The case against the telcos is based on violations of law, not constitution. The telcos violated provisions in FISA which placed specific parameters around what they are legally allowed to do (and required to obtain) in order to perform surveillance on US citizens or within US territories. The provisions are specific enough that civil damages are specified in the actual law (per incident!) to further incent the telcos to obey the law.
The government asked for something they shouldn't have, and most of the telcos (not all!) gave up something they were legally obligated to protect. As far as I'm concerned they are both fair game.
If you want to help, write/phone/fax your Representative in the House. Make your voice be heard. Don't let the government give the telecom companies retroactive immunity - insist that the lawsuits be allowed to continue. If they didn't break the law, they already have immunity under current regulations.
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The box does operations on packet streams based on programmed rules. With the packet inspection capabilities it can do things like copy email packets to/from particular users and have them archived... From a 5Gps data stream.
I actually used to joke with a friend who worked there, saying they were building the next generation carnivore.
That's the theory, and that's what they told us out here in CA. In reality, you get screwed. They told the citizens of Monatana the same thing when they deregulated the Montana Power Company. Look at how screwed they got.
I'd like to know if there was a successful case of electrical deregulation in the US?
No, but somebody sitting on the street outside the building can't plug into it either.
The main flaw with VPN based wireless security is that you are only protecting and securing the nodes inside the wired network. It's trivially easy to get an IP address on your wireless network (either no security or "mac" ha! security) and you have to have an IP address before you can make a VPN connection. I hope you have your PC locked down in a very secure manner because you cannot stop people from trying to hack at your publicly exposed IP interface.
With 802.1x security they cannot even send a packet to you unless they've been authenticated using PKI.
Yes, the D/A conversion has to happen somewhere. Every junction and additional length of analog cable will degrade the signal (yes, it's a *REALLY* tiny ammount). Optical output (combined with a central pre-amp/receiver allows you to move the D/A conversion as close to the speakers as you can, thereby minimizing signal quality loss. It also allows you to share resources - you can get better quality D/A chips in one place, and use them for several different digital inputs instead of having multiple lower-quality D/A chips in each device.
And the only real reason most people like it is for the multichannel soundtracks. Stereo pales in comparison to a good DTS surround soundtrack.
Wow, I'm an athiest and I'm even somewhat offended by your statements. This sort of thinking is exactly what the earlier posts regarding dogmatic skeptics were talking about. You're views are just as dogmatic as the most fundamentalist christian or muslim, even down to the stereotyping of other faiths.
On the whole the new atheists, and agnostics typically imho (from my exp) are better human beings.
Just because somebody believes in a christian god, or a muslim allah, or a buddhist worldview does not make them a lesser human being. There are plenty of extremely intelligent people who have religion, and are demonstratably "better human beings". Thomas Jefferson and Albert Einstein to name a couple off of the top of my head. Do you think that you are more intelligent than Einstein? Or a more critical thinker than Jefferson?
If you flip the bars around so the the game is oriented towards left-handed people instead of right-handed people, I'll stop scoring from the 5-man. Until that happens, quit yer bitchin - theres' nothing in the standard rules against it.
And the spinners do suck, but they seem to eventually figure out that it's sloppy and causing them to lose more games.
Unless you are doing point-to-point or frequency hopping. The spec sheet for the card ( from www.engeniustech.com ) says it's using DSSS, so it's not frequency hopping. How are they able to claim FCC compliance with this thing?
Actually the shadowrun implementatin was strikingly similar to the patent. It involved cameras on the invisible object, and a suit which could emit light such that an image processing computer could process the camera images from the opposite side of the "invisible" target and project an image of what's "beyond" the target to the appropriate area, making him appear to be invisible (or at least hard to see).
Part of how the LEAP protocol works involves custom information elements in Probe responses, and "cruft" tacked onto the association request and response packets. It's not a clean solution, and it's very proprietary. Sure, they'll let companies like Funk write backend AAA support for it, but the "bits in the middle" are kept under tight control. Don't count on ever getting LEAP running through a non-cisco Access Point.
I've got a Yamaha RXV 2095 and Paradigm Monitor 7s (plus the matching surrounds and center). Love the sound. Yamaha does a 8 channel "thing" which I went ahead and picked up the extra 2 low power speakers for. Not really worth it except to brag that you have more speakers.
Don't forget the Dish-Player from Dish Networks. It's got the Tivo/ReplayTV functionality built into the Satelite receiver, and the MPEG2 stream from the satelite is written directly to the HD, avoiding video compression artifacts that the Tivo and ReplayTV have at lowere resolutions. I played with one of these at the local tech store, and was immediately sold on it. $399 ($200 if you are currently a cable customer) gets you a ~10hour box. This is 10 *real* hours, at full MPEG2 quality - which would be better than the highest video qualities on the others. AND it supports (and records) Dolby Digital for the programming that includes it (mostly only pay-per-view at this point, though anything with a "DD" in the TV listing is). The programming and software updates happen via the satelite connection. The manual says the phone connection is necessary, but I honestly can't figure out why besides PPV ordering. The service the the Tive-like functionality is $9.95 a month, with no lifetime options like Tivo. I've heard that the HDs inside are fairly standard EIDE drives, and that several people have upgraded from 18GB to 36GB and gotten almost 24 hours of storage out of it.
