Actually, it is part of net neutrality. Yes, financial endpoint agnosticism is the major issue that's being bandied about under the Net Neutrality banner. Yes, bandwidth endpoint agnosticism is a frequent visitor to the table. But honoring QoS needs is a portion of net neutrality that's rarely mentioned.
You say:
Net Neutrality also prevents content blocking. Ex: A company wants to push its $15/mo IPTV on its customers, so it blocks Youtube unless it's paid $3/mo for access to it, or you have their TV plan.
ISP A doesn't need to block Youtube to make it pointless, just muck around with the latency until it's jittery and a pain to watch. They can claim it's bandwidth is unimpeded and they're not demanding fees, but they're still clearly pushing their IPTV service by making it comparatively better. Talk to people in Canada about using skype or other VOIP services on some of the ISP's who are pushing their own VOIP products.
Those would fall under QoS manipulations. Streaming video, audio, and game packets require low latency. File transfer in the form of torrents, FTP, or HTTP are not latency sensitive. By acknowledging this and working within the bounds, most traffic congestion could be cleared up without negatively affecting anyone's service.
The problem, as shown by several posts, is that some people will try to force all of their packets to low latency QoS because 'fuck the system, me first' even if it hampers rather than enhances their actual service.
If you're the US, then you just ignore the WTO rulings and bring more suits against other countries for not abiding by the rules. Consider Canadian soft woods and Antigua online betting. Both complaints against the US were ruled in the complaining countries favor, and the US has ignored the ruling and in the case of Online gambling stepped up the legal and rhetoric responses to the complaints.
I think the main reason that the US would directly interfere with Costa Rica is that they know they're not going to get any satisfaction from the WTO until they come in line with the existing rulings against them.
It's fairly trivial to get your corporate CA recognized. It runs just a couple of hundred to get a root cert from someone who is in most CA lists. As long as your cert has the leading certs that trace back, it'll be recognized.
There are entire buildings belonging to the Govt that are treated this way. It's been done for a long time as a way to prevent evesdropping on EM broadcasts from microphones & speakers.
From what I understand, it's pretty standard SIP calling. I'm considering picking it up to use to route outgoing calls through (Asterisk Server). There was talk about offering a SIP only plan without the MJ itself, but that's still a no-show.
The copy protection on DVDs is not the same as the DRM on media files, there is no shared key or anything of the sort. It is simply encryption designed to make it difficult to copy (it has also been very, very cracked).
You know that and I know that, Windows doesn't. It is/was a known issue Microsloth for DVD R disks.
No, they don't. It is based on what is read from the disk itself. Like I said, it was probably a hosed driver or something. There isn't a key in windows that plays DVDs, the key is on an area of the DVD that is not writable on writeable DVDs. That makes direct copying impossible, the encryption must be circumvented entirely before it can be written to a new DVD.
That wasn't a problem with DRM, you simply didn't actually fix whatever the virus screwed up.
Yeah, I sort of know that something isn't fixed- the problem is that every listed solution available to fix the problem short of a burndown fails. So yes, it is a problem with DRM - the data is available (plays from VLC) and can legally and legitimately be played, however due to encryption who's sole surviving function is to screw up legitimate users, it is unable to be used by the programs bought to do exactly that. Knowing Windows, the problem is most likely a single registry entry buried in some sub-sub-sub folder clearly labeled {CADLKJDEFO*IHJ$:LKNDSLKJW} and containing 'J' when it should obviously be 'K'.
But what is there about the technology that makes PSTN more reliable than IP-based telephony? AFAICT, there is nothing fundamental that makes a PSTN-based communication network superior.
First, all the PSTN systems use packet routing systems after the local office, so there is NO difference beyond the 'last mile' (however long that mile is). The problems with VoIP come at the residential area and they boil down to prolonged power outages.
FIOS & Cable phone services are both required to include a battery backup on the residential end of the connection to ensure phone service in the event of a power outage. For people using VoIP services, this is handled by the recommendation of a UPS to power the modem/router that the phones are plugged into. Those are great for the first 6-10 hours. 5 days into a power outage, those batteries are long dead, but the phone companies plant has a generator in the back room still pushing out calls over the POTS lines.
Now, the question is, does a prolonged power outage that doesn't take out the majority of physical phone lines happen often enough to make a difference? The major causes of prolonged blackouts are weather related - hurricane, tornado, ice storm, etc. - and they tend to take out huge swaths of phone lines along with the power lines. Do the other problems - shorted substations, damaged high-tension lines, etc. - constitute a large enough issue to be worried about? I don't know the statistics, so I can't weigh in intelligently on the answer.
