Both of my banks have two level security. One is they give you a user ID, semi-permanent password (you have to change it sometimes) and a card with multiple passwords. When you log in, you have to type you user ID, password and then they ask for a specific password from the card (type password #5). When you want to do a wire transfer to an account that belongs to someone else you have to type in a password from the card. So, the attacker has to know at least 3 passwords to be able to do the transfer (main one, two from the card and hope that the server asks for those two).
If you want, you can buy a key generator for ~$7 and no longer use the card. In this case you type your password to the generator and the generated one time key in place of your password at the bank.
And I though my soon-to-be plan of $35 for 200mbps (national)/80mbps(world) was cheap... Well, at least it will be better than my current $30 for 4mbps (up)/768kbps(down) DSL.
HP Professional Series Color 2500CM, ink, easy refills and built like a tank (except one part). Windows XP has a built in driver for it and the driver has a useful bug - it does not care if the print head or the ink cartridge is supposed to be "expired".
It all depends on what type of server it is and where it is. Not every company has huge server rooms with full racks of servers. If the company has only one server then it may be easier to just connect a monitor to it. Also, if the server crashes you may need a monitor to be able to fix it, because, in my experience, crashed computers are difficult to control using remote desktop or telnet.
Why should copyright immediately revert to the public upon the owners death any more than ownership of a house?
The difference between copyright and a house is that the latter is real property - made from scarce materials on scarce land and so on. Copyright is not a real property, it's just a (hopefully) time limited monopoly over copying of a creative work with the idea of letting authors benefit from their work because otherwise, as you said, the author would not get any money for his work. So, copyright is something like a job, that is, copyright makes writing books into a job that the author can get paid for without having a contract in the first place. You don't get to keep your job after death.
Well, consider this example - a person works in a "normal" job, gets salary, saves the money and buys/builds a house. Upon his death he leaves the house to whoever he wants, but he cannot leave his income to that person because after he dies the company won't be paying him anymore. Now consider this - an author writes books, sells them, gets money and buys a house. Upon his death he leaves his house and the copyright to whoever he wants. Now that person has the house, but also has the copyright, the equivalent of the authors job.
As long as the renewal fee starts small and goes exponential that sounds perfectly reasonable.
It should go up pretty fast so that only very profitable works could have 40 years or longer copyrights. Also, the system could be made so that there would be no multiple extensions at a time (you have to come back every 5 years and after each renewal resets the clock to 5 years so that if you come a year after the last renewal you pay in full, but only get 1 year extension so your copyright lasts 5 years and not 9) and the author himself has to it, so dead author = 0-5 years of copyright left depending on whether the author managed to get an (early) renewal before death.
You know, the copyright could also be split into commercial and non commercial use, for example if you make money using somebody's work then you pay royalties longer than the copyright for non commercial use lasts, so a corporation cannot print and sell a 50 year old book without paying the author but someone can scan the book and put it online legally.
wow. if you're not sucessful right away then you'll never be sucessful? what world do you live in?
I was talking about writing books. If your book is still at a loss after 5-10 years then maybe it's just not interesting enough for people to buy.
Also, how could big media rip off authors? I mean if the work enters public domain then the corporation cannot demand payment for the book, or rather it can, but I don't have to pay it.
Every major publishing house would just keep a stack of everything they were sent unless they spotted something truly exceptional in the cursory pass 5 years later you'd see anything half decent published with a different authors name on it.
The author should retain moral rights to the work, like, for example, the right of being credited for it even when the copyright expires...
Hmm. I have a better idea - how about 5 year copyright with the ability to renew it, however, the renewal price would increase each time you renew it. If you are sill making a lot of money for the book then you can pay for the renewal. If it ceases to be profitable to you (old magazines, books that have short lived popularity, old computer games) then the copyright expires and the work enters public domain but is still credited to you.
I'd never heard of watchmen until 20 years after the comic was released.
Di;d you buy the comic new from the publishers or did you buy it used/borrowed it from a library or a friend? If you did not buy it new then the authors did not get money from you (is it still in print?).
Should you get salary from the job you left last week?
If I was fired (because, for example, the company was downsizing) then I will most likely get a compensation, which means my salary for a few months in advance. How many depends on how long I have worked there.
