>>>You're over complicating this, don't watch pirated or otherwise.
Let me simplify it for you: - buy Transformers2. Watch it: "Man that was shit." - goto store: "Sorry sir you can't return this because you didn't like it." "Okay, but how about this Hershey candybar and DVD player? The bar tastes like wax and the player doesn't have S-video output like advertised." "Sure no problem." "That's bullshit that I can return other products, but not movies." - - Later: The company that made T2 releases Star Trek Reboot 2. I remember how this company already screwed me, so I download it instead. "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me." I won't be fooled again.
>>>defensive opinion from someone who likes to pirate entertainment.
That's because I'm sick of buying SHIT on dvd or cd, and then the producer of this schlock refusing to take it back. Every other industry allows returns for cash or store credit. Hell even candybar maker says "If for any reason you are dissatisfied, return the unused portion for full refund." Why should music and movie makers be the sole exception to this practice.
So if I "pirate" Transformers2 or IndianaJones4 or some Yet-Another-Crappy Movie, it's only because I'm sick-and-tired of throwing away my money on lousy storytelling. I can't return this crap, so I download it first, see if it's any good, and THEN buy it on dvd.
Oh and I watch hulu.com too. Why not? ABC, NBC, CBS, etc are using the People's airwaves free-of-charge, so might as well enjoy the product they produce on OUR property. (Else we'll just revoke those licenses and give it over to Citizen Band - return it to the people.)
But there's no proof that "sleep sex" ever happened. It's just her CLAIM that it happened, and I suspect she (and the other woman) are jealous lovers writing fiction. After all they didn't file the claim of rape until AFTER they learned about one another.
>>>allow the private entities which own the servers, networks, technology, and businesses to manage it
.....except for the government-created monopolies, such as Verizon and Comcast, which need to be regulated the same way the govt-created Electric, Telephone, and CNG monopolies are regulated. i.e. Price fixed at the very least, and preferably given "common carrier" status to prevent discrimination.
âoea false debate. Fundamentally, the WikiLeaks incident began with an act of theft. Government documents were stolen, just the same as if they had been smuggled out in a briefcase.â That is, WIkileaks isnâ(TM)t really about the internet, but about a crime. Clinton then goes on: "There were reports in the days following these leaks that the United States Government intervened to coerce private companies to deny service to WikiLeaks. That is not the case. Now, some politicians and pundits publicly called for companies to disassociate from WikiLeaks, while others criticized them for doing so. Public officials are part of our countryâ(TM)s public debates, but there is a line between expressing views and coercing conduct."
These comments constitute a remarkable series of lies and hypocrisies. 1 - The US Government has regularly harassed Wikileaks associate and internet activist and Tor founder Jacob Applebaum, subjecting him to extensive and, in the end, almost comical seaches of his electronic equipment whenever he returns to the United States.
2- In further contrast to Clintonâ(TM)s emphasis on âoeenforcing the rules transparentlyâ, the US Governmentâ(TM)s legal campaign against Wikileaks has been secret from the outset. Despite military officials admitting theyâ(TM)re unable to link Julian Assange to anything with which he could be charged, a secret grand jury process in Virginia continues against Wikileaks, aided by a secret Department of Justice subpoena. This was only revealed when Twitter took the commendable step of applying for confidentiality to be removed from a DoJ demand for an extraordinary range of information, including on Applebaumâ(TM)s Twitter account and everyone who is a Twitter follower of Wikileaks.
3- In addition to the Department of Justice attempt to conjure up a charge against Julian Assange, the FBI has undertaken an aggressive investigation of online group Anonymous in relation to its âoeOperation Paybackâ attacks on Visa, Mastercard and PayPal after their suspension of payments to Wikileaks, but there has been no action, indeed apparently no investigation, of the DDOS attacks undertaken on Wikileaks itself, from within the United States, for which an individual has claimed responsibility. Nor has there been any apparent law enforcement action in response to the plan developed by HB Gary Federal, Palantir Technologies and Berico Technologies for Hunton and Williams to attack Wikileaks and Salonâ(TM)s Glenn Greenwald.
4- Clintonâ(TM)s attempt to dissociate the Obama Administration from corporate decisions about Wikileaks is sophistry of the highest order.
