On Slashdot, nobody really gets hit on very extensively, probably because it is so easy to ignore it here that even trying would seem like a waste. So the unusually high level of lesbianism among slashdotters who admit to being female, could hardly be explained by that.
I suppose I did forget the possibility that there could be a correlation between being a lesbian and being willing to mention to being female on Slashdot.
Are the random access writable versions of UDF well supported in all those operating systems? Obviously the Read only versions are well supported (thanks to DVD), and some special forms of writable UDF are supported, but my understanding is that what DVD-RW's use, and what a flash drive would have some significant differences, that may prevent the existing OS drivers from being able to work with UDF on a flash drive.
Start charging for map updates? I've not hear of a single GPS with free map updates, except limited free updated in the event you bought the unit within like a month of a new update.
Otherwise the maps tend to cost at least half the price of the whole unit.
Actually, the theory behind hate speech laws is that they are exactly the same as yelling fire in a crowed theater. Hate Speech under the law is defined as speech intended to cause violence, rioting, etc. I'll admit that they are often incorrectly enforced in cases where the speech is not intended to cause such problems, but that is not the intent. The idea is that there is no speech that is inherently illegal. However in some certain circumstances specific phrases with specific timing, tone, intent, etc. may be illegal.
Unfortunately I suspect having specific laws on these issues, rather than relying on the general inciting violence laws may be causing more harm than good.
Flash Player 4 (or perhaps it was 5) does come with Windows XP. (Windows XP's help system includes several old flash scripts) However, Flash Player 4/5 is pretty worthless, all websites I know of would be unable to use it, which is why they prompt you to install a recent Flash Player. Further, I've discovered that a version of Flash Player 7 is present on at least some XP Install CDs, but apparently does not get installed.
Since the other reply to your message did not seem to answer your queestion, I'll do it. In the United States in general a criminal defendant can waive his or her rights to a jury trial, resulting in a bench trial.
However I have been told that many judges will insist on being given a good reason to try a criminal case as a bench trial. (How that works exactly, I'm not sure, but perhaps the judge has the power to convert any bench trial to a jury trial.)
But bench trials do save the court significant time, so as long as the judge is confident that you are aware of the implications, and have a good reason for requesting one, the judge would be unlikely to refuse.
Assuming you have a good judge (impartial, and able to keep emotions out of the decision), a bench trial would be a good idea in a Child pornography case, and the possibility of an invalid jury verdict due to emotion should definitely be considered good reason for requesting a bench trial.
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"Uninsured driver" coverage is mandatory in Maryland and Pennsylvania. You mean it's not mandatory elsewhere? Surprising. What happens if you get hit by an uninsured person? Tough luck?
Not necessarily. The standard procedure in an vehicular accident (except those where only one part is involved, such as crashing into that tree in your front yard) is a lawsuit, although in many cases the lawsuit is settled long before any paperwork is ever filed with a court. In the case of an uninsured motorist, a full blown lawsuit is likely to result. You would receive any money the uninsured motorist could pay, less any fess charged by your insurance company. While the amount you receive will likely be less than the amount to which you would otherwise be entitled, it can still be a lot better than receiving no money. In minor accidents (say a 3 MPH collision) they uninsured motorist may actually be able to pay the full amount. But in many cases you would be shafted, insofar as vehicle repair costs.
Health insurance should normally cover medical expenses that exceed whatever you could get from the uninsured motorist, but that can vary by the policy.
Correct, party admission is classifies as non-hearsay. Even if it did not have that status, it would likely still be admissible hearsay because it was a statement against self-interest, and the defendant would not be available to testify directly (since a defendant cannot be forced to testify). (I am am not a lawyer, so I may be mistaken here, but that sounds right to me). Granted that workaround would only be valid in the case where the admission in question was made by the defendant. The non-hearsay classification is useful when the admission was made by a third party who would be available to testify, such that they don't need to be called to the stand to testify that they admitted guilt to some crime.
A spokeswoman said: âoeBathymetric (or sea floor terrain) data is often collected from boats using sonar to take measurements of the sea floor.
âoeThe lines reflect the path of the boat as it gathers the data.
âoeThe fact that there are blank spots between each of these lines is a sign of how little we really know about the worldâ(TM)s oceans.â
TFA interpreted that last line in a way different that was probably intended.
I interpret this as those lines indicate areas of higher definition data retrieved by boat-based sonar. The grid like nature of the lines seems consistent with a search pattern to me. So some boat or small fleet scanned this particular section of ocean with a coarse grid to see if they could spot anything. Google used this data to provide more accurate information along those lines, but reverted to the low resolution information they have for the space between the lines.
