I'm not happy with everything the current administration does, but comparing Bush to Stalin is outrageous and deeply insulting to the victims of Stalinism.
Over the years, I've seen the local telephone company install a huge amount of new equipment and fiber. It isn't that they love their customers:-), they save a lot of money by getting rid of the old stuff, plus it lets them sell all the latest overpriced bells and whistles.
This kind of surprised me, in that they aren't even doing the trick of defining a mbit as 1000000 bits to make it look faster.
It isn't a trick. Communications engineering has always used standard SI units (bits, symbols, seconds) and prefixes (k = 10**3, M = 10**6, G = 10**9). Bytes (more properly octets) and non-standard prefixes (k = 2**10, M = 2**20, G = 2**30) are a peculiar affliction of the computer world.
Now, there are certain exceptions. In general, you can't drive a dense network at much beyond 1/3 the rated speed - thin-wire ethernet was bad for that - so you can expect similar sorts of problems on a shared line such as cable. The entire design of cable - a single line with taps off it - is exactly what thick-wire and thin-wire ethernet were like.
Broadband data networks over CATV are very different than shared-media Ethernet. Ethernet uses baseband signalling, everyone shares a common channel (CSMA). With cable, there can be multiple independent downlink channels. There is a single uplink channel that uses TDM to support multiple users. Each cable modem is assigned a shared 6 MHz downlink channel and a time slot on the uplink channel. There is no contention for access to the media.
More than you would be willing to pay. The ones that I've seen need a special three-phase electrical connection to supply the power. It's industrial-class equipment with a corresponding price tag.
Non-removable disk drives were commonly referred to as Winchesters back then, even if they were not made by IBM. IBM pioneered the technology that later became universal in the disk drive industry. The original poster probably mistyped GB instead of MB.
How did you determine that it was "patently illegal"?
It may, or may not, be good public policy, but it is not illegal for a telephone company to voluntarily provide call detail records to a government agency.
In what way does it make any sense that an employee who has _legitimately_ reported the wrongdoings of his boss be fired for his trouble without even an iota of protection?
Your question is irrelevant.
The Supreme Court was not established to pass judgement on whether particular laws or policies are wise and just.
Congress, should it desire to do so, can pass legislation to protect government employees from retaliation for job-related speech that serves an important purpose.
The idea that the first amendment allows government employees to speak without fear of discipline or termination is a huge stretch.
It wasn't abolished. It's a fundamental part of Islamic law and is still relevant to states that base their law on Islamic law, such as Iran, Egypt, Pakistan, etc. How exactly it is put into practice, varies by time and place. Many states have drifted between a secular legal system and a legal system based to some extent on Islamic law. Even under a secular legal system, minorities are often subject to abuse due to the religious and cultural beliefs of those who administrate and enforce the law.
A friend who worked in Pakistan said that they had numerous problems with telephone and data line outages. Some of the more enterprising local residents would steal the cable right off the poles.
The warrant states what they can and cannot search for. Where they can search, etc. If they find a eveidence from another unrelated crime they cannot use that evidence against you.
The problem is that there is plenty of precedent for this, see the history of American railroad companies. Everything was negotiable, and the railroads held almost all of the negotiating power. If you didn't like their rates, you were free to build your own railroad.
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Neither party is willing to let a few inconvenient facts stand in the way of their political agenda.
I'm not happy with everything the current administration does, but comparing Bush to Stalin is outrageous and deeply insulting to the victims of Stalinism.
I don't think we are in Kansas anymore, Toto.
Over the years, I've seen the local telephone company install a huge amount of new equipment and fiber. It isn't that they love their customers :-), they save a lot of money by getting rid of the old stuff, plus it lets them sell all the latest overpriced bells and whistles.
It isn't a trick. Communications engineering has always used standard SI units (bits, symbols, seconds) and prefixes (k = 10**3, M = 10**6, G = 10**9). Bytes (more properly octets) and non-standard prefixes (k = 2**10, M = 2**20, G = 2**30) are a peculiar affliction of the computer world.
Broadband data networks over CATV are very different than shared-media Ethernet. Ethernet uses baseband signalling, everyone shares a common channel (CSMA). With cable, there can be multiple independent downlink channels. There is a single uplink channel that uses TDM to support multiple users. Each cable modem is assigned a shared 6 MHz downlink channel and a time slot on the uplink channel. There is no contention for access to the media.
See the NSA Degausser Evaluated Product List (DEPL) (PDF).
Someone who has electronic account statements from their bank and/or brokerage.
They can be tracked by DoD space surveillance radar systems.
Thermite is normally used in emergencies, like your position is being overrun by the enemy and you have to destroy all sensitive equipment.
Non-removable disk drives were commonly referred to as Winchesters back then, even if they were not made by IBM. IBM pioneered the technology that later became universal in the disk drive industry. The original poster probably mistyped GB instead of MB.
That's the sort of behavior that I'd expect from a twelve-year-old, not an adult.
It may, or may not, be good public policy, but it is not illegal for a telephone company to voluntarily provide call detail records to a government agency.
Your question is irrelevant.
The Supreme Court was not established to pass judgement on whether particular laws or policies are wise and just.
The idea that the first amendment allows government employees to speak without fear of discipline or termination is a huge stretch.
It's displayed with an HTML "EM" tag. The choice of font, italics or not, is up to your browser.
I like it. It has a nice clean look. I'm glad too see that the italics and serifs are gone. They are hard to read on many displays.
It wasn't abolished. It's a fundamental part of Islamic law and is still relevant to states that base their law on Islamic law, such as Iran, Egypt, Pakistan, etc. How exactly it is put into practice, varies by time and place. Many states have drifted between a secular legal system and a legal system based to some extent on Islamic law. Even under a secular legal system, minorities are often subject to abuse due to the religious and cultural beliefs of those who administrate and enforce the law.
The things you linked to are past events. Second-class citizenship for non-Muslims in Islamic states is today's reality.
That particular story may have been untrue, but there is plenty of precedent for the practice in Islamic states.
A friend who worked in Pakistan said that they had numerous problems with telephone and data line outages. Some of the more enterprising local residents would steal the cable right off the poles.
The Supreme Court disagrees with you.
Harris v. United States, 390 U.S. 234 (1968)
Use a delay line, go to jail. I like it.
The problem is that there is plenty of precedent for this, see the history of American railroad companies. Everything was negotiable, and the railroads held almost all of the negotiating power. If you didn't like their rates, you were free to build your own railroad.
The 39-page autopsy report is a bit more nuanced than "she was a vegetable", which is a debatable and simplistic characterization.