I was responding to a specific post calling for this to be adopted in the US, not responding to the original article, so your response doesn't really apply. I know the original article is about the UK, which doesn't follow our Constitution.
In the US, so far as I know, court's can only order such punishments as they have been granted power to do through legislation by congress or a state legislature.
Congress and state legislatures are limited by the Constitution. The First Amendment of which guarantees free speech by prohibiting Congress from passing any laws which abridge the freedom of speech.
Therefor, Congress cannot pass a law granting the courts the power to compel speech, because compelling speech is equally an abridgement of free speech just as much as censoring free speech.
Also, just because a court find someone guilty, doesn't mean they are. How many people convicted for murder or rape have later been exhonerated? What if they had been compelled to make an admission of guilt by the court? Someone should always have the right to maintain their innocence.
It's easy to look at this and say, "well, this is a corporation and a patent troll to boot", but if they can do it to a patent troll, why couldn't they do it to you?
I think it says something that the example that springs most readily to your mind of Christian violence happened almost a thousand years ago. Of course, there are some more recent examples you can find, but historically, Chrisitianity has been peaceful almost all of it's history.
One could also point out that the Crusades were partly in response to the militant expansion of Islam throughout much of the Mediterranean world, and into Europe. Not that I think that everything that happened during the Crusades was justified, but when a people feel threatened by a foreign power which is militarily expanding (and yes, this would apply to the U.S./NATO in the current day too), they do have some right to respond militarily themselves to defend their lands and people.
No, I'm not talking about political parties. What I mean is, you need some group who are separate and independent from the people responsible for building and operating the reactors, mines, oil wells, etc, who are your regulators. The trick is keeping the regulators from becoming corrupt and losing their independence.
What I mean is, it doesn't matter whether private companies or government, whoever is building and running dangerous facilities NEEDS someone else who is independent looking over their shoulder or they will become complacent, and eventually an incident will occur.
Most users probably won't and shouldn't use the command line on a day-to-day basis. But, the real power of the CLI is scriptability - it's hard to script GUI apps.
This means that, if I need to, in a support/consulting role for a user, I can create a.bat or.sh file which I can send to the user, to do something really useful, just by recombining stuff that's already built-in to the operating system (so I don't have to write it). This means I can do something useful, but it only takes me 5 or 10 minutes to write and test the script, then send it to the user and tell them to put it somewhere, and double click the icon for the "program".
Myself, as a power-user, I like the ability to do pretty complex things with text files from the command line - piping stuff through grep, redirecting output, etc. For example, if I create a batch file to do some task for the user, as outlined above, I can redirect all the output to a log file, and have them send me the log if something goes wrong.
The CLI definitely has a useful role in computing. No, users shouldn't *have* to go to the command line to do anything common (and mostly they DON'T have to), but it's nice to have for those occasions when it is "the right tool for the job".
I'm just thinking through this. If my phone's battery is charged, it's likely my GPS will still work in a large blackout that covers most of a metro area - navsats have their own independent power, of course.
But, in a large blackout, seems like most RF sources would probably go silent. Especially WiFi AP's (I suppose some people might have them on UPS's, but I suspect most people do not).
Radio Stations and TV's probably have emergency generators so they stay on the air in a blackout. Same for police/fire/ems (not sure if this NAVSOP uses emergency radio signals for location, but maybe could).
I wonder if you are just left with Radio, TV, Air Control Radar, Weather Radar, etc, if that is "good enough".
I also wonder how well this system would work in very isolated areas - there are parts of the Western and Southwestern US with very little in the way of people or radio transmitters - deserts, ranch country, etc. You might only pick up one or two AM radio stations if you're lucky.
Now, they tell you up-front that in order to sell a small number of units in China, you must hand over all your technical documentation so that they can start making and selling them after the initial sale.
