You are not paid by your employer, that's an economic fallacy.
*Of course* employees who work for a company are paid by the company.
You, as an employee, add some amount of value to the goods and services provided by the company, and *that* is where your pay comes from.
If this perverse theory were true, then employees who add no value could never be on the payroll. Companies in the red for the year could never pay their employees, etc. I guess you never worked in a large company, eh?
You seem to be confusing source of funds with expenses, or perhaps applying all-cash day labor transactions to corporate accounting. Try a basic accounting text.
There's no economic theory that treats a company as a zero-value entity. Not even Marxism - even though it assumes that all things that need to be invented and built are extant, it still assigns value to those things.
A given implementation of property rights has some artificial trappings, but even insects implement property rights by defending marked territories. Every animal has this idea hard-wired in. Heck, one could stretch the argument to walnut trees.
Georgists tend to ignore Nature in their search for an abstract ideal.
There are seventeen million sole proprietors in the US. Many of those are on-call.
Fortunately if you can run a business, you're smart enough to figure out how to use an app like Shush! and mute your phone.
I don't think these are the people who are causing trouble though. If you have a couple of free hours and cash to enjoy a movie, you're going to do that.
. After all, it's in many businesses interests to have accurate information
agreed.
and in individual consumer's interests to correct their own info.
Maybe, maybe not. Depends on their goals. Being obscured would suit some (many?) people just fine. It depends what value people assign to different things.
Libertarian theory says that the free market should have a lot of incentive to correct for bad info.
In a free market environment without corporations (government-granted exemptions from liability) and courts that respected property rights this might very well be true. Are you willing to allow that theory to be tested?
and the invisible hand crew will be saying that the market will correct eventually, and stop trying to hurry it along
I can't name a single libertarian who thinks that the government-corporate collusion that's going on to invade the privacy of US residents (and others) is likely to subside voluntarily. Ask Joseph Nacchio how well it works out if you put the interests of your customers over those of the State. And before you say, "but he did something wrong," realize that the entire purpose of PRISM and its ilk is to make a retrospectable list of crimes and prohibition violations that every American commits. You too.
"The invisible hand" is Smith's market-god but Austrian price-information theory and its compliment, game theory, do provide a testable framework for information dispersal in free markets. That requires investigation of mid-to-late 20th century scholarship, though, not ideas that came two centuries before. And also markets that aren't artificially manipulated, for best effect, though the theory does work when such intrusions are counted as costs and losses.
hey, productive procrastination, man. No, really, I only do Slashdot when I'm waiting for something else to finish but it will be not enough time to do anything else. There are several such slots during a typical workday. I get lots of ideas here, so it's only fair to contribute back too. Having a well-structured friends/foes list (buy the subscription!) and score modifiers setup makes it much more valuable use of time. Lots of tabs and decent typing speed helps too.
Well, hopefully a library at least. That's how some OS's are handling DTLS, which is similar.
That initial question of mine is addressed (partially) in the FAQ:
Why didnâ(TM)t you use existing standards such as SCTP over DTLS? QUIC incorporates many techniques in an effort to reduce latency. SCTP and DTLS were not designed to minimize latency, and this is significantly apparent even during the connection establishment phases. Several of the techniques that QUIC is experimenting with would be difficult technically to incorporate into existing standards. As an example, each of these other protocols require several round trips to establish a connection, which is at odds with our target of 0-RTT connectivity overhead.
but I still wonder if introducing a "DTLS 0-RTT mode" RFC wouldn't have been a better move, as far as gaining momentum, which DTLS has spent a few years building. I know, it's Google, but playing nice with others is a great way to get stuff done on the Internet. Even if it had to be DTLSv2, go through the process and get your stuff widely adopted.
the patent is very narrowly for a combined USB/SD port
Which is why I specifically wrote, " I guess Apple can patent a specific port shape if it wants, like one that won't let you transfer your photos to your USB hard drive."
Why is it that you're incapable of reading the whole comment?
the patent is a valid functional patent?
The patent should not be valid. The idea of combining multiple ports into one is not new, and any given combination of combined ports has an obvious and necessary design.
