An internet provider should no more be police for content than the postal services, who don't open and read every letter or packet to see if there's something incriminating in it. Besides which, how much volume of information is flowing around per hour on the internet, and you're somehow going to police that for who owns copyright on the files?! Idiots.
These schemes are always thought up by politicians who have NO qualifications in engineering, information technology or ANYTHING remotely relevant. All we have is a bunch of self serving politicians who studied politics, law, history, art, English, Latin or any other completely worthless subject. And that's why our countries are in the state that they're in.
However, this is big business we're talking about, and the slime-ball UNELECTED politician in question who's pushing this internet cut off accepts freebie holidays from rich "friends", and decides government policy on the hoof... or rather, after meeting up with other rich "friends".
Maybe the debate for the masses should be re-written from "cut off internet" to "you are barred from having a phone", because for a lot of people, they are one and the same thing. You are not allowed to have contact with anyone on order from some pr1ck in the film / music business. A lot of government contact is going online, making the internet even more indispensable than before.
... an irrelevance to the 220+ countries NOT called United States of America. The law of the USA is not valid past it's borders, and the media cartels should remember that.
The only game port I know about are when companies say they will port a game for Linux, may as well send the announcement straight to/dev/null !
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_Nukem_Forever
It's a cunning productivity drive. Without places to moan about the government, you have lots more time for your work, rather than posting to web forums.
The problem of service priority is not just in the US. Here in the UK I left my last ISP because they announced that they will be traffic shaping, throttling certain protocols for priority. An excellent example I remember is the ISP's own VoIP service was to be treated as top priority packets, and something like Skype was to have lower priority. It was a no brainer to leave. The problem is in areas which have no competition and you're locked in to the shyster ISP.
CD or compact disc is a physical medium that has spun off from the development of Laserdisc.
The audio CD has increasingly been sold in standards breaking versions with record companies pretending they are genuine Red Book Standard CDs. These fake audio CD's that the music industry has flooded the market with are used to distribute computer rootkits, or other Windows targeting malware hidden with music.
Music CDs are increasingly being marketed as remastered, this is usually a clue that the CD is basterdised in sound quality thanks to music industry obsession with loudness, making music completely unlistenable and giving ear ache in very short order. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war
...a time-based release cycle puts an artificial constraint on the development process
This I would agree with. Sometimes I install the cooker version of Mandriva (most up to date versions of the next version of Mandriva) to test the packages, testing the install as some Windows users would do (update instead of total wipe). Reporting certain bugs naturally get higher importance to fix, but depending on how many coders work on a particular part of the OS, the fix could take an age to materialise, and sometimes misses the release schedule date.
The agenda is to track everyone, politicians are colluding to make the world a worse place to live.
Why did the EU roll over for the US over flight passenger information, and require no such data to flow back to Europe of US citizens so THEY know how it feels to be treated like a criminal on entry to a country? Why are the EU so hell bent on everyone in Europe having ID cards, there are countries like the UK that have no ID cards, but attempts to roll them out to everyone. Why are the EU so desperate to track drivers around Europe under pretext of road tolls / pricing? Why do the Americans have any access at all to the banking of individuals? Why does the UK have an extradition treaty with the US that allows the US to grab anyone it wants "legally" without any evidence, but the UK can't extradite from the US terrorists it has? The US is not liked as it once was because they treat tourists etc. like criminals, and is why many now refuse to visit so the US looses tourist money. The US has the international reputation now of being a loose cannon, what they say goes and screw your objections.
So hard drive technology has not yet reached it's brick wall. It's good to see that the miniature sized drives also getting huge capacities and are quite affordable. Now, if only SSD's would catch up with larger capacities and more importantly, less stratospheric prices.
As for speed, my WD passport USB2 pocket drive is fast enough to play back full HD video without dropping frames, so there's no speed problems there. Now if only the eeePC had a faster processor.....
As you can see I now have internet access which makes me sending this important message to you much faster than letters.
I am a made-up chief of a tribe who due to circumstances has $26,000,000 which I would like to offer you 10% if you can help me move the money out of my country. With the new internet connection, you will find you will be paid much faster than ever, and I can spam more of the world faster than ever before.
