To put this in perspective, the guy being quoted in TFA was talking about international roaming rates. If you take your iPhone to Europe and use the EDGE connection you will be paying $0.0195/kb, that is $19.97 per MB used.
That $15.86/day is looking a little better isn't it.
For what it's worth I agree that the 10 euros a day is way too high. If you go to Europe, it will probably be a good idea to disable the EDGE connection for the duration as the iPhone will check the email automatically.
It costs a great deal of money to construct a cell tower. The lower the population density in a particular area, the lower the potential revenue from that area.
Look at it another way. The average cost to build a cell tower in the US is roughly 1 million dollars.http://www.steelintheair.com/Municipalities-Building-Your-Own-Cell-Tower.html DOCOMO can afford to have bleeding edge technology for their customers because the area they need to cover is immensely smaller per subscriber than the US carriers.
I'm almost positive you can get a static ip on uverse if you bitch hard enough. Hell, we will give you a static IP on your wireless modem if your a business customer, granted you'll get charged through the nose for it but it's available.
disclaimer:I work as a tech in a call center for at&t
I still work on a tech desk for a US cell phone carrier. We used to operate regional NOCs. If there was an outage we knew about it within 20 minutes. Then we got a new CEO and now we have only one NOC for the whole country. Now we are lucky if we have confirmation of an outage the same day as we start reporting it.
One definition of insanity is performing the same action over and over again and expecting different results. This applies to Congress who seems to think passing more legislation will stop the behavior of the intelligence community. It applies to the Intelligence community who have been eavesdropping on us since the 50's and STILL didn't stop 19 foreign nationals from hijacking a few planes and crashing them into buildings.
(and here is the part that is going to get me modded down as flamebait) It also applies to everyone of us, including myself, who have pissed and moaned about Big Brother for years and haven't done a thing about it. If we want things to change, we have no one to count on for that except ourselves.
It's bad enough that the Lindor argument seems to be "hey judge, that person is accusing me of doing something bad, and yeah they've got the prima facie evidence of what I did, so let me start with frivolous demands for the most technical aspects of how they realized my IP downloaded THEIR song (or in rape situations, penis in vagina) in hopes of finding some technical mis-statement on behalf of someone so I can cast doubt on the system that DID work and DID catch me downloading their song (or, raping them)
That's not what's going on here. It's more along the lines of "This person accused me of something bad, so let me start with determining the credibility of their evidence, the chain of custody for that evidence, and the error rate for the methods they used to collect said evidence"
Comparing this to the "slutty girl" defense is inaccurate. The defense is challenging the methods that MediaSentry used to collect the evidence. Although it would be interesting to know how many of the subpoenas issued to ISPs have been responded to with "That IP address was not assigned to a subscriber at time in question" as it would directly relate to the error rate of MediaSentry's methods.
A guy I work with has one of these homicidal octopi in his head. Talk to a thousand people with a glioblastoma and I'll bet you'll get a thousand people willing to give this "cure" a shot. Today. Without the clinical trials.
Only one problem with that idea. It wouldn't work. The virus kills the tumor cell by reproducing inside the cell until the cell ruptures. If the virus can't reproduce, it can't kill the cancer.
I think your missing the point. For the sake of argument, lets presume that US copyright laws are fair (which I don't believe they are in their current state). Would the tactics the RIAA is using be acceptable?
I have to speak up on this one. I'll start by saying that the current copyright and patent systems in the US are corrupt. Patents are handed out like candy and copyrights last way too long. The idea of copyrights and patents are great ideas, but their present implementation sucks. They have both drifted a long way from where they were first founded. Patents were designed to allow an inventor working in his basement going bankrupt to develop an invention to protect that work so he could make some money off of it before companies with huge bankrolls started copying the idea and mass marketing it. The same with copyright. They were both initially intended to protect the little guy. That spirit of both concepts have sadly been twisted into something appalling.
The concepts of copyright and patents are more relevant than ever before because of the advances in technologies we have seen over the last century. Their duration, restrictions and ease of acquirement are grossly out of touch with the current needs of society. Is it right for us as a society to protect the work of someone for a period of time so that person can derive an income for said work? Yes, but that protection should last a shorter time, not longer. Maybe something around 5 years would be appropriate.
Disclaimer: I hold a degree in Industrial Design. The purpose of ID is to produce IP.
maybe thats where I'm getting confused. "Edisons" as I know them where cylinders of plaster with a hard wax coating, later the wax was replaced with a hard plastic called amberol if memory serves. Early 78's were made of shellac (and other ingredients as you said).
Super thick Edison "vinyls"? I'm pretty sure they are made from shellac, not vinyl. Mainly because I used to hit the used record shops and antique stores in New Orleans for the broken ones they had. You break them up further, put the pieces in a lidded glass jar with some lacquer thinner, wait about a week and strain it and you have one helluva good black lacquer for wood working.
I work for one of the telcos in question (AT&T) and even I think they should have the book thrown at them for trampling our civil rights at the behest of our government. Yes I am fully aware that I could very well lose my job due to layoffs as a result of the fallout that would occur if the telcos are not granted immunity. Yes, i'm okay with that. I would much rather have to find a different job than have violations of my civil rights officially sanctioned by the Congress. Yes I have written to my congress critters to let them know.