I'd say this is a bit more like biological weapons, and less like nuclear - more likely to spread, more likely that a single individual or small group can successfully develop and deploy them, some chance that once deployed, it will come back to attack its creator-state, because you can't be completely sure you can control it. (That is to say, once a given nuclear device is detonated, it's gone and can't attack again, but biological can cyber weapons can be harvested, tweaked, and re-deployed against you).
So, what if the customer upgrades some piece of software in the environment that is a dependency of your software - a jvm, or.net runtime, or a library, or a database engine, or the operating system or webserver. Something breaks. It breaks not because of any mistake you made, but because something in the dependency changed. Maybe a bug was introduced into the dependency, or a deprecated function or feature was removed.
Should you be expected to update the code to deal with the new version of the dependency, for free? A lot of "bugs" that show up after 2 or 3 months fall into this category.
What if the "bug" exists because of a demand made by the client during development, and you even tried to warn them that this was a mistake and would lead to problems, but they insisted, so you gave them what they demanded, not what they really needed. Then, a year later, they finally come to their senses and want it "fixed" - should you be expected to do that work for free?
What about genomic testing before marriage/mating?
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Reading this, since they took the dna from blood and saliva, not from the fetus, it raised the question for me, why wait until conception?
In the future, will couples get genetically screened during pre-marital counseling, to see if they have good compatibility (in terms of not having high risk of genetic problems in offspring)? Sounds terribly un-romantic, doesn't it?
You can cut your power usage a lot by reducing a) manufacturing, transportation, and export of goods, and b) Construction of new buildings, structures(bridges, railroads, etc) and roads or renovations of old buildings, structures and roads.
Yeah, maybe things have improved, but I played with IP6 tunneling for a short time. It was kind of cool, but on IPv4, my typical ping times are 20-80ms to reach most hosts. On IPv6 with tunneling, the latencies were typically >100-300ms. Which, is mostly fine for web browsing, but sucks for other applications.
Well, others have already mentioned some, but let's try to get a list of possible solutions to this problem listed:
* DNS, access machines by name * For frequently accessed machines, assign "short numbers", e.g. 1234:5678::25 (where 1234:5678 is your IPv6 prefix). For a little bit of added convenience, assign your network prefix to an environment variable, and you can, e.g.
$ ping ${IP6_Prefix}::25
* Run IPv4 *internally* as well as IPv6, then you can access machines on the local network using the EXACT SAME IPv4 private network addresses you've been using for the last 20 years. IPv6 is most useful for accessing hosts on OTHER networks on the global internet, no reason you can't use IPv4 for internal networking.
* If you use IPv6 auto-config based on Mac addresses, and you have a database of mac addresses on your network, I bet vendors will be releasing tools which allow you to automatically parse out the mac address from an IPv6 and show you which machine the address belongs to. That's good enough for machines you don't need to frequently lookup (like individual workstations of employees). For servers, printers, etc, assign "short numbers" as described above, in blocks (e.g. routers and switches might be::1 through::100, printers::200-::300 , servers::500-::600, etc, then you just have to remember what the short numbers of frequently used devices are.
The thing is, some of the bulbs actually get bright almost immediately, but unfortunately, it's almost impossible when shopping for them in the store to figure out which are the instant-on ones and which aren't. Some of the instant-ons might be labelled as such (if marketers were smart, they would), but I've gotten some packages which weren't labelled like that, and were still instant-on.
The thing I absolutely love about CFLs isn't so much lower electric bills (though I like that too), but the fact that I seem to never have to change them. I've been using the same CFLs now for like 4 years.
So, there's 4 types of ionizing radiation. Gamma is only one. Is Gamma the type which is mainly radiated by the isotopes of concern? Or because that's the easiest/cheapest to create a detector chip for, so they slap one in a phone, creating a 1/4 solution to the problem, and market it to the public as a more or less total solution to the problem?
For the particular case of detecting reactor isotopes, is Gamma radiation even particularly useful?
I've got mixed feelings about this. It's been my experience that Silverlight/Netflix give me better video streams (higher definitions, good framerates, very few times it needs to stop to buffer), and my PC runs cooler, than Flash videos, for whatever reason.
