In response to the surge in amateur videos, some law enforcement agencies have installed cameras in squad cars to protect officers against false allegations.
Also, it's not exactly good PR for the police depts first thought to be preventing false allegations. How about installing cameras to ensure your officers aren't abusing their authority (and their suspects) instead?
That's the question that the article failed to answer. The laptop had integrated graphics, which would steal some system memory. So it was probably paging a lot. Was the pagefile fragmented to 5 chunks on a 4200 rpm drive? The extra seeking would cause some slowdown.
Did he have spyware or a bunch of stupid "helpful" services running, that were absent in the clean install?
Or was it, as he said, "...we'd guess that it's related to how system drivers are upgrade in the upgrade process?"
When a minute-long video of the original vs. censored clips was posted on YouTube, a DMCA takedown removed it (the original poster plans to resubmit a shorter clip he hopes will qualify as fair use -- good luck, since the DMCA doesn't recognize fair use).
This all seemed unlikely to me, and reading the original letter:
1) The only mention of the DMCA is in the return address. They're not claiming any DMCA violation
2) DMCA or not, there's no fair-use right to be able to put content on YouTube. The guy isn't being sued.
CNN filed an "Infringement Notification" by snail mail to YouTube. YouTube's responsibility under the DMCA (which they did) was to immediately take down the video. The guy who posted the video can file a "Counter Notification" if he believes he did not violate their copyright, due to Fair Use or any other reason. If he filed that Counter Notification, YouTube would put the video back online, and the video poster would be liable for any lawsuits that resulted from countering the DMCA takedown.
If he believes the 1 min 20 sec version is too long and posts the 10 sec version instead, it sounds like he will be filing the Counter Notification and fighting in court any lawsuit that results from posting the short video.
And shoot me for saying this, but it won't be stolen by jerking with the touch-screen machines (though they'll do their nasty part). While progressives panic over the viral spread of suspect computer black boxes, the Karl Rove-bots have been tunneling into the vote vaults through entirely different means.
For six years now, our investigations team, at first on assignment for BBC TV and the Guardian, has been digging into the nitty-gritty of the gaming of US elections. We've found that November 7, 2006 is a day that will live in infamy. Four and a half million votes have been shoplifted. Here's how they'll do it, in three easy steps:
Theft #1: Registrations gone with the wind Theft #2: Turned Away - the ID game Theft #3: Votes Spoiled Rotten
Two million legitimate voters will be turned away because of wrongly rejected or purged registrations.
Add another one million voters challenged and turned away for "improper ID."
Then add yet another million for Democratic votes "spoiled" by busted black boxes and by bad ballots.
And let's not forget to include the one million "provisional" ballots which will never get counted. Based on the experience of 2004, we know that, overwhelmingly, minority voters are the ones shunted to these baloney ballots.
And there's one more group of votes that won't be counted: absentee ballots challenged and discarded. Elections Assistance Agency data tell us a half million of these absentee votes will go down the drain.
Driving this massive suppression of the vote are sophisticated challenge operations. And here I must note that the Democrats have no national challenge campaign. That's morally laudable; electorally suicidal.
Add it all up -- all those Democratic-leaning votes rejected, barred and spoiled -- and the Republican Party begins Election Day with a 4.5 million-vote thumb on the vote-tally scale.
Assuming 12 Mbps VC-1 WMV, which would be about 3 GB per 1/2 hour episode, about 6 episodes or 2 movies. That would be decent HD. But MS will likely offer something near-to-streaming, about 500 kbps - 1 Mbps, making that at least 72 half hour episodes or 24 movies.
FTFA:
There are clearly some caveats that will slow the uptake of the service. First, downloading videos, particularly high-definition ones, is a time-consuming proposition. The speeds depend on the data transfer rate of the user's broadband connection. But for many folks, downloading a high-def movie will run about three times as long as the movie itself. That means customers will need to pick a movie when they walk out the door in the morning so that it's ready for viewing that night. Viewers can start watching programming in standard definition roughly two minutes after they begin downloading.
Sounds like SD will be 500 kbps or so, HD more like 1.5 Mbps. So 4 HD movies.
