That's practically begging to get fed a line of BS.
So is strapping electrodes to their balls and shoving broom handles up their asses. They'll say anything to make it end, and this has been known to be true for several centuries now. Now that the torture at abu ghirab has been discovered, I am forced to wonder whether the US government used torture to obtain all those terrorist alerts that never came true. (remember back when the alert level would go up and down every few days "just to keep everyone in fear"?)
Do you have any better ideas for getting information out of suspected terrorists that is likely to work?
No, but that doesn't mean we should torture terrorists, since not only is that known to NOT work, its also building ill will towards our country and administration from both within and without.
Any organization has the rights of their individual members.
Then the individual members should be able to put their own money from their salaries to whatever candidate's cause they want, rather than having the CEO take a few million off the top to give to whoever he or she feels like supporting.
But company X making profit off of their own invention means that company Y will need to innovate and compete by arriving at a better way to solve the problem
How? Lets say that I have a patent on software that does task X via steps 1, 2, and 3. Please define how you intend to enter the market with your product that performs task X via steps alpha and omega, when I and my team of 800lb lawyer-gorillas keep your product tied up in court for so long that even you've forgotten what task X was. "Oops? You mean you don't infringe on my patent? Sorry, my bad! Couldn't tell just by looking at the binary you know!" I doubt you'd even be able to countersue, I'd just tell the jury that your software was intentionally developed to appear to perform task X in the same way, and that there was no way for me to know that it did it a different way. And with closed proprietary source, I wouldn't be lying! (now, if you used Open Source, that'd be a whole different ball of wax!)
I would think that being able to benefit from your labor and creativity is a strong incentive.
Huh? Come back when we're not talking about patents where its first come, first served. "Who does it best" indeed. Even if I do it better than you and file a patent, I still have to license your patent from you if my process has anything to do with yours. (IE, you have a patent on A B and C, and I can do it better with A B D and E, well, even with my own patent I infringe on A and B).
we see fantastic displays of innovation in the areas of stealing IP and technologies from those private innovators elsewhere
You mean like microsoft and doublespace? Or microsoft and FAT. Or any of the thousands of cases of killing the little guy (that patent won't do you much good if we can spend a million dollars a year litigating you into the ground) or just flat out corporate espionage (you can't patent it until you're done. Lets hire away some key people on your project at 90% and do the last 10% faster. Sure there'll be lawsuits for a year or two but the patent lasts 5 product lifetimes).
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That's right, you have been Out-Geeked. A story was posted that far surpasses your mental capacity for geekiness, and now you find yourself confounded and confused. Google is of little help, explaining terms like "femtosecond" in terms of seconds and "maxima" in terms of those number-thingies you keep telling yourself you need to learn to count. Wikipedia is of even less help since the Interference Pattern entry has been replaced (again) by the GNAA stating that they will interfere with wikipedia as well as links to rather disgusting pictures.
What is someone like you to do?
Well, for one you can go back to school. Complete an engineering, physics, or mathematics undergraduate degree, these are suitably geeky enough to provide you with a solid grounding in all things geeky. If you have already completed such a degree and have yet to discover that inner geek you know is hiding in there, a Ph.D. in any of those subjects will be sure to call it out. Once you have gotten comfortable with your geeky side, you will find that such terms as "wave-like" no longer faze you.
Alternatively, you can attend user groups or lectures that are attended by those geekier than you. Is a Ph.D. going to give a speech in your area about the effects of left-handed polyisobritonan radiation on psihibrionic mesh wedges? Take 3 or 4 hours of your day to attend the lecture. Rub elbows with those geekier than you, and be sure to watch over their shoulders at the notes the people in front of you are taking. User groups are particularly a good choice, while these groups typically focus on a software application or operating system, their true purpose is for the truly geeky to pass on their geekiness to those below them in the ranks. After a dozen or so meetings or lectures, you should find your geek quotient rising, as well as your capacity to further your own geekiness.
Having read through the CC brief in entirety and the Intel and computer scientists' briefs in abstract, it occurs to me that not one mentions the facts that 1) Everything is copyrighted now thanks to laws making those copyrights automatic and 2) That not all copyrighted material is then restricted from being published, altered, distributed, or otherwise used. The CC brief mentions 2) as practically an aside in mentioning its own licenses, without discussing the end result, that a minority copyright holder (MGM might have thousands of movies under its belt, but the average sad livejournaller in snow has that many angst-ridden entries in a year) cannot dictate how the majority of copyright holders behave with respect to their intellectual property.
