How does the used textbook market moderate the prices of new books? The price of used books is generally some percentage of the price of new books, with the value going down based on the age of the old book. Books older than a couple of years are worth $0, because of new editions. Absence of the used book market might actually cause the price of new books to fall, because it would increase demand for new books, and assure publishers of not missing out on profits from seconds sales.
Some might even suggest that the fact that the DRM'd e-books (can't be resold) are cheaper than than un-DRM's versions is evidence in support of this theory.
what's dumb is that they believe that they can threaten people with lawsuits to keep them quiet.
What's dumb is that people sign NDA's and then reveal what they learn. Even if Lynn didn't have an NDA personally, ISS almost certainly did, and he would have been bound by it. In addition, some of the information may have been based on ISS trade secrets, and since he's no longer an employee, he would have no authority to discuss them. So, in this case, a civil lawsuit is absolutely appropriate.
If you and I have a contract that you won't disclose X without my permission, and you tell me you are going to disclose X, what should my reaction be?
Red herring. No one, not even the guy who released the exploit has implied that this information was in the wild. And theoretically, he was a white hat. I gues not anymore.
Now, if you have some information that Cisco has known about these flaws for sometime, and has been trying to cover it up, then by all means, please share. But keep in mind, that rewriting the code, and getting patches to just about every router on the Internet take time, no matter how motivated Cisco is to do it quickly.
The orbiter heatshield isn't made of foam. The ET is covered with foam. That's where the foam came from, not the orbiter. So, there's no need to repair anything.
Well, that's only the "trip" as far as the orbiter is concerned. But FWIW, the ET is jettisoned at ~113km MSL, which is technically outer space, since it is beyond 100km MSL.
I guess you and I have a different definition of "return trip". The ET and the SRBs both go up and come back down. I call that making the return trip. The SRBs even return right to the launch pad, when they get reused.
The "Shuttle" includes the ET and the SRBs. What goes up, must come down, so they all make the return trip, they just use different modes. It amazes me that people can't distinguish between the Orbiter and the Shuttle.
So it isn't actually capable of recording "every channel". It is capable of recording a predetermined and hardware limited number of channels. Whoopie. So, instead of a TiVo with two tuners, it has five, and a whole bunch of drive space. What makes it fundamentally different than what is available today?
Here in the US, a big city is likely to have 10-15 OTA channels, plus a hundred or so cable channels. Can this box record all of that?
But apparantly, you only value the opinions of people who are against warfare. This is clear from the phrasing of your original question. You have an agenda that you seek to satisfy. You aren't doing a research project on how veterans feel about making war to solve the problems of the world. You've already reached your conclusion, and you seek people you can quote to bolster your position. Why not give John Kerry a call, he can probably help you out with some names.
BTW, there are plenty of WWII, Korea and Vietnam vets in the US Congress.
You only get that wattage on a small numbers of ports. On all the switches I know of, you are limited to 24 ports at full power. Most of the phones only use about 4W.
Yes, IPT will bring PoE, but it won't be good for much other than powering phones and WiFi AP's. You can only put a few watts on each switch port, or you end up with a switch that's more of a heater than anything else.
Your assertions sound plausible on the surface, but they aren't borne out in reality. There is no correlation to suicide and availability of weapons or drugs. In fact the country with the highest suicide rate by far bans all civilian ownership of firearms. The availabilty of firearms also does not increase rates of violent crime, since criminals will always get guns. However, decreasing the availability of legal firearms increases the rate of violent crime, since criminals are more likely to find an easy victim.
But it's clear that you are willing to sacrifice liberty for illusory safety, so I'm sure you don't care about facts. As they say, there's a reason God put you on an island.
And that would be insightful if they were talking about buying the tech 5 years from now. Yes, in five years 802.11a gear will probably cost next to nothing (if you can even buy it). The cost from years 5-10 may indeed be lower than the cost from 1-5, but that is all but meaningless given that, "In 5 years there may be a totally new way of putting in the systems." Indeed, in five years the whole thing will probably be scrapped and replaced with something else.
Just like those schools which 10 years ago bought shiny new 486's and now have P4's. They didn't just add RAM and blow out the dust every 3 years, they replaced systems wholesale. And since PC's are still mostly in the $1-2,000 range the costs each time were probably very similar. The actual capital cost probably didn't change that much, they just got more for their money with each succesive purchase.
It makes sense to cost out capital expeditures over the useful life. The useful life of a road may be measured in decades. The useful life of muni-WiFi may actually be less than 5 years.
You mean like how Verisign decided to redirect the failed DNS queries to their "Sitefinder" service. Yeah there is "stable" for you, and I don't seem to remember them being real "accountable" for that fuck up. It was only through a huge amount of grassroots pressure, workarounds in the form of BIND patches, etc. that they finally capitulated.
The.com root is not the same as the '.' root. This is just about the '.' root. Verisign does operate A-Root, but doesn't have any control over the root zone. Furthermore, Verisign operates the.com zone under a contract with... guess who... ICANN, so if you want to blame someone other than Verisign for Sitefinder, blame ICANN.
Well, I didn't mention the law, you did. But if you are willing to assume that there is no moral problem with using someone else's artistic works without their permission (apart from the law of copyright), then there's no point in discussing it. You've created a nice little tautology for yourself.
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How does the used textbook market moderate the prices of new books? The price of used books is generally some percentage of the price of new books, with the value going down based on the age of the old book. Books older than a couple of years are worth $0, because of new editions. Absence of the used book market might actually cause the price of new books to fall, because it would increase demand for new books, and assure publishers of not missing out on profits from seconds sales.
Some might even suggest that the fact that the DRM'd e-books (can't be resold) are cheaper than than un-DRM's versions is evidence in support of this theory.
