It was a PR spokesman they are speaking "on behalf" of the Home Office, the only person who can speak "for" the Home Office is the Home secretary, everyone else is a junior minister or a public servant and cannot make policy*
The problem with the IWF is that they are really there to stop the ISPs getting prosecuted not to police the internet, they don't care if something is "offensive" or not just if their clients (the ISPs) would get prosecuted for hosting it, they are not a government body or government controlled, but if all the ISPs are forced to use them then they should be... or should be liable for their actions
Writer do not produce a "good" - really? could you tell a few people in America when the writers strike was on that they could have continued without the writers, because they don't make anything...
Writers have a product, but it is closer to a service that a physical object, it is only worth money because it is copyrighted it has no real value except as a service, the TV and movie industry needs the output of writers the same as it needs the output of actors, directors, effects people, location scouts etc... they all have no actual "goods" they produce except they all contribute to the finished product, why is the writer treated specially?
Why not pay the author a fair price for writing the original story... and that's it...it took three weeks to write so I pay you for three weeks work?
I get paid once for doing a days work, apparently they get paid forever for doing one days work?
Why not be a staff writer who gets paid a salary and their work is writing (like most people), rather than how they apparently want to work which is write what they think people want hawk it around the studios earning no money until it is taken up, then doing nothing while the money rolls in....
Bach was not popular in his day, and so had to have another job to support his family... where he wrote and performed music!
Most Classical composers worked for a living either in music (Teaching, running choirs, opera companies etc) or in other non-musical professions, some had patrons that commissioned them to write music but many did not for most of their careers
They made money from their music by staging performances not by selling the rights to the music, and when they were popular they could make decent money from it, and were encouraged to continue by the fact that they could not continue to live off their older works forever
They either had jobs to have a stable income between income from their music, or they starved...
Lie detectors of all types detect if you think you are lying and are stressed by this more than you were in the "control" part of the test....
So if a lie is detected you could be
a) lying
b) think you are lying, but mistaken
c) more stressed for other reasons
and if a lie is not detected you could be
a) telling the truth
b) think you are telling the truth, but mistaken
c) as stressed for other reasons as in the control
d) no worried that you are lying, and so not stressed
e) using one of the anti-lie detector methods that have been shown to work...
Note an operator has to be trained to use a polygraph because they have to use subjective assessment to avoid false positives and negatives: i.e. the testing is a subjective opionion
Most studies of lie detectors are done by lie detector manufacturers, and surprisingly they all seem to come to the conclusion they are reliable and foolproof
"Patents and copyright exist to ensure that the creator is protected"
No they exist to *reward* the creator, not to protect them. Specifically patents exits to reward them for documenting the idea rather than hiding it forever, and copyright rewards them for publishing their idea by giving them control of how it is used
It is a reward given by the government to encourage them and others to come up with more ideas and not to hide the ones they have... the current system seems to encourage people not to come up with more ideas (they can live off the ones they already have so why bother) and to so restrict the market as to stifle use of the idea
Invent something better, patent it... make huge amounts of money for the first 5 years, but anyone can make one and pay you and you cannot stop them... after five years people don't have to pay you anymore...If it truly is better than the wheel there is no need to ban that outmoded idea, it will only be used as a retro novelty item from now on...
If it's a crap idea you don't get paid... if it's a good idea you make a small profit... if it's a brilliant idea you a set for life
Patents should not stop people using your idea.. that is what copyright is for
He appears to be trying to patent the concept of a marketing company or more specifically a software marketing company.... I suspect these already exist and have done for some time....
Prior art is every software marketing company in existence...forget if it can be patented due to it being a process, it has been around so long and is so obvious it cannot be patented
They have download limits in the states because they do not have the infrastructure to cope and the customers do not have any choice so put up with it
They have download limits in the UK because most ISP's actually buy bandwidth from BT wholesale and so have to somehow incorporate the usage pricing (more it is used the more you pay.. but most ISP's charge a flat rate, so have to stop you overusing it so they can make money)
The few ISP in the UK who do not buy from BT actually have either much different limits or no limits
Try Japan or France where they stream most of their TV over broadband live, in HD... they might have limits but a "normal" user never see them...
