Apparently the percentages round down. Assuming every category has 6,6% rounding error, the difference between positive and negative mods is around 13%, indicating that a whopping 4*100/13=31 mods have been fighting over this joke. Guessing that the average story gets 100 mods, about 15% of the Slashdot crowd are aware that MySQL now handles foreign keys and get upset if someone believes otherwise.
I further postulate that less than 30% of Slashdot readers are that knowledgeable about MySQL, giving a minimum of 50% of MySQL afficionados who are humorless and quick to anger.
The music industry thrived on the big format changes from LP to tape, and from tape to CD.
Nitpicking here, but the format change from LP to cassette didn't necessitate buying the music anew. Most used cassettes only where the original LP was inconvenient and simply shifted something they had already paid for to a different, more convenient format. Which was apparently OK at the time.
"A technician who plays CDs on a PC that's running a (critical) safety monitoring
system for a nuclear power plant is grossly misusing the system in a manner for
which both he and the system designers (who allowed this to be possible) should
be fired. Regardless of DRM concerns, that PC should not be running any
programs -- such as music players -- that it has not been completely certified
to be able to run safely while doing its job."
There are a bunch of valid questions around this though. Can I pay bills on the net and listen to music on the same computer? Can I watch a movie and compose and edit my own music on the same computer? Can I listen to music at work? Do I need to buy separate DRM-enabled hardware to listen to or watch media that my current hardware could handle if it wasn't for the DRM?
Since we pay taxes for things like empty cd's and hard drives, my country has legislation specifically allowing copying for personal use. Currently nothing says content providers can't prevent this from happening to the best of their ability. Still, it's illegal to circumvent their attempt to prevent copying. The letter of the law clearly conflicts with the intent of the law here.
You have a laptop and use different ISPs depending on where you are. Currently, you have to manually select the SMTP server every time to get the one that accepts mail from the ISP you're connected to at the moment. You'd like to set up rules for which SMTP server your mail client uses based on what connection you are using at the moment.
The real story seems to be that the money is granted to develop and test source code analysis tools, with Stanford doing development and Symantec testing. Seems like a potentially good way to catch human errors in coding. Instant feedback for the sloppy coder would be nice.
I tried IE and the pictures look exactly the same. The same parts of the text disappear. Does the HTML standard define an algorithm for resizing or is this just coincidence?
Einstein worked there before he became famous. The USPTO has no chance of getting, for example, Hawking to work full time browsing through patent applications.
Are grandparent's claims about pricing true? I live in Finland as well and find it hard to believe that the US, at ten times our prices, plus operator locked phones plus paying for incoming calls has the next cheapest system in the world.
Glancing at other replies here, at least Germany and the Netherlands have prices similar to Finland.
The only thing that differentiates this from crackpot science is that it is testable.
How about this? The only thing keeping me from stamping a big "crackpot" label on the whole thing is the claim that this is the only "theory of everything" to accurately predict the masses of the elementary particles. I have no idea if the claim is true, though.
I did some googling. Apparently the guy did exist and was a real scientist. Burkhard Heim and Heim theory. The theory article seems to explain the stuff behind TFA.
Installing a rootkit: $7,50
Sending a spam email: $39
Downloading an mp3 illegally: $120.000
Apparently it's a function of monetary gain * wealth of victim / wealth of criminal. Obviously it was supposed to be wealth of criminal divided by wealth of victim!
Cartels and monopolies. The telecom field is full of dinosaurs who own the infrastructure and provide crap service and vendor lock-in at outrageous prices.
TFA gives an example of use most potential customers should be familiar with. I have no clue how long it takes to download the Library of Congress on my current connection.
It's been tried before and people generally don't want the cost and complexity of an all in one. If you for example get a new phone/MP3 player what do you do with the iPod you just paid 300 bucks for?
There are more of those who dod not recently buy an iPod than there are of those who did. I never bought a digital camera. When I bought a new phone, I got one with a camera because the added cost was next to nothing and it seems like a good idea to have a camera around. If I had a separate camera, I'd seldom or never carry it with me.
