This is true. We need an amendment that says -- and I think the more plain English the better -- something along the lines of: communication on the internet is protected in the same way any other communication is protected. It is not a new frontier, it is just another communications tool. For each new communications tool, all previous rights and privileges need necessarily still apply.
Well, something like that. It should be really broad and obvious. When in doubt, you have the right to say it. When in doubt, the government can't get it without a fucking warrant. Maybe it should just say that (sans fuck).
This is fundamentally incorrect. Talking with another human takes your brain to a place that's outside the car. The radio can do this too, but not to the same extent. And the difference with talking to someone who's in the car is obvious: Their life is in jeopardy along with yours. They are more sensitive to pauses in your speech (which can indicate personal danger for them) and most importantly, they're helping you look at the fucking road.
If you think talking on a bluetooth headset is better in some way than holding it up to your year, you're dead wrong and studies indicate this (a simple google should do the trick). About the only real difference is that holding it to your head slightly limits your field of vision. It's the conversation that's distracting, not holding up the phone. Sorry.
It really depends on your city. I would tend to choose sprint for speed and coverage, but it really depends on your area. In many cities people will glare at me when I say sprint, but in others (like this one), everyone just nods.
And you therefore can't be found guilty of a criminal infringement if you did it before the law was made retroactive. No worries. In fact, if you did your infringing before it was extended to cover what you infringed on, I don't think they'd make it stick in civil court either.
Retroactive doesn't mean it can make acts made previously illegal. It means they can file injunctions to prevent further infringements after the retroactivity takes effect.
At least, that's my understanding. Who really knows. There's not very much logic in legal situations. It seems to be more about clever tricks than reason.
AFAIK, that section is interpreted (sadly SCOTUS has more of a say in this than you do) to mean criminal law and has no bearing in civil law -- which is what we're talking about here.
If it's true that all choice was removed because of a "deal" (bribe) between two giant companies and inflicted on people who are locked in via contract... then no, it's not that reactionary, it's simply not legal under antitrust law.
If you can remove all choice by paying money it's not capitalism, it's something else.
If it matters, I was completely serious, but I was silly enough to get funny points I guess. There was no mocking in my tone at all.
I hate java very passionately — because it makes all the easy stuff hard and all the hard stuff verbose — but it's like green peppers. I don't care for them. It's a matter of taste.
Java gets a lot of things right (even in my eyes) and I totally see why people like it. I'm just not one of them.
Anyway, I did a Java project recently and there were some things that really bugged me, more than the usual. The lack of lambdas and closures, for example, which you mention with some knowledge and history.
wow.
verizon is bribed by MS ($500mil) to remove all but bing from the search. FTC, where the fuck are you?
justice department? where the fuck are you? do I smell a monopoly, convicted, but unpunished?
FCC where teh fuck are you? is this a common carrier, or isn't it?
rigged. this isn't capitalism, it's something else.
You still don't get it. I would much rather give a shady company my credit card number than my paypal password. With my paypal password they can make authenticated purchases as me and there's nothing I can really do about it and my credit card protections won't really apply. However if they misuse the credit card number, I'm not responsible for any purchases the assholes make and the ccard company will locate the guy and have him arrested -- all while I'm sleeping.
Again, there's no possible way paypal is implementing a system where users are presenting their paypal password to non-paypal sites. They'll use some kind of token system.
Wow, is the above wrong... even if the site is "trustworthy" today and they ship the product, they shouldn't be collecting your password. They could then use that to buy some cool shit from walmart.com two years later and you'd have no idea what happened and not even have the simple protections your regular old visa card offers.
I suspect the paypal API uses OAuth or some kind of token system or else it'd be totally crazy.
Not at all. Perl6 is not an upgrade of Perl5, which is still being actively developed. Perl6 is a brand new language in the same family. Perl 5.10 is more like what people expect from a language upgrade. It has so many new features it's very much like a new version of the language (and it is).
My favorite professors use slides very well. I've done college the old fashioned way (writing on the board) and the new fangled way in my graduate classes (10 years later) and I much prefer the slides. If they're sliding past too fast, raise your hand and ask a fucking question.
not at all. Organizing our behaviors is what differentiates us. We can organize good or evil with astonishing effectiveness. Look up genocide some time. Nobody controls their behavior any more than animals. In order to fit in we have to behave as though we want to fit in, it's simple feedback. Simple animal feedback. Communication and symbolism are the only things we really have going for us.
Wrong. If you buy a car, you expect to be able to take it to your own mechanic. If you buy a phone, you expect to be able to put your own apps on it. This vendor lock-in BS is not acceptable. Did I buy the device or didn't I? Then how dare you tell me how I can use it.
I wish more people would choose to not buy those things. Fuck Apple.
A HAM radio signal is really large. I was working with 80m radios, so the wavelength is literally 80m long.
I noticed huge deadspots in the room where there was almost no radio signal and other spots where it was distorted evilly.
This is called "nearfield" distortion. Generally speaking, receivers need to be at least one wavelength away to work reliably. Also, Tx antennae need to be at least one wavelength off the ground, or it changes the impedance of the whole array.
You can read about this on the wiki. I'd cite properly, but I'm sorry, I'm just not an engineer. I'm in CS.
It really doesn't matter what frequency when you're talking bandwidth. When you're talking size of the antenna or signal loss the wavelength might matter, but not for bandwidth. The reason you get more bandwidth here is because the spectrum is wider. The ISM spectrum is very very narrow and low power channels all bunched up around 2.4Ghz. With the new white spaces, they can use tons more and much louder. But, yes, they need longer antennas.