If you're unfamiliar with Jobs's design aesthetic you should go back and watch some of his keynotes and interviews.
My Nook Color has an extra deep USB port. Plug a regular USB cable in and you get standard USB functionality. Plug in the special Nook Color charger with an extra-long USB connector and you get a high-power charger.
Those two connectors happen to have the same outside shape, but it's the depth that's in question here, so prior art bitches. I guess Apple can patent a specific port shape if it wants, like one that won't let you transfer your photos to your USB hard drive.
I know, though, in Appleland any port at all is like a sebaceous cyst on an otherwise perfect surface. If only wireless Thunderbolt were available now they could offload all the connectivity to a breakout box that people could begrudgingly take out when the unseemly need arose to connect a non-Apple product to the otherwise perfect Macbook. Afterwards it could be safely hidden away, and nobody would ever have to tell their friends about it.
No such policy difference exists on Netflix, that uses Silverlight's stronger DRM.
So yes, I have evidence.
No, you have two pieces of data that are correlated and are assuming causation. Prime Video is free for members. Netflix is $9/mo. HD content is more expensive than SD content.
But I'm not privy to Amazon's internal discussions or contracts, so I don't know if the lower cost is why they have SD.
Heh, I set my parents up with Jitsi a few months ago and configured their gateway to openvpn to mine - at the time purely for reliable addressing and networking ports, but it turns out to be pretty secure as well.
Now then, the traffic consists almost entirely of my kids telling their grandmother about a new bike or that girl at school who is sooooooo mean, but that's none of the NSA's damn business either. I don't want some creep analyst in Hawaii watching my daughter any more than I do some creep on a park bench.
Oh, the point - Jitsi is perfectly usable for an AOL grandmother. We actually started on this path when the Microsoft version of Skype became unstable on their Mac (the pre-MS version was pretty decent).
All things being equal, you still have to accelerate your ship if you want to go anywhere it's not going already. For a given amount of propulsion capability, a more-massive-than-necessary ship will take longer to get somewhere.
Yeah, good point. But let's not discourage industrious dads, either. When my daughter was three she began exhibiting symptoms of a diagnosed syndrome that were pretty brutal and after the pediatricians wound up at "let's see if she grows out of it" I decided to spend a week at our local medical center's library, for access to the journals I couldn't get online. Working backwards from symptoms to possible metabolic pathways I came up with a no-downside possible treatment that could work if a potential pathway (the only one I'd not eliminated) was correct and, after beginning treatment (nutritional) the symptoms of the syndrome went away. My sample size was too small, so I posted what I'd come up with to the relevant Yahoo Group where the parents and clinicians had gathered to discuss. Frankly, I didn't need another job, so I didn't pay attention beyond answering questions about my notes - my goal was accomplished and our lives became much easier.
But, I wasn't ostensibly 'qualified' to do the work. Yeah, I'd taken biochemistry and physiology in high school and follow the science nerd new sites, and can do research on Medline, but I'm definitely not a PhD endocrinologist. Sometimes you just skip 'inspiration' and go right for 'perspiration' if the motivation is sufficient.
Try to match a movie on Prime in HD on your PC. You already know that you cannot
So you know that there's a policy difference between TV and Movies on Prime, but you're trying to blame the playback software implementation? Do you have any evidence that this is based on a licensing deal that hinged on the player?
Very interesting post. I left it open overnight to read again in the morning.
4) AG Poopypants refuses to defend. 5) Boss Hogg wins by default. 6) Disenfranchised voters may not appeal.
Just to clarify, this scenario requires the circuit court panel and and the AGOTUS to be in agreement/conspiracy to effectively nullify a law from Congress, and SCOTUS won't review, right?
If so, isn't this two out of three branches checking the other one?
It's not too hard, really. The framers were very clear that Congress's power was limited to enumerated powers.
What for instance did the framers think of stem cell research
Not covered. States' problem.
commerce on the internet
No taxes for interstate trade. This was among the primary reasons the Articles of Confederation were discarded.
software patents
Patents are Congress's legitimate purview.
genetically modified food
State problem.
corporate political speech
There were no corporations in the US until after the Civil War (JD Rockefeller bought Congress for the sake of Standard Oil).
