I see you didn't make it to the seventh paragraph of the article:
"In 42 years of litigation, I've never seen a judge set aside a verdict, then award fees to opposing counsel," said local attorney Robert Miller, of Perkins Coie LLP. "There are times when a verdict is set aside, and times when lawyers are sanctioned. But I've never heard of them happening in one case.
Feb. '08 - Researchers Develop Self-Cleaning Clothes June '09 - Startup "Washtec" Sells First Self-Cleaning Clothes Oct. '09 - Old Navy, Nike, UnderArmour License Self-Cleaning Fabric Technology Nov. '12 - Self-Cleaning Apparel Set to Overtake Ordinary Clothing Sales this Holiday July '13 - Self-Cleaning Clothes Linked to Cancer, Impotence, Schizophrenia Aug. '13 - Self-Cleaning Clothes Health Study Flawed Nov. '13 - Self-Cleaning Clothes: The Killer in your Closet Nov. '13 - SCCs do Pose Some Risk, Scientists Say Dec. '13 - SCC Risks Exaggerated, Study Finds Feb. '14 - Old Navy pulls SCCs from Shelves June '14 - Newer, Safer, SCC Technology Developed
Go out, socialize, have friends, and meet the person of your dreams au naturale.
I think it's great that this works for you, but I don't understand why you assume that your method would be best for everyone.
I have a lot of friends. I'm pretty good in social situations. And I do very well in relationships. But it is agony for me to make the leap from introduction to date. I could go out tonight and easily meet ten women. Easily. Asking one of them out would be the hardest thing I'd do all week.
Online match-making allowed me to clear this hurdle, and get to the parts that I'm good at. (I.e. connecting with someone.) I don't do this anymore, however, because of the amount of bald dishonesty I encountered.
Anyway, I don't know what the solution for me is, but I'm pretty sure there isn't any universal one.
My eyes must be made of magic. I can definitely see compression artifacts on HD DVD, but not on Blu-Ray. I've never seen macroblocking, but I have seen banding on gradients. (Don't get me started on ATSC. HD in MPEG-2 at 20mb/s looks like macroblock hell to me.)
On the other hand, I can't hear the difference between a Dolby Digital and a PCM track.
In any case, the question was why HD DVD is superior. Are you saying it's superior because it has less bandwidth and storage?
By what metric is Blu-ray the inferior product? Blu-ray has superior picture quality, which is the most important thing to me. I imagine that, in time, the DRM won't matter.
You're sort of taking me out of context there. The overall point of my post wasn't, "We should make people comply for the greater good." It was, "Not everyone has the same priorities and world-view you do. Helping them comply benefits everyone."
The GP seemed to be heading toward the idea of withholding treatment. I was trying to suggest that this device takes the more charitable route of helping these people (who "don't deserve" treatment in his estimation) succeed in complying. Which serves both the individual and the greater good. By no means did I mean to suggest they should be forced to comply with treatment, and I was trying to head off the notion of withholding treatment.
-Peter
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I don't see how your statement follows at all. Can you explain why it will be different next time if an establishment candidate wins this time?
-Peter
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No matter who wins this race, it is NOT the same old entrenched politics.
Uh, unless Hillary Clinton wins. The only way she could be more of a good-old-boy is if, you know, she had the boy parts.
The story is about initial deployment in very poor areas of India. They probably aren't missing doses because they are having so much fun playing Wii. They just may have things going on that seem larger than a pill in the context of their lives.
And even if we stipulate that certain people don't "deserve" treatment, does that mean that the rest of us deserve the antibiotic-resistant strains of TB that result from people missing their doses?
We've seen people who were secure change their certificates to self-signed
I work with third-party XML (and "XML") regularly, and I largely agree with your conclusions.
On the other hand, "self-signed" and "secure" aren't in opposition. All else held equal, a self-signed certificate is just as secure as one signed by some sort of signing authority. It may not be as trustworthy as one signed by some authority. But it's probably a phone call away from being more trustworthy than one signed by a third party. A phone call seems like a low bar given your description of your efforts to help people with their IT problems.
I agree that throttling by IP makes a lot of sense. Returning bad data would probably be satisfying, but probably wouldn't help or be in line with the W3C's goals.
Comcast are deliberately cutting connections when a user attempts to seed bittorrent.
