Suppose you owned a house, spent a lifetime paying for it, and decided that it was too big for you and you might rent it to a family who can use the space. You charge enough to cover the taxes, maintenance, residential insurance, and part of the rent for your small apartment. You find a family that is willing to pay your rates, and explain the lease. You do a background check and interviews and they seem ok. They sign the lease, thereby agreeing to your terms, and in exchange you let them live in your place. A few months later you house has completely burned down. It turns out that they have been going to visit grandma every weekend and they have been renting out the house Friday and Saturday nights. The insurance company, who is always looking for any loophole, says that it does not cover subletting and will not cover the claims. You sue and eventually get some of the money back, but have lost everything in the process. Where is the crime here. Of course, if you own your place, you can probably let it out for a several weekends a year and be ok. You could also negotiate with your landlord and pay additional fees so you could let it out. But doing stuff with things you don't own is not a great expectation.

I know. They must hate tourists because prostitution is illegal, and I am not going anywhere where there are a whole four hours a day when a bar must be closed. I suppose that is why so many people go to Illinois and the like for vacation.

Another big issue is that these were 12 top of the line violins. Its pretty impressive honestly to say that violins that hundreds of years old can sound identical to 12 top of the line modern violins. No other 300 year old instrument is likely to sound as good as a modern top of the line version.

When I was in school, the MS stuff was available for the cost of the media. I know that people say MS gives away programming tools, but really, they don't. I have tried to program with what MS gives away and it is crap in comparison with something like Eclipse or xcode.

Now, it is true that with xcode you need a Mac, so add $1000 for the programming bit. xcode is also much more complicated that it needs to be for the purpose of teaching.

There are cheap ways to teach kids to program. For way under $100 you can give a kid an Ardiuno kit, then she can use sketch of process to code it. As mentioned, python can be used for free. I suppose we need something like codeschool for kids to get them started.

Using industry estimates, i calculated that it would cost a few billion dollars to equip the next several years of commercial airplanes, not counting the current fleet. This money to prevent an expenditure 2 order of magnitudes smaller that might only occur every 10 years. It is risk assessment. And there is no way to know if it would have been any more effective than the current system. It would be just as meaningful to say that we should put a battery in the black box that lasts a year, or has a much stronger transmitter.

The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic.

In the Larry Flynt case the naked women were deemed to be adults who allowed their image be taken and printed. He likely did the paper work for releases, and photographed the women overtly and with full knowledge that the images would be published. Honestly the freedom of speech that was being protected in that case were of the women, not of Flint. A negative ruling would have meant that an adult women, or in the case of hustler many men, would no longer be able to expose herself or be penetrated for compensation.

So the cases are not really comparable. In revenge porn the images may not have taken overtly. In revenge porn the woman might not have agreed to have the images spread beyond the local area. Furthermore, it might a violation of copyright. If the victim did know that she or he was being filmed, there is no guarantee that victim was not in fact the one who made arrangement for the film to be made and in fact the person with copyright. The person who releases the film may just be an participant who did not own the camera, or set up the production, and therefore has not right to communicate the film to the public.

So to be clear if a person arranged to video themselves masturbating or having sex with partner(s) that are aware the video is going public, then stopping that would be a violation of free speech, but otherwise not. If we did accept your argument, then we would also have to accept that it would be a violation of free speech to film film young girls in a dressing room or to take covertly film women going up an escalator so we can see up their dresses. In both cases, this is not acceptable, and the former is is not only because of age issues.

There is no good streaming option, and really there is no paid digital video ownership option that is reasonable. If you buy a video, and Apple or Amazon, or whoever, does not want to support the streaming anymore, you no longer are able to use the bits that you own. Most boxes that you put on your tv are either tied to a vendor so options are limited or are not so options are limited.

Honestly a box that can hook up to the cable, steam all common formats from a personal external hard disk, and can steam most paid services still wouldn't be any good(is there box close to this, maybe TiVo?) because the cable company can pull the service at any time or streaming might change and there is no guarantee you can upgrade.

All parties are so focused on maximizing revenue, by forcing a separate $100 box for each service, by renting DVR for cable, that the entire service is writing it own doom. We have been down this road before with DVDs. The copy protection and high price and ads that could not be skipped meant I stopped buying DVDs years ago, and never will pay a blue ray. That is money they left on the table.

We also saw this with CDs. Huge prices, the exec must have thought they came when the profits rolled in, then technology meant that all the CDs could be copied, and it all fell because there was no strategy to deal with the new reality, and only legal hoopla to try to stop it.