Since a grid search is a grid, that would explain the 90 degree angles.
What I said was that use tax is pretty much unenforced, and the States don't have the resources to enforce it. In general many citizens are not even really aware that they are supposed to be paying a use tax.
Unlike international sales tax, state sales tax also has the issue where if your state has 5% sales tax, and you buy something in person in a 7% sales tax state, you are not entitled to a 2% use tax rebate.
In international sales tax, you get a full refund from the foreign government, and instead pay any required import taxes and/or use taxes on it. (That is what happens if a UK citizen buys something while on a vacation in Germany for example. Assuming he or she fills out the right paperwork).
Having worked with such devices, I can tell you that the 2.5 or 3.5 mm jacks do take up significantly more device space (especial pcb surface area) than flat connectors like usb mini-b, which is (part of the reason) why many devices do funny things with the headphone jacks. Nintendo used the power jackl to double as the headphone port on the GBA-SP. Many phone companies are doing the same thing, but since the USB port is often the charging port that is what they mess with.
I personally don't find the headphone port nearly as important as the power port, so the use of the extusb connector does not bother me too much. (Although having a sperate port would not bother me any either, and it can be nice in the rare event I want to use wired headphones).
Many people use Bluetooth headsets or no headsets at all, similarly, many handsfree kits are using Bluetooth now. So the way the manufactures see it, very few people would miss the headphone jack. (Not to say that they are right, but that seems to be a good chunk of the logic behind it.)
I've also come to the conclusion that 1 non-standard connector is still less expensive than 2 standard connectors, which gives manufactures even more incentive to supply only one nonstandard port for all of charging/data/headsets.
Most of the new HTC phones use ExtUSB for the headphones. The older ones use a four contact version of the standard 3.5 mm headphone jack, where that forth pin is used for the microphone (if a compatible headset is used, for regular headphones the microphone feature obviously does not work.). MY understanding is that the 2.5 mm headsets are highly standardized, but I'd need to check the wiki to confirm that.
HTC is the largest manufacture of smartphones, and they use an extended mini-USB B connector for headsets. So this is all not surprising. You will need to wait for an android phone not developed by HTC, or more likely for somebody to finish one of the ongoing unofficial android ports to existing phones.
Well, Beckerman may be far more techincally inclined than most lawyers, He still is not quite the technology person most other Slashdot posters are. His blog's main page makes that clear, although he freely admits that it is not as nice as he would like it to be.
I also find it kind of disturbing that he claims the Paypay invoice form looks like a check. It looks like an invoice form to me, albeit an unusual one, since the person paying is allowed to specify the dollar amount. I also find it a bit disturbing that the line item is for "Legal Services". I'm no lawyer, but it seems to me that giving money to a lawyer for unspecified legal services is the sort of thing that could create an attorney-client relationship. (If it were listed for specific legal services provided to a third party, that would clear that up). I'm just guessing that he has it set up like that for some obscure legal reasons, quite likely accounting or tax reasons. (In my opinion, accounting law/regulkations comes in a close second for most screwed up laws. The Tax code comes in first. Next up is securities laws/regulations.)
True, except that while that is technically the law in the united states, ig you purchase from a store in another state that has higher sales tax it does not get refunded. (Unlike the international sales tax refund programs.) Further, except on purchases like cars, use tax laws (which are what make you pay taxes on imports from other states) have never been enforced pretty much at all.
The states don't have the IRS, and only have the resources to harass small businesses about taxes (and even then they tend to only harrass small businesses that did pay the right amount of taxes, ignoring the tax evades entirely!).
So pretty much no US Citizen is even aware that you if you travel to a state with no income taxes to buy something, you are supposed to send your state government the local sales tax amount of the purchase.
But in that case, the seller is not benefiting from the local services at all, so there is no good reason for those services to get a cut of the transaction. Keep in mind that or5iginally conceptually a sales tax was a tax on the business, not a tax on the consumer. But one cannot tax a business without the costs getting passed onto the consumers, so it devolved into what it is today.
International sales tax works that you get a refund from the foreign government, but then pay any import tax (and local country/state use tax (use taxes are invariably the same rate as the sales tax)). I think the idea is that the states are supposed to work the same way, but if any state sales tax refund systems exist, I'm not aware of them.
Not web-projects as much as web frameworks. For frameworks a very significant amount of value comes from market share (to somebody writing a web app, it is very desirable to have a framwork people are familiar with, as new developers having to first learn an unfamiliar framework before doing any real work is not very desirable. The GPL is not a good choice for maximizing marketshare in a framework, while Expat or Apache style licenses are pretty much ideal for that purpose.
