This is my biggest complaint. A few years back I had someone in Australia buy plain tickets online and used my email address. I got the info about the account and tickets, did a password reset request and got into the account and canceled the tickets. I sure hope they had a hard time when they showed up at the airport.
Wow, sure it's annoying when people accidentally uses the wrong email... I can understand that you complain about. Given that you had to commit a federal offence by illegally obtaining access to an account that wasn't yours.
I mean becoming a criminal is worth complaining about, but you could just have contacted the airline, which is perfectly legal, and asked them to resolve the situation.
Instead of going out of your way, to be an a**hole, and actually make yourself a criminal in the process.
Verification emails should be sent on all new account creations and when signing up for any mailing list. Clearly the latter won't happen because companies want the emails to go to someone, they don't care who.
Sure, but an error somewhere in the system, does not make you owner of the account. Seriously, why don't you think before you hit somebodys password reset. That's clearly illegal.
I mean, wow, just wow, given how long time the US is willing to lock you up for violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, I'm surprised you decide to just go ahead... No wonder 1% of the US population is in prison:)
Or the fact that we are still coming off of an Ice Age that lasted for more than 100,000 years, and ended less than 10,000 years ago (Or the little Ice Age that ended in 1850). Several models predict that the average temperature at the END of the last Ice Age was 15-20C lower than today.
So over 10k years temperature raised 20C, that is (20 / 10000) * 10 = 0.02C per decade, very far from 0.7 / 3 = 0.23 per decade that we see now.
I don't have sources from your numbers, and it's probably safe to assume that the rate of temperature change isn't constant either... So maybe we shouldn't try to model this at all, my calculations above are certainly as ignorant and non-sense as your postulation of numbers...
Is global warming happening? Yes. Is the human race a contributing factor? Probably to some degree. Is the human race the only cause? No.
True, there are many factors that affect the environment, but non other does it with the same speed as humans.
Global warning is primarily man-made, it's a real problem, that's the scientific consensus. And I'm fairly sure that most people on slashdot as just as qualified to discuss the scientific consensus around global warming, as soccer moms are qualified to discuss the merits and "dangers" of vaccinations.
I was trying to draw a distinction between problems that are beyond human comprehension and those that are merely beyond human time and ability, with huge SAT instances falling into the latter category.
Exactly, the use of SAT unsatisfiability certificates is just a proof strategy... Just like reductions used to show complexity classes, nobody comprehends all of them...
No. We choose not to 'fix' these issues, not because we would rather spend money on drone strikes, but because spending money on these issues does not fix them. One does not throw resources blindly down a hole in the hopes that they will do some good.
So people with mental issues don't benefit from showers, a comfy bed, regular food and professional treatment?
People with early stages of breast cancer who can't pay for healthcare doesn't benefit from treatment?
People without healthcare who accidentally get their fingers cut off in a freak accident, don't benefit from having them reattached?
People who are have problems paying for food and heating at the same time, won't benefit from financial aid, or higher minimum wage?
People who can't pay for tuition wouldn't benefit from free public universities?
I think there is a lot of things the working poor would benefit from, and I never said you should throw money blindly.
Many things in the EU is actually just statements, so they rejected a statement calling for member countries to grant asylum,
Such, statements have no legal implication or effect, but it is a very strong political message to send.
If they had decided to do this, they would essentially have endorsed Snodowns actions. It would also be a strong message to send the US, saying that the EU is willing to help people who stand up to the criminal activities conducted by the US government.
Yes, spying is illegal! it's a clear human rights violation.
The homeless in our streets are primarily a mental health issue, not a resources issue.
People blowing 'their savings' on heating costs are doing something fundamentally wrong.
These are resource issues that the US could easily fix, but chooses not to because you would rather spend money on drone strikes, surveillance, prisons and tax breaks.
Middle eastern residents are getting blown up because their governments are incompetent.
Well, also because US drones are dropping the bombs... and who knows what would happen if you stopped funding totalitarian regimes.
African children are similarly dying of starvation because their governments are incompetent.
You right, this is foreign political issues, that the US can't easily fix by throwing resources at them.
But even a competent african government can't do anything without external funding...
Oh, and don't tell me it's all their own fault for not electing a competent government, it's not like the US citizen can do that either:)
>> we're in the nascent stages of...a post-scarcity economy...'no longer constrained by scarcity of materials—food, energy, shelter, etc.
