Generalized threats are not a crime. Unless he can show that it was fair use, Dice did infringe Reagan's copyright. Youtube pulling the entire channel is an issue with youtube, not Reagan.
Anything involving space needs precise and accurate time. Determining the orbits of spacecraft and correlating measurements from different sensor platforms require high-quality time. Millisecond accuracy is the minimum level and some programs need microsecond accuracy. GPS operates at the nanosecond level.
Years ago, when they installed cable in the apartment building that I was living in, the first thing they did was to rip out the master antenna system and all associated cabling.
They should have told them "Didn't you hear? Mexico won the war with the United States, and Spanish is now the official language. Get used to it, gringo.".
The economics are not the same. Bandwidth is not a consumable commodity in the same way as coal. Costs in data networks, like in telephone networks, are primarily based on peak capacity, not usage. Peak capacity is based on the requirement to provide an acceptable quality of service during peak usage periods.
The people most likely to have this capability are also the least likely to want to publicize that fact. There is also the issue that you don't use the resources of such a facility without a good reason and the funding to pay for it.
I've seen some pictures that show that tin whiskers are very good at punching through other materials. According to this, one layer of conformal coating will not stop them.
I'd pick B. Every time the government gets a tax windfall, due to a booming real estate or stock market, every politician seems to have a list of new and expensive programs that they would like to have funded. When the economy goes in the toilet, the same politicians want to raise taxes to keep government revenues at their pre-crash level.
Years ago, I read a story about a European country, I think it was Italy, mandating the use of state-approved, tamper-proof cash registers in all retail stores. This was due to massive tax fraud at the retail level. Does anyone know if it was successful?
The police have been doing this sort of crap for decades. Their goal is to remove all "troublemakers" from the street until the event is over. They don't care if the charges are bogus or that they violate people's civil rights. If you are lucky, you will get some monetary damages from the local government, many years later. The local officials and police are never held responsible for their actions.
Negotiation isn't an option when everyone just says "take it or leave it", and everyone is offering the same terms. I've seen this many times, where all the vendors in a given market segment have nearly identical contract terms, usually as hostile as the law will allow towards the customer. It's not in their interest to make an exception for a customer.
It isn't just the hurricanes, the sinking city, and the eroding coast line. The Mississippi river wants to switch course to the Atchafalaya basin. This is currently being prevented by the Army Corps of Engineers at the Old River Control Structure. The question is how long this will work. From what I've read, the river will eventually change course, with Morgan City replacing New Orleans as the port city for the river.
The modern abuse of arbitration clauses reminds me of the "right to contract" cases. Contracts are often little more than legal cudgels, designed to exploit the difference in power between the two parties to the benefit of stronger party. The arbitration system is a perversion of justice and should be eliminated.
I'd like to know what the legal basis is for the gag order. There is a huge difference between someone who voluntarily agreed to all this stuff when they applied for a security clearance and J. Random Citizen. There is no "national security" exception in the Constitution.
As I previously stated, it was a bank which is now part of Bank of America.
When I later investigated the legal aspects of the issue, I found out that the bank was probably not liable for their actions, since the law gives them a great deal of freedom on how to deal with a customer overdraft. The fact that a customer's funds are split among multiple accounts does not prevent the bank from taking them to honor a check.
When the check processing computer detected a huge overdraft, it should have punted the transaction to a bank officer for investigation. It would have been immediately obvious to a human that the amount of the transaction did not match the amount written on the check. A human could have also picked up a telephone and called me to help resolve the problem.
You might want to talk to your bank about their policy on overdrafts. I found out, the hard way, that when my checking account had insufficient funds to cover a check I had written, they just took the money from another account I had with the bank. They had never asked me for permission to do that.
The cause of the problem was a data entry error by the person who reads the amount of the check and prints it on the check with a MICR printer. They got the numbers right but moved the decimal point one place to the right. From there on, everything operated on automatic pilot, with no human intervention until I received my bank statement and spotted the problem. The bank's attitude was that the most efficient way of doing business was to automate all processing and decision-making, fixing any problems after the fact, if a customer complained. I closed all my accounts with that bank, which is now part of Bank of America.
I recently bought a Dell desktop because it was on sale at a price that was substantially lower than what it would have cost me for the parts. Plus, it had a warranty and I didn't have to waste a day putting it together. OEM prices for parts and software are often much less than retail.
In almost all states, the only thing that counts is which candidate got the most votes. The winner gets all of the state's electoral votes, which are what you need to be elected President. The nationwide popular vote is irrelevant. That means that for many people, their vote has no value, since a majority of the voters in their state can be relied on to vote for a particular party. I'm in that situation. I vote because I think it's a civic obligation, not because I have any illusions that my vote might make a difference. I effectively live in a one-party state.
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Generalized threats are not a crime. Unless he can show that it was fair use, Dice did infringe Reagan's copyright. Youtube pulling the entire channel is an issue with youtube, not Reagan.
Ask the FCC. Your new cell phone needs FCC approval and must conform to FCC rules. This can be expedited by being "cooperative" with the government.
