I've always understood the definition of sports to be something like "a competition between two or more teams or individuals that involves a specific set of rules, elevated physical activity and the ability to affect the opposing side's outcome, both offensively and defensively." I think many people would agree with me on the physical requirement, which would eliminate board games and card games from being called "sports" but more people would have a problem with my inclusion of direct defensive ability, because then golf and gymnastics would be eliminated as well. Almost every one of these requirements are missing from the official definition, which usually says "a competition".
Suppose your plan is rate limited to X kbps. Then in one month you are able to download a maximum of X kbps * 86400s/day * 31 days, or 2678400*X kb. For concreteness, lets say your plan is throttled at 9600kbps. That's 25,712,640,000 kb for the month. This hard cap is in no way "unlimited". That's simply math. Most people seem pretty capable of understanding that.
Kodi probably meets condition 1. Either Kodi or Plex would be 1st and 2nd in their class, although I'm not sure anymore which would be considered 1 or 2. Anyway, Kodi is fairly well known in nerd culture; it's not some obscure little program no one has heard of before. It makes sense the submitter thought most readers would know what it is. He also linked to the kodi website, which should help the rest. Regardless, this site is geared toward the nerd/tech culture, not general audiences, so there's no expected need or obligation to write submissions at a third grade level. If you want to know what something is, look it up. If it's not that important to you, then don't. I've done it plenty of times when the submission focused on some obscure science-y stuff.
So that way Fagioli can lazily steal a paragraph or two from the third party site to use as a summary, instead of writing one himself. IMO, submissions that are all or mostly copied from another site should be banned. If it's important enough to you to submit, then write your own goddamn blurb.
Rather than shut it down, Google should have simply changed the response to something on the order of
...legally actionable libel.
Do you people think before you post these comments? Wait, I forgot, this is Slashdot. I must be new here.
Absolutely the only thing Google can get away with legally is simply ignoring the trigger. Otherwise they'll be illegally abusing their market position.
So is it libel or is it abusing market position? A reasonable belief that a statement is true is usually good enough to shut down a libel case, and that seems likely here. Google is not in the fast food business, so it's dominant position in the computer/web-ad market is irrelevant. You can only abuse your market position in the market you operate in. Did you even think before you posted your comment?
Just because two parties have a dispute does not automatically mean they are both acting like babies. I think IMDB's non-action on this issue is justifiable because they are in the right both legally and morally.
So, IANACryptographer, but if I understand correctly: Google gets metadata when Alice sends a message (because connect to its server using this "fronting"), and when Bob receives one (because Signal delivers messages using GCM). It doesn't look too hard for them to reconstruct that Alice is exchanging messages to Bob.
Except Google's servers are sending and receiving millions upon millions of messages every second, so no it wouldn't be very easy to match up one particular sender with one particular receiver. Then you have the problem that, as you said, Google gets the metadata, not Egypt, and Google has no interest in trying to reconstruct this conversation, regardless of how easy it may be to do so.
A lot of people don't really understand how a country is defined, including yourself.
A country is merely a defined political division, that means it needs some kind of border, but even a government isn't technically necessary
I think your definition of country is a bit too broad, unless you think the third ward of Houston, Texas, United States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... is a country, or that any city, state, subdivision, etc is a country. If that is your stance, then your definition is beyond silly; it is useless. To try to make the spirit of your definition work, I would suggest that a country is a geographic area with a political identity but which is not a subdivision of any larger political identity.
1. They did not say that they are reopening the investigation. The memo itself makes that clear.
I'm not sure how you can make such a claim, since the memo you linked states "...and I agreed that the FBI should take appropriate investigative steps designed to allow investigators to review these emails to determine whether they contain classified information, as well as to assess their importance to our investigation."
Furthermore, nothing else in that memo makes the point you pretend it does.
The flaw in your reasoning is obvious. What you want to say is that there is not an LD50 dose for SMOKING marijuana, which is what the monkeys were forced to do. In concentrated doses, say from injecting THC directly into the bloodstream, a person can and has died. If you are going to respond by saying that's not PRACTICAL, then please don't, unless you are completely oblivious to the last 50 years of assholes doing absolutely ingenious things in order to get a better high.
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Jesus you're right. Someone must have won a bet on that one.
You may not be aware of this, but your comment makes no sense.
How can I like this comment?
I've always understood the definition of sports to be something like "a competition between two or more teams or individuals that involves a specific set of rules, elevated physical activity and the ability to affect the opposing side's outcome, both offensively and defensively." I think many people would agree with me on the physical requirement, which would eliminate board games and card games from being called "sports" but more people would have a problem with my inclusion of direct defensive ability, because then golf and gymnastics would be eliminated as well. Almost every one of these requirements are missing from the official definition, which usually says "a competition".
