In other news today...
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@PJH Did it look like this?
(stolen from a BookFace post about the same story)
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@anonymous234 said in In other news today...:
Con: doesn't dissipate heat very well
No big deal, just coat it with a nice layer of mud so it cools as the mud dries.
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@anotherusername said in In other news today...:
@anonymous234 said in In other news today...:
Con: doesn't dissipate heat very well
No big deal, just coat it with a nice layer of mud so it cools as the mud dries.
Adobe is just itching to get in on this somehow....
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@da-Doctah said in In other news today...:
@anotherusername said in In other news today...:
@anonymous234 said in In other news today...:
Con: doesn't dissipate heat very well
No big deal, just coat it with a nice layer of mud so it cools as the mud dries.
Adobe is just itching to get in on this somehow....
A little bit of itching is perfectly natural while the clay mask is drying.
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@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
@PJH Did it look like this?
(stolen from a BookFace post about the same story)
Ah. There I was thinking it was a reference to
lady cornucopia
on the other post.
Having realised which post: No. Not enough patio.
Edit: Hint for other @loopback0's: the closing tag for 2
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@PJH
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@PJH said in In other news today...:
@loopback0 said in In other news today...:
@PJH Did it look like this?
(stolen from a BookFace post about the same story)
Ah. There I was thinking it was a reference to
lady cornucopia
on the other post.
Having realised which post: No. Not enough patio.
Edit: Hint for other @loopback0's: the closing tag for 2
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That dang oil lobby...
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article @izzion linked said in In other news today...:
would have produced three times the energy it needs.
They clearly didn't account for cryptocurrencies....
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@Tsaukpaetra
Plus, solar energy is like Internet speeds. The "up to" energy and what you actually get don't often match up.
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@PJH said in In other news today...:
Edit: Hint for other @loopback0's: the closing tag for 2
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sI'm doing that intentionally just to annoy @pie_flavor.
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@boomzilla We had goats for a while. Ours loved the cattle's pee. I really don't know why, and I'm not sure I want to know.
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@mott555 salt, mostly.
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@topspin said in In other news today...:
@PJH said in In other news today...:
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sI'm doing that intentionally just to annoy @pie_flavor.
It only annoys me when I quote it, and you didn't post something I was likely to quote.
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@Tsaukpaetra said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
Just don't bite...
Be more worried about their horns:
Unrelated to lapping up urine are the general safety concerns of interacting with a swelling goat herd: a hiker was gored to death at the park in 2010, for instance.
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@TimeBandit said in In other news today...:
I hope the form includes a "watch my stream here!" input so they can watch the threat live inside!
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@izzion said in In other news today...:
@Tsaukpaetra
Plus, solar energy is like Internet speeds. The "up to" energy and what you actually get don't often match up.Guess no one wanted the job of cleaning all the sand off the panels...
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@TimeBandit What I'd like to see is an overhaul to that Telekom backbone which makes spoofing possible in the first place.
And while we're at it, I'd also like to have 10 million Euros.
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@Rhywden
The stupid thing is, the "overhaul" required is exactly the same thing that's required to basically stop DNS Amplification attacks, only even easier for the phone system since phone numbers aren't assigned via DHCP -- the provider simply needs to reject all calls (packets) that have a source number (address) that doesn't match one assigned to the customer.But that would involve a slight amount of work and, in the case of phones, rejecting billable minutes. So
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Bad ideas are still bad ideas
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@izzion said in In other news today...:
rejecting billable minutes
Aside from international calls how many calls these days are billed by the minute? Serious question...what sort of volume are we talking about?
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@boomzilla
Even when your carrier does not bill you per minute, they still can bill the carrier on the other end of your call for connecting the call. Granted, these charges are controlled by the FCC and the value of the tariffs is being forced lower, but it's still a few cents per minute for rural land lines and just under a cent per minute for VOIP & urban land lines.I can speak from 2nd hand experience stories told by my bosses at a small CLEC (though I can't find a supporting documented link) that there are people who run call centers and use these access charges as a profit center - they wind up swinging a deal with a local CLEC (usually the smallest one they can find in an area with the highest allowable access charge classification) to get free / reduced cost service and a small kickback over the access charge fees, then run their call center with hundreds of concurrent calls off of those charges. Which, of course, the CLEC is fine with, because it can multiply their normal access fees.
