Actually the students are the ones paying for it with their insanely high tuition rates. They pay more for that access than John Q Public pays for their broadband.
No students = No Money = No School = No Bandwidth.
Schools should have a backbone and tell the RIAA to fuck off. After all the RIAA wont sue something that has money and resources to dedicate to a fight like a school or big company (like schools or the RIAA)
Is it just me or are we all over analyzing what is effectively a glorified bean counter.
Sure we want it to be secure and transparent which means Open Source has the best option for this to occur. Anything that is closed source should *NOT* be trusted. This includes the platform/OS the system runs on.
And is it *REALLY* that hard to ask that there be a god damn paper trail? I think just about every single person on/. has agreed that a paper trail is necessary. Anyone including Diebold who refuses to make a machine with a paper trail is definitely up to no good and likely WANTS their machine to be insecure in order to allow for vote stuffing/miscounting/false results/etc... I mean its not like it hasnt been done before.
Well the problem is that with virtualization. A guest OS is only as secure as its host OS. Which is why I presume that they don't want any WinXP or other machines that are lacking in the DRM department to be running Windows Vista virtual machines.
Another potentially real problem would be that vista as an actual OS in a computer runs slow as hell. People using virtual machines to 'test' Vista would end up with an even slower crummier machine and thus taint their perceptions for the negative. Nothing kills a product faster than the good old 'Word of Mouth' and there has been plenty badmouthing of Vista by all levels of tech support (not sales people though they gotta sell those Vista pieces of crap any way they can.
In short, the only 'acceptable' virtual environment for Vista would probably be Vista itself. They want to lock you into this crappy and crazy DRM scheme that they probably cooked up with Hollywood and hardware vendors to keep people on the upgrade treadmill indefinitely. (since if you cant watch the latest movies you need to upgrade to a computer that can run Vista, which means probably buying a whole new computer which means whole new hardware...)
In addition to what others have said. Perhaps these smaller organizations want to limit the range of their transmissions geographically. Putting something on the internet means its hard for people in your area to find it easily while tuning your radio to X-frequency will work better.
Besides if their information is only about the local area they are broadcasting to then there should be no problems since that is all it is really meant for. On the community level not the city level.
Well technically its about abusing a monopoly position to gain an unfair advantage over competitors.
Microsoft did it previously with Internet Explorer. Since it is bundled with every single copy of windows since I think 95. To Joe Average user seeing a little 'e' icon on the desktop and equating that with the internet is all you need to do in order to gain an unfair advantage over other web browser companies. Since IE doesnt typically catastrophically fail (it only allows every tom, dick and harry spyware maker to put their crap on your machine) most users never see a need to change.
Apply this reasoning to a Vista drive search thing vs Google drive search thing and you can see where this is heading. It's also the reason that Microsoft didnt automatically push Windows Defender onto XP machines. Even though Norton, Avast! or Kapersky is better most people will refuse to use them because they'll see the little windows defender icon and go 'cool theres my anti-virus'.
I'm not sure what citizens can do beyond what they have been doing, given our current political climate. Simple, get a gun and go shoot these assholes. It is part of your Declaration of Independence and your constitution's second amendment. Those old dead white guys that wrote this stuff in the late 1700's knew what they were doing (better than today's politicians anyways).
No, most customers get their info from the highstreet PC retailers who are pushing Vista as the New Big Thing the everyone should have. This may be true, but it is also true that home users are notorious for penny pinching and the like. Therefore if they bought a $1000-1200 machine in the last year or so they expect it to do everything they use it for for the next 3-5 years (Email, Web, occasional game).
If everything works under XP then they have absolutely no incentive to upgrade to Vista. These machines can in some extreme cases keep going for upwards of 7-10 years. This market segment is the one that is hurting Microsoft because they see no reason whatsoever to dish out $120-400 for Vista when everything works perfectly fine under XP. (which is why you'll probably see Microsoft make it so there is some intentional incompatibility problems with XP in newer software. They did it with PC-DOS and other things in the past)
And there is the business and government markets which has heavily avoided Vista since it was rolled out. Most companies will upgrade at some point in the next 2-5 years but the fact that they are not buying *NOW* is hurting Microsoft's sales. The government markets (atleast outside of the US) have slowly been moving towards Linux though since it helps improve the bottom line when you dont have to pay $120-400 extra for a machine with Windows on it (and they have alot of machines)
I *MIGHT* Upgrade to Vista if they get rid of all the nasty DRM requiements that is basically them bending over backwards for MAFIAA.
Ofcourse if they got rid of all that crap they *MIGHT* actually have an operating system that will run as fast as XP and people will consider buying it. Until then its doomed to rot on the shelves with all the intelligent IT people badmouthing it (which is where most customers get their info from)
Simple, a vast majority of the information obtained is a matter of public record (Birth Certificates, Death Certificates, Marriage Licenses, etc...).
