Actually, what has made the European economies so strong is that, instead of paying billions every year to keep their elderly population on life support, they simply kill them off every summer by making the entire population too poor to afford air conditioning...
In TFA, Cisco themselves said that he did not disclose any new vulnerabilies... so... what is the BFD?
Later, Cisco said it was all bent out of shape because they follow an "industry established disclosure process" and because Mr. Lynn "illegally" obtained the information...
Hey, Cisco, I have news for you. "Industry established disclosure process" != "Law"
Get over yourselves, admit that you're a bunch of fuckups that can't make secure networking equipment, and move along..
Yes, you are correct. There is a power ceiling in the ISM band as follows:
Point to Multipoint Links: 36dBm EIRP (about 4W) Point to Point Links: 48dBm EIRP (about 50W)
In the 2.4GHz spectrum outside the ISM band, Part 97 operators are limited to whatever their license class allows.
The gain of the individual components in the device doesn't matter so much as long as the EIRP ceiling is observed and your output mask is compliant with IB and OOB mask requirements.
Part15 adds the restrictions that the device cannot cause harmful interference to other devices, but also must accept any harmful interference from other devices. This latter part is a subtlety that basically says that Part 97 operators with higher power have preemptive use authority over Part 15 operators in the same band.
The "Antenna Rule," which is 47CFR15.203, states clearly that it is illegal for a manufacturer of a device to even give the user the ability to change the antenna from the original factory unit. SO, while possession of a commercially purchased Cantenna may not be illegal, use of one certainly is under this part. This law only applies to intentional radiators that are required to be certified under Part 15 rules. Furthermore, 47CFR15.23 exempts home-built units for personal use that are not built from a purchased kit or design.
Units built by Amateur Radio operators are further not covered under Part 15 and are instead regulated by 47CFR97.15.
For your reference:
TITLE 47--TELECOMMUNICATION
CHAPTER I--FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
PART 15_RADIO FREQUENCY DEVICES--Table of Contents
Subpart C_Intentional Radiators
Sec. 15.203 Antenna requirement.
An intentional radiator shall be designed to ensure that no antenna other than that furnished by the responsible party shall be used with the device. The use of a permanently attached antenna or of an antenna that uses a unique coupling to the intentional radiator shall be considered sufficient to comply with the provisions of this section. The manufacturer may design the unit so that a broken antenna can be replaced by the user, but the use of a standard antenna jack or electrical connector is prohibited. This requirement does not apply to carrier current devices or to devices operated under the provisions of Sec. 15.211, Sec. 15.213, Sec. 15.217, Sec. 15.219, or Sec. 15.221. Further, this requirement does not apply to intentional radiators that must be professionally installed, such as perimeter protection systems and some field disturbance sensors, or to other intentional radiators which, in accordance with Sec. 15.31(d), must be measured at the installation site. However, the installer shall be responsible for ensuring that the proper antenna is employed so that the limits in this part are not exceeded.
[54 FR 17714, Apr. 25, 1989, as amended at 55 FR 28762, July 13, 1990]
I get really depressed in the Winter when it gets dark at 4 in the afternoon... even though I go into work at 5am to have just those couple of hours to do things outside, it would be nice to not have to get up so goddamn early just to not feel miserable all the time...
You're forgetting one of the fundamental rules of capitalism. If the song is good, it will be bought. If the song is bad, it will not be. This puts tremendously more pressure on the song factories to turn out GOOD stuff because they know they can't force a bunch of crap down our throats anymore. They know those filler tracks won't be downloaded, so they will have to make BETTER MUSIC.
Call it economic darwinism... call it whatever.. it works for the benefit of both consumers and artists.
You speak of "the government" as if there is only one.. there are several..
In the US, most professions are regulated at the State level. Each state has governing boards for each governed profession. Currently, there is a clear need for some kind of regulation of journalism. Here's why:
Jayson Blair Stephen Glass Diana Greigo Erwin et al...
So-called "journalists" for major reputable firms who were disgraced by their acts of journalistic fraud. These people intentionally pushed blatantly false information in order to push their respective agendas.. oh wait a minute... sounds just like Indymedia!
Why should not Indymedia face the same fate as these liars?
If they are claiming their servers are protected by some law protecting journalists, then YES, they DO have to go find a reputable person. They're called JOURNALISTS and they have CREDENTIALS.