Tell that to:
- The homeless in our streets
- People blowing their savings on heating costs this winter
Yeah, I always how you Americans can be so heartless to just ignore this...
>> European socialist capitalism vastly expanded to the point where no one has to work unless they want to
Yeah...ask the Soviets or Cuba how that worked. (Or Venezuela if you need a more recent example.) Hell,. just ask Europe how that's going. (Looking at you, France.)
Soviet union and Cuba are not related, they were totalitarian regimes foiled as implementations of communism, no different from the regimes the US is supporting in the middle east. Oh, and Cuba, might have been a lot better of if it weren't for the pointless US trade blockade! Let's face it the US is a sore loser...
As for France, ask your self if you were broke, unemployed or homeless, where would you rather live? Is the French system expensive, sure, but they'll balance the sheets and be just fine...
Worse than that. A lot of countries outside the US would likely use ICANN to restrict content. China might want to restrict websites which talk about all sorts of things. European countries would want to restrict hate speech and Holocaust denial. Islamic countries would want to restrict blasphemous websites. Etc. For all the many faults of the US, ICANN is one thing that must stay in US hands if we value free speech.
DNS filtering is already happening... there are pros and cons, it'll never be standardized or required by international law.
An no, don't tell me to trust the US to safe guard free speech... You openly violate human right, torture and spy illegally on millions of people on a unprecedented scale. (Don't tell me spying is legal, it's a clear violation human rights convention). Oh, and skip the arguments, that the human rights convention shouldn't be honored, I don't even want to hear it.
Fact of the matter is that the US has lost is credibility and we can't trust you anymore. Ideally, agreement should be more distributed, for instance DNSSEC keys should be held by multiple independent entities in different countries. Places out side the reach of the NSA.
The U.S. serving size system is vastly superior because of the ease of use for an end user of figuring out approximately how much nutrition is in the food being consumed.
Please elaborate on how serving sizes are standardized? And who actually eats a bag of chips one serving at the time:)
Or who opens a bottle of coke and only drinks one serving... that ridiculous...
So nutrition information "per 100g" of a product is just percentages, so you don't need a scale. But I agree that cross product category comparison can be hard. However, adding arbitrary serving size definitions, doesn't make that any easier.
Anyways, the thing that would in fact be useful is energy distribution, ie. how much of the energy is from fat and how much from carbohydrates. Total numbers are not super relevant.
Once again, companies try to prevent competition through legislation... and apparently some lawmakers aren't above giving it to them.
Wow, the law proposed wouldn't force Tesla out of Ohio, in fact it would force Telsa to sell its cars through retailers that may compete against each other.
It can just as well be argued that the bill ensures retail competition.
Yeah, yeah, you can also argue that why shouldn't Tesla be allowed to be the only retailer that sells their product. Just like Apple for a long time was (and in many markets still is) the only retailer that sells apple products (For once we have a computer analogy).
In fact, the only units that I have to convert between regularly are time units, and metric doesn't help you there.
I did highschool physics in Europe with SI units...But oh, the horrors whenever, we saw a page from an American physics book:)
More than half the book was about unit translation... it's convenient have kilograms, meters match up with the gravitational constant.
Maybe you're right that it doesn't matter that much on a daily basis. But if you ever read the nutritional information on a product over here (I'm currently in the US) you'll see that it's per "serving" and:
- servings are defined in cups (or something crazy)
- fat per serving is grams, and
- total contents of the package is defined in pounds.
To deduce anything from the nutritional information on the product is very hard... In most other countries, it's grams of fat per 100 gram, and total contents of the package is in kg or grams... Enjoy.
If, as an American, I write a webpage in Russian condemning Putin and the Russian orthodox church, should I expect the "we don't call them KGB anymore" to swing by and throw me in a glass cage?
That's a maybe... If you rat them out, you should expect a slow painful death from radiation served through sushi.
If I draw a cartoon of Mohammed molesting little girls, should I expect Ali Khamenei to call down a Jihad on my ass?
Yes! You should expect this:)
Kurt Westergaard who publicly owned up to one of the Mohammed drawing is still living under protection by the Danish Security and Intelligence Service.
If I give a Nazi salute in public, with Merkel get her panties in a bunch?
No, she doesn't care... But she might want you to stop spying on her!
Now, let me ask you some questions:
If in Denmark I buy Cuban cigars from Germany, should I expect US security service to confiscate my money?
