This is a poor example. I once had a crazy neighbor that pointed a baby monitor (possibly recording) at my front door. She would call animal control or the police because my dog barked at her after she blew a whistle at him. I asked the officer if there was anything he could do, and he said "your front door is visible from the publicly accessible sidewalk, so no." Granted, he's not a lawyer or judge, but he knows more laws than I do.
If we take that knowledge, then your example wouldn't be illegal. Cops may get you for something else, such as harassment or something relating to emotional distress of whomever you're recording, but the act of recording in and of itself wouldn't be illegal.
This is different than the Drone Killer's case, where he and his kids were in his own back yard. This is not a publicly accessible space and they do have a right to privacy here. A closer example would be your neighbor filming you and your kids. From a tree. On a branch that's on your side of the fence. In your backyard.
You know, I was okay when the dealer told me my muffler bearings needed replaced. When they mentioned something about blinker fluid, I started to question them a bit...
A little more detail than A.C. gave. Honeywell produces a number of IMU's, the most accurate of which are MEMS based, "microelectromechanical"... right there in the name.
I'm not sure why you think so, it's pretty standard to pay according to what you consume when supply (capacity) is limited.
I agree that for consumables it makes sense. I pay x dollars a gallon for water and n dollars per kilowatt hour of electricity at home. I would agree that "pay for what you consume" makes sense for broadband, both mobile and at home, if the charges themselves actually made sense. Even $0.05 per text is absurd, considering each message is a low-bandwidth near-tweet using a (formerly or mostly) empty emergency channel. The "true" cost per tweet is negligible. Similarly with broadband, the "true" cost of a gigabyte is in the noise and is somewhat lost in the cost of hardware, facilities, cooling, staff, line crews, etc... (All things *any* service provider has in their costs, like utility companies).
The reason we end up paying for what we consume with utilities is because the cost of production, transport, and waste is measurable. We can measure cost per gallon of water. We can measure kilowatt hour generation, storage, and delivery to a house. How do we measure something that we can make an infinite number of copies of, if the cost to make a copy is near zero?
Apple loves their premium branding. They charge $700 for a phone, makes sense they would push for a $500,000 iCar. Either way, less than 1/4 of the ticket price will be parts cost, the rest will be the Apple Tax.
Another problem in this vein is that no other industry deals directly with saving human lives. With that are extraordinary costs for insurance due to malpractice, wrongful death lawsuits, etc... The doctor may only see $60 per hour, but the amount of insurance that comes with every surgery is immense. With the U.S. being so litigation happy, it's no wonder we see $4k for one hour in the E.R. If grandma dies under the knife, theres a strong chance that the family is going to file a suit against the hospital, which could cost them millions.
I've always loved how their phone system tells you to look for internet problem solving tips by going to their website. Now an outage means a delightful trip to the branch office, which I bet will be a recently remodeled DMV. "Welcome customer # 75663445752, your place in line is 443,546,563. Now serving # 7"
Some years ago it did work in a way similar to that. I was on a family plan with 1000 shared minutes (we weren't big talkers... more texts). One time we did manage to go over and got a big bill. Turned out one was trying to reach the DMV or whatever and kept calling, didn't realize that each call counted as 1 min. Yes, they tried roughly 300 times total in one day. So I went onto T-Mobiles site and limited minutes for *every* phone. Next time the boundary was hit, they could only make emergency and in-family calls, which don't count toward the limit.
Most Android phones have some data usage tracking built in, so you can monitor in real-time. A few CM images I've used will notify and/or cut off data once the limit is reached.
All of the above means the account owner must be proactive and either get their account set up for that, or use their phone to help. That's probably asking too much for most people.
Continuing on this thread (at least, in my mind) is the lack of focus on betterment as a whole. Our society idolizes movie stars, musicians and athletes... None of which are known to focus on making the world a better place. The general public knows "that guy from the Fast & Furious movie", not that Paul Walker bought a miitary couples engagement ring. Or the NFL player that takes kids on a shopping spree. No, the general public is too concerned about who plays the Super Bowl halftime show, and who is in the game.
As long as the media spends 3 weeks overanalyzing Kim Kardashians red carpet attire and not the newest life-saving tech/medicine/advancements, this trend will keep going.
I too hate that Eclipse seems to be the de-facto standard. For me, if it doesn't overrun its memory limits (which I have set to 1G), it freezes, crashes, refuses to save files, and otherwise can be best described as acting like a child.