The thing you're missing is that Indymedia would NEVER publish a story about Timmy losing his pet cat. Indymedia would publish a story about how George Bush broke into Timmy's home in the middle of the night and slashed the cat's throat right in front of Timmy... of course it would be a complete falsehood, but that's what Indymedia does..
After reading just a few articles on IM, I see a complete lack of journalistic integrity - that is, reporting the facts, documenting sources of supposed facts, and labeling opinion pieces as editorials. What I see on IM is labeling opinion pieces as facts, invention of so-called facts to support those opinions, and not documenting any of it (of course, invented facts cannot be documented).
Not to mention that even if they do release some of their code under an open-source license, it may still be encumbered by their massive patent portfolio, making the code useless for anyone else..
Here's the translation I got from the article:
"We don't feel like paying for more engineering talent, so we'll get free labor from the open source community to improve our code."
Actually, it *is* "egoism," because if you were capable of checking your information before posting your ignorant rant, you would see that egotism and egoism are synonyms, even though they have SLIGHTLY different CONTEXTUAL meanings. They are interchangeable and gather their figurative meaning from context. Go check definition #2 at dictionary.com if you like.
And it's not racist because Indians are caucasians, too. Also, you cannot refute observed data. They are incompetent. If they were competent, they would be finishing projects. That is the definition of competence in this case. You cannot say that the sky is not blue, because it is plainly obvious that the sky is blue. It is also plainly obvious that they are not finishing projects. The projects are not finished. Should I continue or is this point finally getting through your thick skull?
Also, I didn't say we were still sending them work. In fact, I said implicitly that we were NOT sending them more work because they could not do the work that they had already been given. What I said was that they were ASKING for more work...
Moving right along, we are not dealing with contract firms. They are employees of our Indian offices that are solely owned and operated by us.
Continuing further in handing your ass to you, I have no part in the decision making process in terms of where work is done. Those decisions are made by idiots like you, which, unfortunately, there are plenty of in the ranks of upper management at my company.
Just a suggestion, and I really am trying to be constructive here, but I think you would do well for yourself to go take some classes in reading comprehension and discourse. Then maybe you can understand the things that you read.
My company has cancelled many of its offshoring initiatives due to several reasons:
1) The Indian offices constantly beg for more work, but they cannot deliver on the work they have already been given. This projects the notion that they are not able to estimate or honestly evaluate their own capabilities. Being eager to work does not make you a good worker, necessarily.
2) The work they do deliver is poor quality and almost 100% of it has had to be redone by domestic engineering departments. The initiatives started 4 years ago and there has yet to be a single customer-deliverable product returned from India.
3) Rising costs: it costs 3x as much today as it did 4 years ago to move work to India. Egoism runs rampant among Indians (there are enough of them in my office here in the States that I can say unequivocally that this is an accurate observation), they think the world of themselves and attempt to charge accordingly, even though #1 and #2 are contraindicative.
So, there are talks behind closed doors to start moving most of the 18000 jobs we have offshored in the last 4 years back to the states. Wage depression in the US (which I define as receiving annual raises that are less than the annual rate of REAL inflation, which has been on the order of 10% for the last 4 years or so when including EVERYTHING) has made US workers more affordable as well, so there is less incentive to go offshore...
I think the next 2 years will be very interesting. We may still win this battle for our jobs..
You also need to acknowledge the failure of our judicial process. Lawyers have the ability to have anyone they want kicked off of a jury - depending not upon whether they believe that juror will be objective - but on whether they think the juror will be easily impressionable and coaxed into believing them. The most intelligent people - the people who SHOULD be on juries - are almost always thrown off.. College degree? You can forget about ever serving on a jury.
Second is jury pay - most of the time, people who work full time cannot afford to be on a jury for the $5-10 per day it pays. So, there's a whole other class of people who will never be on juries..
Who is left? The answer to that question is left as an exercise for the reader..
People should not be able to be removed from a jury until they have demonstrated bias or prejudice.
First of all, let's look at the difference between bittorrent and previous p2p applications.
BitTorrent (until today) was a simplified, stripped down way of sharing files and directories. There is practically no UI, no search function, and it was really geared more towards software distribution.
