Well, that's more or less what the Brazilian government felt about having their citizens given the 3rd degree on entry to USA... so they imposed the same inspection on US citizens entering Brazil. Not sure whether it's still there.
The Sam's Club 2% milk in gallon jugs I buy in Arizona lasts 2 weeks easily. The doorstep delivered, non-homogenized milk I used to get in UK would last 3 days, at which point the fat at the top was yellow cream. On the fourth day, sour.
So it becomes unlawful to conspire to effectively disconnect an ISP (or website) by deliberately overloading its pipe (or other technique).
Will it be unlawful for an ISP to effectively disconnect a subscriber's web page (DOS another way), typically for disapproval-of-content reasons? Examples might be objections to politically incorrect (by legal free speech) statements by third parties, or simple laziness by not validating violation of copyright claims before dumping access.
The law obliges the lawyer-client privilege, and lawyer has to keep interactions confidential.
How can a client trust her now, since she might decide that her conscience tells her to spill the beans about something confidential to an opposing party, or to the police?
"For example, If you found the phone numbers to the board members of AT&T and complained every, single, day about the wiretapping, you would probably annoy them enough to avoid the next batch of wiretaps, if not just change their phone numbers."
You're stuck in the can't-get-a-job-without experience trap, which was less of a problem 30 yrs ago when companies apprenticed juniors.
Solution in US as I see is to network your way into a job through intern positions. With interns, both the company and the intern get to examine each other for a while, and the company reduces it's risk hiring an unknown.
I agree with AC. From his company size, I can guess which company he works for, and I work for a competitor. We can't find engineers with semiconductor industry background, customer face-to-face skills, decent commercial awareness, and a broad electronic knowledge. Marketing people don't have the last one. Too many engineers are either introverted or too self confident, which comes across as arrogance. Most board level engineers simply aren't nosy enough to have a broad knowledge base (they are just a guru in one area). The last guy that we hired that I was really impressed with is 62 yrs old (welcome, Fred!). What sort of job am I talking about? Mixed signal and analog semiconductor applications and product definition.
As a tail note: having a masters or PhD doesn't help - the knowledge base comes from years of interest in electronics in general, and broad level design practice.
From their website: XCP aims to offer a reasonable level of protection against 'casual piracy' while working to provide the authorised customer with a quality digital music experience together with DRM features for controlled copying on their chosen platform. If data in any format is digitally written to a compact disc or DVD then it can be read from that disc in some way. XCP is designed to give a level of protection that will make it suitably difficult for the general consumer to copy and/or illegally distribute the content of the disc.
Your statement is generally true and reasonable, except here where MS has been deemed a monopoly with Windows OS, and has unfair advantage for apps runnig below it. The ruling is designed to take away the advantage that MS has for the apps. Access to the APIs is mainly what makes MS apps a monopoly. It isn't attempting to enable someone to second source Windows.
"e-mails coming from a computer on the spam list" are treated this way. Great. So when a variable-IP zombie pc power cycles and I get their old IP address next, it becomes my problem. Time to buy a fixed IP service, people.
Splitting hairs is exactly how lawsuits are argued.
You also forget that it takes around 3 years for a big lawsuit to run; it's worth an ISP's effort to kill the competition by a legally gray method - meanwhile the money flows in.
El Cringle may be pompous at times, but the article is interesting and reflects well on the general anti-innovation policy of big business.
You can't generalise much about LED efficiency because it varies so much with the exact semiconductor material, plus how big the die is. However, a cost-effective LED backlight for a TFT is a little less efficient that a cost effective CCFL backlight. This includes the inefficiency of the current sourcing boost for the LEDs, and the high voltage supply to the CCFL.
For fluorescent tube lighting, a lot of power is wasted in the ballast (old type) or boost supply (compact type) - feel how hot the base of a compact fluorescent gets.
The much touted high current, reasonably efficient LEDs from Nichia and Lumex are far too expensive for domestic lighting, and don't target those applications. The main reason that LEDs replace incandescent is not efficiency - it's that the half-life of 50k hours saves the replacement labour cost. A red LED traffic light costs about $45.
That's because the keys were 2-shot mouldings with the number/letter a different colour plastic in the moulding. Can wear millimetres without damage. Casios of the time were the same.
The modern junk's keys print the character legend on the key, which wears off relatively soon.
Er no... it's part of the constitution that identification cannot be DEMANDED at will (partly to protect free speech, I believe). One exception is police being able to demand driver licence from drivers in most circumstances.
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...and there's me thinking that engineers are simply marketing wannabees who couldn't afford to have their brains removed.
...are available without creating an account at http://help.ubuntu.com/.
..where exactly? We should be told!
Well, that's more or less what the Brazilian government felt about having their citizens given the 3rd degree on entry to USA... so they imposed the same inspection on US citizens entering Brazil. Not sure whether it's still there.
Very well put...
The Sam's Club 2% milk in gallon jugs I buy in Arizona lasts 2 weeks easily. The doorstep delivered, non-homogenized milk I used to get in UK would last 3 days, at which point the fat at the top was yellow cream. On the fourth day, sour.
