Antimatter, on the other hand, has mass just like its matter counterpart and therefore isn't directly comparable to a hole. Actually, this is what they are trying to test. If anti-matter "falls" up, rather than down, then it would also behave like the helium balloon in a car, i.e., if you slam on the brakes, a lump of anti-matter, according to this negative-mass hypothesis, would fly backward. This follows from the so-called equivalence principle, which asserts that a uniform gravitational field is indistinguishable from a uniformly accelerating frame of reference. It is the principle which underlies Einstein's General Theory of Relativity.
enjoy reading my encrypted traffic and voip phone calls. Don't forget that in the UK, you must hand over encryption keys on demand or face jail time. This has been the law for some time over there.
When an adult does this to a child, it's usually called child abuse.
I believe child abuse statutes come into play when the child is in the care of the alleged abuser, for example, a parent, teacher, babysitter, etc. I don't think that kind of relationship existed between the victim and the defendant.
I'm sorry, but as long as someone is being fed, clothed, housed, and raised by someone else, they ought to have some responsibilities to give back.
Yes, but they are being fed, clothed, and housed by their parents. And therefore, parents certainly have the right to place restrictions on their children. But what we're talking about here is the government placing the kids in jail or house arrest with an ankle bracelet. I don't think the parents have the option of opting their kids out of this. That makes a huge difference. I'd have no problem with parents having the option of buying locaters for their kids. But I do have a problem with the government doing the same.
I'm afraid you might be right there. And even if the courtroom acquits, public opinion can be a career-ender.
Actually, if you are an author, I think quite the opposite is true. Nothing will make people want to read your book more than being told by the government that they aren't allowed to. I'm sure the publicity resulting from all this nonsense has done wonders for the sale of his book in Canada.
But on to the larger point. I think it is perfectly legitimate for public opinion to have an influence on sales. In a free society, I don't think government should be deciding what books you are allowed to read, but the public does have a right to an opinion, and consumers have the right to decide whether to follow it or not. That's as it should be.
I'm not sure if I believe them or not. When I lived in Ottawa last year I had friends using Cogeco. Some people had no problems at all with bittorrent while others couldn't use it. It's hard for me to tell if they are blocking some of their customers, or if my friends just couldn't figure out how to set it up. I'm a Cogeco user in Windsor, Ontario, and I can say that how you set up BitTorrent has a HUGE impact on performance. I originally used the BitTorrent client from BitTorrent inc., and it was unusably slow. I couldn't figure out why everyone thought the BitTorrent protocol was so wonderful, when I could download files using ftp at 400 kB/s on a good day, and BitTorrent would typically download at less than 10 kB/s. At some point I switched to BitComet, and the software suggested I change some TCP settings in windows (increasing the number of half-open connections allowed IIRC), and with BitComet, I get much more reasonable download speeds, although still not as fast as ftp or scp from a fast site. I have no direct evidence that Cogeco throttles the traffic, and I find BitComet quite usable.
The best analogy I can come up with is a kid delivering newspapers. You THINK the kid is just delivering the newspaper to you, but he is instead cutting out the advertisements (or god knows what else) and inserting his own client's advertisements while being paid for it. Whoa! There's a big difference here. The paperboy is a paid employee of the newspaper, and he is handling the papers as part of his job. The ISP is not paid by the websites at all. They are, rather, paid by their customers. Their ability to inject ads may very well then depend on the terms of service contract they have with their customers. The websites are, in general, not their customers!
All these technologies seem are advertised as being able to pass through clothes but are reflected by skin. What if I am wearing leather pants? Leather is made from skin. Will these devices see through those? Will I have to take my pants off if the scanner can't see through them? What about leather underwear? Mind you, I don't normally wear leather clothing, but it may be a way to protect your privacy at airports.
On the other hand, there is now precedent that you can't hide behind "proprietary methods"; I think there was the case of a manufacturer of breathalyzer equipment that ran into this problem.
This is a good analogy. It illustrates that the obligation of the RIAA to disclose details of its method depends on whether the results of that technology were used as actual evidence, or as investigative tools. Back to the breathalyzer analogy: If the police show up in court accusing someone of DUI, and the judge asks what evidence the charge is based on, and the police answer "Our breathalyzer showed a blood alcohol level above the legal limit.", then the defendant would have a right to closely examine that technology. On the other hand, if the police said: "Our roadside breathalyzer test showed he was above the limit, so we took him to the station and did a blood test. The blood test showed he was above the limit, and we are entering the results of that blood test into evidence." then the defendant probably wouldn't have a right to discovery on the details of the breathalyzer, but rather could question the validity of the blood test.
So, the question here is, are these technologies in question being put forward as evidence by the RIAA, or were they merely investigative tools which pointed them in the right direction, after which they gathered evidence in a more conventional way.
Actually, I would classify that as a hardware, not a software problem. Lack of hardware safety interlocks was the real problem. That is why buggy software had fatal consequences. In many industrial settings where safety is an issue, the safety devices are generally not completely under software control, but incorporate hardware interlocks to ensure life-threatening conditions do not occur. Heck, even consumer microwave oven doors have a hardware interlock, as do many other appliances. Safety shouldn't be left up to software unless absolutely necessary. In the case of the Therac, it wasn't necessary. A simple interlock could have limited the power output depending on whether the device was in electron or photon beam mode.
