We would agree on your observations regarding the government. It's nothing we haven't faced, before, or won't face again. You can go calmly through it and do what's necessary both at the design stage or the use stage, and deal with it, or you can bite your nails, quiver, and be paranoid. I prefer calmness. We'll overcome this one, too. We always do.
We barely have seatbelt laws here. Phone? Fine. Camera? Fine. Shotgun rack? Fine. Bought the shotgun at a gunshow with no ID? Fine.
Do a video at your own risk. However, only very rarely does a police officer respond negatively to an individual that is polite when pulled over, is sober, and doesn't provoke the officer. It's a self-fulfilling action to believe that police officers will react negatively; they're human and IMHO aren't going to react negatively without provocation. Then tell it to the judge. Or suffer the consequences of provocation.
When I was young I called cops pigs. Then I came to understand what cops have to put up with. Some are still way too brutal. But most are just trying to keep the peace. Traffic cops I have problems with, but I keep quiet and polite during a trafffic stop, then beat my tickets anyway and don't drive like a raving Type-A idiot. Others have different results.
Your paranoia isn't contagious, I hope. There's nothing yet to imply your fears. And should some of these things come to pass, we'll find ways to bypass them. We always have.
And $12M in funding is one of the better jokes of 2008.
or the Internet for that matter. This is their vision of it, as they don't want to deploy the assets necessary to support the protocols necessary to call their offering 'Internet'.
It's now a private network-- something ATT knows and has been offering for years.
Let's call it what it is, a private network with access to some Internet functionality. One more reason that Verizon or others might eat ATT's lunch, and rightfully so if Verizon, Sprint, or others are able to offer REAL Internet access.
Correlating these into duty cycles, it's dependent on the design of the device and its usage profile with the duty cycles as to how much the overall design consumes power.
If you extract the base design, the numbers for Nano are very good and should be lauded. Now it's time to reduce the transaction cycles of peripheral devices and complete the chain of efficient design.
Increasingly, applications are living in isolated boundaries, whether cloud, SaaS, or other ways that prevent a direct to user download. It's more difficult to use web apps and disable screen scraping, but others have found techniques that help prevent taking screen fulls of info that in turn, become text/formatted documents that walk out the door. Policy and trust are big helps, including machine lock-downs. But people increasingly reject lock-downs.
DRM is currently perceived to be unweidly especially in database applications. That's why many apps now conceal most parts of an SSN or other saleable or interesting data. Having an appliance do the watching is nice, but it's also expensive and not necessarily rife with holes, either. Read 2600 if you have any doubts about this.
In the end, a few heavy prosecutions could serve as a deterrant, but today, huge amounts of data walks out the door without anyone even knowing. Data thefts aren't even reported consistently when they're found.
3.50 seems like it's good, until you get to the logic that if other people downloaded it from the defendent's machine, then 3.50 per song per downloader from there might be prudent.
Nice theory, though. I wonder how far it will get.
I'm neither your language teacher, or your law prof. Both failed you.
If someone taught you logic, they also failed. Your hubris teacher however, was excellent.
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Perhaps you didn't see the lines of people the night before the Gates keynotes at COMDEX and other shows. Gates was a rockstar both for coders and also business people. Gates had a few secrets but he did his marketing by trial balloons, which Jobs doesn't do. Jobs anally conceives his products, secretly lines them up, and doesn't tease you with them-- he then delivers them. A subtle difference, but they're still leaders of their own cults, just like Larry Ellison, Scott McN., and so on.
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They're hard acts to follow.
And the description that Gates successfully has transitioned away from Microsoft is specious-- it remains to be seen if Ballmer and Ozzie can ride that horse. Eric Schmidt had great difficulty taking the end of Ray Noorda's reign, and so it remains a dangerous call. Jobs has teamworkers, but there's a cult that relies too much on his personality, just like that of Gates.
If Apple were more open about their infrastructure and process, they'd be more resilient to CEO soap operas.
At each opportunity, fight it or the Internet is doomed to support only a carrier's application by priority. It's that simple, not that the bribes to the campaign funds, lobbying efforts, and so on won't be tough to fight. Keep fighting. It's all we can do as greed motivations won't stop, either.
The FCC is authorized by law (see the nineteen additions to the Communications Act of 1935 as amended) to set and execute this policy. Good thing their nipple wasn't showing, eh?
Your sense of legality and illegality are the crux for a need to understand more than I can explain in this forum. Competition means unfettered pipes, which is what the FCC is ostensibly punishing Comcast for-- non-"net neutrality".
And I haven't been called kid in over 40 years!
Additionally, after 14 books, and heaven-only-knows how many articles I've written, I've discovered that my choice of communications is my own, and those that would not understand emphasis via punctuation are looney. Two days ago, it was my choice of the word gendarme-- meaning policeman. Someone believed that the only correct use had to do with syntax connoting only French and only military policing.... all here on/.