The only real "nah-not-for-me" issue I have with the drive is the cost. Of course I'd pay $30 extra to have an mp3 player with 10G space. The $180 price tag makes me want something more.
In some countries it's illegal to couple a service with a product. Specifically, illegal to demand you buy a specific phone to get connected at a given price, and illegal to offer cheap phones only if you sign up for a connection at a given price.
Funny how the US is so soft on anti-competitive tactics while claiming to be the dream country for free markets.
Even the exceeding residential land lines part seemed surprisingly backwards to me. My mother is the only one I know of who doesn't have a cell phone. Having a cell phone hasn't been unusual or a status symbol since 1996.
This Business Week article from 1999 claims cell phone penetration was 58% in 1999 in Finland. Apparently 96% of the population had a mobile subscription in 2004. The US isn't that much behind, is it?
One problem remains; what if they have differing opinions on who owns, for example, abortion.com or evolution.com? How about a wiki-dns with the most popular choice getting the domain?
Neither of the examples detailed in the article seem "wrong". The rules were changed to not require the previous owner's consent if the government of a country wants to take over its own ccTLD. So?
Now, when a country is is such a state that there is disagreement on what is the valid government, then we might see some interesting arguments. The US government will likely start leaning on ICANN to pick the "good guy" in such cases, but it's not really time to start complaining about that yet.
What about DRM that prevents you from copying your CD onto your MP3 player? Will this become illegal in Australia since it would impinge on your right to do so under the law?
Don't count on it. When breaking DRM became illegal in Finland, all we got was a note saying that it would be nice if protected CDs provided a means to make a few copies.
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Can't wait for the spam...
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20% Troll
10% Flamebait
Apparently the percentages round down. Assuming every category has 6,6% rounding error, the difference between positive and negative mods is around 13%, indicating that a whopping 4*100/13=31 mods have been fighting over this joke. Guessing that the average story gets 100 mods, about 15% of the Slashdot crowd are aware that MySQL now handles foreign keys and get upset if someone believes otherwise.
I further postulate that less than 30% of Slashdot readers are that knowledgeable about MySQL, giving a minimum of 50% of MySQL afficionados who are humorless and quick to anger.
The music industry thrived on the big format changes from LP to tape, and from tape to CD.
Nitpicking here, but the format change from LP to cassette didn't necessitate buying the music anew. Most used cassettes only where the original LP was inconvenient and simply shifted something they had already paid for to a different, more convenient format. Which was apparently OK at the time.
One of the comments on Groklaw mentioned this.
"A technician who plays CDs on a PC that's running a (critical) safety monitoring system for a nuclear power plant is grossly misusing the system in a manner for which both he and the system designers (who allowed this to be possible) should be fired. Regardless of DRM concerns, that PC should not be running any programs -- such as music players -- that it has not been completely certified to be able to run safely while doing its job."
There are a bunch of valid questions around this though. Can I pay bills on the net and listen to music on the same computer? Can I watch a movie and compose and edit my own music on the same computer? Can I listen to music at work? Do I need to buy separate DRM-enabled hardware to listen to or watch media that my current hardware could handle if it wasn't for the DRM?
Since we pay taxes for things like empty cd's and hard drives, my country has legislation specifically allowing copying for personal use. Currently nothing says content providers can't prevent this from happening to the best of their ability. Still, it's illegal to circumvent their attempt to prevent copying. The letter of the law clearly conflicts with the intent of the law here.
You have a laptop and use different ISPs depending on where you are. Currently, you have to manually select the SMTP server every time to get the one that accepts mail from the ISP you're connected to at the moment. You'd like to set up rules for which SMTP server your mail client uses based on what connection you are using at the moment.
Correct?
Encryption doesn't hide the IP addresses involved. You can hide the content, but need one or more third parties to hide who you're talking to.
I think it's this one. Encrypted disks with a special player that decrypts the signal and gives normal, unencrypted output to the TV.
The real story seems to be that the money is granted to develop and test source code analysis tools, with Stanford doing development and Symantec testing. Seems like a potentially good way to catch human errors in coding. Instant feedback for the sloppy coder would be nice.
