What's the reason for banning drugs in the first place, other than racism?
What racism?
Cocaine was seem as a "black" drug, marijuana was "Latino", and opium was "Chinese". (source)
That was manipulation by a human during or after the recording.
Exactly my point: recordings can be altered. So what would be good evidence that at least one machine on a particular ISP subscriber's home network was connected to a swarm?
If I record him running a red light, OTOH, it would count as evidence unless the defense proves that this was CGI or whatever.
The following does not relate to evidence qualification, but is an out of calibration signal set itself a defense to running a red light? If not, what is someone stuck at a red light for half an hour supposed to do?
The camera cannot change, say, the face of the suspect.
Then perhaps you aren't aware of "fake smile" or "big eyes" gimmick effects in some modern digital cameras.
Same for a tape (or digital) recorder - it cannot alter the conversation recorded
Mind explaining what's on that 18 1/2 minute gap of the Watergate tapes? Now shorten the concept to silencing individual words, and then look at how YouTube Poop artists have perfected the art of sentence mixing.
And recently the loudest anti-piracy person (the manager of the agency) was caught with illegal drugs
What's the reason for banning drugs in the first place, other than racism?
Where I live the power and water company is required by law to give me a paper bill
Is it also required by law not to offer a credit on your bill for switching to electronic statements?
not the whole world is backwards as the US.
So how should a U.S. resident reasonably act on this fact?
Electronic interbank-transfers are so cheap ( 1 cent per) that you usually do not pay for them at all.
How would one go about including an "interbank-transfer" with a mailed greeting card?
screenshot from uTorrent was dismissed since uTorrent is not certified as an evidence gathering tool - like, say, a police radar
Common cameras aren't "certified as an evidence gathering tool" either. Do courts likewise reject all photos of a violent crime scene that aren't taken with a "certified" camera? The commodity home movie camera Abraham Zapruder was using wasn't "certified", but his and other films provided evidence of how Lee Harvey Oswald murdered John F. Kennedy. And did any copyright owner decide to follow up on this dismissal by modifying one of the free software BitTorrent clients to get it "certified as an evidence gathering tool"?
I'm not sure you understand. Prepending the order to the compressed data would still increase the length of some files.
(In before whoosh.)
JPEG is a lossy compression and it's impossible for an archiving utility using a lossless compression to best that.
Of course it's possible. JPEG encoding has three steps: cosine transform of each block (DCT), then quantization (where the loss happens), then coding. In JPEG, the coding involves a zig-zag order and a Huffman/RLE structure, and this isn't necessarily optimal. A lossless compressor specially tuned for JPEG files could decode the quantized coefficients and losslessly encode them in a more efficient manner, producing a file that saves a few percent compared to the equivalent JPEG bitstream. Then on decompression, it would decode these coefficients and reencode them back into a JPEG file.
Actiblizzard [has the option of] DMCAing them for infringement of the copyright in Starcraft
I have no idea why they would do it.
For the same reason as the Let's Play takedowns. Sega DMCA'd videos containing footage of the Shining Force games (but later issued a non-apology). Some publishers, such as Nintendo, might instead choose to put a Content ID* claim on videos containing "images or audio of a certain length" (such as a game's title screen or cut scenes), diverting ad revenue away from partners.*
* YouTube terminology used. Feel free to substitute.
The carriers now will say that they have to raise prices or even completely do away with contract subsidies in order to be competitive.
Then they'd have to compete with their MVNOs and T-Mobile USA, all of which have been itemizing the hardware and the service for years. Prepaid MVNOs have always sold the phone up front, and even before T-Mobile branded itself "the un-carrier", it had the SIM-only "Even More Plus" plan that offered a discount for bringing a compatible phone or buying one up front.
Having the opportunity to handle a phone before buying it varies on a case-by-case basis so much that I'm not quite sure why you mentioned it.
Because of this comment. I asked about being able to try an AOSP phone before I buy it, and someone replied that I sounded like an entitled whiner.
What is the new naming convention that has to be followed?
More than likely, a fully qualified domain name.
Machines have less problems. I'd like to be a machine. -- Andy Warhol