Ironic that you suggest installing ZoneAlarm is reasonable, but because Vista doesn't come bundled with a good shell it's automatically disqualified from comparisons. Besides PowerShell and Cygwin, which have been mentioned, there are unix utilities ported natively to win32 and there are new shells, at least one of which is implemented in Python. PowerShell may even be more powerful than bash, because the last time I checked it there was a huge list of commands available. (Still, it seems to be one abstraction too high for no reason).
I think they're usful as namespaces. I wouldn't have been able to get one with my first name & last initial in the dot-com—it's way too crowded already—but I was able to get a ccTLD (which was actually my preference). And CIRA also defines provinces (.bc.ca), although there is a preference for second-level all around.
I save my disdain for those in particular who complain about the terms of a contract after buying even though they could have found it had they looked.
I can certainly appreciate avoidance of the tedium that is EULAs. They all cover pretty much the same things, with some variance depending on their application. Still, nobody has to read many per year.
Your proposal is interesting but I don't know what to make of it.
What is troubling to me is how such contracts state that they may change on a whim, at which point you must agree to the new contract or terminate. Money is never mentioned but presumably you will get none.
I thought I should add that Home-Owners Associations are a more fair way of keeping oneself surrounded by like-minded people, rather than invoking the ugly face of Government.
I should have called those swears puns rather than irony, btw.
Why don't those people who find porn disagreeable move to somewhere where their values are shared, rather than fucking over the minority who disagrees with them? Besides that, the state level seems way too broad. You would screw over fewer people by acting more locally, eg. at the county-level (I think that's how the USA does it).
(Naughty words used only for the irony, and not from anger.)
In the case of computer security I don't think there is such a concern; multiple people will accomplish the same thing within the year, and there are thousands of suspects. And most of those points seem like they would have trivial solutions. However if the topic was something like pure math then I could see it.
It's always been possible to either get the EULA online or to get it via mail from the company. The bottom of my Civilization IV box reads "portions of this software are included under license." The bottom of my World of Warcraft box reads "the use of this software product is subject to the terms of an End User License which you must accept before you install this product." Although I dislike EULAs I don't have a whole lot of sympathy for people too lazy to read them.
Good point. I don't know of any case law because it doesn't interest me that much and since I'm in Canada it doesn't affect me. That might be covered by this:
Section 1201
(c) Other Rights, Etc., Not Affected.(1) Nothing in this section shall affect rights, remedies, limitations, or defenses to copyright infringement, including fair use, under this title.
I guess one would have to know about the rest of the Copyright title.
That latter link is about what the Librarian of Congress has made excemptions from the DMCA for, as per 1201 (a)(1)(C). It's kind of interesting, because there are barely any excemptions at all. The only one that would really come up I imagine is that people can break DRM on ebooks that don't exist with accessibility features, if there are no other versions of that ebook that do have accessbility features.
(I should note I'm not a lawyer and may have interpreted this wrong. Don't act on my interpretation.)
Bill C-60, which hasn't passed. However it looks like I consulted obsolete information and the bill is actually contrary to what I thought on encryption, but the Wikipedia says it's effectively dead anyway. Apparently nothing new has been suggested, and Michael Geist says the appropriate government body is busy with CBC so nothing will happen for a while. I guess that means we can still break encryption for private use but I'm not at all certain.
Well yeah, I didn't mean to imply you were going to distribute anything. I forgot I'm Canadian however, because our DMCA allows us to break encryption like that. (Not to mention we can copy CDs if we use an audio CD, for which royalties have been paid. Presumably one can download music too if you pay the royalties, but how you do so in such a case I do not know.)
I've ripped seven of my classical CDs to WAV, and I have two more to go. I'll be encoding them to FLAC and then adding metadata fields, because classical doesn't fit well into the standard, and finally filling them all in. I'm not looking forward to all that work. I found out too that classical performances are often very old, and it turns out much of my collection has a static-like noise that is apparent when I turn the volume up. So I have to run audio software over all of it...
Weird, I never thought of copyright like that. But having just skimmed the Copyright Act and the Governments FAQ it seems you are right. Fair Dealing appears to only be relevant when you don't own your copy or you are in some way "giving" it to someone else. It isn't explicitly clear however. I don't feel like looking up the American parallels.
Luckily for Canadians, the Canadian DMCA allows us to break the encryption on their copy of a work.
Fair use doesn't give you the right to break the encryption on copyrighted works. I know you know that but I thought I'd mention it for others. I'm thankful the music CD format doesn't work with encryption, otherwise I possibly wouldn't get to listen to any Beethoven...it's a hassle to download those songs and in good quality!