Apparently, oh, and there is no judicial process or court I can complain to..
If I live in the middle east and I decide to support freedom figthers (who happen to be Muslim) should I expect a drone strike on my ass?
Maybe,
If I work for the CIA and murder people in Germany should I expect to be extradited for for my crimes?
No!
The problem is that Wikimedia is registered in California and they obviously do not care about Finnish law and I have no idea of how the police think they can force a US organization to comply with the rules if all the servers and staff are outside Finland.
Just because they are located else where doesn't mean they are not subject to the regulation. They can still be subject to the regulation, even if the Finish policy can't enforce it.
However, the payment processing probably goes through an entity located in the EU, I'm sure paypal and friend have subsidiaries in the EU. And these subsidiaries can be targeted and court ordered to block payments. I'm no lawyer, but I believe you can now be sued by any court within the EU, so policy might have options here.
In reality, I seriously doubt that's what the policy wants, it's a lot of work for no reason, they probably just sent them a nice letter asking them to fill out and standard form.
In Finland, it is illegal to plead with audience to raise funds without a special permission issued by the Police Board.
If that is even half true, that's just tyrannical...
How so?
I'm sure it is fairly easy to get a permit, it's probably just a standard form you fill out and file... I imagin prevents a lot of scam artists, honestly, that's good.. Obviously, wikipedia isn't being attacked or targeted, the police is just asking for compliance with local law by filling out a form.
Oh, and I suspect that most non-profits in Finland have a standing permit to raise funds...
In many countries it also illegal for poor people to beg for money on the street, not unreasonable in countries that provides welfare benefits you can live of without any problems.
I guess my main question is where the new hardware innovations will come from when you don't have a massive company and research group driving them.
Did you ever consider that basic research is hard to justify in a cooperate environment? Hence, better left to public entities, as done in many countries.
I think that big companies splitting up is a good thing, they'll be able to focus their research and be much more agile.. Other companies,start-up, etc. will also be able to compete better if they can purchase services from independent chip manufacturers. There will be less dirty game where chip manufacturers say they won't produce your chip because they are own by a big company (say IBM) whom you're trying to compete with.
The free market works best when companies are fairly small. Otherwise companies can't fail without it having enormous impact on society. I for one applaud IBM for trying not to be too big to fail!
For IBM this also means that they can't shop around for manufacturers, instead of being bound to use their own. Flexibility is not worthless.
A source familiar with Enlets said it was unlikely that such devices could be in new cars by the end of the decade.
Furthermore, I don't think this is a secret plan. It sounds more like a work group discussing the technical feasibility of such as system.
No way, this was going to be implemented without public discussion... Note, there is no talk of implementation, just talk about feasibility, then they will talk standardization, then there'll be law and then a couple years down the road it'll be implemented in actual cars... Assuming public outcry doesn't kill this quiet possibly sensible idea.
Who knows maybe it only allows control within a certain distance, etc... Maybe it's not unreasonable, maybe just maybe, surveillance isn't so bad if the regulation about how data is used is very strong and well protected. After all, we're already under surveillance by private entites s.t. Google, Amazon, Visa, Master, etc... Well, control governments ought to be better:)
PDF isn't proprietary... I'm not even sure it ever was (but it might have been). While it only recently became standardized, the specification for if not all then large subsets of the format have been out for years.
For non-writable document exchange PDF is still my preferred format.
If it weren't for the GPL how much of Android would be open source?
(The android project isn't exactly praised for having an open source development model).
How much of OS X is open source? It's based on FreeBSD and lot of other things if I recall correctly, and sure Apple contributes back to many of these projects - but OS X is not an open source platform by any standards.
I'm totally fine with permissive licenses, and uses them a lot, but RMS has a point, the longer down the stack we go, the more important copyleft becomes. Without GPL tivolization would have been a different story.
On topic, I doubt that LLVM is going to completely replace GCC, but competition is good. It keeps us to the standards, and I certainly welcome that:)
(Along with the nicer API and better tooling)
Sorry, ma'am, but even if you manage to get the law itself changed, you're still guilty of violating it.
Agree... Either way, it shouldn't be legal to drive with those things on anyway... They clearly steal focus, even if disabled (or in driving-mode)...
People who drive with that stuff kills cyclists and pedestrians, especially in cities...
Yup, and as a consequence, Boeing just lost a 5 billion Dollar Brazillian aircraft order to the Swede SAAB.
