All it takes is at least one network provider in each major market to go along with the Netflix/Google model. There may be legitimate smaller (than Verizon or Comcast) operators in most cities that can do it. Now all we need is for the likes of Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook, Apple and Netflix to recognize those players and incentivize them.
Never forget, it was the cable companies that once charged for a commercial free service, because we were paying them directly. Now we have a product with commercials even on many of the more upscale channels. They change their deal when it's convenient, the same way Verizon is acting with their Cell Data service.
I am a VZW subscriber, for a little while longer. Once my current contract runs out and I'm forced into the 5GB cap, I won't be any longer. Verizon used to be reliable. My wife and I have a new joke: "Can you drop me now? . . . DROID!" Strangely enough the Ntelos/US Cellular/small carrier network/market covers more area around me than Verizon does. Now if they could only get decent phones.
With the break up of Ma Bell and a change of medium, we have gone from a monopoly to an anti-competitive price setting oligopoly. It's much harder to prove collusion than monopoly, so we'll be stuck with this garbage for some time. Instead of competing for our business, they're busy competing for the most inventive way to screw us.
If they're brute forcing against a hash, attempts/failures is irrelevant. If they're brute forcing file encryption, once again, system lockout attempts are irrelevant unless it's integrated into the operating system.
Its funny that you mention Greece, as it's the austerity measures imposed by the EU and IMF that are now causing instability, riots and poor economic conditions. Meanwhile, it's our "Big Government" that builds maintains infrastructure. If the government needs to shrink, the only sensible way to do it without wrecking the economy is attrition. The largest problem with cutting "entitlements" is that a lot of people feel entitled to them. Everyone who pays payroll income tax pays for Social Security and Medicare. We see line items for those, separate from Federal Income Tax, on our pay stubs. Social Security is the reverse of a progressive tax, the more you make, the less you pay into them. There are loopholes, entitlement taxes are payroll taxes. It's only in 2013 that medicare tax will start being applied investment income.
The George W. Bush 15% capital gains tax were implemented in 2003, and how has the economy and stock market been since then? Aren't stock values being propped up by the 401k's and IRA's? The markets crashed, they lost a lot of perceived value, and where did that perceived value go? The 15% capital gains tax encourages short term thinking, people can take profit straight from the market and pay the same tax rate as low income earners. Doesn't it make sense that the 28% capital gains rate from the Clinton years encouraged people to put their investments in "tax shelters"? IRA's and 401k's are much longer term planning, and if you don't pay capital gains tax on them when you hit retirement, then they work exactly how they were designed. It's the 15% capital gains tax that encourages short term thinking, short term profit taking, and it's what is enabling the wealthy in this country to completely fleece the middle class. We put our money in 401k's, planning for retirement, and it's those who work on Wall Street and play the market that are taking profits and paying little to do so. It's not that I see capital gains tax as a revenue source, its that I see it as a deterrent to reaming out our private market retirement investment plans.
After 8 years of policy that seemed designed to crush the middle class, one can't expect it to be fixed within 2 years. It's that simple, there's nothing that's immediate. Tea Party ideas to shrink the payroll of the nations largest employer are a monumentally bad idea for the economy.
I grew up when Reagan was president, and I have to say that it was close to abject poverty. Both of my parents worked, but neither seemed to make any headway. As the second oldest of the children, I didn't know what new clothes were until I was 16 years old and got an after school and weekend job. The only good thing I can say about growing up like that is that people who grow up soft don't know how to survive tough times. I went to a different school every year, we just kept moving to poorer and poorer areas. Perhaps my experience was colored by all of the poverty that I saw, growing up, but I have to say that the Reagan years were the worst part of America in my memory.
From my perspective, life was horrible in "Reagan's America", so leave your right wing rhetoric at home, or explain how life was soooo stinking good under Reagan.
A kill switch is just about the dumbest idea ever. As soon as it's made, it will then be every bit as vulnerable as all of these systems that are getting hacked. It would become the quickest, easiest massive DoS attack to pull off, and it would give all of the hacking/cracking community a clear and obvious high value target. Given a dedicated enough team of black hats, it's not a matter of if it gets compromised, its a matter of how long.
I've worked with one too many developer that thought everything under the / filesystem needed to be mode 777. Devs should have root on Dev and maybe test systems. They should only be given temporary root access on production systems after they've proven their changes in dev and test environments.
What do you expect to happen when you hire Systems Administrators for 6 month contracts to build your systems, and then let the contract expire after the servers are built? Servers don't usually patch themselves, nor do they remain compliant with your security standards once you give developers and DBA's root access.
I'm guessing the orchestration also involved her making a fool of herself on TLC? She puts her self in the spotlight as much as she can. It seems much more like character seppuku to me.
