In this case "well regulated" means well equipped and well trained, and "militia" means armed citizens.
Back in the day, you had regular and irregular units. The regulars were the standing armies. These soldiers received "regulation" equipment, training, and arms. The irregulars were volunteers and conscripts who were expected to take up whatever weapons they had at hand. The full text, "A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." tells me that the framers felt that having an armed populace with the means to stand up and fight was pretty essential to maintaining a free country.
I recently installed a wireless router in my mother-in-law's house. For years she was using a neighbor's unsecured wireless signal. The kicker is, she didn't know she was using a neighbor's Internet connection. When she bought the home it was advertised as a "wireless capable" smart home. Her desktop computer was connected directly to a cable modem with Internet service she was paying for, and it is likely that her neighbor was on the same cable Internet system, so it would be a stretch to say she was getting anything for free, not even convenience. I found the wireless router in a box of electronics in the garage. It had come from her husband's practice and had been in the house about as long as she had lived there.
I agree that the schools aren't helping the cause.
'Round about 1986 I was placed in a gifted program that ran concurrently with a grammar and spelling lessons. My mother complained about the school pulling me out of spelling for an entire year. The gifted program's teacher claimed that I was so smart that I would certainly have a secretary when I grew up and would not need to know how to spell. I don't have a secretary.
I later learned to spell in college by setting a word processor, I think it was MacWrite, to beep at me every time I misspelled a word. It took Latin classes to teach me English grammar.
We have been looking at electronic textbooks at work, but it's a non-starter because each publisher is doing it their own way. They have their own rules for what you can and can not do, making it a nightmare to support. Can the book be printed? Is the book online-only or is it downloaded? Can it be accessed from more than one computer? When exactly does the license expire? Is the particular book available electronically? What if a student's computer crashes and they loose the e-book? What application is required to access the book and can it be accessed on device X? Can students attach notes to the e-book, like writing in the margins. Each publisher has different answers. It's too bad, because we estimated that the savings from going to e-books could finance a one-to-one program twice over.
Unless the publishers can settle on a consistent platform and consistent terms, e-textbooks will not work.
Technically correct, but very few people use XP 64 bit. I've never seen it featured for sale from a large vendor and never seen it in the wild. Hardware vendors were very slow to write drivers for it, and even now I doubt that it is supported well enough to be a viable OS choice outside of a few niche markets.
I don't think you can blame this on inflation and money supply. US households' net worth have dropped 39% since 2007 according to the Federal Reserve. That is due mostly to the housing bubble bursting. In a sense, this is an example of deflation because a dollar is worth more real estate than it was 5 years ago. People who had piles of cash 5 years ago are looking pretty good now compared to people who had piles of equity. Now, we are in a depression, (yes, I consider this a depression) because about 30% of American Mortgages are underwater, and there is little visible hope of that changing. Home prices are not rising quickly and government efforts to persuade banks to forgive principal have failed. If you owe more on a home than it is worth you can not refinance and you can not sell because most banks don't allow short-sales. If you can not sell you can not move to get a better job. So, if you are stuck paying a mortgage for more than your house is worth, you are not going to be spending money. You will be saving everything you can because you have no real estate wealth to fall back on.
Compound that with the fact that the service based economy we have been promised for the past 30 years has been a bust. You can not replace millions of manufacturing jobs with service positions busing tables and mowing lawns and expect people to stay in the middle class. When all the training required for a job is a 1 week breaking in period, there will always be a way to suppress wages for that position and push more of America's middle class into poverty.
If you did not buy a drive with a bundled disk cloning utility, The Ultimate Boot CD http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/ contains some free tools that will do the job.
Cable operators must provide subscribers with CableCARDs upon request.1 Over the
years, the Commission has received a variety of complaints from consumers concerning their efforts to obtain and use
CableCARDs. The Commission adopted new rules to improve consumers’ experience with retail CableCARD devices.2
The new rules require cable operators to provide accurate information about retail set-top boxes and ensure that
consumers are treated similarly, whether they choose to buy a retail device or rent a device from their cable provider.
This Enforcement Advisory underscores the Commission’s commitment to “strictly enforce our navigation device rules in
order to ensure proper support for CableCARD devices.3 We encourage cable operators to review their policies,
procedures, and operations to ensure that they comply with the rules. The Enforcement Bureau will review complaints
carefully to determine if cable systems comply with the rules.
