I was referring to laws on harassment and similar things. They weren't the ones used in this case, even though is seems harassment probably should have been one of the charges.
Perhaps because the fraud and harassment laws predate the Internet, and due to some technicality they couldn't be used to prosecute this case? I don't know if that was the true for the Lori Drew case, but it does happen and will continue until we have had a few decades of lawmakers that understand the Internet.
All that this case has shown is that seducing a child by means of a false identity for the purposes of causing emotional harm is going to get you a jury conviction. Most likely regardless of the actual charge. If Lori Drew hadn't been targeting a specific person as revenge, and if she hadn't known that the person she was seducing was a child, she probably would have gotten off pretty easily.
I think it's pretty obvious that the law hasn't quite caught up with the societal changes caused by the Internet. So it shouldn't come as a surprise that the laws that sound like they should apply can't be made to apply. Lori Drew was still convicted by a jury, though. It isn't like she was tried and convicted under a law that she didn't break. The State just had to settle for some peripheral misdemeanor charges, rather than the felony charge that she probably deserved.
Apple has been making a killing off selling DRM'd music for years. Any claim that they implemented the DRM because they like it is pure, unmitigated bullshit.
They did it because that was the only way for them to make money selling music.
Nothing at that link seems to compare the number of fatalities to the number of dives undertaken. (In fact, that site seems to have no information whatsoever about people who don't die while skydiving. The total number of fatalities in recent years is completely without context!) I'd bet that number is many times higher than the number of auto collision fatalities per commute.
To put it another way, the probability of dying on any given skydive attempt is almost certainly much larger than the probability of dying on any given commute to or from work.
Yep. I guess the AC who submitted the story didn't quite RTFA, since TFA mentions the 1976 proof of the four color theorem. TFA doesn't say that proof checking software is new, just that it is gaining in popularity.
These products are targeted at the scientific computing market. Almost all of that software is written to use BLAS or something similar. SIMD processors are plenty well suited to the matrix and vector operations needed for that. Sure, MIMD architectures may be theoretically nicer, but the way to establish the stream computing market is to create a product that can accelerate current software, which means providing an interface similar to what current software uses (ie. BLAS).
Correction: Intel didn't sell all of their ARM business, just the product lines relevant to PDAs, netbooks, etc. (And Intel is still doing the manufaturing on behalf of Marvell, so they will make some money.)
Not anymore. Intel sold the XScale division to Marvell in 2006. Since then, Intel has been without a good low-power processor. None of their x86 designs has come close to what a fully static ARM core can achieve in terms of battery life.
When you stop to think about that extra $1,800, it doesn't sound that unreasonable. Most of that premium goes to cover the software costs - particularly all the QA needed to make sure that all the $20k+ software packages still work.
Releasing driver source code reveals most of the same information that is included in detailed technical specifications. It almost always includes enough info to make a compatible, competing product, and often has enough info to greatly simplify the process of reverse-engineering the device.
A hardware company like Creative should be wary of doing this - it could really hurt their monopoly on gaming-oriented sound cards.
You seem to be thinking about the Alpha EV6 front-side bus architecture that AMD used on the original Athlon. It's very different from the HyperTransport bus, and predates it by several years.
IPv4 was defined by RFC 791, which was published in 1981. It allows for 4.295 billion addresses. In 1981, the entire population of the world was about 4.5 billion. Sure, that means that from the start, there weren't enough IP addresses to go around, but back then, it was unreasonable to expect that even 1% of the population would have use for an IP address.
The limitation on IPv4 addresses isn't a design flaw. It's just a symptom of IPv4 being old. It has just about outlived its usefulness.
(In fact, using more than 4 bytes for addresses in a time when 32-bit minicomputers were still fairly new and consumer machines had just gotten to 16-bits would have been absurdly wasteful of resources, and nobody would have bothered to implement such a protocol.)
All bills come to a final vote where senators from all states have the opportunity to reject a bill that is pork-laden. If Sen. Tubes were so bad about stuffing pork into bills, the other senators could stop him.
You need 64-bit Windows for Windows to see more than 4GB of RAM, but that's only because Windows is so poorly written. It's support for PAE in the workstation-class editions is half-assed at best, even though PAE has been near universal since the Pentium Pro. XP SP2 even requires PAE for full use of the Data Execution Prevention, but Microsoft has never enabled a 32-bit non-server operating system to access more that 4GB of RAM.
They clearly could, and it's obvious that over the past several years there's been quite a bit of demand for PAE support on 32-bit systems, but Microsoft has never deigned to supply that. I don't think it's a stretch to say that this wouldn't be the case if the desktop operating system market were even somewhat competitive.
If you refer to a game called "Combat Evolved", you will get funny looks, and somebody might figure out that you are talking about Halo. The "Combat Evolved" is at best a subtitle. It isn't meant to stand alone as an alternate title.
In the case of Animal Crossing, the disparity in font sizes on the box art is even larger. Only a fool would mistake the "Population: Growing!" as part of the proper title.
That's right. You flat out rejected Groklaw as a source due to PJ's anonymity, rather than grant it any benefit of the doubt given PJ's track record. That's far more disingenuous than merely raising unfounded questions about Groklaw's corporate connections.
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I was referring to laws on harassment and similar things. They weren't the ones used in this case, even though is seems harassment probably should have been one of the charges.
Perhaps because the fraud and harassment laws predate the Internet, and due to some technicality they couldn't be used to prosecute this case? I don't know if that was the true for the Lori Drew case, but it does happen and will continue until we have had a few decades of lawmakers that understand the Internet.
