At best, this could replace the existing backbone only for limited areas. There is no way this could connect the US and Europe. Even across the US you would have, at best, very constricted bandwidth. If some group organized to put a series of mesh routers across the country, it would still be a trivial amount of bandwidth compared to the existing capacity.
The other problem would be the number of hops required for long distance. If 1,000 hops are needed to go from NY to CA, what would the latency be?
NASA's 2006 budget request includes money for
deorbiting Hubble. The plan would be to connect a propulsion module for a controlled crash landing.
I would guess they would put into the Pacific Ocean.
Just letting Hubble crash into some random spot on the Earth in a decade or two would be a bit risky.
Even though it is reported as the RIAA suing someone, it you look at the actual court papers you will see a list of labels listed as the plaintiffs. For example, see
this filing,
listing Atlantic Recording, Arista, BMG, and more, as plaintiffs.
The RIAA seems to organize the cases, but the actual cases are technically brought by the labels.
It is not "common carrier" status that is keeping ISPs from being sued by the RIAA. Their protection is a section of the DMCA creating a "Safe Harbor" for customer communications passing through their systems.
Blocking Vonage would not appear to affect an ISP's Safe Harbor protections.
Of course this is not the kind of behavior you want to encourage. But it has more to do with "your rights online" than a proposed change to cable standards.
The use of the word "grid" here is in the sense of an electric power grid. The idea is that you should get computing power on demand, just like you get electic power on demand.
Who would want to route their calls through some random stanger's phone. Is there any practical way to keep the calls from being recorded and the phone numbers from being captured by this third party?
The deal does not include MLB trademarks and logos. It is with the player's union and not with MLB. The deal is basically for the right to use player names.
Not to defend spamming, but the case may not be that clear.
According to the article, he called CEO Brian Haberstroh a "criminal". There is no mention of Haberstroh being charged with, much less convicted of, a crime. So this statement would not seem to be true.
The retort is that Haberstroh did things for which her should be charged, but has not been. This could be hard to prove, especially if Haberstroh stayed just inside the letter of the law.
The New York Times had a
major article Sunday about Chinese counterfeiters. They estimate that the US/EU/Japan together lose $80B/year. The Bush administration will take "whatever means are necessary" to force a change.
This goes beyond just the US and CDs and DVDs. For example, the Chinese were considering building a maglev train system. So the German companies ThyssenKrupp and Siemens build a prototype. Workers for the German companies videotaped Chinese engineers poking around at 3am. Shortly after, the Chinese said they would use their own newly development maglev technology for the trains instead of the buying the German tains. They may even be able to export maglev trains at half the price of the German or Japanese trains.
Trading your house and your vote are not the same thing.
It is quite legal to trade your house for cash. In most places, trading your vote for cash is illegal.
In a 1987 case, Meredith Corp. v. FCC, the courts declared that the doctrine was not mandated by Congress and the FCC did not have to continue to enforce it. The FCC dissolved the doctrine in August of that year.
The overthrow of the Fairness Doctrine is what allowed for the development of political talk radio. A Rush Limbaugh would not really be feasible if the Fairness Doctrine were still in place.
It is not clear what provision of the treaty would prohibit this. It does prohibit weapons of mass destruction in space. But metal rods fired into satellites would not seem to fit this description.
There is also the option of using Article XVI, which allows withdrawal from the treaty with one years notice.
It is not correct to link this year's hurricane season with global warming.
Any possible current effect of global warming on hurricanes is too small to detect. Any measurable effect of global warming on hurricanes is decades away.
From the study:
CO2-induced tropical cyclone intensity changes are unlikely to be detectable in historical observations and will probably not be detectable for decades to come. Related to this issue, SSTs (
sea surface temperature) over the North Atlantic tropical storm
basin have not exhibited a significant warming trend over the past half century.
Four hurricanes hitting a single state in a year is unusual, but it has happened before.
If the poll workers can write on the ballot then just about any system can be corrupted. For example, with the current single vote system the corrupt poll worker could check the box for his candidate on ballots marked for the opponent. When counted, the ballot will be discarded as spoiled (a so-called "overvote"). So a vote for the opponent is knocked out.
According to the US Copyright Office the copyright owner has
the exclusive right to do and to authorize others to perform the work publicly, in the case of literary, musical, dramatic, and choreographic works, pantomimes, and motion pictures and other audiovisual works.
It is not that de Branges is unqualified: he settled
Bieberbach's Conjecture.
Interestingly, much of the validation of de Branges work on Bieberbach's Conjecture was done by a team at the Steklov Institute, referred to in the MathWorld link in the article.
The purpose of this part of the DMCA is to make ISPs not liable for the actions of their customers, until the ISP is notified and given a chance to stop any such violations. These notices are that notification.
The DMCA actually weakens the right of copyright holders. Without the DMCA they could sue ISPs, whose customers use the ISP's hardware to violate copyrights, without any notice. With the DMCA they have to give notice to the ISP before suing. With or without the DMCA, they can sue the customer without any notice.
I think the key is that "tournaments are scheduled for Friday nights at midnight". If this were at 8pm, I would not see how it would pay the theater better than a showing a movie. But by midnight they need a special event to get any kind of a crowd.
The RIAA (really firms working for it) just search for their songs to download. When they find one they download it and note the time and IP address of the server from which they downloaded it.
