The communications act of 1934 says has put the FCC in place "to provide for the use of such channels, but not the ownership thereof"
Therefore in the US at least it is entirely legal to receive transmitted wire or radio signals as the ownership of the spectrum belongs to all US residents. Maybe in the UK that's different but I believe they have similar provisions.
Individual states have more restrictive laws regarding 'theft of service' but afaik none have tested any arguments where the system implicitly allows access. Off course, meddling on someone else's private property to get access is criminal (such as breaking open the box down the street) but as long as a system delivers access to your property and you are not interfering with anyone else, legally, you are allowed to use it as you see fit as long as you remain within the legal limits of broadcasting your own signals.
The Met Office nor the Goddard Institute are PR departments, they are good scientific resources that incidentally also study climate change.
I don't know if Heartland Institute or State Policy Network have any ring to you (as a denier/Fox News viewer you must know them since they are the ones that fund all their bad research) but they are non-scientific think thanks and lobbyists networks funded by eg. Koch Industries, Walton Family Foundation (owners of Wal-Mart), Phillips-Morris, GlaxoSmithKline, ExxonMobil etc. in order to publicly (seminars, lobbying, targeted newspapers and even billboards and ads) to work against or deny things like increased taxes for the rich, increase in minimum wage, publicly funded health care, the validity of second hand smoke and yes, scientific research into global warming.
They are a well-oiled (conservative/republican) machine to delegitimize valid scientific research.
Well, I think if you actually rip out the copper out of the ground that isn't yours, then yes that may be a criminal offense.
But if you just connect a wire to a wire already in your house and there appears to be some signal on it, reading that signal is not (or shouldn't be) a criminal offense or considered stealing.
With stealing you permanently deprive someone of a tangible object.
Buy applications you actually get the source code to ESPECIALLY if they're custom made or very geared towards your specific problem. So many applications you buy now are going to be fine in 32-bit or 64-bit environments but what if the industry decides to go more towards an ARM variant within the next 2 decades?
A LOT of companies are seeing the mistakes they made now by buying into custom-made solutions that they have no control over and over the years the company has either stopped supporting the solution or gone out of business. Even Microsoft has a whole slew of software you probably never heard off (look around if you have an MSDN subscription) and actually doesn't run on Windows 7/8 64-bit. Off course whether or not those companies are going to make the same mistakes is up to them but I think in general history has shown that it's not a good idea to have your software locked up out of your control if you rely on it.
If you were married to consumer-grade Windows you had 16-bit apps until Windows XP came out, 32-bit was actually extra work and it would also run on the 16-bit subsystems in Windows NT without a hitch while compatibility between 32-bit on Windows 95-ME with NT/2000 was not guaranteed.
If on the other hand you would have developed with OS/2, various Unices, Solaris, VAX, BeOS or Linux in mind you would've gone 32-bit almost 3 decades ago.
There was no 32-bit Windows until NT and no consumer Windows was fully 32-bit until XP. Windows 95 introduced (some) 32-bit drivers and an interface that would allow you to run (some) 32-bit applications (a lot like DOS4GW did way better back then) but the underlying system was still MS-DOS.
The reason 8-bit and 16-bit (pure DOS and early Windows) applications are nigh impossible to run on 64-bit systems is because they request a switch to real mode from the CPU which means direct access to the full memory space and hardware.
You're comparing vulnerabilities found by external forces with totally no insight into the inner workings of an OS to all the vulnerabilities that are found by both external forces and people with intimate knowledge and years of experience in good coding for said system. For a good comparison, you would need to open source Windows and compare the leaks found both internally and externally at Microsoft and I'm not even talking about the methodology of your picking of statistics.
And you're right, MS doesn't rely on users to find bugs, as a matter of fact, trying to submit a bug and proper insight into the bug database at Microsoft is nearly impossible while Linux has (once again) an open system that everyone can use. This only speaks to the problem that Microsoft is having. As a company/team you can only test against a handful of systems usually in an automated fashion and concentrated on regression/unit tests. Your customers who actually use the software will have plenty of use cases that you can't anticipate.
I work in a highly specialized environment myself, using Linux/Mac is a no brainer because of the high flexibility in getting to do the hardware what you actually want while with Windows you're practically running into a wall at every turn because of the layers of crud that have assembled over the years.
That's not me saying it, that's Robert H. Jackson - US Attorney General, Supreme Court Justice, and chief United States prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials and the quote is from one of his cases in the mid-40's. So the "modern" politicians have been around for nearly 100 years.
You may be confusing access times but even if you aren't, your SCSI drive was probably a single-platter (which was common back then) while the current beasts are 4 platters. I think the current maximum is 1TB/platter and you'll find 4 of those in the 4TB drives.