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@izzion said in In other news today...:
solar energy is like Internet speeds. The "up to" energy and what you actually get don't often match up.
That's pretty much OK. Demand is another “up to” as well, and probably correlates well with peak air-con usage and hence peak insolation. Which is good since that's a decent match up for peak solar output.
And it's not like the country is short of other power options either.
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@dkf And just to make sure, we just need some decently-sized energy storage options.
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@dkf said in In other news today...:
@izzion said in In other news today...:
solar energy is like Internet speeds. The "up to" energy and what you actually get don't often match up.
That's pretty much OK. Demand is another “up to” as well, and probably correlates well with peak air-con usage and hence peak insolation. Which is good since that's a decent match up for peak solar output.
And it's not like the country is short of other power options either.
Peak demand doesn't match peak insolation (at least in the US). Residential demand spikes when people get home from work (~5pm) and kick up the AC, turn on the lights, the TV, etc. Industrial demand is completely unconnected to solar cycles.
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It's heeerrreeee... (paste hiDPI image to scare you more)
edit: Weirdly, my VM is upgrading. But my main system is still reporting no updates available when I check...
editedit: status:
VM: Updated
Laptop2: Updating
Laptop1: Nuh-uh!! There's nothing to see! (pie_flavor must have infected my machine)
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@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
source: https://twitter.com/JeffOverley/status/1042792074574213120You're seriously going to side with this sort of heavy-handed government regulation?
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@Gribnit said in In other news today...:
@boomzilla said in In other news today...:
source: https://twitter.com/JeffOverley/status/1042792074574213120You're seriously going to side with this sort of heavy-handed government regulation?
What?
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@remi, @Steve_The_Cynic, I'm sorry, but your government says you can't post here anymore. Every post needs a signed paper contract with Inedo.
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@TwelveBaud IANAL (and actually would be waiting to see if one of my favorite French lawyer's blog has a write-up on this... he's not an IP lawyer but still, I would trust him more than random internet site -- especially non-French ones!), but here is how I read it...
I think that one thing that is mentioned in the article, and that is somewhat misleading, is that "copyright" does not exist as such in France (so when they say that French law does not differentiate "copyright" and "licensing", this is in part because one of those has no legal existence!). Any work has one or more creator(s), who has an automatic, perpetual, irrevocable right to be identified as the author of the work. He can then "license" the work i.e. permit its exploitation (display, reproduction...) under any conditions he agrees to (subject to limitations of the IP law, see below), but no amount of licensing can change the "moral right of the author to be identified as such" (I think that's the standard wording?).
So when Twitter is saying in its TOS that "You retain your rights to any Content you submit", they're just stating the obvious (in French law). That part is therefore useless, as far as French law is concerned. But by reading the actual judgement, it doesn't seem to really be the core issue, the tribunal didn't really dwell on that. There are some legal hair-splitting about whether that sentence is part of the "core object of the contract" or not, but as far as I can tell it doesn't really matter here (or rather, it matters in that this is not judged as being the "core object" and therefore can be analysed in isolation and potentially struck out without invalidating the whole of the contract, or something like this).
What really matters are two articles of French IP law that do say that (reformulated) "you cannot give away rights on future works" and "contracts relative to giving away rights must be listed explicitly, and must relate to a specific and stated goal, place and time of use".
Under those two articles, it's fairly clear that Twitter TOS (and indeed, probably any other TOS) does ask you to give away rights on future works (what you'll be posting later). The judges seem in particular to note that the TOS don't specify the goal of those uses.
(they don't really seem to comment on the absence of place/time of use, which I guess is because those are actually somewhat specified as being "on Twitter" and "as long as Twitter" exists, but really here I'm out of my depth, there may be some jurisprudence on how this works -- typically a musician who sells his rights to a record label doesn't specify a place/time of use, so I must be misreading the law there... since the judgement doesn't mention those, it doesn't matter).
So yeah, it would seem that, as they are currently written, Twitter TOS are not lawful (and the judgement does ask for those to be struck out). I think it does however leave an easy workaround as far as the "goal of use" is concerned (just say the rights are to allow displaying on Twitter even if the platform changes... they won't be allowed to sell your content for another purpose, but then if it's not what Twitter intends to do they won't care, plus this is the whole purpose of this article of the law, i.e. if they want to make money out of it in a way that wasn't stated initially, they have to ask you again so you could get your share of the benefits).
