Control of spectrum and right of way make that kind of networking difficult and slow. Why should we cede control of public resources to private companies? Why give up freedom of press? Let's just take back the spectrum.
TV Broadcasters have convinced ISPs to "shape" the traffic. That would be the SYSTEM, as you call it, reaching out to screw a competitor that had little and nothing to do with them. Check broadcast's plunging ratings some time, they are fighting for their lives. It's not because their second rate shows are "pirated", it's because people have a choice.
The US has yet to purge potential opposition the way the USSR did so many times. Everything is in place but we have yet to go beyond economic assassination. Mass murder starts when the press is really beat down. We are very close, so watch out. After mass murder comes wars of conquest that will make Iraq and Iran look like Italy's North African wars.
Whenever you see the phrase "a computer virus" you know the computer is using Windows but the article won't mention the OS or further specifics. The ABC article used a stock image of a man with a Mac, a new attack on a non free peer. Never mentioning the OS is a lie big publishers have used to defend their M$ friends for a long time. Another Boston paper was used to attack Peter Quinn, so the AC's lie has two insults, now doesn't it?
Like the MITer said, few people want to help with a war of aggression, torture and wiretap. The Bush administration has killed close to a million innocent people in Iraq, directly and by infrastructure damage. People die quickly when they don't have clean water, and few have that without the electric utilities and distribution network we bombed out but never rebuilt. All for control of oil.
We are also starting to run out of qualified young people because all of the engineering jobs have been sent to China and India. If you don't make things, you don't know things and the US has been making less and less over the last 30 years.
Trade with China and wars of aggression have a common cause: moral bankruptcy. The result is ruin.
The whole world is starting to look like East Germany and you make a joke about coffee machines? The only thing less tastefull is the second poster's joke about fake Sweed. Humor is good but this is a dark day for freedom.
As I recall, 98 was offered on all retail computers without choice. Dell offered Red Hat for a short time but was promptly "Whacked" out of it. You could also get it long after the birth of XP for about $99 and sometimes less with the purchase of hardware. M$ was not nearly as pushy with 98 or XP as they were are with Vista. After a few years XP finally stabilized into the less buggy thing it was two years ago and M$ finally killed 98.
Vista is being pushed like Steve Ballmer has not eaten in seven years. That's contributing in a big way to the Vista's failure and the rise of GNU/Linux. The more shrill M$ acts with people like Peter Gutmann and Peter Quinn the quicker the rest of us will run away from them.
Somehow, the Vista failure log is on topic. I can't put my finger on it. Oh yeah, people paying for the most expensive version of Vista and then another $50 just to avoid Vista. Vista avoidance as a profit center is not what M$ had in mind here.
People can't be punished for time shifting. Society did not consider time shifting a publication and does not prevent it to enforce the created right of copyright. Recent rulings on the broadcast flag all reached the same conclusion so both their broadcast and listening for and obeying the broadcast flag are voluntary - ie a pointless competitive disadvantage that outrages customers.
In time, encrypted works will not be considered publications and lose copyright protection. Encrypted works may never enter the public domain and fail to meet the US Constitutional requirement of limited time of protection.
Courts are not going to interpret the phrase "detection or prevention of the unauthorized use of software fraudulent or other illegal activities" to allow for deprivations of or interference with the enjoyment of personal property without due process.
Like they kept NBC and Vista from blocking recording of TV shows? People holding the appropriate offices at the DOJ were probably cheering the censorship potential of that and they are rooting for even better illegal wiretaps.
It would be better to lose every major publisher than liberty. This bill shows that publishers would rather take your liberty than go away.
The result will look like broadcast media does today, one big corporate billboard, instead of a free press. Just a little censorship is like being just a little pregnant.
Bill Thompson has an irritating tendency to almost see things:
At the moment it's hard to use BitTorrent anonymously, although since the service itself is entirely legal and legitimate there should be no need to do so.
As an innocent person who's been threatened, he should realize the time for anonymity was long ago. Anyone who believes in free speech understands that it's always time, that identification can always lead to punishment by the rich and powerful. You can "be good" and try to hide but people like the BPI will always come to get you because they want your money and will tolerate no dissent. I wonder what he thinks of Vista now.
If Nokia allows me to remove the parts of their device that do SIM locking and DRM, they might as well not bother with DRM. Code that prevents me from removing such things violates GPL3 and Nokia will not be able to distribute any GPL3 code on a device like that. They won't even try if they believe what they tell others about respecting "intellectual property". A system that won't work if it's modified by the user is not a free system.
