It doesn't say that. It says if the same content would be required to have CC if it was transmitted over the airwaves, it also would be required to having CC if it is transmitted over the Web. Radio transmission isn't used as a determining factor for requiring CC. Rather, they are reusing an existing standard for determining whether content requires CC (the standard that is used for radio transmissions of video) and applying that same standard to similar content with a different mode of transmission.
The reason the Federal Government has any say in what NBC is broadcasting is because NBC is using radio to broadcast their signal.
Isn't it a bit of a stretch to take regulation designed to regulate radio broadcasts and apply it to the internet?
Of course, this means that websites may be required to not use Flash (which cannot be navigated with a keyboard only)
The ability to move a pointer on a 2 dimensional screen does not require the use of a mouse. It might be easier with a mouse, but the human interface device could be almost anything and flash wouldn't care.
Video that is streamed over the internet, that would be required to have closed captions if transmitted over the airwaves, should be required to transmit those captions.
Eg, NBC captions all (or almost all) of their content when broadcast, but only a limited selection of NBC content is captioned on hulu.com.
Why should NBC be required to do that and bobsTVstation.com not be? Because they had the audacity to broadcast using EM waves once and therefore when they decide to do something on a completely different medium it should have the same regulations applied?
You want NBC to do that, and it might even be a nice feature, but what they do on the internet is not really something that should be regulated.
The most common form of colorblindness is inability to distinguish red from green. Most other forms of colorblindness likewise involve specific pairs of colors being indistinguishable. From your comment it sounds like you see only shades of grey; that would be an extremely rare condition and is far from what is typically meant by the word "colorblind".
Yeah but if I said all that it would have ruined the joke.
Actually it's quite simple, grey on darker grey. I feel sorry for the people who aren't colorblind, look at the red/green text, and wish that THEY were colorblind.
But don't worry, being colorblind isn't considered a disability. Even though you will be disqualified from a growing list of jobs.
I agree with it; governments SHOULD be accessible to all. Note this doesn't cover private web sites. Most private web sites (by "private" I mean non-government) are shooting themselves in the foot if their sites aren't readily accessible to everyone.
The same arguement could be made for handicapped spaces. Public (as you define it) should have such spaces, but I argue that the extreme requirements created a lucrative litigation ecosystem surrounding it that truly doesn't serve the needs of either the handicapped or the businesses.
I just wish the regulations were less strict especially when I see certain businesses with a dozen empty parking spaces or the moral crusaders who get pissed off at seeing a 25 year old park in a handicapped space. (Yes, Mr. called the police, a 25 year old can have had surgery and have a temporary placard, it isn't just for the morbidly obese and octogenarians.)
Not sure if I had a point to this rant. I guess it's just in areas where you could have flexibile handicapped spaces. IE: for a residential building, it doesn't make any sense if you have handicapped spaces if none of the residents are handicapped, and that if requested, a temporary handicap space could be designated for guests (if parking is really that tight) or semi-permanently added if it is for one of the residents.
Yeah, that's got nothing at all to do with anything that deglr6328 pointed out. Where, in his post, did he mention at all the identity or even qualifications of the author?
In this case, there are a few ways in which the author could have made his paper more credible, all without requiring anything resembling authority: 1. Collaborated with other condensed matter physicists. 2. Submitted paper for publication in prestigious journal (with a high-profile discovery like room-temperature superconductivity, this would be a discovery fit for such a journal). 3. Worked to get more comprehensive data before claiming room-temperature superconductivity.
Honestly it's things like this which makes science unappealing to younger generations. Nothing like watching someone put their toe in the water and have every other scientist verbally trash him as if the extra vitriol were necessary.
Anyway, it could be that Earht itself is a borderline planet for life [harvard.edu], just big enough for plate tectonics (something which Venus lacks, and which probably contributed greatly to its conditions); maybe even slightly too small in itself, but was pushed into habitable range by the collision with Theia (the collision that spawned the Moon)
If you look at Earth objectively, we could be living on what so many sci-fi stories like to use as examples of 'prison' planets. Highly hostile worlds which seem wholly unsuitable for life.
