Any such trend analysis would be based upon guessing... and besides, BT doesn't want to do it anyway. If their technology could determine who was intentionally visiting such a site, they'd most likely be expected to tell the cops.
It's better to say "You can't prosecute the people who we're blocking because we don't know if they really wanted the page or just got tricked into loading it not knowing what it was." because then there's no need for them to bother with a log that they'd have to turn over.
The same people who are willing to defend AutoZone and the other victims of SCO.
Big business uses Linux without having to pay for it in the way they have to pay for Windows. They've got a lot to lose if Linux suddenly is a cause to pay back royalties... so trust me, the money will come out of the woodwork.
Conversely, Microsoft also has to realize that if they were to shun big names like HP and IBM in the slightest way, they could get throttled... What'd happen if the hardware to go with Linux suddenly because cheaper than hardware that supports Windows? Would anybody write a free non-official driver for Windows? I think not...
Microsoft's got to partner to players with both sides of the ball... there still are companies big enough to give them headaches otherwise.
The same part of the "Part 15 flea power" rules that allows transmitter that attaches to iPods to exist could be used to transmit TV as well. However, you're neglecting the fact that those only travel for a few feet.
Somebody trying to jam a broadcast TV station's OTA tower would not create a watchable signal. They'd have to be transmitting at much, much, higher power than the original signal... otherwise the result would be the two signals interfering rendering neither watchable. On digital TV, the two signals would wipe each other out completely leaving no way recievers could make sense of either.
Also, it should be noted that even if signal hackers took over the studio-to-transmitter link of a TV broadcast, for stations in most major cities only a fraction of the audience would be affected. Cable and DBS companies perfer not to pluck stations out of the air, but get a direct digital feed of the station's program stream over fiber straight from the station's studio control room.
CNN footage is protected, however CBS News video clips are in non-subscription streams that are left available for many months after being posted.
One just has to post the meta-info referancing the clips without ripping them, and any user can have their computer recreate the actual content by downloading the same blocks out of the still-available streams. No need to actually rip anything...
The 1000+ hours figure factors in the fact that NBC's HD-capable affiliates will be showing "Olympics in HD" 24/7 on their digital stations.
However, if you can see the HD feed, you will always have at least two choices (NBC HD and at least one SD feed) on the air at all times throught the games.
"Bandwidth" has become such an overused word that it can now be taken to mean anything's capacity for throughput. It's either the Internet pipe or the processor, but something sure doesn't have enough bandwdith to serve up that site.
Sad what the common folk do to our good tech words.
It should be needless to say that no American mega-company is going to do any business in a country under trade sanctions... and particularly not with the regime ruling it.
I have to wonder if this is an official site or just a ploy for a silly Slashdoting... afterall, it's Michael posting.
That is most likely it exactly. The only phone reps who are allowed to cancel accounts in most mega-company setups (AOL, credit card issuers, insurance firms, etc.) are people who are specially trained to try to talk you out of canceling, and statistics are kept on how well they perform. A person who calls, gets to the cancelation reps, and doesn't actually go through with it is scored as a "save", and various metrics are computed to determine the saves per time worked, number of calls taken, etc. and compared to the company averages or arbitrary metrics.
I think the grandparent poster just encountered somebody who was lying about being unable to process the cancelation so that they'd be given a save in order to boost the numbers. I don't think top-level management would approve of such a tactic, but it's certainly possible a mid-level manager would "look the other way" about his "star performer"...
For those with digital cable or satellite tonight... MLB Extra Innings is running free preview games to promote the chance to subscribe now to the rest of the season at a reduced rate. So, there's a few channels most of you don't normally get to see on tonight.:)
Slashdot went out of service for roughly 24 hours centered around April 1 in the GMT zone... they still posted stories and allowed comments, but the normal Slashdot service wasn't there. Check the archives if you can if the site is just static tonight.
If they post a lot of stories after Midnight tonight to bump this off the home page, and all goes well... I'm guessing a majority of the/. userbase won't even notice the site went down to begin with.
In a pure fly-by-wire aircraft, all of the instruments are pure digital data, and an induction into the wires carrying that data could possibly create a false report.
It's a longshot, yes. But remember, the penality for losing this bet is a crashed passenger jet... we don't take chances with that happening, now, do we?
