Parody = humor = legal, but if this kid used the names of actual officers, pasted heads on naked bodies, etc etc, we are talking SLANDER.
Actually, I think it would be libel, not slander. Making fun of someone is not necessarily libel. Libel is usually a matter of civil law, which does not empower the police to arrest someone.
It appears to me that the NSA has, to a limited degree, tried to make their mammoth budgets and spare-no-expense approach more palatable to the American taxpayer by claiming to develop technology way ahead of its time.
You might try doing some research before making such accusations. Yes, the NSA takes advantage of technology developed outside the agency, however, the NSA and its predecessors have a long and distinguished history of research and development in communications security and intelligence. The problem is that most of it is classified, so you may have to wait 50 years to learn about it. They still haven't declassified all the material from World War II.
Analog scrambling systems have a long history of being easily broken. It is just too easy to recognize and extract the distinctive patterns of human speech.
A vocoder converts an analog voice signal to a digital bit stream, which can easily be encrypted by any number of devices. The advantage of a vocoder, in comparison to the PCM encoding techniques used in the telephone system, is a much lower bit rate. A vocoder constructs a model of the human vocal tract, and transmits the parameters of the model at a periodic rate. The receiver uses these parameters to construct an electronic replica of the speaker's vocal tract, which produces the audio that the other party hears.
1000BASE-T creates a 250 megabit full duplex channel on each of the four pairs of wire in a CAT-5 cable. The nodes on each end of the cable transmit and receive in the same frequency band. They use hybrids and echo cancellation, much like a high-speed modem, to separate the transmitted signal from the received signal. A 3COM paper on the subject is available here.
One problem with this technology is that it is incompatible with the methods used to produce CD-ROMs and DVDs. A stamper produces pits on a blank disk. It can't produce shades of gray.
For one embedded system, I setup the makefiles to automatically increment a build number every time the system was rebuilt. The programs displayed a message during initialization that included program name, "official" version number, build number and date/time of build. I did this because of past confusion over different versions of the software with the same "official" version number.
The article talks about the possibility of cross-platform support for.NET. Didn't Microsoft also say that DCOM was a cross-platform standard? It was supposed to be ported to other operating systems. I've never seen it running on anything other than Windows.
Companies are not going to dump Microsoft over something as trivial as a minor change in license fees. They have a huge investment in existing software and training for Windows. They would have to dump Office and their custom apps, buy and install new software, retrain employees, and incur other costs.
I recently wrote up a file transfer procedure for NT systems that uses a Win32 command line program to transfer the file to a UNIX system. When I said "command line", I got the same reaction as if I had said "radioactive waste". And you want these people to use UNIX?
IDE has been steadily catching up to SCSI in speed, reliability, and usefulness.
While not a scientific study of reliability, there was an interesting article (The Art of Massive Storage: A Web Image Archive, IEEE Computer magazine, 2000-11) that found big differences between the reliability of IDE and SCSI drives. Over an 18 month period, 6 of 24 IDE disks failed (25%), 7 of 368 SCSI disks failed (1.9%).
In the past, when systems became too complex and buggy, someone usually invented tools and abstractions that made it easier to design and build complex hardware/software systems.
I am concerned about the corporate culture at Intel. They have a long history of shipping products that are buggy, inefficient and inelegant, but cheap, fast to market and available in large quantities.
Oh, by "high risk" behavior, you're talking about ass-fucking? I thought you were talking about something else. Sorry. Everyone knows that "high risk behavior" is ass-fucking, and that's the ONLY way to catch HIV. Right.
That's funny, I hadn't even thought of "ass-fucking" until you brought it up. You might want to take that chip off your shoulder before it falls off and hurts someone.
From what I have read, the main problem in Africa is heterosexual sexual promiscuity, not IV drug use or unsafe homosexual sex.
What if someone belongs to a religion or culture that strongly discourages the high risk behavior? Parents pass religion and culture on to their children. The transmission rate does not have to be 100% for it to be effective.
What possible financial benefit would an employer see by denying himself the opportunity to hire a potentially productive individual?
Simple, reduced health care costs.
I work for a large corporation that is self-insured. They pay an outside company to administer the medical plan, but in the end, they pay the medical claims.
Is it in their interest to hire someone who is likely to require expensive medical treatment?
The same situation happens with small companies, where one individual with an expensive medical condition can trigger large medical insurance rate increases
for the entire company. People have been fired over this.
Its all very well saying "information wants to be free" and going along with all the open-source rhetoric, but at the end of the day unless someone pays the producer of the information to create it, the information won't get created.
Some information wouldn't be created. There would still be a great deal of literature, music and software. It would mainly hurt the creation of information that involves large production costs, such as television shows and movies. Most authors and composers have a day job, a relatively small number make enough money at it to make it their full-time profession.