FTFA:
A second challenge comes from the ownership rights of the viewer--or the lack of it. After customers download a movie, they'll have two weeks to watch it. And once they start watching it, they'll have 24 hours to finish it before they are locked out. Customers can keep TV programs and watch them as long as they like. But there's no way to transfer the program to a laptop or CD for viewing later, say on a plane trip. It's locked to that Xbox Live account.
Sounds like movies will be similar to Cable VOD. TV episodes is like iTMS or Unbox, except only enough room for a few seasons of shows. Not being able to ever burn those shows makes them pretty much a waste of money, much worse than buying them from other services. They should be free, considering you're eventually going to need to delete them.
As the GP says Republicans kick out their page fuckers.
If by "kick out" you mean "failed to be re-elected when he ran" I guess you're right. Only a Republican would try to rewrite history that badly though. Neither of them were kicked out. They were both censured.
I too had a bit of a buffering problem with the version linked in the summary with my ~550kbps connection, so I switched from that Google Video Canada version to this one, which is lower bitrate.
If you're going to bring up Gerry Studds, why not bring up Dan Crane (R), who was implicated in the same sex scandal, also involving a 17 yr old page? Both congressmen were censured in 1983, so I don't know why you're bringing it up, but since you are, don't be a hypocrite about it.
Was the caller's name Mrs. Cheney? Because it sounds to me like they're trying to turn the story into "...but everybody does it." I could be wrong though, because you know everything you hear on Rush Limbaugh's show is the truth....
RTFA. It wasn't "just one person," it was SEVERAL Democratic campaign workers.
The actions of a few Democratic campaign workers who affected a few Republican voters in no way compares to a coordinated, tens or hundreds of thousand dollar strategy by a national Republican organization, affecting over 300,000 Democratic voters.
Yeah, the only way to effectively deal with the situation is to act before the elections. The penalties for broken laws will end up costing the NRCC a great deal of money, but they won't care once they've won and still have the power to prevent too harsh of penalties. To combat what they are doing, the only way to be successful is to get the word out that it is happening now, like today and tomorrow, through the national and local media.
Also, I submitted a similar blog entry as this was being posted. Of particular interest may be the technical details of how the PBX engineer says the calls disrupt emergency calling, constitute harassment, and misrepresent the caller.
Yes I read/watched it right after posting. It's not like we're actually using this system now, or have any guarantee of using it in the future. So the question of which scenario you should complain louder about (potential vote buying or no paper trail) is still valid. I also don't see how this system helps. Your receipt doesn't show who you voted for. The vote you can look up doesn't show who you voted for. So you're still relying on the "Election Authority" to maintain the same connection between the cards throughout the election.
That's what I was saying. It's already compressed. See ATSC Codecs & Modulation and Transmission. The maximum bandwidth for cable HDTV is ~40 Mbps total. Most video streams are about half that. Even old PCs and hard drives can cope with that.
You don't need an MPEG encoder for HDTV. You're just grabbing the MPEG-2 transport stream that is already encoded.
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Yeah, I wasn't really precise with my words at all for that post. What I was trying to say is that the best you're going to get from film on one of these media types is 480p24, 720p24, or 1080p24, the important part being the 24. Interesting bit of info that it is capable of that much res. though, thanks.
If your TV can blend frames to generate pleasing transitions between real source frames, great, but it doesn't make much sense to waste space storing it when the TV can fake it and get the same result: fake frames.
You're going to get numbers that are relevant to business. Not the users of a product purchased years ago, those who plan to spend money in the near future. The most important people to Apple or any other company are those that might actually give them money. It's how companies stay in business, you know.
BTW, they figured that 59% were iPod owners and 15% wouldn't buy it. 59% x 85% is 50%, and that's not even including non-iPod-owners. That's umm...a lot more than 5%.
1725 teenage and adult US residents were asked whether they planned to buy an MP3 player in the next 12 months. Of those responding that they were likely to do so, 58% of those identifying themselves as existing iPod owners
If you can't accept that the second sentence refers to the first, aka "context," then we can't really have a meaningful discussion.
As I said before though, the important stats are the 59% and 15% (85%).
Could this be the same reason that there are often episodes missing from a season on iTunes? That the episode had a different director, producer, or writer who had a different contract that may have prevented alternative broadcasts or demanded additional royalties for them? I noticed one popular iTunes show had just one episode missing, and it was the only episode that had a celebrity cameo. You'd think that they'd have all of the episodes available for encoding to iTunes, so this is the only explanation I can think of for missing episodes.
