Let 'em listen. As long as what they hear can't be used in court, that's 99% of the battle for 99% of the cases.
There's a danger here though, and that is the existence extraordinary-rendition loophole that allows for people to be taken and held. It's bad enough to be taken to Cuba, but there are other places that are much further off-the-radar where one could be taken without any recourse at all, and worry is that if an agency decides that someone is bad, if the courts won't let them arrest them and charge them conventionally then they might feel they must use extraordinary rendition instead. So, one goes from at least a chance of going through the court system to simply disappearing.
I think that the default needs to be to prosecute terrorists as garden-variety criminals. Terrorists need to be downplayed to the level of spree killer or serial killer, and treated with the same handling. I'd much rather see a special court set up to handle such prosecutions, perhaps overseen in trial by a member of the Surpreme Court and with juries comprised themselves of judges from various courts, where the court isn't "open" so that sensitive information that needs to remain sensitive can be introduced as evidence but can be still held close. Appeal from this court could go right to the Surpreme Court itself, though that might force the presiding justice to recuse himself or herself. Information from such cases could be made public after a certain amount of time that would have to be predetermined, but while a flawed system it would still be better than holding someone in-perpituity on borrowed foreign soil.
Car companies do the same thing though, in that they develop and unveil fairly awesome concept cars but only integrate little bits and pieces into their product lines.
Honestly it was a shock when Chrysler released the Plymouth Prowler almost unchanged from its concept-roots. In that instance I think they wanted to test large-scale manufacturing with what were considered fairly exotic materials (lots and lots of aluminum), and the most practical way to do that is with a product that sells to a customer that accepts some reliability issues. Since performance cars are typically less reliabile than mainstream sedans they become the testbed as their owners are willing to put up with the downtime. And yes, I'm aware that the Prowler wasn't nearly as powerful as a lot of other performance cars, but I gather from those that I'm acquainted with that own one that they handle very, very well.
I don't deny that it's annoying when Google kills off some project or product that others are relying on, but at the same time Google generally isn't charging for the use of the project either, so the third-party entity that's using that project doesn't have a whole lot of room to complain.
...for being able to trust in the success of their popular products enough to commit more time and floorspace to promoting their up-and-coming and obscure products and projects.
Lots of companies fail to understand this, and often those companies grow stagnant trying to push the same or nearly-the-same products on the same few customers until they die off.
So you stagger the zones to isolate the size of faults, and you buy a few old airport air-stairs and put one at a fire station in each zone.
I live in a city with a developing light-rail system, and honestly it's a mess. The roads are disrupted and have less carrying capacity, there have been regular private-use passenger vehicles hit by trains, there's been a BUS hit by a train, and there have been outages when car-wrecks on the tracks prevent the trains from flowing.
Elevated monorail would have been quieter, wouldn't have to stop at intersections, wouldn't have at-grade crossings, and wouldn't have provided nearly as much disruption to the neighborhoods it was installed into. It also could have crossed publicly-owned spaces like parks, parking lots, etc, to make service to the airport or to sports venues easier.
I never looked into Aereo enough to know if they were relying on the I-drive approach (ie, one user uploads a file, that creates the original file, and when future uploads of the same file are made, if they're found to be the same file then they're just links pointing to the original as opposed to wholly separate files) or if Aereo itself was recording everything and then allowing its users to access the sum of recorded content as if it were a library.
Honestly I'd like to see us migrate to the library model once the initial "broadcast" in the form of release-date/time is fulfilled, but copyright holders apparently aren't ready to make that leap.
Which is why I still maintain a library of physical media instead of subscribing to a service.
Or perhaps the defendant should have hired an attorney that's best able to explain the nature of the technology.
I'm thinking that the definition of "retransmit" isn't so much to do with UHF/VHF, as it is to record someone else's copyrighted content and to then play it back.
What I find most annoying is that it would cost a whole lot less for centralized storage of content instead of putting full DVRs in everyones' homes, and instead using what amounts to a thin-client to display that content. Granted, this means that control of the content is somewhat taken away from subscribers, but since the overwhelming majority of users of DVRs get them from their cable providers anyway and already really have very little control over the DVRs, the only real difference would be that the same TV programs wouldn't be stored millions of times, they'd be stored only a handful of times.
Some day maybe I'll get that mythtv box running, so then I can store locally and can control what I record/save, but on the other hand, maybe it's just better to turn off the TV and go do something else.
Since they've established the difference between the theoretically-idealized neutrino and the observed photon, do they correct the idealized, or do they correct the observed?
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wouldn't that be a Perl under the shell?
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- Perl 5 and earlier: An interpreter written in C.
