What the Judge does understand is that letting this guy out of jail on BOND is dangerous to SF political types running the city. This is far more dangerous, in their mind, than a child rapist, mass murderer or other heinous criminal, hence the steep bail.
And the city wonders why nobody wants to visit there any more.
Amazing, isn't it? But it's the way a stereotypical politician typically thinks- when they do manage to think. I certainly wouldn't want to work for them after this whole debacle- the stuff that's coming to light through all of this does not reflect well on the DA's office or the city itself right at this time.
What makes you think that he'd do that if let loose? If it did get screwed up, I'd think he'd be the first to receive blame at this point. Unless one has a very, very good escape plan that is sure-fire and won't fail, I would think that unless they're completely nuts, a person in Childs' position is not going to go at them for "revenge".
They're more in danger from other threats than this man at this point. To put it more succinctly: The risk is imaginary; the DA's whipping up fantasies that're just plausible enough that the Judge is willing to sign off on them. He didn't do a denial of service. He didn't intend to do so, as best as can be determined. He followed their internal security policies per passwords, even.
All I ever do is post humorous observations, epiphanies, and the such on my Twitter account. It COULD be useful, but in the end...unless you're someone like Cory Doctorow or the like, there's likely to not be much of anyone caring what you post there. It's a big waste of bandwidth and resources overall. If it were to go down, there'd be a lot of annoyance and little of value being lost.
Which is cool. If you've got Mac, Windows, and Linux versions of a decent SIP solution (Ekiga's become one and there's a few good alternatives if you don't like that...) then all you'd need is a sip service that has PSTN dial-out/in support. There's a few, but the truth of the matter is that all of them have issues and it's entertaining trying to find SIP hardware like you can Skype stuff in the stores.
The real problem is in their determination. "External Forces" can be quite a few things. Including the two items you mention. However, if you're talking about someone sitting on the phone being one of them (mentioned earlier in this thread...) or perhaps talking "too long" on the phone such that the battery gets "warm" (Which most of the smartphones seem to get that way easily- and it's not the SoC doing it...), you're talking a different story. Which is it? Apple's not saying, which is where some of my concern lies. "External Forces" is a cop-out response. Spell it out as to why they exploded. If you're unwilling to do so, you're covering up something. Dell did. Sony did. Apple even did on their laptops on the Li-Ion batteries there. So why the evasiveness here?
After her mother had a shouting match over the girl cussing at her and over the girl spending too much time on the Internet- according to other official accounts of things here.
We haven't a friggin' clue either way (because we're not entitled to gaining that, mind...) of what all transpired- and we're judging both sides of the equation as if we had them all.
Do I think Drew was a heinous individual? YES. Do I think that she should be held accountable for her actions? YES.
Do I think all this caterwauling about what Drew did/did not do is a waste of time and resources? YES.
You didn't get the whole data dump. Neither, did I.
I would think that the fact that the State didn't bother to pursue charges and fobbed it up to the Federal level should be indication that the story's not cut-and-dried like most people are making it out to be in the thread.
It remains to be seen. One professor seems to think that the chain of proof that the Copyright was properly registered, etc. for Happy Birthday- and has a lot of proof to back up his claims. However, unless you press for disproving the claims, you'll have to accept that the Copyright Office DOES hold that Time Warner does, in fact, own the rights to that song until 2030 unless there's changes in the Copyright laws subsequent to this time. They got the rights through a complex series of transactions.
Saying that they don't own it doesn't get you off the hook. You'll need to go through over 200 documents worth of research, pay lawyers thousands of dollars, and prove to a Court that this is the case if you're guilty of performing it commercially and get caught at doing it.
That's the reality and absurdity of the current situation with that song and of Copyright in general. I agree we need Copyright. What I don't agree with is the current incarnation thereof.
Because Linux isn't just a desktop or server OS...it's a bit more than that.
Symbian's not where Nokia's going, apparently- it's Maemo/Qt. Symbian may be a slightly "tighter" OS where the codespace for the OS is concerned, but coding applications for it is an unmitigated pain.
Maemo's much, much easier and only requires slightly more resources (most of which checked in with the Cortex-A8 class SoC's being fielded for most modern smartphones and handheld devices right at the moment...)- so with the current crop of smart handhelds, it's a winner for them to consider that path. Moreover, it's easier to sell people on making applications (like games, for example...) on the platform than with something like Symbian. The N900 will have versions of the stuff I'm currently porting over to ARM Linux, as will the Pre, G1, etc.