Palin's email dirtied the systems up so bad with viruses and trojans, that they had to print them out for record keeping but deleted the entire account. She reminds me of the kind of user that says "I only ever get emails with paper clips from friends, why wouldn't I trust them?"
Poor Alaska Governor's office IT department wasted 2 years just to clean up the mail server.
We're still comparing apples to oranges. In one case we have a single private citizen who decided to install software on machines that belonged to other people, in order to get pictures of them naked. In the other case we have computers which were owned by the state entity which put the software on them. In the case with the Mac tech, the tech put software on the systems encouraging the end users to put the computers somewhere steamy. In the case of the school, they were putting 1984 style spying devices in front of kids, trying to bust them in the strange war on drugs.
Both are wrong. It would be up to the (local) taxpayers to defend and pay fines for the actions of the either elected or appointed officials that went along with the student spying scheme. There the goal was to enforce the people's law, albeit in a way that is contrary to the typical expectation of privacy.
I was too! I had to look it up immediately after the pilot informed us all that we need to turn off our cell phones. I just didn't believe that someone with years of experience and training could be smarter than the internets.
The copyright lobby have pirated terminology that's still in use, perhaps it's time to start calling them the pirates. I imagine they have a lot more booty for the plunder than the average copyright violator.
Wait . . . I thought piracy was what those people in financially destitute countries were getting paid to do near Somalia, to destabilize trade and cruises from The West .
It actually looks like iCloud is 5GB for "free" too. It's just that "free" here means that you have to upgrade your OS to use it. My point was that the demographic that still uses XP isn't the demographic that will use iCloud. They'll find something else first.
Your point assumes that the end user doesn't just decide to use the Amazon Cloud Drive for free, instead. We're talking about people that have been resistant to change or cheap enough to stick to a 10 year old OS. We're not talking about people that like to waste money on a new iProduct or want to figure out a different UI. Apple will be lucky if their existing users move over to the service, much less use it to encourage new customers to spring for the expensive walled garden.
There is a difference between the school spying on its students and a pervert installing software on female clients computers to get naked images of them. Sure, what was done in Pennsylvania was a violation of privacy, but the school board wasn't after pictures of the victims undressing.
I can say that when I first saw id Software, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, that a friend had pirated it. I'll also say that I paid money for Doom, Quake, Quake II (twice, had it installed on 2 computers), Quake III (2 windows copies and 1 Linux copy). Did id lose money on one copy of one game, or did they save money on marketing and inadvertently acquire a customer who then paid for several games to come?
I saw "Evil Dead" for the first time at a friends house, they'd rented it. I didn't pay a dime to see it. Later I bought "Evil Dead 2" on VHS, and paid for tickets to see "Army of Darkness" in the theaters twice. Did the movie industry actually lose money when I was able to see the first movie for free, or was there a profit when I liked it and paid to see sequels later?
I have a few friends who are artists that make money off of their work. They're always asking how they can get InDesign or Photoshop or for free and crack the licensing. I ask them if they expect people to value their creativity and pay for their art. They say that they've given away plenty of free art to get their name out there. Does Adobe have their name out there? Why should they give you their software for free then?
Each year there is a maximum of 3 movies that come out that are actually worth my time. If they're worth my time, then they're worth my money. If I wouldn't pay to see it, I won't waste my time to watch it. There are far more useful things to do than watch a bad movie. If all of the good parts are bundled into the trailers for a movie, and I end up wasting my time and money on it, I'll remember the names of the producer, director and actors in that movie. I won't again waste my money or time on anything they do from then on. Personally, I hope their careers bomb, because they're in the wrong business. I hope they do go broke. I hope they find something productive to do with their time instead of waste mine. People who acquire unauthorized copies of movies are doing themselves more of a disservice than they are the MPAA.
Your sarcasm here is kind of blind. Blind to the fact that there actually are people in this world that go out and use their wallets when they see what they like. P2P does the same thing for music and movies that radio and television used to do. It gives a potential audience a reduced quality(probably riddled with trojans and viruses instead of commercial breaks) sample of the artists work. There is some percentage of that audience, those that had a sample of your work and liked it, that will pay to experience it the next time around. The MPAA are doing it wrong, they should be running the P2P networks. They should be releasing P2P versions of the movies that are missing minor parts here and there, or have commercials injected into them, and then selling Director's cuts with bonus features. Instead of being creative and insightful about marketing and acquisition of funds, they're reverting to lawsuits and lobbyists.
Oooh, we need to get "Laying on of hands on a touchscreen mobile device with a screen over 3.0 inches, to heal people remotely over a wireless network" here on Slashdot, in public domain now, so that we have reference to prior art.
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All it takes is at least one network provider in each major market to go along with the Netflix/Google model. There may be legitimate smaller (than Verizon or Comcast) operators in most cities that can do it. Now all we need is for the likes of Google, Microsoft, Amazon, Facebook, Apple and Netflix to recognize those players and incentivize them.