Will Scalia simply say that he can make no decision on these sorts of things. No, he will make a call, and that call will back his political agenda.
Right. If here were an originalist he would say that the law is unconstitutional because it's not among Congress's enumerated powers. It would lighten his workload quite a bit, really.
I give you that one, though I think it's a special case because Roberts fooled the Court into committing an intentional error (an unenumerated tax type). Politics in the Courts is just another symptom, though not a new one, at least since '39.
it is absurd to say that the framers of the Constitution intended the equal protection clause to mean equal protection for every form of marriage
IIRC, in 1789 only MA had any sort of marriage licensing. They were mostly implemented in the 19th century to keep the 'negros' from 'spoiling' the white girls.
Certainly the framers would not have considered marriage a topic that the general government would ever consider, if anything so foolish it would be left to the States. Madison was very clear about the scope of the enumerated powers in the Federalist papers. Sadly, those are not binding and their need should have given the day to the Antifederalists.
That means a 6 foot wave would recede pretty quickly; so how did this 6 foot wave stay up for several minutes?
I read a story a couple nights ago that was just quoting some fishermen (not divers - divers aren't on jettys) who got knocked over and offered no other details.
When a shore fisherman says it's a six food wave, that means it was as tall as him. He doesn't care about the physics of it. They didn't say anything about the land being flooded for several minutes, they just said they got knocked over. Getting banged up against the rocks is a good way to need some medical treatment and throw in a box of lures and you've got an ugly situation.
I suspect the 'several minutes' thing will turn out to be a result of some measuring buoys showing a higher water level over that time while the wave 'bathtubbed' for a bit while draining.
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You are not paid by your employer, that's an economic fallacy.
*Of course* employees who work for a company are paid by the company.
You, as an employee, add some amount of value to the goods and services provided by the company, and *that* is where your pay comes from.
If this perverse theory were true, then employees who add no value could never be on the payroll. Companies in the red for the year could never pay their employees, etc. I guess you never worked in a large company, eh?
You seem to be confusing source of funds with expenses, or perhaps applying all-cash day labor transactions to corporate accounting. Try a basic accounting text.
There's no economic theory that treats a company as a zero-value entity. Not even Marxism - even though it assumes that all things that need to be invented and built are extant, it still assigns value to those things.
since property is itself an artificial creation
A given implementation of property rights has some artificial trappings, but even insects implement property rights by defending marked territories. Every animal has this idea hard-wired in. Heck, one could stretch the argument to walnut trees.
Georgists tend to ignore Nature in their search for an abstract ideal.
There are seventeen million sole proprietors in the US. Many of those are on-call.
Fortunately if you can run a business, you're smart enough to figure out how to use an app like Shush! and mute your phone.
I don't think these are the people who are causing trouble though. If you have a couple of free hours and cash to enjoy a movie, you're going to do that.
All Your i.+ Are Belong To Us.
. After all, it's in many businesses interests to have accurate information
agreed.
and in individual consumer's interests to correct their own info.
Maybe, maybe not. Depends on their goals. Being obscured would suit some (many?) people just fine. It depends what value people assign to different things.
Libertarian theory says that the free market should have a lot of incentive to correct for bad info.
In a free market environment without corporations (government-granted exemptions from liability) and courts that respected property rights this might very well be true. Are you willing to allow that theory to be tested?
and the invisible hand crew will be saying that the market will correct eventually, and stop trying to hurry it along
I can't name a single libertarian who thinks that the government-corporate collusion that's going on to invade the privacy of US residents (and others) is likely to subside voluntarily. Ask Joseph Nacchio how well it works out if you put the interests of your customers over those of the State. And before you say, "but he did something wrong," realize that the entire purpose of PRISM and its ilk is to make a retrospectable list of crimes and prohibition violations that every American commits. You too.