The problem with most audio geeks (and I am one myself but I place myself out of this category) is that they claim certain things that either can't be true or are very difficult to verify. This whole thing with vacuum tubes is one thing, some other things include this reverb effect, vinyl clicks and pops as well as the "direction" arrows on (digital) cables that are only forged by elves during a full moon.
For me this would be the answer: Does using ancient technology x produce a different sound: yes. Can you imitate it in software: yes (but here people will already start disagreeing with me). Do you really need to build an authentic system to have the exact same sound that a digital chip can make: no. Are you going for High Fidelity when you use these tricks to mould the original audio: heck no.
The very purpose of a Bill of Rights was to withdraw certain subjects from the vicissitudes of political controversy, to place them beyond the reach of majorities and officials and to establish them as legal principles to be applied by the courts. One’s right to life, liberty, and property, to free speech, a free press, freedom of worship and assembly, and other fundamental rights may not be submitted to vote; they depend on the outcome of no elections.
Take a look at the tesla roadster. They literally had to limit the motor as the first prototypes could bend their own axle with the torque it produced. It still has faster acceleration than any non-electric car produced so far, even the fancy Italians
Who says that's not what he's going to do? After all Steve started out as a hacker, hippie giving/selling blue boxes (to make FREE phone calls) into using free and open source software to make and launch his set of companies.
Rail can be used for a lot of things besides people.
In the us it (still) makes economic sense to put things cross-country on a tractor trailer while in Europe trucks don't make sense until the last 50 miles.
Amtrak has it's problems because it's a weird hybrid between private sector for-profit exploitation and government funding of said profit. Amtrak is still in business even though gas and a rental car for the whole trip makes more economic sense than a one-way ticket with their once-a-day service.
The problem in the us is that the electorate doesn't want to pay for anything but still expects similar services than countries with double and triple their (flat) tax rates.
I know this much from working in science: none of the hypervisors I know off (VMWare, VirtualBox, Parallels, KVM,...) have a very good track record when it comes to keeping stable time sources (whether ticked or tickless). All of them miss events or delay them which for keeping track of time is a bad thing.
I tend to keep most of my basic necessity networking off VM's. That includes NTP, LDAP, Kerberos and DNS. On my systems they are combined on a single hardware host with old-school security measures to keep the services contained.
If you followed the debates you may notice that both candidates have the same policies on those topics. Both Romney and Obama have said (on drone strikes, TSA, drug policy and guns): "I agree with the President" or "I agree with Governor Romney"
Why would they be in trouble? As far as I know there is nothing wrong with gearing your message to a specific voter population. See Fox News for example, they have their message tailored specifically to... let's say mentally challenged people... and it seems to work for them.
Why is it bad that DEC (a defunct company) can't profit from their imaginary property in a country that has no protection from or laws against such use. The US Government can also appropriate technology and materials from private corporations within their sovereign state without compensation.
DEC attempted to market their solution and failed miserably, they made their money back by selling it to Intel (so actually it's currently Intel's Imaginary Property). If someone else can improve upon their design (which was quite good actually especially in floating point operations) then I can only applaud their work. Just because it's the boogeyman-du-jour that's developing it doesn't make a difference to me.
The national salary rates for teachers (and most other public workers) are extremely skewed. Public workers (cops, teachers,...) are needed in all locations in the US, even the poorest areas of the Appalachian and places like the Mid-West and even though there are virtually no jobs in those areas and the average incomes are near the poverty line (I've lived there for a while). There still is a need for the same amount of public workers as in the middle of affluent suburbs (you still need an English teacher and a Spanish teacher and a math teacher and a postal worker and a police etc. etc.) even though class sizes are relatively small (small for the US where some center-city classes have almost a hundred kids).
I lived in a town where they didn't even have their own police force (it was basically state troopers checking in once in a while) but they still had a K-12 school with dozens of teachers.
I'm not saying it's a bad thing those areas have decent schooling available and the kids don't have to sit on a bus for 3-4 hours every day but they drive down the average salary rates enormously across the country. I've worked in and around education for the last decade and yes, most teachers make an average salary for the areas that they're in and some old-timers make more than that and they get a pretty sweet packaged deal as well if they're union. The teachers that don't either move around a lot or are brand new, the first 2-3 years as a teacher, the salaries are indeed abysmal but that's for any ol' job, if you start out in IT tech support you will only make 20-30k regardless of your location, if you can move on from there after a year or two into actual IT work, you can easily make more than the average income.
But with the advances in 3d printing and a decent audio test setup you could drive this down quite a bit. Also, some hearing aids I've seen simply have the custom shape molded around an existing design.
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The communications act of 1934 says has put the FCC in place "to provide for the use of such channels, but not the ownership thereof"
Therefore in the US at least it is entirely legal to receive transmitted wire or radio signals as the ownership of the spectrum belongs to all US residents. Maybe in the UK that's different but I believe they have similar provisions.
