why tie in the life of the author, they can just keep renewing it, just make sure estates, trusts, etc, can't renew it when the original author is dead (ideally make it so that only the original author can renew it)
There needs to be a clause saying that the copyright cannot be renewed when the original artist is dead. Otherwise if I sell copyright to something to a company (or person) they can just renew it indefinitely, unless copyright was made non-transferable.
IMO hiding in a crowd of thousands is much better than trusting anybody, sure they can sue one person but they can't sue all of us. i take my chances of being the one in 1.3 billion sued, even thier own site puts the chance of getting caught at >0.4%, that number is only going to get smaller as more people use torrents.
If only there were some system that makes it hard to pin the "uploader" because there are hundreds of uploaders at any given time, along with negligent sys admins that don't keep proper logs. Let me thing a) police call up host and get my ip (0% if im not the uploader but 100% if i am) b) police connect to tracker and pick (1% either way)
while as a downloader i see the appeal of a, i can't see how sites like rapidshare/megaupload can survive, unless uploaders are really smart (chain of proxies/tor(but not tor because its not designed for large bandwidth useage)/etc) or really dumb (have no idea what they are doing)
A reasonably intelligent person can't check for fraud if the officials are corrupt, the best they can do is get what the voting officials give them, a dual system means you only need to trust the officials haven't messed with the computer OR the officials haven't messed with the ballots. OFC much more transparency is needed in the electronic system (atm its far to closed), but at the end of the day your always going to have to trust the software running on the box, is the software that's meant to be running on the box.
why the rush to electronic voting in most of the world?
Because meatspace fraud is easy, sure there are plenty of countermeasures against it, but the way forward is defiantly a dual system. Electronic voting on secured machines AND a full paper trail, that way attackers have to both tamper with the machines AND the ballot boxes.
Like support anonymous voting, or public-private key systems for signed and authenticated voting.
I think the problem with encryption systems is they are all either not anonymous (if something has you sig on it, YOU signed it) or not secure (schemes where an attacker can fake any message therefore there is no way to tell if you sent the message)
To the Catsouras family, I am deeply sorry for your loss, but your score to settle is not with the nebulous force of users that are the internet but with the Orange County Police Department.
How so? The problem is not the pictures being out there its sick fucks from anonymous and 4chan emailing them to the family with captions. The police snafu, helps increase awareness that taking cocaine then driving can lead to horrible consequences, but anonymous harassing the family of a dead girl just offends.
There is obviously room for improvement, it seams like they analyze each frame separately as sometimes nodding a head will remove the recognition even if the character stays in shot, some sort of object tracking software could be added to compensate for that, but what they have achieved is defiantly quite impressive.
Book piracet never really took off like music/video piracy because paper books are actually worth something. OK ive never used a kindle, perhaps the reading experince is as good (possibly even slightly better than a real book) but i doubt it could take the beating i give my book, i can't share books (unless my friends also have kindles), I couldn't take books out with me drinking (for the tube journey there ofc, im not a complete looser). Sure the publishers are as bad as the record labels these days, £7 for 58 year old book is a bit much, when 30 years ago it cost less! However its not the buisness model that's broken (selling physical books, that cost real money to reproduce and distribute), just the people that run it.
While I'd consider this great for text books and manuals, is anybody ever that desperate to get a fiction book that may take weeks, that they can't wait a day? Almost every interdependent bookshop I know will take a day to get any book I can think of in a day (two if i turn up after their last phone call to HQ), at no extra charge (hell I've even messed up and ordered a book that it turned out I didn't buy and still didn't have to pay a thing), £23.40 is a bit much for foundation (RRP £6.99) and £41 for dune is defiantly excessive.
No it assumes the opposite, it assumes a botnet is targeting many sites! if you have 1000 computers, then you can attack every site you want 1000 times before a single computer has to attack the same site twice. If you only attack a few sites most of the time the bots will be inactive, its only if your attacking many sites that your not wasting time.
but it's difficult for a script to see without rendering the site in standards compliant CSS.
But with many OpenSource web browsers, would it be that hard to work out what is rendered and what is not? it seams that bots could even run a hidden tab of firefox/chrome on a victims computer if they had to. I suppose it does make cracking capatchas computationally more difficult but isn't OCR much more intensive than rendering a page (wait why not just put capatchas in terribly codded flash apps)?
Apple performance has improved consistently in each new version of OSX, whereas Microsoft had ok performance in XP, horrible performance in Vista, and by all reports will have better performance in windows 7. That is not a clear direction.