That's not exactly what they're doing, either. They might be able to justify dropping certain connections in favor of the collective good. What they're actually doing is impersonating the system your software is in communication with, and sending a reset.
In any normal sense of the word this is fraud. In any normal sense of the phrase this is not traffic shaping.
I'm not an expert on these matters, but I don't see any reason for an ISP to send fraudulent resets instead of using normal traffic shaping techniques other than an attempt to conceal what they are doing. Detecting this behavior requires simultaneous monitoring of both ends of the communication.
-Peter
PS: I'm posting this on Comcast. I can't understand why they don't offer a service package they feel is fair instead of subverting our agreement.
Wait one minute. I'm not saying I agree with this policy one bit. But we on this site are always going on about how copying isn't stealing because you aren't depriving anyone of anything.
Given this logic, how can you describe "copying data brought to the border" as "Confiscating Data at the Border"?
I generally refrain from replying to people's sigs . . . but your email is hidden and I can't resist. At the time of this writing your signature reads, "What part of 'a well regulated militia' do you not understand?"
I assume you mean to convey by this that you interpret the second amendment as defining a State/collective right, and not an individual one. I'd like to respond with a quote from my own web page:
The first Congress passed the Militia Act of 1792, which said, in part:
[. ..]That each and every free able-bodied white male citizen of the respective States, resident therein, who is or shall be of age of eighteen years, and under the age of forty-five years (except as is herein after excepted) shall severally and respectively be enrolled in the militia[. ..]
So you see, militia was only meant to restrict who possessed firearms on a basis of race and sex, not based on military service.
In light of this fact, do you maintain that the second amendment is not meant to ensure an individual right to arms? (Surely we can agree that such a right, should it exist, should not be restricted on the basis of sex, race, or seniority.)
That's unusual, as iPods only playback unrestricted MP3s files or tracks with Apple's proprietary version of DRM, dubbed FairPlay
Hard to take an article seriously when it gets the basic facts wrong. I've got about seven gigs of unprotected AAC files on my iPhone. They "playback" fine.
Can you ping those machines? They may be sleeping but powering the NIC for WoL. That leaves them drawing very little power and immune to any IP-based attacks.
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Wouldn't hold out much hope for the tape deck though.
-Peter
Do I understand correctly that you are holding yourself out as a web usability expert, and in the same post you offer a URL that is not a link?
Wow.
-Peter
Maybe you need an attention span of more than five months to understand this stuff, or at least to accurately report on it.
As a matter of possible interest, here's what I had to say at the time.
-Peter
-Peter
That crossed my mind, but I didn't want to veer off course.
-Peter
Very nicely done, sir. Bonus points for referencing A.P.K., who is probably my all time favorite T.V. character.
-Peter
Feb. '08 - Researchers Develop Self-Cleaning Clothes
June '09 - Startup "Washtec" Sells First Self-Cleaning Clothes
Oct. '09 - Old Navy, Nike, UnderArmour License Self-Cleaning Fabric Technology
Nov. '12 - Self-Cleaning Apparel Set to Overtake Ordinary Clothing Sales this Holiday
July '13 - Self-Cleaning Clothes Linked to Cancer, Impotence, Schizophrenia
Aug. '13 - Self-Cleaning Clothes Health Study Flawed
Nov. '13 - Self-Cleaning Clothes: The Killer in your Closet
Nov. '13 - SCCs do Pose Some Risk, Scientists Say
Dec. '13 - SCC Risks Exaggerated, Study Finds
Feb. '14 - Old Navy pulls SCCs from Shelves
June '14 - Newer, Safer, SCC Technology Developed
I think it's great that this works for you, but I don't understand why you assume that your method would be best for everyone.
I have a lot of friends. I'm pretty good in social situations. And I do very well in relationships. But it is agony for me to make the leap from introduction to date. I could go out tonight and easily meet ten women. Easily. Asking one of them out would be the hardest thing I'd do all week.
Online match-making allowed me to clear this hurdle, and get to the parts that I'm good at. (I.e. connecting with someone.) I don't do this anymore, however, because of the amount of bald dishonesty I encountered.
Anyway, I don't know what the solution for me is, but I'm pretty sure there isn't any universal one.
-Peter
My eyes must be made of magic. I can definitely see compression artifacts on HD DVD, but not on Blu-Ray. I've never seen macroblocking, but I have seen banding on gradients. (Don't get me started on ATSC. HD in MPEG-2 at 20mb/s looks like macroblock hell to me.)