I tried IE and the pictures look exactly the same. The same parts of the text disappear. Does the HTML standard define an algorithm for resizing or is this just coincidence?
Try this: Hold up your hand in front of your face. Too many DPI to look good?
DPI can only be too high if you have text and icons fixed to a given amount of dots.
Einstein worked there before he became famous. The USPTO has no chance of getting, for example, Hawking to work full time browsing through patent applications.
If a crime was committed when someone criticizes a politician anonymously, the ISP would have to give out his info.
Because our rulers have a god-given right to side-step the actual issues and use ad hominem to defend themselves...
Are grandparent's claims about pricing true? I live in Finland as well and find it hard to believe that the US, at ten times our prices, plus operator locked phones plus paying for incoming calls has the next cheapest system in the world.
Glancing at other replies here, at least Germany and the Netherlands have prices similar to Finland.
The only thing that differentiates this from crackpot science is that it is testable.
How about this? The only thing keeping me from stamping a big "crackpot" label on the whole thing is the claim that this is the only "theory of everything" to accurately predict the masses of the elementary particles. I have no idea if the claim is true, though.
I did some googling. Apparently the guy did exist and was a real scientist. Burkhard Heim and Heim theory. The theory article seems to explain the stuff behind TFA.
Installing a rootkit: $7,50
Sending a spam email: $39
Downloading an mp3 illegally: $120.000
Apparently it's a function of monetary gain * wealth of victim / wealth of criminal. Obviously it was supposed to be wealth of criminal divided by wealth of victim!
Cartels and monopolies. The telecom field is full of dinosaurs who own the infrastructure and provide crap service and vendor lock-in at outrageous prices.
TFA gives an example of use most potential customers should be familiar with. I have no clue how long it takes to download the Library of Congress on my current connection.
It's been tried before and people generally don't want the cost and complexity of an all in one. If you for example get a new phone/MP3 player what do you do with the iPod you just paid 300 bucks for?
There are more of those who dod not recently buy an iPod than there are of those who did. I never bought a digital camera. When I bought a new phone, I got one with a camera because the added cost was next to nothing and it seems like a good idea to have a camera around. If I had a separate camera, I'd seldom or never carry it with me.
The only real "nah-not-for-me" issue I have with the drive is the cost. Of course I'd pay $30 extra to have an mp3 player with 10G space. The $180 price tag makes me want something more.
In some countries it's illegal to couple a service with a product. Specifically, illegal to demand you buy a specific phone to get connected at a given price, and illegal to offer cheap phones only if you sign up for a connection at a given price.
Funny how the US is so soft on anti-competitive tactics while claiming to be the dream country for free markets.
Even the exceeding residential land lines part seemed surprisingly backwards to me. My mother is the only one I know of who doesn't have a cell phone. Having a cell phone hasn't been unusual or a status symbol since 1996.
This Business Week article from 1999 claims cell phone penetration was 58% in 1999 in Finland. Apparently 96% of the population had a mobile subscription in 2004. The US isn't that much behind, is it?
One problem remains; what if they have differing opinions on who owns, for example, abortion.com or evolution.com? How about a wiki-dns with the most popular choice getting the domain?
Neither of the examples detailed in the article seem "wrong". The rules were changed to not require the previous owner's consent if the government of a country wants to take over its own ccTLD. So?
Now, when a country is is such a state that there is disagreement on what is the valid government, then we might see some interesting arguments. The US government will likely start leaning on ICANN to pick the "good guy" in such cases, but it's not really time to start complaining about that yet.
My girlfriends' name ends in .jpg, you insensitive clod! .jpg
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In Korea, only old people's names end in
In Soviet Russia women watch YOU!
..What was that last again?
What about DRM that prevents you from copying your CD onto your MP3 player? Will this become illegal in Australia since it would impinge on your right to do so under the law?
Don't count on it. When breaking DRM became illegal in Finland, all we got was a note saying that it would be nice if protected CDs provided a means to make a few copies.