I especially noticed this when I had a laptop - I would notice the laptop get VERY hot when watching videos from Hulu (which uses Flash), but it only got warm, not hot, with Netflix videos. The Netflix videos consistently seemed to have higher video quality (although, to be fair, Hulu's video quality seems to have gotten quite a bit better, so that's probably less a limitation of Flash and more of the way the videos were encoded by Hulu a couple years ago).
Still, for all that can be said bad about Silverlight, and it does suck that it's Windows-only, it does have some redeeming values.
There's a very legitimate question of jurisdiction. The U.S. has no legal authority over the moon, any more than they do venus or mars.
In essence, it would be kind of a dickish thing to do to mess with historical sites on the moon, but the U.S. government has no legal authority over the moon. I'd say something which has been left unattended for 50+ years would qualify as "abandoned", so it's not like theft laws should apply.
There is the issue that if the craft is a U.S.-based craft, then like ships in international waters, it might carry U.S. jurisdiction around with it wherever it goes, but if it's, I dunno, a Chinese or Russian spacecraft? What's NASA/USGovt gonna do?
The real issue isn't "running out", it's more like "running tight" - there will always be some limited number of "available" IPv4 addresses out there, available to the highest bidder.
But, we have a situation of "artificial scarcity" *for numbers*. The nice thing about integers, is that there's an infinite number of them available. Why should we suffer the pain of scarcity for something which is unlimited?
For now, the answer seems to be that upgrading to IPv6 will, it is thought, cause more pain, but I think that when people actually see how ridiculous things get in a world where IPv4 addresses are scarce, that they'll see the benefit of ending artificial scarcity.
It can't be remotely read (at least not yet), which is a good thing for many reasons, but everyone already has a (almost unique) code (I say almost, because there is the case of twins/triplets/etc which share DNA). It's just that you have to take a physical sample to "read" their code.
. . . to kill, detain, or avoid my soldiers/special ops, by putting a chip in them so you can track them at all times, and launch remotely guided ordinance programmed to seek their GUIDs. Brilliant plan.
It's like she's never even heard of a covert operation.
. . . Why isn't China basically buying up all its own production and using them to produce power for China?
The fact that they can "dump" solar panels on the U.S. and European markets speaks volumes to how the Chinese themselves view the tech, don't you think?
Seems like it'd be useful for something like a "Wireless HDMI" standard, to allow your computer, phone, etc to transmit HD video to your TV or projector.
So far as I know, nobody cares about the electric plant. It's the *enrichment* plant that everyone is concerned about. With their own centrifuge, there's nothing to stop them from enriching uranium to weapons-grade (80%+) material.
If you go back and read the news more carefully, I think you'll find all the sanctions discussion revolves around the centrifuge.
Mutation is responsible for the development of life. It happens regardless of man-made sources of radiation. In general, mutation will not give you a third eye or second head in a single generation. That sort of mutation is extremely unlikely.
As for other sorts of birth defects which would be more likely to be expected from random mutations, those are going to happen whether we use nuclear power or not. Again, mutation is natural and has been happening for a billion years.
We can't reasonably say that mutation driven by a very slight increase in the background radiation, which would only happen in the unlikely, but possible, case of a nuclear accident, is any more or less harmful than mutations caused by the original background radiation. The number of additional mutations/birth defects caused by that very slight increase in background radiation would be almost impossible to detect statistically. Also, there's a chance that a mutation would be *beneficial* instead of harmful - improved senses, improved health, better metabolism, better athleticism, better aging, etc.
THe difference between LGPL and GPL is only one thing. . . dynamic linking. The thing is, it's still an open legal question as to whether the prohibition on linking is legally enforceable. If it's not, then GPL and LGPL are the same.
The question arises because it's not legally clear that dynamic linking creates a derivative work subject to the terms of the GPL. I might, or it might not, who knows?