You can always pull the components out and apply them to your Android distribution you want to assemble on the N900. As it stands, the Maemo 5 runs rather well on a Beagleboard...
Keep in mind, unless the GSM radio is on a USB interfaced device, key parts of that interface will have to be Open Sourced as it will have to be in the Kernel- and to ship without the sources to that being made available is a breach of the GPLv2 licensing on the Kernel they use for it. And, even if it's a userland USB device driver, you can always figure out the driver and pluck it out and put it in the Android distribution image as well. The deltas in the libraries should be minimal and shouldn't preclude you doing that and having it work right.
Heh... I won't bore everyone with a blow-by-blow refutation of those remarks you made just then. I'll just offer that I've yet to find issue with anything you've "pointed out" and haven't for nearly a decade in many cases.
Dropping names of distributions won't lend you credibility there either. As much because most of what you comment to hasn't been an issue with at least ONE if not all three of the distributions you name-dropped there- and hasn't been for at least 3-5 years or more.
3) The term, "Christian Science", is something that is typically placed in front of the writings and beliefs that have come from the Church of Christ, Scientist (Not to be at all confused with Scientology!:-D) One of several Protestant denominations.
4) The term, I believe, came into use when Mary Baker Eddy founded the denomination back in 1879, in Boston, MA.
It's not a "specification", per-se. Had you dug just the slightest bit, you might have found out your answer to those questions you posed, snide though they were.
Consider that the PS3 is much more expensive than the 360. If there wasn't an added expense over any of the other consoles involved with it, there'd be what you indicate. The PS3, until recently, was the most expensive and it didn't have enough going for it to rate spending the money unless you wanted Blu-Ray playback and wanted PS3-only titles (Both were the case with me, so it was saved up for...). I'm suspecting that the slightly lower price, the availability of initial titles like Halo, and people not being overly concerned about Blu-Ray was the factors for the 360. Technically, it's superior to the other two consoles, and quite capable of eye candy that leaves the others behind. But that $600 MSRP killed it for most people. It did for the longest time for myself.
My Wii gets abused about as much as the PS3 does...no problems so far...(Now watch, it'll up and die on me now... >:-) )
The failure rates are more due to hardware choices than about usage from what I've seen though. MS chose poorly early on- just like they did with the X-Box.
Heh... There's a certain expectancy of robustness there with a console (Or, rather, there SHOULD be...;-) ) and that's just not there and mostly hasn't with either iteration of an X-Box.
I suspect that the crowd's doing the "ooh...shiny" thing and putting up with the unreliable things because "it has the most titles". Sadly, most of the stuff on the X-Box is drek- and the bulk of the stuff I'm interested in has a version for PS3, Wii, or both. I wouldn't buy the 360 based on it's current track record of failures in the field- to be honest, it's not a consideration as much for who's selling it as the failure rates, but either consdieration's enough to scotch the deal in my books.
The root cause isn't a clash of Soc Sec Numbers. The root cause is that the credit industry has taken it upon themselves, at least in the US, of using the SSN as your ident for credit purposes, something the number was never intended for. Couple that with bottom feeders that don't "own" the debts trying to "collect" on them, only believing the credit reporting agency info (which is often in error, more often than not...).
Sending them an FDCPA notice via certified mail will typically stop them dead in their tracks if you can get a mailing address out of the scumbags. Most of the places know you're meaning business and unless they really do have more than just an account number, name, and amount, it'll cost them more than they really want to spend "collecting" the money.
Put up the slightest bit of real resistance with the threat of taking them to court instead of the other way around (make SURE you're in the clear on this one- they can sue you if you do owe the money...) and they usually give up.
Unfortunately, unless they have the document that you signed your name onto, or a court order naming you specifically, they **DON'T** have documentation that proves that you owe anything. Credit reports do not count on this one- which is what most of the "collectors" use for the basis of their claims that you do owe and how much.
You might owe the money. You might not.
But if they don't have the proper papers, if you tell them to go pound sand for that reason and they don't, they're liable to you for at least $1000 per incident per the FDCPA. Moreover, you don't owe them, you owe the original creditor the money- and the original creditor has, more often than not, officially written off the debt by the point a collector gets involved. At that point, if you pay the "collection agency" most of them just pocket whatever you pay them and claim to clean up your credit entry for the item they "collected"- which they never actually do.
When the CO loses power, you have, at best, 72 hours of service. If you lose the CO, you lose the whole enchilada. With a Cell Phone, I can put it on a car-charger, laptop charger, or primary cell based "emergency" charger and be back up.