Very, very few of those top projects were not frameworks or framework components.
IT is worth noting that in those very same emails, we discover that the reason GCC has an Objective-C front-end is because NeXT wanted to be able to re-use the gcc back-end, but thanks the the GPL, it could not unless it licensed the front-end under the GPL. So Steve Jobs decided that the Objective-C compiler was not really that important to keep proprietary, especially given all the work that would be needed to write a new back end, so he authorized releasing it under the GPL.
This is the essential futility of arguing about the past. All negative past events have resulted in at least some good things, and it is impossible to know how things would be different if the bad events never happened in the first place. How do we know that in the absence of the bitkeeper fiasco git would never have been written? For all we know, Linus may still have written it, but started a bit earlier.
The way I see it, Microsoft has been doing a reasonable job keeping the Windows Source fairly secret. (They do have programs where researchers (Universities) can have access to most of the code, and other programs for companies with special reason to need windows source code access, but they do a good job at avoiding leaks through these programs).
Only one major source code leak (albeit a double leak (NT 4.0 and W2K)) has occurred yet that I am aware of. Hmm. Somehow I must have missed or forgotten about a Vista Source leak.
OK only two source leaks. Both missing very large chunks of the OS. Not bad for such a high profile target.
Richard Stallman also wants to help level the playing field a bit. Little would encourage companies not to make more proprietary software if all Free Software or Open Source Software code was in the public domain or under a simple permissive license. Companies would obviously be willing to borrow heavily from said code. They would not be willing to license their own software that way (while some are willing to license code under some form of strong or weak copyleft.)
That is why Stallman prefers copyleft. It encourages companies to consider contributing code to the public.
Bruce probably meant to say that there was no proprietary software as a service. Every Multics system shipped with the entire source ready to be pulled up by any user who wanted to look at at. By the time proprietary software was the norm, software as a service was largely abandoned, and remained only a minimal concern to Richard Stallman's ideals until somewhat recently.
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On Slashdot, nobody really gets hit on very extensively, probably because it is so easy to ignore it here that even trying would seem like a waste. So the unusually high level of lesbianism among slashdotters who admit to being female, could hardly be explained by that.
I suppose I did forget the possibility that there could be a correlation between being a lesbian and being willing to mention to being female on Slashdot.
Are the random access writable versions of UDF well supported in all those operating systems? Obviously the Read only versions are well supported (thanks to DVD), and some special forms of writable UDF are supported, but my understanding is that what DVD-RW's use, and what a flash drive would have some significant differences, that may prevent the existing OS drivers from being able to work with UDF on a flash drive.
Start charging for map updates? I've not hear of a single GPS with free map updates, except limited free updated in the event you bought the unit within like a month of a new update.
Otherwise the maps tend to cost at least half the price of the whole unit.
Actually, the theory behind hate speech laws is that they are exactly the same as yelling fire in a crowed theater. Hate Speech under the law is defined as speech intended to cause violence, rioting, etc. I'll admit that they are often incorrectly enforced in cases where the speech is not intended to cause such problems, but that is not the intent. The idea is that there is no speech that is inherently illegal. However in some certain circumstances specific phrases with specific timing, tone, intent, etc. may be illegal.
Unfortunately I suspect having specific laws on these issues, rather than relying on the general inciting violence laws may be causing more harm than good.
Flash Player 4 (or perhaps it was 5) does come with Windows XP. (Windows XP's help system includes several old flash scripts) However, Flash Player 4/5 is pretty worthless, all websites I know of would be unable to use it, which is why they prompt you to install a recent Flash Player. Further, I've discovered that a version of Flash Player 7 is present on at least some XP Install CDs, but apparently does not get installed.
Since the other reply to your message did not seem to answer your queestion, I'll do it. In the United States in general a criminal defendant can waive his or her rights to a jury trial, resulting in a bench trial.
However I have been told that many judges will insist on being given a good reason to try a criminal case as a bench trial. (How that works exactly, I'm not sure, but perhaps the judge has the power to convert any bench trial to a jury trial.)
But bench trials do save the court significant time, so as long as the judge is confident that you are aware of the implications, and have a good reason for requesting one, the judge would be unlikely to refuse.
Assuming you have a good judge (impartial, and able to keep emotions out of the decision), a bench trial would be a good idea in a Child pornography case, and the possibility of an invalid jury verdict due to emotion should definitely be considered good reason for requesting a bench trial.
