I'm not sure what to say about your lack of faith in your child. Hand just about any consumer electronics device to just about any 5 year old, and they will be up and running with it with no help. Heck, my son INSTALLED Ubuntu a week after his second birthday. Put your kid in front of an XBox, Playstation, DS, Windows, Linux, you name it. She will likely do just fine.
The iPod isn't any easier to use than a hundred other devices. Apples reputation for being easier to use than everybody else is far more myth than reality.
Removing the completely artificially created need to handle original media. In my house, the modded systems are always the ones that get used. Why? because we don't have to keep swapping disks. The fall out from that is that they are also the systems that we end up buying the most games for. Why? Because they are the systems that are always plugged in and being used.
I wouldn't buy a TV that wouldn't let me change channels from my couch, so I see no reason that I should buy a game system that doesn't let me change games from the couch.
Exactly. If anything, FOSS makes it so that you can hide your copyright violations better. Unlike when MS just slapped in Stacker Inc.'s compression tools into DOS 6. At least with this, there is some question as to whether MS is currently 'Pirating' software. With DOS 6, anyone could do a dump of the executable and actually find Stacker's copyright notice.
If you are having a problem with noise in public places, it is a self inflicted problem. Here is a very inexpensive solution so that you don't have to be in torment when every single person around you doesn't bend to your will.
The problem is that it is oversimplified to the point of being a myth. In the same way that there really was a St. Nicholas, but Santa Clause is a myth. For starters, counting calories requires that you don't just count calories consumed vs. calories burned. That is just incorrect. You would need to count calories consumed vs. calories expelled. While all of the 'Calories in vs Calories out' folks love to quote the law of thermodynamics, I have never heard a single one actually advocate counting the calories expelled. I understand it... No one wants to collect, weigh and calculate the number of calories expelled as bodily waste.
This doesn't even count the fact that all of the claims of number of calories burned for any particular activity are simply wrong. different people generate different quantities of heat. The amount of equipment and effort that would be required to actually count the number of calories burned within any kind of reasonably useful accuracy would be enormous.
Again, Calories In vs. Calories Out is over simplified to the point of being wrong. It has empirically proven to be not only useless, but dangerous.
Correct. Here is a link. You don't get much simpler than this. One nice feature that a presume has not been removed in newer models is that they can be synced with each other. So, not only can you have separate music in each room, but you can also have the same music in each room.
An artist claiming that you can steal music is simply a claim that their shade of gray is better than my shade of gray. I have yet to see one single non-derivative work. Not one piece of music that did not use someone else's idea. When I do, then the music is property crowd can claim to be anything more than a bunch of hypocrites. Heck, it is common practice for professional musician to discuss in interviews who they copied.
You obviously did not read the patent very closely. Our PATANT on ROT-26 includes all derivative works which specifically includes ROT encryption multiples of 26. So, your ROT-676 is a clear THEFT of our valuable intellectual property. I certainly hope that during your THEFT of our invention you did not also attempt to STEAL our ZOD (Zero Overhead Decryption) technology as our company has spent millions of dollars developing the intellectual property that allows us to decrypt ROT-26 as well as all derivitives at the absolute maximum speed allowed by the laws of thermodynamics (as well as physics in general).
Our lawyers will be contacting you soon to discuss the licensing terms available for the use of our property.
He means that if all of the customers have not been signed up. He does not mean that all of the bandwidth is used up. You have to understand that he is speaking from a sales point of view, not a network admin's point of view.
"Everyone know that ROT-13 used by our competitors has been thoroughly broken by the international teams of pirates and thus leaves your children in grave danger from the internet pedophiles. For truly safe encryption use our patented SIX-round ROT-26. That is over twice the protection of our competitors lowly ROT-13. Included in all of our products is our new patented Zero Overhead Decryption. ZOD decryption method dramatically improves read times over the out dated ROT-13 decryption.
And for a limited time, we will increase your data protection to TWELVE-ROUND ROT-26 at NO CHARGE!"
You miss understand me. This seems to be common, no matter how I explain it. Likely due to preconceived notions that the vast majority of people have. I will try again in a different way.
Last mile data delivery is not a natural monopoly, any more than last mile potato delivery is a natural monopoly. No one would suggest that the solution for a potato monopoly caused by there being only one potato grower in the area and no way to ship in potatoes from far away would be for the government to start selling all the potatoes. Likewise, no one would suggest that the best solution to a potato monopoly is to regulate the one potato company.
