TN visas have a lot of restrictions on them, and there are several restrictions on your life if you are on a TN. Any move that may make it look like you want to stay in the US permanently can get a TN revoked. This can include buying property, getting engaged to a US citizen, applying for a green card etc.
If there were only 3 H1-B visas issued to Canadians, then my employer is responsible for 2/3 of them which seems a little skewed to me.
So you are suggesting that everyone should keep any potentially controversial opinions to themselves just in case the country they live in is a brutal dictatorship some day?
That's one way to quell free speech. "what if the government disagrees with you". I am open about my political affiliations, and my disagreement with my country's current government. What is the point of having a political opinion if you are afraid to voice it in case your country turns into a terrible place where the government quashes all dissent?
I suspect that's just marketing speak for it doing heuristic analysis based on the endpoint and possibly packet timings, there is no way to actually do DPI on properly implemented SSL packets without using a MITM attack (for which they would need a locally installed CA).
Unless of course they have managed to find a way to efficiently factor large numbers, though that strikes me as rather unlikely.
There aren't currently bandwidth caps with most independent ISPs that use the incumbent carrier's last-mile infrastructure to deliver their service (they pay for their own connections). This ruling would allow carriers to enforce caps on the customers of the 3rd party ISPs.
As soon as this ruling was announced, the incumbents lowered their caps and upped their overage fees (again, they already did it once when Netflix announced they were coming to Canada). Most Canadian incumbents are also cable/satellite TV providers and a lot of people consider the caps (especially with how low they are and how expensive overages are) are a way to protect their TV business by making Netflix and the likes so expensive as to be unusable.
The engineering (EE and Mech) and CS research group who I do IT for use TeX (specifically LaTeX) extensively. There are several groups where the professor basically tells their grad students "you are expected to learn and use LaTeX if you are part of this lab". We do have some people using Word + MathType, but they are certainly a large minority. I used to do IT for the CS department at the same University. LaTeX was the most important package to have installed on all the grad student machines, I don't think a single one used Word.
Sure, I have yet to meet a humanities student that uses or even knows what TeX is, but it is certainly alive and well in science and engineering. You could say the same thing about Matlab.
Um, no. We use plain-old cane sugar in pretty much all soft drinks and most sugary desserts up here. Most of our HFCS comes from sweet foods imported from the States, which we don't actually eat that much of. Our tastes tend to be slightly different.
Public transit is $68 a month, while parking alone is $24 a day for a meter (assuming an 8 hour work day) or around $15 for a private lot, if you can find one that isn't full.
Generally the public transit takes about the same amount of time during rush hour. It's even often faster as sometimes you end up wandering around for 15 minutes looking for a parking spot.
In my experience, the metro in most large cities comes about every 2 minutes during rush hour, and even at every 7 minutes, the average wait would be 3.5 minutes, not 7 minutes.
"Could the laws against practicing medicine without a license have something to do with that?"
Wow, just.. wow.
The laws against practicing medicine without a license are there for an extremely good reason. I think it has something to do with the risk of random quacks killing people that could have been saved if they had seen an actual doctor. It is difficult to become a doctor, it takes years of training and studying. This is for good reason, as every day people's lives are literally in your hands. If a "doctor" does not have a license, it is generally for good reason. Either they are untrained, or they are trained and had their license revoked, for a practicing doctor to have their license revoked, it takes a large number of large screwups (they have to kill _lots_ of people).
Being treated by untrained "doctors" is just plain stupid. Just because someone thinks they know how to cure diseases does not mean that they actually do. Have you seen some of the things that people claim are medicine?
Though, one particular case of incompetence on the part of a government in a particular part of the world does not mean that nationalized medicare cannot work. Here in Montreal, the garbage is picked up twice a week, every week like clockwork. My main problem with garbage collection is remembering to bring it out on the appropriate night.
Also, you certainly won't be in a waiting room very long if you are bleeding here, if you break an arm and are not getting worse, you may be in the waiting room for several hours. But if it's serious, you get care right away. A few years ago, I had meningitis and was running a fever of 42 degrees, which is often fatal. Needless to say, as soon as the triage nurse took my temperature I was in a gurney surrounded by nurses hooking me up to machines. The fact that an acquaintance of mine waited 16 hours with a sprained ankle does not bother me, as a sprained ankle is hardly life threatening and it does not worsen over time.
I don't think it holds, bottled water hardly competes with tap water, unless you are showering, cleaning your clothes and dishes in bottled water. Mail delivery and garbage collection are not skilled trades. The variances between different garbage men and mail carriers is hardly the same as the variances between different doctors. If your garbage men start leaving to join a private company, then you just hire more random people, give them 2 weeks training and send them out. You can hardly just hire more doctors, there is a much more limited supply.