Today, there is WAY too much demonstrable legal use of BitTorrent to make the claim that it was created for the sole purpose of distributing copyrighted works without authorization. The only thing I am concerned about is that the search component will turn up more illegal results, making this point less profound. If the creation of the search tool demonstrates that there is more illegal use, we may have a problem.
Ok, now that we have the well-known fact out of the way...
I absolutely HATED this movie... and the two before it. This story has so much potential that I loathe that it was wasted on Lucas' small mind. To have these movies written and directed by a man who has the mental capacity and imagination of an 8 year old was just pathetic.
I would love to see all 6 of these movies redone by someone who has artistic vision, as well as the ability to write dialogue. I almost vomited during the "love" scenes in this movie. Seriously, I was disgusted. It was like watching 4th graders try to flirt.
And don't get me started on the monologuing. Hello?!? Fucking KILL the guy! Don't stand there listening to yourself talk!! Both sides were guilty as sin in this movie.
And the scene where they go to arrest Palpatine... how were those other 3 guys possibly jedi? They were almost like rejects from the Starship Enterprise Security Team. Dead within 5 seconds..
But, Lucas did do one thing right. He expertly exploited the "train wreck" phonomenon.. make it terrible enough and people just won't be able to look away..
I am starting to wonder if Lucas himself is not a Sith lord determined to shower us with bad movies until we give in to our hatred and fall to the dark side.
and probably the 20 other countries on the list to have nationalist import laws, but it's not okay for us?
Fuck that... one reason our economy is so stagnant is because we're sending all of it overseas in the form of labor money and other trade-deficit items. For our economy to be strong, as much of our money must stay in it as possible. Other countries have figured this out and used this little fact to take us over economically...
Slashdot Mirror
Actually, what has made the European economies so strong is that, instead of paying billions every year to keep their elderly population on life support, they simply kill them off every summer by making the entire population too poor to afford air conditioning...
I wonder if the price of paper textbooks simultaneously rose by 51% to offset the discount.
That's all you need to make the 1.21 gigawatts of power needed to travel across time!
"Hi everyone, I'm not a technical expert, but I play one on TV."
In TFA, Cisco themselves said that he did not disclose any new vulnerabilies... so... what is the BFD?
Later, Cisco said it was all bent out of shape because they follow an "industry established disclosure process" and because Mr. Lynn "illegally" obtained the information...
Hey, Cisco, I have news for you. "Industry established disclosure process" != "Law"
Get over yourselves, admit that you're a bunch of fuckups that can't make secure networking equipment, and move along..
Yes, you are correct. There is a power ceiling in the ISM band as follows:
Point to Multipoint Links: 36dBm EIRP (about 4W)
Point to Point Links: 48dBm EIRP (about 50W)
In the 2.4GHz spectrum outside the ISM band, Part 97 operators are limited to whatever their license class allows.
The gain of the individual components in the device doesn't matter so much as long as the EIRP ceiling is observed and your output mask is compliant with IB and OOB mask requirements.
Part15 adds the restrictions that the device cannot cause harmful interference to other devices, but also must accept any harmful interference from other devices. This latter part is a subtlety that basically says that Part 97 operators with higher power have preemptive use authority over Part 15 operators in the same band.
The "Antenna Rule," which is 47CFR15.203, states clearly that it is illegal for a manufacturer of a device to even give the user the ability to change the antenna from the original factory unit. SO, while possession of a commercially purchased Cantenna may not be illegal, use of one certainly is under this part. This law only applies to intentional radiators that are required to be certified under Part 15 rules. Furthermore, 47CFR15.23 exempts home-built units for personal use that are not built from a purchased kit or design.
Units built by Amateur Radio operators are further not covered under Part 15 and are instead regulated by 47CFR97.15.
For your reference:
TITLE 47--TELECOMMUNICATION
CHAPTER I--FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION
PART 15_RADIO FREQUENCY DEVICES--Table of Contents
Subpart C_Intentional Radiators
Sec. 15.203 Antenna requirement.
An intentional radiator shall be designed to ensure that no antenna
other than that furnished by the responsible party shall be used with
the device. The use of a permanently attached antenna or of an antenna
that uses a unique coupling to the intentional radiator shall be
considered sufficient to comply with the provisions of this section. The
manufacturer may design the unit so that a broken antenna can be
replaced by the user, but the use of a standard antenna jack or
electrical connector is prohibited. This requirement does not apply to
carrier current devices or to devices operated under the provisions of
Sec. 15.211, Sec. 15.213, Sec. 15.217, Sec. 15.219, or Sec. 15.221.
