When will the MAFIAA actually do the world a favour and go after the real pirates? I'm sure the Shipping Companies will help them with funds in their "Fight against Global Piracy" - why have they never tried to sue Somalia?
Perhaps fitting out ships with big screens facing seawards which are constantly displaying FBI badged MAFIAA warnings on a constant loop would be an excellent deterrent for pirates.
They should also stop making any more lame-assed movies which glorify piracy as this only encourages the masses to engage in their own acts of piracy.
....and just how many Pirates to the expect to net over in Oz with this legislation? Will it really be any easier to prosecute them? Piracy is pretty well defined here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piracy
Of particular interest is:
Modern definitions of piracy include the following acts:
Extortion
That means extortion of any kind, including "legalised" extortion which this piece of cartel brought legislation attempts to enable, are acts of piracy. When will we have legislation to protect us from the real pirates?
Since the introduction of biometric passports the UK already has a database capable of being used for facial recognition for the majority of people in the country.
Is this going to be yet another of those technologies like Firewire which will end up being a toy for Mac Fanboys and ignored by the majority of the userbase?
Forget BGAN, they charge on actual throughput and can be pretty expensive to operate. What you actually need is a SeaTel or similar tracking antenna - this will constantly keep you connected to the satellite as you are mobile, an iDirect http://www.idirect.net/ 3000 series or X3 modem (depends on the provider you use) and a subscription with one of the many providers of such services. The initial setup costs could be a bit pricey, so just look at the hardware cost as an investment. Your best bet is a provider with the ability to actually offer service over multiple satellites covering most of the globe. It can get a bit complicated when switching satellites so choose a company which specializes in Maritime VSAT services, they will be able to advise you on how best to do this.
Getting rid of flash completely will finally allow 64 bit web browsers to take off. It's only the need for flash that has held back most users from going fully 64 bit. Sure, Adobe have an alpha 64 bit linux version of the flash plugin availabe for quite a while now, they just never seemed to port it to any other platform.
Users who want to compare their computers to the current WCPI numbers can do so by registering with XPnet and then installing the DMS Clarity Tracker Agent from Devil Mountain's site.
Nuff said
A lot of it is about fitting in. My own son got a rough ride when we moved abroad and he didn't fit in, despite being fluent in the local language. He was different and he really had a rough ride. Some namby pamby child trick cyclist the school insisted he saw tried to tell me that he had low self esteem, which I knew was utter bullshit. I pulled him out of that school there and then despite threats of legal action etc and told them that if I as a parent had allowed my kid to be treated in that way, I'd rightfully be in serious trouble.
After a term at home, he started in a new school and was one of the tougher kids, though he never used this to bully other kids. The experience of being bullied like this was a life lesson for him. A couple of years later some of the kids who had been bullying him saw him around and decided to have a go at him in the street, he beat the crap out of all three of them. He's never had a problem since then.
I'm amazed at the number of graduates of English speaking universities who can't even string a simple sentence together. In my day, they wouldn't have passed GCE 'O' level English. Come to think of it, most of them wouldn't have survived in the days when you couldn't use a calculator for maths. Even these days I can still work it out in my head faster than many youngsters can with a calculator.
Education has sure been dumbed down over the years.
Why are the knee jerk politics in individual countries actually taking us backwards?
According to EU legislation, the single market also applies to AudioVisual products
http://ec.europa.eu/avpolicy/reg/tvwf/index_en.htmThe single European market - one of the biggest achievements of European integration - applies to television broadcasts as much as anything else.
Everybody wins broadcasters can attract larger audiences and viewers get a greater choice of channels
Just as any of us is free to buy chocolate, wine or a new car in any EU country, we can also watch TV channels from all over Europe.
As this is supposed to be written into member states national law by the 19th December 2009, how can the Italians actually justify their actions? They are denying people the right to download content which can be seen as legal in the light of this law.
I think we can safely say that a lot of P2P activity involves TV Series that are not available outside the country of origin. For many of us, bitorrent is the only way we are able to keep up to date with TV programming from back home when living abroad. IPTV products such as the BBC iPlayer and ITV CatchUp are now in breach of EU law by limiting access to their service to the UK. P2P at least allows us to view the programming as per EU Legislation.