This would be the Exchange that is a messaging and communications server that apparently only works well if you don't let it communicate directly with anything....
Pluto is not a planet by the IAU definition a planet... nothing to do with size....
Planet : is a celestial body that
is in orbit around the Sun,
has sufficient mass for its self-gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it assumes a hydrostatic equilibrium (nearly round) shape
has cleared the neighbourhood around its orbit.
Neptune meets the first two but not the third so is a Dwarf Planet....
Moon/natural satellite does not have an IAU definition (yet) so call it a moon (or not) as you like...
Beaten hollow by first browser written by Tim Berners-Lee
It was the First Browser
the First Graphical Browser
the first HTML Editor
the First Multi window Browser
The only claim I can see here is Non-NeXT or maybe tabbed.... (NeXT did windows not tabs)
You miss the point OSS software competes with the mass market software industry, it does not compete with the speciality software market, where you buy a "system" or "solution" that provides the hardware, installation, support, maintenance, and the software, in fact this is where OSS is most used as a base to add the speciality system on top of...
OSS is not "generally poor or quality" the equivalent products are generally of much the same quality, you do not compare a small OSS Project with Office, the same as you do not compare most shareware with Apache.
Ubuntu is not Utilitarian! It can be as colourful and creative as OSX... if not more so......OSX is a hybrid of OSS and closed source by the way
If you think you can "steal from the unemployed OSS guys" then either you are "stealing" BSD licensed software (which is legal and not stealing) or you are stealing GPL licensed software and *will* be sued...
People being paid to do OSS work is less likely... people doing OSS work anyway either in their free time or if unemployed in their copious free time will continue as normal
Having said that companies that reply on OSS software still need it fixed and improved and so they are likely to still throw resources at it, even if they cut back in the same way as they are elsewhere
Quantum cryptography normally just sends the key - or usually the equivalent of the one time pad
If someone tries to intercept it then a) the interceptor does not get the key, b) the receiver can tell that it has been intercepted... just keep trying until you get a clean session then the sender and receiver have the same message and no-one else does guaranteed!
The encryption you send the main message with is the weak point, but this can be very strong simply because the sender and receiver have a common key that they can guarantee no-one else has
The tools parents use are of a good example of why this cannot work, they do not have never and cannot stop kids looking at anything they want on the internet...
The only "tool" that works is put the computer in a family room and be around them when they are using it, this is 100% foolproof and may even lead to them speaking to their children occasionally...
Go to an internet Cafe, watch people surfing, emailing, chatting online etc... then after an hour or so ask them what operating system they are using.... they don't know, and don't care!
It's not the Operating system and browser are merging, it's that the Operating system is being pushed back where it belongs, in the background, quietly getting on with keeping the machine running, while you get on with using the application(s)
If you know which operating system you are using then it is either annoying you, or is surprisingly not! which says more bout the state of operating systems than anything....
"...It exports a nice COM interface and has.NET components. (In fact, you can make a "tabbed browser" in 3 clicks in C#.)"
You can ask IE (A tabbed browser) to make a tabbed browser..... wow!
"Removing IE doesn't break Windows - it breaks other programs. "
Like :
Windows Update
CHM Help Files
and other "3rd Party" programs...!
So because it is preinstalled people use it because it is assumed to be there.... so it is a monopoly and should be stopped....
The intended audience seems to be non-geek girls who like being patronised and want to use Windows (but not understand it) so the title is misleading... this book will not turn you into a geek or a geek-goddess....
I was on the English coast and my phone went international Roaming.... and my carrier sent an automatic text telling my I had it turned on... opening with the message "Welcome to France" well it was *only* 21+ miles away....
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It was a PR spokesman they are speaking "on behalf" of the Home Office, the only person who can speak "for" the Home Office is the Home secretary, everyone else is a junior minister or a public servant and cannot make policy*
The problem with the IWF is that they are really there to stop the ISPs getting prosecuted not to police the internet, they don't care if something is "offensive" or not just if their clients (the ISPs) would get prosecuted for hosting it, they are not a government body or government controlled, but if all the ISPs are forced to use them then they should be ... or should be liable for their actions
* exactly the same under the Conservatives
Writer do not produce a "good" - really? could you tell a few people in America when the writers strike was on that they could have continued without the writers, because they don't make anything ...
