Many people wrote "let's just use HTTPS and everything will full of unicorns" or whatever....
Does that solve the problem of seeing one's web history? No! It just hides what are you doing on the website, but does not hide which website you go to.... (last time I checked)
So please, tell me something new/different because HTTPS (no matter how desirable it is indeed) does do jack shit about being monitored like this...
It's not just the enormity of the demanded money, but how shamelessly they try to get EVERYTHING done in one go, flying under the radar. They want to have injection against Limewire, and EVERY "comparable system", which is defined as:
(i) any system or software that is substantially comparable to the
LimeWire System and Software, including but not limited to FrostWire, Acquisition, BearFlix, Cabos, Gnucleus/GnucDNA, Gtk-gnutella, KCeasy, MP3 Rocket, Phex, Poisoned, Shareaza,
Symella, BitTorrent, uTorrent, Vuze/Azureus, BitComet, Transmission, Deluge, BitLord,
KTorrent, eDonkey, eMule, aMule, MLDonkey, xMule, Ares Galaxy, MP2P, Manolito, isoHunt,
or Piratebay, as those systems or software existed before or as of the date of this Permanent
Injunction;
This is wrong because actually printing a book is the smallest cost involved in making one. When you look at the price of, say, a $35 hardcover book perhaps $4 is physical costs. Almost all of the cost of a book is the cost of paying the author/editor/proofreader plus the retail markup. These costs remain the same regardless of format.
This reasoning is just because of a (very) wrong assumption: all costs are created equal... That's just not true. The printing, packaging, etc. are fixed costs and proportional to the number of books you make. Thus producing 1million copies will be much more expensive than 1000....
The author's, editor's, proofreader's, etc... costs are, on the other hand, "cuts" in the total, and completely arbitrarily defined. Imagine an author where they say, let's cut our commission from X% to X/2%, which will cut the price of the book. In turn, more people buys the book, and if it's completely sane to imagine, that they can have x2 the sales for that price cut (as the author's share was a big proportion of the price). In the end, the author can make more money because of the larger volume then with it's original cut. And since all these costs are arbitrary, they are flexible...
On the other hand, it's a prisoners' dilemma: if everyone would cut a bit of their share [or effectively keep the same share (after manufacturing costs) but drop the price] they would make a lot more money! Just they are too greedy & stupid (dangerous combination) to realize that...
This can be a very useful thing, if they keep their legal responsibilities according to GPL: They have to distribute the source code for it as well. Thus it should be much easier to spot every code that does not really belong there and aimed at spying on/restric/keeping in line the population.... as well as fixing these if one needs to. There's a future project for an NGO....
Re-emerge? BBC iPlayer, in its desktop not Flash-streaming form, is already a DRM'd p2p distribution system. Has been very successful though not as much as the straight Flash-based service from what I can tell.
The DRM from those files was stripped relatively easily. There you have it....
Don't they have an 18+ rating for games in Australia?
Polls consistently show that the vast majority of gamers are adults.
in connection with this... Just because a kid "shouldn't" play the game, nobody is allowed to? Ratings are for the parents, if i was a parent and wanted to get a 18+ classified game to my kid, who give the right to the government to stop me? No-one. They cannot buy the game themselves, but that's all. So, again, because some board of someones thinks that it is not suitable for children, who the hack are they to tell what is available for sale. Oh, right, the law.... And because it's about "just some game and stuff", people won't go out to protest (though now they would have time, since cannot get the game). But it is just another nanny-state bullshit...
For the people who don't WTFV (watch the fine video), he thinks the prices are pretty much the same everywhere, he does not expect big differences, but cannot be sure because he does not know any numbers whatsoever...
Maybe he should google for "microsoft 7 prices" instead of "binging" it....
Are you kidding me?
Download the game as a _4Gb_ Firefox plugin? One of the stupidest idea, IMHO.....
No possibility of changing install location, I wonder when was the last time I had 4Gb free space in c:\... must been some time before i installed openoffice.org.
It would well worth fixing the link... The article (and google) says www.allpinouts.org, while the link points to www.allpinouts.com...
Anyway, it probably it got slashdotted without this already.
So how much was the commission on the I am Rich"
I guess he'd lose the most...
Come to think of it, it was discussed before, that most people don't use many of their apps after the first few days, maybe even first few hours.
So, let's say there's a game on your iPhone, what would be the expected total time to finish it and get bored with it? I bet less than 90 days. So you can basically have a free game: download, finish, refund. It's golden!
In the world of "proper" computers, when was the last time you could get a full refund for a software after 90 days? In digital downloads, I don't think it ever happened. Of course, most of the time the developer cannot be sure that the person didn't make a copy of the software and send back the original copy (that is controlled in the iPhone's little walled garden). But e.g. Steam would be similarly in charge of your software - and offer no such refund...