The next question is, how many people ONLY have cordless phones nowdays? I have 1 corded phone in my house - it's on a shelf in the basement with the emergency supplies. I know several people who don't even have that. With that trend, how long before the POTS line having power is irrelevant anyway since all the phones in most of the houses are dead anyway?
Fsck you DRM! You SUCK! The written word is to important to be censored!
Worse than DRM is broken DRM. I worked on a PC that had a virus break Media player. I pulled media player (rolled back from 11), ciniplayer and everything else on the damn thing that has to do with DVD codecs and then reinstalled. It worked before the virus, but no matter what I did, it told me that there is a key exchange problem & can't read the DVD.
Now, you figure that if you install a DVD player program from the MFG disk, it should work right? No. Ciniplayer, Realplayer, and Media player all fall back to some inner working in Windows to authenticate & play a DVD. If that's borked, you're screwed. And don't look for help fixing it, because MS & every other company blames the other.
Actually Grokster shouldn't apply since the materials hosted on IsoHunt don't actually contain any materials belonging to MPAA. Nor does any MPAA material pass through the IsoHunt system.
Nor am I certain that the judges decision that a provision of federal law can just be thrown out because he wants to is going to stand up to an appeals decision.
Finally, suing a Canadian company with no assets in the US is a crock of shit. Since the courts are continually complaining about their load, I would really hope that more of them would start to throw these cases out based on jurisdiction.
Take a look at Wallyworld now. If you check the Verizon rack on the pre-paid phones and then look at the phones for contracts, you'll see that getting a basic phone locks you into a $350 ETF for a $45 phone. And yes, you can buy the $45 phone and then put it on a monthly account without an ETF.
He actually doesn't have standing to copyright his name. He didn't engage in the creative act - his parents did. By filing the paperwork saying he did, he's committed an act of fraud.
Outside of that, he's not the first criminal to pull this stunt. It's going nowhere and any attempt to enforce it will be laughed out of court - probably with sanctions for any lawyer who actually brings it.
2. If you're salaried, the compensation should appear in your normal wage instead of as a hourly bonus. (For example as the retainer mentioned previously in the thread) Salaried doesn't mean, "Do everything your employer says, even on your off time."
If it's in your contract it does. If I have 2 jobs that are identical work, but one requires that I be "on-call" 24/7 every other week, you bet your ass I'm going to get paid more for it. If you took the on-call job without a higher rate of pay, you were an idiot.
Actually, they can. Military treaties have to be approved by the Senate, but if the authority of the president permits him to pass an executive order governing the contents of the treaty, only he needs to sign it. It's a process called Fast Tracking and this wouldn't be the first one to be approved that way.
Yet alcohol is 100% legal in any amounts, and all other drugs (of which some are safe and actually beneficial (e.g. THC is a powerful antidepressant and apparently improves the condition of Alzheimer's patients)) are 100% illegal in any amounts.
Not true - the Federal government has a few people for whom pot is deemed a "Medical Necessity". Sort of makes the Schedule 1 - "no currently accepted medical use" - classification of pot seem a bit political rather than medical doesn't it?
in response to a task being prohibited based on a user's current account not having a right to permit the task
Emphasis mine. Sudo does not do this. Thus, this patent does not cover sudo. Fini.
This is a patent on using a custom error handler as a wrapper to call sudo, so you're right: it's not sudo. On the other hand, using existing tools for what they are designed for isn't supposed to rise to the level of patent-ability.
Actually in the US, phone companies pay a huge fine if their service goes down for any length of time. That's why the central office in each area has enough batter/backup generator reserve to keep the phones going for up to 6 days during a power outage.
Up until 2 months ago, my main development box was an AMD Athalon 1700+. My Java work was through Eclipse, my web work was in vim over an SSH connection to my server, and both were capable of running faster than I could type.
I've given away faster systems because I didn't need anything faster for what the box was. I finally upgraded because the MB melted down in a thunder storm. The need to wave around the biggest E-penis is counter productive for most people.
Humans have had sex with anything that has a hole. The real question is with what frequency and what success. If there were hybrid human-neanderthal babies running around, that would be interesting. It would also explain the existence of 4chan.
As an official representative of the Neanderthal Anti-Defamation League, I must insist that you cease and desist in this derogatory comparison of our highly evolved Neanderthal friends and the uncultured apes from 4chan.
People using sports statistics and schedules have been sued via copyright law. The last suits I remember seeing resulted in a win for the people using them.
The checksum is a fact and as such cannot be covered under copyright. Processing the binary through the specified checksum algorithm will always provide the same result, there is no creative input in the result.
Under a sane copyright paradigm, the binaries themselves would fall under the same ruling. However it's been determined that the act of selecting the compiler and it's settings is sufficiently creative to enable the processing of source code into binaries to qualify as an independent creative work.
