The problem is likely in finding someone with standing to file the suit. Just because something is blatantly illegal doesn't mean the courts will give you the time of day. You have to convince someone who has been harmed in some way by action you want to sue over. Using a stingray device to track down a specific cell phone could likely degrade the performance of cell phones in the area where it is used and violate peoples expectations of privacy, but actually proving that any one persons privacy was invaded or cell service disrupted unjustly will be quite a challenge.
That is all complicated by the fact that most cell phones operate in a wide open mode where they latch on to any strong tower signal. There is very little or no protection built in for preventing man in the middle attacks. They are operating by broadcasting radio signals that in theory are open and available for anyone with the right equipment to listen too. In fact much of the spectrum that is used for cell phone service today used to be available for amatuer HAM license use, if I am not mistaken, and so there is a lot of old equipment out there designed to listen and broadcast on those frequencies. Now that those frequencies have been sold to private enterprise you aren't allowed to broadcast willy nilly there, but there is nothing making it illegal to listen so far as I know.
I completely agree that the current usage of stingray type devices is unconstitutional. And I hope that it gets beat down in the courts sometime soon. But I don't imagine it'll be an easy or fair fight for groups like the ACLU.
I've been using a X4 keyboard for the last year and really like it. The keys feel great. The backlighting is handy and looks nice. My only complaint would be how small the escape key is, it's a half height key or something.
And I used an intellipoint mouse of some sort at work for six years straight with no issues, that felt perfectly fitted to my hand. I tried to buy one when I left that job but apparently they stopped making them years ago and the only ones I could find for sale were at scalper prices on ebay.
From my understanding he didn't actually buy a new car every time. He had a standing lease agreement with the Mercedes dealership that stipulated they would deliver a brand new car to him one day short of six months.
Not illegal, but I'm glad he went with his voodoo natural remedies to try and cure his cancer.
What really amazes me is when people are even more uptight than the historical culture was. One of my siblings always gets up in arms when people start talking about breast feeding in public without a nipple shield for his comfort. When he started trying to use religous dogma one of my other siblings gleefully posted pictures, related to his religion of choice. Those pictures were of wood block carving pictures published in public news papers during the victorian era depicting men and women attending a large religous meeting, dressed from head to toe in the fashions of the day. Clearly visible in these pictures are various women throughout the congregation nursing kids without any sort of coverings, and incredibly no one pitching a fit about being so horribly tempted to stare.
Or the USA. Georgia was a prison colony and lots of other convicts were shipped to other colonies as punishment. I've got four lines of scottish ancestry that were all sent here for cattle rustling.
I'm not sure that there is or ever could be a social order that could remain standing and not have criminals. Human beings are just too varied in our motivations, morals, and ability for empathy. I think we can definitely improve on the current social order and drastically reduce the amount of crime, just as we have been doing for decades. But I don't think we'll ever get to a point where crime is eliminated, kind of like how you can't reach zero by subtracting 99% of the remainder.
The definition for the adjective "plural" is, more than 1. In english we frequently pluralize words by adding the letter S to the end of the word. Hence, the word thousand becomes thousands once more than 1000 units are involved.
It can, but I don't think that actually affects the majority of the population. And you can probably already pick out the people that'll have the most trouble with it as they already avoid FPS style games because it gives them motion sickness.
A dictionary is not a book about rules. It of course does have some rules of its own so that it can define ways to pronounce the words it describes. The entire point of a dictionary is to give meaning to the words in use by a society. If a dictionary does not define the words in common use, or some other historical time period, then what is its use?
A word may start as an abbreviation for something, LOL being a particularly interesting example. The purpose of LOL in online conversations started as a way to express a sense of amusement at something, and abbreviates the phrase Laughing Out Loud, which is probably an exageration most of the time anyways, but it worked. At some point though younger generations of people have started using the abbreviation as an actual word in regular conversation as a means of vocalising their sense of amusement at something at a threshold prior to actually laughing out loud about whatever it is that is being discussed. I often teach a class of teenagers from all different backgrounds and every one of them uses LOL as a word.