The FCC has a couple of web pages where you can get more information and file a complaint.
The requirement to provide CableCARDs on request existed long before 2011, but cable companies have been notoriously dishonest about it. Apparently dishonest enough that the FCC felt the need to tell them to stop lying about it.
You as an employee? You don't. If you don't trust your employer, don't check your email and facebook from a work computer. If your IT department is really unscrupulous, what's to stop them from installing keyloggers on the computers and harvesting passwords that way?
I have some experience with systems that can decrypt SSL traffic. The firewall at work has the capability, but I have not rolled it out... yet. Employers and schools have been inspecting traffic for viruses and attacks against known vulnerabilities, filtering out advertisements from web sites, etc. for over a decade. There is nothing new there. The technology is even pretty good. But even if it doesn't work very well, employers have to make an effort to inspect traffic for legal reasons. What is rather new over the past 3 to 5 years is that applications no longer respect TCP ports. Every software vendor has figured out how to package and redirect their network traffic over port 80 and make it look like HTTP traffic because port 80 is always open and usually just protected by a URL filter for porn, wares sites, file sharing, or whatever other potential liability they can think of. Once an application can send traffic as HTTP, sending as HTTPS is pretty easy. But once it is SSL encrypted, firewalls have to decrypt it before they can scan it, Evil bit not withstanding.
Another thing to note is that a company or school can not install their Certificate Authority as a trusted CA without getting root access to a computer. So, if you are using your personal devices through their network you will at least get a certificate error.
The reason is that encrypted traffic can not be inspected for suspicious traffic unless it is decrypted. Otherwise it is just encrypted data. Content caching is just a fringe benefit.
If I say the sky is blue and quoted a reference to material written by someone admittedly colorblind, I would hope that people corrected me and directed me to a better reference.
Perhaps this quote from above will explain, but am doubtful.
Could I have stated explicitly the source of the statement with which I was referring? Why yes, but since it's exactly above my post I did not think anyone would need such a reference. Most people would see my comment, read your comment, and realize "Hey, this guy quoted some internet site claiming this stuff".
In closing, If you don't know the material you are quoting, or don't agree with the material that you quote, or the quote does not match up with your point, then why did you bother to quote something? If there is no direct quote attributed to "you", then don't take personal offense when someone brings up the materials "you" quoted.
If I post that the sky is up and quote an article by a colorblind author, I don't expect to get people arguing with me about the color.
What offended me was the wholly unnecessary jab when you wrote.
See any trends you may wish to not follow?
I tried to be polite in my response to that jab, but you had to continue to get personal in your responses.
P.S. The previous AC posting was not mine. I have not posted anonymously in this thread, but believe whatever you want.
A related issue, which the article did not bring up, is that digital music sales are predominantly singles, rather than albums. Looking at the data in Lowery's article, when comparing a $15.99 CD in 1996 to a 9.99 digital album in 2012, the loss of 46 cents per album is significant, but the bigger loss is that people, by and large, are not buying the 9.99 albums. In 1996, if you wanted to own a copy of that hot new song, you went down to the music store and probably bought the album. I know singles existed before digital, but for the life of me, I don't ever remember seeing singles for sale in a record store. In 2012, if you want a copy of that hot new song you fire up iTunes and buy it for 99 cents. Album? pffftt.... why would someone pay 10 bucks for the one or two songs they really love when they can buy them individually for 2 bucks total.
What that tells me is that 99 cents is too cheap for a single. Singles should cost more, making that 10 dollar album look like a bargain. If singles were 2 bucks a song it would be more like, "I could pay 4 bucks for two great songs, or I could buy the album for 10 and get those plus 8 more pretty good songs. It's a bargain!"
The best graphic I have found showing the relative growth of singles vs decline of albums is from a 2010 article from FastCompany. The graphic is from 2010, so everything past 2009 is a projection, but just the data up until 2009 is remarkable. (http://www.fastcompany.com/1695418/should-albums-only-cost-1)
From the article...
At the New Music Seminar in July, Tommy Boy Records founder Tom Silverman suggested a different approach for the industry.