So, if it's in the contract, well, not much to do about it. If you get bitten (more refunds than sales) think again next time how you sell your app or maybe how to make a better one that peopel actually wanna keep! If still make money, give thanks to the mighty Steve that he let you keep some, and the users don't exploit the possibilities handed to them...;)
I co-wrote 'Never Gonna Give You Up', which Rick Astley performed in the eighties, and which must have been played more than 100 million times on YouTube
a cooler feature would be if TrueCrypt "hooked" into said screen saver and destroyed keys/dismounted volumes on two or three false passwords.
Sounds like a great idea? noooot....
How easy it would be to wreak havoc e.g. in an office fitted out with self-destroy screensavers. You hate the guts of that guy down in Cubicle #3? When he leaves for a minute, just type in some junk into his screensaver and watch him enjoy all his data being deleted... Well, until it is your time to be treated the same way....
How about limiting the speed of tries (like 1/s) and do self destruct if there are enough tries for a day or a week (which still shouldn't break you if you have a good password).
In many scenarios losing the data is just as bad as someone else getting it. Don't have to give your enemies advantages with such "3tries and you're out"
Firefox 3 has never crashed on me. Not once in the time I've been using it, which has been over a month now. And I use it daily, for at least an hour a day, with flash games being a near daily diversion.
Well, then you are damn lucky... I use FF3 since the stable version came out, both on Windows and on Linux. I love it, but it certainly crashes all the time - well, on the "right" sites. Java and Flash (one of the news sites I check regularly and Youtube, among others) can crash more often than not.... It's not that FF3 is bad, but it cannot isolate itself from problems of the apps it depends on to display some pages.
Used Chrome as well, and liked it a lot, but what I'd really give my bucket for, is FF3 where only the tab crashes if anything happens... Or ideally nothing crashes, but that's probably a bit too much to ask:)
You bet it does... With my 8G The processor is easily >60C even with the fan going constantly, you would cook the poor little thing without it... Hopefully the 901 will be much better due to the Atom's smaller power footprint...
If the copy is lesser then sue and stop them. If the copy is better then make a deal, and you are back in business with far smaller investment, because someone already did the hard work...
Just, you know, the people who run big companies do not necessary have common sense. And while the people using the technology might have a better feeling, where business is going on the Interweb, the CEOs in those corporate offices are just that - people in the office and not where the action happens.
I'd like to say, let them ruin a great business opportunity for themselves, but in the same time it makes me sad, that this is normal to many companies - don't care about the customers, just follow ancient, broken business tactics.
Innocent infringement : defendant was not aware of any copyright infringement, and upon information and belief some or all of the copies which she downloaded did not bear copyright notice.
This looks very weird - when people rip CDs and DVDs, they rarely (if ever) attach any copyright notice to the resulting mp3 and avi files... Would it mean, that because the copyright notice has been removed (it was on the CD case for sure, or the load screen of the DVD), then you don't know you are infringing? As much as I applaud the rest of the complaints, this is just silly. On the internet it is mostly: "everything is copyrighted except if it's explicitly noted", not the other way around...
On the other hand, if it gets accepted, then everyone is pretty innocent from this point on... Would be fun.:)
Innocent infringement : defendant was not aware of any copyright infringement, and upon information and belief some or all of the copies which she downloaded did not bear copyright notice.
This looks very weird - when people rip CDs and DVDs, they rarely (if ever) attach any copyright notice to the resulting mp3 and avi files... Would it mean, that because the copyright notice has been removed (it was on the CD case for sure, or the load screen of the DVD), then you don't know you are infringing? As much as I applaud the rest of the complaints, this is just silly. On the internet it is mostly: "everything is copyrighted except if it's explicitly noted", not the other way around...
On the other hand, if it gets accepted, then everyone is pretty innocent from this point on... Would be fun.:)
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Many people wrote "let's just use HTTPS and everything will full of unicorns" or whatever....
Does that solve the problem of seeing one's web history? No! It just hides what are you doing on the website, but does not hide which website you go to.... (last time I checked)
So please, tell me something new/different because HTTPS (no matter how desirable it is indeed) does do jack shit about being monitored like this...
