IIRC, the gold is for oxidization/corrosion protection. and the gold plating is not expensive. you're dealing with very very small amounts of gold to plate the connectors.
though i was sure that in conductivity, it went copper, gold, silver in order from least to greatest conductivity.
which is why using (an) integral fast reactor(s) to extract additonal energy from that waste and make it a shorter term problem (~200 years, IIRC) would be a good idea.
i do not see how a corporation could be "locked up". an equivalent of a death penalty (via revoking the corporate charter) would be quite possible though.
cable ISPs never had it. the telcos used to have it for DSL, but they then got that changed to match with the cable COs as a "data service provider" or something. seems to be to be all the benefits of common carrier with none of the obligations.
I was unable to discern from the summary any mention of human rights abuses in the document in question. Now, I did not read the document, but I think I'm pretty safe in assuming that it's a very, very dry 238 pages, and if there was anything relating to human rights abuses, it would have made its way into the summary. I'm also going to operate on the assumption that it's classified, at the least Confidential, probably Secret. 1. you'd be right on the dry part. just usual government procedure and regulations stuff.
if that document is being followed, i wouldn't really have any problems with the detainment of suspects at the base. the question is "is it being followed?" and the first step to finding that out is to find out what regulations they're supposed to be following.
2. it's marked as "UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICAL USE ONLY", which is why the ACLU has had so much trouble trying to get it. (documents marked as such are supposed to contain information exempt from FOIA requests.) that marking is handling instructions (treat it like it was marked confidential) rather than an actual classification, though i have no idea what, if any legal penalties there are for unauthorized release of such documents.
Why did it take so long for people to finally stand up to them? It's not like there weren't plenty of opportunities..
my guess would be that lawyers are expensive, the fact that you are not entitled to a lawyer when facing a civil suit, and the fact that to have any hope of defending yourself, even against a frivolous suit, you need a lawyer. from there...
I wasn't aware that it mandated that companies SUPPORT it. The market should determine what restrictions on fair use are bearable.
1. correct. that's why the DMCA is (rightly or wrongly) law. they can't prosecute fair use, but they can go after it by proxy. all the more reason why the presedent set by the betamax case needs to be adjusted to fit modern technology.
2. the market? if you think this is a free market, i would recommend you visit a competent psychologist.
Pursuant to that, I also think that a multinational commission should be set up to investigate and punish those criminals. It shouldn't be up to one country to do it. I'm thinking the United Nations could help... it could be a United Nations Criminal Law Enforcement Commission.
Or, to abbreviate it, The UNCLE Commission.
Don't we already have Interpol for this sort of thing? Or their scope too limited for this?
some installations get interesting. i used to work for an ISP (the telco, so DSL installs) and i had a tag-along day with one of the service techs doing installs. some were fairly easy (switch which jack was connected to which side of a central filter there from a previous install) or complex multi-hour nightmares (stringing multiple new wireruns through the walls and basement/crawlspace, along with wallplates for said runs, or occasionally drill holes through the floors for houses with lathe-and-plaster walls. this was very common if you're getting both internet and their IPTV service, as you need to run cat5 to each STB, and you can have up to of four of them and as many computers are you like. our techs pretty much need to be half-contractor and it wasn't unheard of for installs to take longer than a full shift.).
we did all the installations free, regardless of the complexity, if you agreed to stay with us for a year. if you left before a year (barring you leaving due to prolonged, unresolved problems with the service, in which case the fee was waived) there was a $100 early-disconnect fee, which seems completely reasonable to me.
the problem as i see it would be keeping track of different versions of the same file in a torrent, which i don't believe there is any provision for in the protocol.
if you change a file in a torrent, you pretty much have to make a completely new swarm and all that entails, as that change requires a new hash for that file and a new hash for the torrent on the whole.
i don't see how bittorrent would work for that (unless it might be doable through some interesting hack, like Azureus's alternate distributed tracking thingy, though i don't see how), though one could quite likely make a BT-like protocol for such a thing, though that then introduces the problem of adoption.
the purpose is to make the traffic not recognizable (to a degree) as torrent traffic so it can bypass the mindless traffic shaping of torrent traffic by some ISPs.
actually, IIRC, Finland is the fairly gun-happy (53 firearms per 100 people, though they include flare guns in that (burning magnesium + human flesh = ?)).
this is the school board (members) sueing. these are elected representatives in public office, which looks a lot like a part of a government to me, and they're using school board money to sue privately, which looks a whole lot like an endrun around previous precident saying that the school board can't sue directly.
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IIRC, the gold is for oxidization/corrosion protection. and the gold plating is not expensive. you're dealing with very very small amounts of gold to plate the connectors.
though i was sure that in conductivity, it went copper, gold, silver in order from least to greatest conductivity.
IIRC, the patent is on a POTS to IP bridge system.
you're right though that this puts a lot of others at risk. AFAICT, there is no way to do VOIP-to-normal-phones calls without this.