It is interesting to note that the largest members of the RIAA are controlled by non-US interests:
Warner Music (recently sold by Time Warner to Edgar Bronfman from Canada),
Bertelsmann (Germany),
EMI (UK),
Sony (Japan)
and Vivendi Universal (France).
If you are downloading, the server is sending you packets. To do this the server needs to have your IP address to put into the destination slot in the header of each IP packet.
The analogy is trying to get a letter without giving the sender an address. In IP there is not really an end-to-end circuit, just a lot of packets (letters) going back and forth. Each packet has a source and destination address.
In the real world you can somewhat hide by going through a PO box. The internet equivalent is a proxy. I do not think that BT itself makes any attempt to hide by using a proxy.
Since 1791, the 4-th amendment has allowed the for "persons or things to be seized" upon issuance of a warrant. The government has always been able to seize items before making an arrest. The government have always been able to seize property (with a warrant) even if the owner is not suspected of any crime if the property is evidence of a crime. For example, a stolen car used in a bank robbery will likely be seized even if bank robbers are nowhere around and the car's owner is not a suspect.
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The other problem would be the number of hops required for long distance. If 1,000 hops are needed to go from NY to CA, what would the latency be?
Just letting Hubble crash into some random spot on the Earth in a decade or two would be a bit risky.
Barbie has been around for 45 years, produced by Mattel, a publicly traded US corporation.
The RIAA seems to organize the cases, but the actual cases are technically brought by the labels.
See here for more.
Of course this is not the kind of behavior you want to encourage. But it has more to do with "your rights online" than a proposed change to cable standards.
The use of the word "grid" here is in the sense of an electric power grid. The idea is that you should get computing power on demand, just like you get electic power on demand.
It is hard to see how a law can be unconstitutional because it may be changed at some later time.
Who would want to route their calls through some random stanger's phone. Is there any practical way to keep the calls from being recorded and the phone numbers from being captured by this third party?
The deal does not include MLB trademarks and logos. It is with the player's union and not with MLB. The deal is basically for the right to use player names.
The retort is that Haberstroh did things for which her should be charged, but has not been. This could be hard to prove, especially if Haberstroh stayed just inside the letter of the law.
This goes beyond just the US and CDs and DVDs. For example, the Chinese were considering building a maglev train system. So the German companies ThyssenKrupp and Siemens build a prototype. Workers for the German companies videotaped Chinese engineers poking around at 3am. Shortly after, the Chinese said they would use their own newly development maglev technology for the trains instead of the buying the German tains. They may even be able to export maglev trains at half the price of the German or Japanese trains.
It is the court that will impose sactions, at the request of the MPAA. For example, in CA, "when the duty to preserve evidence is violated, courts may impose appropriate sanctions for spoliation ranging from an adverse inference jury instruction to entry of judgment."
Trading your house and your vote are not the same thing. It is quite legal to trade your house for cash. In most places, trading your vote for cash is illegal.
There is also the option of using Article XVI, which allows withdrawal from the treaty with one years notice.
If the poll workers can write on the ballot then just about any system can be corrupted. For example, with the current single vote system the corrupt poll worker could check the box for his candidate on ballots marked for the opponent. When counted, the ballot will be discarded as spoiled (a so-called "overvote"). So a vote for the opponent is knocked out.
According to the US Copyright Office the copyright owner has the exclusive right to do and to authorize others to perform the work publicly, in the case of literary, musical, dramatic, and choreographic works, pantomimes, and motion pictures and other audiovisual works.
It is not that de Branges is unqualified: he settled Bieberbach's Conjecture. Interestingly, much of the validation of de Branges work on Bieberbach's Conjecture was done by a team at the Steklov Institute, referred to in the MathWorld link in the article.
The purpose of this part of the DMCA is to make ISPs not liable for the actions of their customers, until the ISP is notified and given a chance to stop any such violations. These notices are that notification.
The DMCA actually weakens the right of copyright holders. Without the DMCA they could sue ISPs, whose customers use the ISP's hardware to violate copyrights, without any notice. With the DMCA they have to give notice to the ISP before suing. With or without the DMCA, they can sue the customer without any notice.
I think the key is that "tournaments are scheduled for Friday nights at midnight". If this were at 8pm, I would not see how it would pay the theater better than a showing a movie. But by midnight they need a special event to get any kind of a crowd.
It is interesting to note that the largest members of the RIAA are controlled by non-US interests: Warner Music (recently sold by Time Warner to Edgar Bronfman from Canada), Bertelsmann (Germany), EMI (UK), Sony (Japan) and Vivendi Universal (France).
The analogy is trying to get a letter without giving the sender an address. In IP there is not really an end-to-end circuit, just a lot of packets (letters) going back and forth. Each packet has a source and destination address.
In the real world you can somewhat hide by going through a PO box. The internet equivalent is a proxy. I do not think that BT itself makes any attempt to hide by using a proxy.
Since 1791, the 4-th amendment has allowed the for "persons or things to be seized" upon issuance of a warrant. The government has always been able to seize items before making an arrest. The government have always been able to seize property (with a warrant) even if the owner is not suspected of any crime if the property is evidence of a crime. For example, a stolen car used in a bank robbery will likely be seized even if bank robbers are nowhere around and the car's owner is not a suspect.