Suicides do not count for a Darwin Award. If you commit suicide then your death wasn't unintentional by definition, though I presume you didn't mean it like that. An execution could be caused by ones own poor judgement, however I don't think the Darwin Awards like such stories even though the chain of causation might stem from oneself. Saddam Hussein's death wasn't from his own spectacular poor judgement anyway.
If you have progeny you can still get a Darwin Award. Your progency do not get 100% of your DNA, so you may not have given them the combination of stupid genes.
The default theme in Windows XP actually has some nice aspects to it. For instance the widgets (buttons, scroll, etc.) generally look better than Windows classic. I prefer the shape of the titlebar too, but what I don't like at all is its default colour. I once made a theme in dark grays but I lost it and can't disable the protection anymore. Still, I'd be using Windows 2000 right now if my new hardware were compatible.
While we're speculating, maybe aspects of the simulation (including the unobservable) could be perfectly calculated with a short mathematical function, akin to how the game of Life can be. (If I remember correctly, someone found a way to set the board at an arbitrary step without doing each one in turn iteratively).
What if the host computer for the simulation is ultimately connected to assembly-line processes? A simulated character could possibly load its own brain into the real-world (via a fantastic feat of reverse engineering and luck that the programming was shoddy). The original mind would be stuck in the simulation, but a copy of the mind could exist in the real-world, or at least the original could remotely control it.
I can't figure out "calcium from animal-based sources is a myth", given that everyone involved in osteoporosis seems seems to support dairy. Is it simply about animal protein? Animal protein certainly appears to be worse than plant protein. However, that study was only done with women and not men, and unfortunately the article doesn't go into detail about the diets or vitamins. For example vitamin A is higher in plants than animals, and lower levels are associated with fractures in women; men however are not affected. Also, it seems that high levels of calcium intake is worse than moderate levels. A Harvard synthesis (which I'm using now) about milk and calcium acknowledges that animal protein is associated with lower levels of bone formation, but still concludes that dairy is a good source of calcium. (1) The USDA also lists dairy products as being generally better sources of calcium than plant products (by my estimation: the list is very long). Lastly, some plant sources may be detrimental to overall calcium absorption.
Has anybody made safer lawn-darts? Ground is more difficult to pierce than people*, so maybe a duller nose with a spring that disconnects backwards if pushed enough, and a softer base, or also a base that breaks apart once the spring-trigger trips, or even a base with perpendicularly loaded springs.
I spend most of my time in small towns and small cities so I haven't seen a lot of playground structures, but the one I had in elementary school (gr. 3 to 7) was the best I have seen. The metal ones are usually low, fairly disconnected platforms, slides, poles, and monkey-bars.
Legend: A— plastic tube tunnel with static properties. B— swinging plank obstacle. C— swinging tires obstacle. D— high catwalk with little nubs to trip over. E— raising catwalk with wavy bridge. F— bridge to the platform, with a dip in the centre. G— platform with walled room underneath; poles to slide down on two sides. H— half-tube slide to the ground; in retrospect it was plastic like at A.
I think a section like B might be around 14-feet long.
It was built with 4x4s iirc so there were 4-inch gaps in the walls which many climbed up; the wood mostly wasn't broken such that you could get a splinter. The floor of the playground was mostly bark wood chips that gave one tonnes of little splinters if touched, so everyone avoided touching it; it was a poor choice for sure. Nobody that I know of sprained or broke anything while I was there, but a few people ended up crying; I never heard of any injuries after that so presumably nothing serious happened. Eventually the playground was destroyed due to weakening wood. It was replaced with a few low metal structures that looked lousy—liability-free and cheap to put together I guess.
The only problem with sand is that you can get sand in your shoes fairly easily. I'd guess decent wood chips are ideal but I haven't tested any. The bark shards were actually somewhat soft but otherwise sucked.
I'd say though that a good design would be better in metal than wood for the most part, although I wonder about the slipperiness of the bars.
Software like MODPlug Tracker? It can output to WAVs, but it can also output to a bunch of tracker formats that I would think perfectly reproduce the song.
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Ironic that you suggest installing ZoneAlarm is reasonable, but because Vista doesn't come bundled with a good shell it's automatically disqualified from comparisons. Besides PowerShell and Cygwin, which have been mentioned, there are unix utilities ported natively to win32 and there are new shells, at least one of which is implemented in Python. PowerShell may even be more powerful than bash, because the last time I checked it there was a huge list of commands available. (Still, it seems to be one abstraction too high for no reason).