Me: Save the file
Eclipse: I don't wanna
Me: Save the bloody file
Eclipse: No, and now I'm not going to talk to you
Me: Go to timeout (pkill -9 java) ...wait 3 min...
Me: Ready to save the file?
Eclipse: Save the file? Why didn't you say so earlier? I love saving files!
(face on keyboard)
With the recent crackdown on tax payments, I'm curious if the Gov is going to want a part of the religion fat money cake. If so, there's going to be more televangelists that no longer have gold plumbing... either that, or we're going to see the Apple iRobe and Star of St. Jobs.
It could also be that he is in an appointed position and his job is over in December. Sure, he could push harder to get stuff done in an attempt to change the M.O. of the telcos. Or he can back off a little bit, start the trek down that road, and hope that his successor doesn't do an about face.
That's the sad part... it's the lawmakers that created the ways they can receive "campaign contributions". Do you honestly think that these people that wield the power will kill one of their own cash cows?
If you could make it part of national law that you could receive money from others under the guise of "They support my point of view", wouldn't you do it? Comcast wants to give you $5mil because you have said a couple words against Net Neutrality. If they promise to grease your palms for the next 10 years as long as you keep it up, wouldn't you agree?
So they've replaced Pandora One, a $5 service that eliminates adds and lets you skip songs, with Pandora Plus, a $5 service that eliminates adds and lets you skip songs?
Then let the Fed file suit against Verizon for breach of contract while NYC provides the accounting and third-party evidence. While they are at it, the Fed should file suit against all major telecoms that have received federal money and have yet to even bring their FCC-mandated "broadband speeds" up to par, much less expand their networks.
This is just a small scale, well publicized version of the grander nation-wide problem with the Fed giving money to the likes of Comcast, Verizon, AT&T, TWC/Charter and not getting anything in return.
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This is a poor example. I once had a crazy neighbor that pointed a baby monitor (possibly recording) at my front door. She would call animal control or the police because my dog barked at her after she blew a whistle at him. I asked the officer if there was anything he could do, and he said "your front door is visible from the publicly accessible sidewalk, so no." Granted, he's not a lawyer or judge, but he knows more laws than I do.
If we take that knowledge, then your example wouldn't be illegal. Cops may get you for something else, such as harassment or something relating to emotional distress of whomever you're recording, but the act of recording in and of itself wouldn't be illegal.
This is different than the Drone Killer's case, where he and his kids were in his own back yard. This is not a publicly accessible space and they do have a right to privacy here. A closer example would be your neighbor filming you and your kids. From a tree. On a branch that's on your side of the fence. In your backyard.
You know, I was okay when the dealer told me my muffler bearings needed replaced. When they mentioned something about blinker fluid, I started to question them a bit...
A little more detail than A.C. gave. Honeywell produces a number of IMU's, the most accurate of which are MEMS based, "microelectromechanical"... right there in the name.
I'm not sure why you think so, it's pretty standard to pay according to what you consume when supply (capacity) is limited.
I agree that for consumables it makes sense. I pay x dollars a gallon for water and n dollars per kilowatt hour of electricity at home. I would agree that "pay for what you consume" makes sense for broadband, both mobile and at home, if the charges themselves actually made sense. Even $0.05 per text is absurd, considering each message is a low-bandwidth near-tweet using a (formerly or mostly) empty emergency channel. The "true" cost per tweet is negligible. Similarly with broadband, the "true" cost of a gigabyte is in the noise and is somewhat lost in the cost of hardware, facilities, cooling, staff, line crews, etc... (All things *any* service provider has in their costs, like utility companies).
The reason we end up paying for what we consume with utilities is because the cost of production, transport, and waste is measurable. We can measure cost per gallon of water. We can measure kilowatt hour generation, storage, and delivery to a house. How do we measure something that we can make an infinite number of copies of, if the cost to make a copy is near zero?
Maybe a better example of this absurd premiums is $150 for bluetooth earbuds? $3k for a $1200 equivalent laptop?
Apple loves their premium branding. They charge $700 for a phone, makes sense they would push for a $500,000 iCar. Either way, less than 1/4 of the ticket price will be parts cost, the rest will be the Apple Tax.
Yes, and it's their joint call-center.
Okay, "strong paper bag". What about sick bags in airplanes? Those are typically white and don't break down from stomach acid...