And you shouldn't spend more than a trivial amount of time on creating anything because you don't think someone should get paid for 20 years for 20 years labor. got it.
Should someone get paid for life+70 years (which would probably mean the life of author + life of their children + most of the life of their grandchildren) for, say, 1 year of labor? Anyway, should a dead author be paid? Most of the dead people do not get salary or pension or any money at all, why should authors be different?
There are a lot more hops than that, or at least there seem to be:
6 106 ms 110 ms 99 ms fft-kv.br01-kiev-vlan1702.top.net.ua [77.88.201.10]
7 109 ms 100 ms 100 ms 149.6.190.190
8 106 ms 100 ms 119 ms 91.193.68.158
9 125 ms 110 ms 109 ms 188.95.159.34
10 Request timed out. ...
17 Request timed out.
18 127 ms 130 ms 139 ms thepiratebay.org [194.71.107.15]
they did. However, around that time a new tracker, called openbittorrent.com appeared. This tracker has no index and does not host torrent files. It may or may not be run by the same people that run TPB.
Otherwise people would have to be insanely secretive about their work until they sent it off to be registered because if a rough cut of a new movie got leaked then there would be perfectly legal for me to sell copies of it.
Well, there could be a middle ground, say, before the movie is finished they are allowed to pre-register it and have copyright until the movie goes to the theaters or is sold to customers (in case of direct to video movies). When the movie is ready for the customer they can send a copy and complete the registration.
if you spend 20 years writing an incredible authoritative book on some subject why should you only get paid for 5 years?
Why not? If the work you did is so hard and useful then you will make lots of money during the 5 years by selling lots of copies or by being able to charge a lot for a copy. Otherwise you just wasted a lot of time, just like the guy who started his own business but it turned out that what he had almost no (potential) customers and went bust a few years later. You are not entitled to the money just because you spent 20 years doing something that nobody needed.
should terry Pratchett no longer get royalties on the first 25 discworld books because they were published more than 10 years ago?
Should I no longer get salary from the first 2 of my jobs just because it's been 10 years since I worked there? You work - you get paid. You stop working - you stop getting paid. Writing a book or making a movie pays off later than working a regular job and that's why copyright should be 5 or 7 years and not 1 month. If you cannot make profit during those years then it means that whatever you are doing is not profitable and will not be profitable in the coming years too.
Should not have control of the characters in his current books because they first appeared in his books more than 20 years ago?
Well, he would still be able to write about those characters, right? Just because someone else would be able to do it too does not invalidate the books by the original author. Or should Disney retain control over Mickey Mouse indefinitely?
I see nothing wrong with that. While a bigger (5.25" or bigger) drive may be slower, but would you really need 5ms access time on a 10TB drive? You can have a SSD or a 15kRPM HDD as a system drive and use the big drive for storage.
Well, a lot of FOSS guys like DIY. Compiling from source isn't convenient for most people but sometimes it is needed (one of the reasons I don't use Linux on my main PC) when the hardware is rare enough that nobody cares about it. Linux does not have good drives for some hardware because the manufacturers don't make them, which leads to lower market share for Linux and manufacturers not caring about it.
I'm not a programmer, but, since I am into old electronics (mostly audio stuff - tape decks etc) I have to know how to fix at least simple problems myself (If I went to a repair shop every time some simple problem occurred I'd be out of money) - bad capacitors, transistors, tubes, some other problem. And I actually like it, I don't want to stop using the old tape deck just because I don't want to have to align its heads or replace a bunch of capacitors. So I understand what the FOSS guys are feeling about the software that you can fix yourself. However, I also understand that a lot of people don't know anything about electronics or programming, so an old tape deck may not be for someone who does not know how to hold a soldering iron and does not have money for the occasional trip to a repair shop. The same with FOSS - some programs are really great, Linux for the most part is too, but if you have a nonstandard configuration or something Linux gets really complicated really fast.
Yes, I know that. I also think that Mozilla should just use DirectShow for playing h264 and stop whining about freedom from being able to watch videos without Flash. I live in a country that does not "respect" software patents so the codec (ffdshow) is totally free for me.
I also need to write sarcasm better, or you need to recalibrate your detector...