I think they're usful as namespaces. I wouldn't have been able to get one with my first name & last initial in the dot-com—it's way too crowded already—but I was able to get a ccTLD (which was actually my preference). And CIRA also defines provinces (.bc.ca), although there is a preference for second-level all around.
I save my disdain for those in particular who complain about the terms of a contract after buying even though they could have found it had they looked.
I can certainly appreciate avoidance of the tedium that is EULAs. They all cover pretty much the same things, with some variance depending on their application. Still, nobody has to read many per year.
Your proposal is interesting but I don't know what to make of it.
What is troubling to me is how such contracts state that they may change on a whim, at which point you must agree to the new contract or terminate. Money is never mentioned but presumably you will get none.
I thought I should add that Home-Owners Associations are a more fair way of keeping oneself surrounded by like-minded people, rather than invoking the ugly face of Government.
I should have called those swears puns rather than irony, btw.
Why don't those people who find porn disagreeable move to somewhere where their values are shared, rather than fucking over the minority who disagrees with them? Besides that, the state level seems way too broad. You would screw over fewer people by acting more locally, eg. at the county-level (I think that's how the USA does it). (Naughty words used only for the irony, and not from anger.)
Aside from the irony, what's wrong with fragments?
In the case of computer security I don't think there is such a concern; multiple people will accomplish the same thing within the year, and there are thousands of suspects. And most of those points seem like they would have trivial solutions. However if the topic was something like pure math then I could see it.
It's always been possible to either get the EULA online or to get it via mail from the company. The bottom of my Civilization IV box reads "portions of this software are included under license." The bottom of my World of Warcraft box reads "the use of this software product is subject to the terms of an End User License which you must accept before you install this product." Although I dislike EULAs I don't have a whole lot of sympathy for people too lazy to read them.
Good point. I don't know of any case law because it doesn't interest me that much and since I'm in Canada it doesn't affect me. That might be covered by this:
Section 1201
(c) Other Rights, Etc., Not Affected.(1) Nothing in this section shall affect rights, remedies, limitations, or defenses to copyright infringement, including fair use, under this title.
I guess one would have to know about the rest of the Copyright title.
Title 17, Chapter 12, Section 1201.
Rulemaking on Exemptions from Prohibition on Circumvention of Technological Measures that Control Access to Copyrighted Works
That latter link is about what the Librarian of Congress has made excemptions from the DMCA for, as per 1201 (a)(1)(C). It's kind of interesting, because there are barely any excemptions at all. The only one that would really come up I imagine is that people can break DRM on ebooks that don't exist with accessibility features, if there are no other versions of that ebook that do have accessbility features.
(I should note I'm not a lawyer and may have interpreted this wrong. Don't act on my interpretation.)
US Code : Title 17 - "COPYRIGHTS"
CHAPTER 12 - "COPYRIGHT PROTECTION AND MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS"
1201. Circumvention of copyright protection systems
I'm not really interested in the definition gripes.
Bill C-60, which hasn't passed. However it looks like I consulted obsolete information and the bill is actually contrary to what I thought on encryption, but the Wikipedia says it's effectively dead anyway. Apparently nothing new has been suggested, and Michael Geist says the appropriate government body is busy with CBC so nothing will happen for a while. I guess that means we can still break encryption for private use but I'm not at all certain.
Well yeah, I didn't mean to imply you were going to distribute anything. I forgot I'm Canadian however, because our DMCA allows us to break encryption like that. (Not to mention we can copy CDs if we use an audio CD, for which royalties have been paid. Presumably one can download music too if you pay the royalties, but how you do so in such a case I do not know.)
I've ripped seven of my classical CDs to WAV, and I have two more to go. I'll be encoding them to FLAC and then adding metadata fields, because classical doesn't fit well into the standard, and finally filling them all in. I'm not looking forward to all that work. I found out too that classical performances are often very old, and it turns out much of my collection has a static-like noise that is apparent when I turn the volume up. So I have to run audio software over all of it...
Weird, I never thought of copyright like that. But having just skimmed the Copyright Act and the Governments FAQ it seems you are right. Fair Dealing appears to only be relevant when you don't own your copy or you are in some way "giving" it to someone else. It isn't explicitly clear however. I don't feel like looking up the American parallels.
Luckily for Canadians, the Canadian DMCA allows us to break the encryption on their copy of a work.
Fair use doesn't give you the right to break the encryption on copyrighted works. I know you know that but I thought I'd mention it for others. I'm thankful the music CD format doesn't work with encryption, otherwise I possibly wouldn't get to listen to any Beethoven...it's a hassle to download those songs and in good quality!