"Historically, the price of an album was five times greater than a single," argued Silverman, who believes setting the price of a single at one-tenth of an album's cost was a mistake. Even $1.29 -- the top price on iTunes for a single MP3 -- is too low, he contends. "It should've been $1.99, and then we would've seen higher digital album sales because it would've been a bigger discount for buying an album." Based on increased revenue from digital album sales, he says, the $9.99 price tag is becoming more reasonable for consumers.
The article also quotes Rob Dickens of Warner Music...
And that's why, according to Rob Dickens, who headed up Warner Music in the UK for more than decade, album prices must be "radically" slashed--to around £1 ($1.50).
Personally, I think 10 bucks is a perfectly reasonable price for an album and that 2 bucks is a perfectly reasonable price for a single. Some would argue that many impulse sales would be lost, and that is probably true, but it is pretty apparent that impulse sales on singles are not enough to pay the bills.
Hmmm? I think you are putting words into my mouth. I never said Oracle had won a partial victory. The words "partial victory" were in the article I linked and quoted as clarification to the AC who brought up rangeCheck.
Nope, this is not about rangeCheck, it is about the earlier jury ruling that Google had violated copyright laws by duplicating the Java API. The judge still has to rule on whether or not API's are protected by copyright.
"In what could be a major blow to Android, Google's mobile operating system, a San Francisco jury issued a verdict today that the company broke copyright laws when it used Java APIs to design the system. The ruling is a partial victory for Oracle, which accused Google of violating copyright law."
'Google spokesman Jim Prosser responded to the verdict quickly, saying via e-mail: "We appreciate the jury's efforts, and know that fair use and infringement are two sides of the same coin. The core issue is whether the APIs here are copyrightable, and that's for the court to decide. We expect to prevail on this issue and Oracle's other claims."'
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In this case "well regulated" means well equipped and well trained, and "militia" means armed citizens.
Back in the day, you had regular and irregular units. The regulars were the standing armies. These soldiers received "regulation" equipment, training, and arms. The irregulars were volunteers and conscripts who were expected to take up whatever weapons they had at hand. The full text, "A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." tells me that the framers felt that having an armed populace with the means to stand up and fight was pretty essential to maintaining a free country.
I want to forget Indiana Jones 4.
You can. It's the explosive ammo that is restricted. Incidentally, flame throwers are 100% legal under US federal laws.
Potentally? Yes.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/8650626.stm
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2010-03-23-china-stabbing-eight_N.htm
They can't retain enough air marshals to do the job. Most people won't keep a job where they have irregular hours, are cramped up in a coach airline seat every other day and can not reliably get home to be with their families, can't maintain a reasonable sleep or workout schedule, and have to eat crappy airline food all the time. Reportedly, the agency is also horribly run, as is attested to by former air marshals.
http://www.cbsnews.com/2100-500202_162-6162291.html
http://www.propublica.org/article/air-marshals-dogged-by-discrimination-complaints-in-field-offices-201
It would be cheaper, easier, and provide more consistent coverage to allow passengers to carry concealed weapons.
Don Gorske never orders the fries.
I recently installed a wireless router in my mother-in-law's house. For years she was using a neighbor's unsecured wireless signal. The kicker is, she didn't know she was using a neighbor's Internet connection. When she bought the home it was advertised as a "wireless capable" smart home. Her desktop computer was connected directly to a cable modem with Internet service she was paying for, and it is likely that her neighbor was on the same cable Internet system, so it would be a stretch to say she was getting anything for free, not even convenience. I found the wireless router in a box of electronics in the garage. It had come from her husband's practice and had been in the house about as long as she had lived there.
I refer you to this magazine cover proclaiming that, "Rachael Ray finds inspiration in cooking her family and her dog"
http://foodnetworkhumor.com/2011/03/we-found-it-the-corniest-magazine-pun-of-all-time/
I agree that the schools aren't helping the cause.
'Round about 1986 I was placed in a gifted program that ran concurrently with a grammar and spelling lessons. My mother complained about the school pulling me out of spelling for an entire year. The gifted program's teacher claimed that I was so smart that I would certainly have a secretary when I grew up and would not need to know how to spell. I don't have a secretary.
I later learned to spell in college by setting a word processor, I think it was MacWrite, to beep at me every time I misspelled a word. It took Latin classes to teach me English grammar.