"The invisible hand" is Smith's market-god but Austrian price-information theory and its compliment, game theory, do provide a testable framework for information dispersal in free markets. That requires investigation of mid-to-late 20th century scholarship, though, not ideas that came two centuries before. And also markets that aren't artificially manipulated, for best effect, though the theory does work when such intrusions are counted as costs and losses.
hey, productive procrastination, man. No, really, I only do Slashdot when I'm waiting for something else to finish but it will be not enough time to do anything else. There are several such slots during a typical workday. I get lots of ideas here, so it's only fair to contribute back too. Having a well-structured friends/foes list (buy the subscription!) and score modifiers setup makes it much more valuable use of time. Lots of tabs and decent typing speed helps too.
Oops, job I was waiting for just beeped - c'ya.
Well, hopefully a library at least. That's how some OS's are handling DTLS, which is similar.
That initial question of mine is addressed (partially) in the FAQ:
but I still wonder if introducing a "DTLS 0-RTT mode" RFC wouldn't have been a better move, as far as gaining momentum, which DTLS has spent a few years building. I know, it's Google, but playing nice with others is a great way to get stuff done on the Internet. Even if it had to be DTLSv2, go through the process and get your stuff widely adopted.
the patent is very narrowly for a combined USB/SD port
Which is why I specifically wrote, " I guess Apple can patent a specific port shape if it wants, like one that won't let you transfer your photos to your USB hard drive."
Why is it that you're incapable of reading the whole comment?
the patent is a valid functional patent?
The patent should not be valid. The idea of combining multiple ports into one is not new, and any given combination of combined ports has an obvious and necessary design.
If you're unfamiliar with Jobs's design aesthetic you should go back and watch some of his keynotes and interviews.
Do they have a dongle fetish?
Hey, that stereotype about Apple customers isn't true!
My Nook Color has an extra deep USB port. Plug a regular USB cable in and you get standard USB functionality. Plug in the special Nook Color charger with an extra-long USB connector and you get a high-power charger.
Those two connectors happen to have the same outside shape, but it's the depth that's in question here, so prior art bitches. I guess Apple can patent a specific port shape if it wants, like one that won't let you transfer your photos to your USB hard drive.
I know, though, in Appleland any port at all is like a sebaceous cyst on an otherwise perfect surface. If only wireless Thunderbolt were available now they could offload all the connectivity to a breakout box that people could begrudgingly take out when the unseemly need arose to connect a non-Apple product to the otherwise perfect Macbook. Afterwards it could be safely hidden away, and nobody would ever have to tell their friends about it.
No such policy difference exists on Netflix, that uses Silverlight's stronger DRM.
So yes, I have evidence.
No, you have two pieces of data that are correlated and are assuming causation. Prime Video is free for members. Netflix is $9/mo. HD content is more expensive than SD content.
But I'm not privy to Amazon's internal discussions or contracts, so I don't know if the lower cost is why they have SD.
RMS's comments about OS back-doors are rather dated
I pointed out to a friend yesterday that we've known about the NSAKey for fifteen years, and she said, "yeah, but now everybody else does."
It's a good time to start saying, "not 'free' as in 'gratis', but 'free' as in 'not backdoored by the NSA'."
SIP software, point to point VPN.
Heh, I set my parents up with Jitsi a few months ago and configured their gateway to openvpn to mine - at the time purely for reliable addressing and networking ports, but it turns out to be pretty secure as well.
Now then, the traffic consists almost entirely of my kids telling their grandmother about a new bike or that girl at school who is sooooooo mean, but that's none of the NSA's damn business either. I don't want some creep analyst in Hawaii watching my daughter any more than I do some creep on a park bench.
Oh, the point - Jitsi is perfectly usable for an AOL grandmother. We actually started on this path when the Microsoft version of Skype became unstable on their Mac (the pre-MS version was pretty decent).
All things being equal, you still have to accelerate your ship if you want to go anywhere it's not going already. For a given amount of propulsion capability, a more-massive-than-necessary ship will take longer to get somewhere.
Then you would have a good long range mission with out the 0g effect messing up the body.
Or you can just spin the spacecraft and save all that fuel.
Who happens to be a biotech entrepreneur...
