Iran *had* a right to develop nuclear weapons, which they voluntarily surrendered when they signed the non-proliferation treaty. In return for this they got a promise that *we* would help develop civilian nuclear power.
Iran still has that right, you fucktard. If they're violating the NPT, the only remedy is to stop helping them. If a country signs a treaty saying 'In return for not doing X, you will do Y', and they then do X, the only remedy allowable under international law is to stop doing Y. That's it. It does not justify an invasion or bombing or anything. Nothing in the piece of paper Iran signed said 'And if I don't do this, you can invade'. Iran can do whatever the hell it wants WRT to nuclear weapons.
It is, in fact, a war crime to threaten to invade other countries, regardless of what treaties they've signed and if they're following them. Yes, to threaten them, much less invade. It's called a 'crime against peace'.
The only legal result is for us to claim they're in violation and stop helping them develop or operate a nuclear reactor. Oh, we're not helping them? The Russians are?
Well, then the only remedy is to convince the Russians they're in violation. Which the Russians, being a good deal less stupid than the average US-media watcher, don't think is true.
And there is a somewhat ancient treaty that binds them anyway.
Iran signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. This treaty says, in return for not making nukes, and having their nuclear facilities inspected, they can buy nuclear stuff, and in fact, the nuclear powers must sell them nuclear plants, and even nuclear weapons for non-military use (like blowing up mountains and, apparently, capping oil wells.)
In other worlds, right now, legally, the US has to sell Iran uranium.
If Iran is in violation of the NPT, which is possible, that means...um...they can't buy nuclear material from the nuclear powers that signed the NPT. That's it. That's the sole 'punishment'.
There is not fucking ability to invade, there is no damn right to overthrow their government, if they don't want to operate within the treaty.
The NPT is to stop countries from having to develop nuclear tech but still have nuclear power, by encouraging them to not do the research themselves in exchange for guaranteed access to civilian nuclear tech. That's it, that's the sole purpose for non-nuclear signatories. If Iran is not following the rules, everyone is free to think of them as possessing nuclear weapons, and not sell them other nuclear tech...and, um, so?
Think what you want about Iran, but they are perfectly entitled to make nuclear weapons, and if you want to argue they're in violation of the NPT, well, go ahead and assert the US shouldn't sell nuclear materials to them...oh, wait, the US isn't? Well, shut the fuck up, then, because that's the only thing the US can or can't do WRT to that treaty.
And while we're talking about treaties, it is a violation of the UN charter, and a war crime, to threaten invading other countries. Yes, just the mere act of threatening an offensive war. You know, like certain politicians in the US are doing to Iran.
While I generally believe you, and I don't doubt that Steele knows some stuff, I suspect a better explanation for him is that Republicans have no idea how to cope with race.
For the longest time, the right has complained bout 'racial quotas' and stuff, and I though they were just ginning up anger, but they're serious.
They simply cannot judge people of other race based on their merits, on their skills, on, as MLKj put it, the content of their characters. They look at a black person and they don't see 'good leader' or 'bad leader', they see 'black person'. If they are forced to hire black people they will, indeed, select them randomly.
With Steele, they managed to do that to their boss, which is just outright hilarious.
Of course, it didn't help that the pool of black people willing to work for the Republicans was pretty low to start with.
I don't doubt that there are a lot of skeletons in various closets, but I suspect that they wouldn't let Micheal Steele have access to them that fast. (OTOH, he did apparently know about the lesbian strip club.)
Uh, idiot, 'western intelligence community' pretty much applies to all of Europe. Exactly the people he's been pissing off. Yes, he sometimes pisses off non-western countries, but all of them are tiny, and unlikely to have the resources, and he hasn't pissed off China or Russia. It's perfectly reasonable to assert, if it's an intelligence agency, it's a western one.
You decided to read it as exclusionary to just the US because of some hangup you have. If the GP had meant US intelligence community, he would have said it. You deliberately misinterpreted something and asserted the truth was exactly what was really said. You really need to look at your goddamn mental state and why you're running around trying to pick fights.
You can hear the developers themselves comment on it, in game, if you wish.
In fact, I suspect this is why the game was chosen. Once you beat it, you can play it again in commentary mode. It's very informative.
It might be useful to ask people to write down what they thought everything meant as it went along, and then to go back and play it in commentary mode.;)
And, of course, the other reason it was chosen was that it is a) short, and b) easy.
There is no secrets, there is no obscure logic, the only trick is conservation of momentum, and there's only half a dozen places where you have to do anything quickly, usually shooting a single portal straight ahead so you come out of where you just left faster. The room where you have to keep 'falling up' and shooting portals on the platforms higher and higher is mildly annoying, but compared to any other action game it's easy. And there's no penalty for failing.
They can tell you the warranty is void, but in actual fact, manufacturers can't just invent actions that void warranties, despite them pretending to do so for quite some time.
For them to refuse to service a device under warrant, they have to have a reasonable claim that your actions caused the problems. It doesn't matter how many 'Warrant Void If Blah Blah' stickers they have or don't have...if you did it, they don't have to fix it, if you didn't, they do. (Along with the gray area of causing accidental problems, which some warranties cover and some don't.)