5- Clintonâ(TM)s comments about the dangers of transparency in diplomacy â" which forms the guts of her straw-man comments on Wikileaks â" have already been refuted by her Cabinet colleague Robert Gates, who stated in December that Wikileaks would not do any âoeserious damageâ to US foreign policy, that its effect was merely to embarrass
You really shouldn't answer for your audience. Rape is a vicious assault and violation of rights, but it also has been SELECTED for by Nature. The act of rape sometimes leads to pregnancy and continuation of the man's genes to the next generation (which is defined as "success" by nature). Just ask Genghis Khan - who produced more children than any other man - via rape of his conquered subjects.
As for wikileaks, the one thing has nothing to do with the other. The fact Assange had sex with two women, voluntarily, is NOT rape. They spread their legs willingly. - Plus it has no relevancy to Wikileak goals to expose heinous crimes by the US Government (such as killing journalists and stealing credit card numbers from visiting diplomats). The People have the right to know how their employees are acting and/or misbehaving.
>>>>>10MB broadband. >> > > >Ah it means speed, not volume. I am in Australia so 10MB seemed strangely low [data cap] .
This is funny. Up above we had a discussion about how diluting terms like "brick" can cause confusion in communcation, and now here we see an example of that.
It's not 10 MB broadband. It's 10 MB per second or 10 MB/s broadband. One is volume; the other is rate or speed. If this was college, the professors would take half a point off for having an incorrect answer.
Precisely. I remember lUsers once called 3.5 inch floppies "hard disks" which caused all kinds of confusion in casual conversation. You'd tell them to try typing dir c: or dir dh0: and of course nothing happened. Then they'd say something like, "I removed the hard disk from the computer," and you'd think they just destroyed their hard drive, when they really meant they removed the floppy.
Don't use terms incorrectly. Learn the proper names for things, so you can communicate properly with other persons.
>>>a gaming console: if you hit the power button and it goes on, but nothing else happens, then it clearly is bricked
That's what happened to my PSP after Sony updated it with new software. Turned-on, but did nothing else. It had no useful function except as a doorstop or paperweight, hence it was equivalent to a brick. - Bricked.
>>>Series 1 hasn't been sold for nearly nine years. Many of them still use dial-up to retrieve the EPG data!
You are prejudiced against dialup users? Are they now considered pariahs? Is my Dialup Dreamcast now not good enough for you? I'll have you know that 30% of users are still stuck on dialup, and they have minority rights damnit! (Please note I'm just joking.)
In the U.S. we have the same functionality in the "DTVpal". It is both a myth-style DVR and two FreeTV tuners built into a ~$250 box. Does the UK have anything like that?
Also it sounds like the BBC is as evil as the RIAA/MPAA? Encoding video so you can't record it off the air? In the US the FCC ruled that illegal, saying that the airwaves belong to the People for their use, and encryption interferes with that.
(1) This isn't "bricking" the Tivo. When ReplayTV stopped supplying guide data to my DVR, it still worked just fine but more like a VCR where you manually set everything. It sounds like Tivo is the same.
(2) How is this legal in the consumer-friendly EU? I would have thought purposely damaging consumer products is a criminal offense, just as Sony got in trouble for removing the "Install other OS" option in PS3.
>>>"Her inception" to all the other countries there, basically meant that someone came and took the land away
Precisely.
That's the point many people don't comprehend. In the early 1900s the British Empire started sending Jews to the land occupied by Arabs. That would be equivalent to sending them to Japan, or South Africa, or Brazil, and then suddenly carving-out half the country and declaring it Israel, while leaving the japs, africans, brazilians a small strip of land.
The British Empire did an injustice, and we compound that injustice by acting as if the jews are entitled to take Palestine. They are not.
>>>coming in virtual contact with your data to request that you prove that your data is sanitary.
Then you don't mind if I sit in my bankofamerica.com cubicle, and review the naked photos of your wife (or possibly daughter) that I just scraped off your/her machine?
>>>The title is Totally misleading... this doesn't double the speed...
Yeah actually it does... or at least close to it (1.9x). I just read the article and it enables the radio to both transmit & receive at the same time. In other words moving from half-duplex to full-duplex, which doubles the data being transmitted. It's equivalent to a phone conversation, or modem transmission, where you can be both sending and hearing at the same time.
Ahh thanks. I wonder why the Upload speed is limited to 48k then? It should be able to go the full speed provided by the outgoing cable, but maybe there's problems with crosstalk.
And yeah I can see how radio would be different, especially given the downloading information is much quieter than the radio's own transmitter. You would not have that problem on a phone with is constant volume.
