Having worked for ATT in the past and having seen these "loopholes" I can attest to the fact that this wont last long. ATT's billing system is about the nastiest old 70's unix system you can imagine. Up until about 10 years about you still had to log into it with HPUX terminals. Right before I left they were building a web interface for it, but its still the nightmarish terminal system in the background. To get people "Packages" you'd apply codes to their account. ATT was always screwing their customers one way or another and your average billing rep just wants to get the angry customer off the phone. So every once in a while someone would figure out something like: "If I apply the tx320 plan, then the 43t33 plan... then backdate the install date and remove the 43t33, then the main package will go unlimited!!" Then this would get share with a couple of their closest work confidants... this is how to do it and get them off the phone. After a few months everyone knows about it and it's getting applied all over... then the main office finds out about it and brings down the hammer.
That's exactly the problem though. You aren't getting what you paid for. The equipment you're internet connection is so over sold that its impossible for the ISP to give you the speed they're selling. That's why they now call it "Up to 768k!" If you're paying for 768k, you should be able to get that any time of day or night to any website that can also provide that speed.
The biggest laugh in this whole net neutrality is the premise that ISPs have sold a customer a service that they can not provide. Then they blame consumers for using the service "Too much" and throttle the very content the consumer paid to have access to. If the ISP had properly planned their network, ALL content providers could provide everything a customer requests at any given time. Selling 100 customer 5MB connections and then feeding those customers with a 10mb trunk should be illegal... instead it is common practice. If congress focused on this issue, maybe get Weights and measures involved... the entire net neutrality problem would become a non-issue.
Most of the major uploaders are actually groups of people. They have people responsible for getting content, for ripping content, for packaging and for uploading it. If any of these researchers had a clue what they were talking about they'd have realized that each one of these accounts is backed by at least 25+ people. Even if they did get the person doing the actual upload (which I doubt because that's what they specialize in) the reset of the group would just move on and find someone else to do the upload.
Speaking from experience an ISP with a couple of million customers keeping DHCP log files for all of them, stored in flat text files, come to about 1-2gig per day. Stored in a proper database, they are <100mb per day. That's all I've seen Law Enforcement ever ask for "Who does was using this IP address on this date?" and the DHCP logs cover that.
The problem isn't the storage. The problem is the retrieval. You've got to remember DHCP logs go by mac address. Finding out which customer was on a paticular piece of equipments MAC address 2 years ago is virtually impossible. Equipment moves, people move, things break and new stuff gets bought.
There are other solutions, PPOE for example... but that would require a lot of ISPs to make some huge changes to their infrastructure.
Basically, what I'm saying is, 2yrs of log files wont do them a whole lot of good in most cases.
If Microsoft is Scylla, Apple is Charybdis. Any battle they have against each other is good for us all. In this particular case however, the iPad is a toy. Nothing more. It has no use in the workplace. Before any of you start spouting off how you used them in meetings at work to show power point presentations and junk, know that after you left the meeting the rest of us were laughing at you and started using the white board like normal people.
Take a look at Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act and it may become a little clear why he was involved in the case:
"No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider". Effectively, this section immunizes both ISPs and Internet users from liability for torts committed by others using their website or online forum, even if the provider fails to take action after receiving actual notice of the harmful or offensive content.
I live about half a mile from a large Imax theater. The sell tickets for $16 each and are sold out nearly every show. I'd say it were gimmickry, but they've been doing this for over 5 years. I don't really like it for the regular feature films... 2hrs in those glasses kills you, and the directors seem to think 3D = no need for a plot (see Avatar) but Imax has a lot of documentaries that are amazing. They are less than an hour and it really is a interesting experience to have fish swimming around your head or looking off the edge of a cliff.
I'm posting this comment with Web3.0!! Way to live in the past Obama! I got iPads and Androids running with 7G, I'm so Web 3.0 even my Sunglasses and Pickup truck are HD.
How long before presidential speeches go the way of the GPU industry and they just start skipping 100's and then thousands, unill they finally realize the number they used in the name of the speech is so long they can't print it on CNNs intro splash screen any more so they have to start preceding the number with an X to represent the digits that are too long to fit?
"CNN Covering Web XX5900HD 11.6.1 Presidential speech on Tax reform in HD, 3D, Dolby Digital and THX"
I think we should look into WHY they chose him. He represents the government in front of the supreme court. His specialty is copyright law. What sort of laws or decisions do you think the administration will be enacting in the near future that they thought they'd need his services? It looks like Obama's getting ready to be challenged in court. We should expect so new draconian policies regarding the internet in the near future.
