using narrow band optical filtering it should be possible to avoid too much interference from other sources and for many applications the return channel can use a relatively low data rate.
Afaict at least here in the UK most homes have single rate power BUT dual rate is readilly available and if you are running large loads overnight (traditionally running storage and immersion heaters in an electrically heated house but charging an EV overnight would also fit the bill) then you would be pretty mad not to sign up for it.
Full on variable rate systems are being trialled but afaict are not yet widely deployed.
It is probably just a crafty way to hide the hordes of money they are making...
I'd say it's more likely a way to seperate the reputations of the two units.
As oil and gas supplies dwindle we are being driven towards sources that are dirtier and/or riskier. Remember the deepwater horizon incident? remember the tar sands controversy? remember the fracking controversy? If you were running a consumer facing buisness would you really want to be associated with that?
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Please reread what you wrote: The amount of debt you owe has little to do... with the likelihood that you can repay that debt...?
Afaict the majority of the US debt is denominated in US dollars and the US government can create US dollars out of thin air either directly or by ordering the fed to print them and hand them over. So really the only way for the US to default on their debt is if they "choose" to do so (in this case by refusing to raise a self-imposed "debt limit").
Is there a rule that no object can be licensed as GPL unless it can be GPL-traced back to its origins?
The rule simply says it must be the "preffered form of the work for making modifications". Nothing more nothing less.
As with anything defined in human terms there are certainly edge cases but adding the output of a parser generator or obfuscator to an opensource project without providing the input seems to be pretty clearly in volation to me.
It is entirely up to the author(s) to decide what is offered to the public as GPL. There is no way to stop me from obfuscating some JavaScript and then licensing the result as GPL (I need noone's permission.)
Indeed there is nothing to stop you, as the copyright holder of the code you are under no obligation to follow your own license.
If I redistribute that code of yours I'm techincally in violation of the license but I think you'd find it very hard to enforce given that you tricked me into violating it by marking it as GPL code when (other than not redistributing the code at all) there was no way I could comply with the GPL
The real problem would come if someone (possiblly you) combined your code with third party GPL code to create and distribute a larger work. The person who distributed said larger work and anyone who redistributed it would then be in violation of the GPL license on the third parties code.
Actually, two 2.5" drives (70x100x9.5 mm) will fit perfectly on top of a single 3.5" drive (102x146x25.4 mm) (wikipedia entry on dimensions [wikipedia.org].
Yes in principle you can fit four 2.5 inch drives in the space of one 3.5 inch drive by mounting them sideways. In practice though even if you put the screwholes for mounting under the drives you would struggle to get a backplane into the 2mm of space you have next to the drives. Front to back you also only have 6mm for the incoming sata connectors and for the mounting hardware that supports the drives. I'm not sure whether such a mount is possible but if it is then it would require some pretty serious precision engineering and i've never seen anyone selling them.
So in practice you get two 2.5 inch drives per 3.5 inch bay even though this leaves over half the physical volume of the bay either empty or filled with mounting hardware. Even if you did get four drives into a bay and used this new drive then you would still only be getting 4TB compared to the 3TB you would get by using a single 3.5 inch drive.
What has become increasingly common here in the UK is local loop unbundling. With local loop unbundling BT openreach* owns the physical line but the provider can operate their own ADSL gear. Afaict lines can be unbundled for just ADSL or for ADSL and voice (not sure if they can be unbundled for voice only or for ADSL and voice to different providers). LLU allows providers to avoid the high costs of using BTs ADSL backend network but comes at a price in that. So there are only a handful of LLU providers of which SKY and O2/BE (O2 bought BE but they still operate services under the BE name as we as their own) seem to be regarded as the best.
There are also many BT wholesale based providers but due to the way BT prices access to their backend network these tend to be expensive, congested or both.
* Part of BT but kept somewhat seperate from BTs other operations by the regulator.
This isn't about how much they are using the internet it's about what they are using it for. It's kinda hard to determine what a user is using the internet for if all their traffic goes through an encrypted tunnel leading out of the country.
I thought the hummers days were numbered because compared to the marauder it wasn't big or silly enough;)
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So we're getting there... but I do think at a certain point, you have to start releasing your media in different formats to suit different markets
It used to be VHS for the cheapskates and laserdisc or DVD for the more discerning viewer. Now it's DVD for the cheapskates and BLU-ray for the more discerning viewer. I'm sure in time that will change again but each time I would expect the "more discerning viewer" category to get smaller.
As I understand it the people who have infringed are those who have distributed emacs. They thought they had a license to do so but they (unknowingly) failed to comply with it's terms because the source they distributed was not "the preffered form of the work for making modifications" hence they have infringed the copyrights of anyone who had GPL'd code in emacs.
Afaict whether it can be used with downloads comes down to exactly how the terms "accompany" and "written offer" are interpreted. If both of those terms are interpreted in a completely literal manner then I can't see how you could comply with them for a download.
But that nit asside what you all seem to be missing is that you need to provide either the source or the written offer to provide source when you distrubute the binaries. If you did not provide the source or the offer of source with the binaries then you violated the GPL regardless of whether you provide the source when someone asks.