Nokia is not the real villain. US Cell phone companies may not allow free software devices to access their networks now or ever. This is probably what Nokia spokesmen think is the reality developers have to get used to. I'd rather get used to spectrum freedom and forget about US cell phone companies.
Senator Herb Kohl, head of the Antitrust Subcommittee. "We will closely examine the joint venture between Google and Yahoo announced today," his statement read. "This collaboration between two technology giants and direct competitors for Internet advertising and search services raises important competition concerns. "The consequences for advertisers and consumers could be far-reaching and warrant careful review, and we plan to investigate the competitive and privacy implications of this deal further in the Antitrust Subcommittee."
The US Justice Department is also looking at the deal. This is the same administration that gave M$ a slap on the wrist for it's proven anti-trust behavior, so this kind of corruption is not entirely surprising. That does not make it any less outrageous or obvious.
This is the influence Enderle is talking about but it should be waning. The current administration's time is up.
The country has hit a new low when a company can brag, even if by proxy, about their ability to trick regulators before the regulators have been fooled.
I'm amazed at the intentional waste but those pushing digital restrictions think that's OK because it maintains their position of control. Wouldn't it be better if companies spent their research time on devices that do nice things for people who use them?
The death of OLPC is obviously Intel and M$'s fault. Executives from both companies derided the device as a "toy" and failure before it was designed and then did everything possible to kill it. Here are the the short version and detailed original accusation stories. Intel kept up the FUD war, destroying sales that had been committed before the device was complete. Their employees even ran a hostile news site to make bad press.
Transistors may be cheap but electricity is not. These devices should be outlawed. It's bad enough the content will satisfy copyright requirements by making it to public domain. Burning millions of watt-hours a year on it is a crime.
It is inherently hostile and it's creators consider you the enemy. The subjective judgment has already been made:
"The key here is that a successful adversary has to simultaneously compromise all chip variants with the same input. By switching among the variants -- and by designing each in a security-conscious way -- we can make it impossible for attackers to do this."
The customer is the "attacker" who might "compromise" the device to exercise their fair use rights or -gasp- share with their friends. Apparently, the device makers think rights, sharing are even their customers are bad.
Slashdot Mirror
Control of spectrum and right of way make that kind of networking difficult and slow. Why should we cede control of public resources to private companies? Why give up freedom of press? Let's just take back the spectrum.
Allocated spectrum is a crime. That link was supposed to be in the above, but I pushed the wrong button.
I don't watch their content but they are messing with me. If broadcasters have their way, they will still be the only game in town 50 years from now despite their complete technical obsolescence.
TV Broadcasters have convinced ISPs to "shape" the traffic. That would be the SYSTEM, as you call it, reaching out to screw a competitor that had little and nothing to do with them. Check broadcast's plunging ratings some time, they are fighting for their lives. It's not because their second rate shows are "pirated", it's because people have a choice.
I've pointed out the pincer movement to kill the internet before. Really, it's about eliminating competition and manufacturing public consent.
The US has yet to purge potential opposition the way the USSR did so many times. Everything is in place but we have yet to go beyond economic assassination. Mass murder starts when the press is really beat down. We are very close, so watch out. After mass murder comes wars of conquest that will make Iraq and Iran look like Italy's North African wars.
Whenever you see the phrase "a computer virus" you know the computer is using Windows but the article won't mention the OS or further specifics. The ABC article used a stock image of a man with a Mac, a new attack on a non free peer. Never mentioning the OS is a lie big publishers have used to defend their M$ friends for a long time. Another Boston paper was used to attack Peter Quinn, so the AC's lie has two insults, now doesn't it?
Blame Bush and 30 years of "Free Trade".
Like the MITer said, few people want to help with a war of aggression, torture and wiretap. The Bush administration has killed close to a million innocent people in Iraq, directly and by infrastructure damage. People die quickly when they don't have clean water, and few have that without the electric utilities and distribution network we bombed out but never rebuilt. All for control of oil.
We are also starting to run out of qualified young people because all of the engineering jobs have been sent to China and India. If you don't make things, you don't know things and the US has been making less and less over the last 30 years.
Trade with China and wars of aggression have a common cause: moral bankruptcy. The result is ruin.
The whole world is starting to look like East Germany and you make a joke about coffee machines? The only thing less tastefull is the second poster's joke about fake Sweed. Humor is good but this is a dark day for freedom.