Never forget, it was the cable companies that once charged for a commercial free service, because we were paying them directly. Now we have a product with commercials even on many of the more upscale channels. They change their deal when it's convenient, the same way Verizon is acting with their Cell Data service.
I am a VZW subscriber, for a little while longer. Once my current contract runs out and I'm forced into the 5GB cap, I won't be any longer. Verizon used to be reliable. My wife and I have a new joke: "Can you drop me now? . . . DROID!" Strangely enough the Ntelos/US Cellular/small carrier network/market covers more area around me than Verizon does. Now if they could only get decent phones.
With the break up of Ma Bell and a change of medium, we have gone from a monopoly to an anti-competitive price setting oligopoly. It's much harder to prove collusion than monopoly, so we'll be stuck with this garbage for some time. Instead of competing for our business, they're busy competing for the most inventive way to screw us.
If they're brute forcing against a hash, attempts/failures is irrelevant. If they're brute forcing file encryption, once again, system lockout attempts are irrelevant unless it's integrated into the operating system.
Its funny that you mention Greece, as it's the austerity measures imposed by the EU and IMF that are now causing instability, riots and poor economic conditions. Meanwhile, it's our "Big Government" that builds maintains infrastructure. If the government needs to shrink, the only sensible way to do it without wrecking the economy is attrition. The largest problem with cutting "entitlements" is that a lot of people feel entitled to them. Everyone who pays payroll income tax pays for Social Security and Medicare. We see line items for those, separate from Federal Income Tax, on our pay stubs. Social Security is the reverse of a progressive tax, the more you make, the less you pay into them. There are loopholes, entitlement taxes are payroll taxes. It's only in 2013 that medicare tax will start being applied investment income.
The George W. Bush 15% capital gains tax were implemented in 2003, and how has the economy and stock market been since then? Aren't stock values being propped up by the 401k's and IRA's? The markets crashed, they lost a lot of perceived value, and where did that perceived value go? The 15% capital gains tax encourages short term thinking, people can take profit straight from the market and pay the same tax rate as low income earners. Doesn't it make sense that the 28% capital gains rate from the Clinton years encouraged people to put their investments in "tax shelters"? IRA's and 401k's are much longer term planning, and if you don't pay capital gains tax on them when you hit retirement, then they work exactly how they were designed. It's the 15% capital gains tax that encourages short term thinking, short term profit taking, and it's what is enabling the wealthy in this country to completely fleece the middle class. We put our money in 401k's, planning for retirement, and it's those who work on Wall Street and play the market that are taking profits and paying little to do so. It's not that I see capital gains tax as a revenue source, its that I see it as a deterrent to reaming out our private market retirement investment plans.
After 8 years of policy that seemed designed to crush the middle class, one can't expect it to be fixed within 2 years. It's that simple, there's nothing that's immediate. Tea Party ideas to shrink the payroll of the nations largest employer are a monumentally bad idea for the economy.
I grew up when Reagan was president, and I have to say that it was close to abject poverty. Both of my parents worked, but neither seemed to make any headway. As the second oldest of the children, I didn't know what new clothes were until I was 16 years old and got an after school and weekend job. The only good thing I can say about growing up like that is that people who grow up soft don't know how to survive tough times. I went to a different school every year, we just kept moving to poorer and poorer areas. Perhaps my experience was colored by all of the poverty that I saw, growing up, but I have to say that the Reagan years were the worst part of America in my memory.
From my perspective, life was horrible in "Reagan's America", so leave your right wing rhetoric at home, or explain how life was soooo stinking good under Reagan.
They'll just be stolen by the people you pay, anyway
A kill switch is just about the dumbest idea ever. As soon as it's made, it will then be every bit as vulnerable as all of these systems that are getting hacked. It would become the quickest, easiest massive DoS attack to pull off, and it would give all of the hacking/cracking community a clear and obvious high value target. Given a dedicated enough team of black hats, it's not a matter of if it gets compromised, its a matter of how long.
I've worked with one too many developer that thought everything under the / filesystem needed to be mode 777. Devs should have root on Dev and maybe test systems. They should only be given temporary root access on production systems after they've proven their changes in dev and test environments.
What do you expect to happen when you hire Systems Administrators for 6 month contracts to build your systems, and then let the contract expire after the servers are built? Servers don't usually patch themselves, nor do they remain compliant with your security standards once you give developers and DBA's root access.
I'm guessing the orchestration also involved her making a fool of herself on TLC? She puts her self in the spotlight as much as she can. It seems much more like character seppuku to me.
Palin's email dirtied the systems up so bad with viruses and trojans, that they had to print them out for record keeping but deleted the entire account. She reminds me of the kind of user that says "I only ever get emails with paper clips from friends, why wouldn't I trust them?"