Apple could probably get away with not fixing the battery in a jailbroken phone under the logic that jailbreaking causes it to run down faster.
They certainly couldn't get away with the idea that previously jailbreaking (and restoring) somehow permanently damages reception. Although they could refuse to work on any currently jailbroken phone, because there's actually no way of knowing what's happening on one. (I mean, the phone could be lying.) They could probably demand you reset it. (And not even let you do there.)
'Warranty void if' clauses are the EULA of the warranty world. They do not actually stand up in court. You can only void warranties by doing things yourself that break stuff, and even then you've only broken that part of the warranty.
That said, the physical stickers are mildly useful to manufacturers as it does give them easy evidence that someone broke their own device by putting it back together wrong. The sticker itself doesn't magically make the warrant void, though.
There's a difference between undoing the effects of a modification, and stopping the device from working at all.
iPhones have to be suitable for, at minimum, use as a cell phone. If the manufacturer sells them as a cell phone, and then purposefully does something to stop them from working as a cell phone, they are not suitable for the intended purchase and you can demand a refund.
Or, hell, sue them, or have them arrested, the same as if they walked up to you on the street, grabbed your cell phone, and crushed it under their feet. Selling stuff that doesn't actually do what you say it does is just fraud, selling people stuff and then breaking it is theft by vandalism.
They can set things up where you can't jailbreak, or if you try to do so you risk damaging the phone yourself, but they can't legally turn your cell-phone into a not-cell-phone, no matter what you've done to it.
(This is, of course, assuming it's actually your phone. If you've stolen it, the owner obviously can do whatever he wants to it, just like he really could walk up on the street, take it from you, and smash it.)
Yeah, I'm not sure what people seem to be worried about.
The courts just explicitly said that jailbreaking was legal. The decision appears to actually be wide enough that it makes all electronic modifications to purchased devices legal, except for the stupid DMCA sometimes butting in. It looks legal to get any non-copyright-controlling restrictions. (Interestingly, no one appears to have made the argument that the software on phones can include access- and copy-control mechanisms under the DMCA.)
Ergo, it would be no more legal for Apple to remotely brick someone's phone because they jail broke it than for Ford to melt the engine from your car because you cut the roof off. They can deny you warrant service, perhaps, but not brick your phone.(1)
This is for one thing, maybe two. The first is having the legal owner have the ability to broke the phone after it's stolen. Which is certainly something you have to opt in to, and probably have to pay for.
The second is, maybe, maybe, considering bricking the phone if the purchaser steals it, like if they've signed up for a two year contract and then skipped town. Apple's on dangerous ground there unless they get a court order, and Apple's not really the one who would care anyway, AT&T is.
1) Technically, they probably can't. While manufacturers like to say 'If you do X, you've voided the warrant', they can't really do that...they have to demonstrate you did something that actually caused the problem you're trying to have repaired to not cover you.
If my iPhone has a physical defect, it doesn't matter what the hell I did with the software. There are a few cases where they'd be on sane ground, like if the battery is dying because you jailbroke it and constantly used more power than you should have, but generally they can't use jailbreaking to refuse to fix it if, say, your sleep button stops working. (OTOH, if you took the phone apart, and put the sleep button back wrong, they can refuse to help.)
Technically, they can use a jailbroken phone as a reason to not help with software issues. But only while jailbroken...if you restore it, and it's not working, they have to help.
Reading the standard, I don't see any error correction at all. It's actually a pretty stupid standard.
There is a 'compressed' mode that could logically include correction, but that's normally just AC3 audio, which doesn't have any sort of error correction built in.
Of course, a receiver could do some sort of analysis on the incoming data and refuse to play obviously wrong stuff, but that's an anti-feature that just hides a problem.
You're like me. Ritalin doesn't affect me much at all. I was put on it for a few months, and taken off when no one even noticed. But I wasn't ever hyperactive anyway.
If a specific stimulant doesn't affect you at a level where most people would be affected, you either have ADHD, or you have some sort of immunity to the stimulant.(1)
If multiple different stimulants don't affect you, or some make you calmer and others don't affect you, it's almost certainly ADHD.
1) While I don't have an immunity to any stimulant I know of, I appear to be one of the few people who can smell laughing gas, aka, nitrous oxide. It smells sorta like fried onions.
No, I just think the solution for ADHD isn't anything like what people think it is, because I don't think the problem is what people seem to think it is.
As I explained, ADHD kids want slightly more, for lack of a better word, chaos. (Which is why I refuse to call it a disorder when it only manifests itself in the sterile environment of school. It's a disorder if it interferes with them under normal conditions, not the insane conditions of school which humans are evolutionally unequipped to handle.)
So give that environment to them. They'll be stimulated the amount they want, and actually learn.
And it's not additive. People with ADHD who 'act out' want some distraction, some background noise, and when they don't get it, they make it.