The demographics for gamers has been changing for a long while now. There is a large portion of that group that probably does lack disposable income to buy back save game files. But there is also a very large grouping that likely has money to ransom their save game files. I work with lots of 25-40 year olds that play video games and make proffesional white collar wages.
It could be Diablo 3 files though that'd be pointless as they could be just downloaded again. The saves for D3 are all kept on Blizzards servers, this possibly being the only upside for the consumer of their DRM scheme.
Diablo 1 or 2 could make sense as those allowed for save games on your computer. However that seems rather pointless also as there has been software for decades now to create your own save files with all the equipment you could ever want.
I don't know about the issues with Youtube but I do know that the Netflix issue wasn't so cut and dry. The various ISP's connect to each other at specific nodes, where traffic moves from being on one companies network to another. Netflix is hosted on a lower rung network than most comsumers, they deliberately went with that network because it was cheaper for them. The bigger ISP's don't like having to absorb a large amount of through traffic from Netflix, even though their own customers are the ones creating that traffic. Netflix did try to remedy the issue by offering to host some of their more popular content with the bigger ISP's, but were turned down by at least one of them.
Neither Netflix or the ISP's were blameless in this case. Netflix was at fault for deliberately going with a hosting service that they knew wouldn't be able to get the kind of peering agreement they needed, in order to save money on their costs. The ISP was at fault because they refused to try and service their customers in good faith by accepting a compromise instead insisting essentially on protection money.
I'm not sure what the name of the kit is, but he installed it on a milling machine that has been in the family since the 40's or 50's. Quickly might be a relative term though. My understanding of the manual process for making gears is that it is very laborous and prone to error.
One another note he was showing me some videos of high speed machining that was really neat. Apparently machinists have known since the 40's that you could in theory do very high speed machining without coolant fluids, but the technology for controling the table or bit just wasn't good enough. Now we can do it and the final part is actually cool enough to handle without gloves.
Because of the stresses involved it likely wouldn't be a long term replacement. Those gears are typically cut from forged steel for good reason. The metal 3D printers I've read about don't produce products with the necessary qualities to work in this kind of application.
There is such machinery but it has been pretty expensive CNC type stuff for the last few decades. Which meant that you paid a very large premium for getting a single or a few parts. My Father was just visiting though and apparently he's built one of those DIY kit CNC machines in the basement. One of the things that he specifically mentioned as being very useful was it's ability to quickly and precisely turn out gears.
Honestly I was surprised by how little money the Blurred Lines song was said to have made. I think the article I read cited $16 million and change. Which for the hype sounds like peanuts to me.
I have a more expensive watch that I really like but I have much the same opinion. I also don't own or want a cell or smart phone because I spend 95% of my waking time with ready access to a far more capable computer and landlines. I'm a parent with a job, I'm either at home or at the office most of the time. There are very small fractions of the day where I travel to or from work, and every few weeks I might go run some errands. In any case, paying exorbitant amounts of money for cellular phone service isn't worth it, for me.
Even if I did have a smart phone I'm still not sure where the use case for a smart watch is. It's one more fragile device to manage and charge every day. If people thought they had to go to great lengths to protect their phones just imagine how many of these things are going to end up in land fills with cracked screens and such. I could see possibly using one if it was actually a replacement for the smart phone, but so long as it's just an accessory to it I don't see the point.
From the article: "Incorporating the ring into the map of the Milky Way expands the galaxyâ(TM)s span from 100,000 light-years to 150,000 light-years, said astronomer Yan Xu, with the National Astronomical Observatories of China and a former visiting scientist at Rensselaer."
It would appear by "size" they are refering to diameter. When you increase the radius of a circle by 50% I believe you more than double the surface area. In this case, depending on the density of matter in the extra volume of space that has been added to our understanding of the milkyway it is possible that the mass of the galaxy has been significantly impacted.
I've got a 10 year old seiko kinetic that I love. It's a subdued color, being made of titanium, and relatively light weight. It runs on a capacitor that is recharged by an internal pendulum or something. I've heard the capacitor will need replacing eventually but so far it's just fine. The only problem I've had with it was that part of the watchband broke just out of warranty because it was made of titanium when steel should have been used. I had that single part replaced for $20 with a stainless part. Like your Tissot I expect I'll get a life times use out of my Seiko and possibly so will one of my progeny.