We're just going to gloss over the fact that a grocery store is selling hard drives (and that people actually go there to buy them)? I'm the only one to comment on that?
Note that we aren't talking bare hard drives here we are talking about a "Fission External 4-in-1 Hard Drive, DVD, USB and Card Reader ".
Is ALDI different in Australia than it is here? I have to assume it's more like a department store (similar to Walmart) than just a grocery store.
ALDI at least in the UK seem to be a store selling a combination of discount groceries and discount "other stuff". What exactly the other stuff is varies but it's not unusual for their to be some computer stuff in the mix. Mind you most larger grocery stores in the UK sell some non-food stuff.
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Maybe this is just because they have to be proactive about keeping their trademark or something. I don't know. Stupid. :)
The problem is that afaict there is no penalty for overreaching when enforcing your trademark but there is a VERY significant penalty (loss of enforcability of the trademark) for nor reaching far enough.
Ironically, the agreement was that Apple Computers could never use their "Apple" in association with music... iTunes = whoops?
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Afaict it went something like
Apple records sued apple computer in a dubious (the two companies at the time were in totally different markets) trademark lawsuit
Apple computer settled with an agreement that they would keep out of the music buisness (which I guess made sense at the time)
Apple computer launched itunes
Apple records sued apple computer againclaiming that running itunes was a violation of their previous agreement
Apple computer settled by buying all rights to the apple trademark from apple records and then licensing them back to apple records. In the process apple computer renamed themselves to Apple inc. Soon after this settlement the beatles music was finally posted on itunes.
Afaict if you want to actually play the game you still have to buy (or pirate....) a copy to get the game content. The source releases only tend to include the code.
Because your system has a hardcoded list of certificates for trusted certification authorities. These root certificates are then used by the certification authorities to sign the intermediate certificates which are used to sign the certificates issued to end user services. This is just the same as how things already work for https.
It's not a perfect system mainly because the CAs may not be as trustworthy as they should be but it should be enough to keep the low level criminals under control.
Write performnace would be limited by the slower mechanical drive since all writes must go to both drives.
Read performance would depend entirely on how well the RAID distributed reads between the drives.
For something like a medical radiation source I think you would have a hardware watchdog timer. If the control hardware doesn't get an update after a set time interval then it assumes the system has crashed and shuts off.
I was under the impression that the federal reserve was created by an act of congress and as such can be disbanded, restructured or ordered to do stuff in the same manner.
Am I wrong?
If the people designing the system have any sense then it will only feed power back to the house when used in conjunction with a specifically designed base unit which manages the complications of safely feeding power to the house and possiblly to the grid (note: even if you want to feed both the house and the grid you probablly want to do it through seperate connections so you can continue to feed the house when the grid drops out).
For comparision the electricity prices from my provider are
13.36p per kwh single rate
16.23p per kwh dual rate daytime
6.28p per kwh dual rate nighttime
So if your storage is more than about 50% efficient overall then you would be saving on electricity costs (though other costs of the storage system may eiliminate the savings).
A 240V, 30A circuit won't feed as much as you might think. That circuit could feed four 15 amp 110 circuits
If those 15A circuits were fully loaded yes.
That might power your fridge, several lights and maybe a TV.
All of those things take very little power unless you are peppering your ceiling with downlights or something. Probablly under 1KW between them. For comparison 240V 30A works out to 7.2KW
You probablly would have to do without whole house electric heating or AC (a single room electric heater or a window AC unit could be accomodated provided it was turned off when the electricity was needed in the kitchen) and be careful with the kitchen appliances and if you are in america you would have to be careful about balancing stuff between the two hot lines but it's nowhere near as bad as you make out.
You'd probably have to choose between running the gas powered furnace and the television (a hard decision for some I know).
bullshit
backfeeding an entire neighbourhood isn't going to happen but i'd think backfeeding a small group of houses is well within the realm of possibility if no high power equipment happens to be turned on at the time.
Wires are a trip hazard.
Only if stupidly installed.
Don't many airlines already have power and headphone sockets for passengers? I don't see why ethernet ports would be any more of a problem.
I'd think the best bet for the return channel (assuming you didn't want to use RF) would be to use IR. By using narrow band optical filtering it should be possible to avoid too much interference from other sources and for many applications the return channel can use a relatively low data rate.
Afaict at least here in the UK most homes have single rate power BUT dual rate is readilly available and if you are running large loads overnight (traditionally running storage and immersion heaters in an electrically heated house but charging an EV overnight would also fit the bill) then you would be pretty mad not to sign up for it.
Full on variable rate systems are being trialled but afaict are not yet widely deployed.
It is probably just a crafty way to hide the hordes of money they are making...
I'd say it's more likely a way to seperate the reputations of the two units.
As oil and gas supplies dwindle we are being driven towards sources that are dirtier and/or riskier. Remember the deepwater horizon incident? remember the tar sands controversy? remember the fracking controversy? If you were running a consumer facing buisness would you really want to be associated with that?