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I was responding to a specific post calling for this to be adopted in the US, not responding to the original article, so your response doesn't really apply. I know the original article is about the UK, which doesn't follow our Constitution.
In the US, so far as I know, court's can only order such punishments as they have been granted power to do through legislation by congress or a state legislature.
Congress and state legislatures are limited by the Constitution. The First Amendment of which guarantees free speech by prohibiting Congress from passing any laws which abridge the freedom of speech.
Therefor, Congress cannot pass a law granting the courts the power to compel speech, because compelling speech is equally an abridgement of free speech just as much as censoring free speech.
Also, just because a court find someone guilty, doesn't mean they are. How many people convicted for murder or rape have later been exhonerated? What if they had been compelled to make an admission of guilt by the court? Someone should always have the right to maintain their innocence.
It's easy to look at this and say, "well, this is a corporation and a patent troll to boot", but if they can do it to a patent troll, why couldn't they do it to you?
Anyone remember the Crusades?
I think it says something that the example that springs most readily to your mind of Christian violence happened almost a thousand years ago. Of course, there are some more recent examples you can find, but historically, Chrisitianity has been peaceful almost all of it's history.
One could also point out that the Crusades were partly in response to the militant expansion of Islam throughout much of the Mediterranean world, and into Europe. Not that I think that everything that happened during the Crusades was justified, but when a people feel threatened by a foreign power which is militarily expanding (and yes, this would apply to the U.S./NATO in the current day too), they do have some right to respond militarily themselves to defend their lands and people.
No, I'm not talking about political parties. What I mean is, you need some group who are separate and independent from the people responsible for building and operating the reactors, mines, oil wells, etc, who are your regulators. The trick is keeping the regulators from becoming corrupt and losing their independence.
What I mean is, it doesn't matter whether private companies or government, whoever is building and running dangerous facilities NEEDS someone else who is independent looking over their shoulder or they will become complacent, and eventually an incident will occur.
Most users probably won't and shouldn't use the command line on a day-to-day basis. But, the real power of the CLI is scriptability - it's hard to script GUI apps.
This means that, if I need to, in a support/consulting role for a user, I can create a .bat or .sh file which I can send to the user, to do something really useful, just by recombining stuff that's already built-in to the operating system (so I don't have to write it). This means I can do something useful, but it only takes me 5 or 10 minutes to write and test the script, then send it to the user and tell them to put it somewhere, and double click the icon for the "program".
Myself, as a power-user, I like the ability to do pretty complex things with text files from the command line - piping stuff through grep, redirecting output, etc. For example, if I create a batch file to do some task for the user, as outlined above, I can redirect all the output to a log file, and have them send me the log if something goes wrong.
The CLI definitely has a useful role in computing. No, users shouldn't *have* to go to the command line to do anything common (and mostly they DON'T have to), but it's nice to have for those occasions when it is "the right tool for the job".
I'm just thinking through this. If my phone's battery is charged, it's likely my GPS will still work in a large blackout that covers most of a metro area - navsats have their own independent power, of course.
But, in a large blackout, seems like most RF sources would probably go silent. Especially WiFi AP's (I suppose some people might have them on UPS's, but I suspect most people do not).
Radio Stations and TV's probably have emergency generators so they stay on the air in a blackout. Same for police/fire/ems (not sure if this NAVSOP uses emergency radio signals for location, but maybe could).
I wonder if you are just left with Radio, TV, Air Control Radar, Weather Radar, etc, if that is "good enough".
I also wonder how well this system would work in very isolated areas - there are parts of the Western and Southwestern US with very little in the way of people or radio transmitters - deserts, ranch country, etc. You might only pick up one or two AM radio stations if you're lucky.
Hey, good news. China is changing.
Now, they tell you up-front that in order to sell a small number of units in China, you must hand over all your technical documentation so that they can start making and selling them after the initial sale.
