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What would create more jobs, running the same old coal power plant a couple more years or building a million new wind turbines? Or running the same old coal power plant or inventing, building and installing new filters and furnaces for existing plants? With the added benefit of having a great new technology to export and sell overseas if you're the world's first to have it (=require it)

They are presented like that, in between two escalators, but the escalators move too fast and you're standing just a bit too far away to see details

Is a grammar pendant also more intolerant of petty crimes? I could see language errors as a sort of crime against the rules we as a society made.

They didn't hold back the Internet 6-7 years. IE was far, far beyond whatever competitors offered, it might be more fair to say that Microsoft released IE6 years too early. AJAX, CSS, JS, all the cool technologies that make the web today were part of IE 6 (but not quite at the level they are today of course), and in addition to that there were some DirectX accelerated graphics, an advanced plugin system while other browsers only supported NSAPI, etc.

After that there was little innovation from Microsoft, but there was little need for innovation either, most developers looking for advanced capabilities used Flash instead of addressing the web browser natively, because that was the trend back then and Flash works on other brands of browsers as well, and for a while because a lot of people still used older browsers. For those reasons there was no developer demand for more advanced features, the features that were offered were hardly used for a long time

For example AJAX was publicly introduced in IE5 in 1999, while other non-beta versions of competitors appeared from 2002 to 2005. Websites using AJAX thus were rare until about 2004-2005. There was no need for Microsoft to add more technology until the competitors caught up. Unfortunately for Microsoft, the competitors didn't just catch up, they overtook them and implemented some features differently than in IE, those missing and different features in IE have caused plenty of grief for web developers ever since.

I wonder in how many states doing this is an illegal form of tampering with electronic communications. It seems to me interfering with communications would be illegal unless it is necessary for network operations, which advertising trackers obviously are not.

And a another way to use tupled is:

    list map Function.tupled(plus)

Hereby additionally proving the old saying 'if you need help with a product don't say you need help because you'll get hit with RTFM, just say too bad you can't do X in product while it's easy to do in [competing product], and everyone will try to prove you wrong.'

Medical ultrasound imaging uses far higher frequencies than the patents for uBeam claim, so they can't be compared. And even medical ultrasound isn't fully safe, there are some indications of brain damage in mouse models after long exposure to ultrasound.

Copyright affects more than just assets, it also includes e.g. creative physics. The idea of an RTS in a medieval time period is not copyrightable, but copying all the specific choices AoE2 made even when those choices weren't made because the setting required them can very well be infringement. Calling yourself a clone will also not help you in a court.

Read up on some judges' verdicts on video game clones at: http://adlervermillion.com/copyright-illustrated-video-game-...

No addresses or phone numbers for the fund, no associated lawyers, nothing to indicate that this is legitimate.

Please do some additional checks before sending money to the bitcoin address mentioned.

How about observation bias as another reason. There are plenty of research papers written in Russian and Chinese (fewer every decade of course), but they aren't considered for Nobel prizes and they aren't reported on in the Western media because people in the West aren't exposed to them.

A famous example is stealth aircraft, that's based on a Soviet research written in Russian and took a roundabout way to reach the US aircraft manufacturers.

Children already have some regenerative abilities, a lost finger tip in a child of only a few years will usually grow back if the wound is not sutured close by surgeons. Extending that to all humans might not be all that impossible.

Wikipedia has more information in the mammalian and human sections in the article on regeneration. http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Regeneration_(biology)

Because sunny weather improves peoples mood, just look around you when it's raining and cold, people are glum and looking down a lot, while on a sunny day you see plenty of people smiling. Good mood means you feel better and perform better.

Second, your muscles are already somewhat warm, so you feel powerful right from the start instead of having to warm up for ages before you're ready for top performance.

Also, your training or just going for a run is not at the same intensity as running a marathon as a race. You run shorter distances or lower intensity, meaning the stable body temperature at marathon pace and distance is a cooling body at training pace at the same outside temperature.

A derived work is still protected by the original copyright. Because there is a substantial creative contribution the derived work is also copyrighted in its own right, but that doesn't diminish the original copyright.

Translating a book into a foreign language is also a creative process, but the author of the original still has the right to say whether such a translation can be distributed and would expect a royalty.

Or with different characters that are keyed with the same digit on a phone, like P, R or S for the Q?

There are a few swan farms in The Netherlands, where swans are grown for consumption. They are considered a delicacy in several European countries, but they don't taste as good as duck or geese in my opinion. Some years ago there were a few incidences of Eastern European migrants taking wild swans for food, including some from protected species.

Choice is an interesting question for the ethicists, but there are also many more reasons to use mice, rats, fruit flies and other animals: you can easily get thousands of genetically similar ones, you can get ones bred with specific properties, they have shorter life cycles, so you can test what happens during life time, you can test to destruction/death, you can test before consent be given, you can test multiple generations, you can keep them in controlled conditions. All of those are things that are either impossible to get consent for or prohibitively time consuming or expensive with humans.

