What should happen is that they should stop overselling their pipes. If Comcast has 100Mbps of bandwidth for the 100 users on my node, then they shouldn't sell me a 6Mbps plan; it should be a 2Mbps plan at most. If I have a download running at 4AM and noone else is online, then there will be more empty bandwidth on the node, and I might get 6Mbps on my download as a "free bonus".
Then at least if everyone on the node is using the network at once, I'll have 50% of what Comcast sold me, instead of ~15%.
I was referring to the wiretapping of law office phones by the government, which requires a warrant.
Yes, a subpoena would be correct in the case of a competing lawyer wanting to get that information legally, though I don't think any judge would allow that either.
I'm not a lawyer, but I do study constitutional law in my spare time, and I didn't mess up the terminology. You just thought I was referring to a different part of the post.
What should actually happen is that they advertise the speed their infrastructure is capable of.
If Comcast has 100Mbps of total bandwidth available for the 100 customers on my node, then they should sell me a 1Mbps plan, even if it costs the same as my current "unlimited" 6Mbps plan, capped at 250GB. If I happen to get more than 1Mbps at times because my neighbors aren't using their bandwidth, then that's better for me, and for my ISP.
If they do that, then the information is protected against attorney-client privilege. Practically no judge would allow that privilege to be broken, so any warrants given under those circumstances would be thrown out.
I'm still not sure... if I were hard-set on buying a new video card without replacing my motherboard, I'd have to say I'd go for one of these cards instead:
So I could then be a whole two generations ahead of the cards you're recommending your customers.
Then again, I mostly play Valve games, so even with my P4 3.2 and 6600GT, I'm still CPU-bound most of the time.
That machine got me through my entire (5-year) college career, plus some -- that motherboard's seen 6 years of daily use. I doubled the RAM, went from a GF4-MX to a 6600GT, and have vastly more storage space, but it's ready for an upgrade. I'll probably do that this fall.
Disclaimer: I work for Intel, but what I said is based on my personal experience as a consumer. Until Larrabee comes out, I don't have an Intel-made discrete graphics card to pitch.:-P
This isn't "as part of their job", we're speaking of a private citizen here.
If a police officer finds evidence during an illegal search, it is thrown out under the Exclusionary Rule. "They should know better," says the court, and the punishment is that the prosecution has that much harder of a time trying the case.
Garbage cans that are still on the property of their owner (including the curtilage) are considered private under the law; if a police officer searches them, that's considered a Fourth Amendment violation. However, if a private citizen searches those garbage cans of their own accord (not after being asked to do so by a law enforcement officer), and turns over what they find to the police, then a judge may rule that evidence found in that search is admissible. They may rule otherwise, but it doesn't get thrown out automatically.
But he was saying that his understanding is that the general public is not held to the same standard; it's not a First Amendment violation, for example, if you were to chain the doors of a church shut for no reason, but it is if the government does it.
In the same way, an illegal search performed by a private citizen is not subject to the exclusionary principle -- the evidence found in such a search is not automatically thrown out.
Like you, much of my knowledge has been gleaned from "Law & Order", though I do research constitutional law on my own.
I can say that the "sweet spot" in graphics is between a 6200 and a 7600 on the Nvidia side with the 6600 and 7600 being quite popular and widely used, with the X1650PRO being quite popular on the ATI side of the pond.
While I think you have the right idea, your recommendations are a little out of date.
I still have a 6600GT myself, and I love it, but my motherboard is still running AGP, so I can't really get a new video card without upgrading my whole machine. For buying a new card though, I can't recommend the 6- or 7-series today.
The first couple pages are the price range you're talking about; cards that work for the majority of gamers, without killing their bank accounts. For ~$75, you can get a 4670 or 9600GT. Spending any less than that is pretty much a waste.
Make it harder for companies to have monopolies or duopolies. This is the system that's in place in most areas of the nation outside big cities.
Other companies may technically have an opportunity to join in and provide service to the people, but in practice it's just not possible anymore.
A friend of mine used to work at an ISP in New Hampshire. His company sent letters to all of their customers basically saying "Please support the legislation that will limit Verizon's stranglehold on New Hampshire". The ISPs connection to the outside world (provided by Verizon, surprise-surprise) went down that night. Two days later, they got a Verizon employee on the phone who apparently wasn't "in on it", and he was like "Oh, how did this configuration get changed?" and turned their connection back on.
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As I said in one of the other TWC threads:
What should happen is that they should stop overselling their pipes. If Comcast has 100Mbps of bandwidth for the 100 users on my node, then they shouldn't sell me a 6Mbps plan; it should be a 2Mbps plan at most. If I have a download running at 4AM and noone else is online, then there will be more empty bandwidth on the node, and I might get 6Mbps on my download as a "free bonus".
Then at least if everyone on the node is using the network at once, I'll have 50% of what Comcast sold me, instead of ~15%.
I'm moving to Sweden.
Anyone want to hire me?
DNS outages lasting hours at a time
The other complaints are more than valid, but OpenDNS works very well for me, as an alternative to Comcast's DNS servers.
But then the opposing counsel could just file a motion against the warrant, and you'd get a new judge.
If you miss that chance, then the trial judge will be different than the signing judge, and they may agree that the warrant should be invalidated.
I was referring to the wiretapping of law office phones by the government, which requires a warrant.