Unfortunately, those that ultimately ended up with the Duke Nukem rights didn't know that Duke Nukem Forever was never supposed to be released, and the point of calling it "Duke Nukem Forever" was itself the joke... Lacking this sense of humor they decided to develop and release something anyway.
Unfortunately Larry Wall and company don't have that excuse.
I thought that he changed his mind, and decided to share one of them, though they weren't really able to reverse-engineer it or else his patent lawyers were too good...
Don't attribute to malevolence what one can attribute to ineptness without evidence.
Or put another way, it looks a lot better for the arresting officer if he has arrests that lead to trials that lead to convictions than if he has arrests where the detainee is set free because he can't fill out forms. The former gets one promoted, the latter gets one reassigned to something dead-end, or gets one assigned to the worst shift.
Do you have any idea how much a pill that cures baldness would be worth? After erectile dysfunction that's like the holy grail of the pharmaceutical industry, a drug to treat something that's incredibly common especially in middle aged men (in theory when disposable income skyrockets) that's also very embarrassing for a smaller but still large large number of younger people.
A drug that treated hair loss in women would probably see even more sales. Women with hair loss are significantly more stigmatized than men are. Only downside in this case appears to be the regrowth of other-than-head hair, which society generally finds the exact opposite, so women that have such a treatment would also have to spend a lot more time in the salon dealing with all of the unwanted hair too.
Moral pressure is irrelevant when those that rule have no concern for being driven from power. That greatly affects China, though for a long, long time India was ruled by the same families. This is the first time that someone related to Ghandi isn't in a high position in India since he took over during the revolution.
I was under the impression that public health was a principal concern, not determining which industry gets to make windfall profits for the luck few that manage to hold stock.
What I think needs to happen is for power-generating companies to not also own the power grid. That's one of the problems right now with trying to get residential solar adoption going- the power companies want to throw up roadblocks to anyone else putting solar on and tying to to the grid. The "buy" excess power at the lowest possible price (ie, about what someone would pay for power if they have a time-of-use plan, if they were using their power in the middle of the night when demand is bottomed out) and they want to charge solar-producing customers extra fees to even be connected to the grid.
Power companies at least need their power generation units and power distribution units to be separate items on the customer's bill. That should hold true for all customers, even those that don't produce power themselves. Everyone should be charged the same grid connection price (relative to the kind of connection they have, a residential or light commercial 240V single phase center-tap-neutral should cost less than a 460V three phase industrial or commercial connection) and then their power's metered cost should be line-itemized separately. If a customer produces more power than they use, that should reduce the price they pay for their grid connection, and if they produce above and beyond that then they should receive payment, instead of a bill.
I am fairly heavily convinced that regulation like this would do wonders for residential solar adoption, which then do wonders for reducing fossil-fuel generation, at least in Southern states where peak demand is during daylight hours.
That cross-platform nature is what really sold me on it.
College I went to had an HPUX cluster of X-terms. The main UNIX cluster was SunOS. I administered a Linux box. I could use all three at the same time for their strengths from anywhere on campus on my laptop or on any of the Windows workstations that had eXceed loaded. It rocked.
I first saw X at the same time that I first saw the Web. A social club that I'm in met at a university conference room, and one of the college students that helped get that room took us over to the Honors College to play with the fledgling Web, so it would have been about 1993. Saw Linux, X11, and NSCA Mosaic for the first time, was probably fall of 1993. God the web and the Internet in general felt fast that day, using a university's carrier-grade connection and full 10BaseT ethernet instead of relying on a 2400 baud modem.
In hindsight that day was kind of pivotal for me. I went from thinking about the PC and the occasional connection to retrieve and locally store something to thinking of the PC as a vehicle to connect to lots and lots of other things without be required to locally store what I found.
there is no network transparency, that feature hasn't been used for years. Microsoft also tried something like that with clients using WPF, never heard about it again...
I've used network-connected X-terms at home before, and with the advent of the connected house becoming possible I'm considering doing it on a larger scale. I can run lightweight boxes at each TV or workstation, and have them connect to a powerful box in another room. That powerful box can run multimedia applications like MythTV, and whoever logs in at any of the various terminals will get their expected desktop.
Though due to the positioning of the TVs in the two-storey house, I'm considering running a multihead setup for those, so that the native graphics card can handle the higher video framerates that I'd want.
While it is technically correct that the X-terminal is the display server in that client applications connect to it, it's so counter-intuitive from a user perspective that the entire terminology should have been replaced. "Application Host" or "apphost" for the box running the program, and something like "Display Host" or "User Host" for the thin device doing the displaying.
It is very, very hard to find good information on the Internet because of the terminology used. Newbies and those that don't understand will use the terms in the intuitive-from-the-user perspective and thus incorrectly swapped far, far more often than the correct terms are, so trying to find good information on somewhat unique or specific configurations is very difficult.