So it becomes unlawful to conspire to effectively disconnect an ISP (or website) by deliberately overloading its pipe (or other technique).
Will it be unlawful for an ISP to effectively disconnect a subscriber's web page (DOS another way), typically for disapproval-of-content reasons? Examples might be objections to politically incorrect (by legal free speech) statements by third parties, or simple laziness by not validating violation of copyright claims before dumping access.
The law obliges the lawyer-client privilege, and lawyer has to keep interactions confidential.
How can a client trust her now, since she might decide that her conscience tells her to spill the beans about something confidential to an opposing party, or to the police?
"if there are laws I believe are wrong, I will break them,"
I find it reasonable that a law firm fires an employee who states publicly that she will consciously break the law.
Making that statement without understanding the repercussions, she lacks basic common sense that I would expect for a legal beagle.
"For example, If you found the phone numbers to the board members of AT&T and complained every, single, day about the wiretapping, you would probably annoy them enough to avoid the next batch of wiretaps, if not just change their phone numbers."
No, you'd have the police on you for harassment.
Interesting comments, particularly your last sentence which hadn't occurred to me before, and yet seems obvious in retrospect. Thanks for the insight.
If the ramp depresses in 1/50s, the car occupants will be jarred.
...and if you think about it, your reply is simply an insult rather than a rational statement.
/. sniffer should understand!
The point (s)he's making here is that knowledge (DNC law etc) is the powerful thing... something a
You're stuck in the can't-get-a-job-without experience trap, which was less of a problem 30 yrs ago when companies apprenticed juniors.
Solution in US as I see is to network your way into a job through intern positions. With interns, both the company and the intern get to examine each other for a while, and the company reduces it's risk hiring an unknown.
In your scheme, can distinguish 3. from 4. because number of questions asked is different.
It also *knew* that you wanted the first sentence italicized. Wow!
Methinks you were HTML Formatted, ol' son.
I agree with AC. From his company size, I can guess which company he works for, and I work for a competitor. We can't find engineers with semiconductor industry background, customer face-to-face skills, decent commercial awareness, and a broad electronic knowledge. Marketing people don't have the last one. Too many engineers are either introverted or too self confident, which comes across as arrogance. Most board level engineers simply aren't nosy enough to have a broad knowledge base (they are just a guru in one area). The last guy that we hired that I was really impressed with is 62 yrs old (welcome, Fred!). What sort of job am I talking about? Mixed signal and analog semiconductor applications and product definition.
As a tail note: having a masters or PhD doesn't help - the knowledge base comes from years of interest in electronics in general, and broad level design practice.
It has 45k page hits as of 7.18AM, PST. Let's see how it goes!
From their website:
XCP aims to offer a reasonable level of protection against 'casual piracy' while working to provide the authorised customer with a quality digital music experience together with DRM features for controlled copying on their chosen platform. If data in any format is digitally written to a compact disc or DVD then it can be read from that disc in some way. XCP is designed to give a level of protection that will make it suitably difficult for the general consumer to copy and/or illegally distribute the content of the disc.
Your statement is generally true and reasonable, except here where MS has been deemed a monopoly with Windows OS, and has unfair advantage for apps runnig below it. The ruling is designed to take away the advantage that MS has for the apps. Access to the APIs is mainly what makes MS apps a monopoly. It isn't attempting to enable someone to second source Windows.
"e-mails coming from a computer on the spam list" are treated this way. Great. So when a variable-IP zombie pc power cycles and I get their old IP address next, it becomes my problem. Time to buy a fixed IP service, people.
Splitting hairs is exactly how lawsuits are argued.
You also forget that it takes around 3 years for a big lawsuit to run; it's worth an ISP's effort to kill the competition by a legally gray method - meanwhile the money flows in.
El Cringle may be pompous at times, but the article is interesting and reflects well on the general anti-innovation policy of big business.
You can't generalise much about LED efficiency because it varies so much with the exact semiconductor material, plus how big the die is. However, a cost-effective LED backlight for a TFT is a little less efficient that a cost effective CCFL backlight. This includes the inefficiency of the current sourcing boost for the LEDs, and the high voltage supply to the CCFL.
For fluorescent tube lighting, a lot of power is wasted in the ballast (old type) or boost supply (compact type) - feel how hot the base of a compact fluorescent gets.
The much touted high current, reasonably efficient LEDs from Nichia and Lumex are far too expensive for domestic lighting, and don't target those applications. The main reason that LEDs replace incandescent is not efficiency - it's that the half-life of 50k hours saves the replacement labour cost. A red LED traffic light costs about $45.
That's because the keys were 2-shot mouldings with the number/letter a different colour plastic in the moulding. Can wear millimetres without damage. Casios of the time were the same.
The modern junk's keys print the character legend on the key, which wears off relatively soon.
Er no... it's part of the constitution that identification cannot be DEMANDED at will (partly to protect free speech, I believe). One exception is police being able to demand driver licence from drivers in most circumstances.