My point is that some of Avril, Sum 41, Sarah whats-her-name and Nickelback and the others might not even have had radio-quality studio recordings of their work ever made if it wasn't for the existance of the CanCon laws...
Right, but nor will it prove any reglations to be needless. Getting a WiFi link from a small plane in VFR has nothing to do with having a cell phone on a commerical airliner.
On the other hand, we're responsible for Celine Dion. On behalf of all Canadians, I apologize profusely.
American radio stations are free to select whatever mix of artists they want to play, but Canadian stations must meet a quota of "CanCon" music... and I seriously think that leads to Canadian stars being created who otherwise might not have gotten a recording contract if they were American. The irony is that all of those Canadian stars then go to Hollywood to make their home base for business purposes.
What if the broken instrument was the gas tank... leading the pilot/driver to think they have gas when they're really about to be out. That's a formula for a crash right there...
Right now, many aviation headsets come equipped to work with your regular mobile phone, suggesting that at this moment there are probably hundreds or thousands of people flying around in little planes and yacking their heads off. Yet for some reason the mobile phone companies don't seem to be complaining. Have you heard any complaints?
A few rare rulebreakers won't have as much affect on the network as if the rule was repealed and everybody on the plane was doing it. If 200 people on a plane flying overhead are on their cell phones, that'll be a much different situation than what's never really been tested.
Sometimes, this Cringely guy just makes me cringe...
He takes a rather quick review of the geek-unfriendly regulations in the sky, and then simply says that because he doesn't believe in them he's going to openly ignore them.
At least he'll be using his own plane, so the only life he's risking in this situation is his own and maybe one or two willing others. Part of the reason why the FAA is over-sensative over what's going on within commerical airplanes is because if the unthinkable random frequency collision were to happen, it might cause an instrument to give a wrong reading to the pilot and the result would be hundreds of people being killed. That's rather high stakes to be guessing...
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Any such trend analysis would be based upon guessing... and besides, BT doesn't want to do it anyway. If their technology could determine who was intentionally visiting such a site, they'd most likely be expected to tell the cops.
It's better to say "You can't prosecute the people who we're blocking because we don't know if they really wanted the page or just got tricked into loading it not knowing what it was." because then there's no need for them to bother with a log that they'd have to turn over.
The Redmondians are coming, the Redmondians are coming...
Yeah, two years latter they haven't gotten here yet. Maybe we should put this in the "don't give them any ideas" file.
The same people who are willing to defend AutoZone and the other victims of SCO.
Big business uses Linux without having to pay for it in the way they have to pay for Windows. They've got a lot to lose if Linux suddenly is a cause to pay back royalties... so trust me, the money will come out of the woodwork.
Conversely, Microsoft also has to realize that if they were to shun big names like HP and IBM in the slightest way, they could get throttled...
What'd happen if the hardware to go with Linux suddenly because cheaper than hardware that supports Windows? Would anybody write a free non-official driver for Windows? I think not...
Microsoft's got to partner to players with both sides of the ball... there still are companies big enough to give them headaches otherwise.
The same part of the "Part 15 flea power" rules that allows transmitter that attaches to iPods to exist could be used to transmit TV as well. However, you're neglecting the fact that those only travel for a few feet.
Somebody trying to jam a broadcast TV station's OTA tower would not create a watchable signal. They'd have to be transmitting at much, much, higher power than the original signal... otherwise the result would be the two signals interfering rendering neither watchable. On digital TV, the two signals would wipe each other out completely leaving no way recievers could make sense of either.
Also, it should be noted that even if signal hackers took over the studio-to-transmitter link of a TV broadcast, for stations in most major cities only a fraction of the audience would be affected. Cable and DBS companies perfer not to pluck stations out of the air, but get a direct digital feed of the station's program stream over fiber straight from the station's studio control room.
CNN footage is protected, however CBS News video clips are in non-subscription streams that are left available for many months after being posted.
One just has to post the meta-info referancing the clips without ripping them, and any user can have their computer recreate the actual content by downloading the same blocks out of the still-available streams. No need to actually rip anything...
The 1000+ hours figure factors in the fact that NBC's HD-capable affiliates will be showing "Olympics in HD" 24/7 on their digital stations.
However, if you can see the HD feed, you will always have at least two choices (NBC HD and at least one SD feed) on the air at all times throught the games.
