Math is nuts. All those points and lines that can't exist outside of Flatland

Actually it just proves how valuable people think he is. Look at the rest of our society. We allow all kinds of people who are of some particular talent: athletics, musicians, actors, politicians, certain academics, and others get away with things the rest of us would surely be fired over and quite possibly prosecuted and imprisoned.

I am not say its a good thing, but our society in general allows individuals who attain a certain celebrity status a degree of entitled behavior and allowances are made when they break the 'rules' the rest of us live by. The more actual talent and the less 'replaceable' they are the more outrageous we let them behave. Some of them over step and hilarity ensues and others remain decent people and don't take advantage of their position at all.

Linus however is no different in this regard. He does it because he CAN get away with it. The rest of us ARE WILLING to put up with it; that has been proven over and over again. He knows how far he can go and does not go farther.

I agree the major distributions have botched almost all of those. Can you site any MAJOR bugs in release ( ie even numbered minor version kernels without -rc etc on the end of them) that issues?

I can't recall any. Like any large complex software project Linux has had its share of bugs but I have been using it in various capacities for 15 years and I can't recall anything in a non-development release that made me go "Good God how did that get past QA".

In some faraway universe, you might make sense.

Otherwise this thread is exactly about speakers and sound systems.

If somehow some way, Bose makes an awesome mousetrap, or some kind of gastraphagus that makes enemies shit their pants, that's all very nice. But tell me how the other stuff they do is relevent to them suing Apple?

You must have been a blast in debate class. Declaring the topic of the debate off topic.

Oh, awesome, smashing riposte. It's not like we were discussing Bose as related to their speakers as related to Beats, eh? Yeah - OK buddy.

I really don't give a stinky rat's ass about the other things Bose does, I'm just here to talk about the shitty audio of Bose and the equally shitty audio of Beats.

Which makes me think that Bose's best argument in this whole lawsuit is to demonstrate how both sound bad. If you want to have an argument about the other stuff Bose does, submit a story.

Right the entire conflict is evil and it needs to end, but for it to end the West needs to quit meddling and and the various Palestinian groups need to accept reality.

Its not the Wests fault for creating Israel. Sure we did but all throughout history wars have been fought and lines on maps have been redrawing various peoples have been pushed out of one spot or another by other groups. There has to be some statue of limitations on these things. 70 years on I think we need to acknowledge we are no-long responsible for the security of Israel ( that needs to on them now ) and we don't owe the children of the displaced Palestinian peoples anything either. Which leaves the situation like this:

Israel faces and existential problem. They can't appease the Palestinians without abandonment of the fundamental character of their nation. Nobody can reasonably expect a people to do that.

Hamas has and does advocate and conduct violence against Israel, the can and do hide weapons among their civilian population they have and will use their tunnels or any relaxed restrictions on the embargo to transport weapons or materials from which weapons can be made into Gaza.

The Palestinians face an existential problem, They can't make peace with Israel without surrendering what they believe to be their homeland; nor can they accept the status quo as a settlement neither of the current Palestinian territories is economically viable on its own. They cannot feed the people they have with their own production they cannot produce enough of anything else of value to purchase food, their existence is dependent on charity. They could not do this with open boarders either.

Nobody can expect the Palestinians to lie down and accept that.

Because the threats they face on their boarders Israel can't accept much movement where lines on the map are concerned and remain defense able. Its a fundamental impasse.

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So every couple years we have these little dust-ups and thousands die and more end up suffering. Then some arrogant fools arrange another ceasefire thinking its humanitarian. Next various groups again in the name of humanitarianism provide food and energy to Palestine, which leads to another generation born into a community which cannot support them and life of no real opportunities or hope. Finally we repeat the bloodshed. Its stupid more people have died badly than if we just backed off and let Israel, the Palestinian groups, and the other local nations states just slug it out and finish things once and for all.

Frankly we should have recognized the coup that took place in Egypt and cut off the foreign aid and imposed an travel ban. If we had let Egypt collapse into a failed state (and it would without tourism and aide monies) it would give the Palestinian refuges some place to go or force Israel to fight a war that actually resolves the matter once and for necessitated by no longer having Egypt's assistance to keep arms out of Palestine. Maybe over a few decades a new stable system could emerge;

Rght now its just an endless cycle of violence and we are its enablers. I really believe the most humanitarian thing we could do is just resolve the get out of the conflict and stay out of the conflict no matter what.

Right about now, 93 Escort Wagon is pretty high on the list.....

He's walkin' - they be hatin'. The Beebs sounds fucking awesome in Beets Pro. And they are unquestionably the best headphones for listening to autotune.

And with all this concentrated wonderfulness, and Doctor Bose's (an actual Doctor) Godlike status, Bose speakers are still marginal - at best.

You canna beat the laws of physics, laddie.

You neglect truthiness. Arbiter doesn't like Alpple, and patent trolls, therefore it is only logical, right, and just that Apple is the biggest patent troll that ever existed. Pah! You and your facts!

Even with a tunneled VPN there is a lot of traffic shaping they could do that probably would not interfere with most online commerce and business users activities.

Web browsing is very busty. You simply allow full bandwidth when connections start. Then you count packets per second and packet sizes, which you can do encrypted or not. Unless deliberate steps to introduce noise are taken media streams are going to be characterized by relatively fixed size packets are fixed rates. Connections for things webpage loads or form posts and Outlook syncs probably will be in most cases to short lived for your analysis phase to complete and won't be affected at all.

Bigger file transfers (assuming you don't want to throttle them too) will in most cases show more variation in packets per second as network conditions change, because in most cases they running as fast as things will allow, wherever the bottle neck might be, unlike streams which are hopefully running at a negotiated rate that is fully sustainable.

They can also be the result of a company that has become big enough to squash the competition.

We have Microsoft, and a better example might be WalMart. At one point, they would pick a target market, say pharmacy or eyeglasses. Then they use their substantial resources to sell at a loss for a time that will put the competitors out of business. But in true manner of competition, guess what happens when all the competition goes away? Doesn't happen so much any more, but they have become bloated, and there will probably be a new big player soon (yes, that is a form of the market correcting itself. But it will be at WalMart' and their employees expense. Doesn't have to be so destructive.

It's the greed portion of capitalism. That actually works pretty well to get things started, but no business that is established believes in anything approaching the free market. They want to put everyone else out of business. And why wouldn't they, as long as greed is the only driver? They who have all the gold make all the rules.

This is the part where the Government has to protect capitalism from itself. I've noted that I really like the German form of Capitalism. And when you look at what that rather tiny country has done, I think that supports my argument.

Right because there is no way a little traffic analysis can't tell the difference between some typical GET and POST request sent on an SSL channel and video stream. /sarcasm off

It might be slightly harder to tell the difference between a video stream and a large file download but by no means impossible. You can do this much with (relatively) inexpensive COTS routing and fire-walling equipment now.

Nope just SSL or just tunneled ipsec for that matter won't cut it; you going to have to put some traffic analysis thwarting measures in there too, which means even more waste than the tunnel overhead. So ultimately VZ is making things worse for themselves in terms of network traffic, unless they are only going to allow busty stuff like webpage downloads.

Still even the typical slashdot'ers home setup is very much on the losing end of the arms race as things stand today. The only reason VPN success is VZ isn't really trying that hard.

It's all covered in cat hair, which it leaves everywhere.