Further, this requirement does not apply to intentional radiators that
must be professionally installed, such as perimeter protection systems
and some field disturbance sensors, or to other intentional radiators
which, in accordance with Sec. 15.31(d), must be measured at the
installation site. However, the installer shall be responsible for
ensuring that the proper antenna is employed so that the limits in this
part are not exceeded.
[54 FR 17714, Apr. 25, 1989, as amended at 55 FR 28762, July 13, 1990]
I have to take exception with the article title... it should be:
"Utah teens play prank on USPTO, win Patent w/ Junk Science"
I get really depressed in the Winter when it gets dark at 4 in the afternoon... even though I go into work at 5am to have just those couple of hours to do things outside, it would be nice to not have to get up so goddamn early just to not feel miserable all the time...
You're forgetting one of the fundamental rules of capitalism. If the song is good, it will be bought. If the song is bad, it will not be. This puts tremendously more pressure on the song factories to turn out GOOD stuff because they know they can't force a bunch of crap down our throats anymore. They know those filler tracks won't be downloaded, so they will have to make BETTER MUSIC.
Call it economic darwinism... call it whatever.. it works for the benefit of both consumers and artists.
As a GT Alum, I am obliged to respond with:
:)
blah blah blah To Hell with Georgia Blah Blah Blah...
You speak of "the government" as if there is only one.. there are several..
In the US, most professions are regulated at the State level. Each state has governing boards for each governed profession. Currently, there is a clear need for some kind of regulation of journalism. Here's why:
Jayson Blair
Stephen Glass
Diana Greigo Erwin
et al...
So-called "journalists" for major reputable firms who were disgraced by their acts of journalistic fraud. These people intentionally pushed blatantly false information in order to push their respective agendas.. oh wait a minute... sounds just like Indymedia!
Why should not Indymedia face the same fate as these liars?
If they are claiming their servers are protected by some law protecting journalists, then YES, they DO have to go find a reputable person. They're called JOURNALISTS and they have CREDENTIALS.
The thing you're missing is that Indymedia would NEVER publish a story about Timmy losing his pet cat. Indymedia would publish a story about how George Bush broke into Timmy's home in the middle of the night and slashed the cat's throat right in front of Timmy... of course it would be a complete falsehood, but that's what Indymedia does..
After reading just a few articles on IM, I see a complete lack of journalistic integrity - that is, reporting the facts, documenting sources of supposed facts, and labeling opinion pieces as editorials. What I see on IM is labeling opinion pieces as facts, invention of so-called facts to support those opinions, and not documenting any of it (of course, invented facts cannot be documented).
Not to mention that even if they do release some of their code under an open-source license, it may still be encumbered by their massive patent portfolio, making the code useless for anyone else..
Here's the translation I got from the article:
"We don't feel like paying for more engineering talent, so we'll get free labor from the open source community to improve our code."
Actually, it *is* "egoism," because if you were capable of checking your information before posting your ignorant rant, you would see that egotism and egoism are synonyms, even though they have SLIGHTLY different CONTEXTUAL meanings. They are interchangeable and gather their figurative meaning from context. Go check definition #2 at dictionary.com if you like.
And it's not racist because Indians are caucasians, too. Also, you cannot refute observed data. They are incompetent. If they were competent, they would be finishing projects. That is the definition of competence in this case. You cannot say that the sky is not blue, because it is plainly obvious that the sky is blue. It is also plainly obvious that they are not finishing projects. The projects are not finished. Should I continue or is this point finally getting through your thick skull?
Also, I didn't say we were still sending them work. In fact, I said implicitly that we were NOT sending them more work because they could not do the work that they had already been given. What I said was that they were ASKING for more work...
Moving right along, we are not dealing with contract firms. They are employees of our Indian offices that are solely owned and operated by us.
Continuing further in handing your ass to you, I have no part in the decision making process in terms of where work is done. Those decisions are made by idiots like you, which, unfortunately, there are plenty of in the ranks of upper management at my company.