>>>Phone modem speeds weren't limited to 56kbps by technology >>>...was arbitrarily limited by the FCC
Completely and totally false. Digital phone lines have 8000 samples per second at 7 bits. That yields 56000 bits per second maximum. (Analog lines are limited to 33800 bps/3429 baud.) So it's a technological limitation.
The FCC imposed a *power limit* due to reports of crosstalk between lines. The power limit reduces the max speed to 53,300.
>>>The App Store data centers and bandwidth don't cost anything to maintain I guess.
Strawman argument. I didn't say that. What I did say (or imply) is the cost of that electricity for data centers certainly doesn't cost 15 times what dead-tree magazine distributors charge (for postage). It should be less or the same.
>>>people who are already trained to pay out money for cool shiny things
So it's like a luxury tax. The old dead-tree distributors charge 7 cents per copy, while Apple is charging 10-15 times that amount. Thanks for clarifying.:-)
>>>I can get the same info for free if I just spend 10 seconds and Google it".
Well that's true. Some magazines give their content away for free, or authors publish it on their personal websites after a suitable amount of time (say six months after publication).
Dead tree distributors only charge ~2% for a surcharge. Apple's pricetag is 30% and they don't even have to pay postage/handling fees to send the magazines to customers (or stores).
Most magazine distributors only charge 7 cents per copy (about 2%), and that's for dead trees. It should be a LOT cheaper for electronic editions, or at least the same price, not a higher amount.
(ponder). If the upload channel was turned-off, could phone modems do 56*2 == 112k downloads? In theory the answer seems to be yes - wonder why nobody's tried it.
>>>The 'old' strategy was aimless development of so many different handsets it was nuts.
Apple circa 1995, when they were on the verge of bankruptcy. Commodore circa 1993 and they did go bankrupt. Too many models can confuse customers - better to focus on just a few.
They used to have separate transmit and receive frequencies, but then the engineers figured out how to download and upload at the same time, over the same narrow 4 kHz of space. This AM radio breakthrough sounds like a similar approach, on the same restrictive bandwidth (4.5 kHz).
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>>>You're over complicating this, don't watch pirated or otherwise.
Let me simplify it for you:
- buy Transformers2. Watch it: "Man that was shit."
- goto store: "Sorry sir you can't return this because you didn't like it." "Okay, but how about this Hershey candybar and DVD player? The bar tastes like wax and the player doesn't have S-video output like advertised." "Sure no problem." "That's bullshit that I can return other products, but not movies."
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- Later: The company that made T2 releases Star Trek Reboot 2. I remember how this company already screwed me, so I download it instead. "Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me." I won't be fooled again.
>>>defensive opinion from someone who likes to pirate entertainment.
That's because I'm sick of buying SHIT on dvd or cd, and then the producer of this schlock refusing to take it back. Every other industry allows returns for cash or store credit. Hell even candybar maker says "If for any reason you are dissatisfied, return the unused portion for full refund." Why should music and movie makers be the sole exception to this practice.
So if I "pirate" Transformers2 or IndianaJones4 or some Yet-Another-Crappy Movie, it's only because I'm sick-and-tired of throwing away my money on lousy storytelling. I can't return this crap, so I download it first, see if it's any good, and THEN buy it on dvd.
Oh and I watch hulu.com too. Why not? ABC, NBC, CBS, etc are using the People's airwaves free-of-charge, so might as well enjoy the product they produce on OUR property. (Else we'll just revoke those licenses and give it over to Citizen Band - return it to the people.)
But there's no proof that "sleep sex" ever happened. It's just her CLAIM that it happened, and I suspect she (and the other woman) are jealous lovers writing fiction. After all they didn't file the claim of rape until AFTER they learned about one another.
Assange should be presumed innocent.
>>>allow the private entities which own the servers, networks, technology, and businesses to manage it
This article deserves more than just a link:
QUOTE:
âoea false debate. Fundamentally, the WikiLeaks incident began with an act of theft. Government documents were stolen, just the same as if they had been smuggled out in a briefcase.â That is, WIkileaks isnâ(TM)t really about the internet, but about a crime. Clinton then goes on: "There were reports in the days following these leaks that the United States Government intervened to coerce private companies to deny service to WikiLeaks. That is not the case. Now, some politicians and pundits publicly called for companies to disassociate from WikiLeaks, while others criticized them for doing so. Public officials are part of our countryâ(TM)s public debates, but there is a line between expressing views and coercing conduct."