The study removes *all* people who don't plan to buy an mp3 player in the next year, not just iPod owners. That affects both the iPod owners group and the "other" group the same way.
This survey is apparently not about iPod satisfaction, it is about the market of potential buyers, and whether that market is likely to buy a Zune.
58% of those buying an mp3 player in the next year are iPod owners. This shows that the market of potential buyers is split between iPod owners and non-owners.
59% who don't own an iPod are "somewhat likely" or "extremely likely" to buy a Zune. Only 15% of iPod owners are "not very likely" or "not at all likely" to buy a Zune. These two figures show that regardless of whether or not they already own an iPod, a large percentage of the market of potential buyers are likely to consider a Zune.
From the looks of it, those buying an mp3 player within the next year are more likely to consider a Zune if they already own an iPod than otherwise. But they showed one statistic in the positive (59% will buy) and one in the negative (15% won't buy), so it's not clear that they mean the same thing.
I wonder how these 1,725 consumers would react if they knew they'd have to repurchase their entire music library, or burn them on to audio CD's and convert them back?
They'd think iTMS sucks and have even less loyalty? Then grudgingly buy another iPod?
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Also, it's not exactly good PR for the police depts first thought to be preventing false allegations. How about installing cameras to ensure your officers aren't abusing their authority (and their suspects) instead?
That's the question that the article failed to answer. The laptop had integrated graphics, which would steal some system memory. So it was probably paging a lot. Was the pagefile fragmented to 5 chunks on a 4200 rpm drive? The extra seeking would cause some slowdown.
Did he have spyware or a bunch of stupid "helpful" services running, that were absent in the clean install?
Or was it, as he said, "...we'd guess that it's related to how system drivers are upgrade in the upgrade process?"
Read it again.
Also see YouTube's copyright tips or Google Video's DMCA guide for a clearer description of the same DMCA process.
CNN filed an "Infringement Notification" by snail mail to YouTube. YouTube's responsibility under the DMCA (which they did) was to immediately take down the video. The guy who posted the video can file a "Counter Notification" if he believes he did not violate their copyright, due to Fair Use or any other reason. If he filed that Counter Notification, YouTube would put the video back online, and the video poster would be liable for any lawsuits that resulted from countering the DMCA takedown.
If he believes the 1 min 20 sec version is too long and posts the 10 sec version instead, it sounds like he will be filing the Counter Notification and fighting in court any lawsuit that results from posting the short video.
Replying to what you consider a conspiracy theory with your own completely outrageous conspiracy theory. Bravo.
You could just post conservative links related to the topic, that is, if you know of any....
Some links to stay informed and also to report voting irregularities:
ProtectOurVotes.org
Election Protection 365
Video The Vote
VeektheVote (cellphone video reports)
National hotlines:
1-866-OUR VOTE (1-866-687-8683) (website here)
1-888-SAV-VOTE (1-888-728-8683)(voting machine problems)
Also dailykos.com (liberal) has some good coverage, and I know I'll be watching Jon Stewart tonight for his comedic (and often insightful) coverage.
Sorry calculated from the wrong number. At 1.5 Mbps for HD it would be about 16 movies.
FTFA:
Sounds like SD will be 500 kbps or so, HD more like 1.5 Mbps. So 4 HD movies.
FTFA:
Sounds like movies will be similar to Cable VOD. TV episodes is like iTMS or Unbox, except only enough room for a few seasons of shows. Not being able to ever burn those shows makes them pretty much a waste of money, much worse than buying them from other services. They should be free, considering you're eventually going to need to delete them.
If by "kick out" you mean "failed to be re-elected when he ran" I guess you're right. Only a Republican would try to rewrite history that badly though. Neither of them were kicked out. They were both censured.
I too had a bit of a buffering problem with the version linked in the summary with my ~550kbps connection, so I switched from that Google Video Canada version to this one, which is lower bitrate.
If you're going to bring up Gerry Studds, why not bring up Dan Crane (R), who was implicated in the same sex scandal, also involving a 17 yr old page? Both congressmen were censured in 1983, so I don't know why you're bringing it up, but since you are, don't be a hypocrite about it.