On the other hand, I can't hear the difference between a Dolby Digital and a PCM track.
In any case, the question was why HD DVD is superior. Are you saying it's superior because it has less bandwidth and storage?
-Peter
By what metric is Blu-ray the inferior product? Blu-ray has superior picture quality, which is the most important thing to me. I imagine that, in time, the DRM won't matter.
-Peter
That makes no sense. The LEO period is about two hours. The moon's orbital period is almost 28 days.
-Peter
No.
You're sort of taking me out of context there. The overall point of my post wasn't, "We should make people comply for the greater good." It was, "Not everyone has the same priorities and world-view you do. Helping them comply benefits everyone."
The GP seemed to be heading toward the idea of withholding treatment. I was trying to suggest that this device takes the more charitable route of helping these people (who "don't deserve" treatment in his estimation) succeed in complying. Which serves both the individual and the greater good. By no means did I mean to suggest they should be forced to comply with treatment, and I was trying to head off the notion of withholding treatment.
-Peter
I don't see how your statement follows at all. Can you explain why it will be different next time if an establishment candidate wins this time?
-Peter
Uh, unless Hillary Clinton wins. The only way she could be more of a good-old-boy is if, you know, she had the boy parts.
-Peter
The story is about initial deployment in very poor areas of India. They probably aren't missing doses because they are having so much fun playing Wii. They just may have things going on that seem larger than a pill in the context of their lives.
And even if we stipulate that certain people don't "deserve" treatment, does that mean that the rest of us deserve the antibiotic-resistant strains of TB that result from people missing their doses?
-Peter
I work with third-party XML (and "XML") regularly, and I largely agree with your conclusions.
On the other hand, "self-signed" and "secure" aren't in opposition. All else held equal, a self-signed certificate is just as secure as one signed by some sort of signing authority. It may not be as trustworthy as one signed by some authority. But it's probably a phone call away from being more trustworthy than one signed by a third party. A phone call seems like a low bar given your description of your efforts to help people with their IT problems.
I agree that throttling by IP makes a lot of sense. Returning bad data would probably be satisfying, but probably wouldn't help or be in line with the W3C's goals.
-Peter
That's not exactly what they're doing, either. They might be able to justify dropping certain connections in favor of the collective good. What they're actually doing is impersonating the system your software is in communication with, and sending a reset.
In any normal sense of the word this is fraud. In any normal sense of the phrase this is not traffic shaping.
I'm not an expert on these matters, but I don't see any reason for an ISP to send fraudulent resets instead of using normal traffic shaping techniques other than an attempt to conceal what they are doing. Detecting this behavior requires simultaneous monitoring of both ends of the communication.
-Peter
PS: I'm posting this on Comcast. I can't understand why they don't offer a service package they feel is fair instead of subverting our agreement.
My gripe was specifically about the Slashdot story . . . which is why I quoted it.
-Peter
Given this logic, how can you describe "copying data brought to the border" as "Confiscating Data at the Border"?
According to Merriam-Webster:
(I'll leave looking up "seize" as an exercise to the reader.)
-Peter
I searched the replies to this story desperately, praying that someone else had actually read the freaking GPL.
It appears that the GPL v3 still carries the admonition to get a copyright disclaimer, but has had the "Yoyodyne" boilerplate removed.
-Peter
The porn industry (also located in Southern California) already has.
Also, it seems that you can register
-Peter
I wish I lived in your world, where there are no child soldiers.
http://images.google.com/images?q=child+ak-47
-Peter
I assume you mean to convey by this that you interpret the second amendment as defining a State/collective right, and not an individual one. I'd like to respond with a quote from my own web page:
In light of this fact, do you maintain that the second amendment is not meant to ensure an individual right to arms? (Surely we can agree that such a right, should it exist, should not be restricted on the basis of sex, race, or seniority.)
-Peter
That's unusual, as iPods only playback unrestricted MP3s files or tracks with Apple's proprietary version of DRM, dubbed FairPlay
Hard to take an article seriously when it gets the basic facts wrong. I've got about seven gigs of unprotected AAC files on my iPhone. They "playback" fine.
-Peter
Can you ping those machines? They may be sleeping but powering the NIC for WoL. That leaves them drawing very little power and immune to any IP-based attacks.
-Peter