The proper solution is to have the government build roads so that any potato company can bring their potatoes to the area.
In the same way, it would be a disaster to have the government take over data delivery. Data is far to high tech and changes far too fast for the government to do a proper job of it. On the other hand, government IS very good at digging trenches and running pipes to houses, as well as requiring housing developers to run pipes to any new development. When I say "Pipes", I mean hollow steel/plastic/concrete/etc. cylinders. I do not mean data. If conduit was laid in the same size and similar fashion as our current sewer system, the local municipalities could charge rent, foster competition and reduce the cost of both new lines as well as the cost of upgrades. The government should supply the infrastructure. They should not provide the service if they can avoid it.
Unfortunately, it has been drilled into peoples heads that wires must be buried directly in the ground. This leads them to make the mistake of believeing that last mile data is a natural monopoly. This is a mistake, and a costly one.
It is NOT a natural monopoly. Municipalities have proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that they are more than capable of running conduit to each and every home that is plenty large for dozens of data providers to rent the right to pull their cables through.
For the rest of us, we understand that the difference between a threat and advice is that advice is when someone explains what you can do to avoid bad things that they do not control, and a threat is when someone explains what you can do to avoid having them actually do the bad thing to you.
When someone breaks into your home and tells your wife that if she screws him without fighting, he won't murder her children in the next room, that is a threat not 'advice', even though he is offering her information
that might mitigate the negative consequences someone is facing
No. People just think. "The cop says I will spend my birthday in jail if I say I lie and say planned the crime, and I will spend my birthday AND Christmas in jail if I tell the truth and don't say I planned the crime." So, yes, it was a math problem, and yes they are doing math.
While I cannot quote the penal code involved, it is a pretty safe bet that conspiring to file a false police report is illegal. That is what the police in this story did. They threatened a man with imprisonment if he did not fabricate a story about him committing a crime.
In your teacher example... YES! The teacher is threatening the student. That is what a threat is. It is when you tell someone that if they don't do what you are telling them, that you will take action that will cause something bad to happen to them.
Are you seriously arguing that X+Y=Z does not solve for Y exactly the same as X-Z=Y??? This is basic math. My 5 year old can do this kind of math.
Are you also seriously arguing that because their are worse police than ours, that it is ok for our police to commit crimes against our citizens? Wow. Just... Wow.
That is a mighty poor attempt at rationalization. When you tell someone they will spend X time locked up if they do what you want, or they will spend X+Y time locked up if they don't, there is a threat of Y jail time it they don't do what you want. You don't seriously think that the guy copped to a greater crime because he just wanted to help out do you? No, he copped to the greater crime because the police convinced him that if he said he did the greater crime (irrelevant of whether he actually committed the greater crime or not) he would not be locked up for Y time. The poor victim just didn't realize that the cops couldn't be trusted. That they had no problem committing a crime against him, and that large portions of the population would endorse their criminal behaviour.
A shoplifter is told that the court will look positively on his cooperation after being arested, and then is asked did he intend to steal the item(s) when he entered the store, or did he decide to steal them once inside the store.
He admits he went there to steal the item.
The guy was threatened into a confession. What the cops did was no different than if three huge guys with greased back hair and pinky rings walk into your corner shop and tell you "Nice shop you have here. It would be a shame if something bad happened to it. *wink* *wink*" and then offered you protection services. The cops told him that if he professed innocence of the larger crime, that bad things would happen to him because of it. The police committed a crime.
Wrong. The original story has the guy having committed a minor crime, and confessing to a larger crime under threat from the police. The police then threaten to convict him of the larger crime which the original story did not say he committed.
He was innocent of what he was accused of. Being charged with a crime that the police and prosecutors know you did not commit is being charged with a crime that you are innocent of. Being guilty of a different or lessor crime does not change this. Police and prosecutors that charge people with crimes they know they did not commit are commiting crimes themselves.
Much of the debate here seem to be whether a warrant is needed at all if the email is on a server. In that case, I would say that it obviously does. Once a warrant is issued, I don't know what the notification requirements are to the owners of 'papers', so I will refrain from arguing that point without more info. So...
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures
It does not say "The right to be secure in someone else's persons, houses, papers and effects". To claim that my email is not mine because I store it in a borrowed place is isn't even good New Speak.
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Seriously, whoever it was that told you circumcised men can't actually feel sex was pulling your leg.