If other people did it, or if they just had more distraction to start with, they wouldn't have acted out in the first place.
If 100 people taste some lemonade, and 10 want it to be slightly sweeter, that hardly means that if they're put in charge of lemonade it's going got be insanely sweet. If 10 kids want a slightly more chaotic environment, that doesn't mean it will devolve into Lord of the Flies.
If there are people who become more hyperactive when put in such an environment, who get more hyper when other kids are hyper, they don't have ADHD, they have a behavior disorder. (Well, they could obviously have ADHD too, but the point is that they're running around because of a behavior disorder.) They just like dumping sugar in the lemonade because other people don't want it there.
Digital audio/video itself has an oddity that a bit flip might still be valid audio/video.
It might be valid audio, but even if the flipped bits neatly confine themselves to the signal area, you're going to get some really loud noises as the highest bit occasionally get flipped. POP!
I have no idea what would happen if you start flipping bits in non-data part of SPDIF audio, but flipping them in the data part would be very obvious and distracting.
You might, might, be able to sometimes flips some bits in an HDTV signal without anyone noticing. Digital video might just have a single pixel set for 1/30th of a second now and then, and you might not notice.
But not SPDIF. Randomly screwing with uncompressed audio, and still playing it, is a recipe for weird pops and clicks. (Not, as audiophile idiots imagine, 'less rich quality' or WTF they hallucinate is going on.)
Everyone mentioned the fees, but no one has mention the other half.
It is legal, in the US, to copy music to Music CDs, and give someone that CD. It is not a copyright violation. The tax on the CD covers it. You can't sell it, it's non-commercial use only, but you can legally give it to others.
What's funny is that the tax appears to be set at the level of 'bit for bit' copy,but nothing in the law forbids you from filling it up with mp3s.
Read this. Music CDs, under the tax, count as digital recording media, and under 1008 'No action may be brought under this title alleging infringement of copyright...based on the noncommercial use by a consumer of such a device or medium for making digital musical recordings or analog musical recordings.'
If this were about CAT5 cables, it could be that a lower error rate caused a higher throughput and thus allowed the network audio player to stream a higher quality stream, but no, it's not that either.
In crazy-land where audio signals, which are less than 3 Mb/s for the highest quality SPDIF connection, could somehow overwhelm a 3 Gb/s SATA connection, um, sure.;)
Of course, you have to wonder what hard drive is actually attached to that SATA cable to provide the data at that rate.
Or, hell, what network he's got that hooked too. Stuff from a SATA cable can trivially fill any consumer network, up to gigibit ones. (Of course, the damn hard drive can't actually produce data at that rate, and I'd be damn impressed to see a computer, especially a NAS, transfer it that fast.)
Anyway, as most audiophiles do, indeed, live in crazy-land, it's a valid concern.
The thing is plugged into the hard disk (right?).
Yes. He's talking about the SATA cable between a hard drive and a NAS, where his audio files are stored, providing higher quality audio when he plays them back on computer reading the files off the NAS.
I would make some snarky comment to mock that, but, honestly, do I need to?
The interesting fact is, in the case of digital signaling we're talking about, which is S/PDIF, there is no error correction.
I'll let that sink in for a bit.
Done thinking about it?
Yup, if there's some 'interference', there's a pretty likely chance it will flip one of the bits to create a very loud pop.There's no quality drop that the error correction can hide.
Likewise, there's no 'retry'. The signal gets sent, period. The other end either gets it, or doesn't. If it doesn't, it will be instantly very loudly noticeable.
Which is why all the talk about 'high quality cables' is crap. The cheapest cables are, for all intents and purposes, perfect. They transmit the signal with no problems at all. If they had problems, if they screwed up 0.0000001% of the bits, everyone would be bitching about weird noises every few minutes.
Likewise, HDMI (or whatever the electronic transmission protocol over HDMI and DVI is called) doesn't have any error correction or retry capacities either. Although in that case a bad cable would be less noticeable as a single flipped bit on a screen probably wouldn't be noticed.
It's the fact that, with digital transmissions, if it's a crappy signal, it's a crappy signal. You don't have partial signaling....if you lose part of the data, you get pops and snaps and stuff, it's very obvious.
But anyone who thinks optical cables are less easy to screw up than copper needs their head examined. I have trouble figuring out why anyone uses optical connectors for any audio stuff.
There's also a rational (but wrong, as it turns out) perception that copper cables broacast more RF noise. In fact, the optical tranceivers generate more RF than a simple copper setup.
Heh, optical transmitters generate RF by definition.;)
If it's a digital system, you can entirely ignore the ground, because, as the parent said, you don't really care how far from 'the ground' the signal is, like in normal systems...it's either very high and a 1, or it's not high and it's a 0. As long as the ground voltage isn't literally insane, it works.
Now, there is the slight problem that the cable has to be grounded at one end (To stop interference.), so I'm presuming the standard actually defines which end (transmitting, probably) should ground it, and which end should not.
Furthermore... if there is some gigantic RF source that’s screwing up the data crossing your SATA cable, you have worse things to worry about than something a fancy SATA cable will fix.
