Let's just hope there weren't any botnets using this computer.
If there were no botnets, then that order should be possible to fill, assuming there were no attempts at plausible deniability. That still leaves everything else awful, I know, inc. how the RIAA got its case in the first place; but still, if there were no botnets, then it should be possible to narrow down who downloaded the RIAA's sting files.
If there was a botnet on the computer, however, someone innocent will get cooked by this order. How's a layperson to know if there is?
That's no excuse. All those 30,000-person cities have phone companies. Even 300-person cities have phone companies--maybe not one of the Baby Bells, but they do have a phone company and get phone service. Anyone can get a phone line and dial-up; there's a functional nationwide meta-network for that. All the little networks do mesh.
But not everyone can get a DSL line, because where the phone companies can put DSL lines is at the mercy of where they choose to put the DSL boxes. Since everyone can have phone service from a phone company, it's the phone company's choice whether to put the DSL boxes in reach of everyone they service or not.
Cable broadband may happen for everyone in the 30,000-person towns, assuming they put in enough intermediate cable boxes. (Sometimes they do, sometimes they don't.) But cable companies won't touch the isolated 300-person cities.
(BTW: to get to Hayes, KS, take I-70 west from Topeka or east from Denver.)
Oops. I see the problem. Would it be any comfort to you to know that the other three Gospels list just one colt?
Somehow, I didn't think so.
As for Jesus and the "core" prophecies: Christians believe that Jesus will fulfill those core prophecies, the ones not (yet) fulfilled, when He returns. Jesus had to be the suffering Servant before becoming the conquering King on earth.
Not that I expect that will comfort you, either.
You know, there are Christians out there who would be willing to argue that the apostle Matthew was, in fact, someone known to be in Jesus's life--since he was a disciple first, one of the twelve...
And which prophecy are you interpreting as meaning "riding on two asses at once"? Chapter and verse preferred.
Those embedded reporters may not be beholden to corporate bosses. But they are beholden to the government itself; the military doesn't have to embed any given reporter. An embedded reporter that got too harsh might be kicked out in the middle of a street that's deserted, except for the landmines...
This is a military that revoked the honor from a discharge of a soldier because he tried to participate in a peace protest. Apparently he wasn't 100% discharged. [frown]
I'm not saying your embedded reporters are wrong. They might have it closer to correct than those reporting from inside the mainstream media and outside the military, among the people or the terrorists. (I kid you not on that last. I only wish I was kidding.)
Of course, the military has been accused of firing on buildings with non-embedded reporters in them, but oh well....
You would not believe how many other churches use that "distortion" or something resembling it. Other churches may disagree with Roman Catholics, and vice versa violently, but they still can have quite a bit in common.
I read through a Roman Catholic catechism once. If I understood it right, the Roman Catholics believe Jesus was sinless at conception because (aside from necessity) his Father was God and his mother, the Blessed Virgin Mary, was sinless at conception; and the Blessed Virgin Mary was made sinless at conception because God knew that she would assent to being the mother of Jesus. We have an official temporal loop!
Because they would rather you consume content, which means downloading it, than provide content, which means uploading it.
If you consume content, you will likely make someone else more money than the phone or cable corp. makes from broadband alone. If you provide content as an individual, that's less likely. Those who make money from consumption are likely to pay those who provide connections to make downloading easier than uploading...
That goes double for providers who make their own content (Time Warner comes to mind).
Okay then. So why aren't more Americans emigrating to other countries to get jobs at or below those countries' minimum wage?
Why don't more Americans emigrate to Mexico? You were saying Mexico was improving over USA.
I did see a news report on ABC or NBC that noted that a record number of Americans had emigrated to Canada--which would fit your theory. But the anchor closed with a note that even more Canadians had immigrated here, which wouldn't, since Canada is still First World however you count it.
The end-note may just be propaganda (no number for the Canada-to-America traffic), but it raises questions....
Please define your terms.
To me, "Second World" means "communist or former communist." I can see USA's dropping from First World (advanced Western) to Third World (developing) much easier than its dropping from First to Second.
What I got from the article from the BBC certainly suggested that possibility. If the scientific community didn't know that parthenogenesis in humans was possible to induce, and if this scientist didn't know that it was believed impossible...
He would've been in trouble anyway because of where he got the eggs from, but it's possible this was an almost-innocent mistake.
Your royalty check is stacked right next to the Social Security fund stockpile, and used for similar purposes.
Opting out of FCC spectrum leasing would be about as welcome as opting out of the Social Security tax.
