Either profit belongs in "the system" or it doesn't.
Let's assume profit *does* belong in the system. Where does the donor's estate factor into this? It (and by extension, the surviving family) doesn't see a dime for these organs that are worth hundreds of thousands of dollars to "the system".
True. [zdnet.com] You have to claim you're a competent one, and be able to prove it.
The linked article would have been a bit more helpful to your argument if you'd actually read it first. Google offering a reward to popular (there's no requirement for "competent") Android devs isn't anywhere near the same thing as getting evaluation/dev hardware directly from a handset vendor, which was what we're talking about. Also note that Google was only offering a choice between two of the most popular handsets at the time the article was written, both of which most serious Android devs were likely to have already purchased for development purposes.
The fact remains that dev hardware isn't given out like candy as you have asserted. Screaming "yes it is!!" without any real citations doesn't make it so.
These guys messed up big, but the point of the justice system is to correct and reduce crime - you don't do that by taking away people's livelihood.
Yes, you do. If these guys were made an example of, you can bet that everyone else would be a little more conscientious about this in the future. Law enforcement in particular needs to be held to a much higher standard, owing to the power they wield. Besides, how many other people might have lost *their* livelihood on the basis of evidence these guys manufactured without a single thought to the consequences? When a law enforcement officer shows that the law doesn't mean anything to him, it's time for him to find another line of work.
The only step that decides whether or not the overtones have any influence is the quality of the low-pass filter.
And *here* is where the sample rate starts to make much more of a difference. The higher the sample rate, the better able you are to do filtering digitally (cheaply) instead of with a better (more expensive) analog filter circuit. You can't hear anything above 20 KHz or so, but having the extra data available sure makes it a lot more convenient for the DSP side of things.
Having said that, you can also take the existing low-rate signal, and repeat the samples as needed at a higher rate to get much of the same benefit.
All they'd need to do would be to replace the image with a placeholder "Temporarily removed due to DMCA action" image at the same URL, and maybe hide the comments. When the DMCA request turns out to be faulty, they either restore the image, or have the owner re-upload it and point the page at the new image, with all the comments and links remaining intact.
The quickest way I know of to get telemarketers off the phone is to say "Hi, thanks for calling. This call is being recorded. If you do not consent to the call being recorded, please hang up. Otherwise, you are giving your consent by continuing to stay on the line."
I don't usually get through the entire spiel before I get hung up on.:-)
A cop doesn't have to be "on the take" to be a bad cop. He can be a brutal and violent thug with utter disregard for the rights of citizens or the truth without taking a single bribe.
Or he can be absolutely clean in his interactions with the public, but still have knowledge of this kind of stuff going on while turning a blind eye to it.
if a prosecutor is proven to actually fabricate evidence and destroy open-and-shut proof that you were innocent, he's totally immune from prosecution himself
He's immune from prosecution, but not from a 30.06 round. If we can't seek redress from the courts for continued illegal government acts, unfortunately that's all we have left.
And even then, there are *many* judges in whose eyes the police can do no wrong. Last year we had a case where a deputy was speeding at more than twice the posted limit (86 in a 40 zone) with no lights/siren towards a non-emergency call, T-boned a car at an intersection, and killed the other driver. Five state troopers testified in court that the accident was the deputy's fault, and that in their opinion she was guilty of the charges against her, and the physical evidence (skid marks and such) was overwhelmingly against the deputy. In the face of that, the judge acquitted the deputy of all the charges without comment. Justice indeed.
I used to do this to co-workers at the music store I worked at many, many years ago. Make a bet that they can't say the alphabet, put a set of headphones on them, run it through a digital delay set to 150 ms or so, then sit back and listen to them sound like a speech-impaired two-year-old.:-)
Yes, I have, and it would have to be an *extremely* short adult (or alternately a very small child) to be below my sight lines. Not every truck has an 18" lift kit on it, and not everyone always drives with the tailgate up.
I own a "stupidly oversized automobile" by your criteria, yet my extended-cab pickup has FAR better visibility in all directions and much better mirrors than my Elantra. The Elantra gets about 50% better mileage and is a little easier to park, but that's about the limit of what's better about it IMO.
It seems silly to mandate rear-view cameras when people can't even be bothered to pay attention to the perfectly functional mirrors they already have.
That still doesn't change the fact that they've broken the law and violated the public trust. Simply having the evidence excluded doesn't seem to be very much of a deterrent. Law enforcement really needs to have the fear of God instilled in them when they do crap like this.