Well, if the US government is spying on behalf of US companies, those companies cannot be trusted.
It's violation of the free market forces and clearly illegal. Their bids are obviously invalid.
The rest of the world owns Snowden a big thanks for exposing organized crime at this level. And people in the US shouldn't worry about the money (from state-sponsored organized crime), but be ashamed of their country for the crimes you are committing against other (smaller) countries that considered the US to be their ally.
Be glad that Snowden exposed this, you have a chance to fix it now... otherwise what's next state-sponsored bribery, theft, sabotage of competitors, why not just invade a foreign country take all their gold? Laws must also apply when dealing with foreign citizens, countries and cooperations...
Does it count as racist that I'm absolutely *shocked* a western company has been dodging taxes?
+1
Corruption on a $3.4b scale would be quite an achievement:)
Anyways, as always, I'm sure there is nothing to the story if we read it... that's usually the case with shocking articles on slashdot... So this time I dismiss it without reading any futher:)
So live expectancy is up but "the number of years of healthy living" is down... Well, maybe because, people are diagnosed earlier, especially diabetes also stress and depression are much more "popular" than used to be...
From what I understand it's a lightweight virtual machine... I'm considering it for a case where we need to run a lot unit tests... the tests leave the machine in a dirty state, so running the tests inside an lxc container would fix that... A copy-on-write file system would make reseting the machine cheap, at lot cheaper than restarting a virtual machine from snapshot..
even if the UN passes something to assert "universal human right to online privacy", we know that the ones doing the snooping are still going to keep snooping with no regard for the law.
Sure, UN laws aren't trivial to enforce... And yes, it's hard to say to what extend a US court will acknowledge treaties signed by the US.
And hey, the US maybe not even choose to sign such a treaty.
But highlighting the problem, and making in bluntly obvious that the US is spying on people to an extend Stasi could onl y dreams of is a good start. Nothing ever changes over night, NSA wasn't built in a day, and it'll take more than day to shut it down.
But when to US makes moves like this, is bluntly obvious to the rest of the world that going forward internet cables needs to be routed around the US. That's not going to happen over night either, if ever...
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This is my biggest complaint. A few years back I had someone in Australia buy plain tickets online and used my email address. I got the info about the account and tickets, did a password reset request and got into the account and canceled the tickets. I sure hope they had a hard time when they showed up at the airport.
Wow, sure it's annoying when people accidentally uses the wrong email... I can understand that you complain about. Given that you had to commit a federal offence by illegally obtaining access to an account that wasn't yours.
I mean becoming a criminal is worth complaining about, but you could just have contacted the airline, which is perfectly legal, and asked them to resolve the situation.
Instead of going out of your way, to be an a**hole, and actually make yourself a criminal in the process.
Verification emails should be sent on all new account creations and when signing up for any mailing list. Clearly the latter won't happen because companies want the emails to go to someone, they don't care who.
Sure, but an error somewhere in the system, does not make you owner of the account. Seriously, why don't you think before you hit somebodys password reset. That's clearly illegal.
:)
I mean, wow, just wow, given how long time the US is willing to lock you up for violations of the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, I'm surprised you decide to just go ahead... No wonder 1% of the US population is in prison
Or the fact that we are still coming off of an Ice Age that lasted for more than 100,000 years, and ended less than 10,000 years ago (Or the little Ice Age that ended in 1850). Several models predict that the average temperature at the END of the last Ice Age was 15-20C lower than today.
So over 10k years temperature raised 20C, that is (20 / 10000) * 10 = 0.02C per decade, very far from 0.7 / 3 = 0.23 per decade that we see now.
I don't have sources from your numbers, and it's probably safe to assume that the rate of temperature change isn't constant either... So maybe we shouldn't try to model this at all, my calculations above are certainly as ignorant and non-sense as your postulation of numbers...
Is global warming happening? Yes. Is the human race a contributing factor? Probably to some degree. Is the human race the only cause? No.
True, there are many factors that affect the environment, but non other does it with the same speed as humans.
Global warning is primarily man-made, it's a real problem, that's the scientific consensus. And I'm fairly sure that most people on slashdot as just as qualified to discuss the scientific consensus around global warming, as soccer moms are qualified to discuss the merits and "dangers" of vaccinations.
I was trying to draw a distinction between problems that are beyond human comprehension and those that are merely beyond human time and ability, with huge SAT instances falling into the latter category.