Another problem in this vein is that no other industry deals directly with saving human lives. With that are extraordinary costs for insurance due to malpractice, wrongful death lawsuits, etc... The doctor may only see $60 per hour, but the amount of insurance that comes with every surgery is immense. With the U.S. being so litigation happy, it's no wonder we see $4k for one hour in the E.R. If grandma dies under the knife, theres a strong chance that the family is going to file a suit against the hospital, which could cost them millions.
I've always loved how their phone system tells you to look for internet problem solving tips by going to their website. Now an outage means a delightful trip to the branch office, which I bet will be a recently remodeled DMV. "Welcome customer # 75663445752, your place in line is 443,546,563. Now serving # 7"
Some years ago it did work in a way similar to that. I was on a family plan with 1000 shared minutes (we weren't big talkers... more texts). One time we did manage to go over and got a big bill. Turned out one was trying to reach the DMV or whatever and kept calling, didn't realize that each call counted as 1 min. Yes, they tried roughly 300 times total in one day. So I went onto T-Mobiles site and limited minutes for *every* phone. Next time the boundary was hit, they could only make emergency and in-family calls, which don't count toward the limit.
Most Android phones have some data usage tracking built in, so you can monitor in real-time. A few CM images I've used will notify and/or cut off data once the limit is reached.
All of the above means the account owner must be proactive and either get their account set up for that, or use their phone to help. That's probably asking too much for most people.
So you're saying he was charging it wrong? It's not methane powered?
Continuing on this thread (at least, in my mind) is the lack of focus on betterment as a whole. Our society idolizes movie stars, musicians and athletes... None of which are known to focus on making the world a better place. The general public knows "that guy from the Fast & Furious movie", not that Paul Walker bought a miitary couples engagement ring. Or the NFL player that takes kids on a shopping spree. No, the general public is too concerned about who plays the Super Bowl halftime show, and who is in the game.
As long as the media spends 3 weeks overanalyzing Kim Kardashians red carpet attire and not the newest life-saving tech/medicine/advancements, this trend will keep going.
I too hate that Eclipse seems to be the de-facto standard. For me, if it doesn't overrun its memory limits (which I have set to 1G), it freezes, crashes, refuses to save files, and otherwise can be best described as acting like a child.
...wait 3 min...
Me: Save the file
Eclipse: I don't wanna
Me: Save the bloody file
Eclipse: No, and now I'm not going to talk to you
Me: Go to timeout (pkill -9 java)
Me: Ready to save the file?
Eclipse: Save the file? Why didn't you say so earlier? I love saving files!
(face on keyboard)
Don't waste your money. Damned things always show up dead in the box.
Solution! They can just order one of those mail-order Russian Brides! They'd save a ton on shipping! ;-)
With the recent crackdown on tax payments, I'm curious if the Gov is going to want a part of the religion fat money cake. If so, there's going to be more televangelists that no longer have gold plumbing... either that, or we're going to see the Apple iRobe and Star of St. Jobs.
It could also be that he is in an appointed position and his job is over in December. Sure, he could push harder to get stuff done in an attempt to change the M.O. of the telcos. Or he can back off a little bit, start the trek down that road, and hope that his successor doesn't do an about face.
Put a frog in boiling water...
That's the sad part... it's the lawmakers that created the ways they can receive "campaign contributions". Do you honestly think that these people that wield the power will kill one of their own cash cows?
If you could make it part of national law that you could receive money from others under the guise of "They support my point of view", wouldn't you do it? Comcast wants to give you $5mil because you have said a couple words against Net Neutrality. If they promise to grease your palms for the next 10 years as long as you keep it up, wouldn't you agree?
Flanders: "Thank you lord for this bountiful..."
(Bart slams against the glass, naked)
Flanders: "PENIS!??!?!"
Rod and Todd: "Bountiful penis"
It worked for Ford.. "Comes in any color you want, so long as it's black".
Apparently he's learned nothing from all the Samsung posts lately.
So they've replaced Pandora One, a $5 service that eliminates adds and lets you skip songs, with Pandora Plus, a $5 service that eliminates adds and lets you skip songs?
Somehow I don't think European censorship is going to really help out here.
Then let the Fed file suit against Verizon for breach of contract while NYC provides the accounting and third-party evidence. While they are at it, the Fed should file suit against all major telecoms that have received federal money and have yet to even bring their FCC-mandated "broadband speeds" up to par, much less expand their networks.
This is just a small scale, well publicized version of the grander nation-wide problem with the Fed giving money to the likes of Comcast, Verizon, AT&T, TWC/Charter and not getting anything in return.