And I pay about double for my business FIOS compared to the residential FIOS price (for the same speed).
The only time it really starts to hurt is the 50/20 tier, where you pay about 3.5x for business service. And, since 50/20 business is about 2.5x the price of 20/20 business, it was a no-brainer just to take the 20/20 and schedule really nasty downloads for off-hours.
If the Apple company were to tell you that you can't sell Apples for $89.00, that would be illegal. But they can ask that you not use their logo or trade name in an advertisement that SAYS and Apple is $89.00, and it's legal for them to enforce that as a condition for selling Apples to YOU, the retailer.
No, they can't stop you from using their trademark or logo when selling, since you are selling real Apple products and not fakes.
Trademark is to prevent confusion for the consumer, not to allow the holder of the trademark to control the mark in all instances. As long as you note that the marks you use are trademarks held by Apple, you are in the clear, legally, although it might be expensive to prove it.
The only thing Apple can legally do is stop selling you products directly.
NetEnforcers alerts its clients including Sony Corp..... they can allege that the discounter's use of the product's name or image constitutes trademark or copyright infringement, in an effort to force the seller to stop listing the discount...
So if I have a brand-new, never-used Sony PS3 and for whatever reason I decide to duimp it for cash, I might list it for $200 on amazon oe Ebay. BUT then along come the "netenforcers" claiming I violated the MAP, or I violated copyright, or some such bs, and yank my listing straight off Amazon/Ebay.
Because eBay is so stupid about such things, your listing will get yanked, but it's not because there is any law behind Sony on this.
Sony's trademark rights are there to prevent confusion, so that people know what they are actually purchasing is what they expect. If you have a real Sony PS3 (and I don't know of any "Sorny" knockoffs of the PS3), then you can use the Sony and PS3 logo in your ad as long as you note that they are trademarks of Sony.
Second, unless you are using Sony copyrighted pictures of the PS3 in your auction, they have no copyright claim against you. If you took your own picture or used the eBay stock photo, you are fine.
Historically, minimum price enforcement came in the way of advertising support. Basically, Sony would pay Best Buy some money that would be used to make sure the PS3 gets highlighted in the Best Buy TV ad. If Best Buy wanted this money, they had to follow the rules that Sony set down about minimum pricing. If they didn't care, they could do whatever they wanted. Since every legitimate website and B&M now easily gets around MAP by hiding the price with "too low to advertise", they all follow MAP rules to get that advertising money. But, because they have to do that, they pressure Sony to stop other stores from advertising low prices (because they can't come up lowest on price search engines anymore), even if there is nothing illegal about it.
You're right, and so's the GP. The GP is right about how the law is written, but you're right about how the courts have chosen to interpret it.
No, the GP is not correct.
The letter of the law specifically says that fair use is permitted and is not copyright infringement, even if the action would otherwise violate a portion of the DMCA:
17 USC 1201(c)(1) Nothing in this section shall affect rights, remedies, limitations, or defenses to copyright infringement, including fair use, under this title.
The DMCA was codified in Title 17, sections 1201-1205 of the United States Code (USC), and you can see by the text that anything otherwise permitted by Title 17 is not a violation of the DMCA portion.
It all works out to "for fair use, you can violate the DMCA, but contributory infringement is not fair use". Contributory infringement includes distributing devices or software whose primary purpose is to remove some sort of copyright protection mechanism, so that's why you can rip a DVD for personal use, but a company can't legally provide you with the software to do it.
Well...I think it's funny...and silly to have a toaster or even fridge connected to the internet.
But where do you draw the "silly" line?
Right now, practically every device in my entertainment rack has an IP address (DVRs, media players, TV, etc.). My web cams all have IP addresses. I see that some recent GPS units have IP connectivity (not things like cell phones with GPS, but standalone GPS).
I wouldn't mind if my furnace or air conditioner were connected, as long as the IP interface is secondary to old-fashioned ways of controlling them.
A toaster or fridge seems silly right now, but who knows about the future.
Obama releasing his videos under this or that yadda, yadda does very little to reform anything at all.
The point isn't really to make sure that FOSS users can watch the videos.
The point is to make the new administration aware of something important that maybe they haven't thought about. Although there are many workarounds that allow you to save a YouTube video, it's not something YouTube really advertises. So, when somebody posts something to YouTube that is intended to be freely shareable, there are actually some restrictions added to it that make it less easy to share.
In theory, it's possible that these sorts of innocent additional restrictions would require violating the DMCA in order to share some freely shareable copyrighted material. This is the sort of thing that Lessig wants the new administration to be aware of.
