'He's convinced that the pirate problem is costing NBC Universal real revenue and that the scale of the problem is so vast as to discourage investment in the carrots, positive solutions like Hulu.'
It seems that the carrots are less attractive than most of the alternatives.... As long as that condition persists, there will be a "pirate problem".
Security cameras and recorders are not a problem. You see these everywhere.
Recording audio is a different matter. This is likely what ran afoul of wiretapping and eavesdropping laws. The article didn't say if he was recording audio, or if there were notices posted stating that audio was being recorded.
IANAL - I don't know if posted notices would be sufficient to protect against wiretap laws, but I suspect they would carry some weight in court. You can record phone conversations if all parties are aware they are being recorded.
I think police dash cameras are allowed as people can not reasonably expect privacy in public spaces (on the street, for instance).
Of course, none of this excuses the Officers behavior... nor that of their son. Indeed, I get a general scummy feeling about everyone involved in the incident.
RAMBUS attempted to "extort" royalties for use of the Rambus standard. The standard was developed in an IEEE (?) meeting some years before, where all parties agrred that this was to be an open standard.
(Never mind that it's likely that Rambus stole their initial designs for their start-up.)
The future use of fiber is still very much of an unknown. It can be run later if desired.
I ran 7 drops through-out my house (finished house - 3 years old). Each drop consists of two Cat-5 cables, each terminated in RJ-45(?) sockets, and two RG-6 coaxial cables. All of these are run to a wiring closet where the cat-5 connect to a punch down block, and some of the coaxial cables are connected to a simple splitter.
With the propper devices, the cat-5 can be used to transmit video (composit or S-video) and audio (stereo) back to the closet. Eventually, I'd like to place those video feeds on their own cable channels for distribution within the house. This requires agile modulators (select a channel 70 - 99), and a combiner/distribution amp/splitter. None of this is particularly cheap; modulators ($75-100), combiner (splitter used backwards ($10), cable capabile amplifier $100-300). Check out http://www.onqtech.com/ and http://www.channelplus.com/ for the video equipment
That leaves the other cat-5 for 2 telephone lines and 1 computer network connect back to a future hub in the closet.
Hmmm. Maybe I should have run three cat-5's?
Check out http://www.onqtech.com/ and http://www.channelplus.com/ for the video equipment.
How to wire hone lines/punchdown blocks, see http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Pines/4116/ index.html
This is exactly what they are doing! They just described inertial fusion.
The big picture is that a pellet on Hydrogen/Dueterium/Tritium (Hydrogen Isotopes) in the form of a hollow sphere is instantaniously heated by high power lasers from all directions. The outer surface, being superheated and vaporized explodes outward and is lost. Because of equal and opposite reaction, the inner surface explodes inward resulting in very high compression and temperatures.
If the pressure and temperature is high enough, the hydrogen (and isotopes) are fused into helium and release lots of heat and a few extra neutrons.
The heat makes steam and drives generators to power the fusion plant and hopefully more for the power grid. I suspect that the extra neutrons can be used to transmute hydrogen into dueterium/tritium (more easily fusable fuel).
Imagine - A fusion breeder reactor...
You could always have various friends slowly 'leak' various company email addresses to several antispam newsgroups. Be sure to identify the fake domains, and perhaps include message titles.
After a few days of being swamped by angery messages from a tiny fraction of the spam recipients, perhaps the management might get the idea that it's not really worth the argravation to find 5 to 10 clients.
This whole discussion overlooks over uses of such gear. Security comes to mind.
How many times have you heard about the covert security cameras some families use to monitor babysitters and the like?
Another thought.... A camera mounted inside of a clock or picture has to be connected to something. Otherwise, its just taking up space. Wireless devices require batteries and a receiver. Wired devices are not so covert, and would fall into the security catagory.
So who's fooling who?
Just because a device could be used an illegal activity doesn't mean it will. Even in some cases where the use is borderline, the benifits can outweigh the liabilities.