We have been looking at electronic textbooks at work, but it's a non-starter because each publisher is doing it their own way. They have their own rules for what you can and can not do, making it a nightmare to support. Can the book be printed? Is the book online-only or is it downloaded? Can it be accessed from more than one computer? When exactly does the license expire? Is the particular book available electronically? What if a student's computer crashes and they loose the e-book? What application is required to access the book and can it be accessed on device X? Can students attach notes to the e-book, like writing in the margins. Each publisher has different answers. It's too bad, because we estimated that the savings from going to e-books could finance a one-to-one program twice over.
Unless the publishers can settle on a consistent platform and consistent terms, e-textbooks will not work.
There is at least one tablet on the market that uses a resistive touch screen. http://www.zenithink.com/Eproducts_Z102.php
I never wanted to a part of this shambolic news site...
Technically correct, but very few people use XP 64 bit. I've never seen it featured for sale from a large vendor and never seen it in the wild. Hardware vendors were very slow to write drivers for it, and even now I doubt that it is supported well enough to be a viable OS choice outside of a few niche markets.
I don't think you can blame this on inflation and money supply. US households' net worth have dropped 39% since 2007 according to the Federal Reserve. That is due mostly to the housing bubble bursting. In a sense, this is an example of deflation because a dollar is worth more real estate than it was 5 years ago. People who had piles of cash 5 years ago are looking pretty good now compared to people who had piles of equity. Now, we are in a depression, (yes, I consider this a depression) because about 30% of American Mortgages are underwater, and there is little visible hope of that changing. Home prices are not rising quickly and government efforts to persuade banks to forgive principal have failed. If you owe more on a home than it is worth you can not refinance and you can not sell because most banks don't allow short-sales. If you can not sell you can not move to get a better job. So, if you are stuck paying a mortgage for more than your house is worth, you are not going to be spending money. You will be saving everything you can because you have no real estate wealth to fall back on.
Compound that with the fact that the service based economy we have been promised for the past 30 years has been a bust. You can not replace millions of manufacturing jobs with service positions busing tables and mowing lawns and expect people to stay in the middle class. When all the training required for a job is a 1 week breaking in period, there will always be a way to suppress wages for that position and push more of America's middle class into poverty.
If you did not buy a drive with a bundled disk cloning utility, The Ultimate Boot CD http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/ contains some free tools that will do the job.
Windows 7 can easily handle 8GB of RAM, as long as you have the 64bit version installed. Did you mean to type "Windows XP"?
Cable operators must provide subscribers with CableCARDs upon request.1 Over the years, the Commission has received a variety of complaints from consumers concerning their efforts to obtain and use CableCARDs. The Commission adopted new rules to improve consumers’ experience with retail CableCARD devices.2 The new rules require cable operators to provide accurate information about retail set-top boxes and ensure that consumers are treated similarly, whether they choose to buy a retail device or rent a device from their cable provider. This Enforcement Advisory underscores the Commission’s commitment to “strictly enforce our navigation device rules in order to ensure proper support for CableCARD devices.3 We encourage cable operators to review their policies, procedures, and operations to ensure that they comply with the rules. The Enforcement Bureau will review complaints carefully to determine if cable systems comply with the rules.
The FCC has a couple of web pages where you can get more information and file a complaint.
http://www.fcc.gov/guides/cablecard-know-your-rights
http://www.fcc.gov/guides/digital-cable-compatibility-cablecard-ready-devices
The requirement to provide CableCARDs on request existed long before 2011, but cable companies have been notoriously dishonest about it. Apparently dishonest enough that the FCC felt the need to tell them to stop lying about it.
You as an employee? You don't. If you don't trust your employer, don't check your email and facebook from a work computer. If your IT department is really unscrupulous, what's to stop them from installing keyloggers on the computers and harvesting passwords that way?
I have some experience with systems that can decrypt SSL traffic. The firewall at work has the capability, but I have not rolled it out... yet. Employers and schools have been inspecting traffic for viruses and attacks against known vulnerabilities, filtering out advertisements from web sites, etc. for over a decade. There is nothing new there. The technology is even pretty good. But even if it doesn't work very well, employers have to make an effort to inspect traffic for legal reasons. What is rather new over the past 3 to 5 years is that applications no longer respect TCP ports. Every software vendor has figured out how to package and redirect their network traffic over port 80 and make it look like HTTP traffic because port 80 is always open and usually just protected by a URL filter for porn, wares sites, file sharing, or whatever other potential liability they can think of. Once an application can send traffic as HTTP, sending as HTTPS is pretty easy. But once it is SSL encrypted, firewalls have to decrypt it before they can scan it, Evil bit not withstanding.