It's not just the enormity of the demanded money, but how shamelessly they try to get EVERYTHING done in one go, flying under the radar. They want to have injection against Limewire, and EVERY "comparable system", which is defined as:
(i) any system or software that is substantially comparable to the LimeWire System and Software, including but not limited to FrostWire, Acquisition, BearFlix, Cabos, Gnucleus/GnucDNA, Gtk-gnutella, KCeasy, MP3 Rocket, Phex, Poisoned, Shareaza, Symella, BitTorrent, uTorrent, Vuze/Azureus, BitComet, Transmission, Deluge, BitLord, KTorrent, eDonkey, eMule, aMule, MLDonkey, xMule, Ares Galaxy, MP2P, Manolito, isoHunt, or Piratebay, as those systems or software existed before or as of the date of this Permanent Injunction;
I mean, come on! I'm lost for words...
This is wrong because actually printing a book is the smallest cost involved in making one. When you look at the price of, say, a $35 hardcover book perhaps $4 is physical costs. Almost all of the cost of a book is the cost of paying the author/editor/proofreader plus the retail markup. These costs remain the same regardless of format.
This reasoning is just because of a (very) wrong assumption: all costs are created equal... That's just not true. The printing, packaging, etc. are fixed costs and proportional to the number of books you make. Thus producing 1million copies will be much more expensive than 1000....
The author's, editor's, proofreader's, etc... costs are, on the other hand, "cuts" in the total, and completely arbitrarily defined. Imagine an author where they say, let's cut our commission from X% to X/2%, which will cut the price of the book. In turn, more people buys the book, and if it's completely sane to imagine, that they can have x2 the sales for that price cut (as the author's share was a big proportion of the price). In the end, the author can make more money because of the larger volume then with it's original cut. And since all these costs are arbitrary, they are flexible...
On the other hand, it's a prisoners' dilemma: if everyone would cut a bit of their share [or effectively keep the same share (after manufacturing costs) but drop the price] they would make a lot more money! Just they are too greedy & stupid (dangerous combination) to realize that...
This can be a very useful thing, if they keep their legal responsibilities according to GPL: They have to distribute the source code for it as well. Thus it should be much easier to spot every code that does not really belong there and aimed at spying on/restric/keeping in line the population.... as well as fixing these if one needs to. There's a future project for an NGO....
Re-emerge? BBC iPlayer, in its desktop not Flash-streaming form, is already a DRM'd p2p distribution system. Has been very successful though not as much as the straight Flash-based service from what I can tell.
The DRM from those files was stripped relatively easily. There you have it....
Valve's Zombie shooter has been refused classification, which means it can't be made commercially available in the country.
Valve should thumb their nose at Australia's rating board and make the game freely available there.
Or on Steam?
Then there's not much the boards can do, is there?
Don't they have an 18+ rating for games in Australia?
Polls consistently show that the vast majority of gamers are adults.
in connection with this... Just because a kid "shouldn't" play the game, nobody is allowed to? Ratings are for the parents, if i was a parent and wanted to get a 18+ classified game to my kid, who give the right to the government to stop me? No-one. They cannot buy the game themselves, but that's all. So, again, because some board of someones thinks that it is not suitable for children, who the hack are they to tell what is available for sale. Oh, right, the law.... And because it's about "just some game and stuff", people won't go out to protest (though now they would have time, since cannot get the game). But it is just another nanny-state bullshit...
'That's odd, I think I'd rather be hit by a crowbar than blasted with a shotgun. Oh well, only one way to find out.
Yeah, call the MythBusters! Though, Buster is not much of a zombie, but let's see what they can do about it...
And from all across the globe came the sound of geeks crying, for they would soon see their beloved "uptime" reset to zero.
Except if they are proper geeks, they don't have to reboot to patch kernel, do they? ;)
I've seen it before, the Endeavour can land even in an unused riverbed in LA! Just have to have the right pilots...
Pretty much the entire rest of the world got fucked over with Vista pricing too.. Here's how Gates weasel'd out of it @1:08: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmd93lWbOsw
For the people who don't WTFV (watch the fine video), he thinks the prices are pretty much the same everywhere, he does not expect big differences, but cannot be sure because he does not know any numbers whatsoever...
Maybe he should google for "microsoft 7 prices" instead of "binging" it....
Are you kidding me?
Download the game as a _4Gb_ Firefox plugin? One of the stupidest idea, IMHO.....
No possibility of changing install location, I wonder when was the last time I had 4Gb free space in c:\... must been some time before i installed openoffice.org.
It would well worth fixing the link... The article (and google) says www.allpinouts.org, while the link points to www.allpinouts.com... Anyway, it probably it got slashdotted without this already.
So how much was the commission on the I am Rich" I guess he'd lose the most...
Come to think of it, it was discussed before, that most people don't use many of their apps after the first few days, maybe even first few hours.
So, let's say there's a game on your iPhone, what would be the expected total time to finish it and get bored with it? I bet less than 90 days. So you can basically have a free game: download, finish, refund. It's golden!