In fact, DON'T MOVE. Someone might have accidentally installed a 110 kilovolt power line directly through the room you're in, or, alternately, you might have set up your sound system around one of those. Very carefully look around around the room you're in, or around the tower you're at the top of, to see if you can see a six inch thick wire suspended by thirty-foot high pylons. THEY ARE NOT INSULATED, DO NOT TOUCH THEM, THEY WILL KILL YOU. Call emergency services if you can reach a phone. Otherwise, see if you can use them to transmit the audio signal.
Once you've discounted that, it's time to check for other problems.
For example, did you accidentally install your sound system inside a microwave oven? If so, simply do not use them both at the same time. Also, do not operate the microwave while you are inside it. (Also, don't operate your sound system when you're inside it, either. Also don't put either of those inside of you. Just stop putting things inside of things, okay?)
Another thing to check is if the sun gone supernova. You can check by seeing if everything's on fire. If so, RF is going to be a bitch for the next several hours, until the blast wave from the sun destroys the earth...we don't recommend trying to fix the cabling, and instead sitting and contemplating how you could have gone to six flags yesterday instead of spending the money on those cables.
Then check for dark matter and other dimensions. Some theories suggests that gravity might be able to cross dimensional barriers, which has bugger-all to do with any RF problems, but, frankly, you people who think digital signals degrade like that can't be swayed with facts.
Once you've eliminated all RF options, there are only a few possibilities left.
A major remaining cause of problems is if one part of your sound system traveling a significant portion of the speed of light compared to another part. Even if they were in the same frame of reference when you installed, they might not be anymore, so check. If so, time dilation will cause a frequency shift. Also, after several milliseconds, your entire system will be ripped apart as the cables no longer reach.
But yes, from the standpoint of who's the most wrong, at least SOMEONE can actually tell the wines apart.
Yeah, people can tell wines apart, although they're really unable to identify them beyond that. But there actually is a difference in taste. (Whether or not that difference in taste is even vaguely related to the price is, of course, unknown.)
Whereas there's no difference at all in stupid digital transmission cables.
I always say 'If you've getting interference on your digital cable, perhaps you shouldn't have draped it across that hydroelectric dam's generator.'.
At the very least, you could collect them all in a less restrictive classroom.
A lot of the problem is an environment that assumes that kids with ADHD need less distractions. That's not really true in any sense, for any sort of ADHD. It's the opposite of true. People with ADHD don't lack focus because 'something happened'. They lack focus because...well...their mind doesn't want to focus on just one thing. Removing 'distractions' just results in them distracting themselves.
Put them in an less sterile environment, where they can move around and maybe have some quiet music and sofas to sit on and stuff, and they're allowed to interact with people more often (Either via groups or whatever) and they'd end up a lot better off.
Plus, they'd stop distracting the non-ADHD people.
Basically, ADHD kids and non-ADHD kids want a different amount of 'background noise'. And contrary to what many people seem to think, the ADHD kids want more. (And thus make it themselves.) Just give them the damn noise, give them the environment they want to be in, and maybe they'd actually learn something.
Of course, I think schools are pretty badly designed for anyone at all to learn in, but that's probably just me. (Who does, in fact, have ADD, or ADHD-PI as they now call it. Instead of making noise in school, I just daydreamed. Of course now, as I work, I listen to music and no one tell me to stop bouncing my leg, and I get up and walk around every thirty minutes for a minute.)
I don't get headaches very often either, and they're all sinus headaches, and I usually just lay down and self-medicate a little with a soft drink and some sinus stuff. (Sadly, by the time I've realized they're showing up, it's too late.) But that's like three times a year.
If you're going through 3 bottles of Tylenol a month in the summer months because of allergies, you're doing it wrong.
Obviously. Although I suspect there aren't that many people misusing over the counter stuff. (Erm, not misusing to treat problems. Obviously, people do actually abuse some OTC stuff.)
People need to actually understand what they're taking, because I've seen people with literally five identical medications in their cabinets, because they don't understand the medication is the 'active ingredient'. Just look up each one, buy one package that contains a single 'serving' of them, and mix and match as required. And, as a bonus, you'll learn the effect on you.
But I just think people are being ripped off there, it's not really a problem per se.
It's the long-term prescription stuff I think causes a problem because we use too much of. Especially the long-term mental stuff...if someone has an actual biological issue with their kidney or something and, according to a doctor, needs a drug, I'm not really qualified to comment.
However, psychological drugs are something else entirely, and I have a feeling that more than three-fourths of them are entirely unneeded.
And, just like how bogus diagnosis of ADHD are causing problems for kids with actual ADHD who actually can't function in school, bogus diagnosis of, for example, depression, or social anxiety disorder, are causing problems for people who actually have those.
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Iran *had* a right to develop nuclear weapons, which they voluntarily surrendered when they signed the non-proliferation treaty. In return for this they got a promise that *we* would help develop civilian nuclear power.