However, all those cards do not accelerate Theora. Since parent said that Mozilla has hardware acceleration capability for Theora then it probably is a separate card that just decodes Theora, which means it should be either PCIe or PCI.
Anyway, my main PC has a video card that does not have hardware acceleration for h264 (Radeon HS2900XT, it was just released when I bought it), but the CPUs (2x Opteron 270) are powerful enough to do it in software.
Do they make a PCI version of the accelerator card, because a lot of older computers (that do need the hardware accelerator) do not have PCIe and there is usually only one AGP slot which is usually occupied by the VGA?
Really? IIRC there is a cap of how much the license can cost and it is a few million $, which, to google, probably is rounding error.
And, even if google decided to use Theora for Youtube, it would still need to have h264 encoded files (and pay for the license) because there are devices that do not support Theora or Flash (iPad for example), so you can't have only Theora files and a Flash player. So, google will keep the current arrangement (h264 files + Flash player if browser does not play h264 directly).
AFAIK it's because Mozilla is in the USA, so they would be in trouble for infringing the patents even though the users, who live in other countries would not.
However, nothing is preventing Mozilla from making a version of Firefox that uses system codecs (Directshow on Windows etc) and not worrying about where the users would get the codec (those, who have Win7, already have h264 btw).
Eg, vlc or mplayer running as a content-transparent plugin?
There is no reason to reinvent the wheel - Windows has DirectShow, Linux has gstreamer and MacOS has Quicktime. They allow any application to play any media file that has the needed codecs and source filters installed. Windows Media Player, Media Player Classic and a lot of others use DirectShow, that's why I need to install ffmpeg once to a PC and not once for every player.
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51Lt/month for 100mbps, not bad. TEO offers 200/80 for 100Lt/month, and your ISP probably would not bother with me.
Both of my banks have two level security. One is they give you a user ID, semi-permanent password (you have to change it sometimes) and a card with multiple passwords. When you log in, you have to type you user ID, password and then they ask for a specific password from the card (type password #5). When you want to do a wire transfer to an account that belongs to someone else you have to type in a password from the card. So, the attacker has to know at least 3 passwords to be able to do the transfer (main one, two from the card and hope that the server asks for those two).
If you want, you can buy a key generator for ~$7 and no longer use the card. In this case you type your password to the generator and the generated one time key in place of your password at the bank.
Maybe a bunch of new fiber customers testing their connection? ISP increases speeds to all subscribers, who then all go to confirm it?
$66 for 1gbps, wow.
And I though my soon-to-be plan of $35 for 200mbps (national)/80mbps(world) was cheap... Well, at least it will be better than my current $30 for 4mbps (up)/768kbps(down) DSL.
but I prefer having a format I can run just about anywhere WITHOUT having to write a check.
h.264 is out then. Is DivX patented? If so, then what's left? Uncompressed RGB? Even that would probably play in less devices than divx...
HP Professional Series Color 2500CM, ink, easy refills and built like a tank (except one part). Windows XP has a built in driver for it and the driver has a useful bug - it does not care if the print head or the ink cartridge is supposed to be "expired".
Short extension if renewing too soon is to prevent anyone from "extending" to 100 years right after registration.
OK, we at least agree that the current model (life + 70 years or whatever) is too long. So, what would be your suggestions of fixing it?
It all depends on what type of server it is and where it is. Not every company has huge server rooms with full racks of servers. If the company has only one server then it may be easier to just connect a monitor to it. Also, if the server crashes you may need a monitor to be able to fix it, because, in my experience, crashed computers are difficult to control using remote desktop or telnet.
Why should copyright immediately revert to the public upon the owners death any more than ownership of a house?
The difference between copyright and a house is that the latter is real property - made from scarce materials on scarce land and so on. Copyright is not a real property, it's just a (hopefully) time limited monopoly over copying of a creative work with the idea of letting authors benefit from their work because otherwise, as you said, the author would not get any money for his work. So, copyright is something like a job, that is, copyright makes writing books into a job that the author can get paid for without having a contract in the first place. You don't get to keep your job after death.
Well, consider this example - a person works in a "normal" job, gets salary, saves the money and buys/builds a house. Upon his death he leaves the house to whoever he wants, but he cannot leave his income to that person because after he dies the company won't be paying him anymore.
