Are you sure they're really scrapping the previous definition? It sounds like they're just supplementing it with additional guidelines on how to recognize these non-evil-but-patented formats.
It belongs to we the people. Why should I have to pay a second time to obtain a proprietary program to access this public information that my tax dollars have already paid for?
The information is free, the medium is not. If you wanted paper copies of the records your argument wouldn't apply to paying a small fee for the paper, printing costs, and delivery. If you want electronic records they have to be encapsulated somehow (like in a PDF or something), and those formats do cost money to develop. Of course, there are free formats out there and the government should use them or it's being wasteful, but this is definitely a "use the best/cheapest thing out there" thing, not a "I take a moral stand against paying for electronic records" thing.
Yes, thank you. Part of being open is being OK with alternative viewpoints. People don't have to give their work away for free if they don't want to. And recognizing proprietary developers who nevertheless take care of their community is better than turning up your nose and saying NOPE NOT GPL COMPATIBLE GET OUT
This is why we use browsers that aren't 10 years old. Heck, even firefox exposes this option in the GUI configuration. Go to Preferences, the Content tab, and click Advanced next to Enable Javascript.
Yeah I wrote time travel algorithms for freeway travel in my last job. The queue travel was pretty much directly related to the length of the freeway at the end of time.
Not that blowing it into the atmosphere is much better, but doesn't diesel exhaust contain all sorts of nasty toxins? If he's polluting his ground water then in a few years he'll have more to worry about than his dying crops..
Mitch Bainwol, the group's chairman and chief executive officer, said, "It's now happening (in) Congress' backyard, and that should be a powerful catalyst to enact real reforms to protect consumers."
What are they going to do, ignore a court order? The point is that they can give the court all of the customer's data but since it's all encrypted there's no harm.
I do remember something (probably on slashdot) about an easy web interface that let you send your password to the server for your data to be unencrypted over there for the session. They warned everyone "Don't use this because if we get a court order to keep logs on you, we'll log your password and hand it over to them."
I thought Hushmail did something like that. Like they store your email encrypted and your password decrypts it when you need access, so they can't read your mail even if they get a subpoena. I think it even sends it to your browser in its original encrypted form and the client decrypts the data.
If it was successful it's because it carried freight almost exclusively. No passenger railway in the world has ever been profitable. For examples given like Springfield's power company, only its operating expenses are profitable; the initial investment and systems upgrades will not be paid back.
It may only be conventional wisdom and have some exceptions today but the saying goes "Infrastructure is never profitable." Check out the 1996 dollar figures (add approx 40% for inflation) for some highway costs. I don't care how great or how northern you are, you cannot make a billion-dollar-per-mile highway profitable. Infrastructure, is, never, profitable.
LyX is great but why does it have to use qt? The interface is cluttered and ugly. Unless there's a really compelling reason, I don't use qt apps on my Xfce (GTK) system..
I hear what you're saying. You want to pick the best software and you don't care so much if it's free. But CS3 is not the best. It installs SafeCast for one. This is exactly why free software is trusted while proprietary software is suspicious.
Multiple competing sewerage providers is a ridiculous idea. How are they going to compete? Commercials that say "Use us, because our sewage is cleaner? Maybe?" People don't care how clean their sewage is, they just want to flush the toilet and get back to work. A scarier scenario would be a commercial like "We'll take your sewage for pennies on the dollar, which is all you care about, and then don't worry what we do with it wink wink." Innovations in this market means finding ways to get rid of sewage while spending as little as possible - NOT providing excellent but somewhat pricey service like the government has an interest in providing.
As for the train stuff, apparently you aren't aware of the ongoing discussion about the issue. It's widely accepted that passenger rail never made a profit in its entire history, and in fact can never make a profit. Throughout all of its golden years of universal use, it probably never paid back the cost of laying rail. The government needed to subsidize these expenses because the infrastructure is important to the common good and a free market wouldn't work here.
These situations are only created through Government intrusion into the market.
Without "government intrusion" there would be no telecommunications market. Do you think that private companies are going to bury millions of miles of fiber and then just let their competitors use their cables? And how do you think these telecoms are going to get access to dig up all these endless miles of public property? Taxpayers pay = you answer to our elected officials.
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Because you're installing Linux. It's not a tea party.
Obviously just "separate" networks bridged by a few high-speed high-latency links. Exactly like how continents are done now.
Are you sure they're really scrapping the previous definition? It sounds like they're just supplementing it with additional guidelines on how to recognize these non-evil-but-patented formats.