Iran still has that right, you fucktard. If they're violating the NPT, the only remedy is to stop helping them. If a country signs a treaty saying 'In return for not doing X, you will do Y', and they then do X, the only remedy allowable under international law is to stop doing Y. That's it. It does not justify an invasion or bombing or anything. Nothing in the piece of paper Iran signed said 'And if I don't do this, you can invade'. Iran can do whatever the hell it wants WRT to nuclear weapons.
It is, in fact, a war crime to threaten to invade other countries, regardless of what treaties they've signed and if they're following them. Yes, to threaten them, much less invade. It's called a 'crime against peace'.
The only legal result is for us to claim they're in violation and stop helping them develop or operate a nuclear reactor. Oh, we're not helping them? The Russians are?
Well, then the only remedy is to convince the Russians they're in violation. Which the Russians, being a good deal less stupid than the average US-media watcher, don't think is true.
And there is a somewhat ancient treaty that binds them anyway.
Iran signed the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. This treaty says, in return for not making nukes, and having their nuclear facilities inspected, they can buy nuclear stuff, and in fact, the nuclear powers must sell them nuclear plants, and even nuclear weapons for non-military use (like blowing up mountains and, apparently, capping oil wells.)
In other worlds, right now, legally, the US has to sell Iran uranium.
If Iran is in violation of the NPT, which is possible, that means...um...they can't buy nuclear material from the nuclear powers that signed the NPT. That's it. That's the sole 'punishment'.
There is not fucking ability to invade, there is no damn right to overthrow their government, if they don't want to operate within the treaty. The NPT is to stop countries from having to develop nuclear tech but still have nuclear power, by encouraging them to not do the research themselves in exchange for guaranteed access to civilian nuclear tech. That's it, that's the sole purpose for non-nuclear signatories. If Iran is not following the rules, everyone is free to think of them as possessing nuclear weapons, and not sell them other nuclear tech...and, um, so?
Think what you want about Iran, but they are perfectly entitled to make nuclear weapons, and if you want to argue they're in violation of the NPT, well, go ahead and assert the US shouldn't sell nuclear materials to them...oh, wait, the US isn't? Well, shut the fuck up, then, because that's the only thing the US can or can't do WRT to that treaty.
And while we're talking about treaties, it is a violation of the UN charter, and a war crime, to threaten invading other countries. Yes, just the mere act of threatening an offensive war. You know, like certain politicians in the US are doing to Iran.
While I generally believe you, and I don't doubt that Steele knows some stuff, I suspect a better explanation for him is that Republicans have no idea how to cope with race.
For the longest time, the right has complained bout 'racial quotas' and stuff, and I though they were just ginning up anger, but they're serious.
They simply cannot judge people of other race based on their merits, on their skills, on, as MLKj put it, the content of their characters. They look at a black person and they don't see 'good leader' or 'bad leader', they see 'black person'. If they are forced to hire black people they will, indeed, select them randomly.
With Steele, they managed to do that to their boss, which is just outright hilarious.
Of course, it didn't help that the pool of black people willing to work for the Republicans was pretty low to start with.
I don't doubt that there are a lot of skeletons in various closets, but I suspect that they wouldn't let Micheal Steele have access to them that fast. (OTOH, he did apparently know about the lesbian strip club.)
Uh, idiot, 'western intelligence community' pretty much applies to all of Europe. Exactly the people he's been pissing off. Yes, he sometimes pisses off non-western countries, but all of them are tiny, and unlikely to have the resources, and he hasn't pissed off China or Russia. It's perfectly reasonable to assert, if it's an intelligence agency, it's a western one.
You decided to read it as exclusionary to just the US because of some hangup you have. If the GP had meant US intelligence community, he would have said it. You deliberately misinterpreted something and asserted the truth was exactly what was really said. You really need to look at your goddamn mental state and why you're running around trying to pick fights.
You can hear the developers themselves comment on it, in game, if you wish.
In fact, I suspect this is why the game was chosen. Once you beat it, you can play it again in commentary mode. It's very informative.
It might be useful to ask people to write down what they thought everything meant as it went along, and then to go back and play it in commentary mode. ;)
And, of course, the other reason it was chosen was that it is a) short, and b) easy.
There is no secrets, there is no obscure logic, the only trick is conservation of momentum, and there's only half a dozen places where you have to do anything quickly, usually shooting a single portal straight ahead so you come out of where you just left faster. The room where you have to keep 'falling up' and shooting portals on the platforms higher and higher is mildly annoying, but compared to any other action game it's easy. And there's no penalty for failing.
They can tell you the warranty is void, but in actual fact, manufacturers can't just invent actions that void warranties, despite them pretending to do so for quite some time.
For them to refuse to service a device under warrant, they have to have a reasonable claim that your actions caused the problems. It doesn't matter how many 'Warrant Void If Blah Blah' stickers they have or don't have...if you did it, they don't have to fix it, if you didn't, they do. (Along with the gray area of causing accidental problems, which some warranties cover and some don't.)
Apple could probably get away with not fixing the battery in a jailbroken phone under the logic that jailbreaking causes it to run down faster.