Individual states have more restrictive laws regarding 'theft of service' but afaik none have tested any arguments where the system implicitly allows access. Off course, meddling on someone else's private property to get access is criminal (such as breaking open the box down the street) but as long as a system delivers access to your property and you are not interfering with anyone else, legally, you are allowed to use it as you see fit as long as you remain within the legal limits of broadcasting your own signals.
The Met Office nor the Goddard Institute are PR departments, they are good scientific resources that incidentally also study climate change.
I don't know if Heartland Institute or State Policy Network have any ring to you (as a denier/Fox News viewer you must know them since they are the ones that fund all their bad research) but they are non-scientific think thanks and lobbyists networks funded by eg. Koch Industries, Walton Family Foundation (owners of Wal-Mart), Phillips-Morris, GlaxoSmithKline, ExxonMobil etc. in order to publicly (seminars, lobbying, targeted newspapers and even billboards and ads) to work against or deny things like increased taxes for the rich, increase in minimum wage, publicly funded health care, the validity of second hand smoke and yes, scientific research into global warming.
They are a well-oiled (conservative/republican) machine to delegitimize valid scientific research.
Well, I think if you actually rip out the copper out of the ground that isn't yours, then yes that may be a criminal offense.
But if you just connect a wire to a wire already in your house and there appears to be some signal on it, reading that signal is not (or shouldn't be) a criminal offense or considered stealing.
With stealing you permanently deprive someone of a tangible object.
Buy applications you actually get the source code to ESPECIALLY if they're custom made or very geared towards your specific problem. So many applications you buy now are going to be fine in 32-bit or 64-bit environments but what if the industry decides to go more towards an ARM variant within the next 2 decades?
A LOT of companies are seeing the mistakes they made now by buying into custom-made solutions that they have no control over and over the years the company has either stopped supporting the solution or gone out of business. Even Microsoft has a whole slew of software you probably never heard off (look around if you have an MSDN subscription) and actually doesn't run on Windows 7/8 64-bit. Off course whether or not those companies are going to make the same mistakes is up to them but I think in general history has shown that it's not a good idea to have your software locked up out of your control if you rely on it.
If you were married to consumer-grade Windows you had 16-bit apps until Windows XP came out, 32-bit was actually extra work and it would also run on the 16-bit subsystems in Windows NT without a hitch while compatibility between 32-bit on Windows 95-ME with NT/2000 was not guaranteed.
If on the other hand you would have developed with OS/2, various Unices, Solaris, VAX, BeOS or Linux in mind you would've gone 32-bit almost 3 decades ago.
There was no 32-bit Windows until NT and no consumer Windows was fully 32-bit until XP. Windows 95 introduced (some) 32-bit drivers and an interface that would allow you to run (some) 32-bit applications (a lot like DOS4GW did way better back then) but the underlying system was still MS-DOS.
The reason 8-bit and 16-bit (pure DOS and early Windows) applications are nigh impossible to run on 64-bit systems is because they request a switch to real mode from the CPU which means direct access to the full memory space and hardware.
DOSBox might be a solution here.
Typical Microsoft propaganda here.
You're comparing vulnerabilities found by external forces with totally no insight into the inner workings of an OS to all the vulnerabilities that are found by both external forces and people with intimate knowledge and years of experience in good coding for said system. For a good comparison, you would need to open source Windows and compare the leaks found both internally and externally at Microsoft and I'm not even talking about the methodology of your picking of statistics.
And you're right, MS doesn't rely on users to find bugs, as a matter of fact, trying to submit a bug and proper insight into the bug database at Microsoft is nearly impossible while Linux has (once again) an open system that everyone can use. This only speaks to the problem that Microsoft is having. As a company/team you can only test against a handful of systems usually in an automated fashion and concentrated on regression/unit tests. Your customers who actually use the software will have plenty of use cases that you can't anticipate.
I work in a highly specialized environment myself, using Linux/Mac is a no brainer because of the high flexibility in getting to do the hardware what you actually want while with Windows you're practically running into a wall at every turn because of the layers of crud that have assembled over the years.
That's not me saying it, that's Robert H. Jackson - US Attorney General, Supreme Court Justice, and chief United States prosecutor at the Nuremberg trials and the quote is from one of his cases in the mid-40's. So the "modern" politicians have been around for nearly 100 years.
Sorry for not appropriating the quote correctly.
You may be confusing access times but even if you aren't, your SCSI drive was probably a single-platter (which was common back then) while the current beasts are 4 platters. I think the current maximum is 1TB/platter and you'll find 4 of those in the 4TB drives.
The problem with most audio geeks (and I am one myself but I place myself out of this category) is that they claim certain things that either can't be true or are very difficult to verify. This whole thing with vacuum tubes is one thing, some other things include this reverb effect, vinyl clicks and pops as well as the "direction" arrows on (digital) cables that are only forged by elves during a full moon.