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The case against the telcos is based on violations of law, not constitution. The telcos violated provisions in FISA which placed specific parameters around what they are legally allowed to do (and required to obtain) in order to perform surveillance on US citizens or within US territories. The provisions are specific enough that civil damages are specified in the actual law (per incident!) to further incent the telcos to obey the law.
The government asked for something they shouldn't have, and most of the telcos (not all!) gave up something they were legally obligated to protect. As far as I'm concerned they are both fair game.
Some of us do care, and try to do something:
http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2008/03/tash-hepting-speaks-out
If you want to help, write/phone/fax your Representative in the House. Make your voice be heard. Don't let the government give the telecom companies retroactive immunity - insist that the lawsuits be allowed to continue. If they didn't break the law, they already have immunity under current regulations.
http://www.cloudshield.com/
The box does operations on packet streams based on programmed rules. With the packet inspection capabilities it can do things like copy email packets to/from particular users and have them archived... From a 5Gps data stream.
I actually used to joke with a friend who worked there, saying they were building the next generation carnivore.
That's the theory, and that's what they told us out here in CA. In reality, you get screwed. They told the citizens of Monatana the same thing when they deregulated the Montana Power Company. Look at how screwed they got.
I'd like to know if there was a successful case of electrical deregulation in the US?
No, but somebody sitting on the street outside the building can't plug into it either.
The main flaw with VPN based wireless security is that you are only protecting and securing the nodes inside the wired network. It's trivially easy to get an IP address on your wireless network (either no security or "mac" ha! security) and you have to have an IP address before you can make a VPN connection. I hope you have your PC locked down in a very secure manner because you cannot stop people from trying to hack at your publicly exposed IP interface.
With 802.1x security they cannot even send a packet to you unless they've been authenticated using PKI.
Yes, the D/A conversion has to happen somewhere. Every junction and additional length of analog cable will degrade the signal (yes, it's a *REALLY* tiny ammount). Optical output (combined with a central pre-amp/receiver allows you to move the D/A conversion as close to the speakers as you can, thereby minimizing signal quality loss. It also allows you to share resources - you can get better quality D/A chips in one place, and use them for several different digital inputs instead of having multiple lower-quality D/A chips in each device.
And the only real reason most people like it is for the multichannel soundtracks. Stereo pales in comparison to a good DTS surround soundtrack.
Just because somebody believes in a christian god, or a muslim allah, or a buddhist worldview does not make them a lesser human being. There are plenty of extremely intelligent people who have religion, and are demonstratably "better human beings". Thomas Jefferson and Albert Einstein to name a couple off of the top of my head. Do you think that you are more intelligent than Einstein? Or a more critical thinker than Jefferson?
There are plenty of products out there that run gigabit over CAT5. And by the time we actually get fiber to the door they'll be dirt cheap.
If you flip the bars around so the the game is oriented towards left-handed people instead of right-handed people, I'll stop scoring from the 5-man. Until that happens, quit yer bitchin - theres' nothing in the standard rules against it.
And the spinners do suck, but they seem to eventually figure out that it's sloppy and causing them to lose more games.
Unless you are doing point-to-point or frequency hopping. The spec sheet for the card ( from www.engeniustech.com ) says it's using DSSS, so it's not frequency hopping. How are they able to claim FCC compliance with this thing?
Actually the shadowrun implementatin was strikingly similar to the patent. It involved cameras on the invisible object, and a suit which could emit light such that an image processing computer could process the camera images from the opposite side of the "invisible" target and project an image of what's "beyond" the target to the appropriate area, making him appear to be invisible (or at least hard to see).
Part of how the LEAP protocol works involves custom information elements in Probe responses, and "cruft" tacked onto the association request and response packets. It's not a clean solution, and it's very proprietary. Sure, they'll let companies like Funk write backend AAA support for it, but the "bits in the middle" are kept under tight control. Don't count on ever getting LEAP running through a non-cisco Access Point.
Windows 2000, Windows 98/ME, and Windows NT 4. I haven't tried PEAP on Win2K yet, but TLS works just fine with it.
Frankly, I was stunned that they released NT and 98 support for it.
I've got a Yamaha RXV 2095 and Paradigm Monitor 7s (plus the matching surrounds and center). Love the sound. Yamaha does a 8 channel "thing" which I went ahead and picked up the extra 2 low power speakers for. Not really worth it except to brag that you have more speakers.
Don't forget the Dish-Player from Dish Networks. It's got the Tivo/ReplayTV functionality built into the Satelite receiver, and the MPEG2 stream from the satelite is written directly to the HD, avoiding video compression artifacts that the Tivo and ReplayTV have at lowere resolutions. I played with one of these at the local tech store, and was immediately sold on it. $399 ($200 if you are currently a cable customer) gets you a ~10hour box. This is 10 *real* hours, at full MPEG2 quality - which would be better than the highest video qualities on the others. AND it supports (and records) Dolby Digital for the programming that includes it (mostly only pay-per-view at this point, though anything with a "DD" in the TV listing is). The programming and software updates happen via the satelite connection. The manual says the phone connection is necessary, but I honestly can't figure out why besides PPV ordering. The service the the Tive-like functionality is $9.95 a month, with no lifetime options like Tivo. I've heard that the HDs inside are fairly standard EIDE drives, and that several people have upgraded from 18GB to 36GB and gotten almost 24 hours of storage out of it.