Vista is windows mac OSX performance certainly got worse for many programs in the 9 to X jump! I fail to see how such a strong direction on performance keeps increasing the minimum specs 10.3 = 128MB 10.4 = 256MB 10.5 = 512MB
And while windows do tend to change the goal of their releases more often, I don't think it is in anyway a bad thing to change your game plan over 8 years, in fact the idea that jobs sat down in 2002 and planed out the direction OSX would take over the next 7 years is pretty ludicrous and if true shows more arrogance than genius. Yes osX is a great operating system but it has nothing to do with a sense of direction and much to do with control (hardware & toolkit), implementation (there is some good code in there, webkit,etc), limited scope (osX sets out do to some things and do them well) and marketing (An army of fanboys, while annoying as fuck to those with a clue, can defiantly market it to the uninformed).
KDE suffers from another problem, that of trying to do too much at once. It is important to make sure each change creates an improvement that matches the effort you have to put in.
While im no fan of kde4, if your going to do an architectural overall, change your toolkit and design a system that should last 5/6 years, you might as well get everything right. While the incremental approach may work for some projects (gnome, kernel, wine, etc), its not for all AND certainly not forever, gnome got to 2.0 with a toolkit change, Linux got to 2.6 with several major overhauls (1,2,2.2,2.4), there are far more released versions of mac os than windows (number of major changes is debatable, i count 4(dos,95-2000,nt,vista(although technically nt major changes were made)) for windows and 4 for mac(1-4,5-6,7-9,X), but your counting may differ.)
Because the internet like the postal service before it is something that is essential to businesses so a minimum standard should be provided to everybody (regardless of profitability) because it benefits everybody. OFC there are limits and conditions, but overall government support/funding to get broadband internet to everybody at a reasonable price is a good step, not only for the receivers but also for all companies with an online presence and to a lesser extent everybody else online.
ey also do things in small enough increments to make sure things don't blow up (like Vista: it's always a risk when you make too many changes).
Right because the switch to intel and mac os X were small increments? I'm no fan of vista, I recommend everybody i know to stick with xp, but the changes in the security and driver model were well overdue and needed, much like mac osX was and the change to intel.
Sort of, but if all you are doing is fixing bugs, what's the point of having a new version? Why not just stay with your old version, which people kind of like?
All the features were added pre beta, which is how you do it, well you normally let people miss their deadlines and slip them in to beta 2/3 if their worth it.
The main difference I see between Microsoft and Apple is that Microsoft is directionless.
What direction is apple heading in? every release requires more resources and sells more hardware but i can't think of any features that has really blown me away recently, even linux distros (since compiz) have really failed to do anything beyond improve/reduce performance/stability/security (ofc with Linux you do have upstream developments like, wireless mesh netowrking, mpx, mousegestures on most touchpads, but nothing is that impressive)
You get bunch of corrupt thieving cunts under under any system, however in free market system you can at least get them out of business with your $-votes
No you can't in the US you still get corrupt bastards like Cheney in charge and appointees like Scooter Libby, Clinton taking advantage, etc. You can keep shouting free market all you want, but what exactly got you into trillions of dollars worth of debt? And wouldn't a free market country have let the banks fail?
40% tax in return for poor education, poor health care and various other poor services
While i may not be the smartest thing to come through the British education system, there are certain areas of America where they appoint senators that haven't a clue where oil comes from. Education isn't something that you just need for yourself, having people as educated as possible helps in all walks of life, so even if you could get a better deal with 10% of your salary, you would still be worse off if you were surrounded by idiots. Not only is our 'poor' healthcare system cheaper than your but it keeps us alive slightly longer 78.7 vs 78.06. Healthcare is another thing that really helps a country, even if you could (not that america does) get a better deal for yourself, having an unhealthy country affects your workforce and so your still stuck in a worse situation overall. Our various other services include policing where although we do have more crime, we have significantly (less than half) less rape/murder.
If something is GPL AND i own the copyright to it (as oracle do with openoffice) a company can either GPL additional code (which despite what you claim means unless you really trust your customers it will be available for free shortly after) OR pay oracle for license's and release a closed source product.
I think the problem with open source office suits is an office suite dosen't get anybody laid, so there is little enthusiasm from people not paid to do it. If you want to use an MS clone the Openoffice is fine, but there is never going to be any innovation unless it comes from another company, so the best hope is to open up the development and get all the companies on board with something, but given its slowness and dependance on java i don't think even that will result in a good product, its best for it to die and novell,linux foundation,red hat, etc, to put their effort into gnumeric,abiword,etc, (maybe rip out the good parts of openoffice and put them in libraries).
Isn't it a good thing that they are concentrating on the bugs from the betas, instead of adding features? Perhaps users of the final release wont feel like beta testers this time?
I'm no ms fan but they seam to be doing it right this time, move feature work and innovation to windows 8, while a 'stable' branch of the code is finalized for release.
