Whatever the trial judge decides about the DOJ motion, you can bet this gets appealed all the way up the line to SCOTUS. The claim, as asserted by DOJ, would be a clear violation of the due process clause if the government could step into any case and inhibit discovery or evidence presentation. In other cases involving sensitive material, the trial judge has the opportunity to review such material before granting or denying the motion.
It's not so weird that Google has waited almost a year to go public with Gmail. Clearly it's the finale of a very large marketing experiment. First, Google develops an initial core of beta users, who upon registering for the email system get to invite more beta users. Then Google gets to sit back, watch the whole thing percolate, and collect valuable data on how long it takes for word-of-mouth to translate to market saturation, or how often free invites turn into new users, etc. From a research point of view, to get all of this they would need those several months they took.
100 times average... this is meaningless. The average could be 1 MB / day, and you could be getting 100 MB. Or, it could be 1 GB / day, and you are at 100 GB. Big difference, since the absolute amount of bandwidth is probably the chief consideration on their part.
Now, if they had a clue, they could report percentile, or standard deviation... or anything else which gives you a sense of the distribution, i.e. how many people you are "stealing" bandwidth from.
Sodium is the second lightest of the alkali earth metals. Interestingly, it is the cheapest metal money can buy. Light enough it would float on the water, if it weren't for the aforementioned explosiveness of such contact. Interestingly, the spontaneous reactivity of the alkali metals increases as a function of their weight... cesium and francium are much more dangerous (or fun, depending on your PoV.)
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Whatever the trial judge decides about the DOJ motion, you can bet this gets appealed all the way up the line to SCOTUS. The claim, as asserted by DOJ, would be a clear violation of the due process clause if the government could step into any case and inhibit discovery or evidence presentation. In other cases involving sensitive material, the trial judge has the opportunity to review such material before granting or denying the motion.
It's not so weird that Google has waited almost a year to go public with Gmail. Clearly it's the finale of a very large marketing experiment. First, Google develops an initial core of beta users, who upon registering for the email system get to invite more beta users. Then Google gets to sit back, watch the whole thing percolate, and collect valuable data on how long it takes for word-of-mouth to translate to market saturation, or how often free invites turn into new users, etc. From a research point of view, to get all of this they would need those several months they took.
The sky after they turned on the Martian air-generating device was a very clear, temperate blue, as I recall.
100 times average ... this is meaningless. The average could be 1 MB / day, and you could be getting 100 MB. Or, it could be 1 GB / day, and you are at 100 GB. Big difference, since the absolute amount of bandwidth is probably the chief consideration on their part.
... or anything else which gives you a sense of the distribution, i.e. how many people you are "stealing" bandwidth from.
Now, if they had a clue, they could report percentile, or standard deviation
Sodium is the second lightest of the alkali earth metals. Interestingly, it is the cheapest metal money can buy. Light enough it would float on the water, if it weren't for the aforementioned explosiveness of such contact. Interestingly, the spontaneous reactivity of the alkali metals increases as a function of their weight ... cesium and francium are much more dangerous (or fun, depending on your PoV.)