They certainly couldn't get away with the idea that previously jailbreaking (and restoring) somehow permanently damages reception. Although they could refuse to work on any currently jailbroken phone, because there's actually no way of knowing what's happening on one. (I mean, the phone could be lying.) They could probably demand you reset it. (And not even let you do there.)
'Warranty void if' clauses are the EULA of the warranty world. They do not actually stand up in court. You can only void warranties by doing things yourself that break stuff, and even then you've only broken that part of the warranty.
That said, the physical stickers are mildly useful to manufacturers as it does give them easy evidence that someone broke their own device by putting it back together wrong. The sticker itself doesn't magically make the warrant void, though.
There's a difference between undoing the effects of a modification, and stopping the device from working at all.
iPhones have to be suitable for, at minimum, use as a cell phone. If the manufacturer sells them as a cell phone, and then purposefully does something to stop them from working as a cell phone, they are not suitable for the intended purchase and you can demand a refund.
Or, hell, sue them, or have them arrested, the same as if they walked up to you on the street, grabbed your cell phone, and crushed it under their feet. Selling stuff that doesn't actually do what you say it does is just fraud, selling people stuff and then breaking it is theft by vandalism.
They can set things up where you can't jailbreak, or if you try to do so you risk damaging the phone yourself, but they can't legally turn your cell-phone into a not-cell-phone, no matter what you've done to it.
(This is, of course, assuming it's actually your phone. If you've stolen it, the owner obviously can do whatever he wants to it, just like he really could walk up on the street, take it from you, and smash it.)
Some people seem to have some really weird problem with 'detection'.
No one says they've going do anything just because. They'll probably just notify you.
They aren't going to start bricking phones because they might be stolen.
Yeah, I'm not sure what people seem to be worried about.
The courts just explicitly said that jailbreaking was legal. The decision appears to actually be wide enough that it makes all electronic modifications to purchased devices legal, except for the stupid DMCA sometimes butting in. It looks legal to get any non-copyright-controlling restrictions. (Interestingly, no one appears to have made the argument that the software on phones can include access- and copy-control mechanisms under the DMCA.)
Ergo, it would be no more legal for Apple to remotely brick someone's phone because they jail broke it than for Ford to melt the engine from your car because you cut the roof off. They can deny you warrant service, perhaps, but not brick your phone.(1)
This is for one thing, maybe two. The first is having the legal owner have the ability to broke the phone after it's stolen. Which is certainly something you have to opt in to, and probably have to pay for.
The second is, maybe, maybe, considering bricking the phone if the purchaser steals it, like if they've signed up for a two year contract and then skipped town. Apple's on dangerous ground there unless they get a court order, and Apple's not really the one who would care anyway, AT&T is.
1) Technically, they probably can't. While manufacturers like to say 'If you do X, you've voided the warrant', they can't really do that...they have to demonstrate you did something that actually caused the problem you're trying to have repaired to not cover you.
If my iPhone has a physical defect, it doesn't matter what the hell I did with the software. There are a few cases where they'd be on sane ground, like if the battery is dying because you jailbroke it and constantly used more power than you should have, but generally they can't use jailbreaking to refuse to fix it if, say, your sleep button stops working. (OTOH, if you took the phone apart, and put the sleep button back wrong, they can refuse to help.)
Technically, they can use a jailbroken phone as a reason to not help with software issues. But only while jailbroken...if you restore it, and it's not working, they have to help.
Reading the standard, I don't see any error correction at all. It's actually a pretty stupid standard.
There is a 'compressed' mode that could logically include correction, but that's normally just AC3 audio, which doesn't have any sort of error correction built in.
Of course, a receiver could do some sort of analysis on the incoming data and refuse to play obviously wrong stuff, but that's an anti-feature that just hides a problem.
You're like me. Ritalin doesn't affect me much at all. I was put on it for a few months, and taken off when no one even noticed. But I wasn't ever hyperactive anyway.
If a specific stimulant doesn't affect you at a level where most people would be affected, you either have ADHD, or you have some sort of immunity to the stimulant.(1)
If multiple different stimulants don't affect you, or some make you calmer and others don't affect you, it's almost certainly ADHD.
1) While I don't have an immunity to any stimulant I know of, I appear to be one of the few people who can smell laughing gas, aka, nitrous oxide. It smells sorta like fried onions.
No, I just think the solution for ADHD isn't anything like what people think it is, because I don't think the problem is what people seem to think it is.
As I explained, ADHD kids want slightly more, for lack of a better word, chaos. (Which is why I refuse to call it a disorder when it only manifests itself in the sterile environment of school. It's a disorder if it interferes with them under normal conditions, not the insane conditions of school which humans are evolutionally unequipped to handle.)
So give that environment to them. They'll be stimulated the amount they want, and actually learn.
And it's not additive. People with ADHD who 'act out' want some distraction, some background noise, and when they don't get it, they make it.
If other people did it, or if they just had more distraction to start with, they wouldn't have acted out in the first place.