For me this would be the answer:
Does using ancient technology x produce a different sound: yes. Can you imitate it in software: yes (but here people will already start disagreeing with me). Do you really need to build an authentic system to have the exact same sound that a digital chip can make: no. Are you going for High Fidelity when you use these tricks to mould the original audio: heck no.
Say that to Robert Jackson
The very purpose of a Bill of Rights was to withdraw certain subjects from the vicissitudes of political controversy, to place them beyond the reach of majorities and officials and to establish them as legal principles to be applied by the courts. One’s right to life, liberty, and property, to free speech, a free press, freedom of worship and assembly, and other fundamental rights may not be submitted to vote; they depend on the outcome of no elections.
Adobe themselves does it. They have Acrobat X/XI on the marketing side but installation and license calls it Acrobat 10/11
And Elon created the Tesla's and his rockets etc. all by himself?
Take a look at the tesla roadster. They literally had to limit the motor as the first prototypes could bend their own axle with the torque it produced. It still has faster acceleration than any non-electric car produced so far, even the fancy Italians
Like they have always done. See Edison and Bell vs Marconi and Tesla
Who says that's not what he's going to do? After all Steve started out as a hacker, hippie giving/selling blue boxes (to make FREE phone calls) into using free and open source software to make and launch his set of companies.
Sound familiar?
Rail can be used for a lot of things besides people.
In the us it (still) makes economic sense to put things cross-country on a tractor trailer while in Europe trucks don't make sense until the last 50 miles.
Amtrak has it's problems because it's a weird hybrid between private sector for-profit exploitation and government funding of said profit. Amtrak is still in business even though gas and a rental car for the whole trip makes more economic sense than a one-way ticket with their once-a-day service.
The problem in the us is that the electorate doesn't want to pay for anything but still expects similar services than countries with double and triple their (flat) tax rates.
I know this much from working in science: none of the hypervisors I know off (VMWare, VirtualBox, Parallels, KVM, ...) have a very good track record when it comes to keeping stable time sources (whether ticked or tickless). All of them miss events or delay them which for keeping track of time is a bad thing.
I tend to keep most of my basic necessity networking off VM's. That includes NTP, LDAP, Kerberos and DNS. On my systems they are combined on a single hardware host with old-school security measures to keep the services contained.
Because who would be so dumb to trip over a wire.
If you followed the debates you may notice that both candidates have the same policies on those topics. Both Romney and Obama have said (on drone strikes, TSA, drug policy and guns): "I agree with the President" or "I agree with Governor Romney"
Why would they be in trouble? As far as I know there is nothing wrong with gearing your message to a specific voter population. See Fox News for example, they have their message tailored specifically to ... let's say mentally challenged people ... and it seems to work for them.
Why is it bad that DEC (a defunct company) can't profit from their imaginary property in a country that has no protection from or laws against such use. The US Government can also appropriate technology and materials from private corporations within their sovereign state without compensation.
DEC attempted to market their solution and failed miserably, they made their money back by selling it to Intel (so actually it's currently Intel's Imaginary Property). If someone else can improve upon their design (which was quite good actually especially in floating point operations) then I can only applaud their work. Just because it's the boogeyman-du-jour that's developing it doesn't make a difference to me.
The national salary rates for teachers (and most other public workers) are extremely skewed. Public workers (cops, teachers, ...) are needed in all locations in the US, even the poorest areas of the Appalachian and places like the Mid-West and even though there are virtually no jobs in those areas and the average incomes are near the poverty line (I've lived there for a while). There still is a need for the same amount of public workers as in the middle of affluent suburbs (you still need an English teacher and a Spanish teacher and a math teacher and a postal worker and a police etc. etc.) even though class sizes are relatively small (small for the US where some center-city classes have almost a hundred kids).
I lived in a town where they didn't even have their own police force (it was basically state troopers checking in once in a while) but they still had a K-12 school with dozens of teachers.
I'm not saying it's a bad thing those areas have decent schooling available and the kids don't have to sit on a bus for 3-4 hours every day but they drive down the average salary rates enormously across the country. I've worked in and around education for the last decade and yes, most teachers make an average salary for the areas that they're in and some old-timers make more than that and they get a pretty sweet packaged deal as well if they're union. The teachers that don't either move around a lot or are brand new, the first 2-3 years as a teacher, the salaries are indeed abysmal but that's for any ol' job, if you start out in IT tech support you will only make 20-30k regardless of your location, if you can move on from there after a year or two into actual IT work, you can easily make more than the average income.
But with the advances in 3d printing and a decent audio test setup you could drive this down quite a bit. Also, some hearing aids I've seen simply have the custom shape molded around an existing design.
Payed for by the government but still lists at 3000 (Belgium) - my great-aunt payed EUR 500 copay and she lives on welfare