Sorry, cave divers don't work with buddies, because it doesn't work. Zero visibility, passage too small for two people side by side, etc., etc. Cave divers may be insane but they are not mad!
When oh when will people realise this is the sort of government interference that is simply not needed. This is exactly the sort of problem that the free market will resolve. If this sort of attack ever happens, people can simply vote with their dollars and buy their electricity from another supplier. Then the generating and distribution companies will actually have to do something rather than get away with claiming that they are doing something.
Lifeguards are hunky guys (and gals) in swimming costumes who save swimmers (or, rather, non-swimmers!) at beaches and swimming pools. The RNLI is the Royal National Lifeboat Institution: note "lifeboat".
Actually, IDEs are fantastic, until you need to step outside what the IDE will do, then they are rubbish. Which is about 5 minutes into any non-trivial program.
Sorry, but if every economist knows this, then they've put their collective heads where the sun doesn't shine (actually, this seems generally true of economists) (and free-market believers as well).
There are a couple of reasons increasing fuel tax will make little or no difference (and check out the UK and Europe which have steadily raised taxes.... no effect).
First, the biggest vehicle usage is commuting. People will not immediately go out and get a new car, and by the time they do they have adjusted to the increased prices (they will grumble but that is as far as it goes). Also, people are vary bad at estimating future costs, so when replacing an existing car, immediate concerns like size, features, cost, etc. will dominate the buying decisions.
Second, there is the psychology of buying fuel. People will grumble when they fill up (they may even put less fuel in, but then they just have to fill up again sooner). Once the fuel is in the tank, then they will just nip out to the shops, just nip round to see friends, just this, just that: the money has already been spent.
If you want taxation to work, then it has to have an effect at the point of sale. Dunno the exact situation elsewhere but in the UK there is a yearly "road fund license". Make this swingeing on fuel-innefficient vehicles so it becomes noticable on the purchase price, and you might make a difference
Has anyone noticed how more and more stuff gets moved from the Linux kernel into user space these days; FUSE is a good example. History may record that, broadly speaking, Tanenbaum was corrent and Torvalds was not.
Anyway, I assume you are saying that since Linux has been so much more successful than Minix, we must listen to Torvalds and ignore Tanenbaum? On that basis, we should listen to Gates and ignore Torvalds!
Parents are not forced to send children to state schools if they do not go to independent schools. It is allowed to teach your own kids, provided that the education they receive is deemed up to the required standard. I personally know people who do. A major motivation nowadays (both to self-education and independent schools) is to save your kids having to waste all their time being groomed for all the tests that the government requires (basically so that government wonks can collect ticks and claim that standards are improving).
You dont. I send one email to 500 people, or in groups of less is there is a limit on the number of recipients. The 500 recipients never download it, they just delete it from their ISP's mail box. Easy peasy.
I'm a Brit and I reckon I understand how our system works (or doesn't). msclrhd is quite correct, since in the British system, the Prime Minister is *not* elected by the general electorate; he was only elected to be an MP. I suspect that there is actually no actual requirement for the Prime Minster and the Leader of the governing party to be one and the same person.
Dictatorships are, by definition, run by dictators. However, monarchies are not necessarily run by monarchs. Eg., Queen Elizaboth does not run the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
Turing machines were being assembled into something that was not a Turing machine
The author needs a bit of theoretical computer science. However many Turing machines you assemble, you still have a Turing machine.
Oh, deary deary me. How terrible. I bet you hail from the good old US-of-A? This is the market economy, the triumph of capitalist economics; charge what the market can bear.
Anyway, the less I have to hear and read about all this Olympic b****x the better, so raise the prices and raise the firewall says I
Rather than reply to a load of (seemingly to me misguided) postings about OFF being clever encryption or whatever, here is my take on it:
Suppose I have a file I want to upload. I do something like this. I split it into blocks (128Kbytes in this case). Then for each "original" block I create a set of "new" blocks such that, if the "new" blocks are (say) XOR'd together, they create the "original" block. I then upload the "new" blocks to various servers. The URL for the file lists which "new" blocks to get from which servers; anyone with the URL can retrieve the "new" blocks, do the XOR and regenerate the original file.
Now, the "new" blocks cannot be copyright. If there are N "new" blocks for each "original" block then I can generate the first N-1 randomly, and then generate the Nth to give the right result. The Nth block is random in the sense that it is generated as a result of an "original" block and N-1 randome "new" blocks.
The URL itself cannot be copyright; if it was then it I give someone instructions on how to get to some place where there is a copy of a book, and the PIN number for a photocopier, then that would be copyright as well.
It seems to me that copyright is only infringed when someone gets the "new" blocks and recreates the file.
So, the OFF does not magically get around having a dodgy copy of a copyright work, but it does get around storing that work,
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The typical teen sends more texts - by a factor of about 10 - per day, than I have ever sent.
I'm a caver. It would last about 30 seconds in most cave environments. It wouldn't even fit in the cave I explore most.
The Z-series mainframes cost hundreds of thousands (or even over a million) dollars, not the chips. As it says in the article.
