Long ago, before cellphones, the RBOC's offered what was called "mobile" telephone service, based on analog VHF radio transmissions. Listening on a public service band VHF radio, you'd be able to hear the conversation, which was not necessarily illegal under FCC law; the problem would arise when you acted upon what you'd heard. I believe there are parallels here... if you chose to have insecure communications on that phone, you risked a small chance that it might be intercepted. Ditto unsecured wi-fi... wonder if analog-radio FCC law creates precedence here? And I'd disagree that sniffed packet datagrams are always "secret", as the complaint alleges; decoded from hex to ascii -- no secret there -- html formats and even unencrypted e-mail passwords are plainly visible. Once again, failure to take personal responsibility for one's own dopey actions.
Re: Re: Less about talking, more about goofy laws---Flying Licenses Versus Driving Licenses.
Kyleigh's Law takes effect on May 1, which is probably why searches don't show the 60 hour figure yet, but it's true; and along with 30 hours of (usually free) classroom training, that entitles a 16-year old to receive a learner's permit. It's complex -- the classroom portion is only required for the young-driver track; a 17-year-old can simply take a written test and receive a learner's permit. The flowchart of requirements, tracks and ages would make your head spin.
And I know exactly which ticket 20 hours of flight training earns you. If you're suggesting that learning the theory, laws and motor coordination skills required for driving a car is remotely equivalent to learning the physics, meteorology, navigation, volumes of FAR's and all the motor coordination of stick and rudder, whether Commercial or Sport, well, I'd have to disagree.
I think Mike's point is less about phones, and more about the incredibly intrusive laws drivers are getting hit with.
Here in NJ, we just added a doozy... "Kyleigh's Law", which seeks to protect teens from themselves. For starters, attaching the name of an expired young girl to a law very nearly guarantees passage... who could vote against that? But the law does two primary things: adds a "scarlet letter" for teen drivers -- stickers which must be applied to license plates when first-year drivers are at the wheel; and severely restricts young drivers' hours, now down to 11PM from 12.
Let's leave out the number of kids who won't be able to keep their waitress jobs or perform in school plays. And never mind that the red warning stickers have to be peeled off when I'm driving instead of my kids, or that we must drive to one of only a few state agency locations to purchase "official" stickers. The best part is that poor Kyleigh wasn't out too late... it was the middle of the afternoon; she wasn't an inexperienced driver -- she was a 16-year-old passenger, too young to be licensed in NJ; and she was one of 4 kids packed into a two-seater Audi TT. Plenty of causes, and none addressed by this law.
And then there's the expensive part: the law increases the requirement for 6 hours of training with a paid, commercial instructor - TO 60 HOURS. Amazing... the FAA will issue a pilot's license after only 20 hours of instruction.
Putting aside revenue generated by increased summonses, I can't imagine the police are thrilled with this additional enforcement burden. And I know that the rest of us are near to revolt.
I was hoping their name had something poignant to do with the Spanish "legos" (the laity) or Greek (to speak or teach); but failing that, sorry, my charitable friends.
True... I think we've created two different issues here. A press pass is a static document which, even when issued, doesn't guarantee access to, for instance, the White House. (Or else we'd hear more questions posed by the Podunk Daily Bugle reporter.)The fundamental question is whether bloggers should be able to get that snappy "PRESS" card to stick in the brims of their fedoras (like Jimmy Olsen) and be able to cross police lines to report on a burning building.
Re: Re: There's a "Everything's bigger in Texas" Joke in here somewhere.
Oooh! Oooh! Good idea... I'll get busy on the New Jersey trademarking, not that anyone necessarily wants to infringe. Actually, fair chance that David Chase locked that up when he did "Sopranos". And for those of you who don't know, ya gotta use the "New"... if you're callin' it "Jersey", you're from outta state.
The frustrating part was that as nasty as the user-side was, Real had a promising platform underneath... the whole Helix server initiative, open source with an active development community. That was one of the reasons that I still have current, Sony-brand location video production equipment with embedded Helix server capability. (That plus the fact that Sony didn't need to tango with either Apple or Microsoft to license it.)
Notice how I'm using the past tense... it's been years since Real was requested as a delivery format.
Reporting on your own layoff... sounded familiar. Then I remembered a similar situation last September, when NPR reporter Ketzel Levine's story on layoffs was punctuated with her own firing. A very different response from two very different corporate entities.
"This is STEALING, plain and simple. These folks that are reading this [HARDCOVER BOOK] are less likely to go out and buy one themselves. The libraries are stealing from [BOOK PUBLISHERS]..."
Errr... ummm... isn't this what libraries have always done? And am I stealing if I lend my paperback to a friend or neighbor? (That's the origin of public libraries, you know... we all get together and contribute toward the purchase of a boatload of books.) If the criterion is "... less likely to go out and buy one...", then lock us up.
"FS is a fantastic niche product, but a boring mass market product."
Exactly correct... surprising that a boutique product lasted this long in a megacorporation's catalog. Then again, they bought a boutique product(FS) from subLogic... I owned the pre-MS version. Back in the day, flight simulation was the crown jewel of computing; Silicon Graphics has almost always included a rudimentary-but-gorgeous one in IRIX, its version of UNIX, and Micrsoft may well have bought FS to show off its computing prowess, too.