Grandparent probably got as far as What's garbage for you is the same as what's garbage for me Before criticizing you.
I got as far as I believe that "right thought" before I burst out laughing from thinking "Right Thinking is doubleplus good for everyone"
As for your actual argument, we have the V-chip. Have had it for years. We have little icons at the top of the screen that tell you what the rating of the show is. My parents' tv can even tell you what the rating of the show is at any time during the broadcast -- and it works with directTV (it even tells the name of the show and the channel the directTV receiver is on)
The only problem is that this requires mommy and daddy to come home for an hour to read the instruction book and learn how to set up the TV and decide just what they want little timmy to see. And these days, thats just too hard for too many parents.
The problem with writing the documentation down at the beginning of a project is that in the "Real World" its obsolete the moment you open up a text editor. As much as everyone would wish for requirements to be laid out up front and set in stone before a single line of code was typed, it just doesn't happen in many, if not most, cases.
And when it does happen, that documentation time and money goes down the drain. If you had simply written well documented code to start with, that new requirement could have slipped in right where it says/* Add new Edit Menu entries here, then define the appropriate function in editmenu.c */
Of course, people who don't take the time to document outside of the code typically don't take the time to document inside the code, so you lose either way.
It is true that Linux MAY contain prior art for some patents.
Since there are no software patents in Europe right now, it would stand to reason that the Linux kernel would be prior art for any software patent filed after the inclusion of that feature in the kernel, if the ruling allowing them passes. Any existing development would be safe, but future development would run the same risks that development in the US faces now.
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Rather than asking "I'm too lazy to pick up the googlepages and look up who you are" like 90% of the other posters here, I already see what made you big, but what about the rest of your life? Aside from being in cartoons and rapping about Star Wars and robotic dogs, how do you justify your existance?
If you could give the crawler multiple starting points then you could simply have an unlinked page that links to all the old content, and give that page to the crawler as a second starting point.
Think of it as something like the combination of zoning and building safety laws that apply to construction in a city.
And yet there was a ruling that cities cannot keep their building codes "secret" by selling them for large sums of money only to selected contractors.
Just because its a "regulation" doesn't make keeping it secret any less despicable on behalf of our government. You say that making the regulation public would endanger security, but what happened to the security-through-obscurity mantra here (not to mention the widespread view that even now "security" is a joke nobody laughs at)? If it's "ok" to have secret laws (don't kid yourself calling them regulations... if you must obey, it's a law) about getting on airplanes, is it ok to have them about driving your car? How long before your car fails to pass inspection but they can't tell you why, only that you'll need to buy a new car (boy, I bet Ford's pouring a lot of money into their congresscritters right now)?
But hey, requiring an ID is reasonable, so there's nothing to worry about in a country of secret laws and secret searches and secret courts to try them in.
The regulations are just as binding as the laws, and that is the problem. The government might call them "regulations" and think that makes them "special" but they are still laws that have to be obeyed. Whether its local building codes that are not available to the public, or the guide to proper conduct in and around an airport, these secret regulations unfairly affect you.
Actually, in this case these sensors would just be sending some kind of case number and whether you're dead yet to the hospital.
While it's not actually sending your medical history, the fact that it's sending anything at all gives away certain information about you, like "I might die soon so my employer might want to look at a replacement, or at least an excuse to fire me and keep the insurance premiums from going up more"
Well, as the other coward pointed out, you need to justify it. In triplicate. With change control forms sent out at least a year in advance citing exactly what make and model hardware you're going to buy, why you're going to make the switch, and how much this change will increase the stock price (to the quarter-point). Once the change control has been reviewed and rejected twice, the boss's brother's daughter's husband's nephew's wife's niece's brother-in-law will suggest the same thing, at which point he'll be promoted and the change control will be accepted "for review" at which point you'll need to purchase the new equipment out of your own budget ("sorry, we can't requisition new equipment for you until the change control process is complete") after which you will need to document in entirety the process of setting up and installing the kit, along with months of testing to prove that the applications will even run on this "AMD Thingy", then ensure that the applications will not crash on this "completely unknown" architecture. Then, two years later, you will have completed the change control process and your AMD computers will be put into production (being, a model from two years ago). And when your boss's wife's father's second cousin's child's sister-in-law's (who doesn't even work at this company!) computer BSoD's, your head will roll!