Unfortunately, governments are likely to assume that the 1% who can remain anonymous, must have something to hide. Lose/lose :(
Bewarre dodgy comparisons: http://scienceblog.cancerresearchuk.org/2009/08/17/we-need-to-be-careful-when-comparing-us-and-uk-cancer-care/
Sorry, cave divers don't work with buddies, because it doesn't work. Zero visibility, passage too small for two people side by side, etc., etc. Cave divers may be insane but they are not mad!
Boring git. Go crawl back into the hole you came from!
When oh when will people realise this is the sort of government interference that is simply not needed. This is exactly the sort of problem that the free market will resolve. If this sort of attack ever happens, people can simply vote with their dollars and buy their electricity from another supplier. Then the generating and distribution companies will actually have to do something rather than get away with claiming that they are doing something.
OMG. It might become a micro-kernel!!!
Google started as a PhD research project at Stanford, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Google
Lifeboat crews?
Lifeguards are hunky guys (and gals) in swimming costumes who save swimmers (or, rather, non-swimmers!) at beaches and swimming pools. The RNLI is the Royal National Lifeboat Institution: note "lifeboat".
Actually, IDEs are fantastic, until you need to step outside what the IDE will do, then they are rubbish. Which is about 5 minutes into any non-trivial program.
Sorry, but if every economist knows this, then they've put their collective heads where the sun doesn't shine (actually, this seems generally true of economists) (and free-market believers as well). There are a couple of reasons increasing fuel tax will make little or no difference (and check out the UK and Europe which have steadily raised taxes .... no effect).
First, the biggest vehicle usage is commuting. People will not immediately go out and get a new car, and by the time they do they have adjusted to the increased prices (they will grumble but that is as far as it goes). Also, people are vary bad at estimating future costs, so when replacing an existing car, immediate concerns like size, features, cost, etc. will dominate the buying decisions.
Second, there is the psychology of buying fuel. People will grumble when they fill up (they may even put less fuel in, but then they just have to fill up again sooner). Once the fuel is in the tank, then they will just nip out to the shops, just nip round to see friends, just this, just that: the money has already been spent.
If you want taxation to work, then it has to have an effect at the point of sale. Dunno the exact situation elsewhere but in the UK there is a yearly "road fund license". Make this swingeing on fuel-innefficient vehicles so it becomes noticable on the purchase price, and you might make a difference
Has anyone noticed how more and more stuff gets moved from the Linux kernel into user space these days; FUSE is a good example. History may record that, broadly speaking, Tanenbaum was corrent and Torvalds was not. Anyway, I assume you are saying that since Linux has been so much more successful than Minix, we must listen to Torvalds and ignore Tanenbaum? On that basis, we should listen to Gates and ignore Torvalds!
Thats all very well but: A badly maintained car usually just grinds to a halt. A badly maintained aircraft *falls* onto things.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/dec/08/wikipedia-censorship
Parents are not forced to send children to state schools if they do not go to independent schools. It is allowed to teach your own kids, provided that the education they receive is deemed up to the required standard. I personally know people who do. A major motivation nowadays (both to self-education and independent schools) is to save your kids having to waste all their time being groomed for all the tests that the government requires (basically so that government wonks can collect ticks and claim that standards are improving).
You dont. I send one email to 500 people, or in groups of less is there is a limit on the number of recipients. The 500 recipients never download it, they just delete it from their ISP's mail box. Easy peasy.
I'm a Brit and I reckon I understand how our system works (or doesn't). msclrhd is quite correct, since in the British system, the Prime Minister is *not* elected by the general electorate; he was only elected to be an MP. I suspect that there is actually no actual requirement for the Prime Minster and the Leader of the governing party to be one and the same person.
Dictatorships are, by definition, run by dictators. However, monarchies are not necessarily run by monarchs. Eg., Queen Elizaboth does not run the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland.
Turing machines were being assembled into something that was not a Turing machine The author needs a bit of theoretical computer science. However many Turing machines you assemble, you still have a Turing machine.
Oh, deary deary me. How terrible. I bet you hail from the good old US-of-A? This is the market economy, the triumph of capitalist economics; charge what the market can bear. Anyway, the less I have to hear and read about all this Olympic b****x the better, so raise the prices and raise the firewall says I
Rather than reply to a load of (seemingly to me misguided) postings about OFF being clever encryption or whatever, here is my take on it: Suppose I have a file I want to upload. I do something like this. I split it into blocks (128Kbytes in this case). Then for each "original" block I create a set of "new" blocks such that, if the "new" blocks are (say) XOR'd together, they create the "original" block. I then upload the "new" blocks to various servers. The URL for the file lists which "new" blocks to get from which servers; anyone with the URL can retrieve the "new" blocks, do the XOR and regenerate the original file. Now, the "new" blocks cannot be copyright. If there are N "new" blocks for each "original" block then I can generate the first N-1 randomly, and then generate the Nth to give the right result. The Nth block is random in the sense that it is generated as a result of an "original" block and N-1 randome "new" blocks. The URL itself cannot be copyright; if it was then it I give someone instructions on how to get to some place where there is a copy of a book, and the PIN number for a photocopier, then that would be copyright as well. It seems to me that copyright is only infringed when someone gets the "new" blocks and recreates the file. So, the OFF does not magically get around having a dodgy copy of a copyright work, but it does get around storing that work,
Alternatively, drink decent British beer, then you don't need to cool it like you do with that God-awful USA stuff.