All anyone has to do is go to the area they were born in and go through the hall of records or whatever it is and bam. You got all this info.
And to be honest, shouldnt we be using something OTHER than Mother's maiden name to reset passwords and crap by now?
No matter how sympathetic I am to Microsoft and no matter how much I like Vista. This should be illegal and it is most certainly wrong. Lets hope that NY state officials have the sense to stick with open source software.
Wait you like Vista? So that makes what? 3 people now.
And yes it should be illegal. So should many other things that companies do like downsizing in the name of profit.
Yeah but I bet he's pulled the 'Vote this way or you're a terrorist' line on congress too. Since you know they act like they have no balls of their own.
You would be surprised at what non-technical people are capable of doing unintentionally... Maybe they shared the 'My Documents' folder so that one of their friends could check out their paper they wrote and accidentally ended up with their music folder (which is under My Music) shared recursively.
Regardless, the RIAA needs to be honoring the rulings AGAINST them if they expect anyone to honor the rulings FOR them. Apparently they've been told they cant sue 'X number of john does to get identities' instead issuing singular ones.
Honestly I'd hope that schools would just grow a pair and wipe out who had what IP after a day or two. At the very least that would force the RIAA to work much faster and only target the biggest most chronic offenders on campuses.
Regardless of what you may or may not think... The best way to get a contract in a legally binding fashion is with a piece of paper and a pen.
There is an old saying... 'A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on'.
We should update that to 'An electronic contract isn't worth the electrons its displayed with'.
As for contracts if you want to get into the loose definition of I buy X from Y for Z... at the corner store, then you are right. But contracts especially legally binding contracts typically come on paper and are signed by both parties in the presence of witnesses.
If they occur naturally then how can they be patented/intellectual property?
DRM on living things is appalling concept that should be outlawed immediately before it gets to the same point or worse than what the movie/recording industry's DRM schemes have gotten.
Considering they'll likely get 10% of whatever the defendant gets awarded in court. You damn well better believe it.
Maybe we'll actually see a decline in the 'lawsuit spam' sent out by the RIAA/MPAA if this actually goes through and is successful... But I wont hold my breath.
I think we should make a law that politicians are not allowed to legislate about anything that they have not taken courses on (and passed). This goes especially true for technology but could be applied to other things like medicine, economy, etc..
Yes it is openly distributed and marketed because the state needs to maintain the illusion that people have rights. Dont worry once they have the population brainwashed enough they'll burn all copies of this movie.
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Actually the students are the ones paying for it with their insanely high tuition rates. They pay more for that access than John Q Public pays for their broadband.
No students = No Money = No School = No Bandwidth.
Schools should have a backbone and tell the RIAA to fuck off. After all the RIAA wont sue something that has money and resources to dedicate to a fight like a school or big company (like schools or the RIAA)
Is it just me or are we all over analyzing what is effectively a glorified bean counter.
/. has agreed that a paper trail is necessary. Anyone including Diebold who refuses to make a machine with a paper trail is definitely up to no good and likely WANTS their machine to be insecure in order to allow for vote stuffing/miscounting/false results/etc... I mean its not like it hasnt been done before.
Sure we want it to be secure and transparent which means Open Source has the best option for this to occur. Anything that is closed source should *NOT* be trusted. This includes the platform/OS the system runs on.
And is it *REALLY* that hard to ask that there be a god damn paper trail? I think just about every single person on
Yeah because if they admitted that then it would totally ruin their appearance that piracy is so evil and taking the big chunk out of their pocket.
can we get a 'haha' tag added?
Well the problem is that with virtualization. A guest OS is only as secure as its host OS. Which is why I presume that they don't want any WinXP or other machines that are lacking in the DRM department to be running Windows Vista virtual machines.
Another potentially real problem would be that vista as an actual OS in a computer runs slow as hell. People using virtual machines to 'test' Vista would end up with an even slower crummier machine and thus taint their perceptions for the negative. Nothing kills a product faster than the good old 'Word of Mouth' and there has been plenty badmouthing of Vista by all levels of tech support (not sales people though they gotta sell those Vista pieces of crap any way they can.
In short, the only 'acceptable' virtual environment for Vista would probably be Vista itself. They want to lock you into this crappy and crazy DRM scheme that they probably cooked up with Hollywood and hardware vendors to keep people on the upgrade treadmill indefinitely. (since if you cant watch the latest movies you need to upgrade to a computer that can run Vista, which means probably buying a whole new computer which means whole new hardware...)
In addition to what others have said. Perhaps these smaller organizations want to limit the range of their transmissions geographically. Putting something on the internet means its hard for people in your area to find it easily while tuning your radio to X-frequency will work better. Besides if their information is only about the local area they are broadcasting to then there should be no problems since that is all it is really meant for. On the community level not the city level.