Hear all the music while you're enrolled... then lose access to everything you downloaded unless you pay full rate when you leave.
George Washington University... a private college located in the D.C. area.
have an independent press
But not a free press as the grandparent post pointed out some politcally unpopular ideas are taboo.
"Bandwidth" has become such an overused word that it can now be taken to mean anything's capacity for throughput. It's either the Internet pipe or the processor, but something sure doesn't have enough bandwdith to serve up that site. Sad what the common folk do to our good tech words.
It should be needless to say that no American mega-company is going to do any business in a country under trade sanctions... and particularly not with the regime ruling it. I have to wonder if this is an official site or just a ploy for a silly Slashdoting... afterall, it's Michael posting.
If they had anybody actively monitoring this site... I take it they're not welcoming the slashdotting.
Apparently not much...
I thought Nukes were something they weren't allowed to have. Who gave them PHP-Nuke?
That is most likely it exactly. The only phone reps who are allowed to cancel accounts in most mega-company setups (AOL, credit card issuers, insurance firms, etc.) are people who are specially trained to try to talk you out of canceling, and statistics are kept on how well they perform. A person who calls, gets to the cancelation reps, and doesn't actually go through with it is scored as a "save", and various metrics are computed to determine the saves per time worked, number of calls taken, etc. and compared to the company averages or arbitrary metrics.
I think the grandparent poster just encountered somebody who was lying about being unable to process the cancelation so that they'd be given a save in order to boost the numbers. I don't think top-level management would approve of such a tactic, but it's certainly possible a mid-level manager would "look the other way" about his "star performer"...
For those with digital cable or satellite tonight... MLB Extra Innings is running free preview games to promote the chance to subscribe now to the rest of the season at a reduced rate. So, there's a few channels most of you don't normally get to see on tonight. :)
Slashdot went out of service for roughly 24 hours centered around April 1 in the GMT zone... they still posted stories and allowed comments, but the normal Slashdot service wasn't there. Check the archives if you can if the site is just static tonight.
If they post a lot of stories after Midnight tonight to bump this off the home page, and all goes well... I'm guessing a majority of the /. userbase won't even notice the site went down to begin with.
In a pure fly-by-wire aircraft, all of the instruments are pure digital data, and an induction into the wires carrying that data could possibly create a false report.
It's a longshot, yes. But remember, the penality for losing this bet is a crashed passenger jet... we don't take chances with that happening, now, do we?
My point is that some of Avril, Sum 41, Sarah whats-her-name and Nickelback and the others might not even have had radio-quality studio recordings of their work ever made if it wasn't for the existance of the CanCon laws...
Right, but nor will it prove any reglations to be needless. Getting a WiFi link from a small plane in VFR has nothing to do with having a cell phone on a commerical airliner.
On the other hand, we're responsible for Celine Dion. On behalf of all Canadians, I apologize profusely.
American radio stations are free to select whatever mix of artists they want to play, but Canadian stations must meet a quota of "CanCon" music... and I seriously think that leads to Canadian stars being created who otherwise might not have gotten a recording contract if they were American. The irony is that all of those Canadian stars then go to Hollywood to make their home base for business purposes.
What if the broken instrument was the gas tank... leading the pilot/driver to think they have gas when they're really about to be out. That's a formula for a crash right there...
Right now, many aviation headsets come equipped to work with your regular mobile phone, suggesting that at this moment there are probably hundreds or thousands of people flying around in little planes and yacking their heads off. Yet for some reason the mobile phone companies don't seem to be complaining. Have you heard any complaints?
A few rare rulebreakers won't have as much affect on the network as if the rule was repealed and everybody on the plane was doing it. If 200 people on a plane flying overhead are on their cell phones, that'll be a much different situation than what's never really been tested.
Sometimes, this Cringely guy just makes me cringe...
He takes a rather quick review of the geek-unfriendly regulations in the sky, and then simply says that because he doesn't believe in them he's going to openly ignore them.
At least he'll be using his own plane, so the only life he's risking in this situation is his own and maybe one or two willing others. Part of the reason why the FAA is over-sensative over what's going on within commerical airplanes is because if the unthinkable random frequency collision were to happen, it might cause an instrument to give a wrong reading to the pilot and the result would be hundreds of people being killed. That's rather high stakes to be guessing...