You're entitled to your opinion, but not your facts. There.
If you shut down torrents, what else do you shutdown next??? Do you stop the NetFlix pipe because it competes with your own or business partner offerings!??!!?
No!
And that's what this enforcement sends a message about-- net neutrality must remain.
Ok. Cite the law. They have the leeway. They can do this legally. It is their congressional mandate to do so; it's policy. Not every action taken by every agency needs to have a bunch of congress people dictating their every move and boundary. It's ok to develop policy; it's done every day in government and done so (often) with success for all parties considered. Sometimes it's awful, like Bush's meddling with the FDA and EPA. It's called trust within defined boundaries. They really can't do anything they want. They really can define policy and enforce it. Don't like the outcome of the policy-- then tell your congress person and vote out the executive branch. File suit, if you have nexus. I do, as I'm a Comcast customer. But I won't, as I don't do very many torrents. Most often, I download from a direct source. I have no need for sharing files that might be considered the intellectual property of others. I don't trust torrents anymore, anyway. I'd rather get things from an original source. And I don't want Comcast screwing up my streams, voice, video, or otherwise.
It's not a legislative arm. It has broad legislated enforcement mandates from Congress, going back to the early-mid 1930s on communications policy and enforcement. It is IN FACT an enforcement arm, upheld by SCOTUS. The US President, as in theexecutive branch appoints the commisioners.
That said, I don't agree with a lot of what they do, and they do have considerable power, but power that's not unlike that of the EPA, the military, and so on.
So is the Comcast pending fine a good idea? You bet. Once the pandora's box of stepping on protocols to favor another is open, it can't be shut. This sends a great signal to carriers that they'd best not fool with consumer access. Be a good carrier; don't mess with protocols to favor your own perceived traffic. Controversial no doubt; a good one this time, IMHO.
And then, kindly eat them. Use the condiments of your choice.
Let's see, what part of police officer do you not understand?
And you think I'm lame enough to believe that California is in France? If you're looking for entirely exacting language in life, your pursuit of it is hopeless. A gendarme is a term for a police office, just like 'cop' and other still more derogatory terms.
Dictionary.com Unabridged (v 1.1) - Cite This Source - Share This genÂdarme Audio Help [zhahn-dahrm; Fr. zhahn-darm] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation â"noun, plural -darmes Audio Help [-dahrmz; Fr. -darm] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation. 1. a police officer in any of several European countries, esp. a French police officer. 2. a soldier, esp. in France, serving in an army group acting as armed police with authority over civilians. 3. (formerly) a cavalryman in charge of a French cavalry squad.
It's a matter of enforcement. The local gendarmes are more plentiful than the feds. If the feds bust you, they're a higher court and precedent says you're screwed if you're growing pot in CA.
Whether you argue for or against pot consumption is moot. If feds want to use google earth, it'll be tough to reason with a judge to get a warrant and bust someone, as google was acting illegally when they took the pics.
At all levels, LEOs know where drugs are grown in CA. It's up to them to decide whether it's worth dragging it thru the courts when there are lot of other important things to do.
You make the mistake of expecting sociopaths to think like non-sociopaths, and they won't. Read The Sociopath Next Door to gain some insight on what amounts to a different mind, with a different set of values. Atheism or theology doesn't really come into the equation; it's a different set of behavioral circumstances that about 90% of don't share with the ostensible other 10%. You're not seeking hell for this man, you're seeking a post-event justice that's unlikely. This makes you understandably mad and angry.
Spammers fit the same 90/10 profile, and each is capable of violence while sociopaths and the otherwise psychotic will see no limitations to impose violence, because in their world, guilt and consequences are absent. To them, no harm no foul, only a twisted sense of 'justice' within their context (and not in ours). It's truly sad.
I think we can agree on the limits of petroleum as a fuel source. Yet consider that the price is now dropping coincidentally with a failed Republican agenda.... and that the price really is artificial and controlled away from Keynseian economics.
Growth is another problem.... not good for this discussion but pertinent nonetheless. To tie it back, I don't believe the pundits predicting a downturn in IT. It's propaganda to keep H1-B's under control. Marketing, really.
Inflation has its problems as petroleum of often paid in dollars, yet it doesn't explain the whole amount and the nervosa off the marketplace. Today, however, it's dropping. I just filled up at $3.79 and it's still dropping.
If you consider how many billions have shaken out of the hedge funds and mortgage markets, you have to imagine how urgently those funds need to make money or they'll be taxed. Hence the run-ups. GB is an oil man. So is Cheney. Ask them about their brother's role in the S&L 'crisis'.
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'Fine' as in ok.