Just a suggestion, and I really am trying to be constructive here, but I think you would do well for yourself to go take some classes in reading comprehension and discourse. Then maybe you can understand the things that you read.
My company has cancelled many of its offshoring initiatives due to several reasons:
1) The Indian offices constantly beg for more work, but they cannot deliver on the work they have already been given. This projects the notion that they are not able to estimate or honestly evaluate their own capabilities. Being eager to work does not make you a good worker, necessarily.
2) The work they do deliver is poor quality and almost 100% of it has had to be redone by domestic engineering departments. The initiatives started 4 years ago and there has yet to be a single customer-deliverable product returned from India.
3) Rising costs: it costs 3x as much today as it did 4 years ago to move work to India. Egoism runs rampant among Indians (there are enough of them in my office here in the States that I can say unequivocally that this is an accurate observation), they think the world of themselves and attempt to charge accordingly, even though #1 and #2 are contraindicative.
So, there are talks behind closed doors to start moving most of the 18000 jobs we have offshored in the last 4 years back to the states. Wage depression in the US (which I define as receiving annual raises that are less than the annual rate of REAL inflation, which has been on the order of 10% for the last 4 years or so when including EVERYTHING) has made US workers more affordable as well, so there is less incentive to go offshore...
I think the next 2 years will be very interesting. We may still win this battle for our jobs..
You also need to acknowledge the failure of our judicial process. Lawyers have the ability to have anyone they want kicked off of a jury - depending not upon whether they believe that juror will be objective - but on whether they think the juror will be easily impressionable and coaxed into believing them. The most intelligent people - the people who SHOULD be on juries - are almost always thrown off.. College degree? You can forget about ever serving on a jury.
Second is jury pay - most of the time, people who work full time cannot afford to be on a jury for the $5-10 per day it pays. So, there's a whole other class of people who will never be on juries..
Who is left? The answer to that question is left as an exercise for the reader..
People should not be able to be removed from a jury until they have demonstrated bias or prejudice.
I just used the search engine for the first time.. .and... sadly... you seem to be correct... lots of illegal returns on bittorrent.com...
They also claim high relevancy, but even searching on "RedHat Linux" does not return what I want... hrmmm
First of all, let's look at the difference between bittorrent and previous p2p applications.
BitTorrent (until today) was a simplified, stripped down way of sharing files and directories. There is practically no UI, no search function, and it was really geared more towards software distribution.
Today, there is WAY too much demonstrable legal use of BitTorrent to make the claim that it was created for the sole purpose of distributing copyrighted works without authorization. The only thing I am concerned about is that the search component will turn up more illegal results, making this point less profound. If the creation of the search tool demonstrates that there is more illegal use, we may have a problem.
I just hope it doesn't explode my house :)
What? A story posted on /. irrelevant to /.ers? No fíng way... I can't believe it...
Ok, now that we have the well-known fact out of the way...
I absolutely HATED this movie... and the two before it. This story has so much potential that I loathe that it was wasted on Lucas' small mind. To have these movies written and directed by a man who has the mental capacity and imagination of an 8 year old was just pathetic.
I would love to see all 6 of these movies redone by someone who has artistic vision, as well as the ability to write dialogue. I almost vomited during the "love" scenes in this movie. Seriously, I was disgusted. It was like watching 4th graders try to flirt.
And don't get me started on the monologuing. Hello?!? Fucking KILL the guy! Don't stand there listening to yourself talk!! Both sides were guilty as sin in this movie.
And the scene where they go to arrest Palpatine... how were those other 3 guys possibly jedi? They were almost like rejects from the Starship Enterprise Security Team. Dead within 5 seconds..
But, Lucas did do one thing right. He expertly exploited the "train wreck" phonomenon.. make it terrible enough and people just won't be able to look away..
I am starting to wonder if Lucas himself is not a Sith lord determined to shower us with bad movies until we give in to our hatred and fall to the dark side.
and probably the 20 other countries on the list to have nationalist import laws, but it's not okay for us?
Fuck that... one reason our economy is so stagnant is because we're sending all of it overseas in the form of labor money and other trade-deficit items. For our economy to be strong, as much of our money must stay in it as possible. Other countries have figured this out and used this little fact to take us over economically...
>> illegally trading valuable copyrighted materials
Valuable?
Please... we're talking about George Lucas films here..