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Wait a moment. A quick check online showed UK Petrol rates of between .80 GBP/liter and 1 GBP/liter.
If we say the average is around .90 GBP/liter, google comes up with the following: .90 (British pounds / liter) = 4.92054322 U.S. dollars / US gallon.
Now, I must say that there is a big difference between $1.44/gal and $4.92/gal.
Whose math is wrong?
"Uninsured driver" coverage is mandatory in Maryland and Pennsylvania. You mean it's not mandatory elsewhere? Surprising. What happens if you get hit by an uninsured person? Tough luck?
Not necessarily. The standard procedure in an vehicular accident (except those where only one part is involved, such as crashing into that tree in your front yard) is a lawsuit, although in many cases the lawsuit is settled long before any paperwork is ever filed with a court. In the case of an uninsured motorist, a full blown lawsuit is likely to result. You would receive any money the uninsured motorist could pay, less any fess charged by your insurance company. While the amount you receive will likely be less than the amount to which you would otherwise be entitled, it can still be a lot better than receiving no money. In minor accidents (say a 3 MPH collision) they uninsured motorist may actually be able to pay the full amount. But in many cases you would be shafted, insofar as vehicle repair costs.
Health insurance should normally cover medical expenses that exceed whatever you could get from the uninsured motorist, but that can vary by the policy.
Correct, party admission is classifies as non-hearsay. Even if it did not have that status, it would likely still be admissible hearsay because it was a statement against self-interest, and the defendant would not be available to testify directly (since a defendant cannot be forced to testify). (I am am not a lawyer, so I may be mistaken here, but that sounds right to me). Granted that workaround would only be valid in the case where the admission in question was made by the defendant. The non-hearsay classification is useful when the admission was made by a third party who would be available to testify, such that they don't need to be called to the stand to testify that they admitted guilt to some crime.
Google's statement in TFA is:
A spokeswoman said: âoeBathymetric (or sea floor terrain) data is often collected from boats using sonar to take measurements of the sea floor.
âoeThe lines reflect the path of the boat as it gathers the data.
âoeThe fact that there are blank spots between each of these lines is a sign of how little we really know about the worldâ(TM)s oceans.â
TFA interpreted that last line in a way different that was probably intended.
I interpret this as those lines indicate areas of higher definition data retrieved by boat-based sonar. The grid like nature of the lines seems consistent with a search pattern to me. So some boat or small fleet scanned this particular section of ocean with a coarse grid to see if they could spot anything. Google used this data to provide more accurate information along those lines, but reverted to the low resolution information they have for the space between the lines.
Since a grid search is a grid, that would explain the 90 degree angles.
What I said was that use tax is pretty much unenforced, and the States don't have the resources to enforce it. In general many citizens are not even really aware that they are supposed to be paying a use tax.
Unlike international sales tax, state sales tax also has the issue where if your state has 5% sales tax, and you buy something in person in a 7% sales tax state, you are not entitled to a 2% use tax rebate.
In international sales tax, you get a full refund from the foreign government, and instead pay any required import taxes and/or use taxes on it. (That is what happens if a UK citizen buys something while on a vacation in Germany for example. Assuming he or she fills out the right paperwork).
Having worked with such devices, I can tell you that the 2.5 or 3.5 mm jacks do take up significantly more device space (especial pcb surface area) than flat connectors like usb mini-b, which is (part of the reason) why many devices do funny things with the headphone jacks. Nintendo used the power jackl to double as the headphone port on the GBA-SP. Many phone companies are doing the same thing, but since the USB port is often the charging port that is what they mess with.
I personally don't find the headphone port nearly as important as the power port, so the use of the extusb connector does not bother me too much. (Although having a sperate port would not bother me any either, and it can be nice in the rare event I want to use wired headphones).
Many people use Bluetooth headsets or no headsets at all, similarly, many handsfree kits are using Bluetooth now. So the way the manufactures see it, very few people would miss the headphone jack. (Not to say that they are right, but that seems to be a good chunk of the logic behind it.)
I've also come to the conclusion that 1 non-standard connector is still less expensive than 2 standard connectors, which gives manufactures even more incentive to supply only one nonstandard port for all of charging/data/headsets.
Most of the new HTC phones use ExtUSB for the headphones. The older ones use a four contact version of the standard 3.5 mm headphone jack, where that forth pin is used for the microphone (if a compatible headset is used, for regular headphones the microphone feature obviously does not work.). MY understanding is that the 2.5 mm headsets are highly standardized, but I'd need to check the wiki to confirm that.