All that this case has shown is that seducing a child by means of a false identity for the purposes of causing emotional harm is going to get you a jury conviction. Most likely regardless of the actual charge. If Lori Drew hadn't been targeting a specific person as revenge, and if she hadn't known that the person she was seducing was a child, she probably would have gotten off pretty easily.
I think it's pretty obvious that the law hasn't quite caught up with the societal changes caused by the Internet. So it shouldn't come as a surprise that the laws that sound like they should apply can't be made to apply. Lori Drew was still convicted by a jury, though. It isn't like she was tried and convicted under a law that she didn't break. The State just had to settle for some peripheral misdemeanor charges, rather than the felony charge that she probably deserved.
Apple has been making a killing off selling DRM'd music for years. Any claim that they implemented the DRM because they like it is pure, unmitigated bullshit.
They did it because that was the only way for them to make money selling music.
Nothing at that link seems to compare the number of fatalities to the number of dives undertaken. (In fact, that site seems to have no information whatsoever about people who don't die while skydiving. The total number of fatalities in recent years is completely without context!) I'd bet that number is many times higher than the number of auto collision fatalities per commute.
To put it another way, the probability of dying on any given skydive attempt is almost certainly much larger than the probability of dying on any given commute to or from work.
Yep. I guess the AC who submitted the story didn't quite RTFA, since TFA mentions the 1976 proof of the four color theorem. TFA doesn't say that proof checking software is new, just that it is gaining in popularity.
All of those are for computation, not generating or checking proof.
These products are targeted at the scientific computing market. Almost all of that software is written to use BLAS or something similar. SIMD processors are plenty well suited to the matrix and vector operations needed for that. Sure, MIMD architectures may be theoretically nicer, but the way to establish the stream computing market is to create a product that can accelerate current software, which means providing an interface similar to what current software uses (ie. BLAS).
NVIDIA's Tesla products all support single precision IEEE-754 floating point, and their 10-series supports double precision.
What about things like GLSL compilers? Are they in hardware too?
Correction: Intel didn't sell all of their ARM business, just the product lines relevant to PDAs, netbooks, etc. (And Intel is still doing the manufaturing on behalf of Marvell, so they will make some money.)
Not anymore. Intel sold the XScale division to Marvell in 2006. Since then, Intel has been without a good low-power processor. None of their x86 designs has come close to what a fully static ARM core can achieve in terms of battery life.
When you stop to think about that extra $1,800, it doesn't sound that unreasonable. Most of that premium goes to cover the software costs - particularly all the QA needed to make sure that all the $20k+ software packages still work.
And the difference between a Tesla card and a Quadro card is a DVI port...
The figures quoted in the summary don't include failures due to accidents like dropping the phone.
Releasing driver source code reveals most of the same information that is included in detailed technical specifications. It almost always includes enough info to make a compatible, competing product, and often has enough info to greatly simplify the process of reverse-engineering the device.
A hardware company like Creative should be wary of doing this - it could really hurt their monopoly on gaming-oriented sound cards.
You seem to be thinking about the Alpha EV6 front-side bus architecture that AMD used on the original Athlon. It's very different from the HyperTransport bus, and predates it by several years.
IPv4 was defined by RFC 791, which was published in 1981. It allows for 4.295 billion addresses. In 1981, the entire population of the world was about 4.5 billion. Sure, that means that from the start, there weren't enough IP addresses to go around, but back then, it was unreasonable to expect that even 1% of the population would have use for an IP address.
The limitation on IPv4 addresses isn't a design flaw. It's just a symptom of IPv4 being old. It has just about outlived its usefulness.
(In fact, using more than 4 bytes for addresses in a time when 32-bit minicomputers were still fairly new and consumer machines had just gotten to 16-bits would have been absurdly wasteful of resources, and nobody would have bothered to implement such a protocol.)
Even if the senate did expel Stevens, his replacement would almost certainly be appointed by Palin.
All bills come to a final vote where senators from all states have the opportunity to reject a bill that is pork-laden. If Sen. Tubes were so bad about stuffing pork into bills, the other senators could stop him.
http://anandtech.com/casecoolingpsus/showdoc.aspx?i=3413
Even though the article is about power supplies, it has quite a bit of information about how much power various components draw.
You need 64-bit Windows for Windows to see more than 4GB of RAM, but that's only because Windows is so poorly written. It's support for PAE in the workstation-class editions is half-assed at best, even though PAE has been near universal since the Pentium Pro. XP SP2 even requires PAE for full use of the Data Execution Prevention, but Microsoft has never enabled a 32-bit non-server operating system to access more that 4GB of RAM.
They clearly could, and it's obvious that over the past several years there's been quite a bit of demand for PAE support on 32-bit systems, but Microsoft has never deigned to supply that. I don't think it's a stretch to say that this wouldn't be the case if the desktop operating system market were even somewhat competitive.
If you refer to a game called "Combat Evolved", you will get funny looks, and somebody might figure out that you are talking about Halo. The "Combat Evolved" is at best a subtitle. It isn't meant to stand alone as an alternate title.
In the case of Animal Crossing, the disparity in font sizes on the box art is even larger. Only a fool would mistake the "Population: Growing!" as part of the proper title.
I do not question Groklaw as a source at all.
That's right. You flat out rejected Groklaw as a source due to PJ's anonymity, rather than grant it any benefit of the doubt given PJ's track record. That's far more disingenuous than merely raising unfounded questions about Groklaw's corporate connections.