It's the new Bible-thumper version of Political Correctness. It's just as senseless, counterproductive, hypocrical and self-destructive as the old lefty version, but it's an all-new flavor!
"Meet the new boss, same as the old boss"
Though really, its all about keeping people from having fun. Nuclear waste discharge is not fun. Mostly naked people and sex on tv are. Therefore you have to fine them more.
CEOs and president's stock sales are usually scheduled months in advance with the SEC. At the time they announced the sale of this stock the police hadn't been put on the case, so its unlikely anyone knew. Unless, of course, they knew that their system was being abused but had chosen to schedule a stock sale instead of reporting it to the cops.
I'd still call for firing the people if they're claiming that they're so out of touch with the company that they didn't know about its giant breach of security for months.
Start up wine and tell me whats on its start menu? How do you replace the wine login screen with another picture like you can on winxp? How do you load a driver in it?
No matter how much you try, at BEST you can claim that wine emulates the win32 api, but you'll never be able to claim it emulates windows.
I'd hardly call implementing the win32 api "emulation" though, since all it does is translate the api calls to relevant linux substitutes. Claiming that is emulation is like claiming my English-French phrase book "emulates" french.
People wave this "it only works from inches away" bullshit without having any idea how radio works.
Its simply a matter of using the right antenna with the right gain. See the bluetooth sniper rifle for details (kilometer range! With bluetooth!). If the antenna is too big to hide on your person, set up shop in a dark alley somewhere and scan the masses as they mill by unaware.
And yeah, tinfoil would work but make it all the more stupid. Not only would the old lady have to fumble the card out of her purse, you'd be sitting around watching her try to unwrap it and wrap it again afterwards. Just swipe the damn thing already!
The beauty is that if you buy a "domain" certificate for *.somedomain.com, you CAN serve multiple hostnames off of that (at least on apache 1.3.x) on one IP. When the browser connects, it'll establish the encryption with the domain certificate, then read the headers to find out which subdomain to go to. Just have all the Name-Based Virtual Hosts use the same certificate and ignore the warning.
Need to have current browsers to get them to accept the certificates without complaint (older ones complained that the hostname of the site wasn't actually "*.somedomain.com"). Also, expect to pay a ton.
I don't know if the parent was attempting to point out that Democrats are solely to blame for things like the DMCA
Of course not! The reason is because the Republicans have run out of excuses and turned to "Clinton sucked too so its OK!" when faced with the fact that their beloved president sucks as well (in perhaps different ways...).
Bush outright lying to the public? Hey, thats OK, Clinton committed perjury! Republicans taking away the freedom to watch CSI in a window on the server room computer while you're on lunch break? Thats OK, a Democrat signed the DMCA!
Maybe I should run for president. I'll just use the motto "I torture little animals, but its OK because the administration of the guy who came before me tortured Iraqis!" Who knows, maybe I'll win!
Well, no, by "appears to be under the age of 16" they mean "the possessor pissed off someone high enough up the chain of command to tell everyone to find an excuse to put him/her in the slammer for as long as possible."
These folks were arrested, had to post bond to be released, their house was searched, CPS did show up and CPS did take their kid.
Also note that to get the kid back, the state psychologist arbitrarially decided that they needed to attend childraising sessions, get polygraph testing, and "jump through more hoops". At their cost. Paid to the psychologist, of course. What price, justice?
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That's practically begging to get fed a line of BS.
So is strapping electrodes to their balls and shoving broom handles up their asses. They'll say anything to make it end, and this has been known to be true for several centuries now. Now that the torture at abu ghirab has been discovered, I am forced to wonder whether the US government used torture to obtain all those terrorist alerts that never came true. (remember back when the alert level would go up and down every few days "just to keep everyone in fear"?)
Do you have any better ideas for getting information out of suspected terrorists that is likely to work?
No, but that doesn't mean we should torture terrorists, since not only is that known to NOT work, its also building ill will towards our country and administration from both within and without.