I again predict the demise of Facebook. They have less than 5 years. The path they are on is well traveled. Facebook is building a cliff of customer hate. The second there is anything on the net that can even remotely compete they're going to get shoved right off that click... just like AOL.
Anything that can withstand 5000PSI will not be crushed in a car accident. It could, most likely, withstand a stick of dynamite going off next to it. My guess is that it's made out of Kevlar or something.
I'm sure Al Gore will start up a pay-as-you-go Mongol Horde you can join if you really care about the environment any day now. Kill your neighbors, save a tree!
Windows supports this functionality. Is Microsoft going to get sued? http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-vista/Share-your-media-in-Windows-Media-Player-with-other-people-or-devices
Well over a decade ago I was in college, in a house with some friends. The owner had recently broken up with his girlfriend in a rather ungentlemanly fashion and as a result she called local law enforcement and told them he had a hidden drug manufacturing lab in his home. I'd like to point out at this time that this a very very small town... with a very small police force and again mention this was over 10 years ago... The police showed up while I was there drinking a beer. They never bothered me, I in fact continued to drink my beer while standing in a corner chit chatting with one of the cops. One of them whipped out a device that had a large block on one end and a LCD screen on the other. I have no idea how it worked, I assume ultra sound, but they literally looked through the walls of the house with it. They just put the large block thing against the wall and a cable ran back to the screen which showed what was inside it (looking for hidden rooms and such.) They were rather proud of their new gadget and showing it off to us... I think they were already pretty sure the ex was lieing and this allowed them to prove it without destroying the mans house... then they charged her with filing a false report.
At first I was horrified they had such tech. But in this particular case, this police force used it in a very public friendly way. I guess what
I'm trying to say is: Drones don't invade your privacy, bad cops do. If these devices lead to fewer incidents where swat teams descend on innocent suburban families eating dinner, I'm all for it.
Talent attracts talent. In music right now, especially in the progressive styles, musicians are recording one-off collaborative albums in their basement studios at an amazing rate. It's almost to the point now that the extremely talented musicians out there are forgoing any singular band and just floating from side project to side project. The fact of the mater is, a lot of these people are driven by their art and not just the paycheck.
I remember attempting to record an album in the 90's and even for the crappiest studio in town it was $10k-$20k to get it recorded. That didn't include the $2k-$3k for the initial printing of the CD. Today you could build a BETTER studio in your home for the same price. With modern recording software and a few classes at a community college and you'd easily be able to do most of it yourself. Then ship your CD to be mastered by some other guy in his basement. Then you upload the whole thing to your website and collect your money via paypal... That's why there's such an explosion in indi music right now. How far away is the film industry from the same sort of revolution? Not far I'd bet.
Because most poloticans aren't elected based on their political views anymore. They are elected because they had enough money to slip in the most ads between episodes of Jersey Shore.
Hence the need for fundamental tax reform. Alas, they are likely to make it MORE complicated than it is now as it's in the governments best interest for the majority of us not to be able to decipher just how much we're being taxed.
Unfortunately you're incorrect on both counts. Socialism is both and economic theory and a political theory. There are many varieties of socialism but several of them abolish the concept of "Private Property" and assert that all property belongs to the people (the state.) This concept has been adopted by most of the "Big league" socialist states over the years and is what most people are referring to when they suggest some heavy handed government tactic is socialist. Like you, they do not realize that socialism is a huge collection of ideas that encompass many forms of government. In fact, the United States relies heavily on many socialist concepts for its laws and governance despite the common view that we are somehow the polar opposite of a socialist state.
"We understand your concerns. However, the Chinese people feel that intellectual property belongs to the people as a whole. It is fundamental to our way of life. As such it is nearly impossible to convince them to pay for something that they truly believe should be free. There are only two solutions. The first is that Microsoft secure their software in such a way that it can not be copied with your express consent. This option has been shown over several decades to be impossible. The second is the approach I shall take... We can not train our entire law enforcement system to distinguish all the varieties of Microsoft software and its current DRM status, but we do not want you to feel like we are steeling from you. Instead, effective immediately, Microsoft software will be illegal in the Peoples Republic of China. All traffic to your websites will be blocked. All mention of your companies name on our search engines will be gone (Google has assured us this will not be a problem.) Any version of any Microsoft product found on any citizens computer will be intermediately deleted and replaced with an open source equivalent on the spot. We hope that this small gesture will stem the tide of revenues Microsoft has been losing to Chinese thieves over the years."