I've been out of work for 11 months now. I'm dreading that form come tax time.
And yes, I've been in the same situation - even a 40hr junk job means I loose money at the end of the week. Why on earth would I spend 40hrs a week hating what I was doing when I could spend 2-3 hours a day looking for a job (takes that long to go through my temp agencies and the 5 or 6 websites I search) and make more?
And just how much are you supposed to have in savings? I've been unemployed for just over a year now. This follows 3 years of having a job following 18 months of underemployment (1/2 my previous wage) following 6 months of unemployment with no unemployment benefits. I literally had just paid off the last of my CC debt accrued from the period of underemployment when I was laid off.
Even doing that, I had a 3 month cushion to live on. That's only left me with 10 months of being unemployed to try and figure out how to live on half my salary.
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Actually, it is part of net neutrality. Yes, financial endpoint agnosticism is the major issue that's being bandied about under the Net Neutrality banner. Yes, bandwidth endpoint agnosticism is a frequent visitor to the table. But honoring QoS needs is a portion of net neutrality that's rarely mentioned.
You say:
ISP A doesn't need to block Youtube to make it pointless, just muck around with the latency until it's jittery and a pain to watch. They can claim it's bandwidth is unimpeded and they're not demanding fees, but they're still clearly pushing their IPTV service by making it comparatively better. Talk to people in Canada about using skype or other VOIP services on some of the ISP's who are pushing their own VOIP products.
Those would fall under QoS manipulations. Streaming video, audio, and game packets require low latency. File transfer in the form of torrents, FTP, or HTTP are not latency sensitive. By acknowledging this and working within the bounds, most traffic congestion could be cleared up without negatively affecting anyone's service.
The problem, as shown by several posts, is that some people will try to force all of their packets to low latency QoS because 'fuck the system, me first' even if it hampers rather than enhances their actual service.
If you're the US, then you just ignore the WTO rulings and bring more suits against other countries for not abiding by the rules. Consider Canadian soft woods and Antigua online betting. Both complaints against the US were ruled in the complaining countries favor, and the US has ignored the ruling and in the case of Online gambling stepped up the legal and rhetoric responses to the complaints.
I think the main reason that the US would directly interfere with Costa Rica is that they know they're not going to get any satisfaction from the WTO until they come in line with the existing rulings against them.
It's fairly trivial to get your corporate CA recognized. It runs just a couple of hundred to get a root cert from someone who is in most CA lists. As long as your cert has the leading certs that trace back, it'll be recognized.
There are entire buildings belonging to the Govt that are treated this way. It's been done for a long time as a way to prevent evesdropping on EM broadcasts from microphones & speakers.
From what I understand, it's pretty standard SIP calling. I'm considering picking it up to use to route outgoing calls through (Asterisk Server). There was talk about offering a SIP only plan without the MJ itself, but that's still a no-show.
You know that and I know that, Windows doesn't. It is/was a known issue Microsloth for DVD R disks.
Yeah, I sort of know that something isn't fixed- the problem is that every listed solution available to fix the problem short of a burndown fails. So yes, it is a problem with DRM - the data is available (plays from VLC) and can legally and legitimately be played, however due to encryption who's sole surviving function is to screw up legitimate users, it is unable to be used by the programs bought to do exactly that. Knowing Windows, the problem is most likely a single registry entry buried in some sub-sub-sub folder clearly labeled {CADLKJDEFO*IHJ$:LKNDSLKJW} and containing 'J' when it should obviously be 'K'.
First, all the PSTN systems use packet routing systems after the local office, so there is NO difference beyond the 'last mile' (however long that mile is). The problems with VoIP come at the residential area and they boil down to prolonged power outages.
FIOS & Cable phone services are both required to include a battery backup on the residential end of the connection to ensure phone service in the event of a power outage. For people using VoIP services, this is handled by the recommendation of a UPS to power the modem/router that the phones are plugged into. Those are great for the first 6-10 hours. 5 days into a power outage, those batteries are long dead, but the phone companies plant has a generator in the back room still pushing out calls over the POTS lines.
Now, the question is, does a prolonged power outage that doesn't take out the majority of physical phone lines happen often enough to make a difference? The major causes of prolonged blackouts are weather related - hurricane, tornado, ice storm, etc. - and they tend to take out huge swaths of phone lines along with the power lines. Do the other problems - shorted substations, damaged high-tension lines, etc. - constitute a large enough issue to be worried about? I don't know the statistics, so I can't weigh in intelligently on the answer.
The next question is, how many people ONLY have cordless phones nowdays? I have 1 corded phone in my house - it's on a shelf in the basement with the emergency supplies. I know several people who don't even have that. With that trend, how long before the POTS line having power is irrelevant anyway since all the phones in most of the houses are dead anyway?