Please reread what you wrote: The amount of debt you owe has little to do ... with the likelihood that you can repay that debt...?
Afaict the majority of the US debt is denominated in US dollars and the US government can create US dollars out of thin air either directly or by ordering the fed to print them and hand them over. So really the only way for the US to default on their debt is if they "choose" to do so (in this case by refusing to raise a self-imposed "debt limit").
Is there a rule that no object can be licensed as GPL unless it can be GPL-traced back to its origins?
The rule simply says it must be the "preffered form of the work for making modifications". Nothing more nothing less.
As with anything defined in human terms there are certainly edge cases but adding the output of a parser generator or obfuscator to an opensource project without providing the input seems to be pretty clearly in volation to me.
It is entirely up to the author(s) to decide what is offered to the public as GPL. There is no way to stop me from obfuscating some JavaScript and then licensing the result as GPL (I need noone's permission.)
Indeed there is nothing to stop you, as the copyright holder of the code you are under no obligation to follow your own license.
If I redistribute that code of yours I'm techincally in violation of the license but I think you'd find it very hard to enforce given that you tricked me into violating it by marking it as GPL code when (other than not redistributing the code at all) there was no way I could comply with the GPL
The real problem would come if someone (possiblly you) combined your code with third party GPL code to create and distribute a larger work. The person who distributed said larger work and anyone who redistributed it would then be in violation of the GPL license on the third parties code.
Actually, two 2.5" drives (70x100x9.5 mm) will fit perfectly on top of a single 3.5" drive (102x146x25.4 mm) (wikipedia entry on dimensions [wikipedia.org].
Yes in principle you can fit four 2.5 inch drives in the space of one 3.5 inch drive by mounting them sideways. In practice though even if you put the screwholes for mounting under the drives you would struggle to get a backplane into the 2mm of space you have next to the drives. Front to back you also only have 6mm for the incoming sata connectors and for the mounting hardware that supports the drives. I'm not sure whether such a mount is possible but if it is then it would require some pretty serious precision engineering and i've never seen anyone selling them.
So in practice you get two 2.5 inch drives per 3.5 inch bay even though this leaves over half the physical volume of the bay either empty or filled with mounting hardware. Even if you did get four drives into a bay and used this new drive then you would still only be getting 4TB compared to the 3TB you would get by using a single 3.5 inch drive.
Depending on exactly how you define resellers.
What has become increasingly common here in the UK is local loop unbundling. With local loop unbundling BT openreach* owns the physical line but the provider can operate their own ADSL gear. Afaict lines can be unbundled for just ADSL or for ADSL and voice (not sure if they can be unbundled for voice only or for ADSL and voice to different providers). LLU allows providers to avoid the high costs of using BTs ADSL backend network but comes at a price in that. So there are only a handful of LLU providers of which SKY and O2/BE (O2 bought BE but they still operate services under the BE name as we as their own) seem to be regarded as the best.
There are also many BT wholesale based providers but due to the way BT prices access to their backend network these tend to be expensive, congested or both.
* Part of BT but kept somewhat seperate from BTs other operations by the regulator.
This isn't about how much they are using the internet it's about what they are using it for. It's kinda hard to determine what a user is using the internet for if all their traffic goes through an encrypted tunnel leading out of the country.
which means the days of the Hummer are numbered.
I thought the hummers days were numbered because compared to the marauder it wasn't big or silly enough ;)
So we're getting there... but I do think at a certain point, you have to start releasing your media in different formats to suit different markets
It used to be VHS for the cheapskates and laserdisc or DVD for the more discerning viewer. Now it's DVD for the cheapskates and BLU-ray for the more discerning viewer. I'm sure in time that will change again but each time I would expect the "more discerning viewer" category to get smaller.
As I understand it the people who have infringed are those who have distributed emacs. They thought they had a license to do so but they (unknowingly) failed to comply with it's terms because the source they distributed was not "the preffered form of the work for making modifications" hence they have infringed the copyrights of anyone who had GPL'd code in emacs.
Afaict whether it can be used with downloads comes down to exactly how the terms "accompany" and "written offer" are interpreted. If both of those terms are interpreted in a completely literal manner then I can't see how you could comply with them for a download.
But that nit asside what you all seem to be missing is that you need to provide either the source or the written offer to provide source when you distrubute the binaries. If you did not provide the source or the offer of source with the binaries then you violated the GPL regardless of whether you provide the source when someone asks.
We're just going to gloss over the fact that a grocery store is selling hard drives (and that people actually go there to buy them)? I'm the only one to comment on that?
Note that we aren't talking bare hard drives here we are talking about a "Fission External 4-in-1 Hard Drive, DVD, USB and Card Reader ".
Is ALDI different in Australia than it is here? I have to assume it's more like a department store (similar to Walmart) than just a grocery store.
ALDI at least in the UK seem to be a store selling a combination of discount groceries and discount "other stuff". What exactly the other stuff is varies but it's not unusual for their to be some computer stuff in the mix. Mind you most larger grocery stores in the UK sell some non-food stuff.