I don't use particularly old mice because I keep upgrading for features, but my everyday computer keyboard is over 15 years old: Northgate Omnikey Ultra
Most of the older mice still work fine, but are in the parts bin in case I need a quick replacement.
It's called fiber to the home and it is quickly going to change that.
Sure, it's not available everywhere, but where it is, other providers will have to match it, or else suffer. Not all the available consumer connections are symmetric, and you pay less if it isn't:
10/2: $48
20/5: $58
20/20: $70
50/20: $145
This also isn't guaranteed bandwidth, but until you see at least 50% uptake, you'll get those speeds. At 100% uptake, Verizon only has infrastructure to support something like 17Mbps for everyone. Only the highest tier will really be hurt, and honestly I just can't even get 20Mbps download from any one site...I really need multiple connections to do that.
Although it's not perfect, what the GP suggested ("C first, then B, then A, then the rest") would mean that if you are match on/24, then it's likely to be very close. After that, check/16 then/8.
You could generalize this to just XOR your public IP with the IP address for the proposed peer and count the leading set bits. More bits means the peer is likely closer to you.
Again, this isn't perfect, but it would help some and doesn't require any extra information about the network other than what is already available to the client.
Extending a business partnership with them, and convincing them that they CAN allow users to serve content without choking their already oversold bandwidth
This is fairly easy to do right now eith US ISPs...it's called a "business account".
They do cost more, but in my case I get 5 static IPs, guaranteed bandwidth, and no interference of any kind with my data (no port blocking, no throttling, and no caps) for $140. Compared to the non-business version with one dynamic IP, port blocking and some throttling (but no caps yet) at $70, it's not a bad deal.
Auto-update works if you have a legitimate copy of Windows, and there are plenty of people using pirated copies of Windows which do not qualify for the "genuine advantage" required by Windows Update.
If someone is already using a pirated copy of Windows as their desktop OS, then they probably wouldn't have a problem running a pirated copy of Windows 2003, either.
In which case, they can then download Windows Server Update Services which doesn't require WGA to download. After installing WSUS on Win2K3, they can configure it to only download updates matching the pirated MS software they have, and then individually approve or reject updates. They would then configure all the systems to retrieve the approved updates from the WSUS server.
By doing this, every update is available, and WGA is never installed on any of the systems.
To step away from the metaphor for a second - I have had severity 1 service tickets open with Oracle support for over a day that ended up being unpublished bugs that were fixed with a patch that was not available until you knew you had run into the bug. Sev 1 to be clear is production systems down.
I'll second this. We just ran into such a bug when trying to restore a database.
The application connecting to the database was upgraded, and something went wrong when it tried to modify the schema, so we rolled back to the backup taken immediately before the start of this. Normally, this would have been simple, but apparently there's a bug with our version of Oracle that caused the restore to fail. Luckily, it only took an extra couple of hours to work around and we were still in our planned outage window, but it still sucked that it was a bug known to Oracle.
Of course, we didn't hit the Oracle bug in our development and test systems, because the application didn't fail in the schema update on those, thank's to Mr. Murphy.
Something about more sessions to track uses more cpu and memory. I'd imagine it has to do with the tables required to track the sessions.
A "router" doesn't have session state. The only information it keeps are routing tables, and those are not dependant on the traffic being sent, but rather on the network topology.
Most home users have routers that also contain address-translating, stateful firewalls, and this is probably what you are thinking of. Too many active connections can cause such a device to stop working, but in practice even the cheapest sold today can handle somewhere between 1000 and 2000 connections.
In the U.S., inexperience combined with education is valued more than experience, because the worker's initial pay can be low, and the worker can be trained easily due to the education.
This is the same theory used to justify offshoring.
Reality has shown that having a college degree is completely unrelated to your ability to quickly learn actual job skills and apply them. Where I work, we have several college graduates who also have certifications for various skills, but this seems to have made them unable to have any problem solving skills or perform new tasks without a relatively large amount of guidance.
You can't photocopy books, whether or not it's for private use.
Yes, you can photocopy books, even in their entirety, if you own the original.
What you can't do is distribute the copies.
This still leaves grey areas, as making copies of a book and having all the people in your immediate household reading copies at the same time may or may not be "distribution".
I was partly incorrect. I was wrong about Thursday. But if you look at the wiki link you provided, FDR did move up Thanksgiving one week to give retailers a longer shopping season
The actual effect of moving Thanksgiving from the last Thursday to the fourth Thursday in November isn't really that much.
Only two years out of every seven have a November with 5 Thursdays, so 71% of the time there is no difference between "the 4th Thursday" and "the last Thursday".
you need to sit 6-8 feet from a 42-50" display to really see the difference, more than that and your eyes cant see the resolution.