Any organization has the rights of their individual members.
Then the individual members should be able to put their own money from their salaries to whatever candidate's cause they want, rather than having the CEO take a few million off the top to give to whoever he or she feels like supporting.
But company X making profit off of their own invention means that company Y will need to innovate and compete by arriving at a better way to solve the problem
How? Lets say that I have a patent on software that does task X via steps 1, 2, and 3. Please define how you intend to enter the market with your product that performs task X via steps alpha and omega, when I and my team of 800lb lawyer-gorillas keep your product tied up in court for so long that even you've forgotten what task X was. "Oops? You mean you don't infringe on my patent? Sorry, my bad! Couldn't tell just by looking at the binary you know!" I doubt you'd even be able to countersue, I'd just tell the jury that your software was intentionally developed to appear to perform task X in the same way, and that there was no way for me to know that it did it a different way. And with closed proprietary source, I wouldn't be lying! (now, if you used Open Source, that'd be a whole different ball of wax!)
I would think that being able to benefit from your labor and creativity is a strong incentive.
For the next what, 20 years? 10 if you spent a decade converting your patent on "Process for removing goo from the heel of your show" into "Process for buying things on the internet"? Gee, I'm glad those filesystem patents microsoft were charging fees over are driving their innovation foward. Can't wait to see their new database-driven FS... Someday. Gotta love that innovation.
who does it best gets rewarded accordingly
Huh? Come back when we're not talking about patents where its first come, first served. "Who does it best" indeed. Even if I do it better than you and file a patent, I still have to license your patent from you if my process has anything to do with yours. (IE, you have a patent on A B and C, and I can do it better with A B D and E, well, even with my own patent I infringe on A and B).
we see fantastic displays of innovation in the areas of stealing IP and technologies from those private innovators elsewhere
You mean like microsoft and doublespace? Or microsoft and FAT. Or any of the thousands of cases of killing the little guy (that patent won't do you much good if we can spend a million dollars a year litigating you into the ground) or just flat out corporate espionage (you can't patent it until you're done. Lets hire away some key people on your project at 90% and do the last 10% faster. Sure there'll be lawsuits for a year or two but the patent lasts 5 product lifetimes).
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You Have Been Out-Geeked
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That's right, you have been Out-Geeked. A story was posted that far surpasses your mental capacity for geekiness, and now you find yourself confounded and confused. Google is of little help, explaining terms like "femtosecond" in terms of seconds and "maxima" in terms of those number-thingies you keep telling yourself you need to learn to count. Wikipedia is of even less help since the Interference Pattern entry has been replaced (again) by the GNAA stating that they will interfere with wikipedia as well as links to rather disgusting pictures.
What is someone like you to do?
Well, for one you can go back to school. Complete an engineering, physics, or mathematics undergraduate degree, these are suitably geeky enough to provide you with a solid grounding in all things geeky. If you have already completed such a degree and have yet to discover that inner geek you know is hiding in there, a Ph.D. in any of those subjects will be sure to call it out. Once you have gotten comfortable with your geeky side, you will find that such terms as "wave-like" no longer faze you.
Alternatively, you can attend user groups or lectures that are attended by those geekier than you. Is a Ph.D. going to give a speech in your area about the effects of left-handed polyisobritonan radiation on psihibrionic mesh wedges? Take 3 or 4 hours of your day to attend the lecture. Rub elbows with those geekier than you, and be sure to watch over their shoulders at the notes the people in front of you are taking. User groups are particularly a good choice, while these groups typically focus on a software application or operating system, their true purpose is for the truly geeky to pass on their geekiness to those below them in the ranks. After a dozen or so meetings or lectures, you should find your geek quotient rising, as well as your capacity to further your own geekiness.
Having read through the CC brief in entirety and the Intel and computer scientists' briefs in abstract, it occurs to me that not one mentions the facts that 1) Everything is copyrighted now thanks to laws making those copyrights automatic and 2) That not all copyrighted material is then restricted from being published, altered, distributed, or otherwise used. The CC brief mentions 2) as practically an aside in mentioning its own licenses, without discussing the end result, that a minority copyright holder (MGM might have thousands of movies under its belt, but the average sad livejournaller in snow has that many angst-ridden entries in a year) cannot dictate how the majority of copyright holders behave with respect to their intellectual property.
