This sounded rediculous the first time I heard about it. They said people were getting fired from their day jobs and their ISP service disabled not for downloading illegal copies of movies at all. They downloaded a piece of random data that happened to be created by the MPAA.
Under this law, you can get fired for downloading literally anything. All the lawyers have to do is say any data at all, from a slashdot comment to a DNS entry, was deliberately put there by a client for the purpose of trapping pirates.
According to Google, there are anecdotes of people losing their home internet access for using BitTorrent, but they don't say if they were busted for downloading fake data or using too much bandwidth.
There have only been 3 arrests linked to BitTorrent usage. They were all people who made the first copy and who administered the tracker. The MPAA boasts 4 but you can only find 3 names. No-one has been busted for running a client.
Don't forget the other 600,000 starving programmers working in startups exactly like Google but who are never going to get the financial jackpot. It's so rare to hit the jackpot, you can't take it seriously.
Time was, something like DLNA would be called impossibly bloated. Today whatever the CEO says is the word of God and bloat is suddenly good, immediately requiring the commitment of hundreds of college students to copy every bloated invention Micro* puts out.
DLNA is one of those horribly complex things that works when it works and fills an entire career of debugging when it doesn't work. It seems to have been originally a very simple way for anyone to get home networking but as more companies became involved, it evolved into an embedded, graphical version of Linux kernel config.
You can have multiple servers on the network, if you can get the permissions, security codes, version numbering, and network domains to work. Then there's the issue of file format matching.
6 years after Lou Dobbs brought this issue back from the grave, we have better anecdotes. Most of our positions are management. Development is almost entirely in India. Out of 20-30 managers there are only 4 permanent developers. A lot of money is spent on travel to get the Indians on site. A lot of time is spent waiting for time differences and code drops from India.
Indians are better educated, more practical, less political. Through a strong Rupee, they are motivated by the prospect of becoming wealthy and owning a house in India. Americans are uneducated, political, and no matter how long they work, they can never become wealthy or own houses.
The home media servers are trying to differentiate themselves by using a completely different set of protocols than the HTTP we've known and loved. It's so complicated to get these new protocols to work and they seem to redundant, it's as if their only reason is to make it not a web server.
As phenomenal as the push for DLNA has been, we still aren't seeing the consumer fanaticism for it that we've seen for IPods. Is the latest Mac set-top box going to be the break out product?
Expecting to see a 1/4" thick, smoked black rectangle fully occupied by a screen, Norway gives us yet another really boring game station clone. Whether they're making cell phones or tablets, they only seem to make really boring, basic, and cheap clones of former products. Once again, it's going to take Steve Jobless to make what every living thing knows a tablet PC should look like.
In the 90's Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Utah, Idaho were thought to be the next employment centers. What happened? There were using telecommuting to do back office work. Today that work is done in Asia.
You didn't pay for it. You didn't do the R&D. You spent 40 years promoting Minitel, calling the internet a waste of cold-war defense spending. Now finally, you're complaining about being left out of the internet.
Google is probably using a derivative of the MTBI. As usual, the fans are going to say it's another Google triumph and Google is going to change the world with this totally original, insanely great idea. The test has been around for 50 years.
The outsourcing pundits had the last laugh in this one. It really isn't about the programming or the QA. It's about the brand and the marketing. People don't want to read about the programming language, debugger, or operating system. They want to read about the brand, the CEO, the marketing.
Those psychological tests are highly questionable. Give any programmer the test and it says they're better at management. Give any manager the test and it says they're better at artwork. What's happening is these tests are written for an ideal world where everything is 100% efficient and plugged into exactly what it should be for maximum effectiveness. They don't factor in the cultural aspect of knowing the right people, tradition, politics.
For google to use this test means they're not going to get any programmers. If google allowed users to view the results of the tests, which they won't of course, it would be a neat way for people to find out about themselves.
Always thought no bosses kept their word. At least in the middle management level, it's your job to lie. You have to lie either to your subordinates or to your superiors to get things done.
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The only way to stop global islanding is to raise taxes on energy use. We'll stop those islands even if it means buying a mansion for every last politician.