Six of one, half dozen of another, actually. When Katrina did in the areas she did, which was up and up and running faster? And you'd have to nail a lot more sites and not be able to roll in CoW trailers/trucks to not end up with service.
Only as long as the towers are down. A cell site can be rolled in and brought up in minutes. Unfortunately, the same is not able to be said for the Landline service.
Heh... Your poffered example doesn't inspire faith in your observations. They changed up how disk i/o was done. If all you're doing is measuring install times...the change from 32 to 64-bits coupled with what I just mentioned can account for that.
But it doesn't make it 3 or so times faster. Only maybe on that one task it might be. I suggest you consider a more thorough and a more apples-to-apples comparison. I might have believed you more had you stated both were 64-bits or both were 32-bits- but all bets are mostly off even on the same machine if you're doing comparisons like the one you made.
I would hesitate to say "pointless upgrades" under Linux.
You can still get support for most of the useful Ubuntu versions, for example.
They support the product version in question for 18 months from it's release date with patches, paid support, etc. unless it's an LTS, in which case it's supported for 3 years for desktop, 5 for server version installs. If you don't need the new applications load, you can run securely for a **LONG** time without issues on most Linux distributions. At some threshold, you end up needing to move to a newer version, more because of security concerns (you can't backpatch everything...) than it being "pointless".
Moreover...even if they were "pointless", unless you feel the need to buy support, you don't pay anything for any of those "pointless" upgrades. With the other two you mention, you pay through the teeth every time.
Actually... You can implement 2D in nothing but 3D terms. Having to implement 2D support means you're burning silicon real estate that could be used for more shader pipelines. Same goes for most of the things like h.264 decode. The more shader pipelines you have, the happier you will be and the easier it will be to do the stuff you're "missing"- easier than if you'd done the special silicon for it in many cases.
Heh... Considering that the machines with the GMA950 were capable of such eye candy using Compiz (and then some...) for a while now (we won't get into the distros pushing out driver versions that'd not fully gelled yet with the new stuff that's in transition right now...), I think the argument's a bit specious.
You don't need some of the stuff that Vista and MacOS seem to have to have to accomplish it. The GPU in question is hopelessly underpowered, yes. But it's telling when you can wring out the stuff anyhow- just not on those OSes...
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Amazing, isn't it? But it's the way a stereotypical politician typically thinks- when they do manage to think. I certainly wouldn't want to work for them after this whole debacle- the stuff that's coming to light through all of this does not reflect well on the DA's office or the city itself right at this time.
What makes you think that he'd do that if let loose? If it did get screwed up, I'd think he'd be the first to receive blame at this point. Unless one has a very, very good escape plan that is sure-fire and won't fail, I would think that unless they're completely nuts, a person in Childs' position is not going to go at them for "revenge".
They're more in danger from other threats than this man at this point. To put it more succinctly: The risk is imaginary; the DA's whipping up fantasies that're just plausible enough that the Judge is willing to sign off on them. He didn't do a denial of service. He didn't intend to do so, as best as can be determined. He followed their internal security policies per passwords, even.
I like the "Hospital Burn Ward" line in the second frame on that one...
But then, I've this vision burned into my head with regards to Twitter:
http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2008/4/23/
All I ever do is post humorous observations, epiphanies, and the such on my Twitter account. It COULD be useful, but in the end...unless you're someone like Cory Doctorow or the like, there's likely to not be much of anyone caring what you post there. It's a big waste of bandwidth and resources overall. If it were to go down, there'd be a lot of annoyance and little of value being lost.
Which is cool. If you've got Mac, Windows, and Linux versions of a decent SIP solution (Ekiga's become one and there's a few good alternatives if you don't like that...) then all you'd need is a sip service that has PSTN dial-out/in support. There's a few, but the truth of the matter is that all of them have issues and it's entertaining trying to find SIP hardware like you can Skype stuff in the stores.
The real problem is in their determination. "External Forces" can be quite a few things. Including the two items you mention. However, if you're talking about someone sitting on the phone being one of them (mentioned earlier in this thread...) or perhaps talking "too long" on the phone such that the battery gets " warm " (Which most of the smartphones seem to get that way easily- and it's not the SoC doing it...), you're talking a different story. Which is it? Apple's not saying, which is where some of my concern lies. "External Forces" is a cop-out response. Spell it out as to why they exploded. If you're unwilling to do so, you're covering up something. Dell did. Sony did. Apple even did on their laptops on the Li-Ion batteries there. So why the evasiveness here?
After her mother had a shouting match over the girl cussing at her and over the girl spending too much time on the Internet- according to other official accounts of things here.
