The open source dev has not given up. He, and others, are looking
*concurrently* at weaknesses in the RSA implementation. "BD+
Successfully Resealed" is an overstatement. Although some movies
currently aren't rippable the prevailing attitude is that it is only a
short matter of time to fix defects in the open source VM.
D-Wave has provided neither proof nor convincing evidence that they
have, or are capable of building a quantum computer. There are several
theoretical limitations that experts remain skeptical have been
overcome. Their demonstrations have been suspicious and not open for
peer review. In sum, I will believe it when I see it.
Have you heard of Rodi? http://rodi.sourceforge.net/
It can transmit using UDP packets (difficult to throttle) uses encryption and can spoof the IP address of transmitted packets (weak pseudo-anonymity).
Rateless codes are pointless in unicast TCP transmission. They only make sense if you are transmitting via UDP.
Wow, what a laughably idealized view of the government.
Now, you might argue that the government is squandering the proceeds or not getting the best possible price, but really we never lost control of the airwaves.
No, I argue that the spectrum should not be sold in the first place. It is a public resource, like air, water or light. I didn't elect anyone to sell it. Because the government claims to act in the best interests of the public doesn't make it so.
The government coffers are really *our* coffers in that the government uses this money to provide us with public goods that we like to consume.
Except that a lot of that money doesn't go back to the public but to line the pockets of politicians, corporate friends, all of who are eager to have it. You think that government agents don't personally benefit when they make money from these auctions?
If the government did not receive this money from the auctions then it would have to raise the cash necessary to provide these public goods in other less desirable ways, such as raising taxes.
If the government did not auction air, public roadways and every other kind of public property it would have to raise taxes to make up the deficit... Except that that's not true at all.
Selling the right to use the spectrum at auction and then allowing the market with competition to decide the outcome yields the best and most fair result for everyone.
Granting a monopoly/oligopoly is the antithesis of competition.
You will have your cheap phone for everyone much faster, and at a much better price, from the market than you would from government control and central planning.
Open spectrum advocates don't argue for increased government control, but rather less. You will have your phones (and more importantly new innovative services), cheaper, faster, with more features when the spectrum is opened to everyone. With open access comes innovation and competition.
Remember here that wireless spectrum is not entangled in "natural monopoly" scenarios with last mile physical infrastructure problems so the market is much more able to reach the optimal result more quickly than might be the case in fiber optic or cables and other utilities.
You are right, it is not a 'natural' monopoly but a completely artificial one. Unfortunately, in either case there can be no free market in spectrum and I don't see why the outcome should be different but it is irrelevant in any case. We are not comparing proprietary wireless with cable/DSL but with free wireless and open spectrum.
Telecoms firing up the waahmbulance, looking for more government subsidies for their 'struggling' business. Uh yeah, FTTH, didn't we already pay you for that one? Multiple billions?
Does anyone who is actually building these devices for the White Spaces Coalition? Is it in-house? A university? Telecom-equipment manufacturer? Is it based on Microsoft's KNOWS?
I never thought I'd be rooting for MS but on this fight I've got my fingers crossed for them.
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Torrent or it never happened.
The open source dev has not given up. He, and others, are looking *concurrently* at weaknesses in the RSA implementation. "BD+ Successfully Resealed" is an overstatement. Although some movies currently aren't rippable the prevailing attitude is that it is only a short matter of time to fix defects in the open source VM.
I'm pretty sure there is a way to send kill messages although I doubt they are respected due to possible abuse through spoofing.
D-Wave has provided neither proof nor convincing evidence that they have, or are capable of building a quantum computer. There are several theoretical limitations that experts remain skeptical have been overcome. Their demonstrations have been suspicious and not open for peer review. In sum, I will believe it when I see it.
See some skepticism here:
http://scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=306
http://scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=291
http://scottaaronson.com/blog/?s=d-wave
There is also surfraw http://surfraw.alioth.debian.org/ which is a great idea but somehow does not aspire greatly enough.
Yubnub http://www.yubnub.org/ did it before and better, but still poorly. Obviously this type of thing should run client side and should be truly scriptable. Yubnub gives a taste of the what can be done (try http://yubnub.org/example/split?type=t&urls=http%3A%2F%2Fimages.google.com%2Fimages%3Fq%3Dporsche+http%3A%2F%2Fimages.search.yahoo.com%2Fsearch%2Fimages%3Fp%3Dporsche+http%3A%2F%2Fwww.flickr.com%2Fphotos%2Fsearch%2Ftext%3Aporsche) but it's limitations become apparent quickly, the foremost being that you are limited to the command constructs provided by the server. Also, some commands run code from third-party servers which seems a monstrously dangerous idea. The other quality that is lacking is parsing of the returned output. You should be able to do things like query imdb and extract the actors in a movie and pipe them to some other command or process.
Have you heard of Rodi? http://rodi.sourceforge.net/ It can transmit using UDP packets (difficult to throttle) uses encryption and can spoof the IP address of transmitted packets (weak pseudo-anonymity). Rateless codes are pointless in unicast TCP transmission. They only make sense if you are transmitting via UDP.
Telecoms firing up the waahmbulance, looking for more government subsidies for their 'struggling' business. Uh yeah, FTTH, didn't we already pay you for that one? Multiple billions?
Does anyone who is actually building these devices for the White Spaces Coalition? Is it in-house? A university? Telecom-equipment manufacturer? Is it based on Microsoft's KNOWS? I never thought I'd be rooting for MS but on this fight I've got my fingers crossed for them.