We would agree on your observations regarding the government. It's nothing we haven't faced, before, or won't face again. You can go calmly through it and do what's necessary both at the design stage or the use stage, and deal with it, or you can bite your nails, quiver, and be paranoid. I prefer calmness. We'll overcome this one, too. We always do.
Not in my jurisdiction. Too bad about yours.
We barely have seatbelt laws here. Phone? Fine. Camera? Fine. Shotgun rack? Fine. Bought the shotgun at a gunshow with no ID? Fine.
Do a video at your own risk. However, only very rarely does a police officer respond negatively to an individual that is polite when pulled over, is sober, and doesn't provoke the officer. It's a self-fulfilling action to believe that police officers will react negatively; they're human and IMHO aren't going to react negatively without provocation. Then tell it to the judge. Or suffer the consequences of provocation.
When I was young I called cops pigs. Then I came to understand what cops have to put up with. Some are still way too brutal. But most are just trying to keep the peace. Traffic cops I have problems with, but I keep quiet and polite during a trafffic stop, then beat my tickets anyway and don't drive like a raving Type-A idiot. Others have different results.
Your paranoia isn't contagious, I hope. There's nothing yet to imply your fears. And should some of these things come to pass, we'll find ways to bypass them. We always have.
And $12M in funding is one of the better jokes of 2008.
or the Internet for that matter. This is their vision of it, as they don't want to deploy the assets necessary to support the protocols necessary to call their offering 'Internet'.
It's now a private network-- something ATT knows and has been offering for years.
Let's call it what it is, a private network with access to some Internet functionality. One more reason that Verizon or others might eat ATT's lunch, and rightfully so if Verizon, Sprint, or others are able to offer REAL Internet access.
Correlating these into duty cycles, it's dependent on the design of the device and its usage profile with the duty cycles as to how much the overall design consumes power.
If you extract the base design, the numbers for Nano are very good and should be lauded. Now it's time to reduce the transaction cycles of peripheral devices and complete the chain of efficient design.
Increasingly, applications are living in isolated boundaries, whether cloud, SaaS, or other ways that prevent a direct to user download. It's more difficult to use web apps and disable screen scraping, but others have found techniques that help prevent taking screen fulls of info that in turn, become text/formatted documents that walk out the door. Policy and trust are big helps, including machine lock-downs. But people increasingly reject lock-downs.
DRM is currently perceived to be unweidly especially in database applications. That's why many apps now conceal most parts of an SSN or other saleable or interesting data. Having an appliance do the watching is nice, but it's also expensive and not necessarily rife with holes, either. Read 2600 if you have any doubts about this.
In the end, a few heavy prosecutions could serve as a deterrant, but today, huge amounts of data walks out the door without anyone even knowing. Data thefts aren't even reported consistently when they're found.
A good question. I think this gets really messy, but an enlightened judge may make sense of it. I wonder the outcome.
3.50 seems like it's good, until you get to the logic that if other people downloaded it from the defendent's machine, then 3.50 per song per downloader from there might be prudent. Nice theory, though. I wonder how far it will get.
I'm neither your language teacher, or your law prof. Both failed you.
If someone taught you logic, they also failed. Your hubris teacher however, was excellent.
Perhaps you didn't see the lines of people the night before the Gates keynotes at COMDEX and other shows. Gates was a rockstar both for coders and also business people. Gates had a few secrets but he did his marketing by trial balloons, which Jobs doesn't do. Jobs anally conceives his products, secretly lines them up, and doesn't tease you with them-- he then delivers them. A subtle difference, but they're still leaders of their own cults, just like Larry Ellison, Scott McN., and so on.
They're hard acts to follow.
And the description that Gates successfully has transitioned away from Microsoft is specious-- it remains to be seen if Ballmer and Ozzie can ride that horse. Eric Schmidt had great difficulty taking the end of Ray Noorda's reign, and so it remains a dangerous call. Jobs has teamworkers, but there's a cult that relies too much on his personality, just like that of Gates.
If Apple were more open about their infrastructure and process, they'd be more resilient to CEO soap operas.
And addresses there must be really scarce! Look at how much they charge, Marge!
At each opportunity, fight it or the Internet is doomed to support only a carrier's application by priority. It's that simple, not that the bribes to the campaign funds, lobbying efforts, and so on won't be tough to fight. Keep fighting. It's all we can do as greed motivations won't stop, either.
Now you have the crux of the matter.
The FCC is authorized by law (see the nineteen additions to the Communications Act of 1935 as amended) to set and execute this policy. Good thing their nipple wasn't showing, eh?
Your sense of legality and illegality are the crux for a need to understand more than I can explain in this forum. Competition means unfettered pipes, which is what the FCC is ostensibly punishing Comcast for-- non-"net neutrality".
And I haven't been called kid in over 40 years!
