Jitter has nothing to do with HDMI cable quality. It is a function of the devices attached on either end. And it isn't audible anyway unless your gear is broken.
You can get degraded quality from HDMI, and the first sign of it is usually sparklies.
The thing is that an HDMI cable is either bad or good. There is no subtle loss of quality as in analog. When it's bad you know it right away.
A lot of Denon stuff is quite real and very good. Their better gear is made in Japan, not China. Denon has a long innovation history and built the first commercial digital recording gear for studios. They were in on the development of the CD and are one of the three companies that doesn't pay licensing fees for the CD players they make.
I imagine the cable was the brain child of some US marketing manager rather than one of their Japanese engineering groups.
The profit margin of these high priced cables is why they say these things. TVs are very competitively priced with low margins, so Best Buy makes it up with accessories and extended guarantees and similar ripoffs.
I am sure that the sales rep you were talking too is evaluated based on how much of the high value add-ons he sells.
In NJ and NY there has been a large increase in the number of wiretaps going after white collar crime. For example the use of wiretaps to go after insider trading is a very new application. In NJ there has been a big increase regarding investigations into corrupt local politics.
All of this plus the fact that this article covers court approved wiretaps makes me think that these are pretty much legitimate uses of wiretaps - constitutionally and for good purpose.
I am sure there are other areas that deserve more criticism than this one.
MasterCard etc. are not government agencies. They are privately owned companies. They are free to do anything they want to that is not in violation of the law including not processing payments to and from organizations that they do not wish to for ANY reason unless it violates some anti-discrimination or other law.
MC/Visa etc. don't discriminate against pornography per se. It is perfectly possible to use your MasterCard to purchase this sort of stuff.
In the real world if the CIA wants something they will invoke whatever secret agreements that are in place with their EU counter-terrorism buddies and it will be all hunky-dory.
I am glad Amazon labels these particular reviews. However while your reviews may be honest, I definitely have seen some Vine reviews that appear to have been written with rose colored glasses on.
As such I no longer consider Vine reviews when making a buying decision.
Now that I know the top 1000 are involved in this I am going to disregard all their reviews as well.
I have written some quite negative reviews on products for Amazon and they have all been posted. Including the one blasting the Kindle because of its DRM.
What I normally find though is that there are rebuttals through the comment system when my negative review is controversial.
The Vine stuff though - I have definitely seen some reviews that are influenced and have written them off. Now that I know that the top 1000 reviewers are getting free product I will certainly discount their opinions.
My son has Asperger's. He seems to be able to refrain from criminal activity.
I think anyone who has Asperger's would be pretty pissed off by this moronic defense attorney trying to imply that their condition has anything to do with the ability to distinguish right from wrong.
What's needed here is strict liability. If your company performs an audit and declares that a company is in compliance and it is later determined that they were not at the time of your audit, your auditing firm and its corporate officers should be held liable for any damages.
FTFY.
For all you know the people performing the audit are contractors or employees under orders from their management to certify the audit no matter what they actually find.
If you are going to invoke math in this sort of discussion at least get the frelling math right. Transitive equality is NOT a theorem. It is an axiom. It's truth in not proven, only assumed in most mathematical systems.
Therefore your use of it outside the context of math where it is an axiom is a logical FAIL unless you provide a set of axioms and a proof of it. Which you didn't.
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Jitter has nothing to do with HDMI cable quality. It is a function of the devices attached on either end. And it isn't audible anyway unless your gear is broken.
You can get degraded quality from HDMI, and the first sign of it is usually sparklies.
The thing is that an HDMI cable is either bad or good. There is no subtle loss of quality as in analog. When it's bad you know it right away.
A lot of Denon stuff is quite real and very good. Their better gear is made in Japan, not China. Denon has a long innovation history and built the first commercial digital recording gear for studios. They were in on the development of the CD and are one of the three companies that doesn't pay licensing fees for the CD players they make.
I imagine the cable was the brain child of some US marketing manager rather than one of their Japanese engineering groups.
The profit margin of these high priced cables is why they say these things. TVs are very competitively priced with low margins, so Best Buy makes it up with accessories and extended guarantees and similar ripoffs.
I am sure that the sales rep you were talking too is evaluated based on how much of the high value add-ons he sells.
