Comment Freedom is aiding terrorists (Score 5, Insightful) 315
It should be stamped out ASAP
It should be stamped out ASAP
There's a paragraph which most people will miss which states that if you give them notice in writing to a specific address within 30 days of agreeing to the contract, you can opt out of arbitration and retain your right to class action:
RIGHT TO OPT OUT OF BINDING ARBITRATION AND CLASS ACTION WAIVER WITHIN 30 DAYS. IF YOU DO NOT WISH TO BE BOUND BY THE BINDING ARBITRATION AND CLASS ACTION WAIVER IN THIS SECTION 15, YOU MUST NOTIFY SNEI IN WRITING WITHIN 30 DAYS OF THE DATE THAT YOU ACCEPT THIS AGREEMENT. YOUR WRITTEN NOTIFICATION MUST BE MAILED TO 6080 CENTER DRIVE, 10TH FLOOR, LOS ANGELES, CA 90045, ATTN: LEGAL DEPARTMENT/ARBITRATION AND MUST INCLUDE: (1) YOUR NAME, (2) YOUR ADDRESS, (3) YOUR PSN ACCOUNT NUMBER, IF YOU HAVE ONE, AND (4) A CLEAR STATEMENT THAT YOU DO NOT WISH TO RESOLVE DISPUTES WITH ANY SONY ENTITY THROUGH ARBITRATION.
I think I'd rather not email Sony's legal department to register myself as a trouble maker....
and I'm not letting them any near my CPU.
Way to waste at least 20% of the CPU power, lazy programmers. I'll take my CPUs to something that actually uses them efficiently like Folding@home which is optimised as opposed to interpreted or even compiled java bytecode being pushed like molasis through a straw.
Or you could just download the native binary version. The java version was designed specifically for people that want to contribute but are unable/unwilling to install software on their computers.
FTA:
Project participants also had a choice of how to participate in SkyNet: Either anonymously through simply having their browsers open on the SkyNet site, or through downloading a dedicated app to run in the background on their PC.
My Hyundai Sonata Hybrid uses Lithium Polymer batteries that according to this article already implement this technology.
It's a completely different technology.
FTA:
The Leeds-based researchers are promising that their jelly batteries are as safe as polymer batteries, perform like liquid-filled batteries, but are 10 to 20% the price of either.
A five to tenfold reduction in the price of batteries sounds pretty significant.
My Hyundai Sonata Hybrid uses Lithium Polymer batteries that according to this article already implement this technology.
It's a completely different technology.
FTA:
The Leeds-based researchers are promising that their jelly batteries are as safe as polymer batteries, perform like liquid-filled batteries, but are 10 to 20% the price of either.
A five to tenfold reduction in the price of batteries sounds pretty significant.
Although the microscope itself collects raw data, an external laptop, smartphone, or cloud-based system performs all the processing.
The spatial resolution
At this point don't you have more in infrastructure needs than you would with a basic optical microscope?
No, you're ignoring the most important 'infrastructure need' of having an actual physician view and interpret the images. This system allows people with no medical training to collect image data and transmit it to a remote physician for diagnosis.For people in areas that are too poor/remote/sparsely populated, this may be the only possible way they can access medical diagnostic facilities.
On top of that, with the ever decling cost of electronic components like diode lasers and ccds, this thing has the potential to be cheaper and smaller than optical equipment.
If you dont like the laws, change how you vote.
Right, so which of the two parties is pro-copyright reform? Voting doesn't make a lick of difference when the laws are being written by the MPAA.The price of digital media in Australia is extortionate and in many cases content is not available at all legitimately. As long as US media companies treat Australian consumers like shit and try to manipulate government policy, they don't deserve to be paid.
1) Are the chargers "smart" like if I drop my wedding ring on the charger does it heat up/melt or does the charger recognize the inductance / current draw is way outta whack and shut off? If it shuts off does an indicator of some type turn on, or does it just not charge?
Assuming they're using the qi charging standard, yes. There is quite a bit of handshaking required before the charger will fully energise a coil.
3) Who can sell me an inductive receiver kit to power other stuff? I'm not talking about bolt and go, but ladyada / dangerousprototypes sort of places and products? Who makes this stuff, anyway? At a superficial glance the usual suspects in the analog power community don't seem to offer any specialized ICs for the task... unless the RX has no 2-way comm with the tx and literally is just any ole coil feeding a bridge rect and a switcher.