The lawyer's natural reaction is to sue someone; not everyone has that option. Most often, this exact scenario plays out for some desperate, unemployed schlump... bank says it's cleared, so they write a check for the rent; then the counterfeit bounces, and the police arrest the poor sucker. Both the police and the courts are unsympathetic, and the victim/scamee spends years in jail, quite literally. When it happens to the lawyer, he not only ducks prosecution, but sues the bank as well.
In patent cases, both sides get a crack at education
About 15 years ago, the so-called Markman ruling acknowledged that patent judges couldn't possibly understand all the technologies presented before them, and required both sides to educate the judge, each from their own unique viewpoint. (Our video production company got a lot of work... 40-minute-long animations and such.) But educating an IP judge about the tenets of the law itself... that seems somehow different... I think it's called "law school".
I can't stop reading the court filing... help...
It's like being unable to turn away from a car crash.
I believe he's using the software package HRFA, the cellular telephone number (IFB) trade secrets and Bluetooth EEG to suck me in to his universe...
True or not, this story has been around forever. Anyone remember Monty Python's parody, "The Cat Detector Van", which could "pinpoint a purr at 400 yards"? Yes, that's what they were spoofing... and that was 1969.
Television and film lighting has been migrating to CFL -- or just plain ol' FL -- for the last several years, and anything brighter than that is generally HMI; incandescent would barely be missed. The hot news is LED lighting for theatrical, film and TV... they're getting brighter and more controllable all the time, long life, and no nasty mercury remediation like CFL.
Do I detect subjects who don't fully appreciate every pearl of wisdom issued forth from Cupertino? Unacceptable... that's TWO more swigs of the KoolAid for all of you!
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Monitoring is not criminal
On the post: Driving While Yakking Laws Looking More And More Like 'Help The Gov't Make Money' Laws
Re: Re: Less about talking, more about goofy laws---Flying Licenses Versus Driving Licenses.
And I know exactly which ticket 20 hours of flight training earns you. If you're suggesting that learning the theory, laws and motor coordination skills required for driving a car is remotely equivalent to learning the physics, meteorology, navigation, volumes of FAR's and all the motor coordination of stick and rudder, whether Commercial or Sport, well, I'd have to disagree.
On the post: Driving While Yakking Laws Looking More And More Like 'Help The Gov't Make Money' Laws
Less about talking, more about goofy laws
Here in NJ, we just added a doozy... "Kyleigh's Law", which seeks to protect teens from themselves. For starters, attaching the name of an expired young girl to a law very nearly guarantees passage... who could vote against that? But the law does two primary things: adds a "scarlet letter" for teen drivers -- stickers which must be applied to license plates when first-year drivers are at the wheel; and severely restricts young drivers' hours, now down to 11PM from 12.
Let's leave out the number of kids who won't be able to keep their waitress jobs or perform in school plays. And never mind that the red warning stickers have to be peeled off when I'm driving instead of my kids, or that we must drive to one of only a few state agency locations to purchase "official" stickers. The best part is that poor Kyleigh wasn't out too late... it was the middle of the afternoon; she wasn't an inexperienced driver -- she was a 16-year-old passenger, too young to be licensed in NJ; and she was one of 4 kids packed into a two-seater Audi TT. Plenty of causes, and none addressed by this law.
And then there's the expensive part: the law increases the requirement for 6 hours of training with a paid, commercial instructor - TO 60 HOURS. Amazing... the FAA will issue a pilot's license after only 20 hours of instruction.
Putting aside revenue generated by increased summonses, I can't imagine the police are thrilled with this additional enforcement burden. And I know that the rest of us are near to revolt.
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Poor word-order choice = infringing acronym
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I've heard this before...
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I've heard this before...
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Re:
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Re: and todays intellectual award goes to
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Re: Re: There's a "Everything's bigger in Texas" Joke in here somewhere.
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Great back-end
Notice how I'm using the past tense... it's been years since Real was requested as a delivery format.
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Tribune's hostile response
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/12/29/business/media/29levine.html?_r=1
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Re: STEALING
Errr... ummm... isn't this what libraries have always done? And am I stealing if I lend my paperback to a friend or neighbor? (That's the origin of public libraries, you know... we all get together and contribute toward the purchase of a boatload of books.) If the criterion is "... less likely to go out and buy one...", then lock us up.
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Re: Re: Flight Sim wasnt bad...
Exactly correct... surprising that a boutique product lasted this long in a megacorporation's catalog. Then again, they bought a boutique product(FS) from subLogic... I owned the pre-MS version. Back in the day, flight simulation was the crown jewel of computing; Silicon Graphics has almost always included a rudimentary-but-gorgeous one in IRIX, its version of UNIX, and Micrsoft may well have bought FS to show off its computing prowess, too.
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Re: C'Mon Disney
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It's good to be a lawyer
And who said it cleared? A $7.00/hr teller?
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In patent cases, both sides get a crack at education
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Make it stop...
It's like being unable to turn away from a car crash.
I believe he's using the software package HRFA, the cellular telephone number (IFB) trade secrets and Bluetooth EEG to suck me in to his universe...
Glad I'm not Tamron Hall.
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Old news
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Re: Lighting
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Heresy!
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