cabling and active electronic repeaters every KM compete in cost with simply laying the same amount of optical fiber, which has 1000x the capacity today, can easily go 70 or more KM, is proven technology, and doesn't interfere with RF devices?
You seem to be confusing AAC with Fairplay, which is the digital rights management wrapper Apple places around AAC when music is purchased on the iTunes Music Store.
he has iTunes, and he can play his songs there just fine. That's obviously where he bought them. Apple never advertised or promised him that he would be able to play the tunes anywhere but in iTunes, on an iPod, or by burning them to a CDR.
Apple is quite clear on where iTunes songs can be used:
You can burn individual songs onto an unlimited number of CDs for your personal use, listen to songs on an unlimited number of iPods and play songs on up to five Macintosh computers or Windows PCs.
Where has Apple failed to deliver on what was promised?
So it becomes a question of his desire to play the tunes on other devices. This is no different than it's ever been - 1980: you buy an LP and copy it to cassette for use in the car, 1990: you buy a CD and copy it to cassette for use on your Walkman, etc.
Note, too, that the audio quality after iTunes>CD>MP3 import is still better than people experienced with LP>cassette w/Dolby.
How has Apple "locked" him into purchasing an iPod in order to play his tunes on other devices?
then he can import the tracks into whatever he wants.
Apple's not locking him into anything - he's just trying to make money off a nonsensical lawsuit.
I couldn't find exactly what law he was charged with violating, but suspect it's 49 USC 49504 (search at http://uscode.house.gov/search/criteria.php), which was amended by the Patriot Act.
That section deals with "Interference with flight crew members and attendants," and reads:
An individual on an aircraft in the special aircraft jurisdiction of the United States who, by assaulting or intimidating a flight
crew member or flight attendant of the aircraft, interferes with the performance of the duties of the member or attendant or lessens the ability of the member or attendant to perform those duties, or attempts or conspires to do such an act, shall be fined under title 18, imprisoned for not more than 20 years, or both. However, if a dangerous weapon is used in assaulting or intimidating the member or attendant, the individual shall be imprisoned for any term of years or for life.
So, is shining a light, especially one which meets US safety regulations (as all laser pointers must) at someone "assault?" How about a flashlight? Seems to me that is going to be quite hard to prove. Doesn't "assault" also require intent to do harm?
Certainly, a laser light show not deliberately made to point at an aircraft can't be considered "assault."
The FBI seems confused about the law (no surprise). In this (http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=385589) AP article, it states that "According to the FBI, the Patriot Act does not describe helicopters as "mass transportation vehicles." While the statement is technically true, it's also the case that the Patriot Act doesn't describe anything as "mass transportation vehicles," in fact the phrase never appears at all.
except in some small isolated segments. There likely never will be (in a general sense) with current methods, as it would entail trusting end users to mark their own packets. If you can do that, is anyone who knows how to do so _NOT_ going to mark all of their own stuff for high priority?
QoS works in private networks. On the Internet, you take your chances, just like everyone else.
The real issue with E911 is location services. If you can place a call from a laptop, which can be moved anywhere, then a means of identifying physical/geographical location and then using that info to route 911 calls to the proper local authorities along with that location information is needed.
X-windows wasn't developed until 1984, the year Macintosh was introduced. Motif is of course dependant upon the existance of X.
Just a single example of a significant Macintosh feature which was later adopted by Microsoft. They came to Windoze via the Mac (via LISA, Xerox, Smalltalk, and Alan Kay.)
The LISA was introduced in 1982 with overlapping windows. X-Windows didn't appear until 1984, well AFTER the Macintosh. Motif later.
which are fundamentally flawed for real user needs. They compare different systems running the same software (can you believe?) That might be relevant in academia, but in the real world, it's much more useful to compare complete systems: processor, disk, OS and applications.
When you do that, you'll find that for the bulk of common user applications (web browsing being a notable exception), today's systems simply aren't much faster than older ones.