It is oxymoronical that you have to break the law in order to be able view what is now technically legally available content.
I think all of this is merely a smokescreen to delay the inevitable. A few days ago the deadline for the EU's "Broadcasting sans Frontiers" law to come into force passed by. The implications of this were that the technologies such as IPTV which actually allow users outside the physical borders of the country in question to receive TV broadcasts online could no longer be blocked within the EU. In simple language, the BBC iPlayer is now supposed to work anywhere in the EU and for the BBC to prevent users outside the UK from using it is now against EU Law. I wonder if this would actually legitimise getting TV programs via P2P as that is actually enabling the EU Law rather than preventing it.
That said, a glance at the UK TV schedules for the coming days shows that we're not really missing anything.
Surely they are not really talking about hackers here. The mass media hysteria and a few movies have a lot to answer for in elevating script kiddies and passing them off as "hackers".
Honestly and truthfully, piracy never really hurt the likes of Microsoft. Despite all the dodgy copies of Windows, William J Gates the Third Junior is one of the worlds wealthiest men and Microsoft is a huge Global Business. Sony benefited from piracy to get the Playstation into the market using by using a technology that allowed the disks to be copied as opposed to a cartridge that couldn't.
Small companies have the most to lose from piracy in the early stages, yet piracy at some point has helped companies to get a bigger market share. It is all a question of balance, and lets face it, the distribution channels used by pirates are way more efficient than the "legal" ones. There are lessons to be learned by both sides of the argument. Were things not so damned expensive and a more realistic price charged, perhaps people would be more likely to buy.
The problem with the piracy angle is that it is not just a global issue, it happens in the States too, even with draconian legislation and a litigation culture.
Even if you did agree to it, notice that it is only available in the good ol US of A, yet being flaunted here on the WORLD wide web by Microsoft, a company that claims to have world wide operations. Does this smell of DMCA and it's jurisdiction?
The main problem I seem to get is one of managing to keep a wireless connection up and running for a whole working day. I usually end up rebooting at least 2-3 times during an 8 hour period.
Being reasonably IT literate, I've done all the usual tricks as well as trawling the net for a fix. It seems it is not hardware specific, the problem exists with all wifi hardware, same goes for routers, people are having problems with most of them. The only possibility now seems to be a problem in Vista itself, were it one specific piece of hardware then it could be put down to a driver issue or a compatibility issue.
My hardware works fine and is completely stable in Kubuntu with the exception of bluetooth and the card reader, they didn't work in Feisty, so perhaps it's time to check out Hardy in a month's time. I use Vista because that is what the rest of the office uses.
There is a serious difference between actual fructose and High Fructose Corn Syrup. HFCS is definitely bad for you, on the other hand, if fructose is bad, should we all stop eating fruit?
Lumping fructose with HFCS is like comparing apples with a Frankenstein experiment on fruit.
I think we need to look at how the system dealt with Kevin Mitnick, he ended up doing 5 years and had some pretty restrictive conditions set post his release until they were challenged in court. This idiot should be restricted as far as internet access goes, after all, he could carry on spamming from inside the jail were he allowed internet access. Curtailing his internet access for a long period of time might actually have a beneficial effect and discourage further acts of this nature by him and others like him.
I ran Safari in Vista for all of 5 mins, despite the claims (by Apple) that it was faster, it wasn't. In reality it was slower than IE. The Apple brushed effect looked out of place in Vista. Firefox is the browser I use on a day to day basis and until something better comes along, I will continue to use it. Safari is now uninstalled.
Beware of the extra crap they try to get you to install with it, I'm talking quicktime (I use quicktime alternative) and the Bonjour stuff that also seems to get installed by certain Adobe apps by default.
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When will the MAFIAA actually do the world a favour and go after the real pirates? I'm sure the Shipping Companies will help them with funds in their "Fight against Global Piracy" - why have they never tried to sue Somalia? Perhaps fitting out ships with big screens facing seawards which are constantly displaying FBI badged MAFIAA warnings on a constant loop would be an excellent deterrent for pirates. They should also stop making any more lame-assed movies which glorify piracy as this only encourages the masses to engage in their own acts of piracy.