At some point bandwidth will be fast enough, even with the obstruction of the major ISP, and enough people will be willing to take a risk, that if there is not a streaming option the video will feel the same loss of value of the audio industry.

It allows you to build and upgrade your phone a piece at a time.

I think the biggest draw for me would be "replace your screen after you drop it". Feature :)

Its electro permanent. Meaning it requires a power to connect and to disconnect, but no power to remain connected.

Most things don't use the entire stack.
TCP/IP needs to be seperate layers because you don't want to use TCP for everything.

Everything on the internet has an IP address, so that is the universal internet layer. You can put TCP or UDP or any number of more obscure layers on top of that.

Most applications squish the sesson,presentation,application layers into one, keeping them seperate is optional, there isn't a separate encapsulation header for each just a session flag to keep track the individual connection.
Under the IP layer (network) you have the data-link and physical layer. data-link is your MAC address (this is neccesary) and physical is your wire, there isn't a protocol there generally, though there is for WIFI for example which doesn't use wires.

My understanding is that we have some pretty good examples of 'larger than just a few elementary particles' superposition and observer effects that have been demonstrated.

For example, birds' touted ability to navigate by way of feeling the Earth's magnetic field is apparently enhanced by the observer effect.

http://www.wired.com/2009/06/b...

Now... cellular level effects are still pretty small, but it's an example of a living organism we can hold in our hands (and pet, if you're a bird person.) learning to use quantum effects in its everyday life.

For an example of superposition in living organisms, one needs to look no further than our abundant flora, where superposition apparently increases the efficiency of photosynthesis, without which our current biosphere would pretty much collapse and we'd all die.

http://mappingignorance.org/20...

So, I think we're looking at a bell-curve like thing here. The bigger the 'observability' of a phenomenon, the less likely we are to experience it in our lifetimes. My guess is that huge, say, planetary-scale, examples of superposition are quite possible... just so very unlikely that one hasn't happened observably in human history (and probably the history of the universe.)

From their website

"USAID is the lead U.S. Government agency that works to end extreme global poverty and enable resilient, democratic societies to realize their potential."

So things like anonymous communications that allows the citizenary to communicate without their government surveling them can be considered part of that mission. USAID is actually directed to promote democratic governements. It is like the old Radio Free America. They do not actively undermine governments, but they do put propaganda on the airwaves that tell the people of those legitimate governments to rebel.

Of course all this falls apart when we note that US is no longer recognizing anonymous and free communications as a fundamental right of the citizen. This is a bit hyperbolic, but a lot of our taxpayer money is being spent collecting open communications and attempted to minimize anonymous communication.

I would look at it differently. Sponsors who in the past have worked with show that find women who are willing to have sex with a stranger chosen by the sponsor, or a group of people fighting against each other to win an contest with no real consequences, or, at the most, skilled workers competing to create something that is not going to be technically evaluated, ie does not have to pass a machine, such as cooking.

So there are things that can be done with people who have more freedom in their process or end product. It was a failure of the sponsor to understand the process. More than likely, the sponsor has some money tied up in this process, perhaps more than any other agent. Due to the sponsor incompetence, that money has been lost.

It may be that this means any such venture in the future will be unlikely. It may be that some more competent sponsor will understand the special circumstances and manage to create a profitable venture.

No such thing as crash-free. Hardware/power/other software can cause crashes as well. Its way better to be crash-safe than crash proof. Crash proof is just waiting to be proved wrong.

I doubt they are doing this, but I had thought up an interesting solution to this a while back.
XP can be treated as a universal currency. All servers are assigned XP points based upon the users % spent on their server. So you have a central authentication system that knows user Z spend 40% of his time this month on server X and 60% of his time on server Y this month. Server X in total is slightly less popular and given its 1000 users and their time spent gets allotted say 4000XP, and Server Y with its more 1200 users who spend more time on it gets allotted say 8000XP.
Those servers can have their own internal economy and XP distribution systems, but when you leave the server the server has to decide how much XP to give to this leaving user. It can give it 0, but nobody will use this server, it can give that one user all 8000XP of its monthly allotment but then would piss off the rest of the userbase :) . Upon entering other servers that new server can have a conversion factor in the universal XP that user came in with to their local XP. Now I guess the real issue would be how to stop cheating servers that suck away a users entire XP and never give any back. I guess a universal rule that new servers can't take away XP, and trusted servers can't take away more than 10% of a users XP. Maybe special authentication system for when I user wants to voluntarily give away more than a certain amount to the server they are entering into. Shrugs, something should be workable.