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I thought marriage was created by mass, at least for most Catholics...
No, but GM did collect all of the EV1s.
You should see my sister-in-law...
There's a danger here though, and that is the existence extraordinary-rendition loophole that allows for people to be taken and held. It's bad enough to be taken to Cuba, but there are other places that are much further off-the-radar where one could be taken without any recourse at all, and worry is that if an agency decides that someone is bad, if the courts won't let them arrest them and charge them conventionally then they might feel they must use extraordinary rendition instead. So, one goes from at least a chance of going through the court system to simply disappearing.
I think that the default needs to be to prosecute terrorists as garden-variety criminals. Terrorists need to be downplayed to the level of spree killer or serial killer, and treated with the same handling. I'd much rather see a special court set up to handle such prosecutions, perhaps overseen in trial by a member of the Surpreme Court and with juries comprised themselves of judges from various courts, where the court isn't "open" so that sensitive information that needs to remain sensitive can be introduced as evidence but can be still held close. Appeal from this court could go right to the Surpreme Court itself, though that might force the presiding justice to recuse himself or herself. Information from such cases could be made public after a certain amount of time that would have to be predetermined, but while a flawed system it would still be better than holding someone in-perpituity on borrowed foreign soil.
Car companies do the same thing though, in that they develop and unveil fairly awesome concept cars but only integrate little bits and pieces into their product lines.
Honestly it was a shock when Chrysler released the Plymouth Prowler almost unchanged from its concept-roots. In that instance I think they wanted to test large-scale manufacturing with what were considered fairly exotic materials (lots and lots of aluminum), and the most practical way to do that is with a product that sells to a customer that accepts some reliability issues. Since performance cars are typically less reliabile than mainstream sedans they become the testbed as their owners are willing to put up with the downtime. And yes, I'm aware that the Prowler wasn't nearly as powerful as a lot of other performance cars, but I gather from those that I'm acquainted with that own one that they handle very, very well.
I don't deny that it's annoying when Google kills off some project or product that others are relying on, but at the same time Google generally isn't charging for the use of the project either, so the third-party entity that's using that project doesn't have a whole lot of room to complain.
...for being able to trust in the success of their popular products enough to commit more time and floorspace to promoting their up-and-coming and obscure products and projects.
Lots of companies fail to understand this, and often those companies grow stagnant trying to push the same or nearly-the-same products on the same few customers until they die off.
So you stagger the zones to isolate the size of faults, and you buy a few old airport air-stairs and put one at a fire station in each zone.
I live in a city with a developing light-rail system, and honestly it's a mess. The roads are disrupted and have less carrying capacity, there have been regular private-use passenger vehicles hit by trains, there's been a BUS hit by a train, and there have been outages when car-wrecks on the tracks prevent the trains from flowing.
Elevated monorail would have been quieter, wouldn't have to stop at intersections, wouldn't have at-grade crossings, and wouldn't have provided nearly as much disruption to the neighborhoods it was installed into. It also could have crossed publicly-owned spaces like parks, parking lots, etc, to make service to the airport or to sports venues easier.
I never looked into Aereo enough to know if they were relying on the I-drive approach (ie, one user uploads a file, that creates the original file, and when future uploads of the same file are made, if they're found to be the same file then they're just links pointing to the original as opposed to wholly separate files) or if Aereo itself was recording everything and then allowing its users to access the sum of recorded content as if it were a library.
Honestly I'd like to see us migrate to the library model once the initial "broadcast" in the form of release-date/time is fulfilled, but copyright holders apparently aren't ready to make that leap.
Which is why I still maintain a library of physical media instead of subscribing to a service.
Or perhaps the defendant should have hired an attorney that's best able to explain the nature of the technology.
I'm thinking that the definition of "retransmit" isn't so much to do with UHF/VHF, as it is to record someone else's copyrighted content and to then play it back.
What I find most annoying is that it would cost a whole lot less for centralized storage of content instead of putting full DVRs in everyones' homes, and instead using what amounts to a thin-client to display that content. Granted, this means that control of the content is somewhat taken away from subscribers, but since the overwhelming majority of users of DVRs get them from their cable providers anyway and already really have very little control over the DVRs, the only real difference would be that the same TV programs wouldn't be stored millions of times, they'd be stored only a handful of times.
Some day maybe I'll get that mythtv box running, so then I can store locally and can control what I record/save, but on the other hand, maybe it's just better to turn off the TV and go do something else.
Did we?
Maybe we didn't. Maybe it happened around 14 billion years ago...
Since they've established the difference between the theoretically-idealized neutrino and the observed photon, do they correct the idealized, or do they correct the observed?
wouldn't that be a Perl under the shell?