Another thing to note is that a company or school can not install their Certificate Authority as a trusted CA without getting root access to a computer. So, if you are using your personal devices through their network you will at least get a certificate error.
The reason is that encrypted traffic can not be inspected for suspicious traffic unless it is decrypted. Otherwise it is just encrypted data. Content caching is just a fringe benefit.
If I say the sky is blue and quoted a reference to material written by someone admittedly colorblind, I would hope that people corrected me and directed me to a better reference.
Perhaps this quote from above will explain, but am doubtful.
Could I have stated explicitly the source of the statement with which I was referring? Why yes, but since it's exactly above my post I did not think anyone would need such a reference. Most people would see my comment, read your comment, and realize "Hey, this guy quoted some internet site claiming this stuff".
In closing, If you don't know the material you are quoting, or don't agree with the material that you quote, or the quote does not match up with your point, then why did you bother to quote something? If there is no direct quote attributed to "you", then don't take personal offense when someone brings up the materials "you" quoted.
If I post that the sky is up and quote an article by a colorblind author, I don't expect to get people arguing with me about the color.
What offended me was the wholly unnecessary jab when you wrote.
See any trends you may wish to not follow?
I tried to be polite in my response to that jab, but you had to continue to get personal in your responses.
P.S. The previous AC posting was not mine. I have not posted anonymously in this thread, but believe whatever you want.
What that tells me is that 99 cents is too cheap for a single. Singles should cost more, making that 10 dollar album look like a bargain. If singles were 2 bucks a song it would be more like, "I could pay 4 bucks for two great songs, or I could buy the album for 10 and get those plus 8 more pretty good songs. It's a bargain!"
The best graphic I have found showing the relative growth of singles vs decline of albums is from a 2010 article from FastCompany. The graphic is from 2010, so everything past 2009 is a projection, but just the data up until 2009 is remarkable. (http://www.fastcompany.com/1695418/should-albums-only-cost-1)
From the article...
At the New Music Seminar in July, Tommy Boy Records founder Tom Silverman suggested a different approach for the industry.
"Historically, the price of an album was five times greater than a single," argued Silverman, who believes setting the price of a single at one-tenth of an album's cost was a mistake. Even $1.29 -- the top price on iTunes for a single MP3 -- is too low, he contends. "It should've been $1.99, and then we would've seen higher digital album sales because it would've been a bigger discount for buying an album." Based on increased revenue from digital album sales, he says, the $9.99 price tag is becoming more reasonable for consumers.
The article also quotes Rob Dickens of Warner Music...
And that's why, according to Rob Dickens, who headed up Warner Music in the UK for more than decade, album prices must be "radically" slashed--to around £1 ($1.50).
Personally, I think 10 bucks is a perfectly reasonable price for an album and that 2 bucks is a perfectly reasonable price for a single. Some would argue that many impulse sales would be lost, and that is probably true, but it is pretty apparent that impulse sales on singles are not enough to pay the bills.
You completely misunderstood my point.
I did not say it was a partial victory. The article did. I don't think you understand how quotations work.
They have... http://developers.slashdot.org/story/12/05/23/1835216/no-patent-infringement-found-in-oracle-vs-google
Hmmm? I think you are putting words into my mouth. I never said Oracle had won a partial victory. The words "partial victory" were in the article I linked and quoted as clarification to the AC who brought up rangeCheck.
Nope, this is not about rangeCheck, it is about the earlier jury ruling that Google had violated copyright laws by duplicating the Java API. The judge still has to rule on whether or not API's are protected by copyright.
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2012/05/jury-rules-google-violated-copyright-law-google-moves-for-mistrial/
"In what could be a major blow to Android, Google's mobile operating system, a San Francisco jury issued a verdict today that the company broke copyright laws when it used Java APIs to design the system. The ruling is a partial victory for Oracle, which accused Google of violating copyright law."
'Google spokesman Jim Prosser responded to the verdict quickly, saying via e-mail: "We appreciate the jury's efforts, and know that fair use and infringement are two sides of the same coin. The core issue is whether the APIs here are copyrightable, and that's for the court to decide. We expect to prevail on this issue and Oracle's other claims."'