Now consider this - an author writes books, sells them, gets money and buys a house. Upon his death he leaves his house and the copyright to whoever he wants. Now that person has the house, but also has the copyright, the equivalent of the authors job.
As long as the renewal fee starts small and goes exponential that sounds perfectly reasonable.
It should go up pretty fast so that only very profitable works could have 40 years or longer copyrights. Also, the system could be made so that there would be no multiple extensions at a time (you have to come back every 5 years and after each renewal resets the clock to 5 years so that if you come a year after the last renewal you pay in full, but only get 1 year extension so your copyright lasts 5 years and not 9) and the author himself has to it, so dead author = 0-5 years of copyright left depending on whether the author managed to get an (early) renewal before death.
You know, the copyright could also be split into commercial and non commercial use, for example if you make money using somebody's work then you pay royalties longer than the copyright for non commercial use lasts, so a corporation cannot print and sell a 50 year old book without paying the author but someone can scan the book and put it online legally.
wow.
if you're not sucessful right away then you'll never be sucessful?
what world do you live in?
I was talking about writing books. If your book is still at a loss after 5-10 years then maybe it's just not interesting enough for people to buy.
Also, how could big media rip off authors? I mean if the work enters public domain then the corporation cannot demand payment for the book, or rather it can, but I don't have to pay it.
Every major publishing house would just keep a stack of everything they were sent unless they spotted something truly exceptional in the cursory pass 5 years later you'd see anything half decent published with a different authors name on it.
The author should retain moral rights to the work, like, for example, the right of being credited for it even when the copyright expires...
Hmm. I have a better idea - how about 5 year copyright with the ability to renew it, however, the renewal price would increase each time you renew it. If you are sill making a lot of money for the book then you can pay for the renewal. If it ceases to be profitable to you (old magazines, books that have short lived popularity, old computer games) then the copyright expires and the work enters public domain but is still credited to you.
I'd never heard of watchmen until 20 years after the comic was released.
Di;d you buy the comic new from the publishers or did you buy it used/borrowed it from a library or a friend? If you did not buy it new then the authors did not get money from you (is it still in print?).
Should you get salary from the job you left last week?
If I was fired (because, for example, the company was downsizing) then I will most likely get a compensation, which means my salary for a few months in advance. How many depends on how long I have worked there.
And you shouldn't spend more than a trivial amount of time on creating anything because you don't think someone should get paid for 20 years for 20 years labor.
got it.
Should someone get paid for life+70 years (which would probably mean the life of author + life of their children + most of the life of their grandchildren) for, say, 1 year of labor?
Anyway, should a dead author be paid? Most of the dead people do not get salary or pension or any money at all, why should authors be different?
There are a lot more hops than that, or at least there seem to be:
6 106 ms 110 ms 99 ms fft-kv.br01-kiev-vlan1702.top.net.ua [77.88.201.10]
7 109 ms 100 ms 100 ms 149.6.190.190
8 106 ms 100 ms 119 ms 91.193.68.158
9 125 ms 110 ms 109 ms 188.95.159.34
10 Request timed out.
...
17 Request timed out.
18 127 ms 130 ms 139 ms thepiratebay.org [194.71.107.15]
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they did. However, around that time a new tracker, called openbittorrent.com appeared. This tracker has no index and does not host torrent files. It may or may not be run by the same people that run TPB.
Otherwise people would have to be insanely secretive about their work until they sent it off to be registered because if a rough cut of a new movie got leaked then there would be perfectly legal for me to sell copies of it.
Well, there could be a middle ground, say, before the movie is finished they are allowed to pre-register it and have copyright until the movie goes to the theaters or is sold to customers (in case of direct to video movies). When the movie is ready for the customer they can send a copy and complete the registration.
if you spend 20 years writing an incredible authoritative book on some subject why should you only get paid for 5 years?
Why not? If the work you did is so hard and useful then you will make lots of money during the 5 years by selling lots of copies or by being able to charge a lot for a copy. Otherwise you just wasted a lot of time, just like the guy who started his own business but it turned out that what he had almost no (potential) customers and went bust a few years later. You are not entitled to the money just because you spent 20 years doing something that nobody needed.
should terry Pratchett no longer get royalties on the first 25 discworld books because they were published more than 10 years ago?