Suicides do not count for a Darwin Award. If you commit suicide then your death wasn't unintentional by definition, though I presume you didn't mean it like that. An execution could be caused by ones own poor judgement, however I don't think the Darwin Awards like such stories even though the chain of causation might stem from oneself. Saddam Hussein's death wasn't from his own spectacular poor judgement anyway.
If you have progeny you can still get a Darwin Award. Your progency do not get 100% of your DNA, so you may not have given them the combination of stupid genes.
The default theme in Windows XP actually has some nice aspects to it. For instance the widgets (buttons, scroll, etc.) generally look better than Windows classic. I prefer the shape of the titlebar too, but what I don't like at all is its default colour. I once made a theme in dark grays but I lost it and can't disable the protection anymore. Still, I'd be using Windows 2000 right now if my new hardware were compatible.
While we're speculating, maybe aspects of the simulation (including the unobservable) could be perfectly calculated with a short mathematical function, akin to how the game of Life can be. (If I remember correctly, someone found a way to set the board at an arbitrary step without doing each one in turn iteratively).
What if the host computer for the simulation is ultimately connected to assembly-line processes? A simulated character could possibly load its own brain into the real-world (via a fantastic feat of reverse engineering and luck that the programming was shoddy). The original mind would be stuck in the simulation, but a copy of the mind could exist in the real-world, or at least the original could remotely control it.
I can't figure out "calcium from animal-based sources is a myth", given that everyone involved in osteoporosis seems seems to support dairy. Is it simply about animal protein? Animal protein certainly appears to be worse than plant protein. However, that study was only done with women and not men, and unfortunately the article doesn't go into detail about the diets or vitamins. For example vitamin A is higher in plants than animals, and lower levels are associated with fractures in women; men however are not affected. Also, it seems that high levels of calcium intake is worse than moderate levels. A Harvard synthesis (which I'm using now) about milk and calcium acknowledges that animal protein is associated with lower levels of bone formation, but still concludes that dairy is a good source of calcium. (1) The USDA also lists dairy products as being generally better sources of calcium than plant products (by my estimation: the list is very long). Lastly, some plant sources may be detrimental to overall calcium absorption.
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(Damn, what's with Slashdot screwing up links?)
1. http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/nutritionsource/calci
Has anybody made safer lawn-darts? Ground is more difficult to pierce than people*, so maybe a duller nose with a spring that disconnects backwards if pushed enough, and a softer base, or also a base that breaks apart once the spring-trigger trips, or even a base with perpendicularly loaded springs.
You heard it hear first. No patent for you.
* I mean, presumably. What do I know...
I spend most of my time in small towns and small cities so I haven't seen a lot of playground structures, but the one I had in elementary school (gr. 3 to 7) was the best I have seen. The metal ones are usually low, fairly disconnected platforms, slides, poles, and monkey-bars.
I have very little to do so here's a diagram as close as I remember: E-shaped wooden playground structure (with heights).
Legend:
A— plastic tube tunnel with static properties.
B— swinging plank obstacle.
C— swinging tires obstacle.
D— high catwalk with little nubs to trip over.
E— raising catwalk with wavy bridge.
F— bridge to the platform, with a dip in the centre.
G— platform with walled room underneath; poles to slide down on two sides.
H— half-tube slide to the ground; in retrospect it was plastic like at A.
I think a section like B might be around 14-feet long.
It was built with 4x4s iirc so there were 4-inch gaps in the walls which many climbed up; the wood mostly wasn't broken such that you could get a splinter. The floor of the playground was mostly bark wood chips that gave one tonnes of little splinters if touched, so everyone avoided touching it; it was a poor choice for sure. Nobody that I know of sprained or broke anything while I was there, but a few people ended up crying; I never heard of any injuries after that so presumably nothing serious happened. Eventually the playground was destroyed due to weakening wood. It was replaced with a few low metal structures that looked lousy—liability-free and cheap to put together I guess.
The only problem with sand is that you can get sand in your shoes fairly easily. I'd guess decent wood chips are ideal but I haven't tested any. The bark shards were actually somewhat soft but otherwise sucked.
I'd say though that a good design would be better in metal than wood for the most part, although I wonder about the slipperiness of the bars.
Damn, now what am I going to do...
Well if that were a real concern one could use distilled water which supposedly won't complete a circuit.
Software like MODPlug Tracker? It can output to WAVs, but it can also output to a bunch of tracker formats that I would think perfectly reproduce the song.
By performing a taste test!