[sigh]
My HBO channels, in themselves, are only $15 a month, and I get eight of them. (Admittedly, I don't have much use for the "Latin" one, but that still leaves seven with programming I can appreciate.) And I use satellite.
People getting HBO on cable can get something called "HBO on Demand"... HBO on flexible scheduling.
So I'm being optimistic. I'm saying there's precedent, and that the FCC must've meant something when they made their half-declaration. And I'm saying there is precedent for truly open devices and applications, and even profits from such things.
No, they might not work well at first. The first hardline phones not made by AT&T didn't work well in comparison to the phones AT&T was making at the time. Hey, many of the current ones don't. Sound quality was worse, durability was worse, ergonomics was worse... But people still bought them--some because you could own them for $10 outright, cheaper than renting an AT&T phone for any length of time; some because they had novelty appeal (I own a Beatlephone); some because they had features AT&T phones didn't have, such as cordlessness.
I imagine that novelty cellphones and phones with special features will sneak onto the new bandwidth in small but meaningful numbers despite the provider's warnings against them.
And even if applications are crippled, they should not be banned if "open applications" means anything.
Back to hard lines: answering machines aren't as versatile as voice mail (which existed even before phone deregulation), and they don't have as much space for messages; but answering machines were ultimately cheaper, and you don't have to call anyone to get your messages.
"Open applications" should mean that a provider can't prohibit someone loading something with even as little sophistication as a primitive answering machine on their phone just because the provider has something as fancy--and minute-consuming--as voice mail as a (non-free) option.
Generalize as you see fit.
Hobbyists are better than no one.
CableCard will succeed only when cable companies stop scrambling premium channels. As long as there are concrete benefits to using the cable company's boxes (premium channels and subsidized DVRs come to mind), people will use its boxes. And people making third-party boxes need to advertise!
I don't think so. I think "open devices" means that you can use anyone's cell phone, Treo, PocketPC, or whatever on that spectrum if it's designed to use that spectrum, not just the ones the winner approves. It's the difference between all hard-line telephones coming from AT&T's rental division, and people buying or renting hard-line telephones from anyone willing to sell or rent them. (My latest hard-line telephone is literally a grocery-store brand.) "Open applications" should be the equivalent of allowing aftermarket devices (be they "hush hoods" or answering machines) on approved phones, even if the devices themselves aren't approved.
Of course, any device not from the winning carrier is going to have to be as spectacular as people think the iPhone is; unlike hardline phones, there's usually no real savings from owning instead of renting cellphones, since the price of renting tends to be near zero in America. So not much to do with open devices.
But "open applications" ought to mean that the carrier must allow the phone to be unlocked long enough to load those applications, and that Bluetooth cannot simply be automatically and permanently locked down. An iPhone made to work on that spectrum might have to have a real mini-OSX, not a walled-garden variant of it.
YouTube videos are already relatively low-res. You've a fine balance there--if you circumvent with random noise, you've gotta make sure that the resulting video is still watchable by human beings, or you are circumventing to no purpose.
That could kill fair use. Any keyframes that would be in every reasonable edit of a film or TV show would be critical to many short non-infringing excerpts from that film or TV show.
Pity the MPAA doesn't believe in fair use....
I think Apple isn't using iSync for this delicate and dangerous procedure because they want to sell iPhones to Windows users, and Windows does not have iSync.
It still makes me feel uneasy, esp. since even people without iPhones have to live with this feature.
Okay. I understand that the features of a smart phone require a computer for full benefits. But with iPhones, the activation requires that you own a computer--you must have one to use it at all. Yes, I did overreact to that, and I apologize. It still would've been nice if there was some other way, though--say, through an Apple or at&t customer-service number.
I actually do believe that people should research iPhones before buying them, as far as that's possible. But, given how Apple advertises it and how the non-tech media covered it, I seriously doubt everyone did. I have mixed feelings about caveat emptor.
It has been noted that people with Linux have more difficulty than average researching iPhones because the activation and key info page is in Quicktime. Admittedly, people with Linux can't use them anyway. But I think some people on this board would not want Linux machines called "crazy set-ups."
I agree. Invasive searching is unnecessary and wrong.
The last time I went to a movie theater, I went through a metal detector. That's all that's needed to catch the camcorders.
Do other smart phones require computers?
And until I read this, I had no idea that iTunes was needed to activate an iPhone. I imagine that many people would only learn of this at point of purchase. Worst case, some would learn of this after the purchase, which would be annoying.
(Even if you return the iPhone, there's still that at&t contract to handle.)
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Let's just hope there weren't any botnets using this computer.