Exactly, the use of SAT unsatisfiability certificates is just a proof strategy... Just like reductions used to show complexity classes, nobody comprehends all of them...
No. We choose not to 'fix' these issues, not because we would rather spend money on drone strikes, but because spending money on these issues does not fix them. One does not throw resources blindly down a hole in the hopes that they will do some good.
So people with mental issues don't benefit from showers, a comfy bed, regular food and professional treatment?
People with early stages of breast cancer who can't pay for healthcare doesn't benefit from treatment?
People without healthcare who accidentally get their fingers cut off in a freak accident, don't benefit from having them reattached?
People who are have problems paying for food and heating at the same time, won't benefit from financial aid, or higher minimum wage?
People who can't pay for tuition wouldn't benefit from free public universities?
I think there is a lot of things the working poor would benefit from, and I never said you should throw money blindly.
it’s not a coincidence that the harshest legal punishment short of the death penalty in modern states is solitary confinement.
It should probably have said:
it’s not a coincidence that the harshest legal punishment in modern states is solitary confinement.
Many things in the EU is actually just statements, so they rejected a statement calling for member countries to grant asylum,
Such, statements have no legal implication or effect, but it is a very strong political message to send.
If they had decided to do this, they would essentially have endorsed Snodowns actions. It would also be a strong message to send the US, saying that the EU is willing to help people who stand up to the criminal activities conducted by the US government.
Yes, spying is illegal! it's a clear human rights violation.
The homeless in our streets are primarily a mental health issue, not a resources issue.
People blowing 'their savings' on heating costs are doing something fundamentally wrong.
These are resource issues that the US could easily fix, but chooses not to because you would rather spend money on drone strikes, surveillance, prisons and tax breaks.
Middle eastern residents are getting blown up because their governments are incompetent.
Well, also because US drones are dropping the bombs... and who knows what would happen if you stopped funding totalitarian regimes.
African children are similarly dying of starvation because their governments are incompetent.
You right, this is foreign political issues, that the US can't easily fix by throwing resources at them.
:)
But even a competent african government can't do anything without external funding...
Oh, and don't tell me it's all their own fault for not electing a competent government, it's not like the US citizen can do that either
>> we're in the nascent stages of...a post-scarcity economy...'no longer constrained by scarcity of materials—food, energy, shelter, etc.
Tell that to: - The homeless in our streets - People blowing their savings on heating costs this winter
Yeah, I always how you Americans can be so heartless to just ignore this...
>> European socialist capitalism vastly expanded to the point where no one has to work unless they want to
Yeah...ask the Soviets or Cuba how that worked. (Or Venezuela if you need a more recent example.) Hell,. just ask Europe how that's going. (Looking at you, France.)
Soviet union and Cuba are not related, they were totalitarian regimes foiled as implementations of communism, no different from the regimes the US is supporting in the middle east. Oh, and Cuba, might have been a lot better of if it weren't for the pointless US trade blockade! Let's face it the US is a sore loser...
As for France, ask your self if you were broke, unemployed or homeless, where would you rather live? Is the French system expensive, sure, but they'll balance the sheets and be just fine...
Worse than that. A lot of countries outside the US would likely use ICANN to restrict content. China might want to restrict websites which talk about all sorts of things. European countries would want to restrict hate speech and Holocaust denial. Islamic countries would want to restrict blasphemous websites. Etc. For all the many faults of the US, ICANN is one thing that must stay in US hands if we value free speech.
DNS filtering is already happening... there are pros and cons, it'll never be standardized or required by international law.
An no, don't tell me to trust the US to safe guard free speech... You openly violate human right, torture and spy illegally on millions of people on a unprecedented scale. (Don't tell me spying is legal, it's a clear violation human rights convention). Oh, and skip the arguments, that the human rights convention shouldn't be honored, I don't even want to hear it.
Fact of the matter is that the US has lost is credibility and we can't trust you anymore. Ideally, agreement should be more distributed, for instance DNSSEC keys should be held by multiple independent entities in different countries. Places out side the reach of the NSA.
The U.S. serving size system is vastly superior because of the ease of use for an end user of figuring out approximately how much nutrition is in the food being consumed.
Please elaborate on how serving sizes are standardized? And who actually eats a bag of chips one serving at the time :)
Or who opens a bottle of coke and only drinks one serving... that ridiculous...