Earth: Corrosive Atmosphere - High % Oxygen Acid oceans (or base depending on your POV)... H+ OH- Biologically active - We let biology run rampant everywhere, bacteria, virii, prions Wild Temperature fluctuations - Denser atmospheres = temperature stable at a set altitude.
It would be interesting to go to an alien planet, and find out we were the ones adapted to an incredibly hostile environment.
Well we kinda do, because we can also measure the size of the planet, and based on that get its density. The super-earths appear far too dense to be gaseous.
There is also a wikipedia article on this that pretty much answers my question. I saw it just after I posted. I can't keep up with it as I thought I had read most of what was immediately available on the subject.
it took them 3 months to find my replacement when I left and I was just a neophyte sysadmin in my early 20's at the time with less than 3 years under my belt.
Not to rain on your parade, but 3 months is about how long it takes the paperwork to go through in most mid to large corporations. It took my previous employer 3 months to transfer me to another position on the same program.
Besides, I've seen companies raided time and again. Either for the copper, or the computers themselves. Don't kid yourself into thinking that physical security isn't important just because your company had low standards and got lucky.
On one hand - "real" vacuum is nowhere to be found. On the other - you are mostly empty space, too; considering the sizes of subatomic particles and "empty" space between them.
We mostly just live in a curious range of size, between quantum and cosmological, that gives a bit nonrepresentive ideas about the universe; it can be easily said to be full of matter.
That's a nice way to look at it, especially when you consider that even on trans-galactic scales (ie: the emptiest of the empty), gravitational forces are still at work.
It was my impression that when researchers called something "earth like" they were referring to a relatively small planet with a rocky core. By that definition both Venus and Mars are Earth-like even if, on the whole they are considerably different than Earth.
As far as rocky core planets go, wouldn't Earth be a rather large one? I'm curious to see where the tipping point from rocky core to gas giant is, since there doesn't seem to be much middle ground.
Mercury>Mars>Venus>Earth>Neptune/Uranus
There are 'super Earth' planets, but at those distances we really don't know how much gas vs rock there is.
I suppose the further out from the star you get the smaller a gas giant can be, but how large can a rocky planet be before it has a significant atmosphere?
If I found an employee of mine was wasting the working time of another employee of mine with his own problems, I would fire him. Doubly so if it was to do a task any 5 year old could do by himself.
IT are the police in a corporation, respect them. The fat security guards checking badges are a joke, the people that protect the place from hacking, espionage and legal liability are the boys in the server room.
Not a hint of arrogance there. Why, that fat security guard should bow down and kiss your feet every time you walk into the door.
I use bittorrent as a bit of a poor-man's cloud storage.
I've got a ton of CDs I've purchased, and after a flood and a series of moves the HDs where I stored the ripped (low quality) MP3s were destroyed.
So now whenever I want to listen to a CD that I've purchased, I just download the CD using bittorrent, usually as FLAC, and add the FLAC files to the library I'm rebuilding. I don't have to worry about setting up the ripping software, and I'm actually getting it a bit better organized this time.
So for me, that 'illegal' content is just me rebuilding my digital copies of CDs or DVDs I legally own.
I've seen these videos. While not pleasant to watch, they certainly didn't bother me. I hear people talking about extremely disturbing videos and photos, and when I see them, I'm not really affected.
Perhaps I'm cut out for this job?
There is a VERY big difference between you having the option to say "Oh this is going to be bad, but my morbid curiosity compels me to watch this" and in the back of your mind, you know you don't have to watch this, you know you are removed from it, and you know that at any time you can just say, yup, that's my personal quota for the day and the people who don't have that option, and know that they are having to watch this for a job, and that more will be waiting for them.
It combines something negative along with a rather soul-crushing job. In your case, it is actually you just satisfying your own curiosity.
Wow I had never heard of Raytheon until earlier this week
Seriously? They are not exactly a small or new company. Of course, it was really weird when people asked me who I worked for and they responded "Lockheed Martin, what's that?"
