Please see the thread on Usenet group ba.broadcast.
A former FCC field office chief has stated that while someone may try to convince a resident to let him in, he can't legally use force to gain entry without a U.S. Marshal and a warrant.
I suspect the real reason is that legislators were photographed with their mistresses in their cars, and the pictures sent home to their wives. They would shut that s$#t down real quick...
Just tell the gov't that it'll help them surveil private citizens in their own homes, even better than cameras on poles. The bill will go through the House of Commons in a flash...
I am the Game-Day frequency coordinator for a major-league sports team (contractor to the league). Some of my colleagues were in on the test and I have read their individual on-field reports.
My recollection is that a good many of the WM's tested in this experiment were in "good, clean whitespace." Let's think it through - a WM hidden in an occupied analog TV channel should be protected by the much stronger carriers of that station. If the whitespace-using net gear is equipped to use such small interstitial spaces as WMs use, it should be sensitive enough to detect WM carriers therein.
I suspect Mr. Page's remarks are fed by a badly underling-filtered early version of the report (or leak).
I guess that's one way to achieve net neutrality. Now they just need to run their own backbone to every major peering point and ISP in the rest of the world...
I maintain a radio station with a studio in SoMa and transmitter on Russian Hill, and both went down simultaneously. UPSes and generator at the studio but not at the tx. Not a fun day...
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Alfred Yankovic has not only taken the humor and a great deal of the style of Lindley Armstrong "Spike" Jones to new heights, he's surpassed Jones's, Sherman's, Lehrer's and Silverstein's longevity by a good way.
Al, you rock. And the fact that you took time to see a John Hartford show when your touring paths crossed in upstate New York speaks even more highly for you...
Bloomberg doesn't have the smarts to propose something like this, nor the motivation. He's being the lightning rod for somebody else. I guess he or "they" figure his political career is near enough over that he can be sacrificed.
Will all Adsense (TM) publishers get this, or will they need to opt in? Will the impressions or clicks be worth more to the publisher? Didn't notice in TFA...
Seems to me that this is the poster child for abolishing the whole category of Business Method patents. How can it be generalized to the whole category? Can it at all?
"...Because XM makes available vast catalogues of music in every genre, XM subscribers will have little need ever again to buy legitimate copies of plaintiffs' sound recordings," the lawsuit says referring to the hand held "Inno" device.
This is similar to saying "once they have it in bad-sounding overcompressed XM format, they'll never want it in 16-bit linear". I have a hard time imagining this being the case. XM and Sirius both squish their content very hard to fit so many channels in their bitstream. If I heard something on XM and liked it, I'd probably run out and buy it on a released CD so I wouldn't have to listen to all the compression artifacts.
The war between sheet music publishers and piano roll makers, all over again...
Okay, I'm just a cynical old coot with an "otaku" streak, but I'll believe this when I see OLED stands around the Akihabara train station. If Akihabara is still there by then...
IIRC, 501(c)(3) status just means the entity doesn't have to pay income tax on its revenues. Being certified as a public charity to whom contributions are deductible is a DIFFERENT THING.
Don't try to write off Mozilla contributions until you hear they're classified as a public charity...
Last I heard, "HD Radio" was compressed using MPEG-4 AAC. I forget the bitrate, but it's likely around 128 Kbps. This is real good, but not CD-quality.
Eric Weaver
Chief Engineer, KFJC, 1993-1997
Anyone who has not read Neal Stephenson's "Cryptonomicon", I recommend you borrow a copy and read the "War as Text" section about a lit-crit conference for which the protagonist is doing IT support. Dovetails nicely with the article, and is a real hoot.
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If someone ported Redneck Rampage I might be tempted to buy an iPhone...
Please see the thread on Usenet group ba.broadcast.
A former FCC field office chief has stated that while someone may try to convince a resident to let him in, he can't legally use force to gain entry without a U.S. Marshal and a warrant.
I suspect the real reason is that legislators were photographed with their mistresses in their cars, and the pictures sent home to their wives. They would shut that s$#t down real quick...
Just watch - they'll want "5 yrs exp." on Android hacking, in the manner of HR ads everywhere, and get only the fakes and posers applying...
Just tell the gov't that it'll help them surveil private citizens in their own homes, even better than cameras on poles. The bill will go through the House of Commons in a flash...
Stay in range of the telescreen, please.
I am the Game-Day frequency coordinator for a major-league sports team (contractor to the league). Some of my colleagues were in on the test and I have read their individual on-field reports.
My recollection is that a good many of the WM's tested in this experiment were in "good, clean whitespace." Let's think it through - a WM hidden in an occupied analog TV channel should be protected by the much stronger carriers of that station. If the whitespace-using net gear is equipped to use such small interstitial spaces as WMs use, it should be sensitive enough to detect WM carriers therein.
I suspect Mr. Page's remarks are fed by a badly underling-filtered early version of the report (or leak).
I suppose this is the first exception to Fudd's Law: If you push something hard enough, it will fall over...
On the other hand, it may just raise the energy barrier, so to speak.
I guess that's one way to achieve net neutrality. Now they just need to run their own backbone to every major peering point and ISP in the rest of the world...
Have it cost $100 and work with any carrier (OK, that can be after a limited lock-in period say a year or two).
I maintain a radio station with a studio in SoMa and transmitter on Russian Hill, and both went down simultaneously. UPSes and generator at the studio but not at the tx. Not a fun day...
Alfred Yankovic has not only taken the humor and a great deal of the style of Lindley Armstrong "Spike" Jones to new heights, he's surpassed Jones's, Sherman's, Lehrer's and Silverstein's longevity by a good way.
Al, you rock. And the fact that you took time to see a John Hartford show when your touring paths crossed in upstate New York speaks even more highly for you...
Bloomberg doesn't have the smarts to propose something like this, nor the motivation. He's being the lightning rod for somebody else. I guess he or "they" figure his political career is near enough over that he can be sacrificed.
Will all Adsense (TM) publishers get this, or will they need to opt in? Will the impressions or clicks be worth more to the publisher? Didn't notice in TFA...
Seems to me that this is the poster child for abolishing the whole category of Business Method patents. How can it be generalized to the whole category? Can it at all?
The war between sheet music publishers and piano roll makers, all over again...
Okay, I'm just a cynical old coot with an "otaku" streak, but I'll believe this when I see OLED stands around the Akihabara train station. If Akihabara is still there by then...
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Neko ga nai
IIRC, 501(c)(3) status just means the entity doesn't have to pay income tax on its revenues. Being certified as a public charity to whom contributions are deductible is a DIFFERENT THING.
Don't try to write off Mozilla contributions until you hear they're classified as a public charity...
Danger, Will Robinson!
Last I heard, "HD Radio" was compressed using MPEG-4 AAC. I forget the bitrate, but it's likely around 128 Kbps. This is real good, but not CD-quality. Eric Weaver Chief Engineer, KFJC, 1993-1997
Once invited, do I get a cool little apron, learn the secret handshake (thumb on index finger's knuckle), and the pass-words?
If not, I think I'll skip it...
Does it require knowledge of the original? If so, doesn't that kinda limit the utility of the algorithm?
Anyone who has not read Neal Stephenson's "Cryptonomicon", I recommend you borrow a copy and read the "War as Text" section about a lit-crit conference for which the protagonist is doing IT support. Dovetails nicely with the article, and is a real hoot.
Clearly we have the best Congress spammers' money can buy. I may have to change my email address to use Shift-JIS or strange ISO-8859 characters now.
Thank you, O Congress! May I have another?!
The real Stallman factor ("S")is how big a flamefestany mention of him stirs up.
I'd say that S is still pretty high around here...