Leaving aside the technicalities of the project for a moment, these are strange priorities. India is not the only country to have lots of starving people and homeless, but instead of feeding them or building homes, they are to piss billions of Dollars giving them ID cards for the New World Order to track them.
How about governments tackle the more important crime of the film and music industries running a cartel? It is things like region encoding which allows the media companies to run protected cartels in the various ways they've carved up the plant and where people can buy DVD's etc. from - this screws over consumers. Or is that the media companies give very generous amounts of campaign money to the politicians in different countries, and the politicians actually don't care and turn a blind eye about consumers?
Baring in mind that most consumers are clueless, mentioning traffic shaping will mean nothing to them, especially if the connection seems reasonably quick to them. You can't miss what you never had in the first place, and with traffic shaping, it makes the network providers get away with a worse service for the same money the consumer pays in subscriber fees. They make lots of profits, and they have zero will to invest in the network because it's easier to fleece the consumers instead. The politicians are guilty of being technologically ignorant and allowing this fraud to take place.
It's not the games that need developing, it's the PSP itself. An optical drive that you can't write your own discs, a proprietary memory standard (to boost Sony sales), and build quality that does not belong in their once famed quality of the 1980's - preferring style over everything else. Oh, and each new version goes up in price.
I'd really love to have a PSP*, but locking me into an awful, overpriced memory standard is a deal breaker. Well, not quite, it has "SONY" written on it, THAT'S the deal breaker.
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An internet provider should no more be police for content than the postal services, who don't open and read every letter or packet to see if there's something incriminating in it. Besides which, how much volume of information is flowing around per hour on the internet, and you're somehow going to police that for who owns copyright on the files?! Idiots.
These schemes are always thought up by politicians who have NO qualifications in engineering, information technology or ANYTHING remotely relevant. All we have is a bunch of self serving politicians who studied politics, law, history, art, English, Latin or any other completely worthless subject. And that's why our countries are in the state that they're in.
However, this is big business we're talking about, and the slime-ball UNELECTED politician in question who's pushing this internet cut off accepts freebie holidays from rich "friends", and decides government policy on the hoof... or rather, after meeting up with other rich "friends".
Maybe the debate for the masses should be re-written from "cut off internet" to "you are barred from having a phone", because for a lot of people, they are one and the same thing. You are not allowed to have contact with anyone on order from some pr1ck in the film / music business. A lot of government contact is going online, making the internet even more indispensable than before.
The [DMCA] law is nothing more than .....
... an irrelevance to the 220+ countries NOT called United States of America. The law of the USA is not valid past it's borders, and the media cartels should remember that.
The only game port I know about are when companies say they will port a game for Linux, may as well send the announcement straight to /dev/null !
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duke_Nukem_Forever
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_j4BAix7ZCvo/SOYJHrk2bdI/AAAAAAAACB8/pYhHHwrYP1I/s1600-h/Mandelson+moustache.jpg
Peter Mandelson with hairy worm under nose.
Wiki entry:
In case you come under attack, shoot back. [clarification needed]
It's a cunning productivity drive. Without places to moan about the government, you have lots more time for your work, rather than posting to web forums.
The fact that it is capable of accessing DRM-restricted media doesn't make the device inherently evil.
No, but you do have to pay extra in a license cost for the device to be able to access DRM'd content.
The problem of service priority is not just in the US. Here in the UK I left my last ISP because they announced that they will be traffic shaping, throttling certain protocols for priority. An excellent example I remember is the ISP's own VoIP service was to be treated as top priority packets, and something like Skype was to have lower priority. It was a no brainer to leave. The problem is in areas which have no competition and you're locked in to the shyster ISP.
The German music group Kraftwerk have reworded their hit Autobahn, it now goes..
"No fun fun fun on the information autobahn!" /sarcasm
Bullying, insults and deception.... isn't that what all governments do best? Are they going to legislate against themselves?
Did people learn nothing from the last time IBM helped "profile" people.... in 1939-45?
I propose the MI5 website team should be known as the "Mostly Incompetent 5" team !?
CD or compact disc is a physical medium that has spun off from the development of Laserdisc.
The audio CD has increasingly been sold in standards breaking versions with record companies pretending they are genuine Red Book Standard CDs. These fake audio CD's that the music industry has flooded the market with are used to distribute computer rootkits, or other Windows targeting malware hidden with music.