*ducks*
So what was C written in?
Unfortunately, those that ultimately ended up with the Duke Nukem rights didn't know that Duke Nukem Forever was never supposed to be released, and the point of calling it "Duke Nukem Forever" was itself the joke... Lacking this sense of humor they decided to develop and release something anyway.
Unfortunately Larry Wall and company don't have that excuse.
I thought that he changed his mind, and decided to share one of them, though they weren't really able to reverse-engineer it or else his patent lawyers were too good...
Another marketing press release!
I guess that we don't get enough of this at trade shows anymore!
Don't attribute to malevolence what one can attribute to ineptness without evidence.
Or put another way, it looks a lot better for the arresting officer if he has arrests that lead to trials that lead to convictions than if he has arrests where the detainee is set free because he can't fill out forms. The former gets one promoted, the latter gets one reassigned to something dead-end, or gets one assigned to the worst shift.
Like, secretary as in the one that takes dictation, or secretary as in the one that is in charge of a large arm of government bureaucracy?
A drug that treated hair loss in women would probably see even more sales. Women with hair loss are significantly more stigmatized than men are. Only downside in this case appears to be the regrowth of other-than-head hair, which society generally finds the exact opposite, so women that have such a treatment would also have to spend a lot more time in the salon dealing with all of the unwanted hair too.
Moral pressure is irrelevant when those that rule have no concern for being driven from power. That greatly affects China, though for a long, long time India was ruled by the same families. This is the first time that someone related to Ghandi isn't in a high position in India since he took over during the revolution.
Why is the government supposed to pick winners?
I was under the impression that public health was a principal concern, not determining which industry gets to make windfall profits for the luck few that manage to hold stock.
What I think needs to happen is for power-generating companies to not also own the power grid. That's one of the problems right now with trying to get residential solar adoption going- the power companies want to throw up roadblocks to anyone else putting solar on and tying to to the grid. The "buy" excess power at the lowest possible price (ie, about what someone would pay for power if they have a time-of-use plan, if they were using their power in the middle of the night when demand is bottomed out) and they want to charge solar-producing customers extra fees to even be connected to the grid.
Power companies at least need their power generation units and power distribution units to be separate items on the customer's bill. That should hold true for all customers, even those that don't produce power themselves. Everyone should be charged the same grid connection price (relative to the kind of connection they have, a residential or light commercial 240V single phase center-tap-neutral should cost less than a 460V three phase industrial or commercial connection) and then their power's metered cost should be line-itemized separately. If a customer produces more power than they use, that should reduce the price they pay for their grid connection, and if they produce above and beyond that then they should receive payment, instead of a bill.
I am fairly heavily convinced that regulation like this would do wonders for residential solar adoption, which then do wonders for reducing fossil-fuel generation, at least in Southern states where peak demand is during daylight hours.
That cross-platform nature is what really sold me on it.
College I went to had an HPUX cluster of X-terms. The main UNIX cluster was SunOS. I administered a Linux box. I could use all three at the same time for their strengths from anywhere on campus on my laptop or on any of the Windows workstations that had eXceed loaded. It rocked.
I first saw X at the same time that I first saw the Web. A social club that I'm in met at a university conference room, and one of the college students that helped get that room took us over to the Honors College to play with the fledgling Web, so it would have been about 1993. Saw Linux, X11, and NSCA Mosaic for the first time, was probably fall of 1993. God the web and the Internet in general felt fast that day, using a university's carrier-grade connection and full 10BaseT ethernet instead of relying on a 2400 baud modem.
In hindsight that day was kind of pivotal for me. I went from thinking about the PC and the occasional connection to retrieve and locally store something to thinking of the PC as a vehicle to connect to lots and lots of other things without be required to locally store what I found.
I've used network-connected X-terms at home before, and with the advent of the connected house becoming possible I'm considering doing it on a larger scale. I can run lightweight boxes at each TV or workstation, and have them connect to a powerful box in another room. That powerful box can run multimedia applications like MythTV, and whoever logs in at any of the various terminals will get their expected desktop.
Though due to the positioning of the TVs in the two-storey house, I'm considering running a multihead setup for those, so that the native graphics card can handle the higher video framerates that I'd want.
While it is technically correct that the X-terminal is the display server in that client applications connect to it, it's so counter-intuitive from a user perspective that the entire terminology should have been replaced. "Application Host" or "apphost" for the box running the program, and something like "Display Host" or "User Host" for the thin device doing the displaying.
It is very, very hard to find good information on the Internet because of the terminology used. Newbies and those that don't understand will use the terms in the intuitive-from-the-user perspective and thus incorrectly swapped far, far more often than the correct terms are, so trying to find good information on somewhat unique or specific configurations is very difficult.