These comments constitute a remarkable series of lies and hypocrisies.
1 - The US Government has regularly harassed Wikileaks associate and internet activist and Tor founder Jacob Applebaum, subjecting him to extensive and, in the end, almost comical seaches of his electronic equipment whenever he returns to the United States.
2- In further contrast to Clintonâ(TM)s emphasis on âoeenforcing the rules transparentlyâ, the US Governmentâ(TM)s legal campaign against Wikileaks has been secret from the outset. Despite military officials admitting theyâ(TM)re unable to link Julian Assange to anything with which he could be charged, a secret grand jury process in Virginia continues against Wikileaks, aided by a secret Department of Justice subpoena. This was only revealed when Twitter took the commendable step of applying for confidentiality to be removed from a DoJ demand for an extraordinary range of information, including on Applebaumâ(TM)s Twitter account and everyone who is a Twitter follower of Wikileaks.
3- In addition to the Department of Justice attempt to conjure up a charge against Julian Assange, the FBI has undertaken an aggressive investigation of online group Anonymous in relation to its âoeOperation Paybackâ attacks on Visa, Mastercard and PayPal after their suspension of payments to Wikileaks, but there has been no action, indeed apparently no investigation, of the DDOS attacks undertaken on Wikileaks itself, from within the United States, for which an individual has claimed responsibility. Nor has there been any apparent law enforcement action in response to the plan developed by HB Gary Federal, Palantir Technologies and Berico Technologies for Hunton and Williams to attack Wikileaks and Salonâ(TM)s Glenn Greenwald.
4- Clintonâ(TM)s attempt to dissociate the Obama Administration from corporate decisions about Wikileaks is sophistry of the highest order.
5- Clintonâ(TM)s comments about the dangers of transparency in diplomacy â" which forms the guts of her straw-man comments on Wikileaks â" have already been refuted by her Cabinet colleague Robert Gates, who stated in December that Wikileaks would not do any âoeserious damageâ to US foreign policy, that its effect was merely to embarrass
>>>Do you want to side with rape? Thought not.
You really shouldn't answer for your audience. Rape is a vicious assault and violation of rights, but it also has been SELECTED for by Nature. The act of rape sometimes leads to pregnancy and continuation of the man's genes to the next generation (which is defined as "success" by nature). Just ask Genghis Khan - who produced more children than any other man - via rape of his conquered subjects.
As for wikileaks, the one thing has nothing to do with the other. The fact Assange had sex with two women, voluntarily, is NOT rape. They spread their legs willingly. - Plus it has no relevancy to Wikileak goals to expose heinous crimes by the US Government (such as killing journalists and stealing credit card numbers from visiting diplomats). The People have the right to know how their employees are acting and/or misbehaving.
It summates all of these facebook games down to their core purpose - to make people click a lot and see ads, plus pay money.
>>>>>10MB broadband.
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>Ah it means speed, not volume. I am in Australia so 10MB seemed strangely low [data cap]
.
This is funny. Up above we had a discussion about how diluting terms like "brick" can cause confusion in communcation, and now here we see an example of that.
It's not 10 MB broadband. It's 10 MB per second or 10 MB/s broadband. One is volume; the other is rate or speed. If this was college, the professors would take half a point off for having an incorrect answer.
Precisely. I remember lUsers once called 3.5 inch floppies "hard disks" which caused all kinds of confusion in casual conversation. You'd tell them to try typing dir c: or dir dh0: and of course nothing happened. Then they'd say something like, "I removed the hard disk from the computer," and you'd think they just destroyed their hard drive, when they really meant they removed the floppy.
Don't use terms incorrectly. Learn the proper names for things, so you can communicate properly with other persons.
>>>a gaming console: if you hit the power button and it goes on, but nothing else happens, then it clearly is bricked
That's what happened to my PSP after Sony updated it with new software. Turned-on, but did nothing else. It had no useful function except as a doorstop or paperweight, hence it was equivalent to a brick. - Bricked.
>>>Series 1 hasn't been sold for nearly nine years. Many of them still use dial-up to retrieve the EPG data!
You are prejudiced against dialup users?
Are they now considered pariahs?
Is my Dialup Dreamcast now not good enough for you?
I'll have you know that 30% of users are still stuck on dialup, and they have minority rights damnit!
(Please note I'm just joking.)
