Now take hundreds of thousands of calls like yours running through your service provider's network, being transferred to other providers networks, etc. Or, hundreds/thousands of calls running w/in a large enterprise such as from branch offices to HQ. Bandwidth costs money. In situations like these, you try to conserve bandwidth any way you can.
Not so obvious --- now you have a much less efficient use of bandwidth to deal with.
The article describes the method used to detect phrases
At a high level, the success of our technique stems from exploiting the corre-lation between the most basic building blocks of speech—namely, phonemes—and the length of the packets that a VoIP codec outputs when presented with these phonemes. Intuitively, to search for a word or phrase, we first build a model by decomposing the target phrase into its most likely constituent phonemes, and then further decomposing those phonemes into the most likely packet lengths. Next, given a series of packet lengths that correspond to an encrypted VoIP conversation, we simply examine the output stream for a sub-sequence of packet lengths that match our model.
Essentially, you gather enough information about how a VBR codec could encode a speech phrase you are looking for, then predict where it was spoken by looking at the "data bursts" being sent in the media stream. We'll need to research a way to "scramble" this predictability that's more efficient than using fixed bitrates, which eats up un-needed bandwidth.
After jiggering the calculations, the Kepler team now says that KOI 326.01 is neither Earth-sized nor in the habitable zone, and may actually be orbiting a different star
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Epic fail.
... contains no mention by name of the enemy to which the US military is referring
There isn't one in the War on Terror
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They are one of the few industries that tries to adapt to a changing market to keep their customer base. Rather than try to see how technology is changing or where the market is transitioning and move their business model to accomodate those changes, they sit back and complain that new technology is hampering their old way of doing business and they'd rather figure out a way to stop it.
Maybe they should act like a real corporation?
You can appreciate Ubuntu in the geek circle too. As a QA engineer I troubleshoot broken software all day -- while Linux is useful for my job as a desktop OS, I don't want to waste time troubleshooting it too.
Ubuntu (usually) installs great and is up and running quickly out of the box. When stuff goes wrong, I have all the Ubuntu forums just a quick search away (usually with a pretty quick answer).
Analysts also argue that Apple sold millions of AT&T iPhone 4's last year and despite the media-furor, consumers did not line up at Apple Stores demanding refunds."
"This phone won't leave your signal hanging dry as you grasp firmly"
"I don't care. I want the iPhone"
Exactly. If it's not seen as a value-add to customers, then demand is low. If demand is low, why waste the resources implementing the feature when you're still going to do fine at sales? It's not about "support v6 becuase we are Cisco!" it's about "support v6 because customers are asking for it!"
in order for your lack of understanding of sarcasm.
Syriana, anyone?
I don't think that he's necessarily trying to shut down this complaint. What he IS trying to do is make sure that the board doesn't look at this document and treat it like an official engineering document -- signed off by a professional engineer. The way in which it is written/presented has a "professional engineering" feel -- but it isn't a professional document and so it shouldn't have the same "sway" a professional document would.
If I read a report written by a doctor on medical research -- it's probably trustworthy. If I read a report written by Joe Nurse that "looks" like a professional medical report -- I might make a mistake and be misled.
These one-liner summaries seem to be tickling CmdrTaco's fancy today
If that sidebar to the left is going to stay
I don't believe Christianity is tainted, but people sure are tainted. You will not find "good Christians in this world", because they don't exist. That's the point of it -- no one is without sin (Romans 3:23) and we deserve judgement from a perfect just God, but Jesus was sent to live a perfect life and die to bear that burden as our substitute (Romans 6:23). Christianity is about living in belief of that.
If you want to make claims against the oppression of Christianity, you have to make claims against Jesus (who arguably was the greatest liberator known -- look at the way he treats children, women, and Gentiles amongst a Jewish culture which had no value for those people)... Christianity is about Jesus, not about the Christians. People are destined to screw up.
The rule on staying alive as a program manager is to give 'em a number or give 'em a date, but never give 'em both at once.
