Anecdotally, it seems to be blocked for some people and not for others, and the blocking itself seems to be in flux. The last time I saw a post on Slashdot saying it had been closed, I tried accessing it then and could not. This time around, I can access the website. Don't know about the torrent though, haven't tried.
Meant to say *tracker* - heh. Maybe I shouldn't slashdot without my green tea
The fact that so many people chime in with "I don't get it" is probably an indication of how revolutionary it is.
...or of it just being poorly articulated.
I'm not a Wave hater, but a lot of the coverage I read initially was really vague about what it actually is. Even after the
In this case though it turns out Wave actually is cool. It just needs to be explained better, and we're beginning to see some of that implementation now.
Meow.
Great... turn my back on that crazy cat for just a minute and he's already posting AC on Slashdot. Next thing we know it'll be first meows and Soviet Veterinarian jokes.
Unfortunately, humans are quite stupid.
Compared to? Cats? An alien race you know of but the rest of us don't? A cherrypicked group of humans?
Just try getting between a cat and a plate of tuna. They are fiendishly inventive... I have a cat that, while not necessarily socially intelligent, was quite clever at solving problems. He might fit in here at Slashdot
However, suppose we were to assume a 25 mile radius, instead...given that 40/45 seems optimistic, as you noted. 1,963.49541 sq. miles, divided into America's size would give us 1,932.3 towers needed to blanket the nation, at 0.0005% coverage per tower, ignoring overlap and ignoring existing towers. Of which, the executive contribution would cover 15.360% of the nation.
gahhhh it's 0.05% coverage per tower, not 0.0005%. Got mixed up between percent and decimal...these errors are infectious!
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Just read about it in the newspaper. (Daily Yomiuri, for me.)
Unfortunately, the on-line version leaves off a few things.
For instance, Kaneko's lawyer's pointed out that auto manufacturers would not "be punished if speeding became rampant." (Reported in the print news.)
Also, the on-line version doesn't mention that, "A revised Copyright Law that prohibits users from downloading such peer-to-peer file sharing software will come into force in January." (The last line of the print article.)
I think the print version of the Yomiuri may have been slightly off on that point... the sources I have seem to say the law is dealing with copyrighted works, not programs that can be used to download them.
Copyright act amended
Japan Strengthens Copyright Law
Basically, the new legal ground seems to be that downloading works protected by copyright without permission is now officially a crime, but they have to prove the defendent knew the file was not distributed legally. Up until now, prosecution has been mostly (if not completely?) uploaders. Nothing is being said about downloading the software itself.
If you want it from the original source, and you can read Japanese, this link has the text of the bill itself in PDF format. I have not translated it so I can't verify whether the English news sources are correct in their interpretation or not.
And it should be the law: If you use the word `paradigm' without knowing what the dictionary says it means, you go to jail. No exceptions. -- David Jones