Isn't their current rendition, BBj and acronym for Bad Blow job?
....and just how many Pirates to the expect to net over in Oz with this legislation? Will it really be any easier to prosecute them? Piracy is pretty well defined here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Piracy Of particular interest is: Modern definitions of piracy include the following acts: Extortion That means extortion of any kind, including "legalised" extortion which this piece of cartel brought legislation attempts to enable, are acts of piracy. When will we have legislation to protect us from the real pirates?
Since the introduction of biometric passports the UK already has a database capable of being used for facial recognition for the majority of people in the country.
Is this going to be yet another of those technologies like Firewire which will end up being a toy for Mac Fanboys and ignored by the majority of the userbase?
I seem to remember a product from Bluestone which was released at Fall Internet World in 1999. I seem to recall it had an XML Editor in it. Surely this is Prior Art. http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/234781/Bluestone-Releases-Visual-XML-11.htm
Forget BGAN, they charge on actual throughput and can be pretty expensive to operate. What you actually need is a SeaTel or similar tracking antenna - this will constantly keep you connected to the satellite as you are mobile, an iDirect http://www.idirect.net/ 3000 series or X3 modem (depends on the provider you use) and a subscription with one of the many providers of such services. The initial setup costs could be a bit pricey, so just look at the hardware cost as an investment. Your best bet is a provider with the ability to actually offer service over multiple satellites covering most of the globe. It can get a bit complicated when switching satellites so choose a company which specializes in Maritime VSAT services, they will be able to advise you on how best to do this.
Large Irish ISP To Enact "Three Strikes" Rule on behalf of Copyright Abusers?
Getting rid of flash completely will finally allow 64 bit web browsers to take off. It's only the need for flash that has held back most users from going fully 64 bit. Sure, Adobe have an alpha 64 bit linux version of the flash plugin availabe for quite a while now, they just never seemed to port it to any other platform.
Users who want to compare their computers to the current WCPI numbers can do so by registering with XPnet and then installing the DMS Clarity Tracker Agent from Devil Mountain's site.
Nuff said
A lot of it is about fitting in. My own son got a rough ride when we moved abroad and he didn't fit in, despite being fluent in the local language. He was different and he really had a rough ride. Some namby pamby child trick cyclist the school insisted he saw tried to tell me that he had low self esteem, which I knew was utter bullshit. I pulled him out of that school there and then despite threats of legal action etc and told them that if I as a parent had allowed my kid to be treated in that way, I'd rightfully be in serious trouble. After a term at home, he started in a new school and was one of the tougher kids, though he never used this to bully other kids. The experience of being bullied like this was a life lesson for him. A couple of years later some of the kids who had been bullying him saw him around and decided to have a go at him in the street, he beat the crap out of all three of them. He's never had a problem since then.
I'm amazed at the number of graduates of English speaking universities who can't even string a simple sentence together. In my day, they wouldn't have passed GCE 'O' level English. Come to think of it, most of them wouldn't have survived in the days when you couldn't use a calculator for maths. Even these days I can still work it out in my head faster than many youngsters can with a calculator. Education has sure been dumbed down over the years.
Why are the knee jerk politics in individual countries actually taking us backwards? According to EU legislation, the single market also applies to AudioVisual products http://ec.europa.eu/avpolicy/reg/tvwf/index_en.htm The single European market - one of the biggest achievements of European integration - applies to television broadcasts as much as anything else. Everybody wins broadcasters can attract larger audiences and viewers get a greater choice of channels Just as any of us is free to buy chocolate, wine or a new car in any EU country, we can also watch TV channels from all over Europe. As this is supposed to be written into member states national law by the 19th December 2009, how can the Italians actually justify their actions? They are denying people the right to download content which can be seen as legal in the light of this law. I think we can safely say that a lot of P2P activity involves TV Series that are not available outside the country of origin. For many of us, bitorrent is the only way we are able to keep up to date with TV programming from back home when living abroad. IPTV products such as the BBC iPlayer and ITV CatchUp are now in breach of EU law by limiting access to their service to the UK. P2P at least allows us to view the programming as per EU Legislation. It is oxymoronical that you have to break the law in order to be able view what is now technically legally available content.