Poor Alaska Governor's office IT department wasted 2 years just to clean up the mail server.
Italian Prime Minister, Silvio Berlusconi should be able to help on with that.
That's right, think of the children...
We're still comparing apples to oranges. In one case we have a single private citizen who decided to install software on machines that belonged to other people, in order to get pictures of them naked. In the other case we have computers which were owned by the state entity which put the software on them. In the case with the Mac tech, the tech put software on the systems encouraging the end users to put the computers somewhere steamy. In the case of the school, they were putting 1984 style spying devices in front of kids, trying to bust them in the strange war on drugs.
Both are wrong. It would be up to the (local) taxpayers to defend and pay fines for the actions of the either elected or appointed officials that went along with the student spying scheme. There the goal was to enforce the people's law, albeit in a way that is contrary to the typical expectation of privacy.
I was too! I had to look it up immediately after the pilot informed us all that we need to turn off our cell phones. I just didn't believe that someone with years of experience and training could be smarter than the internets.
The copyright lobby have pirated terminology that's still in use, perhaps it's time to start calling them the pirates. I imagine they have a lot more booty for the plunder than the average copyright violator.
Wait . . . I thought piracy was what those people in financially destitute countries were getting paid to do near Somalia, to destabilize trade and cruises from The West .
It actually looks like iCloud is 5GB for "free" too. It's just that "free" here means that you have to upgrade your OS to use it. My point was that the demographic that still uses XP isn't the demographic that will use iCloud. They'll find something else first.
Your point assumes that the end user doesn't just decide to use the Amazon Cloud Drive for free, instead. We're talking about people that have been resistant to change or cheap enough to stick to a 10 year old OS. We're not talking about people that like to waste money on a new iProduct or want to figure out a different UI. Apple will be lucky if their existing users move over to the service, much less use it to encourage new customers to spring for the expensive walled garden.
As if it wasn't creepy enough.
Many of the victims were Biola students
And students at a small Christian college in Southern California.
There is a difference between the school spying on its students and a pervert installing software on female clients computers to get naked images of them. Sure, what was done in Pennsylvania was a violation of privacy, but the school board wasn't after pictures of the victims undressing.
I can say that when I first saw id Software, Return to Castle Wolfenstein, that a friend had pirated it. I'll also say that I paid money for Doom, Quake, Quake II (twice, had it installed on 2 computers), Quake III (2 windows copies and 1 Linux copy). Did id lose money on one copy of one game, or did they save money on marketing and inadvertently acquire a customer who then paid for several games to come?
I saw "Evil Dead" for the first time at a friends house, they'd rented it. I didn't pay a dime to see it. Later I bought "Evil Dead 2" on VHS, and paid for tickets to see "Army of Darkness" in the theaters twice. Did the movie industry actually lose money when I was able to see the first movie for free, or was there a profit when I liked it and paid to see sequels later?
I have a few friends who are artists that make money off of their work. They're always asking how they can get InDesign or Photoshop or for free and crack the licensing. I ask them if they expect people to value their creativity and pay for their art. They say that they've given away plenty of free art to get their name out there. Does Adobe have their name out there? Why should they give you their software for free then?
Each year there is a maximum of 3 movies that come out that are actually worth my time. If they're worth my time, then they're worth my money. If I wouldn't pay to see it, I won't waste my time to watch it. There are far more useful things to do than watch a bad movie. If all of the good parts are bundled into the trailers for a movie, and I end up wasting my time and money on it, I'll remember the names of the producer, director and actors in that movie. I won't again waste my money or time on anything they do from then on. Personally, I hope their careers bomb, because they're in the wrong business. I hope they do go broke. I hope they find something productive to do with their time instead of waste mine. People who acquire unauthorized copies of movies are doing themselves more of a disservice than they are the MPAA.
Your sarcasm here is kind of blind. Blind to the fact that there actually are people in this world that go out and use their wallets when they see what they like. P2P does the same thing for music and movies that radio and television used to do. It gives a potential audience a reduced quality(probably riddled with trojans and viruses instead of commercial breaks) sample of the artists work. There is some percentage of that audience, those that had a sample of your work and liked it, that will pay to experience it the next time around. The MPAA are doing it wrong, they should be running the P2P networks. They should be releasing P2P versions of the movies that are missing minor parts here and there, or have commercials injected into them, and then selling Director's cuts with bonus features. Instead of being creative and insightful about marketing and acquisition of funds, they're reverting to lawsuits and lobbyists.
Oooh, we need to get "Laying on of hands on a touchscreen mobile device with a screen over 3.0 inches, to heal people remotely over a wireless network" here on Slashdot, in public domain now, so that we have reference to prior art.