Which then in turn raises a serious question - we've seen hackers prosecuted and jailed for their activities, but what kind of punishment can we expect for those responsible for the violation of Jones's Fourth Amendment rights? My money is on "none". The SCOTUS ruling doesn't mean anything at all without some kind of consequences for those responsible, as there's nothing to keep the guilty parties from willfully doing it again. And I'm not talking about some stupid fine or something that means nothing to the individual agents that made the decision to violate his civil rights. I'm talking about jail time for those who placed the devices, and their supervisors who signed off on it.
History doesn't tell us much about how the entirely new technological landscape will end up being abused.
Not specifically, but it does make a pretty reliable statement that at some point the technology *will* be abused or limited to the detriment of most, and that those who would abuse it view the free and anonymous dissemination of information as something to be actively quashed, by force if needed. That's what we need to learn from history, and it's been demonstrated time and time again over the centuries.
On the surface it would seem so, but older coins that would be worth more are harder and harder to find as time goes on, and the numismatic value of the coins may very well be worth more than the scrap value. Plus, while many scrap metal recyclers have no scruples and accept anything you bring in, they may not be willing to face the wrath of the government when it comes to light that they're destroying currency for a profit.:-)
It wasn't just the Luddites in the 19th century that caused problems for those who chose not to join them. My grandfather, along with his brothers, owned a coal mine in Alabama that was effectively shut down by none other than John L. Lewis himself in 1949, in cooperation with other UMW members and the local sheriff. My family already paid more than the prevailing union wage at the time and refused to go along with the short 3-day work week that Lewis had been coordinating nationwide, so Lewis and his thugs showed up to teach them a lesson and started shooting into occupied vehicles and destroying equipment. More than a thousand shots were exchanged, and one of the union thugs died during the attack. Eventually, 13 of the union people were convicted and fined (note that the miner that shot and killed one of the attackers was never even charged), and 10 more (including Lewis) were nolle prossed.
Interesting that the UMW doesn't care to include that chapter in its history.
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Either profit belongs in "the system" or it doesn't.
Let's assume profit *does* belong in the system. Where does the donor's estate factor into this? It (and by extension, the surviving family) doesn't see a dime for these organs that are worth hundreds of thousands of dollars to "the system".
True. [zdnet.com] You have to claim you're a competent one, and be able to prove it.
The linked article would have been a bit more helpful to your argument if you'd actually read it first. Google offering a reward to popular (there's no requirement for "competent") Android devs isn't anywhere near the same thing as getting evaluation/dev hardware directly from a handset vendor, which was what we're talking about. Also note that Google was only offering a choice between two of the most popular handsets at the time the article was written, both of which most serious Android devs were likely to have already purchased for development purposes.
The fact remains that dev hardware isn't given out like candy as you have asserted. Screaming "yes it is!!" without any real citations doesn't make it so.
These guys messed up big, but the point of the justice system is to correct and reduce crime - you don't do that by taking away people's livelihood.
Yes, you do. If these guys were made an example of, you can bet that everyone else would be a little more conscientious about this in the future. Law enforcement in particular needs to be held to a much higher standard, owing to the power they wield. Besides, how many other people might have lost *their* livelihood on the basis of evidence these guys manufactured without a single thought to the consequences? When a law enforcement officer shows that the law doesn't mean anything to him, it's time for him to find another line of work.
FYI, I don't think you know what you're talking about. "Better" is a very subjective term that is always relative to the situation at hand.
As a DSP guy, you're probably one of the few that would really, truly appreciate this book.
The only step that decides whether or not the overtones have any influence is the quality of the low-pass filter.
And *here* is where the sample rate starts to make much more of a difference. The higher the sample rate, the better able you are to do filtering digitally (cheaply) instead of with a better (more expensive) analog filter circuit. You can't hear anything above 20 KHz or so, but having the extra data available sure makes it a lot more convenient for the DSP side of things.
Having said that, you can also take the existing low-rate signal, and repeat the samples as needed at a higher rate to get much of the same benefit.
All they'd need to do would be to replace the image with a placeholder "Temporarily removed due to DMCA action" image at the same URL, and maybe hide the comments. When the DMCA request turns out to be faulty, they either restore the image, or have the owner re-upload it and point the page at the new image, with all the comments and links remaining intact.
The quickest way I know of to get telemarketers off the phone is to say "Hi, thanks for calling. This call is being recorded. If you do not consent to the call being recorded, please hang up. Otherwise, you are giving your consent by continuing to stay on the line."
:-)
I don't usually get through the entire spiel before I get hung up on.
A cop doesn't have to be "on the take" to be a bad cop. He can be a brutal and violent thug with utter disregard for the rights of citizens or the truth without taking a single bribe.