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What if you just want sane copyright laws (like 28 years, with registered renewals available to the original author)
why tie in the life of the author, they can just keep renewing it, just make sure estates, trusts, etc, can't renew it when the original author is dead (ideally make it so that only the original author can renew it)
There needs to be a clause saying that the copyright cannot be renewed when the original artist is dead. Otherwise if I sell copyright to something to a company (or person) they can just renew it indefinitely, unless copyright was made non-transferable.
hey it's ok, only in the EU are we retarded enough to re-copyright stuff that had already fallen into public domain
IMO hiding in a crowd of thousands is much better than trusting anybody, sure they can sue one person but they can't sue all of us. i take my chances of being the one in 1.3 billion sued, even thier own site puts the chance of getting caught at >0.4%, that number is only going to get smaller as more people use torrents.
If only there were some system that makes it hard to pin the "uploader" because there are hundreds of uploaders at any given time, along with negligent sys admins that don't keep proper logs.
Let me thing
a) police call up host and get my ip (0% if im not the uploader but 100% if i am)
b) police connect to tracker and pick (1% either way)
while as a downloader i see the appeal of a, i can't see how sites like rapidshare/megaupload can survive, unless uploaders are really smart (chain of proxies/tor(but not tor because its not designed for large bandwidth useage)/etc) or really dumb (have no idea what they are doing)
surely there is nothing to stop a +5 offtopic (-1 offtopic, +4 underrated)
A reasonably intelligent person can't check for fraud if the officials are corrupt, the best they can do is get what the voting officials give them, a dual system means you only need to trust the officials haven't messed with the computer OR the officials haven't messed with the ballots. OFC much more transparency is needed in the electronic system (atm its far to closed), but at the end of the day your always going to have to trust the software running on the box, is the software that's meant to be running on the box.
why the rush to electronic voting in most of the world?
Because meatspace fraud is easy, sure there are plenty of countermeasures against it, but the way forward is defiantly a dual system. Electronic voting on secured machines AND a full paper trail, that way attackers have to both tamper with the machines AND the ballot boxes.
Like support anonymous voting, or public-private key systems for signed and authenticated voting.
I think the problem with encryption systems is they are all either not anonymous (if something has you sig on it, YOU signed it) or not secure (schemes where an attacker can fake any message therefore there is no way to tell if you sent the message)
To the Catsouras family, I am deeply sorry for your loss, but your score to settle is not with the nebulous force of users that are the internet but with the Orange County Police Department.
How so? The problem is not the pictures being out there its sick fucks from anonymous and 4chan emailing them to the family with captions. The police snafu, helps increase awareness that taking cocaine then driving can lead to horrible consequences, but anonymous harassing the family of a dead girl just offends.
Yeah but you can't expect privacy outside of your own home, that's why its they're called public spaces not private ones.
There is obviously room for improvement, it seams like they analyze each frame separately as sometimes nodding a head will remove the recognition even if the character stays in shot, some sort of object tracking software could be added to compensate for that, but what they have achieved is defiantly quite impressive.
Book piracet never really took off like music/video piracy because paper books are actually worth something. OK ive never used a kindle, perhaps the reading experince is as good (possibly even slightly better than a real book) but i doubt it could take the beating i give my book, i can't share books (unless my friends also have kindles), I couldn't take books out with me drinking (for the tube journey there ofc, im not a complete looser). Sure the publishers are as bad as the record labels these days, £7 for 58 year old book is a bit much, when 30 years ago it cost less! However its not the buisness model that's broken (selling physical books, that cost real money to reproduce and distribute), just the people that run it.
While I'd consider this great for text books and manuals, is anybody ever that desperate to get a fiction book that may take weeks, that they can't wait a day? Almost every interdependent bookshop I know will take a day to get any book I can think of in a day (two if i turn up after their last phone call to HQ), at no extra charge (hell I've even messed up and ordered a book that it turned out I didn't buy and still didn't have to pay a thing), £23.40 is a bit much for foundation (RRP £6.99) and £41 for dune is defiantly excessive.
No it assumes the opposite, it assumes a botnet is targeting many sites!
if you have 1000 computers, then you can attack every site you want 1000 times before a single computer has to attack the same site twice. If you only attack a few sites most of the time the bots will be inactive, its only if your attacking many sites that your not wasting time.
If you have a botnet then a single computer probably dosen't need to try a site more often than a human would.
but it's difficult for a script to see without rendering the site in standards compliant CSS.
But with many OpenSource web browsers, would it be that hard to work out what is rendered and what is not? it seams that bots could even run a hidden tab of firefox/chrome on a victims computer if they had to. I suppose it does make cracking capatchas computationally more difficult but isn't OCR much more intensive than rendering a page (wait why not just put capatchas in terribly codded flash apps)?
Apple performance has improved consistently in each new version of OSX, whereas Microsoft had ok performance in XP, horrible performance in Vista, and by all reports will have better performance in windows 7. That is not a clear direction.