In the U.S. we have the same functionality in the "DTVpal". It is both a myth-style DVR and two FreeTV tuners built into a ~$250 box. Does the UK have anything like that?
Also it sounds like the BBC is as evil as the RIAA/MPAA? Encoding video so you can't record it off the air? In the US the FCC ruled that illegal, saying that the airwaves belong to the People for their use, and encryption interferes with that.
Two thoughts:
(1) This isn't "bricking" the Tivo. When ReplayTV stopped supplying guide data to my DVR, it still worked just fine but more like a VCR where you manually set everything. It sounds like Tivo is the same.
(2) How is this legal in the consumer-friendly EU? I would have thought purposely damaging consumer products is a criminal offense, just as Sony got in trouble for removing the "Install other OS" option in PS3.
>>>"Her inception" to all the other countries there, basically meant that someone came and took the land away
Precisely.
That's the point many people don't comprehend. In the early 1900s the British Empire started sending Jews to the land occupied by Arabs. That would be equivalent to sending them to Japan, or South Africa, or Brazil, and then suddenly carving-out half the country and declaring it Israel, while leaving the japs, africans, brazilians a small strip of land.
The British Empire did an injustice, and we compound that injustice by acting as if the jews are entitled to take Palestine. They are not.
>>>coming in virtual contact with your data to request that you prove that your data is sanitary.
Then you don't mind if I sit in my bankofamerica.com cubicle, and review the naked photos of your wife (or possibly daughter) that I just scraped off your/her machine?
>>>Did you read? Do you know how to read?
Read the article? You must be new here. ;-)
>>>The title is Totally misleading... this doesn't double the speed...
Yeah actually it does... or at least close to it (1.9x). I just read the article and it enables the radio to both transmit & receive at the same time. In other words moving from half-duplex to full-duplex, which doubles the data being transmitted. It's equivalent to a phone conversation, or modem transmission, where you can be both sending and hearing at the same time.
>>>56k in, 56k out
Ahh thanks. I wonder why the Upload speed is limited to 48k then? It should be able to go the full speed provided by the outgoing cable, but maybe there's problems with crosstalk.
And yeah I can see how radio would be different, especially given the downloading information is much quieter than the radio's own transmitter. You would not have that problem on a phone with is constant volume.
>>>Phone modem speeds weren't limited to 56kbps by technology
>>>...was arbitrarily limited by the FCC
Completely and totally false. Digital phone lines have 8000 samples per second at 7 bits. That yields 56000 bits per second maximum. (Analog lines are limited to 33800 bps/3429 baud.) So it's a technological limitation.
The FCC imposed a *power limit* due to reports of crosstalk between lines. The power limit reduces the max speed to 53,300.
>>>The App Store data centers and bandwidth don't cost anything to maintain I guess.
Strawman argument. I didn't say that. What I did say (or imply) is the cost of that electricity for data centers certainly doesn't cost 15 times what dead-tree magazine distributors charge (for postage). It should be less or the same.
>>>people who are already trained to pay out money for cool shiny things
So it's like a luxury tax. The old dead-tree distributors charge 7 cents per copy, while Apple is charging 10-15 times that amount. Thanks for clarifying. :-)
>>>I can get the same info for free if I just spend 10 seconds and Google it".
Well that's true. Some magazines give their content away for free, or authors publish it on their personal websites after a suitable amount of time (say six months after publication).
No.
Dead tree distributors only charge ~2% for a surcharge. Apple's pricetag is 30% and they don't even have to pay postage/handling fees to send the magazines to customers (or stores).
Most magazine distributors only charge 7 cents per copy (about 2%), and that's for dead trees. It should be a LOT cheaper for electronic editions, or at least the same price, not a higher amount.
(ponder). If the upload channel was turned-off, could phone modems do 56*2 == 112k downloads? In theory the answer seems to be yes - wonder why nobody's tried it.
>>>The 'old' strategy was aimless development of so many different handsets it was nuts.
Apple circa 1995, when they were on the verge of bankruptcy. Commodore circa 1993 and they did go bankrupt. Too many models can confuse customers - better to focus on just a few.
Haven't phone modems been doing this for decades?
They used to have separate transmit and receive frequencies, but then the engineers figured out how to download and upload at the same time, over the same narrow 4 kHz of space. This AM radio breakthrough sounds like a similar approach, on the same restrictive bandwidth (4.5 kHz).