The federal government says you can't put leaded fuel in the car. Ford doesn't say you can't, but if your leaded fuel causes damage, then that's not covered under warranty. If you add accessory equipment (like NOS for street racing) that causes damage, that's not covered under warranty either. But, if you put leaded fuel in your car, and your transmission breaks, your transmission is still covered under warranty.
Either way, these analogies have naught to do with the bricking iPhones.
If you have 10 operatives, send an operative a month every 30 days +/- 10 days. Even if they all get caught, you'll have instilled a much higher level of terror. Either one of the operatives will certainly get through, or the level of security will be so high that the costs of air travel will increase substantially.
The problem is, a lot of people are dumb. They can't look at more than one step of a problem.
Dumb person:
I am paying $100/month for 200 channels, but I only watch 5. If I could pay ala-carte, I could get the 5 channels I want for only $2.50!
Smart Person:
If I and everyone else only pay for 5 channels instead of 200 channels, each channel gets 97.5% less revenue, and either raise their rates by 4000% to compensate, or they go out of business. (Even that isn't quite right as it ignores the components of costs for the cable company per subscriber vs. per-channel costs paid to the content providers.)
Whether content is bundles or ala-carte, you're going to pay an average of $100 a month, or lose channels. Popular channels will charge more because people will pay for them, and unpopular channels will charge more because they need to to stay in business on a smaller subscriber base or they'll cease to exist.
Remember, if you stop paying for all the other channels you don't want, the other people who don't like YOUR channels stop paying for your channels to. Nobody comes out ahead.
I produce television programming for cable. If you don't think advertisers are savvy enough to know the difference between the number of homes a network is available in and the number of people actually watching a particular program, you're an idiot. The FIRST thing they ask is 'How Many Viewers?'
Now, point to the law that makes hogging the microphone grounds for an arrest.
It isn't. Not leaving when the people in control of the property you are on ask you to leave is grounds for arrest. Yes, everyone has rights to free speech. But people also have property rights, and when I ask you to get your ass off my property, that trumps your right to free speech.
He was asked to leave. He didn't. Everything after that was standard procedure.
It's very easy to give stuff away - once you've already made your pile.
It's very easy to give stuff away - when selling it puts money in someone else's pile.
Artists for major record labels don't make any money selling CDs. You give your mechanical rights to the record company, they promote you, and you make your money on performances. That's the deal.
In the old world, this was a 'good' deal, as without the muscle of the record companies promoting you, your act was going to continue to play bars and night clubs instead of stadiums.
In the new world, there's the internet, and you can do quite well for yourself keeping your mechanical rights and performing less.
His issue wasn't that the touch pad was sensitive.
His issue was that the touch pad was sensitive, and Ubuntu gave him no way to adjust it. A windows install would have provided a fairly intuitive way for the end user to adjust touchpad sensitivity/function.
Yeah, I was being sarcastic. I immediately replied with 'In Soviet Russia', but it was under two minutes and I didn't notice the reply didn't go through until this morning. No +1 Funny un-karma for me.
What, you thought there was no interesting CS research left to do?
Well, I can already turn on my computer, do some typing and clicking, and get any variety of pornography ever created instantly delivered to my home......so it does look like all the interesting CS research has been done.
It only specifies 'users'. It doesn't specify whether the users are end consumers or not.
A better analogy would be:
"Should Intel be able to pay UPS to look inside your packages, and if it contains AMD chips, sit on the package for an extra day or two?"
Your analogy applies to the current situation, where ISPs already charge different prices for different bandwidths. So this DOJ thing can't be about that, since it's about preventing something that doesn't already exist.
It's about enabling ISPs to require end-consumers to pay more for faster delivery of content. The only way that can work is if at least some content is intentionally delivered SLOWER than the user's paid-for bandwidth.
We were supposed to be transporting formerly-nuclear-tipped cruise missiles that had had the warheads removed.
It's a big deal for two reasons:
- We're obligated by international treaty to not fly nuclear weapons. - Anytime nuclear weapons are someplace they're not supposed to be it's a problem. If no one knew these things were not where they were supposed to be, they could have just as well been, well, anywhere.
Not to mention, the crew of the plane didn't know they had a nuclear payload. That means that if they had some sort of issue with the flight, they are in the position where they're not making the right decisions.
The rate of drivers involved in fatal accidents who had been drinking is over half during this hour
Well there's a surprise.
Did you know that the percentage of accidents near football stadiums involving football fans is shortly before and after football games is five times the percentage at other times? Quick, ban football! Being a football fan causes accidents!
So between 2 and 3 AM, twice as many accidents involve alcohol as during the rest of the day. Do you think MAYBE, just MAYBE, that might be because twice as many of the drivers on the road between 2 AM and 3 AM have been drinking?
That data is useless by itself. You have to not only know the percentage of drivers involved in accidents who have been drinking, but also know the percentage of all drivers on the road who have been drinking. If both numbers go up by the same amount, then drinking (on average) has no affect on accident rate. And if it goes up less, that means that the real culprits of accidents between 2 AM and 3 AM are probably the fact that it's dark and people are tired.
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The federal government says you can't put leaded fuel in the car. Ford doesn't say you can't, but if your leaded fuel causes damage, then that's not covered under warranty. If you add accessory equipment (like NOS for street racing) that causes damage, that's not covered under warranty either. But, if you put leaded fuel in your car, and your transmission breaks, your transmission is still covered under warranty.
Either way, these analogies have naught to do with the bricking iPhones.
What is success for a terrorist?