I would also argue in those services, there is not much that a private company can offer over what the government provides. If tap water is clean and drinkable, then there isn't much a private company can offer over the public water supply. Private letter carriers tend to be extremely expensive compared to Canada Post, and in my experience their service often falls short of the crown corporation's. I have never heard of a private garbage collection company, and I have trouble imagining why someone would hire a private company.
I am from Canada, and here "private" health care is more or less illegal. That is to say that there is such thing as private clinics, but they simply bill the government for services they provide. It is illegal for them to bill the patient except for certain services, such as simply getting a note to miss work.
Now, the thing is, if we allowed private health care, where the rich can pay to get the top service, then all the doctors, especially the best ones, would want to work for the private companies and not for the public ones. The private ones would likely pay much better than the public ones. Then you get in a situation where someone who is wealthy has a team of 4 of the best doctors in the country waiting on them hand and foot, while the poor people wait 14 hours in a waiting room to see a less skilled doctor for 5 minutes.
Your current medical care system is actually sort of causing us this exact problem right now. A lot of our best doctors here see huge dollar signs south of the border, so they move, and we get left with the less talented and/or less greedy doctors here. Which is why we have absurd waiting times in emergency rooms here in Montreal, simply a shortage of doctors to treat patients.
When you have a public system, allowing private competition only makes a huge gap between service levels of the public and private systems, and you end up with something only marginally better than you have down there at the moment.
Up here in Canada, it's illegal for employers to do drug screening, criminal background checks or credit checks unless there is a good reason for it. For example background checks are legal for child care workers, I would imagine credit checks are legal for accountants.
They could have ignored it, but now its going to be a matter of days before makes a photo mosiac of the king of Thialand made up entirely of pictures of feet.
Not everyone can eat soy, I have a good friend who is allergic. He is just lucky that north americans use so little soy in food products, otherwise he would have a very hard time finding foods that are safe for him to eat. (not to mention his recently developed chicken allergy)
I don't think anybody was thinking of thermite as an explosive. They are referring to having a repository of thermite powder above the drive, and igniting it with magnesium to destroy the drive, molten metal is probably one of the best ways to destroy a drive. Though stopping that metal from destroying anything and everything beneath the drive is rather difficult.
The module is not open source, and not GPL, so distributing a precompiled copy of the module (which is linked to the kernel source) is illegal. It is only legal to distribute the source and make the user compile it themselves.
The legality of that has nothing to do with nVidia, it's the kernel developers who own the copyright that is being violated by someone distributing closed source modules (The nVidia module is a closed source module, read the license).
Anything that is derived from GPL code must be redistributed under the GPL, that is how the license works. ATI and nVidia are distributing only the source, which is not linked to the kernel so it doesn't technically have any kernel code in it. As soon as you link the module to the kernel, it contains part of the kernel code, so if it is distributed, it must be distributed under the GPL.
Ubuntu, Debian, SuSE and Fedora distribute precompiled binaries, but make the source for the binaries available, that is how you stay compliant with the GPL. You should read it sometime, its actually quite readable the way licenses go. At least have a look at the GPL FAQ it explains this in more detail.
The layer is not GPL'ed, its not even open source. Take a look at the copyright notice at the top of the source files that nVidia distributes:
/* _NVRM_COPYRIGHT_BEGIN_
*
* Copyright 1999-2001 by NVIDIA Corporation. All rights reserved. All
* information contained herein is proprietary and confidential to NVIDIA
* Corporation. Any use, reproduction, or disclosure without the written
* permission of NVIDIA Corporation is prohibited.
*
* _NVRM_COPYRIGHT_END_
*/
From what I can tell, freespire advertises that they ship the nVidia and ATI drivers? If they are shipping precompiled copies of the source that is distributed, then they are violating the GPL, and it is likely that the kernel developers will have a talk with them.
It is illegal to distribute non-GPL binary kernel modules (ask any kernel developer), and Freespire should respect the GPL since they are a Linux company.
I don't own a car, but the bus is actually more expensive for the trip I take most frequently. It's $60 for a two-way ticket to my parents place 90 minutes away, for me and my girlfriend to go there for the weekend, it's actually cheaper to rent a car.
That depends on demand, if someone is willing to pay Namesys to port reiserfs to windows, then yes there will be reiserfs for windows, but that is unlikley to happen since it will cost at least in the 5 digits, probably 6. I personally don't see much of a need, windows people can stick with NTFS, which is a passable filesystem.
Namesys are the only people that can legally actually do a port of teh existing code, they own the copyright, and they can relicense it. Since it is GPL'ed it would be likley be illegal to release a port that links into the non-GPL windows kernel.
If someone were so inclined they could re-implement reiserfs on windows, but that would be IMHO a massive project.
"BTW: If anyone knows of a low-cost wirless router device that *can* treat wireless as an "outside" network, post a reply and let us know..."