Writers have a product, but it is closer to a service that a physical object, it is only worth money because it is copyrighted it has no real value except as a service, the TV and movie industry needs the output of writers the same as it needs the output of actors, directors, effects people, location scouts etc ... they all have no actual "goods" they produce except they all contribute to the finished product, why is the writer treated specially?
Why not pay the author a fair price for writing the original story ... and that's it ...it took three weeks to write so I pay you for three weeks work?
I get paid once for doing a days work, apparently they get paid forever for doing one days work?
Why not be a staff writer who gets paid a salary and their work is writing (like most people), rather than how they apparently want to work which is write what they think people want hawk it around the studios earning no money until it is taken up, then doing nothing while the money rolls in ....
Bach was not popular in his day, and so had to have another job to support his family ... where he wrote and performed music!
Most Classical composers worked for a living either in music (Teaching, running choirs, opera companies etc) or in other non-musical professions, some had patrons that commissioned them to write music but many did not for most of their careers
They made money from their music by staging performances not by selling the rights to the music, and when they were popular they could make decent money from it, and were encouraged to continue by the fact that they could not continue to live off their older works forever
They either had jobs to have a stable income between income from their music, or they starved...
Lie detectors of all types detect if you think you are lying and are stressed by this more than you were in the "control" part of the test ....
So if a lie is detected you could be
a) lying
b) think you are lying, but mistaken
c) more stressed for other reasons
and if a lie is not detected you could be ...
a) telling the truth
b) think you are telling the truth, but mistaken
c) as stressed for other reasons as in the control
d) no worried that you are lying, and so not stressed
e) using one of the anti-lie detector methods that have been shown to work
Note an operator has to be trained to use a polygraph because they have to use subjective assessment to avoid false positives and negatives: i.e. the testing is a subjective opionion
Most studies of lie detectors are done by lie detector manufacturers, and surprisingly they all seem to come to the conclusion they are reliable and foolproof
"Patents and copyright exist to ensure that the creator is protected"
No they exist to *reward* the creator, not to protect them. Specifically patents exits to reward them for documenting the idea rather than hiding it forever, and copyright rewards them for publishing their idea by giving them control of how it is used
It is a reward given by the government to encourage them and others to come up with more ideas and not to hide the ones they have... the current system seems to encourage people not to come up with more ideas (they can live off the ones they already have so why bother) and to so restrict the market as to stifle use of the idea
Invent something better, patent it ... make huge amounts of money for the first 5 years, but anyone can make one and pay you and you cannot stop them ... after five years people don't have to pay you anymore ...If it truly is better than the wheel there is no need to ban that outmoded idea, it will only be used as a retro novelty item from now on ...
If it's a crap idea you don't get paid ... if it's a good idea you make a small profit ... if it's a brilliant idea you a set for life
Patents should not stop people using your idea .. that is what copyright is for
Is it just me or were Music Videos given away free as adverts for the product at one time... when did they become the product?
He appears to be trying to patent the concept of a marketing company or more specifically a software marketing company .... I suspect these already exist and have done for some time ....
Prior art is every software marketing company in existence ...forget if it can be patented due to it being a process, it has been around so long and is so obvious it cannot be patented
I agree if Pluto is in orbital resonance with Neptune then
a) Pluto is not a planet
b) it is a satellite of Neptune
The difference between UK and USA
They have download limits in the states because they do not have the infrastructure to cope and the customers do not have any choice so put up with it
They have download limits in the UK because most ISP's actually buy bandwidth from BT wholesale and so have to somehow incorporate the usage pricing (more it is used the more you pay .. but most ISP's charge a flat rate, so have to stop you overusing it so they can make money)
The few ISP in the UK who do not buy from BT actually have either much different limits or no limits
Try Japan or France where they stream most of their TV over broadband live, in HD ... they might have limits but a "normal" user never see them ...
This would be the Exchange that is a messaging and communications server that apparently only works well if you don't let it communicate directly with anything ....
Have Microsoft looked up the work Irony ....
Pluto is not a planet by the IAU definition a planet ... nothing to do with size ....