We haven't a friggin' clue either way (because we're not entitled to gaining that, mind...) of what all transpired- and we're judging both sides of the equation as if we had them all.
Do I think Drew was a heinous individual? YES.
Do I think that she should be held accountable for her actions? YES.
Do I think all this caterwauling about what Drew did/did not do is a waste of time and resources? YES.
You didn't get the whole data dump. Neither, did I.
I would think that the fact that the State didn't bother to pursue charges and fobbed it up to the Federal level should be indication that the story's not cut-and-dried like most people are making it out to be in the thread.
It remains to be seen. One professor seems to think that the chain of proof that the Copyright was properly registered, etc. for Happy Birthday- and has a lot of proof to back up his claims. However, unless you press for disproving the claims, you'll have to accept that the Copyright Office DOES hold that Time Warner does, in fact, own the rights to that song until 2030 unless there's changes in the Copyright laws subsequent to this time. They got the rights through a complex series of transactions.
Saying that they don't own it doesn't get you off the hook. You'll need to go through over 200 documents worth of research, pay lawyers thousands of dollars, and prove to a Court that this is the case if you're guilty of performing it commercially and get caught at doing it.
That's the reality and absurdity of the current situation with that song and of Copyright in general. I agree we need Copyright. What I don't agree with is the current incarnation thereof.
Because Linux isn't just a desktop or server OS...it's a bit more than that.
Symbian's not where Nokia's going, apparently- it's Maemo/Qt. Symbian may be a slightly "tighter" OS where the codespace for the OS is concerned, but coding applications for it is an unmitigated pain.
Maemo's much, much easier and only requires slightly more resources (most of which checked in with the Cortex-A8 class SoC's being fielded for most modern smartphones and handheld devices right at the moment...)- so with the current crop of smart handhelds, it's a winner for them to consider that path. Moreover, it's easier to sell people on making applications (like games, for example...) on the platform than with something like Symbian. The N900 will have versions of the stuff I'm currently porting over to ARM Linux, as will the Pre, G1, etc.
You can always pull the components out and apply them to your Android distribution you want to assemble on the N900. As it stands, the Maemo 5 runs rather well on a Beagleboard...
Keep in mind, unless the GSM radio is on a USB interfaced device, key parts of that interface will have to be Open Sourced as it will have to be in the Kernel- and to ship without the sources to that being made available is a breach of the GPLv2 licensing on the Kernel they use for it. And, even if it's a userland USB device driver, you can always figure out the driver and pluck it out and put it in the Android distribution image as well. The deltas in the libraries should be minimal and shouldn't preclude you doing that and having it work right.
Heh... I won't bore everyone with a blow-by-blow refutation of those remarks you made just then. I'll just offer that I've yet to find issue with anything you've "pointed out" and haven't for nearly a decade in many cases.
Dropping names of distributions won't lend you credibility there either. As much because most of what you comment to hasn't been an issue with at least ONE if not all three of the distributions you name-dropped there- and hasn't been for at least 3-5 years or more.
Well...while I don't believe quite as they do...
1) Nothing in "Christian" precludes "Science".
2) The converse is also true.
3) The term, "Christian Science", is something that is typically placed in front of the writings and beliefs that have come from the Church of Christ, Scientist (Not to be at all confused with Scientology! :-D) One of several Protestant denominations.
4) The term, I believe, came into use when Mary Baker Eddy founded the denomination back in 1879, in Boston, MA.
It's not a "specification", per-se. Had you dug just the slightest bit, you might have found out your answer to those questions you posed, snide though they were.
Consider that the PS3 is much more expensive than the 360. If there wasn't an added expense over any of the other consoles involved with it, there'd be what you indicate. The PS3, until recently, was the most expensive and it didn't have enough going for it to rate spending the money unless you wanted Blu-Ray playback and wanted PS3-only titles (Both were the case with me, so it was saved up for...). I'm suspecting that the slightly lower price, the availability of initial titles like Halo, and people not being overly concerned about Blu-Ray was the factors for the 360. Technically, it's superior to the other two consoles, and quite capable of eye candy that leaves the others behind. But that $600 MSRP killed it for most people. It did for the longest time for myself.
My Wii gets abused about as much as the PS3 does...no problems so far...(Now watch, it'll up and die on me now... >:-) )
The failure rates are more due to hardware choices than about usage from what I've seen though. MS chose poorly early on- just like they did with the X-Box.
Uh... You'd count in that 54% of failures, then. Doesn't matter that they got it fixed- it shipped failing on you.