Pentium 133 Running Linux or BSD, with 3 NIC's, one for the uplink, one for the wired network and one for the wireless. You can probably get one used for around $20.
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TN visas have a lot of restrictions on them, and there are several restrictions on your life if you are on a TN. Any move that may make it look like you want to stay in the US permanently can get a TN revoked. This can include buying property, getting engaged to a US citizen, applying for a green card etc.
If there were only 3 H1-B visas issued to Canadians, then my employer is responsible for 2/3 of them which seems a little skewed to me.
So you are suggesting that everyone should keep any potentially controversial opinions to themselves just in case the country they live in is a brutal dictatorship some day?
That's one way to quell free speech. "what if the government disagrees with you". I am open about my political affiliations, and my disagreement with my country's current government. What is the point of having a political opinion if you are afraid to voice it in case your country turns into a terrible place where the government quashes all dissent?
That's pretty cowardly.
That's a neat trick.
I suspect that's just marketing speak for it doing heuristic analysis based on the endpoint and possibly packet timings, there is no way to actually do DPI on properly implemented SSL packets without using a MITM attack (for which they would need a locally installed CA).
Unless of course they have managed to find a way to efficiently factor large numbers, though that strikes me as rather unlikely.
There aren't currently bandwidth caps with most independent ISPs that use the incumbent carrier's last-mile infrastructure to deliver their service (they pay for their own connections). This ruling would allow carriers to enforce caps on the customers of the 3rd party ISPs.
As soon as this ruling was announced, the incumbents lowered their caps and upped their overage fees (again, they already did it once when Netflix announced they were coming to Canada). Most Canadian incumbents are also cable/satellite TV providers and a lot of people consider the caps (especially with how low they are and how expensive overages are) are a way to protect their TV business by making Netflix and the likes so expensive as to be unusable.
The engineering (EE and Mech) and CS research group who I do IT for use TeX (specifically LaTeX) extensively. There are several groups where the professor basically tells their grad students "you are expected to learn and use LaTeX if you are part of this lab". We do have some people using Word + MathType, but they are certainly a large minority. I used to do IT for the CS department at the same University. LaTeX was the most important package to have installed on all the grad student machines, I don't think a single one used Word.
Sure, I have yet to meet a humanities student that uses or even knows what TeX is, but it is certainly alive and well in science and engineering. You could say the same thing about Matlab.
Um, no. We use plain-old cane sugar in pretty much all soft drinks and most sugary desserts up here. Most of our HFCS comes from sweet foods imported from the States, which we don't actually eat that much of. Our tastes tend to be slightly different.
Public transit is $68 a month, while parking alone is $24 a day for a meter (assuming an 8 hour work day) or around $15 for a private lot, if you can find one that isn't full.
Generally the public transit takes about the same amount of time during rush hour. It's even often faster as sometimes you end up wandering around for 15 minutes looking for a parking spot.
In my experience, the metro in most large cities comes about every 2 minutes during rush hour, and even at every 7 minutes, the average wait would be 3.5 minutes, not 7 minutes.
Hey does that mean we are going to get magical airships that can fly indefinitely, hover and land vertically any open ground?
:)
Cooool
"Could the laws against practicing medicine without a license have something to do with that?"
Wow, just.. wow.
The laws against practicing medicine without a license are there for an extremely good reason. I think it has something to do with the risk of random quacks killing people that could have been saved if they had seen an actual doctor. It is difficult to become a doctor, it takes years of training and studying. This is for good reason, as every day people's lives are literally in your hands. If a "doctor" does not have a license, it is generally for good reason. Either they are untrained, or they are trained and had their license revoked, for a practicing doctor to have their license revoked, it takes a large number of large screwups (they have to kill _lots_ of people).
Being treated by untrained "doctors" is just plain stupid. Just because someone thinks they know how to cure diseases does not mean that they actually do. Have you seen some of the things that people claim are medicine?
Though, one particular case of incompetence on the part of a government in a particular part of the world does not mean that nationalized medicare cannot work. Here in Montreal, the garbage is picked up twice a week, every week like clockwork. My main problem with garbage collection is remembering to bring it out on the appropriate night.
Also, you certainly won't be in a waiting room very long if you are bleeding here, if you break an arm and are not getting worse, you may be in the waiting room for several hours. But if it's serious, you get care right away. A few years ago, I had meningitis and was running a fever of 42 degrees, which is often fatal. Needless to say, as soon as the triage nurse took my temperature I was in a gurney surrounded by nurses hooking me up to machines. The fact that an acquaintance of mine waited 16 hours with a sprained ankle does not bother me, as a sprained ankle is hardly life threatening and it does not worsen over time.