I'd say this is a bit more like biological weapons, and less like nuclear - more likely to spread, more likely that a single individual or small group can successfully develop and deploy them, some chance that once deployed, it will come back to attack its creator-state, because you can't be completely sure you can control it. (That is to say, once a given nuclear device is detonated, it's gone and can't attack again, but biological can cyber weapons can be harvested, tweaked, and re-deployed against you).
So, what if the customer upgrades some piece of software in the environment that is a dependency of your software - a jvm, or .net runtime, or a library, or a database engine, or the operating system or webserver. Something breaks. It breaks not because of any mistake you made, but because something in the dependency changed. Maybe a bug was introduced into the dependency, or a deprecated function or feature was removed.
Should you be expected to update the code to deal with the new version of the dependency, for free? A lot of "bugs" that show up after 2 or 3 months fall into this category.
What if the "bug" exists because of a demand made by the client during development, and you even tried to warn them that this was a mistake and would lead to problems, but they insisted, so you gave them what they demanded, not what they really needed. Then, a year later, they finally come to their senses and want it "fixed" - should you be expected to do that work for free?
Reading this, since they took the dna from blood and saliva, not from the fetus, it raised the question for me, why wait until conception?
In the future, will couples get genetically screened during pre-marital counseling, to see if they have good compatibility (in terms of not having high risk of genetic problems in offspring)? Sounds terribly un-romantic, doesn't it?
3) Reduced GDP
You can cut your power usage a lot by reducing a) manufacturing, transportation, and export of goods, and b) Construction of new buildings, structures(bridges, railroads, etc) and roads or renovations of old buildings, structures and roads.
Yeah, maybe things have improved, but I played with IP6 tunneling for a short time. It was kind of cool, but on IPv4, my typical ping times are 20-80ms to reach most hosts. On IPv6 with tunneling, the latencies were typically >100-300ms. Which, is mostly fine for web browsing, but sucks for other applications.
Well, others have already mentioned some, but let's try to get a list of possible solutions to this problem listed:
* DNS, access machines by name
* For frequently accessed machines, assign "short numbers", e.g.
1234:5678::25 (where 1234:5678 is your IPv6 prefix). For a little bit of added convenience, assign your network prefix to an environment variable, and you can, e.g.
$ ping ${IP6_Prefix}::25
* Run IPv4 *internally* as well as IPv6, then you can access machines on the local network using the EXACT SAME IPv4 private network addresses you've been using for the last 20 years. IPv6 is most useful for accessing hosts on OTHER networks on the global internet, no reason you can't use IPv4 for internal networking.
* If you use IPv6 auto-config based on Mac addresses, and you have a database of mac addresses on your network, I bet vendors will be releasing tools which allow you to automatically parse out the mac address from an IPv6 and show you which machine the address belongs to. That's good enough for machines you don't need to frequently lookup (like individual workstations of employees). For servers, printers, etc, assign "short numbers" as described above, in blocks (e.g. routers and switches might be ::1 through ::100, printers ::200-::300 , servers ::500-::600, etc, then you just have to remember what the short numbers of frequently used devices are.
The thing is, some of the bulbs actually get bright almost immediately, but unfortunately, it's almost impossible when shopping for them in the store to figure out which are the instant-on ones and which aren't. Some of the instant-ons might be labelled as such (if marketers were smart, they would), but I've gotten some packages which weren't labelled like that, and were still instant-on.
The thing I absolutely love about CFLs isn't so much lower electric bills (though I like that too), but the fact that I seem to never have to change them. I've been using the same CFLs now for like 4 years.
So, there's 4 types of ionizing radiation. Gamma is only one. Is Gamma the type which is mainly radiated by the isotopes of concern? Or because that's the easiest/cheapest to create a detector chip for, so they slap one in a phone, creating a 1/4 solution to the problem, and market it to the public as a more or less total solution to the problem?
For the particular case of detecting reactor isotopes, is Gamma radiation even particularly useful?
I've got mixed feelings about this. It's been my experience that Silverlight/Netflix give me better video streams (higher definitions, good framerates, very few times it needs to stop to buffer), and my PC runs cooler, than Flash videos, for whatever reason.