So nutrition information "per 100g" of a product is just percentages, so you don't need a scale. But I agree that cross product category comparison can be hard. However, adding arbitrary serving size definitions, doesn't make that any easier.
Anyways, the thing that would in fact be useful is energy distribution, ie. how much of the energy is from fat and how much from carbohydrates. Total numbers are not super relevant.
Once again, companies try to prevent competition through legislation ... and apparently some lawmakers aren't above giving it to them.
Wow, the law proposed wouldn't force Tesla out of Ohio, in fact it would force Telsa to sell its cars through retailers that may compete against each other.
It can just as well be argued that the bill ensures retail competition.
Yeah, yeah, you can also argue that why shouldn't Tesla be allowed to be the only retailer that sells their product. Just like Apple for a long time was (and in many markets still is) the only retailer that sells apple products (For once we have a computer analogy).
In fact, the only units that I have to convert between regularly are time units, and metric doesn't help you there.
I did highschool physics in Europe with SI units...But oh, the horrors whenever, we saw a page from an American physics book :)
More than half the book was about unit translation... it's convenient have kilograms, meters match up with the gravitational constant.
Maybe you're right that it doesn't matter that much on a daily basis. But if you ever read the nutritional information on a product over here (I'm currently in the US) you'll see that it's per "serving" and:
- servings are defined in cups (or something crazy)
- fat per serving is grams, and
- total contents of the package is defined in pounds.
To deduce anything from the nutritional information on the product is very hard... In most other countries, it's grams of fat per 100 gram, and total contents of the package is in kg or grams... Enjoy.
If, as an American, I write a webpage in Russian condemning Putin and the Russian orthodox church, should I expect the "we don't call them KGB anymore" to swing by and throw me in a glass cage?
That's a maybe... If you rat them out, you should expect a slow painful death from radiation served through sushi.
If I draw a cartoon of Mohammed molesting little girls, should I expect Ali Khamenei to call down a Jihad on my ass?
Yes! You should expect this :)
Kurt Westergaard who publicly owned up to one of the Mohammed drawing is still living under protection by the Danish Security and Intelligence Service.
If I give a Nazi salute in public, with Merkel get her panties in a bunch?
No, she doesn't care... But she might want you to stop spying on her! Now, let me ask you some questions:
If in Denmark I buy Cuban cigars from Germany, should I expect US security service to confiscate my money?
Apparently, oh, and there is no judicial process or court I can complain to..
If I live in the middle east and I decide to support freedom figthers (who happen to be Muslim) should I expect a drone strike on my ass?
Maybe,
If I work for the CIA and murder people in Germany should I expect to be extradited for for my crimes?
No!
The problem is that Wikimedia is registered in California and they obviously do not care about Finnish law and I have no idea of how the police think they can force a US organization to comply with the rules if all the servers and staff are outside Finland.
Just because they are located else where doesn't mean they are not subject to the regulation. They can still be subject to the regulation, even if the Finish policy can't enforce it.
However, the payment processing probably goes through an entity located in the EU, I'm sure paypal and friend have subsidiaries in the EU. And these subsidiaries can be targeted and court ordered to block payments. I'm no lawyer, but I believe you can now be sued by any court within the EU, so policy might have options here.
In reality, I seriously doubt that's what the policy wants, it's a lot of work for no reason, they probably just sent them a nice letter asking them to fill out and standard form.
If that is even half true, that's just tyrannical...
How so?
I'm sure it is fairly easy to get a permit, it's probably just a standard form you fill out and file... I imagin prevents a lot of scam artists, honestly, that's good.. Obviously, wikipedia isn't being attacked or targeted, the police is just asking for compliance with local law by filling out a form.
Oh, and I suspect that most non-profits in Finland have a standing permit to raise funds...
In many countries it also illegal for poor people to beg for money on the street, not unreasonable in countries that provides welfare benefits you can live of without any problems.
This, sounds like outcry over nothing...
I guess my main question is where the new hardware innovations will come from when you don't have a massive company and research group driving them.
Did you ever consider that basic research is hard to justify in a cooperate environment? Hence, better left to public entities, as done in many countries.
I think that big companies splitting up is a good thing, they'll be able to focus their research and be much more agile.. Other companies,start-up, etc. will also be able to compete better if they can purchase services from independent chip manufacturers. There will be less dirty game where chip manufacturers say they won't produce your chip because they are own by a big company (say IBM) whom you're trying to compete with.