It took me a while to find keypunch machines, as they were alphabetized under "Operating". When I was in high school, girls were strongly encouraged to take a course in operating keypunch machines. The idea was even if your academic gifts let you aspire to be more than a keypunch operator, you would never, ever, EVER have to worry about being unemployed if you could operate a keypunch machine.
And speaking of obsolete skills, how many remember what POKE 59468,14 does? Hint, it's NOT for the Commodore 64.
First, a "lowly" court judge in the United States CAN "make" law. If his/her decision is accepted as precedent (as it MUST, unless reason is later demonstrated to overturn it), Actually, that is not strictly true, at least in the US. Generally, if the constitutionality of a law is challenged, as would probably be the case in which freedom of speech was threatened, the Court of Appeals will generally review the case de novo. That is to say, deference doesn't have to be given to the opinion of the lower court. The appellate court can look at the case fresh, and can decide the outcome differently without pointing out a specific error made by the district court judge.
I don't understand why universities dont just 'loose' these records. Is there a legal reason why records of student's online activity must be recorded?
you can't hand over evidence you don't have. No there is no legal reason but there are important practical reasons. In this case, I don't think it's an issue of the student's online activity being logged by the university, rather it is one of the university keeping track of who was assigned a given IP address. As someone who has worked as a network security administrator in a university, there are times we need this information. For instance, if a computer becomes infected and starts spewing stuff all over the network, we need to know who to contact.
How about they are breaking several Federal Laws by handing the names over? Like, you know, in this case. Umm, I don't think it's a breach of Federal Law when you are handing the names over in response to a court order. Legal discovery generally takes precedence over privacy laws.
They (RIAA) are being sued for what they do, so don't come with that. So when someone is sued, that means they are in the wrong? Does it work both ways?
They are doing man-in-the-middle attacks on bittorrent connections, and actively impersonating one of the parties in the connection. This is actually illegal. I hear this a lot. Can you provide a reference to a statute or some case law?
I would just like to know, what could the FBI do to make it's spy ware different from anything else out there in the wild? It would seem to me they would limited to the same techniques anyone can use on a computer, so really wouldn't it be just one more obnoxious program out there? The difference is it is not viral and therefore doesn't escape "into the wild" and reproduce to the point where it eventually falls into the hands of the anti-virus software makers. As a result, their software won't detect it. This is a fundamental weakness with signature-based anti-virus systems. They work great on viruses, which spread indiscriminently, but are useless against a targeted attack by an adversary with the resources to create and deploy their own malware.
The reason a SSN is required to obtain a driver's license is not to prove your identity. Rather, it is to ensure that people don't try to hold driver's licenses in more than one state at a time.
BS. The Atari 800 was a contemporary system which was superior in pretty much every way. It was even more of a console than the C64, as it took ROM cartriges (the standard console media of the time).
Most of those games you mention were Atari 800 games ported to the C64 later. Heck, Electronic Arts was created to build games for the Atari 800.
The C64 had a cartridge slot as well. Let me add my vote for the C64 as my ultimate game machine. Boulderdash was one of my favorites. I also liked Spy vs. Spy, Ghostbusters, Summer Games, and just about any arcade game ported to the C64. As people were discussing controllers above, my all time favorite controllers were the Wico joysticks (with the metal shaft) that I bought for my C64. What impressed me the most about the C64 was how much the arcade games looked like the real thing. (I previously owned an Atari 2600. Remember Pac-Man?) It also made a half decent word processor. I did nearly all my high school papers on my C64 running PaperClip.
But, as has been noted above, that is the cost to produce a gallon of ethanol. By the time it gets to the pump you'll be paying twice that. Is ~$3.00 a gallon really all that attractive?
Most unions work because membership is mandatory for workers in a field covered by the union. Would this be the case for a bloggers union? If so, does the Internet suddenly become a read-only medium except for those who've paid their dues, and been approved for membership in the guild?
How is this possible when the government still maintains the minimum wage which when worked for at 40 hours a week, the worker is guaranteed to be in the "poverty class" of the population?
Minimum wage jobs aren't intended to live on. They are the most basic entry level position, primarily for high school or college students working during the summer to help supplement their support from family and to get experience. If the minimum wage is raised to a level where people can live comfortably on a minimum wage salary, many of these young workers would be priced out of the market.
The reason the school administrators are punishing the kids instead of reporting them to the police is to avoid giving (or adding to) the kids' criminal records.
Yeah, but there is a third option: report this to parents. Unlike schools, parents do have jurisdiction over their kids 24/7.
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I believe child abuse statutes come into play when the child is in the care of the alleged abuser, for example, a parent, teacher, babysitter, etc. I don't think that kind of relationship existed between the victim and the defendant.
Yes, but they are being fed, clothed, and housed by their parents. And therefore, parents certainly have the right to place restrictions on their children. But what we're talking about here is the government placing the kids in jail or house arrest with an ankle bracelet. I don't think the parents have the option of opting their kids out of this. That makes a huge difference. I'd have no problem with parents having the option of buying locaters for their kids. But I do have a problem with the government doing the same.