No, we can't agree that's true. Information doesn't become anything without measures to make it so.
what's dumb is that they believe that they can threaten people with lawsuits to keep them quiet.
What's dumb is that people sign NDA's and then reveal what they learn. Even if Lynn didn't have an NDA personally, ISS almost certainly did, and he would have been bound by it. In addition, some of the information may have been based on ISS trade secrets, and since he's no longer an employee, he would have no authority to discuss them. So, in this case, a civil lawsuit is absolutely appropriate.
If you and I have a contract that you won't disclose X without my permission, and you tell me you are going to disclose X, what should my reaction be?
Red herring. No one, not even the guy who released the exploit has implied that this information was in the wild. And theoretically, he was a white hat. I gues not anymore.
Now, if you have some information that Cisco has known about these flaws for sometime, and has been trying to cover it up, then by all means, please share. But keep in mind, that rewriting the code, and getting patches to just about every router on the Internet take time, no matter how motivated Cisco is to do it quickly.
WTF does Bush's ego have to do with replacing the shuttle? Wouldn't launching a new era in US space exploration be a feather in his cap?
The orbiter heatshield isn't made of foam. The ET is covered with foam. That's where the foam came from, not the orbiter. So, there's no need to repair anything.
Well, that's only the "trip" as far as the orbiter is concerned. But FWIW, the ET is jettisoned at ~113km MSL, which is technically outer space, since it is beyond 100km MSL.
I guess you and I have a different definition of "return trip". The ET and the SRBs both go up and come back down. I call that making the return trip. The SRBs even return right to the launch pad, when they get reused.
The "Shuttle" includes the ET and the SRBs. What goes up, must come down, so they all make the return trip, they just use different modes. It amazes me that people can't distinguish between the Orbiter and the Shuttle.
So it isn't actually capable of recording "every channel". It is capable of recording a predetermined and hardware limited number of channels. Whoopie. So, instead of a TiVo with two tuners, it has five, and a whole bunch of drive space. What makes it fundamentally different than what is available today?
Here in the US, a big city is likely to have 10-15 OTA channels, plus a hundred or so cable channels. Can this box record all of that?
0.1% isn't 1/1000, it's 1/10. 365 divided by 10 is 3.65. Are you the bad math troll?
That's great for the 15% of the attacks that come from the outside. But what about the rest of them?
But apparantly, you only value the opinions of people who are against warfare. This is clear from the phrasing of your original question. You have an agenda that you seek to satisfy. You aren't doing a research project on how veterans feel about making war to solve the problems of the world. You've already reached your conclusion, and you seek people you can quote to bolster your position. Why not give John Kerry a call, he can probably help you out with some names.
BTW, there are plenty of WWII, Korea and Vietnam vets in the US Congress.
Why?
You only get that wattage on a small numbers of ports. On all the switches I know of, you are limited to 24 ports at full power. Most of the phones only use about 4W.
Yes, IPT will bring PoE, but it won't be good for much other than powering phones and WiFi AP's. You can only put a few watts on each switch port, or you end up with a switch that's more of a heater than anything else.
There's probably codes embedded in the Vertical Blanking Interval, just like Closed Captioning.
Source?
Your assertions sound plausible on the surface, but they aren't borne out in reality. There is no correlation to suicide and availability of weapons or drugs. In fact the country with the highest suicide rate by far bans all civilian ownership of firearms. The availabilty of firearms also does not increase rates of violent crime, since criminals will always get guns. However, decreasing the availability of legal firearms increases the rate of violent crime, since criminals are more likely to find an easy victim.
But it's clear that you are willing to sacrifice liberty for illusory safety, so I'm sure you don't care about facts. As they say, there's a reason God put you on an island.
And that would be insightful if they were talking about buying the tech 5 years from now. Yes, in five years 802.11a gear will probably cost next to nothing (if you can even buy it). The cost from years 5-10 may indeed be lower than the cost from 1-5, but that is all but meaningless given that, "In 5 years there may be a totally new way of putting in the systems." Indeed, in five years the whole thing will probably be scrapped and replaced with something else.
Just like those schools which 10 years ago bought shiny new 486's and now have P4's. They didn't just add RAM and blow out the dust every 3 years, they replaced systems wholesale. And since PC's are still mostly in the $1-2,000 range the costs each time were probably very similar. The actual capital cost probably didn't change that much, they just got more for their money with each succesive purchase.
It makes sense to cost out capital expeditures over the useful life. The useful life of a road may be measured in decades. The useful life of muni-WiFi may actually be less than 5 years.
You mean like how Verisign decided to redirect the failed DNS queries to their "Sitefinder" service. Yeah there is "stable" for you, and I don't seem to remember them being real "accountable" for that fuck up. It was only through a huge amount of grassroots pressure, workarounds in the form of BIND patches, etc. that they finally capitulated.
.com root is not the same as the '.' root. This is just about the '.' root. Verisign does operate A-Root, but doesn't have any control over the root zone. Furthermore, Verisign operates the .com zone under a contract with... guess who... ICANN, so if you want to blame someone other than Verisign for Sitefinder, blame ICANN.
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What is the reasoning behind this step, apart from making more money for some corporations?
How does DoC controlling Root DNS policy make money for some corporations? How would this change if if was ICANN instead of the DoC?
Root DNS != DNS Registry
Thus, doesn't that conclusively demonstrate in Google's favor that "Click Defense Inc." is just wrong?
Only if you believe that doing something == doing enough.
Did you RTFA? They are indeed a customer.
Well, I didn't mention the law, you did. But if you are willing to assume that there is no moral problem with using someone else's artistic works without their permission (apart from the law of copyright), then there's no point in discussing it. You've created a nice little tautology for yourself.