A system with no ip laws would not work in your world. Who would found research+development in for example solar panels, if your competitors could just copy your design when you were done, thus producing cheaper because they did not have as much research+development to pay for as you did.
You say that as if you have some evidence for your scenario. China has virtually no respect for intellectual property, and yet, that's where the people *making* solar panels are. You think there are not any engineers looking at their manufacturing process to improve it and squeeze out the "other guy?" Sure, they don't do a lot of basic research yet, but that's what federal granting agencies are for anyway.
Care to elaborate a bit on the world without IP laws? How will musicians, writers, movie studios, news organizations, software companies etc even approach covering the costs of producing their work if the first person who buys it can make infinite number of copies and share them with the whole world?
There are many models, but here's one: Consider that on a given $16 CD at Walmart, the artist is getting about $1.60. In a country without copyright, a CD price would be based on the cost to manufacture, advertise and sell a CD. Since anyone could do it, I can guarantee you it won't be $14.40/CD, probably more like a couple dollars. Implement a $1.60 sales tax on music sales that goes directly to the artist and you have $4 CDs where the artist gets funded and music is much more accessible. This model works even better with pharmaceuticals (patents).
Of course there are lots of problems with taxation. Of course, this model *does not* make the majority of the population copyright criminals. That's a significant step right there.
There are other, potentially better, ways to fund the arts. I'm sure you are probably correct, but as a patron of the arts (mostly music, yes, real money), and someone who loves PirateBay, I can say your overgeneralizing. Some people believe good artists should have a living wage AND copyright should be abolished (or at least massively reduced in duration).
Actually it's a bit different (than sloppy-focus on X11 anyway). Raise a window (say text editor) then move the mouse over another (say web browser). You can continue to type in the text editor because it is active, while scrolling the web browser without stealing focus.
Unless you are referring to cars fueled by propane, you have been watching too many movies. Neither gasoline nor diesel fuel are explosive in their liquid state.
Diesel fuel has a very high energy density and very little explosive potential. The danger comes not from the contained energy, but how fast that energy can be released.
You don't have to outlaw depreciation. Simply require the copyright owner to register the work and it's value. The trick is, require the owner to sell the work to any party offering the registered value. That way, undervaluing his work to save on taxes risks loosing ownership of the work.
You may want to check your local laws. Some countries do not allow you to release your copyright, at most you can write a covenant not to sue.
This is exactly what the creative commons license was made for. People can download and use your images for free, but you can (at minimum) require that person trying to sell your images to attribute you. That way anyone who wants to, can then simply Google your name and find the images for free.
Neither Acanac or Unlimitel offer a phone number outside of certain large cities.
Neither does Skype. The benefit of standards compliance is that you can buy a generic voip ata router and connect it to whatever supplier offers local numbers or the cheapest service.
Don't act dumb to impress people, it attracts the wrong people. I've known too many women who try not to seem to smart around guys, and they end up with meat-heads. The same advice applies to men.
There's nothing like being married to a woman who can correct you on what genus that bacteria growing in the cut on your arm is- and I met her studying embryology in a public place.
Go to where there is people, and you will inevitably end up meeting people. Go to somewhere that suits you, and you will enjoy yourself regardless.
I believe Acanac and Teksavvy are sharing the investment, but it's still a massive, long term investment.
If Bell was only allowed to wholesale, they wouldn't be doing this. They are doing it because the small providers were taking customers by advertising un-throttled service.
Skype isn't the answer to low-cost phone. Standards complient (SIP) Voip is. Acanac has unlimited calling in North America and a Canadian number for 10 bucks a month. Unlimitel has an a-la-carte model for $2.50 a month.
Standards compliant SIP means you can use a cheap voip ATA and a regular phone instead of a computer.
Caps are a way of ripping off customers (unless you are smart enough to use right up to your cap and not go over). The cell phone companies have known that for years.
If the price represented the actual costs, it would be opposite to that of water. You would see a large initial cost with small bandwidth cost.
Pipes cost relatively little compared with the volume of treated water they can carry in a given time-frame. On the other hand, a cable connection costs more to set up than the data it can carry.
XMPP (jabber), SIP, Skype, Google Wave, Opera's Unite.
There are plenty of indications of how this can work. Every one of these, however, currently uses horrible, inefficient, and often inconvenient and expensive hacks to send messages between computers.
Well, actually, the attitude is "trusted computer guy told me to watch for this symbol on the software he set up for me, and I have a secure channel." You can't expect anything more than that. It's the same as telling someone to check the url and look for the little padlock icon before entering a bank login.
I'd put money on the notion that they simply ignore encrypted email, and if you have been flagged for some other reason (or perhaps by metadata like destination), would rather knock down your door and take your computer than try to crack strong encryption.
Funny thing is, you would have to educate them, but not how to use S/MIME or PGP, but how to use a mail client. Once they are on a client, and it's configured for them, it's as simple as a "green message means it's a secure channel" (or what ever their client does).
Unfortunately, people have come to fear installing software on a computer and believe it's much safer and simpler to just do everything through the big e.
That's precisely the problem. Low signal-to-noise ratio implies a high false-positive rate. They are not likely to find any terrorists, but are probably invasively "profiling" plenty of innocent civilians.
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For sure. When you think about places like China, I bet there are 100x more installations of XP around the world than ever were sold.
I think we may be losing.
You mean trackerless torrents?
A system with no ip laws would not work in your world. Who would found research+development in for example solar panels, if your competitors could just copy your design when you were done, thus producing cheaper because they did not have as much research+development to pay for as you did.