Someone might settle for half of what they're owed if the amount is tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars, but for tens or hundreds of millions of dollars, that years-long court battle might be worth it.
If I KNEW someone owed me 100 million, and came to me and offered me 50 million (had the cash there, with a treasury representative certifying the money was legitimate). I'd probably take the 50 million. These sorts of cases will last for years, and probably burn off at least 2-3 million in legal fees even if you win.
Scientists typically study things that can be measured and repeated reliably. If your senses do something that's unusual and difficult to demonstrate to others, there's a class of people that assumes you're probably delusional. Its different from their experience, therefore it must be unreal or unimportant. And of course a very large number of people are delusional. But I also know that there are very many real phenomena that aren't generally recognized or understood by scientists. So it does not surprise me at all to hear that some people can see E&M fields.
Sadly, I understand. My wife has synesthesia, and I have a hard time comprehending it when she tells me that 5 is orange.
Could it have been induced by a low-frequency hum? It'd be interesting whether a strong magnet or DC electromagnet caused the same thing.
No clue. I just remembered the transformers/power stations. A few times hunting near the powerlines leading to the station. But I could be imagining those situations since it's been years removed. I'll just stick to saying I remember it consistently near two particular locations/transformers.
The one transformer, as I described in another post, did turn out to have a problem. It had an audible hum/crackle that developed and you could sometimes look up and see arcing with it. (Do they have in-line transformers? Or is that a splice where you see those small black in-line boxes on cables. There was one near the transformer and you could also hear a bee-like buzzing coming from it.) My mom actually thought there were bees in it until I pointed out to here that if you stood just below it you could see electricity arcing.
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Cocaine is a local anesthetic, so it should be stored in doctor's offices and clinics.
Why shouldn't it?
Potential for abuse is FAR less of a concern for me than having a thriving black market.
It doesn't say that. It says if the same content would be required to have CC if it was transmitted over the airwaves, it also would be required to having CC if it is transmitted over the Web. Radio transmission isn't used as a determining factor for requiring CC. Rather, they are reusing an existing standard for determining whether content requires CC (the standard that is used for radio transmissions of video) and applying that same standard to similar content with a different mode of transmission.
The reason the Federal Government has any say in what NBC is broadcasting is because NBC is using radio to broadcast their signal.
Isn't it a bit of a stretch to take regulation designed to regulate radio broadcasts and apply it to the internet?
Think of how easy it will be for the kids to learn the alphabet if it only had 25 letters instead of 26!
It used to only have 25 letters. It sometimes had more.
Why is Q always followed by a U in words?
Of course, this means that websites may be required to not use Flash (which cannot be navigated with a keyboard only)
The ability to move a pointer on a 2 dimensional screen does not require the use of a mouse. It might be easier with a mouse, but the human interface device could be almost anything and flash wouldn't care.
Video that is streamed over the internet, that would be required to have closed captions if transmitted over the airwaves, should be required to transmit those captions.
Eg, NBC captions all (or almost all) of their content when broadcast, but only a limited selection of NBC content is captioned on hulu.com.
Why should NBC be required to do that and bobsTVstation.com not be? Because they had the audacity to broadcast using EM waves once and therefore when they decide to do something on a completely different medium it should have the same regulations applied?
You want NBC to do that, and it might even be a nice feature, but what they do on the internet is not really something that should be regulated.
The most common form of colorblindness is inability to distinguish red from green. Most other forms of colorblindness likewise involve specific pairs of colors being indistinguishable. From your comment it sounds like you see only shades of grey; that would be an extremely rare condition and is far from what is typically meant by the word "colorblind".
Yeah but if I said all that it would have ruined the joke.
Try reading that if you are colorblind
Actually it's quite simple, grey on darker grey. I feel sorry for the people who aren't colorblind, look at the red/green text, and wish that THEY were colorblind.
But don't worry, being colorblind isn't considered a disability. Even though you will be disqualified from a growing list of jobs.