Smart watches don't appeal to me at all. I can't be bothered to carry a cell phone, and I really don't want to wear an oversized watch as an accessory for a cell phone. If/when they ever get around to making truly useful and rugged wearable computers I might consider wearing it like a bracer or watch, but most of what I've seen thus far isn't worth the expense and trouble.
I seem to remember reading about something like this in a scifi novel years ago. An alien race had set up an automated broadcast that was transmitted to the galaxy at large every century or something like that. The broadcast was a digital signal that clearly broke into bytes of some arbitrary length that I don't recall. Each group of three bytes expressed an X and Y coordinate and a value for color on a grayscale. The coordinates for X and Y ranged from zero to some prime number and progressed in a manner consistent with scanning from bottom to top or something like that and new frames were easily recognized because the X and Y coordinates started back at zero. When recognized as video and played back it depicted the demise of their civilization and the efforts they had made to preserve and cache their knowledge for future civilizations.
Sounds like a twist on the plot of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. In that story the premise is that people pay for their own memories to be earased so they can forget a lost love. I recommend that people watch it whenever it comes up in conversation.
While it is nice that the lightning plug is sturdy their cables have to be some of the lowest quality cables I have ever purchased, yet being priced on par with monster cables. Considering their profit margins, such poor quality is inexusable in my opinion.
It's worse than that. It is possible that all 300 matches against the database are innocent. There is no gaurantee that the database will have the fingerprints of the actual offender in it.
For some people it's their livelihood. I subscribe to a few youtubers for video game stuff and usually their videos are entirely ingame captures. But occasionally they'll have videos that are just them speaking, and so it makes sense for the camera to be directed at them. And if they are walking somewhere a selfie stick is a common sense enough way to do that. That said I don't find those videos as entertaining usually and they are normally much shorter in duration so it's not an issue.
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The problem is likely in finding someone with standing to file the suit. Just because something is blatantly illegal doesn't mean the courts will give you the time of day. You have to convince someone who has been harmed in some way by action you want to sue over. Using a stingray device to track down a specific cell phone could likely degrade the performance of cell phones in the area where it is used and violate peoples expectations of privacy, but actually proving that any one persons privacy was invaded or cell service disrupted unjustly will be quite a challenge.
That is all complicated by the fact that most cell phones operate in a wide open mode where they latch on to any strong tower signal. There is very little or no protection built in for preventing man in the middle attacks. They are operating by broadcasting radio signals that in theory are open and available for anyone with the right equipment to listen too. In fact much of the spectrum that is used for cell phone service today used to be available for amatuer HAM license use, if I am not mistaken, and so there is a lot of old equipment out there designed to listen and broadcast on those frequencies. Now that those frequencies have been sold to private enterprise you aren't allowed to broadcast willy nilly there, but there is nothing making it illegal to listen so far as I know.
I completely agree that the current usage of stingray type devices is unconstitutional. And I hope that it gets beat down in the courts sometime soon. But I don't imagine it'll be an easy or fair fight for groups like the ACLU.
I've been using a X4 keyboard for the last year and really like it. The keys feel great. The backlighting is handy and looks nice. My only complaint would be how small the escape key is, it's a half height key or something.
And I used an intellipoint mouse of some sort at work for six years straight with no issues, that felt perfectly fitted to my hand. I tried to buy one when I left that job but apparently they stopped making them years ago and the only ones I could find for sale were at scalper prices on ebay.
From my understanding he didn't actually buy a new car every time. He had a standing lease agreement with the Mercedes dealership that stipulated they would deliver a brand new car to him one day short of six months.
Not illegal, but I'm glad he went with his voodoo natural remedies to try and cure his cancer.