Additionally, after 14 books, and heaven-only-knows how many articles I've written, I've discovered that my choice of communications is my own, and those that would not understand emphasis via punctuation are looney. Two days ago, it was my choice of the word gendarme-- meaning policeman. Someone believed that the only correct use had to do with syntax connoting only French and only military policing.... all here on /.
You're entitled to your opinion, but not your facts. There.
RIGHT!
If you shut down torrents, what else do you shutdown next??? Do you stop the NetFlix pipe because it competes with your own or business partner offerings!??!!?
No!
And that's what this enforcement sends a message about-- net neutrality must remain.
Ok. Cite the law. They have the leeway. They can do this legally. It is their congressional mandate to do so; it's policy. Not every action taken by every agency needs to have a bunch of congress people dictating their every move and boundary. It's ok to develop policy; it's done every day in government and done so (often) with success for all parties considered. Sometimes it's awful, like Bush's meddling with the FDA and EPA. It's called trust within defined boundaries. They really can't do anything they want. They really can define policy and enforce it. Don't like the outcome of the policy-- then tell your congress person and vote out the executive branch. File suit, if you have nexus. I do, as I'm a Comcast customer. But I won't, as I don't do very many torrents. Most often, I download from a direct source. I have no need for sharing files that might be considered the intellectual property of others. I don't trust torrents anymore, anyway. I'd rather get things from an original source. And I don't want Comcast screwing up my streams, voice, video, or otherwise.
It's not a legislative arm. It has broad legislated enforcement mandates from Congress, going back to the early-mid 1930s on communications policy and enforcement. It is IN FACT an enforcement arm, upheld by SCOTUS. The US President, as in theexecutive branch appoints the commisioners.
That said, I don't agree with a lot of what they do, and they do have considerable power, but power that's not unlike that of the EPA, the military, and so on.
So is the Comcast pending fine a good idea? You bet. Once the pandora's box of stepping on protocols to favor another is open, it can't be shut. This sends a great signal to carriers that they'd best not fool with consumer access. Be a good carrier; don't mess with protocols to favor your own perceived traffic. Controversial no doubt; a good one this time, IMHO.
And then, kindly eat them. Use the condiments of your choice.
Let's see, what part of police officer do you not understand?
And you think I'm lame enough to believe that California is in France? If you're looking for entirely exacting language in life, your pursuit of it is hopeless. A gendarme is a term for a police office, just like 'cop' and other still more derogatory terms.
Dude: get help.
Pick your own nits. From Dictionary dot com:
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genÂdarme Audio Help [zhahn-dahrm; Fr. zhahn-darm] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation
â"noun, plural -darmes Audio Help [-dahrmz; Fr. -darm] Pronunciation Key - Show IPA Pronunciation.
1. a police officer in any of several European countries, esp. a French police officer.
2. a soldier, esp. in France, serving in an army group acting as armed police with authority over civilians.
3. (formerly) a cavalryman in charge of a French cavalry squad.
It's a matter of enforcement. The local gendarmes are more plentiful than the feds. If the feds bust you, they're a higher court and precedent says you're screwed if you're growing pot in CA.
Whether you argue for or against pot consumption is moot. If feds want to use google earth, it'll be tough to reason with a judge to get a warrant and bust someone, as google was acting illegally when they took the pics.
At all levels, LEOs know where drugs are grown in CA. It's up to them to decide whether it's worth dragging it thru the courts when there are lot of other important things to do.
You make the mistake of expecting sociopaths to think like non-sociopaths, and they won't. Read The Sociopath Next Door to gain some insight on what amounts to a different mind, with a different set of values. Atheism or theology doesn't really come into the equation; it's a different set of behavioral circumstances that about 90% of don't share with the ostensible other 10%. You're not seeking hell for this man, you're seeking a post-event justice that's unlikely. This makes you understandably mad and angry.
Spammers fit the same 90/10 profile, and each is capable of violence while sociopaths and the otherwise psychotic will see no limitations to impose violence, because in their world, guilt and consequences are absent. To them, no harm no foul, only a twisted sense of 'justice' within their context (and not in ours). It's truly sad.
I think we can agree on the limits of petroleum as a fuel source. Yet consider that the price is now dropping coincidentally with a failed Republican agenda.... and that the price really is artificial and controlled away from Keynseian economics.
Growth is another problem.... not good for this discussion but pertinent nonetheless. To tie it back, I don't believe the pundits predicting a downturn in IT. It's propaganda to keep H1-B's under control. Marketing, really.
Inflation has its problems as petroleum of often paid in dollars, yet it doesn't explain the whole amount and the nervosa off the marketplace. Today, however, it's dropping. I just filled up at $3.79 and it's still dropping.
If you consider how many billions have shaken out of the hedge funds and mortgage markets, you have to imagine how urgently those funds need to make money or they'll be taxed. Hence the run-ups. GB is an oil man. So is Cheney. Ask them about their brother's role in the S&L 'crisis'.