As far as the range? You can make a microwave signal go light years and a HAM signal go a few feet (although, there will be some distortion for transmitting a signal over a distance shorter than the wavelength). The range is more of a function of signal power.
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You can't argue with a theist. At some point they'll point to the bible as proof. It's easier to just call them stupid and try to ignore them.
This is true. We need an amendment that says -- and I think the more plain English the better -- something along the lines of: communication on the internet is protected in the same way any other communication is protected. It is not a new frontier, it is just another communications tool. For each new communications tool, all previous rights and privileges need necessarily still apply.
Well, something like that. It should be really broad and obvious. When in doubt, you have the right to say it. When in doubt, the government can't get it without a fucking warrant. Maybe it should just say that (sans fuck).
This is fundamentally incorrect. Talking with another human takes your brain to a place that's outside the car. The radio can do this too, but not to the same extent. And the difference with talking to someone who's in the car is obvious: Their life is in jeopardy along with yours. They are more sensitive to pauses in your speech (which can indicate personal danger for them) and most importantly, they're helping you look at the fucking road.
If you think talking on a bluetooth headset is better in some way than holding it up to your year, you're dead wrong and studies indicate this (a simple google should do the trick). About the only real difference is that holding it to your head slightly limits your field of vision. It's the conversation that's distracting, not holding up the phone. Sorry.
Just who are these "many biologists?" I'd really like to know so I can go read more about that.
It really depends on your city. I would tend to choose sprint for speed and coverage, but it really depends on your area. In many cities people will glare at me when I say sprint, but in others (like this one), everyone just nods.
Retroactive doesn't mean it can make acts made previously illegal. It means they can file injunctions to prevent further infringements after the retroactivity takes effect.
At least, that's my understanding. Who really knows. There's not very much logic in legal situations. It seems to be more about clever tricks than reason.
You can't have ethics without believing in a faerie?
AFAIK, that section is interpreted (sadly SCOTUS has more of a say in this than you do) to mean criminal law and has no bearing in civil law -- which is what we're talking about here.
If you can remove all choice by paying money it's not capitalism, it's something else.
I hate java very passionately — because it makes all the easy stuff hard and all the hard stuff verbose — but it's like green peppers. I don't care for them. It's a matter of taste.
Java gets a lot of things right (even in my eyes) and I totally see why people like it. I'm just not one of them.
Anyway, I did a Java project recently and there were some things that really bugged me, more than the usual. The lack of lambdas and closures, for example, which you mention with some knowledge and history.
wow. verizon is bribed by MS ($500mil) to remove all but bing from the search. FTC, where the fuck are you? justice department? where the fuck are you? do I smell a monopoly, convicted, but unpunished? FCC where teh fuck are you? is this a common carrier, or isn't it? rigged. this isn't capitalism, it's something else.
Indeed. He has the knowledge of a real insider, but keeps up on other languages too. If I had points I'd mod you up for saying he should be modded up.
Again, there's no possible way paypal is implementing a system where users are presenting their paypal password to non-paypal sites. They'll use some kind of token system.
... but it seems that they *could* if they wanted to.
Wow, is the above wrong... even if the site is "trustworthy" today and they ship the product, they shouldn't be collecting your password. They could then use that to buy some cool shit from walmart.com two years later and you'd have no idea what happened and not even have the simple protections your regular old visa card offers. I suspect the paypal API uses OAuth or some kind of token system or else it'd be totally crazy.
Not at all. Perl6 is not an upgrade of Perl5, which is still being actively developed. Perl6 is a brand new language in the same family. Perl 5.10 is more like what people expect from a language upgrade. It has so many new features it's very much like a new version of the language (and it is).
My favorite professors use slides very well. I've done college the old fashioned way (writing on the board) and the new fangled way in my graduate classes (10 years later) and I much prefer the slides. If they're sliding past too fast, raise your hand and ask a fucking question.
not at all. Organizing our behaviors is what differentiates us. We can organize good or evil with astonishing effectiveness. Look up genocide some time. Nobody controls their behavior any more than animals. In order to fit in we have to behave as though we want to fit in, it's simple feedback. Simple animal feedback. Communication and symbolism are the only things we really have going for us.
I wish more people would choose to not buy those things. Fuck Apple.
I'm horribly wrong out of context, but perfectly correct if you think about it.
"They perform EME (earth-moon-earth) using microwave radios with regularity." (see below)
Frequencies have a lot to do with obstacles and path-loss, line of site, moving through water (or other mediums), but not distance.
The more HAMs I meet, the more I think they do everything. :p
I noticed huge deadspots in the room where there was almost no radio signal and other spots where it was distorted evilly.
This is called "nearfield" distortion. Generally speaking, receivers need to be at least one wavelength away to work reliably. Also, Tx antennae need to be at least one wavelength off the ground, or it changes the impedance of the whole array.
You can read about this on the wiki. I'd cite properly, but I'm sorry, I'm just not an engineer. I'm in CS.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Near_and_far_field
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As far as the range? You can make a microwave signal go light years and a HAM signal go a few feet (although, there will be some distortion for transmitting a signal over a distance shorter than the wavelength). The range is more of a function of signal power.
Perl is only an acronym in certain contexts and PERL is a shibboleth! Fortunately, you can load PERL with this module: http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?Inline::PERL