I especially noticed this when I had a laptop - I would notice the laptop get VERY hot when watching videos from Hulu (which uses Flash), but it only got warm, not hot, with Netflix videos. The Netflix videos consistently seemed to have higher video quality (although, to be fair, Hulu's video quality seems to have gotten quite a bit better, so that's probably less a limitation of Flash and more of the way the videos were encoded by Hulu a couple years ago).
Still, for all that can be said bad about Silverlight, and it does suck that it's Windows-only, it does have some redeeming values.
There's a very legitimate question of jurisdiction. The U.S. has no legal authority over the moon, any more than they do venus or mars.
In essence, it would be kind of a dickish thing to do to mess with historical sites on the moon, but the U.S. government has no legal authority over the moon. I'd say something which has been left unattended for 50+ years would qualify as "abandoned", so it's not like theft laws should apply.
There is the issue that if the craft is a U.S.-based craft, then like ships in international waters, it might carry U.S. jurisdiction around with it wherever it goes, but if it's, I dunno, a Chinese or Russian spacecraft? What's NASA/USGovt gonna do?
The real issue isn't "running out", it's more like "running tight" - there will always be some limited number of "available" IPv4 addresses out there, available to the highest bidder.
But, we have a situation of "artificial scarcity" *for numbers*. The nice thing about integers, is that there's an infinite number of them available. Why should we suffer the pain of scarcity for something which is unlimited?
For now, the answer seems to be that upgrading to IPv6 will, it is thought, cause more pain, but I think that when people actually see how ridiculous things get in a world where IPv4 addresses are scarce, that they'll see the benefit of ending artificial scarcity.
It can't be remotely read (at least not yet), which is a good thing for many reasons, but everyone already has a (almost unique) code (I say almost, because there is the case of twins/triplets/etc which share DNA). It's just that you have to take a physical sample to "read" their code.
. . . to kill, detain, or avoid my soldiers/special ops, by putting a chip in them so you can track them at all times, and launch remotely guided ordinance programmed to seek their GUIDs. Brilliant plan.
It's like she's never even heard of a covert operation.
. . . Why isn't China basically buying up all its own production and using them to produce power for China?
The fact that they can "dump" solar panels on the U.S. and European markets speaks volumes to how the Chinese themselves view the tech, don't you think?
Seems like it'd be useful for something like a "Wireless HDMI" standard, to allow your computer, phone, etc to transmit HD video to your TV or projector.
So far as I know, nobody cares about the electric plant. It's the *enrichment* plant that everyone is concerned about. With their own centrifuge, there's nothing to stop them from enriching uranium to weapons-grade (80%+) material.
If you go back and read the news more carefully, I think you'll find all the sanctions discussion revolves around the centrifuge.
Mutation is responsible for the development of life. It happens regardless of man-made sources of radiation. In general, mutation will not give you a third eye or second head in a single generation. That sort of mutation is extremely unlikely.
As for other sorts of birth defects which would be more likely to be expected from random mutations, those are going to happen whether we use nuclear power or not. Again, mutation is natural and has been happening for a billion years.
We can't reasonably say that mutation driven by a very slight increase in the background radiation, which would only happen in the unlikely, but possible, case of a nuclear accident, is any more or less harmful than mutations caused by the original background radiation. The number of additional mutations/birth defects caused by that very slight increase in background radiation would be almost impossible to detect statistically. Also, there's a chance that a mutation would be *beneficial* instead of harmful - improved senses, improved health, better metabolism, better athleticism, better aging, etc.
THe difference between LGPL and GPL is only one thing. . . dynamic linking. The thing is, it's still an open legal question as to whether the prohibition on linking is legally enforceable. If it's not, then GPL and LGPL are the same.
The question arises because it's not legally clear that dynamic linking creates a derivative work subject to the terms of the GPL. I might, or it might not, who knows?