If 100 people taste some lemonade, and 10 want it to be slightly sweeter, that hardly means that if they're put in charge of lemonade it's going got be insanely sweet. If 10 kids want a slightly more chaotic environment, that doesn't mean it will devolve into Lord of the Flies.
If there are people who become more hyperactive when put in such an environment, who get more hyper when other kids are hyper, they don't have ADHD, they have a behavior disorder. (Well, they could obviously have ADHD too, but the point is that they're running around because of a behavior disorder.) They just like dumping sugar in the lemonade because other people don't want it there.
Digital audio/video itself has an oddity that a bit flip might still be valid audio/video.
It might be valid audio, but even if the flipped bits neatly confine themselves to the signal area, you're going to get some really loud noises as the highest bit occasionally get flipped. POP!
I have no idea what would happen if you start flipping bits in non-data part of SPDIF audio, but flipping them in the data part would be very obvious and distracting.
You might, might, be able to sometimes flips some bits in an HDTV signal without anyone noticing. Digital video might just have a single pixel set for 1/30th of a second now and then, and you might not notice.
But not SPDIF. Randomly screwing with uncompressed audio, and still playing it, is a recipe for weird pops and clicks. (Not, as audiophile idiots imagine, 'less rich quality' or WTF they hallucinate is going on.)
EM interference from his NAS is affecting his audio playback on some other computer?
Everyone mentioned the fees, but no one has mention the other half.
It is legal, in the US, to copy music to Music CDs, and give someone that CD. It is not a copyright violation. The tax on the CD covers it. You can't sell it, it's non-commercial use only, but you can legally give it to others.
What's funny is that the tax appears to be set at the level of 'bit for bit' copy,but nothing in the law forbids you from filling it up with mp3s.
Read this. Music CDs, under the tax, count as digital recording media, and under 1008 'No action may be brought under this title alleging infringement of copyright...based on the noncommercial use by a consumer of such a device or medium for making digital musical recordings or analog musical recordings.'
If this were about CAT5 cables, it could be that a lower error rate caused a higher throughput and thus allowed the network audio player to stream a higher quality stream, but no, it's not that either.
In crazy-land where audio signals, which are less than 3 Mb/s for the highest quality SPDIF connection, could somehow overwhelm a 3 Gb/s SATA connection, um, sure. ;)
Of course, you have to wonder what hard drive is actually attached to that SATA cable to provide the data at that rate.
Or, hell, what network he's got that hooked too. Stuff from a SATA cable can trivially fill any consumer network, up to gigibit ones. (Of course, the damn hard drive can't actually produce data at that rate, and I'd be damn impressed to see a computer, especially a NAS, transfer it that fast.)
Anyway, as most audiophiles do, indeed, live in crazy-land, it's a valid concern.
The thing is plugged into the hard disk (right?).
Yes. He's talking about the SATA cable between a hard drive and a NAS, where his audio files are stored, providing higher quality audio when he plays them back on computer reading the files off the NAS.
I would make some snarky comment to mock that, but, honestly, do I need to?
The interesting fact is, in the case of digital signaling we're talking about, which is S/PDIF, there is no error correction.
I'll let that sink in for a bit.
Done thinking about it?
Yup, if there's some 'interference', there's a pretty likely chance it will flip one of the bits to create a very loud pop.There's no quality drop that the error correction can hide.
Likewise, there's no 'retry'. The signal gets sent, period. The other end either gets it, or doesn't. If it doesn't, it will be instantly very loudly noticeable.
Which is why all the talk about 'high quality cables' is crap. The cheapest cables are, for all intents and purposes, perfect. They transmit the signal with no problems at all. If they had problems, if they screwed up 0.0000001% of the bits, everyone would be bitching about weird noises every few minutes.
Likewise, HDMI (or whatever the electronic transmission protocol over HDMI and DVI is called) doesn't have any error correction or retry capacities either. Although in that case a bad cable would be less noticeable as a single flipped bit on a screen probably wouldn't be noticed.
It's not really 'partial failure modes'.
It's the fact that, with digital transmissions, if it's a crappy signal, it's a crappy signal. You don't have partial signaling....if you lose part of the data, you get pops and snaps and stuff, it's very obvious.
But anyone who thinks optical cables are less easy to screw up than copper needs their head examined. I have trouble figuring out why anyone uses optical connectors for any audio stuff.
There's also a rational (but wrong, as it turns out) perception that copper cables broacast more RF noise. In fact, the optical tranceivers generate more RF than a simple copper setup.
Heh, optical transmitters generate RF by definition. ;)
If it's a digital system, you can entirely ignore the ground, because, as the parent said, you don't really care how far from 'the ground' the signal is, like in normal systems...it's either very high and a 1, or it's not high and it's a 0. As long as the ground voltage isn't literally insane, it works.
Now, there is the slight problem that the cable has to be grounded at one end (To stop interference.), so I'm presuming the standard actually defines which end (transmitting, probably) should ground it, and which end should not.
Furthermore... if there is some gigantic RF source that’s screwing up the data crossing your SATA cable, you have worse things to worry about than something a fancy SATA cable will fix.