Every day the kids say they cracked AACS and every day the reality is they didn't even scrach it. Is it because they know they can't win and are desperate to sound like they own AACS?
The first time, they discovered how to use JMF to play a BD movie on a BD player, as if the whole idea of BD-J wasn't a trick to keep them busy thinking they cracked it. Now they claim to have at least part of an AACS decryption algorithm, assuming it isn't just another JMF call they got out of a BD player.
It still sounds incredible that the IPod generation even knows what an AACS decryption algorithm is. You wouldn't think, being infactuated with big corporations, CEOs, and marketing, they would want to break encryption like the Walkman generation did with DVD.
Now all you need is 50 years to reverse engineer one of the millions of keys.
Sounds like this author only counted spacecraft sellers like International Launch Services and Sealaunch. If you only count the stuff that lifted off, Russia produced all of it except 3 shuttle launches, some Delta II launches, some Arianne V launches, and a Minotaur launch.
Probably because they don't take it seriously anymore when NASA says "moon program". They been through this 3 times since 1974 already and nothing ever happened. The next moon program is going to be from China. That's a moon program they can take seriously.
Just want to get this comment here so you can refer to it in 20 years. AACS will never be cracked. There are too many keys. There will be no software players you can reverse engineer like there were for DVD's. There is no interest in playing movies on PC's like there was for DVD's. It would take over 50 years to reverse engineer just one of the millions of keys by brute force.
Of course, in 20 years you won't even care about who cracked what encryption anymore. It'll just be there like death, taxes, and America.
The campaigns for energy waste from electronics are about the same thing global warming is. It's about how much money you can make off of the dumbest consumers in the world, mainly the Americans, who will pay any tax with the word "environment" in it. New taxes on electronics that use over X watts are already a done deal.
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This sounded rediculous the first time I heard about it. They said people were getting fired from their day jobs and their ISP service disabled not for downloading illegal copies of movies at all. They downloaded a piece of random data that happened to be created by the MPAA.
Under this law, you can get fired for downloading literally anything. All the lawyers have to do is say any data at all, from a slashdot comment to a DNS entry, was deliberately put there by a client for the purpose of trapping pirates.
According to Google, there are anecdotes of people losing their home internet access for using BitTorrent, but they don't say if they were busted for downloading fake data or using too much bandwidth.
There have only been 3 arrests linked to BitTorrent usage. They were all people who made the first copy and who administered the tracker. The MPAA boasts 4 but you can only find 3 names. No-one has been busted for running a client.
Don't forget the other 600,000 starving programmers working in startups exactly like Google but who are never going to get the financial jackpot. It's so rare to hit the jackpot, you can't take it seriously.
Time was, something like DLNA would be called impossibly bloated. Today whatever the CEO says is the word of God and bloat is suddenly good, immediately requiring the commitment of hundreds of college students to copy every bloated invention Micro* puts out.
DLNA is one of those horribly complex things that works when it works and fills an entire career of debugging when it doesn't work. It seems to have been originally a very simple way for anyone to get home networking but as more companies became involved, it evolved into an embedded, graphical version of Linux kernel config.
You can have multiple servers on the network, if you can get the permissions, security codes, version numbering, and network domains to work. Then there's the issue of file format matching.
6 years after Lou Dobbs brought this issue back from the grave, we have better anecdotes. Most of our positions are management. Development is almost entirely in India. Out of 20-30 managers there are only 4 permanent developers. A lot of money is spent on travel to get the Indians on site. A lot of time is spent waiting for time differences and code drops from India.
Indians are better educated, more practical, less political. Through a strong Rupee, they are motivated by the prospect of becoming wealthy and owning a house in India. Americans are uneducated, political, and no matter how long they work, they can never become wealthy or own houses.
The home media servers are trying to differentiate themselves by using a completely different set of protocols than the HTTP we've known and loved. It's so complicated to get these new protocols to work and they seem to redundant, it's as if their only reason is to make it not a web server.
An 8 bit Atmel in 2007? This is definitely not Japan. Why can't they provide an ARM9?