Music CDs are increasingly being marketed as remastered, this is usually a clue that the CD is basterdised in sound quality thanks to music industry obsession with loudness, making music completely unlistenable and giving ear ache in very short order. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loudness_war
The point of installing Windows 7 is to keep Linux OFF a netbook!
...a time-based release cycle puts an artificial constraint on the development process
This I would agree with. Sometimes I install the cooker version of Mandriva (most up to date versions of the next version of Mandriva) to test the packages, testing the install as some Windows users would do (update instead of total wipe). Reporting certain bugs naturally get higher importance to fix, but depending on how many coders work on a particular part of the OS, the fix could take an age to materialise, and sometimes misses the release schedule date.
The agenda is to track everyone, politicians are colluding to make the world a worse place to live.
Why did the EU roll over for the US over flight passenger information, and require no such data to flow back to Europe of US citizens so THEY know how it feels to be treated like a criminal on entry to a country? Why are the EU so hell bent on everyone in Europe having ID cards, there are countries like the UK that have no ID cards, but attempts to roll them out to everyone. Why are the EU so desperate to track drivers around Europe under pretext of road tolls / pricing? Why do the Americans have any access at all to the banking of individuals? Why does the UK have an extradition treaty with the US that allows the US to grab anyone it wants "legally" without any evidence, but the UK can't extradite from the US terrorists it has? The US is not liked as it once was because they treat tourists etc. like criminals, and is why many now refuse to visit so the US looses tourist money. The US has the international reputation now of being a loose cannon, what they say goes and screw your objections.
Maybe he's been listening to 50Hz (mains frequency) too long and it's making him feel a bit sick?
So hard drive technology has not yet reached it's brick wall. It's good to see that the miniature sized drives also getting huge capacities and are quite affordable. Now, if only SSD's would catch up with larger capacities and more importantly, less stratospheric prices.
As for speed, my WD passport USB2 pocket drive is fast enough to play back full HD video without dropping frames, so there's no speed problems there. Now if only the eeePC had a faster processor.....
If government want my opinion on cookies, I know someone who will deal with them in a kind / compassionate way.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cookie_Monster
Dear Sir / Madam
As you can see I now have internet access which makes me sending this important message to you much faster than letters.
I am a made-up chief of a tribe who due to circumstances has $26,000,000 which I would like to offer you 10% if you can help me move the money out of my country. With the new internet connection, you will find you will be paid much faster than ever, and I can spam more of the world faster than ever before.
[/sarcasm]
Leaving aside the technicalities of the project for a moment, these are strange priorities. India is not the only country to have lots of starving people and homeless, but instead of feeding them or building homes, they are to piss billions of Dollars giving them ID cards for the New World Order to track them.
Sick!
How about governments tackle the more important crime of the film and music industries running a cartel? It is things like region encoding which allows the media companies to run protected cartels in the various ways they've carved up the plant and where people can buy DVD's etc. from - this screws over consumers. Or is that the media companies give very generous amounts of campaign money to the politicians in different countries, and the politicians actually don't care and turn a blind eye about consumers?
Baring in mind that most consumers are clueless, mentioning traffic shaping will mean nothing to them, especially if the connection seems reasonably quick to them. You can't miss what you never had in the first place, and with traffic shaping, it makes the network providers get away with a worse service for the same money the consumer pays in subscriber fees. They make lots of profits, and they have zero will to invest in the network because it's easier to fleece the consumers instead. The politicians are guilty of being technologically ignorant and allowing this fraud to take place.
It's not the games that need developing, it's the PSP itself. An optical drive that you can't write your own discs, a proprietary memory standard (to boost Sony sales), and build quality that does not belong in their once famed quality of the 1980's - preferring style over everything else. Oh, and each new version goes up in price.
I'd really love to have a PSP*, but locking me into an awful, overpriced memory standard is a deal breaker. Well, not quite, it has "SONY" written on it, THAT'S the deal breaker.
* Used a friends device
What about wireless USB keyboards, we all know that they're safe because radio waves are not receivable by anyone else are they..!?
I bet the security story would be used by the likes of Intel and Microsoft to justify the (un)Trusted Computing platform wet deam of theirs.