Yes, a subpoena would be correct in the case of a competing lawyer wanting to get that information legally, though I don't think any judge would allow that either.
I'm not a lawyer, but I do study constitutional law in my spare time, and I didn't mess up the terminology. You just thought I was referring to a different part of the post.
Are you sure you're not confusing bits and bytes? Cause 900 kilobytes per second is about 7 megabits per second. It's not 10, but it's decent.
If you did get it right, that's fine, I just wanted to make sure.
What should actually happen is that they advertise the speed their infrastructure is capable of.
If Comcast has 100Mbps of total bandwidth available for the 100 customers on my node, then they should sell me a 1Mbps plan, even if it costs the same as my current "unlimited" 6Mbps plan, capped at 250GB. If I happen to get more than 1Mbps at times because my neighbors aren't using their bandwidth, then that's better for me, and for my ISP.
If they do that, then the information is protected against attorney-client privilege. Practically no judge would allow that privilege to be broken, so any warrants given under those circumstances would be thrown out.
"A good start", right?
Ahahahahaha, you are asking Slashdot for advice on legal rules and standards to assist a lawyer?
I think he was hoping for two replies:
1) NYCL, or one of our other resident lawyers, giving him the advice he needs.
2) Someone else replying to that lawyer, saying simply "/thread".
magneto-optical
Is that a kind of technology Ian McKellen uses when he wants to see better?
So what about local government?
I think that a democrat in Austin (I don't know Washington well, so I don't know any right-leaning Washington towns) does have their vote count.
Microsoft's already attempting to solve your problem with Exchange, but you damned people refuse to use "Micro$oft" products!
Even better:
computer access codes, passwords, and/or protocols
Wow, you can store digital data in a computer protocol! I never knew!
Nope. GNU Hurd is the most secure operating system.
He took his cue from gizmodo. Blame them.
Hmm... maybe Obama is actually pro-P2P, and he's hiring all of the RIAA's lawyers away from them, so they'll fail in court?
We can only dream...
I'm still not sure... if I were hard-set on buying a new video card without replacing my motherboard, I'd have to say I'd go for one of these cards instead:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102814
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102730
So I could then be a whole two generations ahead of the cards you're recommending your customers.
Then again, I mostly play Valve games, so even with my P4 3.2 and 6600GT, I'm still CPU-bound most of the time.
That machine got me through my entire (5-year) college career, plus some -- that motherboard's seen 6 years of daily use. I doubled the RAM, went from a GF4-MX to a 6600GT, and have vastly more storage space, but it's ready for an upgrade. I'll probably do that this fall.
Disclaimer: I work for Intel, but what I said is based on my personal experience as a consumer. Until Larrabee comes out, I don't have an Intel-made discrete graphics card to pitch. :-P
This isn't "as part of their job", we're speaking of a private citizen here.
If a police officer finds evidence during an illegal search, it is thrown out under the Exclusionary Rule. "They should know better," says the court, and the punishment is that the prosecution has that much harder of a time trying the case.
Garbage cans that are still on the property of their owner (including the curtilage) are considered private under the law; if a police officer searches them, that's considered a Fourth Amendment violation. However, if a private citizen searches those garbage cans of their own accord (not after being asked to do so by a law enforcement officer), and turns over what they find to the police, then a judge may rule that evidence found in that search is admissible. They may rule otherwise, but it doesn't get thrown out automatically.
But he was saying that his understanding is that the general public is not held to the same standard; it's not a First Amendment violation, for example, if you were to chain the doors of a church shut for no reason, but it is if the government does it.
In the same way, an illegal search performed by a private citizen is not subject to the exclusionary principle -- the evidence found in such a search is not automatically thrown out.
Like you, much of my knowledge has been gleaned from "Law & Order", though I do research constitutional law on my own.
I can say that the "sweet spot" in graphics is between a 6200 and a 7600 on the Nvidia side with the 6600 and 7600 being quite popular and widely used, with the X1650PRO being quite popular on the ATI side of the pond.
While I think you have the right idea, your recommendations are a little out of date.
I still have a 6600GT myself, and I love it, but my motherboard is still running AGP, so I can't really get a new video card without upgrading my whole machine. For buying a new card though, I can't recommend the 6- or 7-series today.
http://anandtech.com/guides/showdoc.aspx?i=3538
The first couple pages are the price range you're talking about; cards that work for the majority of gamers, without killing their bank accounts. For ~$75, you can get a 4670 or 9600GT. Spending any less than that is pretty much a waste.
I love that episode!
The correct quote:
"My eyes! The goggles do nothing!"
It's a common misquote, don't worry.
I'm a libertarian, and I still think that preventing/punishing monopolistic business practices is within the list of powers governments should have.
Make it harder for companies to have monopolies or duopolies. This is the system that's in place in most areas of the nation outside big cities.
Other companies may technically have an opportunity to join in and provide service to the people, but in practice it's just not possible anymore.
A friend of mine used to work at an ISP in New Hampshire. His company sent letters to all of their customers basically saying "Please support the legislation that will limit Verizon's stranglehold on New Hampshire". The ISPs connection to the outside world (provided by Verizon, surprise-surprise) went down that night. Two days later, they got a Verizon employee on the phone who apparently wasn't "in on it", and he was like "Oh, how did this configuration get changed?" and turned their connection back on.