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Having worked for ATT in the past and having seen these "loopholes" I can attest to the fact that this wont last long. ATT's billing system is about the nastiest old 70's unix system you can imagine. Up until about 10 years about you still had to log into it with HPUX terminals. Right before I left they were building a web interface for it, but its still the nightmarish terminal system in the background. To get people "Packages" you'd apply codes to their account. ATT was always screwing their customers one way or another and your average billing rep just wants to get the angry customer off the phone. So every once in a while someone would figure out something like: "If I apply the tx320 plan, then the 43t33 plan... then backdate the install date and remove the 43t33, then the main package will go unlimited!!" Then this would get share with a couple of their closest work confidants... this is how to do it and get them off the phone. After a few months everyone knows about it and it's getting applied all over... then the main office finds out about it and brings down the hammer.
That's exactly the problem though. You aren't getting what you paid for. The equipment you're internet connection is so over sold that its impossible for the ISP to give you the speed they're selling. That's why they now call it "Up to 768k!" If you're paying for 768k, you should be able to get that any time of day or night to any website that can also provide that speed.
The biggest laugh in this whole net neutrality is the premise that ISPs have sold a customer a service that they can not provide. Then they blame consumers for using the service "Too much" and throttle the very content the consumer paid to have access to. If the ISP had properly planned their network, ALL content providers could provide everything a customer requests at any given time. Selling 100 customer 5MB connections and then feeding those customers with a 10mb trunk should be illegal... instead it is common practice. If congress focused on this issue, maybe get Weights and measures involved... the entire net neutrality problem would become a non-issue.
Most of the major uploaders are actually groups of people. They have people responsible for getting content, for ripping content, for packaging and for uploading it. If any of these researchers had a clue what they were talking about they'd have realized that each one of these accounts is backed by at least 25+ people. Even if they did get the person doing the actual upload (which I doubt because that's what they specialize in) the reset of the group would just move on and find someone else to do the upload.
100 people are responsible for uploading the content that 75% of the internet downloads.
Speaking from experience an ISP with a couple of million customers keeping DHCP log files for all of them, stored in flat text files, come to about 1-2gig per day. Stored in a proper database, they are <100mb per day. That's all I've seen Law Enforcement ever ask for "Who does was using this IP address on this date?" and the DHCP logs cover that.
The problem isn't the storage. The problem is the retrieval. You've got to remember DHCP logs go by mac address. Finding out which customer was on a paticular piece of equipments MAC address 2 years ago is virtually impossible. Equipment moves, people move, things break and new stuff gets bought.
There are other solutions, PPOE for example... but that would require a lot of ISPs to make some huge changes to their infrastructure.
Basically, what I'm saying is, 2yrs of log files wont do them a whole lot of good in most cases.
If Microsoft is Scylla, Apple is Charybdis. Any battle they have against each other is good for us all. In this particular case however, the iPad is a toy. Nothing more. It has no use in the workplace. Before any of you start spouting off how you used them in meetings at work to show power point presentations and junk, know that after you left the meeting the rest of us were laughing at you and started using the white board like normal people.
Take a look at Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act and it may become a little clear why he was involved in the case:
"No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider". Effectively, this section immunizes both ISPs and Internet users from liability for torts committed by others using their website or online forum, even if the provider fails to take action after receiving actual notice of the harmful or offensive content.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communications_Decency_Act
Could you imagine how the RIAA's current litigation would have turned out if they hadn't overturned this law?
I live about half a mile from a large Imax theater. The sell tickets for $16 each and are sold out nearly every show. I'd say it were gimmickry, but they've been doing this for over 5 years. I don't really like it for the regular feature films... 2hrs in those glasses kills you, and the directors seem to think 3D = no need for a plot (see Avatar) but Imax has a lot of documentaries that are amazing. They are less than an hour and it really is a interesting experience to have fish swimming around your head or looking off the edge of a cliff.
I'm posting this comment with Web3.0!! Way to live in the past Obama! I got iPads and Androids running with 7G, I'm so Web 3.0 even my Sunglasses and Pickup truck are HD.
How long before presidential speeches go the way of the GPU industry and they just start skipping 100's and then thousands, unill they finally realize the number they used in the name of the speech is so long they can't print it on CNNs intro splash screen any more so they have to start preceding the number with an X to represent the digits that are too long to fit?
"CNN Covering Web XX5900HD 11.6.1 Presidential speech on Tax reform in HD, 3D, Dolby Digital and THX"
I think we should look into WHY they chose him. He represents the government in front of the supreme court. His specialty is copyright law. What sort of laws or decisions do you think the administration will be enacting in the near future that they thought they'd need his services? It looks like Obama's getting ready to be challenged in court. We should expect so new draconian policies regarding the internet in the near future.
Does anyone care?
I again predict the demise of Facebook. They have less than 5 years. The path they are on is well traveled. Facebook is building a cliff of customer hate. The second there is anything on the net that can even remotely compete they're going to get shoved right off that click... just like AOL.