If you have 10 operatives, send an operative a month every 30 days +/- 10 days. Even if they all get caught, you'll have instilled a much higher level of terror. Either one of the operatives will certainly get through, or the level of security will be so high that the costs of air travel will increase substantially.
because log 100 is 3 and log 1000 is 4
Hate to break it to you, but you're off by an order of magnitude.
(10^2 = 100)
what is your people's problem? get out of the basement.
The problem may have more to do with getting into the shower than out of the basement.
The popular channels will NOT charge less - they'll charge more, because people will pay more, and their goal is to get as much money as possible.
The problem is, a lot of people are dumb. They can't look at more than one step of a problem.
Dumb person:
I am paying $100/month for 200 channels, but I only watch 5. If I could pay ala-carte, I could get the 5 channels I want for only $2.50!
Smart Person:
If I and everyone else only pay for 5 channels instead of 200 channels, each channel gets 97.5% less revenue, and either raise their rates by 4000% to compensate, or they go out of business. (Even that isn't quite right as it ignores the components of costs for the cable company per subscriber vs. per-channel costs paid to the content providers.)
Whether content is bundles or ala-carte, you're going to pay an average of $100 a month, or lose channels. Popular channels will charge more because people will pay for them, and unpopular channels will charge more because they need to to stay in business on a smaller subscriber base or they'll cease to exist.
Remember, if you stop paying for all the other channels you don't want, the other people who don't like YOUR channels stop paying for your channels to. Nobody comes out ahead.
I produce television programming for cable. If you don't think advertisers are savvy enough to know the difference between the number of homes a network is available in and the number of people actually watching a particular program, you're an idiot. The FIRST thing they ask is 'How Many Viewers?'
There are quite a few talented rocket scientists out there. Why not utilize them as a resource?
Just make sure you give them the metric units conversion test first.
Now, point to the law that makes hogging the microphone grounds for an arrest.
It isn't. Not leaving when the people in control of the property you are on ask you to leave is grounds for arrest. Yes, everyone has rights to free speech. But people also have property rights, and when I ask you to get your ass off my property, that trumps your right to free speech.
He was asked to leave. He didn't. Everything after that was standard procedure.
Well, you're not going to be raking in millions in stadiums, but you can at least be a musician instead of a starving musician.
It's very easy to give stuff away - once you've already made your pile.
It's very easy to give stuff away - when selling it puts money in someone else's pile.
Artists for major record labels don't make any money selling CDs. You give your mechanical rights to the record company, they promote you, and you make your money on performances. That's the deal.
In the old world, this was a 'good' deal, as without the muscle of the record companies promoting you, your act was going to continue to play bars and night clubs instead of stadiums.
In the new world, there's the internet, and you can do quite well for yourself keeping your mechanical rights and performing less.
His issue wasn't that the touch pad was sensitive.
His issue was that the touch pad was sensitive, and Ubuntu gave him no way to adjust it. A windows install would have provided a fairly intuitive way for the end user to adjust touchpad sensitivity/function.
Britney Spears.
There, I win.
Yeah, I was being sarcastic. I immediately replied with 'In Soviet Russia', but it was under two minutes and I didn't notice the reply didn't go through until this morning. No +1 Funny un-karma for me.
Robotech is just a big rip-off of Battletech anyway.
What, you thought there was no interesting CS research left to do?
...so it does look like all the interesting CS research has been done.
Well, I can already turn on my computer, do some typing and clicking, and get any variety of pornography ever created instantly delivered to my home...
I can finally cash in on my patent for defending a patent reexamination... via teleconference.
Just thow your server into the pool and forget about it.
Isn't that a bit extreme? Should I maybe waterproof it first?
That's +1 Informative
It only specifies 'users'. It doesn't specify whether the users are end consumers or not.
A better analogy would be:
"Should Intel be able to pay UPS to look inside your packages, and if it contains AMD chips, sit on the package for an extra day or two?"
Your analogy applies to the current situation, where ISPs already charge different prices for different bandwidths. So this DOJ thing can't be about that, since it's about preventing something that doesn't already exist.
It's about enabling ISPs to require end-consumers to pay more for faster delivery of content. The only way that can work is if at least some content is intentionally delivered SLOWER than the user's paid-for bandwidth.
We were supposed to be transporting formerly-nuclear-tipped cruise missiles that had had the warheads removed.
It's a big deal for two reasons:
- We're obligated by international treaty to not fly nuclear weapons.
- Anytime nuclear weapons are someplace they're not supposed to be it's a problem. If no one knew these things were not where they were supposed to be, they could have just as well been, well, anywhere.
Not to mention, the crew of the plane didn't know they had a nuclear payload. That means that if they had some sort of issue with the flight, they are in the position where they're not making the right decisions.
The rate of drivers involved in fatal accidents who had been drinking is over half during this hour
Well there's a surprise.
Did you know that the percentage of accidents near football stadiums involving football fans is shortly before and after football games is five times the percentage at other times? Quick, ban football! Being a football fan causes accidents!
So between 2 and 3 AM, twice as many accidents involve alcohol as during the rest of the day. Do you think MAYBE, just MAYBE, that might be because twice as many of the drivers on the road between 2 AM and 3 AM have been drinking?
That data is useless by itself. You have to not only know the percentage of drivers involved in accidents who have been drinking, but also know the percentage of all drivers on the road who have been drinking. If both numbers go up by the same amount, then drinking (on average) has no affect on accident rate. And if it goes up less, that means that the real culprits of accidents between 2 AM and 3 AM are probably the fact that it's dark and people are tired.
Partial zero is what you get when you divide zero by anything greater than one.
Try reading. It's easier than being stupid. Let me explain.
Not true. Being stupid is easier. No explanation required.
75,000,000 / 117,000 = $641/hour.
That's really not that bad when you figure that's gotta cover EVERYTHING.