I don't think it holds, bottled water hardly competes with tap water, unless you are showering, cleaning your clothes and dishes in bottled water. Mail delivery and garbage collection are not skilled trades. The variances between different garbage men and mail carriers is hardly the same as the variances between different doctors. If your garbage men start leaving to join a private company, then you just hire more random people, give them 2 weeks training and send them out. You can hardly just hire more doctors, there is a much more limited supply.
I would also argue in those services, there is not much that a private company can offer over what the government provides. If tap water is clean and drinkable, then there isn't much a private company can offer over the public water supply. Private letter carriers tend to be extremely expensive compared to Canada Post, and in my experience their service often falls short of the crown corporation's. I have never heard of a private garbage collection company, and I have trouble imagining why someone would hire a private company.
I am from Canada, and here "private" health care is more or less illegal. That is to say that there is such thing as private clinics, but they simply bill the government for services they provide. It is illegal for them to bill the patient except for certain services, such as simply getting a note to miss work.
Now, the thing is, if we allowed private health care, where the rich can pay to get the top service, then all the doctors, especially the best ones, would want to work for the private companies and not for the public ones. The private ones would likely pay much better than the public ones. Then you get in a situation where someone who is wealthy has a team of 4 of the best doctors in the country waiting on them hand and foot, while the poor people wait 14 hours in a waiting room to see a less skilled doctor for 5 minutes.
Your current medical care system is actually sort of causing us this exact problem right now. A lot of our best doctors here see huge dollar signs south of the border, so they move, and we get left with the less talented and/or less greedy doctors here. Which is why we have absurd waiting times in emergency rooms here in Montreal, simply a shortage of doctors to treat patients.
When you have a public system, allowing private competition only makes a huge gap between service levels of the public and private systems, and you end up with something only marginally better than you have down there at the moment.
Up here in Canada, it's illegal for employers to do drug screening, criminal background checks or credit checks unless there is a good reason for it. For example background checks are legal for child care workers, I would imagine credit checks are legal for accountants.
They could have ignored it, but now its going to be a matter of days before makes a photo mosiac of the king of Thialand made up entirely of pictures of feet.
Not everyone can eat soy, I have a good friend who is allergic. He is just lucky that north americans use so little soy in food products, otherwise he would have a very hard time finding foods that are safe for him to eat. (not to mention his recently developed chicken allergy)
I don't think anybody was thinking of thermite as an explosive. They are referring to having a repository of thermite powder above the drive, and igniting it with magnesium to destroy the drive, molten metal is probably one of the best ways to destroy a drive. Though stopping that metal from destroying anything and everything beneath the drive is rather difficult.
The module is not open source, and not GPL, so distributing a precompiled copy of the module (which is linked to the kernel source) is illegal. It is only legal to distribute the source and make the user compile it themselves.
The legality of that has nothing to do with nVidia, it's the kernel developers who own the copyright that is being violated by someone distributing closed source modules (The nVidia module is a closed source module, read the license).
Anything that is derived from GPL code must be redistributed under the GPL, that is how the license works. ATI and nVidia are distributing only the source, which is not linked to the kernel so it doesn't technically have any kernel code in it. As soon as you link the module to the kernel, it contains part of the kernel code, so if it is distributed, it must be distributed under the GPL.
Ubuntu, Debian, SuSE and Fedora distribute precompiled binaries, but make the source for the binaries available, that is how you stay compliant with the GPL. You should read it sometime, its actually quite readable the way licenses go. At least have a look at the GPL FAQ it explains this in more detail.
It's more the fact that shipping a precompiled kernel module is a GPL violation that I am worried about.
From what I can tell, freespire advertises that they ship the nVidia and ATI drivers? If they are shipping precompiled copies of the source that is distributed, then they are violating the GPL, and it is likely that the kernel developers will have a talk with them.
It is illegal to distribute non-GPL binary kernel modules (ask any kernel developer), and Freespire should respect the GPL since they are a Linux company.
I don't own a car, but the bus is actually more expensive for the trip I take most frequently. It's $60 for a two-way ticket to my parents place 90 minutes away, for me and my girlfriend to go there for the weekend, it's actually cheaper to rent a car.
That depends on demand, if someone is willing to pay Namesys to port reiserfs to windows, then yes there will be reiserfs for windows, but that is unlikley to happen since it will cost at least in the 5 digits, probably 6. I personally don't see much of a need, windows people can stick with NTFS, which is a passable filesystem.
Namesys are the only people that can legally actually do a port of teh existing code, they own the copyright, and they can relicense it. Since it is GPL'ed it would be likley be illegal to release a port that links into the non-GPL windows kernel.
If someone were so inclined they could re-implement reiserfs on windows, but that would be IMHO a massive project.
"BTW: If anyone knows of a low-cost wirless router device that *can* treat wireless as an "outside" network, post a reply and let us know..."
Pentium 133 Running Linux or BSD, with 3 NIC's, one for the uplink, one for the wired network and one for the wireless. You can probably get one used for around $20.