Anything that can withstand 5000PSI will not be crushed in a car accident. It could, most likely, withstand a stick of dynamite going off next to it. My guess is that it's made out of Kevlar or something.
I'm sure Al Gore will start up a pay-as-you-go Mongol Horde you can join if you really care about the environment any day now. Kill your neighbors, save a tree!
Windows supports this functionality. Is Microsoft going to get sued?
http://windows.microsoft.com/en-US/windows-vista/Share-your-media-in-Windows-Media-Player-with-other-people-or-devices
Well over a decade ago I was in college, in a house with some friends. The owner had recently broken up with his girlfriend in a rather ungentlemanly fashion and as a result she called local law enforcement and told them he had a hidden drug manufacturing lab in his home. I'd like to point out at this time that this a very very small town... with a very small police force and again mention this was over 10 years ago... The police showed up while I was there drinking a beer. They never bothered me, I in fact continued to drink my beer while standing in a corner chit chatting with one of the cops. One of them whipped out a device that had a large block on one end and a LCD screen on the other. I have no idea how it worked, I assume ultra sound, but they literally looked through the walls of the house with it. They just put the large block thing against the wall and a cable ran back to the screen which showed what was inside it (looking for hidden rooms and such.) They were rather proud of their new gadget and showing it off to us... I think they were already pretty sure the ex was lieing and this allowed them to prove it without destroying the mans house... then they charged her with filing a false report.
At first I was horrified they had such tech. But in this particular case, this police force used it in a very public friendly way. I guess what
I'm trying to say is: Drones don't invade your privacy, bad cops do. If these devices lead to fewer incidents where swat teams descend on innocent suburban families eating dinner, I'm all for it.
What does Keanu Reeves have to do with performing arts, and why did they let him speak at that school?
But its ok for Google?
Talent attracts talent. In music right now, especially in the progressive styles, musicians are recording one-off collaborative albums in their basement studios at an amazing rate. It's almost to the point now that the extremely talented musicians out there are forgoing any singular band and just floating from side project to side project. The fact of the mater is, a lot of these people are driven by their art and not just the paycheck.
I remember attempting to record an album in the 90's and even for the crappiest studio in town it was $10k-$20k to get it recorded. That didn't include the $2k-$3k for the initial printing of the CD. Today you could build a BETTER studio in your home for the same price. With modern recording software and a few classes at a community college and you'd easily be able to do most of it yourself. Then ship your CD to be mastered by some other guy in his basement. Then you upload the whole thing to your website and collect your money via paypal... That's why there's such an explosion in indi music right now. How far away is the film industry from the same sort of revolution? Not far I'd bet.
That would be a matter of opinion.
Because most poloticans aren't elected based on their political views anymore. They are elected because they had enough money to slip in the most ads between episodes of Jersey Shore.
Hence the need for fundamental tax reform. Alas, they are likely to make it MORE complicated than it is now as it's in the governments best interest for the majority of us not to be able to decipher just how much we're being taxed.
Unfortunately you're incorrect on both counts. Socialism is both and economic theory and a political theory. There are many varieties of socialism but several of them abolish the concept of "Private Property" and assert that all property belongs to the people (the state.) This concept has been adopted by most of the "Big league" socialist states over the years and is what most people are referring to when they suggest some heavy handed government tactic is socialist. Like you, they do not realize that socialism is a huge collection of ideas that encompass many forms of government. In fact, the United States relies heavily on many socialist concepts for its laws and governance despite the common view that we are somehow the polar opposite of a socialist state.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialism
Wouldn't simply polarizing the cockpit windows completely negate this problem? Even polarized sunglasses would work.
Chairman Hu should have replied simply:
"We understand your concerns. However, the Chinese people feel that intellectual property belongs to the people as a whole. It is fundamental to our way of life. As such it is nearly impossible to convince them to pay for something that they truly believe should be free. There are only two solutions. The first is that Microsoft secure their software in such a way that it can not be copied with your express consent. This option has been shown over several decades to be impossible. The second is the approach I shall take... We can not train our entire law enforcement system to distinguish all the varieties of Microsoft software and its current DRM status, but we do not want you to feel like we are steeling from you. Instead, effective immediately, Microsoft software will be illegal in the Peoples Republic of China. All traffic to your websites will be blocked. All mention of your companies name on our search engines will be gone (Google has assured us this will not be a problem.) Any version of any Microsoft product found on any citizens computer will be intermediately deleted and replaced with an open source equivalent on the spot. We hope that this small gesture will stem the tide of revenues Microsoft has been losing to Chinese thieves over the years."