Planet : is a celestial body that
is in orbit around the Sun,
has sufficient mass for its self-gravity to overcome rigid body forces so that it assumes a hydrostatic equilibrium (nearly round) shape
has cleared the neighbourhood around its orbit.
Neptune meets the first two but not the third so is a Dwarf Planet ....
Moon/natural satellite does not have an IAU definition (yet) so call it a moon (or not) as you like ...
Beaten hollow by first browser written by Tim Berners-Lee
It was the First Browser
the First Graphical Browser
the first HTML Editor
the First Multi window Browser
The only claim I can see here is Non-NeXT or maybe tabbed .... (NeXT did windows not tabs)
You miss the point OSS software competes with the mass market software industry, it does not compete with the speciality software market, where you buy a "system" or "solution" that provides the hardware, installation, support, maintenance, and the software, in fact this is where OSS is most used as a base to add the speciality system on top of ...
OSS is not "generally poor or quality" the equivalent products are generally of much the same quality, you do not compare a small OSS Project with Office, the same as you do not compare most shareware with Apache.
Ubuntu is not Utilitarian! It can be as colourful and creative as OSX... if not more so ... ...OSX is a hybrid of OSS and closed source by the way
If you think you can "steal from the unemployed OSS guys" then either you are "stealing" BSD licensed software (which is legal and not stealing) or you are stealing GPL licensed software and *will* be sued ...
People being paid to do OSS work is less likely ... people doing OSS work anyway either in their free time or if unemployed in their copious free time will continue as normal
Having said that companies that reply on OSS software still need it fixed and improved and so they are likely to still throw resources at it, even if they cut back in the same way as they are elsewhere
Quantum cryptography normally just sends the key - or usually the equivalent of the one time pad
If someone tries to intercept it then a) the interceptor does not get the key, b) the receiver can tell that it has been intercepted ... just keep trying until you get a clean session then the sender and receiver have the same message and no-one else does guaranteed!
The encryption you send the main message with is the weak point, but this can be very strong simply because the sender and receiver have a common key that they can guarantee no-one else has
The tools parents use are of a good example of why this cannot work, they do not have never and cannot stop kids looking at anything they want on the internet ...
The only "tool" that works is put the computer in a family room and be around them when they are using it, this is 100% foolproof and may even lead to them speaking to their children occasionally ...
Go to an internet Cafe, watch people surfing, emailing, chatting online etc ... then after an hour or so ask them what operating system they are using .... they don't know, and don't care!
It's not the Operating system and browser are merging, it's that the Operating system is being pushed back where it belongs, in the background, quietly getting on with keeping the machine running, while you get on with using the application(s)
If you know which operating system you are using then it is either annoying you, or is surprisingly not! which says more bout the state of operating systems than anything....
Chrome is not integrated into the OS, Firefox is not Integrated into the OS ...
The distinction between the Browser and the OS is blurred not because they are merging but because it does not matter which OS you are using
Running Google apps in Firefox on Windows/Linux/OSX work the same, the operating system (mostly) does not matter ...
"...It exports a nice COM interface and has .NET components. (In fact, you can make a "tabbed browser" in 3 clicks in C#.)" ..... wow!
You can ask IE (A tabbed browser) to make a tabbed browser
"Removing IE doesn't break Windows - it breaks other programs. " ...!
Like :
Windows Update
CHM Help Files
and other "3rd Party" programs
So because it is preinstalled people use it because it is assumed to be there .... so it is a monopoly and should be stopped ....
Can I install, for nothing, simply and easily any browser I want - yes (Good)
Can I uninstall IE, and stop automatic updates asking to reinstall it - No!
I call that monopolistic practice ...
The intended audience seems to be non-geek girls who like being patronised and want to use Windows (but not understand it) so the title is misleading... this book will not turn you into a geek or a geek-goddess....
I was on the English coast and my phone went international Roaming .... and my carrier sent an automatic text telling my I had it turned on ... opening with the message "Welcome to France" well it was *only* 21+ miles away ....
XBox 360 - Chipset made by IBM
Playstation 3 - Chipset made by IBM
Wii - Chipset made by IBM
I think most gamers care .....