If there were no botnets, then that order should be possible to fill, assuming there were no attempts at plausible deniability. That still leaves everything else awful, I know, inc. how the RIAA got its case in the first place; but still, if there were no botnets, then it should be possible to narrow down who downloaded the RIAA's sting files.
If there was a botnet on the computer, however, someone innocent will get cooked by this order. How's a layperson to know if there is?
I've a feeling that Japan and Korea have fewer thunderstorms and fewer squirrels than America does. Thus, overhead lines likely work better for them.
That's no excuse. All those 30,000-person cities have phone companies. Even 300-person cities have phone companies--maybe not one of the Baby Bells, but they do have a phone company and get phone service. Anyone can get a phone line and dial-up; there's a functional nationwide meta-network for that. All the little networks do mesh.
But not everyone can get a DSL line, because where the phone companies can put DSL lines is at the mercy of where they choose to put the DSL boxes. Since everyone can have phone service from a phone company, it's the phone company's choice whether to put the DSL boxes in reach of everyone they service or not.
Cable broadband may happen for everyone in the 30,000-person towns, assuming they put in enough intermediate cable boxes. (Sometimes they do, sometimes they don't.) But cable companies won't touch the isolated 300-person cities.
(BTW: to get to Hayes, KS, take I-70 west from Topeka or east from Denver.)
Oops. I see the problem. Would it be any comfort to you to know that the other three Gospels list just one colt?
Somehow, I didn't think so.
As for Jesus and the "core" prophecies: Christians believe that Jesus will fulfill those core prophecies, the ones not (yet) fulfilled, when He returns. Jesus had to be the suffering Servant before becoming the conquering King on earth.
Not that I expect that will comfort you, either.
Jesus is still both God and man. His death and resurrection didn't change that.
You know, there are Christians out there who would be willing to argue that the apostle Matthew was, in fact, someone known to be in Jesus's life--since he was a disciple first, one of the twelve...
And which prophecy are you interpreting as meaning "riding on two asses at once"? Chapter and verse preferred.
Those embedded reporters may not be beholden to corporate bosses. But they are beholden to the government itself; the military doesn't have to embed any given reporter. An embedded reporter that got too harsh might be kicked out in the middle of a street that's deserted, except for the landmines...
This is a military that revoked the honor from a discharge of a soldier because he tried to participate in a peace protest. Apparently he wasn't 100% discharged. [frown]
I'm not saying your embedded reporters are wrong. They might have it closer to correct than those reporting from inside the mainstream media and outside the military, among the people or the terrorists. (I kid you not on that last. I only wish I was kidding.)
Of course, the military has been accused of firing on buildings with non-embedded reporters in them, but oh well....
You would not believe how many other churches use that "distortion" or something resembling it. Other churches may disagree with Roman Catholics, and vice versa violently, but they still can have quite a bit in common.
I read through a Roman Catholic catechism once. If I understood it right, the Roman Catholics believe Jesus was sinless at conception because (aside from necessity) his Father was God and his mother, the Blessed Virgin Mary, was sinless at conception; and the Blessed Virgin Mary was made sinless at conception because God knew that she would assent to being the mother of Jesus. We have an official temporal loop!
Because they would rather you consume content, which means downloading it, than provide content, which means uploading it.
If you consume content, you will likely make someone else more money than the phone or cable corp. makes from broadband alone. If you provide content as an individual, that's less likely. Those who make money from consumption are likely to pay those who provide connections to make downloading easier than uploading...
That goes double for providers who make their own content (Time Warner comes to mind).
Okay then. So why aren't more Americans emigrating to other countries to get jobs at or below those countries' minimum wage?
Why don't more Americans emigrate to Mexico? You were saying Mexico was improving over USA.
I did see a news report on ABC or NBC that noted that a record number of Americans had emigrated to Canada--which would fit your theory. But the anchor closed with a note that even more Canadians had immigrated here, which wouldn't, since Canada is still First World however you count it.
The end-note may just be propaganda (no number for the Canada-to-America traffic), but it raises questions....
Please define your terms.
To me, "Second World" means "communist or former communist." I can see USA's dropping from First World (advanced Western) to Third World (developing) much easier than its dropping from First to Second.
Yes, but there's concern that someone will replace a broadband curling-stone with a bomb...
What I got from the article from the BBC certainly suggested that possibility. If the scientific community didn't know that parthenogenesis in humans was possible to induce, and if this scientist didn't know that it was believed impossible...
He would've been in trouble anyway because of where he got the eggs from, but it's possible this was an almost-innocent mistake.
Your royalty check is stacked right next to the Social Security fund stockpile, and used for similar purposes.
Opting out of FCC spectrum leasing would be about as welcome as opting out of the Social Security tax.