As phenomenal as the push for DLNA has been, we still aren't seeing the consumer fanaticism for it that we've seen for IPods. Is the latest Mac set-top box going to be the break out product?
The all-in-one media machine is the Pioneer BD player. Everyone else is still low def.
Expecting to see a 1/4" thick, smoked black rectangle fully occupied by a screen, Norway gives us yet another really boring game station clone. Whether they're making cell phones or tablets, they only seem to make really boring, basic, and cheap clones of former products. Once again, it's going to take Steve Jobless to make what every living thing knows a tablet PC should look like.
But most Americans rent apartments with no elecitric outlets in their "garage". Better stick to China for this brick.
Can definitely vouch for Ramon noodles making free software possible.
If you make under $120,000 in NYC, you my friend are a dead duck.
In the 90's Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Utah, Idaho were thought to be the next employment centers. What happened? There were using telecommuting to do back office work. Today that work is done in Asia.
You didn't pay for it. You didn't do the R&D. You spent 40 years promoting Minitel, calling the internet a waste of cold-war defense spending. Now finally, you're complaining about being left out of the internet.
Google is probably using a derivative of the MTBI. As usual, the fans are going to say it's another Google triumph and Google is going to change the world with this totally original, insanely great idea. The test has been around for 50 years.
The outsourcing pundits had the last laugh in this one. It really isn't about the programming or the QA. It's about the brand and the marketing. People don't want to read about the programming language, debugger, or operating system. They want to read about the brand, the CEO, the marketing.
Those psychological tests are highly questionable. Give any programmer the test and it says they're better at management. Give any manager the test and it says they're better at artwork. What's happening is these tests are written for an ideal world where everything is 100% efficient and plugged into exactly what it should be for maximum effectiveness. They don't factor in the cultural aspect of knowing the right people, tradition, politics.
For google to use this test means they're not going to get any programmers. If google allowed users to view the results of the tests, which they won't of course, it would be a neat way for people to find out about themselves.
The naysayers can only try to hide the truth. AACS is bulletproof. This is a milestone in consumer electronics.
Always thought no bosses kept their word. At least in the middle management level, it's your job to lie. You have to lie either to your subordinates or to your superiors to get things done.
The only way to stop global islanding is to raise taxes on energy use. We'll stop those islands even if it means buying a mansion for every last politician.
Every day the kids say they cracked AACS and every day the reality is they didn't even scrach it. Is it because they know they can't win and are desperate to sound like they own AACS?
The first time, they discovered how to use JMF to play a BD movie on a BD player, as if the whole idea of BD-J wasn't a trick to keep them busy thinking they cracked it. Now they claim to have at least part of an AACS decryption algorithm, assuming it isn't just another JMF call they got out of a BD player.
It still sounds incredible that the IPod generation even knows what an AACS decryption algorithm is. You wouldn't think, being infactuated with big corporations, CEOs, and marketing, they would want to break encryption like the Walkman generation did with DVD.
Now all you need is 50 years to reverse engineer one of the millions of keys.
Sounds like this author only counted spacecraft sellers like International Launch Services and Sealaunch. If you only count the stuff that lifted off, Russia produced all of it except 3 shuttle launches, some Delta II launches, some Arianne V launches, and a Minotaur launch.
Probably because they don't take it seriously anymore when NASA says "moon program". They been through this 3 times since 1974 already and nothing ever happened. The next moon program is going to be from China. That's a moon program they can take seriously.
Just want to get this comment here so you can refer to it in 20 years. AACS will never be cracked. There are too many keys. There will be no software players you can reverse engineer like there were for DVD's. There is no interest in playing movies on PC's like there was for DVD's. It would take over 50 years to reverse engineer just one of the millions of keys by brute force.
Of course, in 20 years you won't even care about who cracked what encryption anymore. It'll just be there like death, taxes, and America.
The campaigns for energy waste from electronics are about the same thing global warming is. It's about how much money you can make off of the dumbest consumers in the world, mainly the Americans, who will pay any tax with the word "environment" in it. New taxes on electronics that use over X watts are already a done deal.