You say that as if you have some evidence for your scenario. China has virtually no respect for intellectual property, and yet, that's where the people *making* solar panels are. You think there are not any engineers looking at their manufacturing process to improve it and squeeze out the "other guy?" Sure, they don't do a lot of basic research yet, but that's what federal granting agencies are for anyway.
Care to elaborate a bit on the world without IP laws? How will musicians, writers, movie studios, news organizations, software companies etc even approach covering the costs of producing their work if the first person who buys it can make infinite number of copies and share them with the whole world?
There are many models, but here's one: Consider that on a given $16 CD at Walmart, the artist is getting about $1.60. In a country without copyright, a CD price would be based on the cost to manufacture, advertise and sell a CD. Since anyone could do it, I can guarantee you it won't be $14.40/CD, probably more like a couple dollars. Implement a $1.60 sales tax on music sales that goes directly to the artist and you have $4 CDs where the artist gets funded and music is much more accessible. This model works even better with pharmaceuticals (patents). Of course there are lots of problems with taxation. Of course, this model *does not* make the majority of the population copyright criminals. That's a significant step right there.
There are other, potentially better, ways to fund the arts. I'm sure you are probably correct, but as a patron of the arts (mostly music, yes, real money), and someone who loves PirateBay, I can say your overgeneralizing. Some people believe good artists should have a living wage AND copyright should be abolished (or at least massively reduced in duration).
Actually it's a bit different (than sloppy-focus on X11 anyway). Raise a window (say text editor) then move the mouse over another (say web browser). You can continue to type in the text editor because it is active, while scrolling the web browser without stealing focus.
Unless you are referring to cars fueled by propane, you have been watching too many movies. Neither gasoline nor diesel fuel are explosive in their liquid state.
Diesel fuel has a very high energy density and very little explosive potential. The danger comes not from the contained energy, but how fast that energy can be released.
You don't have to outlaw depreciation. Simply require the copyright owner to register the work and it's value. The trick is, require the owner to sell the work to any party offering the registered value. That way, undervaluing his work to save on taxes risks loosing ownership of the work.
You may want to check your local laws. Some countries do not allow you to release your copyright, at most you can write a covenant not to sue.
This is exactly what the creative commons license was made for. People can download and use your images for free, but you can (at minimum) require that person trying to sell your images to attribute you. That way anyone who wants to, can then simply Google your name and find the images for free.
Neither Acanac or Unlimitel offer a phone number outside of certain large cities.
Neither does Skype. The benefit of standards compliance is that you can buy a generic voip ata router and connect it to whatever supplier offers local numbers or the cheapest service.
Don't act dumb to impress people, it attracts the wrong people. I've known too many women who try not to seem to smart around guys, and they end up with meat-heads. The same advice applies to men.
There's nothing like being married to a woman who can correct you on what genus that bacteria growing in the cut on your arm is- and I met her studying embryology in a public place.
Go to where there is people, and you will inevitably end up meeting people. Go to somewhere that suits you, and you will enjoy yourself regardless.
If he gets a minority, the NDP also supports net neutrality.
http://www.ndp.ca/press/new-democrats-introduce-net-neutrality-bill
For anyone interested in Canadian net neutrality, http://neutrality.ca/ has regular updates.
They are purchasing DSLAM equipment (see here for one example http://community.acanac.com/acanac/viewtopic.php?f=22&t=7023 ).
I believe Acanac and Teksavvy are sharing the investment, but it's still a massive, long term investment.
If Bell was only allowed to wholesale, they wouldn't be doing this. They are doing it because the small providers were taking customers by advertising un-throttled service.
Skype isn't the answer to low-cost phone. Standards complient (SIP) Voip is. Acanac has unlimited calling in North America and a Canadian number for 10 bucks a month. Unlimitel has an a-la-carte model for $2.50 a month.
Standards compliant SIP means you can use a cheap voip ATA and a regular phone instead of a computer.
Caps are a way of ripping off customers (unless you are smart enough to use right up to your cap and not go over). The cell phone companies have known that for years.
If the price represented the actual costs, it would be opposite to that of water. You would see a large initial cost with small bandwidth cost.
Pipes cost relatively little compared with the volume of treated water they can carry in a given time-frame. On the other hand, a cable connection costs more to set up than the data it can carry.
XMPP (jabber), SIP, Skype, Google Wave, Opera's Unite.
There are plenty of indications of how this can work. Every one of these, however, currently uses horrible, inefficient, and often inconvenient and expensive hacks to send messages between computers.
Well, actually, the attitude is "trusted computer guy told me to watch for this symbol on the software he set up for me, and I have a secure channel." You can't expect anything more than that. It's the same as telling someone to check the url and look for the little padlock icon before entering a bank login.
I'd put money on the notion that they simply ignore encrypted email, and if you have been flagged for some other reason (or perhaps by metadata like destination), would rather knock down your door and take your computer than try to crack strong encryption.
Funny thing is, you would have to educate them, but not how to use S/MIME or PGP, but how to use a mail client. Once they are on a client, and it's configured for them, it's as simple as a "green message means it's a secure channel" (or what ever their client does). Unfortunately, people have come to fear installing software on a computer and believe it's much safer and simpler to just do everything through the big e.
That's precisely the problem. Low signal-to-noise ratio implies a high false-positive rate. They are not likely to find any terrorists, but are probably invasively "profiling" plenty of innocent civilians.
Doesn't bind9 still require a third party DNS server to get those addresses in the first place?
Left: The Goverment Controls Business
Right: Business Control the Goverment
but either way THEY CONTROL YOU.
That will change the day you stop voting for the party with the most extravagant marketing campaign.