Compare a system running Windoze XP / Office XP running on a 3 GHz machine today with a Windoze 98 / Office 98 machine running on a Pentium II. Not much difference in usable speed (which I define as time to boot, time to launch an application, time to do a common task like write a letter or create a spreadsheet, etc.) Sure, recalc on a zillion cell spreadsheet will be faster, but two things work against improvement: 1) both machines spend most of their time waiting for the user to do something, and 2) bloatware.
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Read the constitution. Whenever it means a person, it says "a person" or "no person". When it means a citizen it says "a citizen" or "a citizen of these United States". So why does it say militia in the text of the second ammendment? Because they meant militias- the second ammendment was meant to be a right for the states, allowing them to have an army. If they meant any citizen could have a gun, they would have used the term person or citizen, not "well-ordered militia"
It behooves you to take your own advice. The 2nd Amendment clearly says "the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed." The people is a term of art in the Constitution, and is used elsewhere in the Bill of Rights. Nothing about that right is conditional on the existance (or meaning) of a militia - that's just used as a preface explaining a reason for the right to exist (self defense).
The writer's could have said "the right of [the states, the militia, anything other than the people]...", but they didn't. It's a personal right, guaranteed.
BTW, that right exists, as do all of the rights specifically enumerated in the Constitution, independent of the Constitution. It's one of those pesky "inalienable" ones. Reading Madison's "Notes to the Constitutional Convention," "The Federalist Papers," or any contemporaneous accounts makes that perfectly clear.
it appears that you are the one to have missed something. I've given a full legal citation, let's see you do the same instead of insinuating that there are some "missed bits."
In the US, such an action would be illegal, as are the actions of ISPs which participate in the MAPS DUL.
18 U.S.C. 1030 reads in part:
"Whoever... knowingly causes the transmission of a program, information, code, or command, and as a result of such conduct, intentionally causes damage without authorization, to a protected computer;...shall be punished as provided in subsection (c) of this section."
MAPS DUL and those who participate in it quite clearly knowingly transmit information (zone transfers of the database - zone dialups.mail-abuse.org) and commands (mail system configurations) which intentionally cause unauthorized damage to protected systems.
"[T]he term "protected computer" means a computer... which is used in interstate or foreign commerce or communications, including a computer located outside the United States that is used in a manner that affects interstate or foreign commerce or communication of the United States;" This clearly covers any computer used for Internet commerce, including eBay and many other Internet transactions, which covers just about everyone.
"The term 'damage' means any impairment to the integrity or availability of data, a program, a system, or information;" Use of the MAPS DUL clearly impairs the availability of the Internet email system and the information transferred using it.
MAPS, and it's DUL participants, are actively participating in illegal denial of service. Blocking outbound port 25 would also be illegal denial of service, as it impairs the delivery of mail to the published MX of a mail recipient.
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Certainly not violating an NDA - that's a breach of contract. Nothing illegal about that, although suit can be brought.
the phrase "blue screen of death." Stop! Thief! Wait until I replace my batteries!
Rubber biscuits?
maybe a TV can be powered by the remote, if you just channel surf enough!
cabling and active electronic repeaters every KM compete in cost with simply laying the same amount of optical fiber, which has 1000x the capacity today, can easily go 70 or more KM, is proven technology, and doesn't interfere with RF devices?
It doesn't have a USB port.
How hard is that?
You seem to be confusing AAC with Fairplay, which is the digital rights management wrapper Apple places around AAC when music is purchased on the iTunes Music Store.
Apple is quite clear on where iTunes songs can be used:
Where has Apple failed to deliver on what was promised?So it becomes a question of his desire to play the tunes on other devices. This is no different than it's ever been - 1980: you buy an LP and copy it to cassette for use in the car, 1990: you buy a CD and copy it to cassette for use on your Walkman, etc.
Note, too, that the audio quality after iTunes>CD>MP3 import is still better than people experienced with LP>cassette w/Dolby.
How has Apple "locked" him into purchasing an iPod in order to play his tunes on other devices?
then he can import the tracks into whatever he wants. Apple's not locking him into anything - he's just trying to make money off a nonsensical lawsuit.