Texas Instruments makes it. They also have a devkit:
http://www.ti.com/ww/en/analog/wireless_power_solutions/index.shtml?DCMP=hpa_pmp_bq51013_en&HQS=Other+BA+bq51013-bnc
4) I'm sadly picturing some kind of hideous DRM where the expensive charger and expensive device need to negotiate a RSA key across bluetooth to light up the charger... Please tell me it isn't so? A generation of interoperability would be awesome.
The standard is available online. From memory there's no crypto-based DRM but you will need a license from the QI consortium to implement the technology
And the caps work quite well...
In Australia, you can pay $30-$70/month to download 30GB-400GB over an ADSL2 connection (~12Mbit/s) and once you hit your 'cap' your connection is slowed to 128Kbps-256Kbps and you can download as much as you want. This seems perfectly fair, usage pays and all that. In fact, isn't this exactly the pricing model the cloud is based on? Pay for the resources you use?
If 'the cloud' can only survive in on the assumption that everyone, everywhere has unlimited network resources then it deserves to die.
Burning things is bad. No, seriously, we don't have engines that burn clean enough to not produce pollutants.
Uhh, no. This is like saying "chemicals are bad" or "radiation is bad". You need to look at what you're burning. The great thing about bio-mass fuels is the concept of "carbon neutral" combustion. You grow a bunch of plants/trees which take carbon -out- of the atmosphere, turn those plants into fuel and a year or so later release the same amount of carbon back into the atmosphere when you burn the fuel. There is no net increase in CO2 levels which means there is no contribution to the greenhouse effect.
On a macro scale there is little to no pollution, even if there appears to be because "burning things is bad". This is exactly the kind of hippy bullshit that holds back the development truly green technologies
In many of my higher level engineering classes there's no single text book that covers all the material in the way the professor wants to cover it. Our reference texts usually end up being 2 chapters from book a), 3 chapters from book b), 8 different academic papers, some random notes written by another lecturer 10 years ago and the rest are notes written by the lecturer themselves.
The kind of licensing discussed in TFA would completely destroy this kind of structure and would probably end up lowering the quality of the courses by forcing lecturers to teach out of a single ill-suited text-book or placing much higher demands on the prof's time to write a text-book's worth of material themselves. You'd also end up with a bunch of 'orphaned works' type problems where no one can trace the copyright holder for for decade old lecture notes.
Of course, it might be entirely possible to game this system by making a course consisting of 90% cheap filler that nobody actually uses and the remaining 10% consisting of the useful material in the current course.
You're now guilty of wire fraud, unauthorised system access and several thousand ToS and EULA violations. Don't ever get noticed by Sony, they own you for life and aren't shy in the courtroom
The problem is using programs that advertise themselves as WYSWYG editors when in fact they're not.
Now it's unreasonable to expect the every computer-literate but non-expert user to understand the data format, encoding and specific behaviour of every document editor. The blame here rests solely on the management that should have trained users how to manipulate sensitive documents using approved tools.
I know I shouldn't bite, but I'm amazed at the sheer ignorance of some of the comments in this article.
For the record, I'm Australian, not American. I work two jobs, study full time at university and do volunteer work when I can. I pay for my own food, water, housing, internet, phone service, medical treatment and education on top of paying taxes on the money I earn -and- the money I spend. The human rights recognised by my government actually make me a -more- productive member of society, while simultaneously increasing the duration and quality of my life.
I have a good quality of life and I've worked hard to get it. I don't think every slacker should get a free ride, but I do think people should have the same basic level of -opportunity- that I have. Without some level of human rights, "Getting off your ass and working for a living" isn't really an option, especially if by 'living' you mean something more than living day by day until poverty kills you.
Do you want to know what societies looked like before nations started recognising human rights? Think entrenched class-systems, peasants, slaves. People whose children will die young because they're poor, like their parents and their parent's parents . More crime, violence, fear, civil wars and deadly pandemics.
And even if you can't see any moral or humanitarian justification for human rights, what about the increased economic output?
It makes me sick to hear so many people arguing against human rights when, almost certainly, they themselves would not be able to bitch about socialists and slackers on the internet if they had not enjoyed those very same rights. You're in no way 'independent' from the privileged society you live in and that society is built on human rights.
To do nothing is to be nothing.