The "future content" things seems harder to workaround easily, and it could indeed lead to one more stupid banner on every page that reminds you of that so that they could claim you're agreeing to a new contract on each post.
I haven't read the rest of the 263 pages judgement...
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@remi (and others)
Pulling up an old-world analogy: Say you write a letter to the newspaper's letters section. Such a letter would easily be at least as copyrightable as the average tweet. Apart from addressing to the newspaper's letters column, you don't explicitly grant any licenses. Yet the newspaper can publish the letter, and anyone who archives that paper in the future can include that letter. This is long-standing practice and presumably legal. What is the difference that makes it illegal in the twitter case, even without a license grant in the TOS?
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@PleegWat Speculating freely, I suppose the newspaper doesn't insist in advance that you give them rights to publish everything else you might ever send them in the future. Newspaper and magazine letter sections typically contain wording along the lines of "all submissions become the property of Awesome Papers LLC" and that's presumably specific enough - each submission is considered an acceptance of the terms for that submission, which is the way it should be on Twitter as well.
I expect the actual fallout will be a minor rewording of the TOS along the lines of "each time you submit a tweet, you agree to give us a licence to the contents of that tweet" so that the agreement is specific about the content being licensed and doesn't imply a blanket authorisation for future content. Or possibly this text might have to be shown on the page itself at the time of submission, as @remi suggested.
Remember the rule: if a headline asks a question, the answer is "No".
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@dcon said in In other news today...:
edit: Weirdly, my VM is upgrading. But my main system is still reporting no updates available when I check...
editedit: status:
VM: Updated
Laptop2: Updating
Laptop1: Nuh-uh!! There's nothing to see! (pie_flavor must have infected my machine)I have two machines in my appartement that both made the Win7-Win10 transition. One was offered the update about four weeks after 10 went live, and the other waited calmly without it for another four weeks before I asked explicitly for the update.
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@Steve_The_Cynic said in In other news today...:
@dcon said in In other news today...:
edit: Weirdly, my VM is upgrading. But my main system is still reporting no updates available when I check...
editedit: status:
VM: Updated
Laptop2: Updating
Laptop1: Nuh-uh!! There's nothing to see! (pie_flavor must have infected my machine)I have two machines in my appartement that both made the Win7-Win10 transition. One was offered the update about four weeks after 10 went live, and the other waited calmly without it for another four weeks before I asked explicitly for the update.
Laptop1 is still saying "nuh-uh" when I request. The Update Assistant works tho! (I prefer to do updates on my schedule. I was hoping to let it grind away while I went home - instead it grinds away as I catch up on morning things)
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@TimeBandit How the hell does that help fill the gap left by Windows Phone? How is that even... ugh nevermind. Nick Statt is an idiot.
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@TimeBandit I agree with whatever @blakeyrat just said.
That aside, holy shit what?
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@blakeyrat said in In other news today...:
How the hell does that help fill the gap left by Windows Phone?
Sounds like the editor who made the title got a bit crazy. TFA says:
Regardless, the Your Phone app looks to be a significant step in helping bridge Windows 10 and the mobile ecosystem after the demise of Windows Phone.
I assume that you could do stuff between a Windows phone and a computer? Then that statement makes sense, and I can understand how getting a clueless editor involved ends up with a bogus title.
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Two listeners complained that the ad, which aired in June, discouraged people from opting for fresh fruit.
The advertising watchdog agreed with the complaints and upheld them.
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@TimeBandit The relevant point being
All radio and television adverts must comply with the UK Code of Broadcast Advertising (BCAP) which states that comparisons between foods must not discourage fruit and vegetables.
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The advert told people to choose the "better deal" of a roll or egg muffin.
So I can see why the complaint was upheld.
What I can't work out is why I initially read BCAP as the UK Code of Breakfast Advertising.
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@Scarlet_Manuka said in In other news today...:
@TimeBandit The relevant point being
All radio and television adverts must comply with the UK Code of Broadcast Advertising (BCAP) which states that comparisons between foods must not discourage fruit and vegetables.
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The advert told people to choose the "better deal" of a roll or egg muffin.
So I can see why the complaint was upheld.
What I can't work out is why I initially read BCAP as the UK Code of Breakfast Advertising.
I guess my American-ness is coming out, but the thought of a government-mandated "Code of Advertising" that sets content is, to me, TRWTF.