In the world of "proper" computers, when was the last time you could get a full refund for a software after 90 days? In digital downloads, I don't think it ever happened. Of course, most of the time the developer cannot be sure that the person didn't make a copy of the software and send back the original copy (that is controlled in the iPhone's little walled garden). But e.g. Steam would be similarly in charge of your software - and offer no such refund...
So, if it's in the contract, well, not much to do about it. If you get bitten (more refunds than sales) think again next time how you sell your app or maybe how to make a better one that peopel actually wanna keep! If still make money, give thanks to the mighty Steve that he let you keep some, and the users don't exploit the possibilities handed to them... ;)
I co-wrote 'Never Gonna Give You Up', which Rick Astley performed in the eighties, and which must have been played more than 100 million times on YouTube
... this is just rickroll 2.0!!
How about Guerillamail ? That + proxies (or maybe tor?) would get around this...
a cooler feature would be if TrueCrypt "hooked" into said screen saver and destroyed keys/dismounted volumes on two or three false passwords.
Sounds like a great idea? noooot.... How easy it would be to wreak havoc e.g. in an office fitted out with self-destroy screensavers. You hate the guts of that guy down in Cubicle #3? When he leaves for a minute, just type in some junk into his screensaver and watch him enjoy all his data being deleted... Well, until it is your time to be treated the same way.... How about limiting the speed of tries (like 1/s) and do self destruct if there are enough tries for a day or a week (which still shouldn't break you if you have a good password). In many scenarios losing the data is just as bad as someone else getting it. Don't have to give your enemies advantages with such "3tries and you're out"
Or Arch Linux... Its Pacman package manager is pretty damn good (and handles both binary and source packages)...
Firefox 3 has never crashed on me. Not once in the time I've been using it, which has been over a month now. And I use it daily, for at least an hour a day, with flash games being a near daily diversion.
Well, then you are damn lucky... I use FF3 since the stable version came out, both on Windows and on Linux. I love it, but it certainly crashes all the time - well, on the "right" sites. Java and Flash (one of the news sites I check regularly and Youtube, among others) can crash more often than not.... It's not that FF3 is bad, but it cannot isolate itself from problems of the apps it depends on to display some pages.
Used Chrome as well, and liked it a lot, but what I'd really give my bucket for, is FF3 where only the tab crashes if anything happens... Or ideally nothing crashes, but that's probably a bit too much to ask :)
Does the EEE have any fans?
You bet it does... With my 8G The processor is easily >60C even with the fan going constantly, you would cook the poor little thing without it... Hopefully the 901 will be much better due to the Atom's smaller power footprint...
So, why don't you tell them this? If people can write to their congressmen and senators, then this should be game too.....
Get some sense back to the way the Government treat the people who they supposed to serve....
And wouldn't it work?
If the copy is lesser then sue and stop them. If the copy is better then make a deal, and you are back in business with far smaller investment, because someone already did the hard work...
Just, you know, the people who run big companies do not necessary have common sense. And while the people using the technology might have a better feeling, where business is going on the Interweb, the CEOs in those corporate offices are just that - people in the office and not where the action happens.
I'd like to say, let them ruin a great business opportunity for themselves, but in the same time it makes me sad, that this is normal to many companies - don't care about the customers, just follow ancient, broken business tactics.
From the article:
Innocent infringement : defendant was not aware of any copyright infringement, and upon information and belief some or all of the copies which she downloaded did not bear copyright notice.
This looks very weird - when people rip CDs and DVDs, they rarely (if ever) attach any copyright notice to the resulting mp3 and avi files... Would it mean, that because the copyright notice has been removed (it was on the CD case for sure, or the load screen of the DVD), then you don't know you are infringing? As much as I applaud the rest of the complaints, this is just silly. On the internet it is mostly: "everything is copyrighted except if it's explicitly noted", not the other way around...
On the other hand, if it gets accepted, then everyone is pretty innocent from this point on... Would be fun. :)
Damn, too many slashdot tabs open, wrong article to answer to... :(
From the article:
Innocent infringement : defendant was not aware of any copyright infringement, and upon information and belief some or all of the copies which she downloaded did not bear copyright notice.
This looks very weird - when people rip CDs and DVDs, they rarely (if ever) attach any copyright notice to the resulting mp3 and avi files... Would it mean, that because the copyright notice has been removed (it was on the CD case for sure, or the load screen of the DVD), then you don't know you are infringing? As much as I applaud the rest of the complaints, this is just silly. On the internet it is mostly: "everything is copyrighted except if it's explicitly noted", not the other way around...
On the other hand, if it gets accepted, then everyone is pretty innocent from this point on... Would be fun. :)