Oh, it is clear. Problem is, this is the US, where you can get all the justice money can buy. And in this case, the money is with RIAA. This suit will get tossed faster than a zipgun after a driveby.
I remember BUYING Bluewave and having it as a message door on my machine & being pissed cause nobody else would use it. Remember Megareader? Had a registered copy of it, too...
Oh, Jesus, Binkley takes me back...
I ran a BT front door on my TriBBS, as well as a QWK packet network (couple of them, actually, Relaynet, TriBBSNet...). BT was a trip...
Yes they do. Otherwise, your dish would have to track the sat, you'd have dropouts when the sat dropped bleow the horizon until your dish reaquired a new sat, all kinda stuff. Mechanical reliability will suffer due to moving parts on the dish itself.
Yeah, a provider COULD put a bunch of birds in a lower orbit, like Iridium did, but it's spendy as hell to do this. Your service won't be cheap.
We were never able to get less than 500ms ping times on Directway. A lot of times, the pings were running 750ms & up. You're transmitting to a satellite 23,000 miles up in geosync orbit. That's 46,000 miles round trip. Double that for the return bounce. 500ms is the best it's gonna get due to simple physics. Just can't beat lightspeed yet.
And yeah, I'm VERY familiar with sat rigs. In my part of Arizona, they just put fiber optics thru town 4 months ago & started offering DSL at an outrageous price. Before that, you either did (rilly shitty) dialup at mebbe 28.8k max (though Frontier claimed 56k) or you did sat.
And don't think it'd work good for file transfers, either. They tend to have a thing called 'fair access policy', where, if you slurp down too much data, or pump out too much data, your connection will slow WAY the hell down til you think you've got 300 baud!
And when *AA manage to close MySpace down, those indy artists are gonna have to sign their lives away to permenant indenture to *AA in order for their music ot be heard.
The interrogators forced our 'involuntary Muslim visitors' to listen to Brittney Spears, then tacked on a few dozen years to their sentences because the rips were pirated.
Wouldn't this be considered cruel & unusual punishment, just like forcing my kids to watch Barney should be considered child abuse??
OK, how bout this? (And I'm SURE somebody thought this up & posted it someplace already...)
Have your electronic voting machine take the choices the voter wants. It then prints a paper ballot properly marked for counting either by machine or by human eyeballs. The voter takes the ballot off the EVM and drops it in the box. Procedures for fixing noncooperative EVMs (paper jam, ink exhaustion, etc) are left as an exercise for the student
I'm sure we can come up with SOME way to make indulging in voter fraud harder. How much harder is it with a paper ballot? How many of those paper ballots will need to be preprinted and switched out? The above mentioned system won't eliminate voter fraud, but it sure will make it a helluva lot harder to pull off than just running a program at the electronic counting house...
Obviously, the writer of that article never studied statistics. Basically, you use a large enough sample, the results won't skew. You want to bias a certain result, narrow and target your sample.
From all media reports I've read from both sides of the political fence, the only times the exit polls didn't jive with the final count within a statistical margin of error is when computerised voting machines were used in those precincts. This tells me that maybe the exit polls were right & the WP was just pandering to the Powers That Be in trying to calm the great unwashed masses by offering up nifty sounding plausible explanations.
Strange how exit polls were accurate as hell for decades, doncha think? Makes you wonder what changed...
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Personally, I'm wondering how they wrap up the 'Aunt Irma Visits' 2 parter...
Kid probably grew up to read /.
It's just damned particular bout who its friends are...
Oh, it is clear. Problem is, this is the US, where you can get all the justice money can buy. And in this case, the money is with RIAA. This suit will get tossed faster than a zipgun after a driveby.
Pity, though, since Limewire does have a point.
I remember BUYING Bluewave and having it as a message door on my machine & being pissed cause nobody else would use it. Remember Megareader? Had a registered copy of it, too...
Oh, Jesus, Binkley takes me back... I ran a BT front door on my TriBBS, as well as a QWK packet network (couple of them, actually, Relaynet, TriBBSNet...). BT was a trip...
They're called 'lawyers', the larval form of politicians.
I'm not familiar with the 'totally electronically steerable' antennas Mechanically aimed dishes will have increased chances of breakdowns.
Don't they vote Democrat in Chicago?
We always called it 'Windows Not-Today'.
Yeah, a provider COULD put a bunch of birds in a lower orbit, like Iridium did, but it's spendy as hell to do this. Your service won't be cheap.
We were never able to get less than 500ms ping times on Directway. A lot of times, the pings were running 750ms & up. You're transmitting to a satellite 23,000 miles up in geosync orbit. That's 46,000 miles round trip. Double that for the return bounce. 500ms is the best it's gonna get due to simple physics. Just can't beat lightspeed yet.
And yeah, I'm VERY familiar with sat rigs. In my part of Arizona, they just put fiber optics thru town 4 months ago & started offering DSL at an outrageous price. Before that, you either did (rilly shitty) dialup at mebbe 28.8k max (though Frontier claimed 56k) or you did sat.
And don't think it'd work good for file transfers, either. They tend to have a thing called 'fair access policy', where, if you slurp down too much data, or pump out too much data, your connection will slow WAY the hell down til you think you've got 300 baud!
Depends on if he buys them dinner & a movie first, or just makes 'em pawprint a prenup...
Don't they work for Bill Gates????
Sure is colorful, tho...
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A win-win situation for *AA.
The interrogators forced our 'involuntary Muslim visitors' to listen to Brittney Spears, then tacked on a few dozen years to their sentences because the rips were pirated.
Wouldn't this be considered cruel & unusual punishment, just like forcing my kids to watch Barney should be considered child abuse??
It'll be interesting to see which one wins...
Have your electronic voting machine take the choices the voter wants. It then prints a paper ballot properly marked for counting either by machine or by human eyeballs. The voter takes the ballot off the EVM and drops it in the box. Procedures for fixing noncooperative EVMs (paper jam, ink exhaustion, etc) are left as an exercise for the student
I'm sure we can come up with SOME way to make indulging in voter fraud harder. How much harder is it with a paper ballot? How many of those paper ballots will need to be preprinted and switched out? The above mentioned system won't eliminate voter fraud, but it sure will make it a helluva lot harder to pull off than just running a program at the electronic counting house...
http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/09/15/00 9257
Think there might be a connection here, or do I need to get my tinfoil hat relined?
Obviously, the writer of that article never studied statistics. Basically, you use a large enough sample, the results won't skew. You want to bias a certain result, narrow and target your sample.
From all media reports I've read from both sides of the political fence, the only times the exit polls didn't jive with the final count within a statistical margin of error is when computerised voting machines were used in those precincts. This tells me that maybe the exit polls were right & the WP was just pandering to the Powers That Be in trying to calm the great unwashed masses by offering up nifty sounding plausible explanations.
Strange how exit polls were accurate as hell for decades, doncha think? Makes you wonder what changed...
Then of course there's K-13... http://members.tripod.com/cone_of_silence/fang_-_k 13.htm
WE'RE stranger than truth.
I'm all for sending SCO & their l*wy*rs on a trip to Mars. One way, of course, and shoot on sight if they try to sneak back in...