There are other reasons why test animals are not that useful, mostly because they aren't human, and what works in them might not work on people, and what doesn't work in them won't be tested on people.

Over time animal testing has been decreasing and will continue to decrease while cell cultures become easier to create and closer to the cell structures that need to be tested, but for now they are needed in many fields of science.

There are many variants of A* that can handle changing environments/imperfect information, multiple goals, limited time, etc. A number of them are listed at:

http://idm-lab.org/project-a.html

"Course of employment" has a legal definition, it's the things you do because you have to for your work, so the actual work in the office, required education, travel to customers, that sort of stuff.

When half the internet is going to install your code without much additional testing in the next day it had better be properly tested beforehand.

The units were pretty unambiguous for a long time. For a long time disk storage was measured in 2^10x, at least in operating systems, then hard disk manufacturers decided the way they reported disk size would be 10^3x. Obviously the prefixes having a different meaning in a different context is not perfect, but that's nothing new, for people in SI countries kilo is used for kilogram, any other meaning is hardly related. Calories are counted in kcal without ever mentioning the kilo prefix. A lot of the confusion in IT is from adding additional binary xxbi units that feel contrived and aren't very well accepted.

I bought a sony e-reader 5 years ago, it still functions fine. Sony did however give up their e-reader business in the past weeks, but they have transferred all purchased books to a different vendor, so I don't lose anything. And earlier when they discontinued their own proprietary DRM format, they freely converted all books to EPUB.

I have had no problems with how well Sony has supported me as a customer, despite their organization going through changes.

They now have only one place to get funding, before they could go up to pretty much any investor and get funding. Maybe it wouldn't have lasted if the VR turns out not as good as it's hyped to be, but for now I don't see why they need the resources of Facebook. Of course they're readying for a product launch, a product that appears to become popular, so they'll need to invest in production capacity and materials, but is a takeover really necessary and the best way to achieve that?

http://sysprogs.com/VisualKernel/tutorials/kgdb/ It supports many VS features. The same people also sell a debugging program that claims to support everything debugging-related of Visual Studio, but I don't know if that's integrated into this VisualKernel product, or just a subset.

Don't forget that while you're working from home, other people will be at work, so you might not see any other person 8 hours a day. This could be harder than you think.

What about the data Whatsapp does collect? Like other people's phone numbers. What happens with that within Facebook?

And of course being principled about not tracking or getting more information than necessary and then partnering with the company that does nothing but just that is a bit perplexing to me.

Meh :/ I started with the techrights link, and first looked at the 3rd link, "Installing GNU/Linux is Still Hard Due to UEFI" to learn, and the source article it was based on actually had the writer saying there was no problem at all with uefi+secure boot on, his linux just installed and worked fine on his new laptop. The other two february links weren't much better, at worst an already fixed bug, that did not originate at Microsoft... The FSF link seems more technically accurate as far as I can tell as a non-linux, non-uefi user, but most of their problems are hypothetical and not so much practical problems for now.

Are there better sources to read up on this, or is the controversy a bit over blown?

The TRIPS agreement requires criminal penalties for willful copyright infringement, art. 61 (and circumvention of technical measures is in all cases I have seen implemented as being a form of copyright infringement) when it occurs on a certain not well defined scale. TRIPS is implemented everywhere except a few muslim countries in Africa and Asia.

There almost never is a minimum scale defined in actual implementations.

There have been several attempts to sue people in my country, usually settled before any final judgment, for being instrumental in copyright infringement, even if that and the actual infringement occured on limited, loss-incuring scale.

I live in the EU, so every web page I visit is required to be logged by ISPs for 6-24 months. Clearing cookies does nothing.

I'm more than willing to bet that your law says too that circumventing technical measures is illegal and when done on purpose a criminal act. Admitting to using the privacy mode of your browser to circumvent the paywall is admitting to a crime in many jurisdictions. Sometimes with optional prison terms, otherwise fines that will eventually turn into prison time if they're not paid on time, so prison is certainly an option for using the privacy mode to access NYT. Not likely to be prosecuted, but a crime nonetheless.

Why should I vet my system before buying it? I've seen Linux advertised as "it runs on everything" plenty of times, and for well over a decade. It's rare to see someone who evangelizes Linux to say that hardware support on Linux is inadequate for a non-technical user to just make the switch.

If that is indeed the case I think it would be tremendously important to fix that.

Where do you get "most people" from? I'm not saying you're wrong, but for example I don't even try to scam paywall sites by trying to get in, it is an imprisonable crime[1] to do so in most jurisdictions, I just close the window.

[1] http://www.wipo.int/treaties/en/text.jsp?file_id=295166 Article 11, http://www.wipo.int/treaties/en/ShowResults.jsp?lang=en&trea... The signing parties.

A bit off topic perhaps, but is it fair, as the article does, to call these hackers "white hat"? Especially Vupen which sells to the highest bidder(s), although selected, should be considered black hat, as they don't work with the intention of securing software, they even advertise on their site that they will sell the worst security holes for offensive use only.