The ruling means that any library in any language can be shut down. It means that public interface declarations can be copyright. It means it could be impossible for anyone to reproduce a public interface.

AkA it makes all public interfaces private. It is not just a Java specific ruling, it has implications across all coding environments.

Ok this ruling would seem to invalidate any ability to reproduce any interface.

This needs a coder boycott of anything Oracle until Oracle stands up and pubclically disavows this ruling and claims the court was wrong.

So how much energy is there in a train load of Cude Oil?

Energy denisty of crude oil ~46MJ/Kg (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_density)
DOT-111 tanker car of Lac Magantic fire is 131,000 L (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOT-111_tank_car)
Assuming 1L/1Kg - some of these oils float some of the really thick stuff sinks.

Per Tanker car 6.026x10^12 J/ Tank Car.
Little Boy explosion was equivalent to 16,000 tons of TNT (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Little_Boy)
16000 tons of TNT is 66944000 MJ of energy (http://www.kylesconverter.com/energy,-work,-and-heat/megajoules-to-tons-of-tnt).
Or 1 Litte Boy = 66.944x10^12 J
or 1 Little Boy = 11.11 Tanker Cars of Crude Oil

the big question is are entities in the simulation able to detect it is a simulation.

The first requirement for a better democracy is
not more votes on issues
not more debates
it is more infomation.

What is needed is puiblic access to all the background information -

Who initiated the bill?
What is the problem it addresses?
How does it address the problem?
What are the side affects/other problems that get created or are not covered?
What are the costs?
Who bears the costs?
How will the costs be paid?
Who benefits?
Who loses?
What other problems are there in the area?
Does this impact any other laws or rights?

All that should be presented as full background information on every line item in all bills.
Without that information the representatives should say "not enough information to vote".
So we as people should demand all that information be made public on every line item.

If the company is so sure they can put up a refundable deposit on the cost of exploring their location. If they are right then they get the deposit back. If they are not right no deposit refund.

The deposit should cover the cost of putting one unmanned vehicle down on that location.

Would any of the governments be willing to back that compromise?

Whatever happens it will be constructed so that lawyers get their danegeld. And a non-trivial amount.

Every carriage agreement will require verifiable traffic levels and performance all of this will have to have minutly agreed upon measurement processes.

The whole notion is very B-Ark worthy. And will result in a lot of work for the providers.

This is why the stupid caps are stupid. Peering like this would actually offload the data throttling points and be very good at helping your supplier balanace the load. But because of the billing strategy the supplier is actually discouraging things that help them.
*sigh*

Now that netflix has exclusive shows that release an episode a week (and the whole seasona t once) there is going to be burst traffic on specific shows. It is going to really help top level bandwidth if they can offload the most popular content.

Having low level peering on popular content is good for the network as whole.

At least on new GoT nights this would really help.

Until the dangers of sitting at a desk get raised up a few more levels the spectre of injuries in shop class has pretty much banished the once wonderful hands on practical skills from the ciriculum.

The lessons of the table saw and possibility of losing fingers or getting a 2x4 in the gut were taught to me in grade 8. I can't imagine the number of permission slips needed to allow such adventures in our modern school system. Also given the lack of funding currently in our systems the need for shop equipment, supplies, trained teachers and insurance is a financial burden I can't see the system taking on.

Certainly there are pockets were it could but done but but it would take several revolutions in funding, responsibilty and trust before it could be implemented on a wide scale.

No report of a Macdonalds franchise yet.

Ah the brilliance of youth -
"I have a script for an exploit"
"I can try it against the tax man"
"I won't get caught"
"I'm not going to use the results so no-bad"

"Hey what's with the cuffs!"

Is this the most honest response? The Canadian banks as a group say "our procedures mean we were never at risk".
http://www.cbc.ca/news/busines...
Who do you trust more to be truthfull?

Is there any incentive for the banks to be honest about this?

a) resolution in 5 second trade blocks
            - don't resolve trades with bid/ask when they arrive. Accumulate 5 seconds of incoming bid/ask then resolve. Pass the remaining unresolved to the next interval.
b) Arrival time +10 to 20 seconds random interval -> fuzzy bin boundaries and fixed "lag". Not guaranteed to get simultaneous orders into the same trade bin. Keeps trading honest and less able to be gamed.
c) fixed lag and binning means no insta-cancelling orders.
d) no cancelling once posted into the (b) queue. Yes you trade in the lag. So does everyone else. The traders can factor that into their margins and strategies.