In fact, DON'T MOVE. Someone might have accidentally installed a 110 kilovolt power line directly through the room you're in, or, alternately, you might have set up your sound system around one of those. Very carefully look around around the room you're in, or around the tower you're at the top of, to see if you can see a six inch thick wire suspended by thirty-foot high pylons. THEY ARE NOT INSULATED, DO NOT TOUCH THEM, THEY WILL KILL YOU. Call emergency services if you can reach a phone. Otherwise, see if you can use them to transmit the audio signal.
Once you've discounted that, it's time to check for other problems.
For example, did you accidentally install your sound system inside a microwave oven? If so, simply do not use them both at the same time. Also, do not operate the microwave while you are inside it. (Also, don't operate your sound system when you're inside it, either. Also don't put either of those inside of you. Just stop putting things inside of things, okay?)
Another thing to check is if the sun gone supernova. You can check by seeing if everything's on fire. If so, RF is going to be a bitch for the next several hours, until the blast wave from the sun destroys the earth...we don't recommend trying to fix the cabling, and instead sitting and contemplating how you could have gone to six flags yesterday instead of spending the money on those cables.
Then check for dark matter and other dimensions. Some theories suggests that gravity might be able to cross dimensional barriers, which has bugger-all to do with any RF problems, but, frankly, you people who think digital signals degrade like that can't be swayed with facts.
Once you've eliminated all RF options, there are only a few possibilities left.
A major remaining cause of problems is if one part of your sound system traveling a significant portion of the speed of light compared to another part. Even if they were in the same frame of reference when you installed, they might not be anymore, so check. If so, time dilation will cause a frequency shift. Also, after several milliseconds, your entire system will be ripped apart as the cables no longer reach.
*waves money in air* I'll give you $85 for your best pile of dog shit, and not a penny more.
Yup, bronze. It's that new alloy we just invented just 5000 years ago to transmit digital audio. (Of course, back then, we only had 5.1 sound.)
But yes, from the standpoint of who's the most wrong, at least SOMEONE can actually tell the wines apart.
Yeah, people can tell wines apart, although they're really unable to identify them beyond that. But there actually is a difference in taste. (Whether or not that difference in taste is even vaguely related to the price is, of course, unknown.)
Whereas there's no difference at all in stupid digital transmission cables.
I always say 'If you've getting interference on your digital cable, perhaps you shouldn't have draped it across that hydroelectric dam's generator.'.
At the very least, you could collect them all in a less restrictive classroom.
A lot of the problem is an environment that assumes that kids with ADHD need less distractions. That's not really true in any sense, for any sort of ADHD. It's the opposite of true. People with ADHD don't lack focus because 'something happened'. They lack focus because...well...their mind doesn't want to focus on just one thing. Removing 'distractions' just results in them distracting themselves.
Put them in an less sterile environment, where they can move around and maybe have some quiet music and sofas to sit on and stuff, and they're allowed to interact with people more often (Either via groups or whatever) and they'd end up a lot better off.
Plus, they'd stop distracting the non-ADHD people.
Basically, ADHD kids and non-ADHD kids want a different amount of 'background noise'. And contrary to what many people seem to think, the ADHD kids want more. (And thus make it themselves.) Just give them the damn noise, give them the environment they want to be in, and maybe they'd actually learn something.
Of course, I think schools are pretty badly designed for anyone at all to learn in, but that's probably just me. (Who does, in fact, have ADD, or ADHD-PI as they now call it. Instead of making noise in school, I just daydreamed. Of course now, as I work, I listen to music and no one tell me to stop bouncing my leg, and I get up and walk around every thirty minutes for a minute.)
I don't get headaches very often either, and they're all sinus headaches, and I usually just lay down and self-medicate a little with a soft drink and some sinus stuff. (Sadly, by the time I've realized they're showing up, it's too late.) But that's like three times a year.
If you're going through 3 bottles of Tylenol a month in the summer months because of allergies, you're doing it wrong.
Obviously. Although I suspect there aren't that many people misusing over the counter stuff. (Erm, not misusing to treat problems. Obviously, people do actually abuse some OTC stuff.)
People need to actually understand what they're taking, because I've seen people with literally five identical medications in their cabinets, because they don't understand the medication is the 'active ingredient'. Just look up each one, buy one package that contains a single 'serving' of them, and mix and match as required. And, as a bonus, you'll learn the effect on you.
But I just think people are being ripped off there, it's not really a problem per se.
It's the long-term prescription stuff I think causes a problem because we use too much of. Especially the long-term mental stuff...if someone has an actual biological issue with their kidney or something and, according to a doctor, needs a drug, I'm not really qualified to comment.
However, psychological drugs are something else entirely, and I have a feeling that more than three-fourths of them are entirely unneeded.
And, just like how bogus diagnosis of ADHD are causing problems for kids with actual ADHD who actually can't function in school, bogus diagnosis of, for example, depression, or social anxiety disorder, are causing problems for people who actually have those.