"straight out of the Victorian era"
What really amazes me is when people are even more uptight than the historical culture was. One of my siblings always gets up in arms when people start talking about breast feeding in public without a nipple shield for his comfort. When he started trying to use religous dogma one of my other siblings gleefully posted pictures, related to his religion of choice. Those pictures were of wood block carving pictures published in public news papers during the victorian era depicting men and women attending a large religous meeting, dressed from head to toe in the fashions of the day. Clearly visible in these pictures are various women throughout the congregation nursing kids without any sort of coverings, and incredibly no one pitching a fit about being so horribly tempted to stare.
Or the USA. Georgia was a prison colony and lots of other convicts were shipped to other colonies as punishment. I've got four lines of scottish ancestry that were all sent here for cattle rustling.
I'm not sure that there is or ever could be a social order that could remain standing and not have criminals. Human beings are just too varied in our motivations, morals, and ability for empathy. I think we can definitely improve on the current social order and drastically reduce the amount of crime, just as we have been doing for decades. But I don't think we'll ever get to a point where crime is eliminated, kind of like how you can't reach zero by subtracting 99% of the remainder.
It's not the particular lack of logic that disturbs me so much as the ready willingness to dehumanize people.
The definition for the adjective "plural" is, more than 1. In english we frequently pluralize words by adding the letter S to the end of the word. Hence, the word thousand becomes thousands once more than 1000 units are involved.
It can, but I don't think that actually affects the majority of the population. And you can probably already pick out the people that'll have the most trouble with it as they already avoid FPS style games because it gives them motion sickness.
A dictionary is not a book about rules. It of course does have some rules of its own so that it can define ways to pronounce the words it describes. The entire point of a dictionary is to give meaning to the words in use by a society. If a dictionary does not define the words in common use, or some other historical time period, then what is its use?
A word may start as an abbreviation for something, LOL being a particularly interesting example. The purpose of LOL in online conversations started as a way to express a sense of amusement at something, and abbreviates the phrase Laughing Out Loud, which is probably an exageration most of the time anyways, but it worked. At some point though younger generations of people have started using the abbreviation as an actual word in regular conversation as a means of vocalising their sense of amusement at something at a threshold prior to actually laughing out loud about whatever it is that is being discussed. I often teach a class of teenagers from all different backgrounds and every one of them uses LOL as a word.
The demographics for gamers has been changing for a long while now. There is a large portion of that group that probably does lack disposable income to buy back save game files. But there is also a very large grouping that likely has money to ransom their save game files. I work with lots of 25-40 year olds that play video games and make proffesional white collar wages.
It could be Diablo 3 files though that'd be pointless as they could be just downloaded again. The saves for D3 are all kept on Blizzards servers, this possibly being the only upside for the consumer of their DRM scheme.
Diablo 1 or 2 could make sense as those allowed for save games on your computer. However that seems rather pointless also as there has been software for decades now to create your own save files with all the equipment you could ever want.
I don't know about the issues with Youtube but I do know that the Netflix issue wasn't so cut and dry. The various ISP's connect to each other at specific nodes, where traffic moves from being on one companies network to another. Netflix is hosted on a lower rung network than most comsumers, they deliberately went with that network because it was cheaper for them. The bigger ISP's don't like having to absorb a large amount of through traffic from Netflix, even though their own customers are the ones creating that traffic. Netflix did try to remedy the issue by offering to host some of their more popular content with the bigger ISP's, but were turned down by at least one of them.
Neither Netflix or the ISP's were blameless in this case. Netflix was at fault for deliberately going with a hosting service that they knew wouldn't be able to get the kind of peering agreement they needed, in order to save money on their costs. The ISP was at fault because they refused to try and service their customers in good faith by accepting a compromise instead insisting essentially on protection money.
I'm not sure what the name of the kit is, but he installed it on a milling machine that has been in the family since the 40's or 50's. Quickly might be a relative term though. My understanding of the manual process for making gears is that it is very laborous and prone to error.
One another note he was showing me some videos of high speed machining that was really neat. Apparently machinists have known since the 40's that you could in theory do very high speed machining without coolant fluids, but the technology for controling the table or bit just wasn't good enough. Now we can do it and the final part is actually cool enough to handle without gloves.
Because of the stresses involved it likely wouldn't be a long term replacement. Those gears are typically cut from forged steel for good reason. The metal 3D printers I've read about don't produce products with the necessary qualities to work in this kind of application.