Yeah, good point. But let's not discourage industrious dads, either. When my daughter was three she began exhibiting symptoms of a diagnosed syndrome that were pretty brutal and after the pediatricians wound up at "let's see if she grows out of it" I decided to spend a week at our local medical center's library, for access to the journals I couldn't get online. Working backwards from symptoms to possible metabolic pathways I came up with a no-downside possible treatment that could work if a potential pathway (the only one I'd not eliminated) was correct and, after beginning treatment (nutritional) the symptoms of the syndrome went away. My sample size was too small, so I posted what I'd come up with to the relevant Yahoo Group where the parents and clinicians had gathered to discuss. Frankly, I didn't need another job, so I didn't pay attention beyond answering questions about my notes - my goal was accomplished and our lives became much easier.
But, I wasn't ostensibly 'qualified' to do the work. Yeah, I'd taken biochemistry and physiology in high school and follow the science nerd new sites, and can do research on Medline, but I'm definitely not a PhD endocrinologist. Sometimes you just skip 'inspiration' and go right for 'perspiration' if the motivation is sufficient.
Good Eats is not a movie, its television series.
Try to match a movie on Prime in HD on your PC. You already know that you cannot
So you know that there's a policy difference between TV and Movies on Prime, but you're trying to blame the playback software implementation? Do you have any evidence that this is based on a licensing deal that hinged on the player?
so why are you being a dishonest fuck right now?
Very interesting post. I left it open overnight to read again in the morning.
4) AG Poopypants refuses to defend.
5) Boss Hogg wins by default.
6) Disenfranchised voters may not appeal.
Just to clarify, this scenario requires the circuit court panel and and the AGOTUS to be in agreement/conspiracy to effectively nullify a law from Congress, and SCOTUS won't review, right?
If so, isn't this two out of three branches checking the other one?
That's on Soulskill's forehead right about now. Seriously, doing something like this is terrible security advice.
The spammer managed to get ahold of a real human inside Google. No small feat.
Are you just wasting your time trolling or do you really not understand what that means?
It's not too hard, really. The framers were very clear that Congress's power was limited to enumerated powers.
What for instance did the framers think of stem cell research
Not covered. States' problem.
commerce on the internet
No taxes for interstate trade. This was among the primary reasons the Articles of Confederation were discarded.
software patents
Patents are Congress's legitimate purview.
genetically modified food
State problem.
corporate political speech
There were no corporations in the US until after the Civil War (JD Rockefeller bought Congress for the sake of Standard Oil).
Will Scalia simply say that he can make no decision on these sorts of things. No, he will make a call, and that call will back his political agenda.
Right. If here were an originalist he would say that the law is unconstitutional because it's not among Congress's enumerated powers. It would lighten his workload quite a bit, really.
I give you that one, though I think it's a special case because Roberts fooled the Court into committing an intentional error (an unenumerated tax type). Politics in the Courts is just another symptom, though not a new one, at least since '39.
it is absurd to say that the framers of the Constitution intended the equal protection clause to mean equal protection for every form of marriage
IIRC, in 1789 only MA had any sort of marriage licensing. They were mostly implemented in the 19th century to keep the 'negros' from 'spoiling' the white girls.
Certainly the framers would not have considered marriage a topic that the general government would ever consider, if anything so foolish it would be left to the States. Madison was very clear about the scope of the enumerated powers in the Federalist papers. Sadly, those are not binding and their need should have given the day to the Antifederalists.
That means a 6 foot wave would recede pretty quickly; so how did this 6 foot wave stay up for several minutes?
I read a story a couple nights ago that was just quoting some fishermen (not divers - divers aren't on jettys) who got knocked over and offered no other details.
When a shore fisherman says it's a six food wave, that means it was as tall as him. He doesn't care about the physics of it. They didn't say anything about the land being flooded for several minutes, they just said they got knocked over. Getting banged up against the rocks is a good way to need some medical treatment and throw in a box of lures and you've got an ugly situation.
I suspect the 'several minutes' thing will turn out to be a result of some measuring buoys showing a higher water level over that time while the wave 'bathtubbed' for a bit while draining.