I'm not sure what to say about your lack of faith in your child. Hand just about any consumer electronics device to just about any 5 year old, and they will be up and running with it with no help. Heck, my son INSTALLED Ubuntu a week after his second birthday. Put your kid in front of an XBox, Playstation, DS, Windows, Linux, you name it. She will likely do just fine.
The iPod isn't any easier to use than a hundred other devices. Apples reputation for being easier to use than everybody else is far more myth than reality.
Removing the completely artificially created need to handle original media. In my house, the modded systems are always the ones that get used. Why? because we don't have to keep swapping disks. The fall out from that is that they are also the systems that we end up buying the most games for. Why? Because they are the systems that are always plugged in and being used.
I wouldn't buy a TV that wouldn't let me change channels from my couch, so I see no reason that I should buy a game system that doesn't let me change games from the couch.
Exactly. If anything, FOSS makes it so that you can hide your copyright violations better. Unlike when MS just slapped in Stacker Inc.'s compression tools into DOS 6. At least with this, there is some question as to whether MS is currently 'Pirating' software. With DOS 6, anyone could do a dump of the executable and actually find Stacker's copyright notice.
If you are having a problem with noise in public places, it is a self inflicted problem. Here is a very inexpensive solution so that you don't have to be in torment when every single person around you doesn't bend to your will.
http://www.uline.com/BL_954/Classic-Ear-Plugs-NRR-29
The problem is that it is oversimplified to the point of being a myth. In the same way that there really was a St. Nicholas, but Santa Clause is a myth. For starters, counting calories requires that you don't just count calories consumed vs. calories burned. That is just incorrect. You would need to count calories consumed vs. calories expelled. While all of the 'Calories in vs Calories out' folks love to quote the law of thermodynamics, I have never heard a single one actually advocate counting the calories expelled. I understand it... No one wants to collect, weigh and calculate the number of calories expelled as bodily waste.
This doesn't even count the fact that all of the claims of number of calories burned for any particular activity are simply wrong. different people generate different quantities of heat. The amount of equipment and effort that would be required to actually count the number of calories burned within any kind of reasonably useful accuracy would be enormous.
Again, Calories In vs. Calories Out is over simplified to the point of being wrong. It has empirically proven to be not only useless, but dangerous.
Correct. Here is a link. You don't get much simpler than this. One nice feature that a presume has not been removed in newer models is that they can be synced with each other. So, not only can you have separate music in each room, but you can also have the same music in each room.
An artist claiming that you can steal music is simply a claim that their shade of gray is better than my shade of gray. I have yet to see one single non-derivative work. Not one piece of music that did not use someone else's idea. When I do, then the music is property crowd can claim to be anything more than a bunch of hypocrites. Heck, it is common practice for professional musician to discuss in interviews who they copied.
You obviously did not read the patent very closely. Our PATANT on ROT-26 includes all derivative works which specifically includes ROT encryption multiples of 26. So, your ROT-676 is a clear THEFT of our valuable intellectual property. I certainly hope that during your THEFT of our invention you did not also attempt to STEAL our ZOD (Zero Overhead Decryption) technology as our company has spent millions of dollars developing the intellectual property that allows us to decrypt ROT-26 as well as all derivitives at the absolute maximum speed allowed by the laws of thermodynamics (as well as physics in general).
Our lawyers will be contacting you soon to discuss the licensing terms available for the use of our property.
Belial Cicks
C.E.O Imatro LLC
He means that if all of the customers have not been signed up. He does not mean that all of the bandwidth is used up. You have to understand that he is speaking from a sales point of view, not a network admin's point of view.
"Everyone know that ROT-13 used by our competitors has been thoroughly broken by the international teams of pirates and thus leaves your children in grave danger from the internet pedophiles. For truly safe encryption use our patented SIX-round ROT-26. That is over twice the protection of our competitors lowly ROT-13. Included in all of our products is our new patented Zero Overhead Decryption. ZOD decryption method dramatically improves read times over the out dated ROT-13 decryption.
And for a limited time, we will increase your data protection to TWELVE-ROUND ROT-26 at NO CHARGE!"
Pesonally, I want it to be well known that certain parts of me taste good.
That is funny on multiple levels.
Then don't take it with you around the house... Just because you CAN do something doesn't mean you must.
You miss understand me. This seems to be common, no matter how I explain it. Likely due to preconceived notions that the vast majority of people have. I will try again in a different way.
Last mile data delivery is not a natural monopoly, any more than last mile potato delivery is a natural monopoly. No one would suggest that the solution for a potato monopoly caused by there being only one potato grower in the area and no way to ship in potatoes from far away would be for the government to start selling all the potatoes. Likewise, no one would suggest that the best solution to a potato monopoly is to regulate the one potato company.