The solution to AIDS does not have to be biological evolution, it can be cultural evolution. People who engage in high risk behavior will die out. Those that avoid that behavior will take their place. I'm not saying that anyone "deserves" to get AIDS, just that natural selection is not limited to genetic traits.
I don't remember this being an issue he campaigned on, but you have to remember we got our first probe on the surface of Mars under the Clinton administration.
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Actually, I think it would be libel, not slander. Making fun of someone is not necessarily libel. Libel is usually a matter of civil law, which does not empower the police to arrest someone.
So what if he did?
It might be rude or in bad taste, but it isn't a criminal act.
You might try doing some research before making such accusations. Yes, the NSA takes advantage of technology developed outside the agency, however, the NSA and its predecessors have a long and distinguished history of research and development in communications security and intelligence. The problem is that most of it is classified, so you may have to wait 50 years to learn about it. They still haven't declassified all the material from World War II.
You can listen to examples of vocoder audio on this web page.
A vocoder converts an analog voice signal to a digital bit stream, which can easily be encrypted by any number of devices. The advantage of a vocoder, in comparison to the PCM encoding techniques used in the telephone system, is a much lower bit rate. A vocoder constructs a model of the human vocal tract, and transmits the parameters of the model at a periodic rate. The receiver uses these parameters to construct an electronic replica of the speaker's vocal tract, which produces the audio that the other party hears.
1000BASE-T creates a 250 megabit full duplex channel on each of the four pairs of wire in a CAT-5 cable. The nodes on each end of the cable transmit and receive in the same frequency band. They use hybrids and echo cancellation, much like a high-speed modem, to separate the transmitted signal from the received signal. A 3COM paper on the subject is available here.
MPEG is part of the ATSC HDTV standard. It is used to compress the raw 1.5 gigabit video down to 19 megabit (or less) for transmission.
4C = Four Companies, really.
One problem with this technology is that it is incompatible with the methods used to produce CD-ROMs and DVDs. A stamper produces pits on a blank disk. It can't produce shades of gray.
For one embedded system, I setup the makefiles to automatically increment a build number every time the system was rebuilt. The programs displayed a message during initialization that included program name, "official" version number, build number and date/time of build. I did this because of past confusion over different versions of the software with the same "official" version number.
They should have played wrestling legend Fred Blassie's classic record, Pencil Neck Geek, in the background.
The article talks about the possibility of cross-platform support for .NET. Didn't Microsoft also say that DCOM was a cross-platform standard? It was supposed to be ported to other operating systems. I've never seen it running on anything other than Windows.
I recently wrote up a file transfer procedure for NT systems that uses a Win32 command line program to transfer the file to a UNIX system. When I said "command line", I got the same reaction as if I had said "radioactive waste". And you want these people to use UNIX?
These aren't cursed objects that will turn the owner into a goose-stepping NAZI.
Random people who enter without notice are presumed to be criminals and will be treated as such.
Say hello to Mr. Mossberg.
While not a scientific study of reliability, there was an interesting article (The Art of Massive Storage: A Web Image Archive, IEEE Computer magazine, 2000-11) that found big differences between the reliability of IDE and SCSI drives. Over an 18 month period, 6 of 24 IDE disks failed (25%), 7 of 368 SCSI disks failed (1.9%).
I am concerned about the corporate culture at Intel. They have a long history of shipping products that are buggy, inefficient and inelegant, but cheap, fast to market and available in large quantities.
That's funny, I hadn't even thought of "ass-fucking" until you brought it up. You might want to take that chip off your shoulder before it falls off and hurts someone.
From what I have read, the main problem in Africa is heterosexual sexual promiscuity, not IV drug use or unsafe homosexual sex.
What if someone belongs to a religion or culture that strongly discourages the high risk behavior? Parents pass religion and culture on to their children. The transmission rate does not have to be 100% for it to be effective.
Simple, reduced health care costs.
I work for a large corporation that is self-insured. They pay an outside company to administer the medical plan, but in the end, they pay the medical claims.
Is it in their interest to hire someone who is likely to require expensive medical treatment?
The same situation happens with small companies, where one individual with an expensive medical condition can trigger large medical insurance rate increases for the entire company. People have been fired over this.
Some information wouldn't be created. There would still be a great deal of literature, music and software. It would mainly hurt the creation of information that involves large production costs, such as television shows and movies. Most authors and composers have a day job, a relatively small number make enough money at it to make it their full-time profession.
The solution to AIDS does not have to be biological evolution, it can be cultural evolution. People who engage in high risk behavior will die out. Those that avoid that behavior will take their place. I'm not saying that anyone "deserves" to get AIDS, just that natural selection is not limited to genetic traits.
The money goes into the general fund, like any other tax. It is not earmarked for medical research or any other activity that might benefit smokers.
And what was Viking, chopped liver?
I would also look through the publication catalogs of the ACM and the IEEE Computer Society.