Or he can be absolutely clean in his interactions with the public, but still have knowledge of this kind of stuff going on while turning a blind eye to it.
"The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots & tyrants." - Thomas Jefferson
if a prosecutor is proven to actually fabricate evidence and destroy open-and-shut proof that you were innocent, he's totally immune from prosecution himself
He's immune from prosecution, but not from a 30.06 round. If we can't seek redress from the courts for continued illegal government acts, unfortunately that's all we have left.
And even then, there are *many* judges in whose eyes the police can do no wrong. Last year we had a case where a deputy was speeding at more than twice the posted limit (86 in a 40 zone) with no lights/siren towards a non-emergency call, T-boned a car at an intersection, and killed the other driver. Five state troopers testified in court that the accident was the deputy's fault, and that in their opinion she was guilty of the charges against her, and the physical evidence (skid marks and such) was overwhelmingly against the deputy. In the face of that, the judge acquitted the deputy of all the charges without comment. Justice indeed.
I used to do this to co-workers at the music store I worked at many, many years ago. Make a bet that they can't say the alphabet, put a set of headphones on them, run it through a digital delay set to 150 ms or so, then sit back and listen to them sound like a speech-impaired two-year-old. :-)
Except we live in a society based on the rule of law.
Yeah, that mattered a lot to the NSA in collusion with AT&T.
Yes, I have, and it would have to be an *extremely* short adult (or alternately a very small child) to be below my sight lines. Not every truck has an 18" lift kit on it, and not everyone always drives with the tailgate up.
Stop buying stupidly oversized automobiles
I own a "stupidly oversized automobile" by your criteria, yet my extended-cab pickup has FAR better visibility in all directions and much better mirrors than my Elantra. The Elantra gets about 50% better mileage and is a little easier to park, but that's about the limit of what's better about it IMO.
It seems silly to mandate rear-view cameras when people can't even be bothered to pay attention to the perfectly functional mirrors they already have.
On the other hand, The Terminator showed that there's no IT problem that can't be solved with the judicious use of a large press.
Any of these people who have found bugs on their vehicles are welcome to take a case to civil court and seek damages
They're also welcome to find out about the concept of sovereign immunity once they try that and have their suit dismissed.
That still doesn't change the fact that they've broken the law and violated the public trust. Simply having the evidence excluded doesn't seem to be very much of a deterrent. Law enforcement really needs to have the fear of God instilled in them when they do crap like this.
Which then in turn raises a serious question - we've seen hackers prosecuted and jailed for their activities, but what kind of punishment can we expect for those responsible for the violation of Jones's Fourth Amendment rights? My money is on "none". The SCOTUS ruling doesn't mean anything at all without some kind of consequences for those responsible, as there's nothing to keep the guilty parties from willfully doing it again. And I'm not talking about some stupid fine or something that means nothing to the individual agents that made the decision to violate his civil rights. I'm talking about jail time for those who placed the devices, and their supervisors who signed off on it.
Whom he's seen naked...
History doesn't tell us much about how the entirely new technological landscape will end up being abused.
Not specifically, but it does make a pretty reliable statement that at some point the technology *will* be abused or limited to the detriment of most, and that those who would abuse it view the free and anonymous dissemination of information as something to be actively quashed, by force if needed. That's what we need to learn from history, and it's been demonstrated time and time again over the centuries.
On the surface it would seem so, but older coins that would be worth more are harder and harder to find as time goes on, and the numismatic value of the coins may very well be worth more than the scrap value. Plus, while many scrap metal recyclers have no scruples and accept anything you bring in, they may not be willing to face the wrath of the government when it comes to light that they're destroying currency for a profit. :-)
Perhaps, perhaps not. The FBI had something to say about the incident, however.
It wasn't just the Luddites in the 19th century that caused problems for those who chose not to join them. My grandfather, along with his brothers, owned a coal mine in Alabama that was effectively shut down by none other than John L. Lewis himself in 1949, in cooperation with other UMW members and the local sheriff. My family already paid more than the prevailing union wage at the time and refused to go along with the short 3-day work week that Lewis had been coordinating nationwide, so Lewis and his thugs showed up to teach them a lesson and started shooting into occupied vehicles and destroying equipment. More than a thousand shots were exchanged, and one of the union thugs died during the attack. Eventually, 13 of the union people were convicted and fined (note that the miner that shot and killed one of the attackers was never even charged), and 10 more (including Lewis) were nolle prossed.
Interesting that the UMW doesn't care to include that chapter in its history.