In the first sentence they are saying that mp3s themselves are an infringement as they are not the "authorized copies distributed by the Plaintiffs." In the second sentence they are saying that the act of sharing the files via KaZaA is also infringement.
Okay, this is the second post with the "if your caught poaching they can take your boat" argument as justification for civil forfeiture. It's apples and oranges people! If you are caught poaching that is a criminal offense, for which you are either cited or arrested. If you are cited you can appear in court and have an opportunity to defend yourself or just pay the fine. If you are arrested you will appear in court. If you are unlucky enough to have your property seized without being charged with a criminal offense you have no recourse to prove your innocence. Hell, even if you do win, it's civil court where the government can sue you again and again and again until they run you out of money and keep all your stuff anyway. Remember, it's not the RIAA that this legislation is empowering to seize your assets, it's your government.
I wonder if this could be used in areas where coastal erosion is a problem. Seems like a good idea to harvest the wave energy instead of using a breakwater to accomplish the same purpose.
There is a flaw in your logic. You assume that the rate of reproduction would be the same for both groups. It wouldn't. How many very smart people have you seen with large families? Now, compare that to how many families you've seen that are large and completely dysfunctional (by your logic carriers of undesirable traits). The stupid people are breeding at a much higher rate. They are not going to weed themselves out because they ARE the weeds. I guess we'll just have to start getting rid of people who are not genetically pure.
To me that sentiment is the start of a slippery slope. Once genetic profiling becomes more popular, how long will it be until someone decides that it's not worth the risk to the genetic future of humanity to allow undesirable traits to be passed on.
If you think for an instant that this is beyond the realm of possibility, take a look at the history of the Nazis. The final solution was justified by eugenics
Not to put a damper on your Verizon bashing, but...
I work for AT&T's tech desk and we get calls all the time about the same issue with certain models of LG phones. It's not the carrier who makes the decision on how to comply with this law. Its the manufacturer of the handset as they would be the ones held liable for the device not complying, and yes I know the carrier would be sued too, but they would just counter sue the manufacturer.
The carrier and the manufacturer are not really to blame here. If you want to bash someone for this, write a letter to your Congressman.
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Actually more like "bearing false witness" than perjury, as in "Thou shall not bear false witness against thy neighbor."
I am far too lazy to read the article so I'll just come back in couple hours.
Only if the camera was pointed at Simon for the whole episode.
To put this in perspective, the guy being quoted in TFA was talking about international roaming rates. If you take your iPhone to Europe and use the EDGE connection you will be paying $0.0195/kb, that is $19.97 per MB used.
That $15.86/day is looking a little better isn't it.
For what it's worth I agree that the 10 euros a day is way too high. If you go to Europe, it will probably be a good idea to disable the EDGE connection for the duration as the iPhone will check the email automatically.
The US is so far behind other countries when it comes to wireless service for one reason. Population density.
United States 3,537,441 square miles. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States
pop 303 million
pop/sq mile 86 people
Europe 4,000,000 square miles. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Europe
pop 728 million
pop/sq mile 182 people
Japan 145,869 square miles. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japan
pop 125 million
pop/sq mile 857 people
It costs a great deal of money to construct a cell tower. The lower the population density in a particular area, the lower the potential revenue from that area. Look at it another way. The average cost to build a cell tower in the US is roughly 1 million dollars.http://www.steelintheair.com/Municipalities-Building-Your-Own-Cell-Tower.html DOCOMO can afford to have bleeding edge technology for their customers because the area they need to cover is immensely smaller per subscriber than the US carriers.
I'm almost positive you can get a static ip on uverse if you bitch hard enough. Hell, we will give you a static IP on your wireless modem if your a business customer, granted you'll get charged through the nose for it but it's available.
disclaimer:I work as a tech in a call center for at&t
I still work on a tech desk for a US cell phone carrier. We used to operate regional NOCs. If there was an outage we knew about it within 20 minutes. Then we got a new CEO and now we have only one NOC for the whole country. Now we are lucky if we have confirmation of an outage the same day as we start reporting it.
It wasn't plagiarism according to the article. TFA states all the students were given different questions.
If I can't copy your work but can learn from it, is that still cheating?
One definition of insanity is performing the same action over and over again and expecting different results. This applies to Congress who seems to think passing more legislation will stop the behavior of the intelligence community. It applies to the Intelligence community who have been eavesdropping on us since the 50's and STILL didn't stop 19 foreign nationals from hijacking a few planes and crashing them into buildings.
(and here is the part that is going to get me modded down as flamebait) It also applies to everyone of us, including myself, who have pissed and moaned about Big Brother for years and haven't done a thing about it. If we want things to change, we have no one to count on for that except ourselves.
That's not what's going on here. It's more along the lines of "This person accused me of something bad, so let me start with determining the credibility of their evidence, the chain of custody for that evidence, and the error rate for the methods they used to collect said evidence"
Comparing this to the "slutty girl" defense is inaccurate. The defense is challenging the methods that MediaSentry used to collect the evidence. Although it would be interesting to know how many of the subpoenas issued to ISPs have been responded to with "That IP address was not assigned to a subscriber at time in question" as it would directly relate to the error rate of MediaSentry's methods.