I think all of this is merely a smokescreen to delay the inevitable. A few days ago the deadline for the EU's "Broadcasting sans Frontiers" law to come into force passed by. The implications of this were that the technologies such as IPTV which actually allow users outside the physical borders of the country in question to receive TV broadcasts online could no longer be blocked within the EU. In simple language, the BBC iPlayer is now supposed to work anywhere in the EU and for the BBC to prevent users outside the UK from using it is now against EU Law. I wonder if this would actually legitimise getting TV programs via P2P as that is actually enabling the EU Law rather than preventing it. That said, a glance at the UK TV schedules for the coming days shows that we're not really missing anything.
This has been around and in production for quite a while: http://www.rslsteeper.com/orthotics/orthotic-products/argo The website only shows a half body setup, I understand they also do a full body suit.
Surely they are not really talking about hackers here. The mass media hysteria and a few movies have a lot to answer for in elevating script kiddies and passing them off as "hackers".
Honestly and truthfully, piracy never really hurt the likes of Microsoft. Despite all the dodgy copies of Windows, William J Gates the Third Junior is one of the worlds wealthiest men and Microsoft is a huge Global Business. Sony benefited from piracy to get the Playstation into the market using by using a technology that allowed the disks to be copied as opposed to a cartridge that couldn't. Small companies have the most to lose from piracy in the early stages, yet piracy at some point has helped companies to get a bigger market share. It is all a question of balance, and lets face it, the distribution channels used by pirates are way more efficient than the "legal" ones. There are lessons to be learned by both sides of the argument. Were things not so damned expensive and a more realistic price charged, perhaps people would be more likely to buy.
Isn't this old information? AFAIK the ESA found most of this on the Cluster II missions http://clusterlaunch.esa.int/science-e/www/area/index.cfm?fareaid=8 Funny how NASA seems to get a monopoly on discovering things, even if the do find out later ;-)
The problem with the piracy angle is that it is not just a global issue, it happens in the States too, even with draconian legislation and a litigation culture.
Even if you did agree to it, notice that it is only available in the good ol US of A, yet being flaunted here on the WORLD wide web by Microsoft, a company that claims to have world wide operations. Does this smell of DMCA and it's jurisdiction?
The main problem I seem to get is one of managing to keep a wireless connection up and running for a whole working day. I usually end up rebooting at least 2-3 times during an 8 hour period. Being reasonably IT literate, I've done all the usual tricks as well as trawling the net for a fix. It seems it is not hardware specific, the problem exists with all wifi hardware, same goes for routers, people are having problems with most of them. The only possibility now seems to be a problem in Vista itself, were it one specific piece of hardware then it could be put down to a driver issue or a compatibility issue. My hardware works fine and is completely stable in Kubuntu with the exception of bluetooth and the card reader, they didn't work in Feisty, so perhaps it's time to check out Hardy in a month's time. I use Vista because that is what the rest of the office uses.
There is a serious difference between actual fructose and High Fructose Corn Syrup. HFCS is definitely bad for you, on the other hand, if fructose is bad, should we all stop eating fruit? Lumping fructose with HFCS is like comparing apples with a Frankenstein experiment on fruit.
They actually found three wise men in Microsoft? I notice they didn't find a virgin ;-)
I think we need to look at how the system dealt with Kevin Mitnick, he ended up doing 5 years and had some pretty restrictive conditions set post his release until they were challenged in court. This idiot should be restricted as far as internet access goes, after all, he could carry on spamming from inside the jail were he allowed internet access. Curtailing his internet access for a long period of time might actually have a beneficial effect and discourage further acts of this nature by him and others like him.
I ran Safari in Vista for all of 5 mins, despite the claims (by Apple) that it was faster, it wasn't. In reality it was slower than IE. The Apple brushed effect looked out of place in Vista. Firefox is the browser I use on a day to day basis and until something better comes along, I will continue to use it. Safari is now uninstalled. Beware of the extra crap they try to get you to install with it, I'm talking quicktime (I use quicktime alternative) and the Bonjour stuff that also seems to get installed by certain Adobe apps by default.