Worse than DRM is broken DRM. I worked on a PC that had a virus break Media player. I pulled media player (rolled back from 11), ciniplayer and everything else on the damn thing that has to do with DVD codecs and then reinstalled. It worked before the virus, but no matter what I did, it told me that there is a key exchange problem & can't read the DVD.
Now, you figure that if you install a DVD player program from the MFG disk, it should work right? No. Ciniplayer, Realplayer, and Media player all fall back to some inner working in Windows to authenticate & play a DVD. If that's borked, you're screwed. And don't look for help fixing it, because MS & every other company blames the other.
Actually Grokster shouldn't apply since the materials hosted on IsoHunt don't actually contain any materials belonging to MPAA. Nor does any MPAA material pass through the IsoHunt system.
Nor am I certain that the judges decision that a provision of federal law can just be thrown out because he wants to is going to stand up to an appeals decision.
Finally, suing a Canadian company with no assets in the US is a crock of shit. Since the courts are continually complaining about their load, I would really hope that more of them would start to throw these cases out based on jurisdiction.
Take a look at Wallyworld now. If you check the Verizon rack on the pre-paid phones and then look at the phones for contracts, you'll see that getting a basic phone locks you into a $350 ETF for a $45 phone. And yes, you can buy the $45 phone and then put it on a monthly account without an ETF.
He actually doesn't have standing to copyright his name. He didn't engage in the creative act - his parents did. By filing the paperwork saying he did, he's committed an act of fraud. Outside of that, he's not the first criminal to pull this stunt. It's going nowhere and any attempt to enforce it will be laughed out of court - probably with sanctions for any lawyer who actually brings it.
The original teleconference was in the city management office, not in jail.
If it's in your contract it does. If I have 2 jobs that are identical work, but one requires that I be "on-call" 24/7 every other week, you bet your ass I'm going to get paid more for it. If you took the on-call job without a higher rate of pay, you were an idiot.
Actually, they can. Military treaties have to be approved by the Senate, but if the authority of the president permits him to pass an executive order governing the contents of the treaty, only he needs to sign it. It's a process called Fast Tracking and this wouldn't be the first one to be approved that way.
sudo bash
works for Ubuntu without ever activating root login. It's what I use when I go in to edit .conf files.
Not true - the Federal government has a few people for whom pot is deemed a "Medical Necessity". Sort of makes the Schedule 1 - "no currently accepted medical use" - classification of pot seem a bit political rather than medical doesn't it?
This is a patent on using a custom error handler as a wrapper to call sudo, so you're right: it's not sudo. On the other hand, using existing tools for what they are designed for isn't supposed to rise to the level of patent-ability.
Actually in the US, phone companies pay a huge fine if their service goes down for any length of time. That's why the central office in each area has enough batter/backup generator reserve to keep the phones going for up to 6 days during a power outage.
Up until 2 months ago, my main development box was an AMD Athalon 1700+. My Java work was through Eclipse, my web work was in vim over an SSH connection to my server, and both were capable of running faster than I could type.
I've given away faster systems because I didn't need anything faster for what the box was. I finally upgraded because the MB melted down in a thunder storm. The need to wave around the biggest E-penis is counter productive for most people.
As an official representative of the Neanderthal Anti-Defamation League, I must insist that you cease and desist in this derogatory comparison of our highly evolved Neanderthal friends and the uncultured apes from 4chan.
People using sports statistics and schedules have been sued via copyright law. The last suits I remember seeing resulted in a win for the people using them.
The checksum is a fact and as such cannot be covered under copyright. Processing the binary through the specified checksum algorithm will always provide the same result, there is no creative input in the result.
Under a sane copyright paradigm, the binaries themselves would fall under the same ruling. However it's been determined that the act of selecting the compiler and it's settings is sufficiently creative to enable the processing of source code into binaries to qualify as an independent creative work.
I've been out of work for 11 months now. I'm dreading that form come tax time.
And yes, I've been in the same situation - even a 40hr junk job means I loose money at the end of the week. Why on earth would I spend 40hrs a week hating what I was doing when I could spend 2-3 hours a day looking for a job (takes that long to go through my temp agencies and the 5 or 6 websites I search) and make more?
And just how much are you supposed to have in savings? I've been unemployed for just over a year now. This follows 3 years of having a job following 18 months of underemployment (1/2 my previous wage) following 6 months of unemployment with no unemployment benefits. I literally had just paid off the last of my CC debt accrued from the period of underemployment when I was laid off.
Even doing that, I had a 3 month cushion to live on. That's only left me with 10 months of being unemployed to try and figure out how to live on half my salary.