Was the caller's name Mrs. Cheney? Because it sounds to me like they're trying to turn the story into "...but everybody does it." I could be wrong though, because you know everything you hear on Rush Limbaugh's show is the truth....
The actions of a few Democratic campaign workers who affected a few Republican voters in no way compares to a coordinated, tens or hundreds of thousand dollar strategy by a national Republican organization, affecting over 300,000 Democratic voters.
Yeah, the only way to effectively deal with the situation is to act before the elections. The penalties for broken laws will end up costing the NRCC a great deal of money, but they won't care once they've won and still have the power to prevent too harsh of penalties. To combat what they are doing, the only way to be successful is to get the word out that it is happening now, like today and tomorrow, through the national and local media.
Also, I submitted a similar blog entry as this was being posted. Of particular interest may be the technical details of how the PBX engineer says the calls disrupt emergency calling, constitute harassment, and misrepresent the caller.
Yes I read/watched it right after posting. It's not like we're actually using this system now, or have any guarantee of using it in the future. So the question of which scenario you should complain louder about (potential vote buying or no paper trail) is still valid. I also don't see how this system helps. Your receipt doesn't show who you voted for. The vote you can look up doesn't show who you voted for. So you're still relying on the "Election Authority" to maintain the same connection between the cards throughout the election.
What's worse:
Votes that may be bought, but if the buyer is successful enough to sway an election, it's completely obvious to all parties involved?
Or, votes that may be electronically flipped, without anyone even knowing it happened?
That's what I was saying. It's already compressed. See ATSC Codecs & Modulation and Transmission. The maximum bandwidth for cable HDTV is ~40 Mbps total. Most video streams are about half that. Even old PCs and hard drives can cope with that.
"A HDTV card (but none offer FM or a MPEG chip)"
You don't need an MPEG encoder for HDTV. You're just grabbing the MPEG-2 transport stream that is already encoded.
Yeah, I wasn't really precise with my words at all for that post. What I was trying to say is that the best you're going to get from film on one of these media types is 480p24, 720p24, or 1080p24, the important part being the 24. Interesting bit of info that it is capable of that much res. though, thanks.
If your TV can blend frames to generate pleasing transitions between real source frames, great, but it doesn't make much sense to waste space storing it when the TV can fake it and get the same result: fake frames.
You're going to get numbers that are relevant to business. Not the users of a product purchased years ago, those who plan to spend money in the near future. The most important people to Apple or any other company are those that might actually give them money. It's how companies stay in business, you know.
BTW, they figured that 59% were iPod owners and 15% wouldn't buy it. 59% x 85% is 50%, and that's not even including non-iPod-owners. That's umm...a lot more than 5%.
If you can't accept that the second sentence refers to the first, aka "context," then we can't really have a meaningful discussion.
As I said before though, the important stats are the 59% and 15% (85%).
Could this be the same reason that there are often episodes missing from a season on iTunes? That the episode had a different director, producer, or writer who had a different contract that may have prevented alternative broadcasts or demanded additional royalties for them? I noticed one popular iTunes show had just one episode missing, and it was the only episode that had a celebrity cameo. You'd think that they'd have all of the episodes available for encoding to iTunes, so this is the only explanation I can think of for missing episodes.
The study removes *all* people who don't plan to buy an mp3 player in the next year, not just iPod owners. That affects both the iPod owners group and the "other" group the same way.
This survey is apparently not about iPod satisfaction, it is about the market of potential buyers, and whether that market is likely to buy a Zune.
58% of those buying an mp3 player in the next year are iPod owners. This shows that the market of potential buyers is split between iPod owners and non-owners.
59% who don't own an iPod are "somewhat likely" or "extremely likely" to buy a Zune. Only 15% of iPod owners are "not very likely" or "not at all likely" to buy a Zune. These two figures show that regardless of whether or not they already own an iPod, a large percentage of the market of potential buyers are likely to consider a Zune.
From the looks of it, those buying an mp3 player within the next year are more likely to consider a Zune if they already own an iPod than otherwise. But they showed one statistic in the positive (59% will buy) and one in the negative (15% won't buy), so it's not clear that they mean the same thing.
They'd think iTMS sucks and have even less loyalty? Then grudgingly buy another iPod?