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'He's convinced that the pirate problem is costing NBC Universal real revenue and that the scale of the problem is so vast as to discourage investment in the carrots, positive solutions like Hulu.'
It seems that the carrots are less attractive than most of the alternatives.... As long as that condition persists, there will be a "pirate problem".
Security cameras and recorders are not a problem. You see these everywhere.
Recording audio is a different matter. This is likely what ran afoul of wiretapping and eavesdropping laws. The article didn't say if he was recording audio, or if there were notices posted stating that audio was being recorded.
IANAL - I don't know if posted notices would be sufficient to protect against wiretap laws, but I suspect they would carry some weight in court. You can record phone conversations if all parties are aware they are being recorded.
I think police dash cameras are allowed as people can not reasonably expect privacy in public spaces (on the street, for instance).
Of course, none of this excuses the Officers behavior... nor that of their son. Indeed, I get a general scummy feeling about everyone involved in the incident.
What a mess....
There was another attempt at this sort of thing.
RAMBUS attempted to "extort" royalties for use of the Rambus standard. The standard was developed in an IEEE (?) meeting some years before, where all parties agrred that this was to be an open standard.
(Never mind that it's likely that Rambus stole their initial designs for their start-up.)
The future use of fiber is still very much of an unknown. It can be run later if desired.
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I ran 7 drops through-out my house (finished house - 3 years old). Each drop consists of two Cat-5 cables, each terminated in RJ-45(?) sockets, and two RG-6 coaxial cables. All of these are run to a wiring closet where the cat-5 connect to a punch down block, and some of the coaxial cables are connected to a simple splitter.
With the propper devices, the cat-5 can be used to transmit video (composit or S-video) and audio (stereo) back to the closet. Eventually, I'd like to place those video feeds on their own cable channels for distribution within the house. This requires agile modulators (select a channel 70 - 99), and a combiner/distribution amp/splitter. None of this is particularly cheap; modulators ($75-100), combiner (splitter used backwards ($10), cable capabile amplifier $100-300). Check out http://www.onqtech.com/ and http://www.channelplus.com/ for the video equipment
That leaves the other cat-5 for 2 telephone lines and 1 computer network connect back to a future hub in the closet.
Hmmm. Maybe I should have run three cat-5's?
Check out http://www.onqtech.com/ and http://www.channelplus.com/ for the video equipment.
How to wire hone lines/punchdown blocks, see http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Pines/4116
This is exactly what they are doing! They just described inertial fusion. The big picture is that a pellet on Hydrogen/Dueterium/Tritium (Hydrogen Isotopes) in the form of a hollow sphere is instantaniously heated by high power lasers from all directions. The outer surface, being superheated and vaporized explodes outward and is lost. Because of equal and opposite reaction, the inner surface explodes inward resulting in very high compression and temperatures. If the pressure and temperature is high enough, the hydrogen (and isotopes) are fused into helium and release lots of heat and a few extra neutrons. The heat makes steam and drives generators to power the fusion plant and hopefully more for the power grid. I suspect that the extra neutrons can be used to transmute hydrogen into dueterium/tritium (more easily fusable fuel). Imagine - A fusion breeder reactor...
You could always have various friends slowly 'leak' various company email addresses to several antispam newsgroups. Be sure to identify the fake domains, and perhaps include message titles. After a few days of being swamped by angery messages from a tiny fraction of the spam recipients, perhaps the management might get the idea that it's not really worth the argravation to find 5 to 10 clients.
How many times have you heard about the covert security cameras some families use to monitor babysitters and the like?
Another thought.... A camera mounted inside of a clock or picture has to be connected to something. Otherwise, its just taking up space. Wireless devices require batteries and a receiver. Wired devices are not so covert, and would fall into the security catagory.
So who's fooling who?
Just because a device could be used an illegal activity doesn't mean it will. Even in some cases where the use is borderline, the benifits can outweigh the liabilities.