[sigh]
My HBO channels, in themselves, are only $15 a month, and I get eight of them. (Admittedly, I don't have much use for the "Latin" one, but that still leaves seven with programming I can appreciate.) And I use satellite.
People getting HBO on cable can get something called "HBO on Demand"... HBO on flexible scheduling.
What innovations are the electric utilities stifling?
So I'm being optimistic. I'm saying there's precedent, and that the FCC must've meant something when they made their half-declaration. And I'm saying there is precedent for truly open devices and applications, and even profits from such things.
No, they might not work well at first. The first hardline phones not made by AT&T didn't work well in comparison to the phones AT&T was making at the time. Hey, many of the current ones don't. Sound quality was worse, durability was worse, ergonomics was worse... But people still bought them--some because you could own them for $10 outright, cheaper than renting an AT&T phone for any length of time; some because they had novelty appeal (I own a Beatlephone); some because they had features AT&T phones didn't have, such as cordlessness.
I imagine that novelty cellphones and phones with special features will sneak onto the new bandwidth in small but meaningful numbers despite the provider's warnings against them.
And even if applications are crippled, they should not be banned if "open applications" means anything.
Back to hard lines: answering machines aren't as versatile as voice mail (which existed even before phone deregulation), and they don't have as much space for messages; but answering machines were ultimately cheaper, and you don't have to call anyone to get your messages.
"Open applications" should mean that a provider can't prohibit someone loading something with even as little sophistication as a primitive answering machine on their phone just because the provider has something as fancy--and minute-consuming--as voice mail as a (non-free) option.
Generalize as you see fit.
Hobbyists are better than no one.
CableCard will succeed only when cable companies stop scrambling premium channels. As long as there are concrete benefits to using the cable company's boxes (premium channels and subsidized DVRs come to mind), people will use its boxes. And people making third-party boxes need to advertise!
I don't think so. I think "open devices" means that you can use anyone's cell phone, Treo, PocketPC, or whatever on that spectrum if it's designed to use that spectrum, not just the ones the winner approves. It's the difference between all hard-line telephones coming from AT&T's rental division, and people buying or renting hard-line telephones from anyone willing to sell or rent them. (My latest hard-line telephone is literally a grocery-store brand.) "Open applications" should be the equivalent of allowing aftermarket devices (be they "hush hoods" or answering machines) on approved phones, even if the devices themselves aren't approved.
Of course, any device not from the winning carrier is going to have to be as spectacular as people think the iPhone is; unlike hardline phones, there's usually no real savings from owning instead of renting cellphones, since the price of renting tends to be near zero in America. So not much to do with open devices.
But "open applications" ought to mean that the carrier must allow the phone to be unlocked long enough to load those applications, and that Bluetooth cannot simply be automatically and permanently locked down. An iPhone made to work on that spectrum might have to have a real mini-OSX, not a walled-garden variant of it.
YouTube videos are already relatively low-res. You've a fine balance there--if you circumvent with random noise, you've gotta make sure that the resulting video is still watchable by human beings, or you are circumventing to no purpose.
That could kill fair use. Any keyframes that would be in every reasonable edit of a film or TV show would be critical to many short non-infringing excerpts from that film or TV show.
Pity the MPAA doesn't believe in fair use....
I think Apple isn't using iSync for this delicate and dangerous procedure because they want to sell iPhones to Windows users, and Windows does not have iSync.
It still makes me feel uneasy, esp. since even people without iPhones have to live with this feature.
Okay. I understand that the features of a smart phone require a computer for full benefits. But with iPhones, the activation requires that you own a computer--you must have one to use it at all.
Yes, I did overreact to that, and I apologize. It still would've been nice if there was some other way, though--say, through an Apple or at&t customer-service number.
I actually do believe that people should research iPhones before buying them, as far as that's possible. But, given how Apple advertises it and how the non-tech media covered it, I seriously doubt everyone did. I have mixed feelings about caveat emptor.
It has been noted that people with Linux have more difficulty than average researching iPhones because the activation and key info page is in Quicktime. Admittedly, people with Linux can't use them anyway. But I think some people on this board would not want Linux machines called "crazy set-ups."
I agree. Invasive searching is unnecessary and wrong.
The last time I went to a movie theater, I went through a metal detector. That's all that's needed to catch the camcorders.
Do other smart phones require computers?
And until I read this, I had no idea that iTunes was needed to activate an iPhone. I imagine that many people would only learn of this at point of purchase. Worst case, some would learn of this after the purchase, which would be annoying.
(Even if you return the iPhone, there's still that at&t contract to handle.)