In NJ and NY there has been a large increase in the number of wiretaps going after white collar crime. For example the use of wiretaps to go after insider trading is a very new application. In NJ there has been a big increase regarding investigations into corrupt local politics.
All of this plus the fact that this article covers court approved wiretaps makes me think that these are pretty much legitimate uses of wiretaps - constitutionally and for good purpose.
I am sure there are other areas that deserve more criticism than this one.
Yes, they must follow regulations. That doesn't mean that they have to do business with somebody they don't want to unless there is a legal reason.
Look at Wikileaks. They have publicly threatened to reveal confidential information from various banks.
Why would ANY financial institution consider doing business with them?
The ONLY reason would be legal compulsion. Is there such? What law exactly states that they have to?
Poppycock. We are ALL direct subjects of a state. That is not the same as having no freedoms.
Bad example. Racial discrimination of this sort is forbidden by law.
Replace that with "Proper Dress Required", or simply "This Establishment May Refuse Service to Disruptive Patrons" and you are fine.
Balderdash. Any company has to make decisions on who they do business with, for both financial and legal reasons.
MasterCard etc. are not government agencies. They are privately owned companies. They are free to do anything they want to that is not in violation of the law including not processing payments to and from organizations that they do not wish to for ANY reason unless it violates some anti-discrimination or other law.
MC/Visa etc. don't discriminate against pornography per se. It is perfectly possible to use your MasterCard to purchase this sort of stuff.
I find one star reviews to often be quite useless because they are quite often written by someone who has no understanding of the product.
The CIA will not fall for that sort of baloney.
In the real world if the CIA wants something they will invoke whatever secret agreements that are in place with their EU counter-terrorism buddies and it will be all hunky-dory.
If you are a US company you have to cough up the data.
Depends on whose fdisk you are using.
I am glad Amazon labels these particular reviews. However while your reviews may be honest, I definitely have seen some Vine reviews that appear to have been written with rose colored glasses on.
As such I no longer consider Vine reviews when making a buying decision.
Now that I know the top 1000 are involved in this I am going to disregard all their reviews as well.
I have written some quite negative reviews on products for Amazon and they have all been posted. Including the one blasting the Kindle because of its DRM.
What I normally find though is that there are rebuttals through the comment system when my negative review is controversial.
The Vine stuff though - I have definitely seen some reviews that are influenced and have written them off. Now that I know that the top 1000 reviewers are getting free product I will certainly discount their opinions.
Bars packed with women are not necessarily a good thing if you find out on arrival that they are transvestite of lesbian bars.
Ordering access to journals via web access doesn't preclude the existence of good paper archives somewhere.
It's the idea that all you have to do is post a PDF on some server that I find scary. Is that server going to around 150 years from now?
And yes, some of the primary sources in my dissertation are more than 150 years old.
Web sites are not so good for long term archives. I shudder to think what would be lost if publishing to web sites became the norm.
My son has Asperger's. He seems to be able to refrain from criminal activity.
I think anyone who has Asperger's would be pretty pissed off by this moronic defense attorney trying to imply that their condition has anything to do with the ability to distinguish right from wrong.
What's needed here is strict liability. If your company performs an audit and declares that a company is in compliance and it is later determined that they were not at the time of your audit, your auditing firm and its corporate officers should be held liable for any damages.
FTFY.
For all you know the people performing the audit are contractors or employees under orders from their management to certify the audit no matter what they actually find.
By this sort of logic any set of laws puts those governed into a state of slavery.
So given that all humans are subject to laws we are all slaves.
Since this is established we can eliminate this terminology as being meaningless and move on to something that has meaning.
Yeah, local pre-emption of FCC regs. Like this has never been tried before.
It's good for a laugh.
Yeah, except there NEVER has been any nat gas drilling in Pittsburgh, and there were no plans to do such drilling at the time the ordinance passed.
Minor but important facts.
If you are going to invoke math in this sort of discussion at least get the frelling math right. Transitive equality is NOT a theorem. It is an axiom. It's truth in not proven, only assumed in most mathematical systems.
Therefore your use of it outside the context of math where it is an axiom is a logical FAIL unless you provide a set of axioms and a proof of it. Which you didn't.
So you FAIL.