You're never going to move?
the question asked was whether they would give up their vote for the next election, not indefinetly.
which is why using (an) integral fast reactor(s) to extract additonal energy from that waste and make it a shorter term problem (~200 years, IIRC) would be a good idea.
duh!
i do not see how a corporation could be "locked up". an equivalent of a death penalty (via revoking the corporate charter) would be quite possible though.
cable ISPs never had it. the telcos used to have it for DSL, but they then got that changed to match with the cable COs as a "data service provider" or something. seems to be to be all the benefits of common carrier with none of the obligations.
found a howto for doing this on fedora.
http://linux.ioerror.us/2006/09/encrypting-your-swap-partition-on-fedora-core/
windows can be set to not use a swap file and can run just fine without it, provided you have adequate ram.
alternatively, there's a registry hack to make it wipe the swap file on shutdown.
if that document is being followed, i wouldn't really have any problems with the detainment of suspects at the base. the question is "is it being followed?" and the first step to finding that out is to find out what regulations they're supposed to be following.
2. it's marked as "UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICAL USE ONLY", which is why the ACLU has had so much trouble trying to get it. (documents marked as such are supposed to contain information exempt from FOIA requests.) that marking is handling instructions (treat it like it was marked confidential) rather than an actual classification, though i have no idea what, if any legal penalties there are for unauthorized release of such documents.
my guess would be that lawyers are expensive, the fact that you are not entitled to a lawyer when facing a civil suit, and the fact that to have any hope of defending yourself, even against a frivolous suit, you need a lawyer. from there...
I wasn't aware that it mandated that companies SUPPORT it. The market should determine what restrictions on fair use are bearable.
1. correct. that's why the DMCA is (rightly or wrongly) law. they can't prosecute fair use, but they can go after it by proxy. all the more reason why the presedent set by the betamax case needs to be adjusted to fit modern technology.
2. the market? if you think this is a free market, i would recommend you visit a competent psychologist.
why not both?
Pursuant to that, I also think that a multinational commission should be set up to investigate and punish those criminals. It shouldn't be up to one country to do it. I'm thinking the United Nations could help ... it could be a United Nations Criminal Law Enforcement Commission.
Or, to abbreviate it, The UNCLE Commission.
Don't we already have Interpol for this sort of thing? Or their scope too limited for this?
some installations get interesting. i used to work for an ISP (the telco, so DSL installs) and i had a tag-along day with one of the service techs doing installs. some were fairly easy (switch which jack was connected to which side of a central filter there from a previous install) or complex multi-hour nightmares (stringing multiple new wireruns through the walls and basement/crawlspace, along with wallplates for said runs, or occasionally drill holes through the floors for houses with lathe-and-plaster walls. this was very common if you're getting both internet and their IPTV service, as you need to run cat5 to each STB, and you can have up to of four of them and as many computers are you like. our techs pretty much need to be half-contractor and it wasn't unheard of for installs to take longer than a full shift.).
we did all the installations free, regardless of the complexity, if you agreed to stay with us for a year. if you left before a year (barring you leaving due to prolonged, unresolved problems with the service, in which case the fee was waived) there was a $100 early-disconnect fee, which seems completely reasonable to me.
the problem as i see it would be keeping track of different versions of the same file in a torrent, which i don't believe there is any provision for in the protocol.
if you change a file in a torrent, you pretty much have to make a completely new swarm and all that entails, as that change requires a new hash for that file and a new hash for the torrent on the whole.
i don't see how bittorrent would work for that (unless it might be doable through some interesting hack, like Azureus's alternate distributed tracking thingy, though i don't see how), though one could quite likely make a BT-like protocol for such a thing, though that then introduces the problem of adoption.
i don't think that's the purpose.
the purpose is to make the traffic not recognizable (to a degree) as torrent traffic so it can bypass the mindless traffic shaping of torrent traffic by some ISPs.
I'm willing to bet that somewhere in the user agreement, there's a provision that lets them do exactly this
and as i said upthread, comcast had a provision in their contract saying you couldn't sue them.
guess what the judges said about that. (PDF warning, though only 100k)
oh. i though you were refering to the "ban it all" stuff. i didn't even notice the helen lovejoy quote.
actually, IIRC, Finland is the fairly gun-happy (53 firearms per 100 people, though they include flare guns in that (burning magnesium + human flesh = ?)).
FTR, i believe the US has 90 per 100 people.
what episode was that from? i must've missed that one.
They said no refunds would be given
and Comcast said no lawsuits. Guess what the courts said about that.
i think you ought to run some spy/adware scans. they're no ads on anywhere on that site.
this is the school board (members) sueing. these are elected representatives in public office, which looks a lot like a part of a government to me, and they're using school board money to sue privately, which looks a whole lot like an endrun around previous precident saying that the school board can't sue directly.