I agree with it; governments SHOULD be accessible to all. Note this doesn't cover private web sites. Most private web sites (by "private" I mean non-government) are shooting themselves in the foot if their sites aren't readily accessible to everyone.
The same arguement could be made for handicapped spaces. Public (as you define it) should have such spaces, but I argue that the extreme requirements created a lucrative litigation ecosystem surrounding it that truly doesn't serve the needs of either the handicapped or the businesses.
I just wish the regulations were less strict especially when I see certain businesses with a dozen empty parking spaces or the moral crusaders who get pissed off at seeing a 25 year old park in a handicapped space. (Yes, Mr. called the police, a 25 year old can have had surgery and have a temporary placard, it isn't just for the morbidly obese and octogenarians.)
Not sure if I had a point to this rant. I guess it's just in areas where you could have flexibile handicapped spaces. IE: for a residential building, it doesn't make any sense if you have handicapped spaces if none of the residents are handicapped, and that if requested, a temporary handicap space could be designated for guests (if parking is really that tight) or semi-permanently added if it is for one of the residents.
Yeah, that's got nothing at all to do with anything that deglr6328 pointed out. Where, in his post, did he mention at all the identity or even qualifications of the author?
In this case, there are a few ways in which the author could have made his paper more credible, all without requiring anything resembling authority:
1. Collaborated with other condensed matter physicists.
2. Submitted paper for publication in prestigious journal (with a high-profile discovery like room-temperature superconductivity, this would be a discovery fit for such a journal).
3. Worked to get more comprehensive data before claiming room-temperature superconductivity.
Honestly it's things like this which makes science unappealing to younger generations. Nothing like watching someone put their toe in the water and have every other scientist verbally trash him as if the extra vitriol were necessary.
Anyway, it could be that Earht itself is a borderline planet for life [harvard.edu], just big enough for plate tectonics (something which Venus lacks, and which probably contributed greatly to its conditions); maybe even slightly too small in itself, but was pushed into habitable range by the collision with Theia (the collision that spawned the Moon)
If you look at Earth objectively, we could be living on what so many sci-fi stories like to use as examples of 'prison' planets. Highly hostile worlds which seem wholly unsuitable for life.
Earth:
Corrosive Atmosphere - High % Oxygen
Acid oceans (or base depending on your POV)... H+ OH-
Biologically active - We let biology run rampant everywhere, bacteria, virii, prions
Wild Temperature fluctuations - Denser atmospheres = temperature stable at a set altitude.
It would be interesting to go to an alien planet, and find out we were the ones adapted to an incredibly hostile environment.
Well we kinda do, because we can also measure the size of the planet, and based on that get its density. The super-earths appear far too dense to be gaseous.
There is also a wikipedia article on this that pretty much answers my question. I saw it just after I posted. I can't keep up with it as I thought I had read most of what was immediately available on the subject.
it took them 3 months to find my replacement when I left and I was just a neophyte sysadmin in my early 20's at the time with less than 3 years under my belt.
Not to rain on your parade, but 3 months is about how long it takes the paperwork to go through in most mid to large corporations. It took my previous employer 3 months to transfer me to another position on the same program.
Besides, I've seen companies raided time and again. Either for the copper, or the computers themselves. Don't kid yourself into thinking that physical security isn't important just because your company had low standards and got lucky.
On one hand - "real" vacuum is nowhere to be found. On the other - you are mostly empty space, too; considering the sizes of subatomic particles and "empty" space between them.
We mostly just live in a curious range of size, between quantum and cosmological, that gives a bit nonrepresentive ideas about the universe; it can be easily said to be full of matter.
That's a nice way to look at it, especially when you consider that even on trans-galactic scales (ie: the emptiest of the empty), gravitational forces are still at work.
It was my impression that when researchers called something "earth like" they were referring to a relatively small planet with a rocky core. By that definition both Venus and Mars are Earth-like even if, on the whole they are considerably different than Earth.
As far as rocky core planets go, wouldn't Earth be a rather large one? I'm curious to see where the tipping point from rocky core to gas giant is, since there doesn't seem to be much middle ground.