Suppose your plan is rate limited to X kbps. Then in one month you are able to download a maximum of X kbps * 86400s/day * 31 days, or 2678400*X kb. For concreteness, lets say your plan is throttled at 9600kbps. That's 25,712,640,000 kb for the month. This hard cap is in no way "unlimited". That's simply math. Most people seem pretty capable of understanding that.
Can you give a concrete example?
Kodi probably meets condition 1. Either Kodi or Plex would be 1st and 2nd in their class, although I'm not sure anymore which would be considered 1 or 2. Anyway, Kodi is fairly well known in nerd culture; it's not some obscure little program no one has heard of before. It makes sense the submitter thought most readers would know what it is. He also linked to the kodi website, which should help the rest. Regardless, this site is geared toward the nerd/tech culture, not general audiences, so there's no expected need or obligation to write submissions at a third grade level. If you want to know what something is, look it up. If it's not that important to you, then don't. I've done it plenty of times when the submission focused on some obscure science-y stuff.
So that way Fagioli can lazily steal a paragraph or two from the third party site to use as a summary, instead of writing one himself. IMO, submissions that are all or mostly copied from another site should be banned. If it's important enough to you to submit, then write your own goddamn blurb.
Thank you, dark does look much better.
How do you enable the dark theme? I'm not seeing it.
Rather than shut it down, Google should have simply changed the response to something on the order of
...legally actionable libel.
Do you people think before you post these comments? Wait, I forgot, this is Slashdot. I must be new here.
Absolutely the only thing Google can get away with legally is simply ignoring the trigger. Otherwise they'll be illegally abusing their market position.
So is it libel or is it abusing market position? A reasonable belief that a statement is true is usually good enough to shut down a libel case, and that seems likely here. Google is not in the fast food business, so it's dominant position in the computer/web-ad market is irrelevant. You can only abuse your market position in the market you operate in. Did you even think before you posted your comment?
The European Volt is the Opel Ampera. I don't think the African Volt exists.
But Newton did make those cookies right?
Because then it would be harder to shuffle money around.
Oh. What's it called now?
Just because two parties have a dispute does not automatically mean they are both acting like babies. I think IMDB's non-action on this issue is justifiable because they are in the right both legally and morally.
So, IANACryptographer, but if I understand correctly: Google gets metadata when Alice sends a message (because connect to its server using this "fronting"), and when Bob receives one (because Signal delivers messages using GCM). It doesn't look too hard for them to reconstruct that Alice is exchanging messages to Bob.
Except Google's servers are sending and receiving millions upon millions of messages every second, so no it wouldn't be very easy to match up one particular sender with one particular receiver. Then you have the problem that, as you said, Google gets the metadata, not Egypt, and Google has no interest in trying to reconstruct this conversation, regardless of how easy it may be to do so.
A lot of people don't really understand how a country is defined, including yourself.
A country is merely a defined political division, that means it needs some kind of border, but even a government isn't technically necessary
I think your definition of country is a bit too broad, unless you think the third ward of Houston, Texas, United States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/... is a country, or that any city, state, subdivision, etc is a country. If that is your stance, then your definition is beyond silly; it is useless. To try to make the spirit of your definition work, I would suggest that a country is a geographic area with a political identity but which is not a subdivision of any larger political identity.
1. They did not say that they are reopening the investigation. The memo itself makes that clear.
I'm not sure how you can make such a claim, since the memo you linked states "...and I agreed that the FBI should take appropriate investigative steps designed to allow investigators to review these emails to determine whether they contain classified information, as well as to assess their importance to our investigation."
Furthermore, nothing else in that memo makes the point you pretend it does.
There were encryption wars in the 1990s? *government stooge*
The flaw in your reasoning is obvious. What you want to say is that there is not an LD50 dose for SMOKING marijuana, which is what the monkeys were forced to do. In concentrated doses, say from injecting THC directly into the bloodstream, a person can and has died. If you are going to respond by saying that's not PRACTICAL, then please don't, unless you are completely oblivious to the last 50 years of assholes doing absolutely ingenious things in order to get a better high.
So what type of character set considers 10B to be less than 100?
$5 to $35 is a huge range for the rate increase. Couldn't they narrow it down a little more?
Hippa - the small offices our to cheap to even buy a fw. Even not so small ones - I've seen running xp pc's.
Your post is borderline unintelligible. What are you trying to say?
What is spectro? I googled it but only came up with spectrum analyzers and 2 cycle motor oil.