I'm afraid you might be right there. And even if the courtroom acquits, public opinion can be a career-ender.
Actually, if you are an author, I think quite the opposite is true. Nothing will make people want to read your book more than being told by the government that they aren't allowed to. I'm sure the publicity resulting from all this nonsense has done wonders for the sale of his book in Canada.
But on to the larger point. I think it is perfectly legitimate for public opinion to have an influence on sales. In a free society, I don't think government should be deciding what books you are allowed to read, but the public does have a right to an opinion, and consumers have the right to decide whether to follow it or not. That's as it should be.
The answer is simple. We should teach people to drive at a much younger age, at the same time they learn to talk and walk, for instance.
Actually, their hardware/software is outstanding. But I agree. Their documentation is crap.
All these technologies seem are advertised as being able to pass through clothes but are reflected by skin. What if I am wearing leather pants? Leather is made from skin. Will these devices see through those? Will I have to take my pants off if the scanner can't see through them? What about leather underwear? Mind you, I don't normally wear leather clothing, but it may be a way to protect your privacy at airports.
This is a good analogy. It illustrates that the obligation of the RIAA to disclose details of its method depends on whether the results of that technology were used as actual evidence, or as investigative tools. Back to the breathalyzer analogy: If the police show up in court accusing someone of DUI, and the judge asks what evidence the charge is based on, and the police answer "Our breathalyzer showed a blood alcohol level above the legal limit.", then the defendant would have a right to closely examine that technology. On the other hand, if the police said: "Our roadside breathalyzer test showed he was above the limit, so we took him to the station and did a blood test. The blood test showed he was above the limit, and we are entering the results of that blood test into evidence." then the defendant probably wouldn't have a right to discovery on the details of the breathalyzer, but rather could question the validity of the blood test.
So, the question here is, are these technologies in question being put forward as evidence by the RIAA, or were they merely investigative tools which pointed them in the right direction, after which they gathered evidence in a more conventional way.
Actually, I would classify that as a hardware, not a software problem. Lack of hardware safety interlocks was the real problem. That is why buggy software had fatal consequences. In many industrial settings where safety is an issue, the safety devices are generally not completely under software control, but incorporate hardware interlocks to ensure life-threatening conditions do not occur. Heck, even consumer microwave oven doors have a hardware interlock, as do many other appliances. Safety shouldn't be left up to software unless absolutely necessary. In the case of the Therac, it wasn't necessary. A simple interlock could have limited the power output depending on whether the device was in electron or photon beam mode.
It took me a while to find keypunch machines, as they were alphabetized under "Operating". When I was in high school, girls were strongly encouraged to take a course in operating keypunch machines. The idea was even if your academic gifts let you aspire to be more than a keypunch operator, you would never, ever, EVER have to worry about being unemployed if you could operate a keypunch machine.
And speaking of obsolete skills, how many remember what POKE 59468,14 does? Hint, it's NOT for the Commodore 64.
The reason a SSN is required to obtain a driver's license is not to prove your identity. Rather, it is to ensure that people don't try to hold driver's licenses in more than one state at a time.
The C64 had a cartridge slot as well. Let me add my vote for the C64 as my ultimate game machine. Boulderdash was one of my favorites. I also liked Spy vs. Spy, Ghostbusters, Summer Games, and just about any arcade game ported to the C64. As people were discussing controllers above, my all time favorite controllers were the Wico joysticks (with the metal shaft) that I bought for my C64. What impressed me the most about the C64 was how much the arcade games looked like the real thing. (I previously owned an Atari 2600. Remember Pac-Man?) It also made a half decent word processor. I did nearly all my high school papers on my C64 running PaperClip.BS. The Atari 800 was a contemporary system which was superior in pretty much every way. It was even more of a console than the C64, as it took ROM cartriges (the standard console media of the time).
Most of those games you mention were Atari 800 games ported to the C64 later. Heck, Electronic Arts was created to build games for the Atari 800.
But, as has been noted above, that is the cost to produce a gallon of ethanol. By the time it gets to the pump you'll be paying twice that. Is ~$3.00 a gallon really all that attractive?
Most unions work because membership is mandatory for workers in a field covered by the union. Would this be the case for a bloggers union? If so, does the Internet suddenly become a read-only medium except for those who've paid their dues, and been approved for membership in the guild?
How is this possible when the government still maintains the minimum wage which when worked for at 40 hours a week, the worker is guaranteed to be in the "poverty class" of the population?
Minimum wage jobs aren't intended to live on. They are the most basic entry level position, primarily for high school or college students working during the summer to help supplement their support from family and to get experience. If the minimum wage is raised to a level where people can live comfortably on a minimum wage salary, many of these young workers would be priced out of the market.
The reason the school administrators are punishing the kids instead of reporting them to the police is to avoid giving (or adding to) the kids' criminal records.
Yeah, but there is a third option: report this to parents. Unlike schools, parents do have jurisdiction over their kids 24/7.