A guy I work with has one of these homicidal octopi in his head. Talk to a thousand people with a glioblastoma and I'll bet you'll get a thousand people willing to give this "cure" a shot. Today. Without the clinical trials.
Only one problem with that idea. It wouldn't work. The virus kills the tumor cell by reproducing inside the cell until the cell ruptures. If the virus can't reproduce, it can't kill the cancer.
Aww...How cute. The little troll is trying to make a funny. Did both your parents have the same last name before they got hitched?
I think your missing the point. For the sake of argument, lets presume that US copyright laws are fair (which I don't believe they are in their current state). Would the tactics the RIAA is using be acceptable?
One word. Experience.
I have to speak up on this one. I'll start by saying that the current copyright and patent systems in the US are corrupt. Patents are handed out like candy and copyrights last way too long. The idea of copyrights and patents are great ideas, but their present implementation sucks. They have both drifted a long way from where they were first founded. Patents were designed to allow an inventor working in his basement going bankrupt to develop an invention to protect that work so he could make some money off of it before companies with huge bankrolls started copying the idea and mass marketing it. The same with copyright. They were both initially intended to protect the little guy. That spirit of both concepts have sadly been twisted into something appalling.
The concepts of copyright and patents are more relevant than ever before because of the advances in technologies we have seen over the last century. Their duration, restrictions and ease of acquirement are grossly out of touch with the current needs of society. Is it right for us as a society to protect the work of someone for a period of time so that person can derive an income for said work? Yes, but that protection should last a shorter time, not longer. Maybe something around 5 years would be appropriate.
Disclaimer: I hold a degree in Industrial Design. The purpose of ID is to produce IP.
maybe thats where I'm getting confused. "Edisons" as I know them where cylinders of plaster with a hard wax coating, later the wax was replaced with a hard plastic called amberol if memory serves. Early 78's were made of shellac (and other ingredients as you said).
Super thick Edison "vinyls"? I'm pretty sure they are made from shellac, not vinyl. Mainly because I used to hit the used record shops and antique stores in New Orleans for the broken ones they had. You break them up further, put the pieces in a lidded glass jar with some lacquer thinner, wait about a week and strain it and you have one helluva good black lacquer for wood working.
I work for one of the telcos in question (AT&T) and even I think they should have the book thrown at them for trampling our civil rights at the behest of our government. Yes I am fully aware that I could very well lose my job due to layoffs as a result of the fallout that would occur if the telcos are not granted immunity. Yes, i'm okay with that. I would much rather have to find a different job than have violations of my civil rights officially sanctioned by the Congress. Yes I have written to my congress critters to let them know.
Two separate things going on in that statement.
In the first sentence they are saying that mp3s themselves are an infringement as they are not the "authorized copies distributed by the Plaintiffs."
In the second sentence they are saying that the act of sharing the files via KaZaA is also infringement.
Okay, this is the second post with the "if your caught poaching they can take your boat" argument as justification for civil forfeiture. It's apples and oranges people! If you are caught poaching that is a criminal offense, for which you are either cited or arrested. If you are cited you can appear in court and have an opportunity to defend yourself or just pay the fine. If you are arrested you will appear in court. If you are unlucky enough to have your property seized without being charged with a criminal offense you have no recourse to prove your innocence. Hell, even if you do win, it's civil court where the government can sue you again and again and again until they run you out of money and keep all your stuff anyway. Remember, it's not the RIAA that this legislation is empowering to seize your assets, it's your government.
I wonder if this could be used in areas where coastal erosion is a problem. Seems like a good idea to harvest the wave energy instead of using a breakwater to accomplish the same purpose.
I completely agree with you about the welfare state. I also think that the "smart" people need to start breeding like rabbits.
I felt like putting a bullet between the eyes of every Panda that wouldn't screw to save its species
There is a flaw in your logic. You assume that the rate of reproduction would be the same for both groups. It wouldn't. How many very smart people have you seen with large families? Now, compare that to how many families you've seen that are large and completely dysfunctional (by your logic carriers of undesirable traits). The stupid people are breeding at a much higher rate. They are not going to weed themselves out because they ARE the weeds. I guess we'll just have to start getting rid of people who are not genetically pure. To me that sentiment is the start of a slippery slope. Once genetic profiling becomes more popular, how long will it be until someone decides that it's not worth the risk to the genetic future of humanity to allow undesirable traits to be passed on. If you think for an instant that this is beyond the realm of possibility, take a look at the history of the Nazis. The final solution was justified by eugenics
Not to put a damper on your Verizon bashing, but... I work for AT&T's tech desk and we get calls all the time about the same issue with certain models of LG phones. It's not the carrier who makes the decision on how to comply with this law. Its the manufacturer of the handset as they would be the ones held liable for the device not complying, and yes I know the carrier would be sued too, but they would just counter sue the manufacturer. The carrier and the manufacturer are not really to blame here. If you want to bash someone for this, write a letter to your Congressman.