"When in danger or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout"
"Though clearly from there they'll feed this data into the heads up displays of Google shock troops clad in black gunmetal body armor -- who can then carry out Google's master plan of taking over the planet using your Linksys details."
I can say that personally if I had the option for 1 Gbps Fiber to my home I would bail off FiOS so fast it would make Comcast feel the Breeze as I jumped off Verizon.
Seriously Comcast (I think I was getting ~ 15 Mbps down / 2.5 Mbps up when I left) was ok, but when FiOS became available (Currently 25 Mbps down / 20 Mbps up & without the Node Sharing issues) I was all over it. I run a server in my home so upload speed makes a big difference to me. Google has not given an expected down/up ratio yet but given that fiber if capable of running at 1:1 without problems it could be 1 Gbps both ways, W00T! I can hardly imagine the 40-50 TIMES speed increase that would give me let alone for a lowly DSL Customer, it would be an increase of a whole order of magnitude!
I just hope the experiment succeeds in driving more competition in the broadband space, everyone would benefit. Oh and Google if you are listening The West Portland Metro Area, Oregon is waiting.
This case makes for a tough call, the liked article says "[The Defendant] was an emergency paramedic for the local county who was at work using a shared computer. When he was done using the shared computer, he forgot to take away the thumb drive had attached to one of the computer's USB ports. Later on, a captain of the paramedic team [Name Removed] was using the computer and saw the thumb drive attached. [The Captain] decided to see what was on the thumb drive".
There a are a few issues here, now often evidence discovered by a civilian even if the search would have been improper by law enforcement standards is still considered admirable as long as that person was not acting as an agent of said law enforcement, however because they were county employees that question gets a little muddy. On the other side of the equation is the fact that this was a work computer, with most employers you agree to the fact that those systems are NOT considered private in any way. Therefore when (presumably) his supervisor inspected what was being done with that machine, it was quite likely perfectly legitimate.
I think the real story is the possibility of civil rights and privacy violations, if you read the linked article these cameras can photograph and record the license plate info of every car passing it. From a civil rights standpoint the possibility of chilling effects here is astounding. The point is that the government can be abusing traffic cameras for purposes well beyond traffic monitoring, such as using traffic camera images of traffic around protests to note cars that appear at such events. This is a direct violation of the freedom of expression from government interference. Freedom of expression consists of the rights to freedom of speech, press, assembly and to petition the government for a redress of grievances, and the implied rights of association and belief. This is a very slippery slope that could get 'Nineteen-Eighty-Four' scary very quickly.
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I have several Educators in my family, both teachers and administrators, I am irritated that you are lumping them in with the riffraff that is the majority of the public education system. The US public education system is indeed broken but increasing privatization is helping to repair it, slowly.
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Exactly Where in the definition of commodity does it say that to be a commodity it must be publicly traded on the New York Stock Exchange (or any other for that matter)?
You said "Because air is not a commodity or physical good" I disproved that statement.
Nobody was talking about the Commodities exchanges & futures exchanges (which is the 'marketplace' for commodities) of which the New York Stock Exchange is NOT a part.
You might however have been thinking of the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) These markets respond to changes in supply and demand, so a commodity with near infinite supply has no price, however the vale of air is still very high because we need it to live. I Imagine if at some time in the future (as imagined in many Science Fiction Books & Movies) air does become a SCARCE Commodity it would become something to be traded, but until that time there is no need.
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Re: The 3rd case is not the same, but should still be reversed on appeal
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Sony & PS3 Next?
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Anagrams Are Fun...
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"When in danger or in doubt, run in circles, scream and shout"
LOVE IT!!!
Sarcasm Win!
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Citizens Rebellion from Anti-Piracy STupidity On Recorded Media
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DRM-free is the way to be...
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Drooling Over 1 Gbps Fiber
Seriously Comcast (I think I was getting ~ 15 Mbps down / 2.5 Mbps up when I left) was ok, but when FiOS became available (Currently 25 Mbps down / 20 Mbps up & without the Node Sharing issues) I was all over it. I run a server in my home so upload speed makes a big difference to me. Google has not given an expected down/up ratio yet but given that fiber if capable of running at 1:1 without problems it could be 1 Gbps both ways, W00T! I can hardly imagine the 40-50 TIMES speed increase that would give me let alone for a lowly DSL Customer, it would be an increase of a whole order of magnitude!
I just hope the experiment succeeds in driving more competition in the broadband space, everyone would benefit. Oh and Google if you are listening The West Portland Metro Area, Oregon is waiting.
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@ The Masnick
Did you mean scan them? Or is using Mason Jars for photo preservation just new technology?
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Re: I wonder if this would work? ...Yeah, it probably would
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Not an easy call...
There a are a few issues here, now often evidence discovered by a civilian even if the search would have been improper by law enforcement standards is still considered admirable as long as that person was not acting as an agent of said law enforcement, however because they were county employees that question gets a little muddy. On the other side of the equation is the fact that this was a work computer, with most employers you agree to the fact that those systems are NOT considered private in any way. Therefore when (presumably) his supervisor inspected what was being done with that machine, it was quite likely perfectly legitimate.
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First Amendment?
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@Nameless.one
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I just bought a $25 imaginary horse
LOL
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Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: Re: I dont agree with this one
You said "Because air is not a commodity or physical good" I disproved that statement.
Nobody was talking about the Commodities exchanges & futures exchanges (which is the 'marketplace' for commodities) of which the New York Stock Exchange is NOT a part.
You might however have been thinking of the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) These markets respond to changes in supply and demand, so a commodity with near infinite supply has no price, however the vale of air is still very high because we need it to live. I Imagine if at some time in the future (as imagined in many Science Fiction Books & Movies) air does become a SCARCE Commodity it would become something to be traded, but until that time there is no need.
Nice Try. Next?
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