There is such machinery but it has been pretty expensive CNC type stuff for the last few decades. Which meant that you paid a very large premium for getting a single or a few parts. My Father was just visiting though and apparently he's built one of those DIY kit CNC machines in the basement. One of the things that he specifically mentioned as being very useful was it's ability to quickly and precisely turn out gears.
Honestly I was surprised by how little money the Blurred Lines song was said to have made. I think the article I read cited $16 million and change. Which for the hype sounds like peanuts to me.
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I have a more expensive watch that I really like but I have much the same opinion. I also don't own or want a cell or smart phone because I spend 95% of my waking time with ready access to a far more capable computer and landlines. I'm a parent with a job, I'm either at home or at the office most of the time. There are very small fractions of the day where I travel to or from work, and every few weeks I might go run some errands. In any case, paying exorbitant amounts of money for cellular phone service isn't worth it, for me.
Even if I did have a smart phone I'm still not sure where the use case for a smart watch is. It's one more fragile device to manage and charge every day. If people thought they had to go to great lengths to protect their phones just imagine how many of these things are going to end up in land fills with cracked screens and such. I could see possibly using one if it was actually a replacement for the smart phone, but so long as it's just an accessory to it I don't see the point.
From the article:
"Incorporating the ring into the map of the Milky Way expands the galaxyâ(TM)s span from 100,000 light-years to 150,000 light-years, said astronomer Yan Xu, with the National Astronomical Observatories of China and a former visiting scientist at Rensselaer."
It would appear by "size" they are refering to diameter. When you increase the radius of a circle by 50% I believe you more than double the surface area. In this case, depending on the density of matter in the extra volume of space that has been added to our understanding of the milkyway it is possible that the mass of the galaxy has been significantly impacted.
I've got a 10 year old seiko kinetic that I love. It's a subdued color, being made of titanium, and relatively light weight. It runs on a capacitor that is recharged by an internal pendulum or something. I've heard the capacitor will need replacing eventually but so far it's just fine. The only problem I've had with it was that part of the watchband broke just out of warranty because it was made of titanium when steel should have been used. I had that single part replaced for $20 with a stainless part. Like your Tissot I expect I'll get a life times use out of my Seiko and possibly so will one of my progeny.
Smart watches don't appeal to me at all. I can't be bothered to carry a cell phone, and I really don't want to wear an oversized watch as an accessory for a cell phone. If/when they ever get around to making truly useful and rugged wearable computers I might consider wearing it like a bracer or watch, but most of what I've seen thus far isn't worth the expense and trouble.
I seem to remember reading about something like this in a scifi novel years ago. An alien race had set up an automated broadcast that was transmitted to the galaxy at large every century or something like that. The broadcast was a digital signal that clearly broke into bytes of some arbitrary length that I don't recall. Each group of three bytes expressed an X and Y coordinate and a value for color on a grayscale. The coordinates for X and Y ranged from zero to some prime number and progressed in a manner consistent with scanning from bottom to top or something like that and new frames were easily recognized because the X and Y coordinates started back at zero. When recognized as video and played back it depicted the demise of their civilization and the efforts they had made to preserve and cache their knowledge for future civilizations.
Sounds like a twist on the plot of Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. In that story the premise is that people pay for their own memories to be earased so they can forget a lost love. I recommend that people watch it whenever it comes up in conversation.
While it is nice that the lightning plug is sturdy their cables have to be some of the lowest quality cables I have ever purchased, yet being priced on par with monster cables. Considering their profit margins, such poor quality is inexusable in my opinion.
It's worse than that. It is possible that all 300 matches against the database are innocent. There is no gaurantee that the database will have the fingerprints of the actual offender in it.
For some people it's their livelihood. I subscribe to a few youtubers for video game stuff and usually their videos are entirely ingame captures. But occasionally they'll have videos that are just them speaking, and so it makes sense for the camera to be directed at them. And if they are walking somewhere a selfie stick is a common sense enough way to do that. That said I don't find those videos as entertaining usually and they are normally much shorter in duration so it's not an issue.