As I recall, 98 was offered on all retail computers without choice. Dell offered Red Hat for a short time but was promptly "Whacked" out of it. You could also get it long after the birth of XP for about $99 and sometimes less with the purchase of hardware. M$ was not nearly as pushy with 98 or XP as they were are with Vista. After a few years XP finally stabilized into the less buggy thing it was two years ago and M$ finally killed 98.
Vista is being pushed like Steve Ballmer has not eaten in seven years. That's contributing in a big way to the Vista's failure and the rise of GNU/Linux. The more shrill M$ acts with people like Peter Gutmann and Peter Quinn the quicker the rest of us will run away from them.
It's true but someone does not want you to know it. Twitter's comment in that tread was informative. It's too bad the trolls got him and the story and amazing how they brag about it.
No, I did not see that. Thanks.
Somehow, the Vista failure log is on topic. I can't put my finger on it. Oh yeah, people paying for the most expensive version of Vista and then another $50 just to avoid Vista. Vista avoidance as a profit center is not what M$ had in mind here.
People can't be punished for time shifting. Society did not consider time shifting a publication and does not prevent it to enforce the created right of copyright. Recent rulings on the broadcast flag all reached the same conclusion so both their broadcast and listening for and obeying the broadcast flag are voluntary - ie a pointless competitive disadvantage that outrages customers.
In time, encrypted works will not be considered publications and lose copyright protection. Encrypted works may never enter the public domain and fail to meet the US Constitutional requirement of limited time of protection.
This is wishful thinking:
Like they kept NBC and Vista from blocking recording of TV shows? People holding the appropriate offices at the DOJ were probably cheering the censorship potential of that and they are rooting for even better illegal wiretaps.
It would be better to lose every major publisher than liberty. This bill shows that publishers would rather take your liberty than go away.
Here's how media companies will kill the free internet we all know and love:
The result will look like broadcast media does today, one big corporate billboard, instead of a free press. Just a little censorship is like being just a little pregnant.
Bill Thompson has an irritating tendency to almost see things:
As an innocent person who's been threatened, he should realize the time for anonymity was long ago. Anyone who believes in free speech understands that it's always time, that identification can always lead to punishment by the rich and powerful. You can "be good" and try to hide but people like the BPI will always come to get you because they want your money and will tolerate no dissent. I wonder what he thinks of Vista now.
If Nokia allows me to remove the parts of their device that do SIM locking and DRM, they might as well not bother with DRM. Code that prevents me from removing such things violates GPL3 and Nokia will not be able to distribute any GPL3 code on a device like that. They won't even try if they believe what they tell others about respecting "intellectual property". A system that won't work if it's modified by the user is not a free system.
Nokia is not the real villain. US Cell phone companies may not allow free software devices to access their networks now or ever. This is probably what Nokia spokesmen think is the reality developers have to get used to. I'd rather get used to spectrum freedom and forget about US cell phone companies.
There's nothing trollish about the above. The fake groups are part of the corruption and the LA Times story covers it well.
Quoted in The Register yesterday,
The US Justice Department is also looking at the deal. This is the same administration that gave M$ a slap on the wrist for it's proven anti-trust behavior, so this kind of corruption is not entirely surprising. That does not make it any less outrageous or obvious.
This is the influence Enderle is talking about but it should be waning. The current administration's time is up.
The country has hit a new low when a company can brag, even if by proxy, about their ability to trick regulators before the regulators have been fooled.
to say exactly what Microsoft wants him to say. We might not believe regulators will do the same.
I'm amazed at the intentional waste but those pushing digital restrictions think that's OK because it maintains their position of control. Wouldn't it be better if companies spent their research time on devices that do nice things for people who use them?
The death of OLPC is obviously Intel and M$'s fault. Executives from both companies derided the device as a "toy" and failure before it was designed and then did everything possible to kill it. Here are the the short version and detailed original accusation stories. Intel kept up the FUD war, destroying sales that had been committed before the device was complete. Their employees even ran a hostile news site to make bad press.
Transistors may be cheap but electricity is not. These devices should be outlawed. It's bad enough the content will satisfy copyright requirements by making it to public domain. Burning millions of watt-hours a year on it is a crime.
It is inherently hostile and it's creators consider you the enemy. The subjective judgment has already been made:
The customer is the "attacker" who might "compromise" the device to exercise their fair use rights or -gasp- share with their friends. Apparently, the device makers think rights, sharing are even their customers are bad.