The information is free, the medium is not. If you wanted paper copies of the records your argument wouldn't apply to paying a small fee for the paper, printing costs, and delivery. If you want electronic records they have to be encapsulated somehow (like in a PDF or something), and those formats do cost money to develop. Of course, there are free formats out there and the government should use them or it's being wasteful, but this is definitely a "use the best/cheapest thing out there" thing, not a "I take a moral stand against paying for electronic records" thing.
Yes, thank you. Part of being open is being OK with alternative viewpoints. People don't have to give their work away for free if they don't want to. And recognizing proprietary developers who nevertheless take care of their community is better than turning up your nose and saying NOPE NOT GPL COMPATIBLE GET OUT
Keep waiting, because the users don't want this. I like my DejaVu Sans and prefer to read all my sites in the same readable font of my choice.
This is why we use browsers that aren't 10 years old. Heck, even firefox exposes this option in the GUI configuration. Go to Preferences, the Content tab, and click Advanced next to Enable Javascript.
Why, because someone is making books with the same name? If it offends you, don't read them. If you always wanted more I, Robot then read them.
Nobody's going to be calling them canon.
Yeah I wrote time travel algorithms for freeway travel in my last job. The queue travel was pretty much directly related to the length of the freeway at the end of time.
Look at all these carcinogens.
Well those nitrogen compounds being depleted is why he has to pay $500,000 for fertilizer.
But you're right that this does absolutely nothing for reducing CO2 emissions.
Not that blowing it into the atmosphere is much better, but doesn't diesel exhaust contain all sorts of nasty toxins? If he's polluting his ground water then in a few years he'll have more to worry about than his dying crops..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Letter_to_Hobbyists
Oh come on how do you write a 4k BASIC interpreter and editor in assembly and not "know technology"?
I don't care how buggy Altair BASIC was, Bill Gates knew what he was doing back then.
Advice from the RIAA..
protect consumers! Ha!
It's done by a java applet I think.
What are they going to do, ignore a court order? The point is that they can give the court all of the customer's data but since it's all encrypted there's no harm.
I do remember something (probably on slashdot) about an easy web interface that let you send your password to the server for your data to be unencrypted over there for the session. They warned everyone "Don't use this because if we get a court order to keep logs on you, we'll log your password and hand it over to them."
Well there's some lyx-gtk version available but it doesn't have all of the features of the qt version exposed and it's supposedly not stable
I thought Hushmail did something like that. Like they store your email encrypted and your password decrypts it when you need access, so they can't read your mail even if they get a subpoena. I think it even sends it to your browser in its original encrypted form and the client decrypts the data.
If it was successful it's because it carried freight almost exclusively. No passenger railway in the world has ever been profitable. For examples given like Springfield's power company, only its operating expenses are profitable; the initial investment and systems upgrades will not be paid back.
It may only be conventional wisdom and have some exceptions today but the saying goes "Infrastructure is never profitable." Check out the 1996 dollar figures (add approx 40% for inflation) for some highway costs. I don't care how great or how northern you are, you cannot make a billion-dollar-per-mile highway profitable. Infrastructure, is, never, profitable.
LyX is great but why does it have to use qt? The interface is cluttered and ugly. Unless there's a really compelling reason, I don't use qt apps on my Xfce (GTK) system..
I hear what you're saying. You want to pick the best software and you don't care so much if it's free. But CS3 is not the best. It installs SafeCast for one. This is exactly why free software is trusted while proprietary software is suspicious.
Foxit is evil with its crapware installer and explorer extensions. It's fat when running too. Try SumatraPDF.
The IBM updater is great. One-click updating updates every device driver, updates your BIOS, updates firmware...
Multiple competing sewerage providers is a ridiculous idea. How are they going to compete? Commercials that say "Use us, because our sewage is cleaner? Maybe?" People don't care how clean their sewage is, they just want to flush the toilet and get back to work. A scarier scenario would be a commercial like "We'll take your sewage for pennies on the dollar, which is all you care about, and then don't worry what we do with it wink wink." Innovations in this market means finding ways to get rid of sewage while spending as little as possible - NOT providing excellent but somewhat pricey service like the government has an interest in providing.
As for the train stuff, apparently you aren't aware of the ongoing discussion about the issue. It's widely accepted that passenger rail never made a profit in its entire history, and in fact can never make a profit. Throughout all of its golden years of universal use, it probably never paid back the cost of laying rail. The government needed to subsidize these expenses because the infrastructure is important to the common good and a free market wouldn't work here.
Without "government intrusion" there would be no telecommunications market. Do you think that private companies are going to bury millions of miles of fiber and then just let their competitors use their cables? And how do you think these telecoms are going to get access to dig up all these endless miles of public property? Taxpayers pay = you answer to our elected officials.
So wrong it doesn't deserve a full answer