Is it too late to file another brief?
Grandparent probably got as far as What's garbage for you is the same as what's garbage for me Before criticizing you.
I got as far as I believe that "right thought" before I burst out laughing from thinking "Right Thinking is doubleplus good for everyone"
As for your actual argument, we have the V-chip. Have had it for years. We have little icons at the top of the screen that tell you what the rating of the show is. My parents' tv can even tell you what the rating of the show is at any time during the broadcast -- and it works with directTV (it even tells the name of the show and the channel the directTV receiver is on)
The only problem is that this requires mommy and daddy to come home for an hour to read the instruction book and learn how to set up the TV and decide just what they want little timmy to see. And these days, thats just too hard for too many parents.
The problem with writing the documentation down at the beginning of a project is that in the "Real World" its obsolete the moment you open up a text editor. As much as everyone would wish for requirements to be laid out up front and set in stone before a single line of code was typed, it just doesn't happen in many, if not most, cases.
/* Add new Edit Menu entries here, then define the appropriate function in editmenu.c */
And when it does happen, that documentation time and money goes down the drain. If you had simply written well documented code to start with, that new requirement could have slipped in right where it says
Of course, people who don't take the time to document outside of the code typically don't take the time to document inside the code, so you lose either way.
It is true that Linux MAY contain prior art for some patents.
Since there are no software patents in Europe right now, it would stand to reason that the Linux kernel would be prior art for any software patent filed after the inclusion of that feature in the kernel, if the ruling allowing them passes. Any existing development would be safe, but future development would run the same risks that development in the US faces now.
Rather than asking "I'm too lazy to pick up the googlepages and look up who you are" like 90% of the other posters here, I already see what made you big, but what about the rest of your life? Aside from being in cartoons and rapping about Star Wars and robotic dogs, how do you justify your existance?
(with respect to the late Asimov)
If you could give the crawler multiple starting points then you could simply have an unlinked page that links to all the old content, and give that page to the crawler as a second starting point.
Think of it as something like the combination of zoning and building safety laws that apply to construction in a city.
And yet there was a ruling that cities cannot keep their building codes "secret" by selling them for large sums of money only to selected contractors.
Just because its a "regulation" doesn't make keeping it secret any less despicable on behalf of our government. You say that making the regulation public would endanger security, but what happened to the security-through-obscurity mantra here (not to mention the widespread view that even now "security" is a joke nobody laughs at)? If it's "ok" to have secret laws (don't kid yourself calling them regulations... if you must obey, it's a law) about getting on airplanes, is it ok to have them about driving your car? How long before your car fails to pass inspection but they can't tell you why, only that you'll need to buy a new car (boy, I bet Ford's pouring a lot of money into their congresscritters right now)?
But hey, requiring an ID is reasonable, so there's nothing to worry about in a country of secret laws and secret searches and secret courts to try them in.
The regulations are just as binding as the laws, and that is the problem. The government might call them "regulations" and think that makes them "special" but they are still laws that have to be obeyed. Whether its local building codes that are not available to the public, or the guide to proper conduct in and around an airport, these secret regulations unfairly affect you.
Actually, in this case these sensors would just be sending some kind of case number and whether you're dead yet to the hospital.
While it's not actually sending your medical history, the fact that it's sending anything at all gives away certain information about you, like "I might die soon so my employer might want to look at a replacement, or at least an excuse to fire me and keep the insurance premiums from going up more"
Well, as the other coward pointed out, you need to justify it. In triplicate. With change control forms sent out at least a year in advance citing exactly what make and model hardware you're going to buy, why you're going to make the switch, and how much this change will increase the stock price (to the quarter-point). Once the change control has been reviewed and rejected twice, the boss's brother's daughter's husband's nephew's wife's niece's brother-in-law will suggest the same thing, at which point he'll be promoted and the change control will be accepted "for review" at which point you'll need to purchase the new equipment out of your own budget ("sorry, we can't requisition new equipment for you until the change control process is complete") after which you will need to document in entirety the process of setting up and installing the kit, along with months of testing to prove that the applications will even run on this "AMD Thingy", then ensure that the applications will not crash on this "completely unknown" architecture. Then, two years later, you will have completed the change control process and your AMD computers will be put into production (being, a model from two years ago). And when your boss's wife's father's second cousin's child's sister-in-law's (who doesn't even work at this company!) computer BSoD's, your head will roll!