Transmitters: An Elecraft K1 costs about $300. What did the Huygens probe cost?
Receivers: a Ten Tec Orion costs about $3300. What does a VLBA cost?
The inverse square law only applies to point sources (i.e. those which radiate omnidirectionally).
I couldn't find exactly what law he was charged with violating, but suspect it's 49 USC 49504 (search at http://uscode.house.gov/search/criteria.php), which was amended by the Patriot Act.
That section deals with "Interference with flight crew members and attendants," and reads:
So, is shining a light, especially one which meets US safety regulations (as all laser pointers must) at someone "assault?" How about a flashlight? Seems to me that is going to be quite hard to prove. Doesn't "assault" also require intent to do harm?
Certainly, a laser light show not deliberately made to point at an aircraft can't be considered "assault."
The FBI seems confused about the law (no surprise). In this (http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=385589) AP article, it states that "According to the FBI, the Patriot Act does not describe helicopters as "mass transportation vehicles." While the statement is technically true, it's also the case that the Patriot Act doesn't describe anything as "mass transportation vehicles," in fact the phrase never appears at all.
except in some small isolated segments. There likely never will be (in a general sense) with current methods, as it would entail trusting end users to mark their own packets. If you can do that, is anyone who knows how to do so _NOT_ going to mark all of their own stuff for high priority? QoS works in private networks. On the Internet, you take your chances, just like everyone else. The real issue with E911 is location services. If you can place a call from a laptop, which can be moved anywhere, then a means of identifying physical/geographical location and then using that info to route 911 calls to the proper local authorities along with that location information is needed.
Just a single example of a significant Macintosh feature which was later adopted by Microsoft. They came to Windoze via the Mac (via LISA, Xerox, Smalltalk, and Alan Kay.)
The LISA was introduced in 1982 with overlapping windows. X-Windows didn't appear until 1984, well AFTER the Macintosh. Motif later.
which are fundamentally flawed for real user needs. They compare different systems running the same software (can you believe?) That might be relevant in academia, but in the real world, it's much more useful to compare complete systems: processor, disk, OS and applications. When you do that, you'll find that for the bulk of common user applications (web browsing being a notable exception), today's systems simply aren't much faster than older ones. Compare a system running Windoze XP / Office XP running on a 3 GHz machine today with a Windoze 98 / Office 98 machine running on a Pentium II. Not much difference in usable speed (which I define as time to boot, time to launch an application, time to do a common task like write a letter or create a spreadsheet, etc.) Sure, recalc on a zillion cell spreadsheet will be faster, but two things work against improvement: 1) both machines spend most of their time waiting for the user to do something, and 2) bloatware.
it appears that you are the one to have missed something. I've given a full legal citation, let's see you do the same instead of insinuating that there are some "missed bits."
18 U.S.C. 1030 reads in part:
"Whoever... knowingly causes the transmission of a program, information, code, or command, and as a result of such conduct, intentionally causes damage without authorization, to a protected computer;...shall be punished as provided in subsection (c) of this section."
MAPS DUL and those who participate in it quite clearly knowingly transmit information (zone transfers of the database - zone dialups.mail-abuse.org) and commands (mail system configurations) which intentionally cause unauthorized damage to protected systems.
"[T]he term "protected computer" means a computer... which is used in interstate or foreign commerce or communications, including a computer located outside the United States that is used in a manner that affects interstate or foreign commerce or communication of the United States;" This clearly covers any computer used for Internet commerce, including eBay and many other Internet transactions, which covers just about everyone.
"The term 'damage' means any impairment to the integrity or availability of data, a program, a system, or information;" Use of the MAPS DUL clearly impairs the availability of the Internet email system and the information transferred using it.
MAPS, and it's DUL participants, are actively participating in illegal denial of service. Blocking outbound port 25 would also be illegal denial of service, as it impairs the delivery of mail to the published MX of a mail recipient.