The proper solution is to have the government build roads so that any potato company can bring their potatoes to the area.
In the same way, it would be a disaster to have the government take over data delivery. Data is far to high tech and changes far too fast for the government to do a proper job of it. On the other hand, government IS very good at digging trenches and running pipes to houses, as well as requiring housing developers to run pipes to any new development. When I say "Pipes", I mean hollow steel/plastic/concrete/etc. cylinders. I do not mean data. If conduit was laid in the same size and similar fashion as our current sewer system, the local municipalities could charge rent, foster competition and reduce the cost of both new lines as well as the cost of upgrades. The government should supply the infrastructure. They should not provide the service if they can avoid it.
Unfortunately, it has been drilled into peoples heads that wires must be buried directly in the ground. This leads them to make the mistake of believeing that last mile data is a natural monopoly. This is a mistake, and a costly one.
It is NOT a natural monopoly. Municipalities have proven beyond a shadow of a doubt that they are more than capable of running conduit to each and every home that is plenty large for dozens of data providers to rent the right to pull their cables through.
For the rest of us, we understand that the difference between a threat and advice is that advice is when someone explains what you can do to avoid bad things that they do not control, and a threat is when someone explains what you can do to avoid having them actually do the bad thing to you.
When someone breaks into your home and tells your wife that if she screws him without fighting, he won't murder her children in the next room, that is a threat not 'advice', even though he is offering her information
that might mitigate the negative consequences someone is facing
No. People just think. "The cop says I will spend my birthday in jail if I say I lie and say planned the crime, and I will spend my birthday AND Christmas in jail if I tell the truth and don't say I planned the crime." So, yes, it was a math problem, and yes they are doing math.
While I cannot quote the penal code involved, it is a pretty safe bet that conspiring to file a false police report is illegal. That is what the police in this story did. They threatened a man with imprisonment if he did not fabricate a story about him committing a crime.
In your teacher example... YES! The teacher is threatening the student. That is what a threat is. It is when you tell someone that if they don't do what you are telling them, that you will take action that will cause something bad to happen to them.
Are you seriously arguing that X+Y=Z does not solve for Y exactly the same as X-Z=Y??? This is basic math. My 5 year old can do this kind of math.
Are you also seriously arguing that because their are worse police than ours, that it is ok for our police to commit crimes against our citizens? Wow. Just... Wow.
That is a mighty poor attempt at rationalization. When you tell someone they will spend X time locked up if they do what you want, or they will spend X+Y time locked up if they don't, there is a threat of Y jail time it they don't do what you want. You don't seriously think that the guy copped to a greater crime because he just wanted to help out do you? No, he copped to the greater crime because the police convinced him that if he said he did the greater crime (irrelevant of whether he actually committed the greater crime or not) he would not be locked up for Y time. The poor victim just didn't realize that the cops couldn't be trusted. That they had no problem committing a crime against him, and that large portions of the population would endorse their criminal behaviour.
A shoplifter is told that the court will look positively on his cooperation after being arested, and then is asked did he intend to steal the item(s) when he entered the store, or did he decide to steal them once inside the store. He admits he went there to steal the item.
The guy was threatened into a confession. What the cops did was no different than if three huge guys with greased back hair and pinky rings walk into your corner shop and tell you "Nice shop you have here. It would be a shame if something bad happened to it. *wink* *wink*" and then offered you protection services. The cops told him that if he professed innocence of the larger crime, that bad things would happen to him because of it. The police committed a crime.
Wrong. The original story has the guy having committed a minor crime, and confessing to a larger crime under threat from the police. The police then threaten to convict him of the larger crime which the original story did not say he committed.
He was innocent of what he was accused of. Being charged with a crime that the police and prosecutors know you did not commit is being charged with a crime that you are innocent of. Being guilty of a different or lessor crime does not change this. Police and prosecutors that charge people with crimes they know they did not commit are commiting crimes themselves.
OK.
Much of the debate here seem to be whether a warrant is needed at all if the email is on a server. In that case, I would say that it obviously does. Once a warrant is issued, I don't know what the notification requirements are to the owners of 'papers', so I will refrain from arguing that point without more info. So...
OK.
The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures
It does not say "The right to be secure in someone else's persons, houses, papers and effects". To claim that my email is not mine because I store it in a borrowed place is isn't even good New Speak.