It's the new Bible-thumper version of Political Correctness. It's just as senseless, counterproductive, hypocrical and self-destructive as the old lefty version, but it's an all-new flavor!
"Meet the new boss, same as the old boss"
Though really, its all about keeping people from having fun. Nuclear waste discharge is not fun. Mostly naked people and sex on tv are. Therefore you have to fine them more.
CEOs and president's stock sales are usually scheduled months in advance with the SEC. At the time they announced the sale of this stock the police hadn't been put on the case, so its unlikely anyone knew. Unless, of course, they knew that their system was being abused but had chosen to schedule a stock sale instead of reporting it to the cops.
I'd still call for firing the people if they're claiming that they're so out of touch with the company that they didn't know about its giant breach of security for months.
Start up wine and tell me whats on its start menu? How do you replace the wine login screen with another picture like you can on winxp? How do you load a driver in it?
No matter how much you try, at BEST you can claim that wine emulates the win32 api, but you'll never be able to claim it emulates windows.
I'd hardly call implementing the win32 api "emulation" though, since all it does is translate the api calls to relevant linux substitutes. Claiming that is emulation is like claiming my English-French phrase book "emulates" french.
People wave this "it only works from inches away" bullshit without having any idea how radio works.
Its simply a matter of using the right antenna with the right gain. See the bluetooth sniper rifle for details (kilometer range! With bluetooth!). If the antenna is too big to hide on your person, set up shop in a dark alley somewhere and scan the masses as they mill by unaware.
And yeah, tinfoil would work but make it all the more stupid. Not only would the old lady have to fumble the card out of her purse, you'd be sitting around watching her try to unwrap it and wrap it again afterwards. Just swipe the damn thing already!
There are two things here: 1) decrypting the file and 2) distributing the "music".
The questions have to be answered in reverse order to make any sense:
2) Is silence copyrightable?
would it not be a crime, if he knew beforehand that the house was empty?)
1) If silence was not copyrightable, then the proper question to ask is "would it not be a crime if there was no house"?
The beauty is that if you buy a "domain" certificate for *.somedomain.com, you CAN serve multiple hostnames off of that (at least on apache 1.3.x) on one IP. When the browser connects, it'll establish the encryption with the domain certificate, then read the headers to find out which subdomain to go to. Just have all the Name-Based Virtual Hosts use the same certificate and ignore the warning.
Need to have current browsers to get them to accept the certificates without complaint (older ones complained that the hostname of the site wasn't actually "*.somedomain.com"). Also, expect to pay a ton.
I don't know if the parent was attempting to point out that Democrats are solely to blame for things like the DMCA
Of course not! The reason is because the Republicans have run out of excuses and turned to "Clinton sucked too so its OK!" when faced with the fact that their beloved president sucks as well (in perhaps different ways...).
Bush outright lying to the public? Hey, thats OK, Clinton committed perjury! Republicans taking away the freedom to watch CSI in a window on the server room computer while you're on lunch break? Thats OK, a Democrat signed the DMCA!
Maybe I should run for president. I'll just use the motto "I torture little animals, but its OK because the administration of the guy who came before me tortured Iraqis!" Who knows, maybe I'll win!
Actually, this brings up a good question:
Is this "ZETA Corporation" actually tasked by the government to collect license fees for copyrighted works, or are they just making that up as well?
If they are, it might be interesting to see where this ends up, since that puts them in the same position as RIAA's own SoundExchange.
Well, no, by "appears to be under the age of 16" they mean "the possessor pissed off someone high enough up the chain of command to tell everyone to find an excuse to put him/her in the slammer for as long as possible."
These folks were arrested, had to post bond to be released, their house was searched, CPS did show up and CPS did take their kid.
Also note that to get the kid back, the state psychologist arbitrarially decided that they needed to attend childraising sessions, get polygraph testing, and "jump through more hoops". At their cost. Paid to the psychologist, of course. What price, justice?
the main CPU is normally blocked in it's task until the network processing has completed.
Good thing my scheduler has about 50 other tasks in the queue waiting for their turn.