Mercury>Mars>Venus>Earth>Neptune/Uranus
There are 'super Earth' planets, but at those distances we really don't know how much gas vs rock there is.
I suppose the further out from the star you get the smaller a gas giant can be, but how large can a rocky planet be before it has a significant atmosphere?
If I found an employee of mine was wasting the working time of another employee of mine with his own problems, I would fire him. Doubly so if it was to do a task any 5 year old could do by himself.
Must be a nice work environment you have there.
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Should we bring cameras? Or isn't that enough notice?
IT are the police in a corporation, respect them. The fat security guards checking badges are a joke, the people that protect the place from hacking, espionage and legal liability are the boys in the server room.
Not a hint of arrogance there. Why, that fat security guard should bow down and kiss your feet every time you walk into the door.
I use bittorrent as a bit of a poor-man's cloud storage.
I've got a ton of CDs I've purchased, and after a flood and a series of moves the HDs where I stored the ripped (low quality) MP3s were destroyed.
So now whenever I want to listen to a CD that I've purchased, I just download the CD using bittorrent, usually as FLAC, and add the FLAC files to the library I'm rebuilding. I don't have to worry about setting up the ripping software, and I'm actually getting it a bit better organized this time.
So for me, that 'illegal' content is just me rebuilding my digital copies of CDs or DVDs I legally own.
Let me know how the cane toad fillets work out.
Renamed to King-Frog. Sell it as upscale frog legs with more meat.
woosh
I've seen these videos. While not pleasant to watch, they certainly didn't bother me. I hear people talking about extremely disturbing videos and photos, and when I see them, I'm not really affected.
Perhaps I'm cut out for this job?
There is a VERY big difference between you having the option to say "Oh this is going to be bad, but my morbid curiosity compels me to watch this" and in the back of your mind, you know you don't have to watch this, you know you are removed from it, and you know that at any time you can just say, yup, that's my personal quota for the day and the people who don't have that option, and know that they are having to watch this for a job, and that more will be waiting for them.
It combines something negative along with a rather soul-crushing job. In your case, it is actually you just satisfying your own curiosity.
Wow I had never heard of Raytheon until earlier this week
Seriously? They are not exactly a small or new company. Of course, it was really weird when people asked me who I worked for and they responded "Lockheed Martin, what's that?"
Someone might settle for half of what they're owed if the amount is tens or hundreds of thousands of dollars, but for tens or hundreds of millions of dollars, that years-long court battle might be worth it.
If I KNEW someone owed me 100 million, and came to me and offered me 50 million (had the cash there, with a treasury representative certifying the money was legitimate). I'd probably take the 50 million. These sorts of cases will last for years, and probably burn off at least 2-3 million in legal fees even if you win.
Scientists typically study things that can be measured and repeated reliably. If your senses do something that's unusual and difficult to demonstrate to others, there's a class of people that assumes you're probably delusional. Its different from their experience, therefore it must be unreal or unimportant. And of course a very large number of people are delusional. But I also know that there are very many real phenomena that aren't generally recognized or understood by scientists. So it does not surprise me at all to hear that some people can see E&M fields.
Sadly, I understand. My wife has synesthesia, and I have a hard time comprehending it when she tells me that 5 is orange.
Could it have been induced by a low-frequency hum? It'd be interesting whether a strong magnet or DC electromagnet caused the same thing.
No clue. I just remembered the transformers/power stations. A few times hunting near the powerlines leading to the station. But I could be imagining those situations since it's been years removed. I'll just stick to saying I remember it consistently near two particular locations/transformers.
The one transformer, as I described in another post, did turn out to have a problem. It had an audible hum/crackle that developed and you could sometimes look up and see arcing with it. (Do they have in-line transformers? Or is that a splice where you see those small black in-line boxes on cables. There was one near the transformer and you could also hear a bee-like buzzing coming from it.) My mom actually thought there were bees in it until I pointed out to here that if you stood just below it you could see electricity arcing.