Vista is windows mac OSX performance certainly got worse for many programs in the 9 to X jump! I fail to see how such a strong direction on performance keeps increasing the minimum specs
10.3 = 128MB
10.4 = 256MB
10.5 = 512MB
And while windows do tend to change the goal of their releases more often, I don't think it is in anyway a bad thing to change your game plan over 8 years, in fact the idea that jobs sat down in 2002 and planed out the direction OSX would take over the next 7 years is pretty ludicrous and if true shows more arrogance than genius. Yes osX is a great operating system but it has nothing to do with a sense of direction and much to do with control (hardware & toolkit), implementation (there is some good code in there, webkit,etc), limited scope (osX sets out do to some things and do them well) and marketing (An army of fanboys, while annoying as fuck to those with a clue, can defiantly market it to the uninformed).
KDE suffers from another problem, that of trying to do too much at once. It is important to make sure each change creates an improvement that matches the effort you have to put in.
While im no fan of kde4, if your going to do an architectural overall, change your toolkit and design a system that should last 5/6 years, you might as well get everything right. While the incremental approach may work for some projects (gnome, kernel, wine, etc), its not for all AND certainly not forever, gnome got to 2.0 with a toolkit change, Linux got to 2.6 with several major overhauls (1,2,2.2,2.4), there are far more released versions of mac os than windows (number of major changes is debatable, i count 4(dos,95-2000,nt,vista(although technically nt major changes were made)) for windows and 4 for mac(1-4,5-6,7-9,X), but your counting may differ.)
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Because the internet like the postal service before it is something that is essential to businesses so a minimum standard should be provided to everybody (regardless of profitability) because it benefits everybody. OFC there are limits and conditions, but overall government support/funding to get broadband internet to everybody at a reasonable price is a good step, not only for the receivers but also for all companies with an online presence and to a lesser extent everybody else online.
ey also do things in small enough increments to make sure things don't blow up (like Vista: it's always a risk when you make too many changes).
Right because the switch to intel and mac os X were small increments? I'm no fan of vista, I recommend everybody i know to stick with xp, but the changes in the security and driver model were well overdue and needed, much like mac osX was and the change to intel.
Sort of, but if all you are doing is fixing bugs, what's the point of having a new version? Why not just stay with your old version, which people kind of like?
All the features were added pre beta, which is how you do it, well you normally let people miss their deadlines and slip them in to beta 2/3 if their worth it.
The main difference I see between Microsoft and Apple is that Microsoft is directionless.
What direction is apple heading in? every release requires more resources and sells more hardware but i can't think of any features that has really blown me away recently, even linux distros (since compiz) have really failed to do anything beyond improve/reduce performance/stability/security (ofc with Linux you do have upstream developments like, wireless mesh netowrking, mpx, mousegestures on most touchpads, but nothing is that impressive)
You get bunch of corrupt thieving cunts under under any system, however in free market system you can at least get them out of business with your $-votes
No you can't in the US you still get corrupt bastards like Cheney in charge and appointees like Scooter Libby, Clinton taking advantage, etc. You can keep shouting free market all you want, but what exactly got you into trillions of dollars worth of debt? And wouldn't a free market country have let the banks fail?
40% tax in return for poor education, poor health care and various other poor services
While i may not be the smartest thing to come through the British education system, there are certain areas of America where they appoint senators that haven't a clue where oil comes from. Education isn't something that you just need for yourself, having people as educated as possible helps in all walks of life, so even if you could get a better deal with 10% of your salary, you would still be worse off if you were surrounded by idiots.
Not only is our 'poor' healthcare system cheaper than your but it keeps us alive slightly longer 78.7 vs 78.06. Healthcare is another thing that really helps a country, even if you could (not that america does) get a better deal for yourself, having an unhealthy country affects your workforce and so your still stuck in a worse situation overall.
Our various other services include policing where although we do have more crime, we have significantly (less than half) less rape/murder.
If something is GPL AND i own the copyright to it (as oracle do with openoffice) a company can either GPL additional code (which despite what you claim means unless you really trust your customers it will be available for free shortly after) OR pay oracle for license's and release a closed source product.
I think the problem with open source office suits is an office suite dosen't get anybody laid, so there is little enthusiasm from people not paid to do it. If you want to use an MS clone the Openoffice is fine, but there is never going to be any innovation unless it comes from another company, so the best hope is to open up the development and get all the companies on board with something, but given its slowness and dependance on java i don't think even that will result in a good product, its best for it to die and novell,linux foundation,red hat, etc, to put their effort into gnumeric,abiword,etc, (maybe rip out the good parts of openoffice and put them in libraries).
Isn't it a good thing that they are concentrating on the bugs from the betas, instead of adding features? Perhaps users of the final release wont feel like beta testers this time?
I'm no ms fan but they seam to be doing it right this time, move feature work and innovation to windows 8, while a 'stable' branch of the code is finalized for release.