It only affects anyone who does navigation on the sea and in the air. Who cares if a navigation fix is off by a few kilometers?
Anything involving space needs precise and accurate time. Determining the orbits of spacecraft and correlating measurements from different sensor platforms require high-quality time. Millisecond accuracy is the minimum level and some programs need microsecond accuracy. GPS operates at the nanosecond level.
Years ago, when they installed cable in the apartment building that I was living in, the first thing they did was to rip out the master antenna system and all associated cabling.
They should have told them "Didn't you hear? Mexico won the war with the United States, and Spanish is now the official language. Get used to it, gringo.".
The economics are not the same. Bandwidth is not a consumable commodity in the same way as coal. Costs in data networks, like in telephone networks, are primarily based on peak capacity, not usage. Peak capacity is based on the requirement to provide an acceptable quality of service during peak usage periods.
The people most likely to have this capability are also the least likely to want to publicize that fact. There is also the issue that you don't use the resources of such a facility without a good reason and the funding to pay for it.
You're supposed to forget about their involvement in two world wars, and some very nasty bits of German history.
With a PC, "Evil goes in before the name goes on".
Time dilation. Muon decay from cosmic rays is a good example of this.
I've seen some pictures that show that tin whiskers are very good at punching through other materials. According to this, one layer of conformal coating will not stop them.
I'd pick B. Every time the government gets a tax windfall, due to a booming real estate or stock market, every politician seems to have a list of new and expensive programs that they would like to have funded. When the economy goes in the toilet, the same politicians want to raise taxes to keep government revenues at their pre-crash level.
Years ago, I read a story about a European country, I think it was Italy, mandating the use of state-approved, tamper-proof cash registers in all retail stores. This was due to massive tax fraud at the retail level. Does anyone know if it was successful?
The police have been doing this sort of crap for decades. Their goal is to remove all "troublemakers" from the street until the event is over. They don't care if the charges are bogus or that they violate people's civil rights. If you are lucky, you will get some monetary damages from the local government, many years later. The local officials and police are never held responsible for their actions.
Negotiation isn't an option when everyone just says "take it or leave it", and everyone is offering the same terms. I've seen this many times, where all the vendors in a given market segment have nearly identical contract terms, usually as hostile as the law will allow towards the customer. It's not in their interest to make an exception for a customer.
It isn't just the hurricanes, the sinking city, and the eroding coast line. The Mississippi river wants to switch course to the Atchafalaya basin. This is currently being prevented by the Army Corps of Engineers at the Old River Control Structure. The question is how long this will work. From what I've read, the river will eventually change course, with Morgan City replacing New Orleans as the port city for the river.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_River_Control_Structure
The modern abuse of arbitration clauses reminds me of the "right to contract" cases. Contracts are often little more than legal cudgels, designed to exploit the difference in power between the two parties to the benefit of stronger party. The arbitration system is a perversion of justice and should be eliminated.
I'd like to know what the legal basis is for the gag order. There is a huge difference between someone who voluntarily agreed to all this stuff when they applied for a security clearance and J. Random Citizen. There is no "national security" exception in the Constitution.
As I previously stated, it was a bank which is now part of Bank of America.
When I later investigated the legal aspects of the issue, I found out that the bank was probably not liable for their actions, since the law gives them a great deal of freedom on how to deal with a customer overdraft. The fact that a customer's funds are split among multiple accounts does not prevent the bank from taking them to honor a check.
When the check processing computer detected a huge overdraft, it should have punted the transaction to a bank officer for investigation. It would have been immediately obvious to a human that the amount of the transaction did not match the amount written on the check. A human could have also picked up a telephone and called me to help resolve the problem.
You might want to talk to your bank about their policy on overdrafts. I found out, the hard way, that when my checking account had insufficient funds to cover a check I had written, they just took the money from another account I had with the bank. They had never asked me for permission to do that.
The cause of the problem was a data entry error by the person who reads the amount of the check and prints it on the check with a MICR printer. They got the numbers right but moved the decimal point one place to the right. From there on, everything operated on automatic pilot, with no human intervention until I received my bank statement and spotted the problem. The bank's attitude was that the most efficient way of doing business was to automate all processing and decision-making, fixing any problems after the fact, if a customer complained. I closed all my accounts with that bank, which is now part of Bank of America.
I thought it was Ford and the Pinto.
I recently bought a Dell desktop because it was on sale at a price that was substantially lower than what it would have cost me for the parts. Plus, it had a warranty and I didn't have to waste a day putting it together. OEM prices for parts and software are often much less than retail.
In almost all states, the only thing that counts is which candidate got the most votes. The winner gets all of the state's electoral votes, which are what you need to be elected President. The nationwide popular vote is irrelevant. That means that for many people, their vote has no value, since a majority of the voters in their state can be relied on to vote for a particular party. I'm in that situation. I vote because I think it's a civic obligation, not because I have any illusions that my vote might make a difference. I effectively live in a one-party state.