HTC is the largest manufacture of smartphones, and they use an extended mini-USB B connector for headsets. So this is all not surprising. You will need to wait for an android phone not developed by HTC, or more likely for somebody to finish one of the ongoing unofficial android ports to existing phones.
Well, Beckerman may be far more techincally inclined than most lawyers, He still is not quite the technology person most other Slashdot posters are. His blog's main page makes that clear, although he freely admits that it is not as nice as he would like it to be.
I also find it kind of disturbing that he claims the Paypay invoice form looks like a check. It looks like an invoice form to me, albeit an unusual one, since the person paying is allowed to specify the dollar amount. I also find it a bit disturbing that the line item is for "Legal Services". I'm no lawyer, but it seems to me that giving money to a lawyer for unspecified legal services is the sort of thing that could create an attorney-client relationship. (If it were listed for specific legal services provided to a third party, that would clear that up). I'm just guessing that he has it set up like that for some obscure legal reasons, quite likely accounting or tax reasons. (In my opinion, accounting law/regulkations comes in a close second for most screwed up laws. The Tax code comes in first. Next up is securities laws/regulations.)
True, except that while that is technically the law in the united states, ig you purchase from a store in another state that has higher sales tax it does not get refunded. (Unlike the international sales tax refund programs.) Further, except on purchases like cars, use tax laws (which are what make you pay taxes on imports from other states) have never been enforced pretty much at all.
The states don't have the IRS, and only have the resources to harass small businesses about taxes (and even then they tend to only harrass small businesses that did pay the right amount of taxes, ignoring the tax evades entirely!).
So pretty much no US Citizen is even aware that you if you travel to a state with no income taxes to buy something, you are supposed to send your state government the local sales tax amount of the purchase.
But in that case, the seller is not benefiting from the local services at all, so there is no good reason for those services to get a cut of the transaction. Keep in mind that or5iginally conceptually a sales tax was a tax on the business, not a tax on the consumer. But one cannot tax a business without the costs getting passed onto the consumers, so it devolved into what it is today.
International sales tax works that you get a refund from the foreign government, but then pay any import tax (and local country/state use tax (use taxes are invariably the same rate as the sales tax)). I think the idea is that the states are supposed to work the same way, but if any state sales tax refund systems exist, I'm not aware of them.
Not web-projects as much as web frameworks. For frameworks a very significant amount of value comes from market share (to somebody writing a web app, it is very desirable to have a framwork people are familiar with, as new developers having to first learn an unfamiliar framework before doing any real work is not very desirable. The GPL is not a good choice for maximizing marketshare in a framework, while Expat or Apache style licenses are pretty much ideal for that purpose.
Very, very few of those top projects were not frameworks or framework components.
None-core developers with little say about the submitted patches getting accepted, rejected, or just ignored.
IT is worth noting that in those very same emails, we discover that the reason GCC has an Objective-C front-end is because NeXT wanted to be able to re-use the gcc back-end, but thanks the the GPL, it could not unless it licensed the front-end under the GPL. So Steve Jobs decided that the Objective-C compiler was not really that important to keep proprietary, especially given all the work that would be needed to write a new back end, so he authorized releasing it under the GPL.
This is the essential futility of arguing about the past. All negative past events have resulted in at least some good things, and it is impossible to know how things would be different if the bad events never happened in the first place. How do we know that in the absence of the bitkeeper fiasco git would never have been written? For all we know, Linus may still have written it, but started a bit earlier.
The way I see it, Microsoft has been doing a reasonable job keeping the Windows Source fairly secret. (They do have programs where researchers (Universities) can have access to most of the code, and other programs for companies with special reason to need windows source code access, but they do a good job at avoiding leaks through these programs).
Only one major source code leak (albeit a double leak (NT 4.0 and W2K)) has occurred yet that I am aware of. Hmm. Somehow I must have missed or forgotten about a Vista Source leak.
OK only two source leaks. Both missing very large chunks of the OS. Not bad for such a high profile target.
Richard Stallman also wants to help level the playing field a bit. Little would encourage companies not to make more proprietary software if all Free Software or Open Source Software code was in the public domain or under a simple permissive license. Companies would obviously be willing to borrow heavily from said code. They would not be willing to license their own software that way (while some are willing to license code under some form of strong or weak copyleft.)
That is why Stallman prefers copyleft. It encourages companies to consider contributing code to the public.
Bruce probably meant to say that there was no proprietary software as a service. Every Multics system shipped with the entire source ready to be pulled up by any user who wanted to look at at. By the time proprietary software was the norm, software as a service was largely abandoned, and remained only a minimal concern to Richard Stallman's ideals until somewhat recently.