Well technically its about abusing a monopoly position to gain an unfair advantage over competitors.
Microsoft did it previously with Internet Explorer. Since it is bundled with every single copy of windows since I think 95. To Joe Average user seeing a little 'e' icon on the desktop and equating that with the internet is all you need to do in order to gain an unfair advantage over other web browser companies. Since IE doesnt typically catastrophically fail (it only allows every tom, dick and harry spyware maker to put their crap on your machine) most users never see a need to change.
Apply this reasoning to a Vista drive search thing vs Google drive search thing and you can see where this is heading. It's also the reason that Microsoft didnt automatically push Windows Defender onto XP machines. Even though Norton, Avast! or Kapersky is better most people will refuse to use them because they'll see the little windows defender icon and go 'cool theres my anti-virus'.
If everything works under XP then they have absolutely no incentive to upgrade to Vista. These machines can in some extreme cases keep going for upwards of 7-10 years. This market segment is the one that is hurting Microsoft because they see no reason whatsoever to dish out $120-400 for Vista when everything works perfectly fine under XP. (which is why you'll probably see Microsoft make it so there is some intentional incompatibility problems with XP in newer software. They did it with PC-DOS and other things in the past)
And there is the business and government markets which has heavily avoided Vista since it was rolled out. Most companies will upgrade at some point in the next 2-5 years but the fact that they are not buying *NOW* is hurting Microsoft's sales. The government markets (atleast outside of the US) have slowly been moving towards Linux though since it helps improve the bottom line when you dont have to pay $120-400 extra for a machine with Windows on it (and they have alot of machines)
I *MIGHT* Upgrade to Vista if they get rid of all the nasty DRM requiements that is basically them bending over backwards for MAFIAA.
Ofcourse if they got rid of all that crap they *MIGHT* actually have an operating system that will run as fast as XP and people will consider buying it. Until then its doomed to rot on the shelves with all the intelligent IT people badmouthing it (which is where most customers get their info from)
Simple, a vast majority of the information obtained is a matter of public record (Birth Certificates, Death Certificates, Marriage Licenses, etc...). All anyone has to do is go to the area they were born in and go through the hall of records or whatever it is and bam. You got all this info. And to be honest, shouldnt we be using something OTHER than Mother's maiden name to reset passwords and crap by now?
Wait you like Vista? So that makes what? 3 people now.
And yes it should be illegal. So should many other things that companies do like downsizing in the name of profit.
Who thinks a blow up doll in the car will fool this technology?
Yeah but I bet he's pulled the 'Vote this way or you're a terrorist' line on congress too. Since you know they act like they have no balls of their own.
Sooo... when this product hits the market with a patent pending on it. Who is gonna show up and claim prior art? :)
You would be surprised at what non-technical people are capable of doing unintentionally... Maybe they shared the 'My Documents' folder so that one of their friends could check out their paper they wrote and accidentally ended up with their music folder (which is under My Music) shared recursively.
Regardless, the RIAA needs to be honoring the rulings AGAINST them if they expect anyone to honor the rulings FOR them. Apparently they've been told they cant sue 'X number of john does to get identities' instead issuing singular ones.
Honestly I'd hope that schools would just grow a pair and wipe out who had what IP after a day or two. At the very least that would force the RIAA to work much faster and only target the biggest most chronic offenders on campuses.
Why would America want to bring freedom to the middle east when they have none left at home?
Yet you have your savings if you need to use it you're dinged at that point and potentially as income tax as well depending on how you 'save' it.
Regardless of what you may or may not think... The best way to get a contract in a legally binding fashion is with a piece of paper and a pen.
There is an old saying... 'A verbal contract isn't worth the paper it's written on'.
We should update that to 'An electronic contract isn't worth the electrons its displayed with'.
As for contracts if you want to get into the loose definition of I buy X from Y for Z... at the corner store, then you are right. But contracts especially legally binding contracts typically come on paper and are signed by both parties in the presence of witnesses.
If they occur naturally then how can they be patented/intellectual property? DRM on living things is appalling concept that should be outlawed immediately before it gets to the same point or worse than what the movie/recording industry's DRM schemes have gotten.
Considering they'll likely get 10% of whatever the defendant gets awarded in court. You damn well better believe it. Maybe we'll actually see a decline in the 'lawsuit spam' sent out by the RIAA/MPAA if this actually goes through and is successful... But I wont hold my breath.
Jilliobytes... is that anything like Jiggawatts?
Zerg tactics ofcourse... I'm sure Russia has more than enough missiles to overwhelm the missile defense system.
I think we should make a law that politicians are not allowed to legislate about anything that they have not taken courses on (and passed). This goes especially true for technology but could be applied to other things like medicine, economy, etc..
Yes it is openly distributed and marketed because the state needs to maintain the illusion that people have rights. Dont worry once they have the population brainwashed enough they'll burn all copies of this movie.