Should I no longer get salary from the first 2 of my jobs just because it's been 10 years since I worked there? You work - you get paid. You stop working - you stop getting paid. Writing a book or making a movie pays off later than working a regular job and that's why copyright should be 5 or 7 years and not 1 month. If you cannot make profit during those years then it means that whatever you are doing is not profitable and will not be profitable in the coming years too.
Should not have control of the characters in his current books because they first appeared in his books more than 20 years ago?
Well, he would still be able to write about those characters, right? Just because someone else would be able to do it too does not invalidate the books by the original author. Or should Disney retain control over Mickey Mouse indefinitely?
Then how come 32bit Server 2000 can access 32GB and 32bit Server 2003 can access 64GB?
Also, why my 11 year old server that's 32bit has maximum memory capacity of 16GB?
C) Use a file server or more than one hard drive. I have ~3.2TB of space but it's on 10 hard drives of 120-750GB capacity.
I see nothing wrong with that. While a bigger (5.25" or bigger) drive may be slower, but would you really need 5ms access time on a 10TB drive? You can have a SSD or a 15kRPM HDD as a system drive and use the big drive for storage.
XP is NT5.1, 2003 is NT5.2
Well, a lot of FOSS guys like DIY. Compiling from source isn't convenient for most people but sometimes it is needed (one of the reasons I don't use Linux on my main PC) when the hardware is rare enough that nobody cares about it. Linux does not have good drives for some hardware because the manufacturers don't make them, which leads to lower market share for Linux and manufacturers not caring about it.
I'm not a programmer, but, since I am into old electronics (mostly audio stuff - tape decks etc) I have to know how to fix at least simple problems myself (If I went to a repair shop every time some simple problem occurred I'd be out of money) - bad capacitors, transistors, tubes, some other problem. And I actually like it, I don't want to stop using the old tape deck just because I don't want to have to align its heads or replace a bunch of capacitors. So I understand what the FOSS guys are feeling about the software that you can fix yourself. However, I also understand that a lot of people don't know anything about electronics or programming, so an old tape deck may not be for someone who does not know how to hold a soldering iron and does not have money for the occasional trip to a repair shop. The same with FOSS - some programs are really great, Linux for the most part is too, but if you have a nonstandard configuration or something Linux gets really complicated really fast.
Yes, I know that. I also think that Mozilla should just use DirectShow for playing h264 and stop whining about freedom from being able to watch videos without Flash. I live in a country that does not "respect" software patents so the codec (ffdshow) is totally free for me.
I also need to write sarcasm better, or you need to recalibrate your detector...
However, all those cards do not accelerate Theora. Since parent said that Mozilla has hardware acceleration capability for Theora then it probably is a separate card that just decodes Theora, which means it should be either PCIe or PCI.
Anyway, my main PC has a video card that does not have hardware acceleration for h264 (Radeon HS2900XT, it was just released when I bought it), but the CPUs (2x Opteron 270) are powerful enough to do it in software.
Great!
Do they make a PCI version of the accelerator card, because a lot of older computers (that do need the hardware accelerator) do not have PCIe and there is usually only one AGP slot which is usually occupied by the VGA?
Really? IIRC there is a cap of how much the license can cost and it is a few million $, which, to google, probably is rounding error.
And, even if google decided to use Theora for Youtube, it would still need to have h264 encoded files (and pay for the license) because there are devices that do not support Theora or Flash (iPad for example), so you can't have only Theora files and a Flash player. So, google will keep the current arrangement (h264 files + Flash player if browser does not play h264 directly).
Wouldn't that be tame weasel?
AFAIK it's because Mozilla is in the USA, so they would be in trouble for infringing the patents even though the users, who live in other countries would not.
However, nothing is preventing Mozilla from making a version of Firefox that uses system codecs (Directshow on Windows etc) and not worrying about where the users would get the codec (those, who have Win7, already have h264 btw).
Eg, vlc or mplayer running as a content-transparent plugin?
There is no reason to reinvent the wheel - Windows has DirectShow, Linux has gstreamer and MacOS has Quicktime. They allow any application to play any media file that has the needed codecs and source filters installed. Windows Media Player, Media Player Classic and a lot of others use DirectShow, that's why I need to install ffmpeg once to a PC and not once for every player.