Heh... There's a certain expectancy of robustness there with a console (Or, rather, there SHOULD be... ;-) ) and that's just not there and mostly hasn't with either iteration of an X-Box.
I suspect that the crowd's doing the "ooh...shiny" thing and putting up with the unreliable things because "it has the most titles". Sadly, most of the stuff on the X-Box is drek- and the bulk of the stuff I'm interested in has a version for PS3, Wii, or both. I wouldn't buy the 360 based on it's current track record of failures in the field- to be honest, it's not a consideration as much for who's selling it as the failure rates, but either consdieration's enough to scotch the deal in my books.
The root cause isn't a clash of Soc Sec Numbers. The root cause is that the credit industry has taken it upon themselves, at least in the US, of using the SSN as your ident for credit purposes, something the number was never intended for. Couple that with bottom feeders that don't "own" the debts trying to "collect" on them, only believing the credit reporting agency info (which is often in error, more often than not...).
Sending them an FDCPA notice via certified mail will typically stop them dead in their tracks if you can get a mailing address out of the scumbags. Most of the places know you're meaning business and unless they really do have more than just an account number, name, and amount, it'll cost them more than they really want to spend "collecting" the money.
Put up the slightest bit of real resistance with the threat of taking them to court instead of the other way around (make SURE you're in the clear on this one- they can sue you if you do owe the money...) and they usually give up.
Unfortunately, unless they have the document that you signed your name onto, or a court order naming you specifically , they **DON'T** have documentation that proves that you owe anything. Credit reports do not count on this one- which is what most of the "collectors" use for the basis of their claims that you do owe and how much.
You might owe the money.
You might not.
But if they don't have the proper papers, if you tell them to go pound sand for that reason and they don't, they're liable to you for at least $1000 per incident per the FDCPA. Moreover, you don't owe them, you owe the original creditor the money- and the original creditor has, more often than not, officially written off the debt by the point a collector gets involved. At that point, if you pay the "collection agency" most of them just pocket whatever you pay them and claim to clean up your credit entry for the item they "collected"- which they never actually do.
When the CO loses power, you have, at best, 72 hours of service. If you lose the CO, you lose the whole enchilada. With a Cell Phone, I can put it on a car-charger, laptop charger, or primary cell based "emergency" charger and be back up.
Six of one, half dozen of another, actually. When Katrina did in the areas she did, which was up and up and running faster? And you'd have to nail a lot more sites and not be able to roll in CoW trailers/trucks to not end up with service.
Only as long as the towers are down. A cell site can be rolled in and brought up in minutes. Unfortunately, the same is not able to be said for the Landline service.
Heh... Your poffered example doesn't inspire faith in your observations. They changed up how disk i/o was done. If all you're doing is measuring install times...the change from 32 to 64-bits coupled with what I just mentioned can account for that.
But it doesn't make it 3 or so times faster. Only maybe on that one task it might be. I suggest you consider a more thorough and a more apples-to-apples comparison. I might have believed you more had you stated both were 64-bits or both were 32-bits- but all bets are mostly off even on the same machine if you're doing comparisons like the one you made.
I would hesitate to say "pointless upgrades" under Linux.
You can still get support for most of the useful Ubuntu versions, for example.
They support the product version in question for 18 months from it's release date with patches, paid support, etc. unless it's an LTS, in which case it's supported for 3 years for desktop, 5 for server version installs. If you don't need the new applications load, you can run securely for a **LONG** time without issues on most Linux distributions. At some threshold, you end up needing to move to a newer version, more because of security concerns (you can't backpatch everything...) than it being "pointless".
Moreover...even if they were "pointless", unless you feel the need to buy support, you don't pay anything for any of those "pointless" upgrades. With the other two you mention, you pay through the teeth every time.
Actually... You can implement 2D in nothing but 3D terms. Having to implement 2D support means you're burning silicon real estate that could be used for more shader pipelines. Same goes for most of the things like h.264 decode. The more shader pipelines you have, the happier you will be and the easier it will be to do the stuff you're "missing"- easier than if you'd done the special silicon for it in many cases.
Which goes to the question...why did they not support Aero officially on that GPU?
Heh... Considering that the machines with the GMA950 were capable of such eye candy using Compiz (and then some...) for a while now (we won't get into the distros pushing out driver versions that'd not fully gelled yet with the new stuff that's in transition right now...), I think the argument's a bit specious.
You don't need some of the stuff that Vista and MacOS seem to have to have to accomplish it. The GPU in question is hopelessly underpowered, yes. But it's telling when you can wring out the stuff anyhow- just not on those OSes...