The free market works best when companies are fairly small. Otherwise companies can't fail without it having enormous impact on society. I for one applaud IBM for trying not to be too big to fail!
For IBM this also means that they can't shop around for manufacturers, instead of being bound to use their own. Flexibility is not worthless.
A source familiar with Enlets said it was unlikely that such devices could be in new cars by the end of the decade.
Furthermore, I don't think this is a secret plan. It sounds more like a work group discussing the technical feasibility of such as system.
:)
No way, this was going to be implemented without public discussion... Note, there is no talk of implementation, just talk about feasibility, then they will talk standardization, then there'll be law and then a couple years down the road it'll be implemented in actual cars... Assuming public outcry doesn't kill this quiet possibly sensible idea.
Who knows maybe it only allows control within a certain distance, etc... Maybe it's not unreasonable, maybe just maybe, surveillance isn't so bad if the regulation about how data is used is very strong and well protected. After all, we're already under surveillance by private entites s.t. Google, Amazon, Visa, Master, etc... Well, control governments ought to be better
PDF isn't proprietary... I'm not even sure it ever was (but it might have been). While it only recently became standardized, the specification for if not all then large subsets of the format have been out for years.
For non-writable document exchange PDF is still my preferred format.
If it weren't for the GPL how much of Android would be open source?
:)
(The android project isn't exactly praised for having an open source development model).
How much of OS X is open source? It's based on FreeBSD and lot of other things if I recall correctly, and sure Apple contributes back to many of these projects - but OS X is not an open source platform by any standards.
I'm totally fine with permissive licenses, and uses them a lot, but RMS has a point, the longer down the stack we go, the more important copyleft becomes. Without GPL tivolization would have been a different story.
On topic, I doubt that LLVM is going to completely replace GCC, but competition is good. It keeps us to the standards, and I certainly welcome that
(Along with the nicer API and better tooling)
Sorry, ma'am, but even if you manage to get the law itself changed, you're still guilty of violating it.
Agree... Either way, it shouldn't be legal to drive with those things on anyway... They clearly steal focus, even if disabled (or in driving-mode)...
People who drive with that stuff kills cyclists and pedestrians, especially in cities...
Yup, and as a consequence, Boeing just lost a 5 billion Dollar Brazillian aircraft order to the Swede SAAB.
Well, if the US government is spying on behalf of US companies, those companies cannot be trusted.
It's violation of the free market forces and clearly illegal. Their bids are obviously invalid.
The rest of the world owns Snowden a big thanks for exposing organized crime at this level.
And people in the US shouldn't worry about the money (from state-sponsored organized crime), but be ashamed of their country for the crimes you are committing against other (smaller) countries that considered the US to be their ally.
Be glad that Snowden exposed this, you have a chance to fix it now... otherwise what's next state-sponsored bribery, theft, sabotage of competitors, why not just invade a foreign country take all their gold? Laws must also apply when dealing with foreign citizens, countries and cooperations...
Does it count as racist that I'm absolutely *shocked* a western company has been dodging taxes?
+1 :) :)
Corruption on a $3.4b scale would be quite an achievement
Anyways, as always, I'm sure there is nothing to the story if we read it... that's usually the case with shocking articles on slashdot... So this time I dismiss it without reading any futher
So live expectancy is up but "the number of years of healthy living" is down... Well, maybe because, people are diagnosed earlier, especially diabetes also stress and depression are much more "popular" than used to be...
:)
Better healthcare could explain it
From what I understand it's a lightweight virtual machine... I'm considering it for a case where we need to run a lot unit tests... the tests leave the machine in a dirty state, so running the tests inside an lxc container would fix that... A copy-on-write file system would make reseting the machine cheap, at lot cheaper than restarting a virtual machine from snapshot..
even if the UN passes something to assert "universal human right to online privacy", we know that the ones doing the snooping are still going to keep snooping with no regard for the law.
Sure, UN laws aren't trivial to enforce... And yes, it's hard to say to what extend a US court will acknowledge treaties signed by the US.
And hey, the US maybe not even choose to sign such a treaty.
But highlighting the problem, and making in bluntly obvious that the US is spying on people to an extend Stasi could onl y dreams of is a good start. Nothing ever changes over night, NSA wasn't built in a day, and it'll take more than day to shut it down.
But when to US makes moves like this, is bluntly obvious to the rest of the world that going forward internet cables needs to be routed around the US. That's not going to happen over night either, if ever...