Oh, my, you must be blind.
I sit over 10 feet away from my 38" TV (an honest-to-goodness picture tube set), and everyone who has seen the TV can tell the difference. It's measured resolution is about 1400x900, so most all HD is at or close to full resolution.
Meanwhile, SD is at most 720x480, and usually a lot less than that. It's easy to tell the difference.
Now, the difference between 1920x1080 and 1280x720 is something that you can't really tell without a large display with the ability to fully resolve 1920x1080.
It's much easier to get to the endpoints of the Acela, and so you save all the transit time to the airport, all the security delay, the waiting to board delay, and the sitting on the tarmac delay.
For the Washington to New York run, it's generally faster to take the train.
Of course, if you're dirt cheap and have the time, there are bus tickets for less than $40 round trip, and some specials were as low as $1 one-way.
ADS-B provides more accurate/precise information to pilots in addition to having far more extensive coverage than radar.
None of the benefits you mention really requires satellites as part of the system.
Currently, "radar" isn't really used by most civilian airports. Although they do have the capability to do "skin paints", they generally rely on the airplane transponders which report the GPS and inertial navigation information when queried by the air traffic control systems.
There is no reason you can't take this same information the tower receives now and send it out to all planes in the area so they can have in-cockpit displays like you refer to. Basically, it'd be the same system without the satellites. It would be a lot cheaper to do, and would have exactly the same results, but it wouldn't be as cool, so it probably wouldn't get funded.
I wonder what happens if son/daughter is adopted and doesn't know, yet this shows DNA link to a criminal parent.
Although your idea is interesting, your logic is faulty.
If an adopted child has a birth parent who is a criminal and the child has DNA in the database, then police would want to contact the child to find the birth parent. But, they would know the child is adopted, since the only way to locate them would be to go through adoption records.
The reverse (child given up for adoption who is a criminal, and birth parent is a near match in the database) is a little different, but the parent usually knows they have given up their child. Even if they are a "hit-and-run father", they shouldn't be traumatized to learn they had a child.
Every once in a while, I'll get an update prompt because I have the configuration set to check on startup and check periodically. You can disable both of these, and it will never prompt you to update anything.
And, "Vuze" is really just Azureus with an optional UI. The executable is still named "Azureus.exe", and if you choos the old UI in options, it basically works exactly as before. I'm running version the latest 4.0.x release, and it really isn't any different from version 2.x if you use the old UI...just a few more new features.
As for the restart problem, just let the update happen and restart when it's convenient for you.
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And I pay about double for my business FIOS compared to the residential FIOS price (for the same speed).
The only time it really starts to hurt is the 50/20 tier, where you pay about 3.5x for business service. And, since 50/20 business is about 2.5x the price of 20/20 business, it was a no-brainer just to take the 20/20 and schedule really nasty downloads for off-hours.
If the Apple company were to tell you that you can't sell Apples for $89.00, that would be illegal. But they can ask that you not use their logo or trade name in an advertisement that SAYS and Apple is $89.00, and it's legal for them to enforce that as a condition for selling Apples to YOU, the retailer.
No, they can't stop you from using their trademark or logo when selling, since you are selling real Apple products and not fakes.
Trademark is to prevent confusion for the consumer, not to allow the holder of the trademark to control the mark in all instances. As long as you note that the marks you use are trademarks held by Apple, you are in the clear, legally, although it might be expensive to prove it.
The only thing Apple can legally do is stop selling you products directly.
NetEnforcers alerts its clients including Sony Corp..... they can allege that the discounter's use of the product's name or image constitutes trademark or copyright infringement, in an effort to force the seller to stop listing the discount...
So if I have a brand-new, never-used Sony PS3 and for whatever reason I decide to duimp it for cash, I might list it for $200 on amazon oe Ebay. BUT then along come the "netenforcers" claiming I violated the MAP, or I violated copyright, or some such bs, and yank my listing straight off Amazon/Ebay.
Because eBay is so stupid about such things, your listing will get yanked, but it's not because there is any law behind Sony on this.
Sony's trademark rights are there to prevent confusion, so that people know what they are actually purchasing is what they expect. If you have a real Sony PS3 (and I don't know of any "Sorny" knockoffs of the PS3), then you can use the Sony and PS3 logo in your ad as long as you note that they are trademarks of Sony.
Second, unless you are using Sony copyrighted pictures of the PS3 in your auction, they have no copyright claim against you. If you took your own picture or used the eBay stock photo, you are fine.
Historically, minimum price enforcement came in the way of advertising support. Basically, Sony would pay Best Buy some money that would be used to make sure the PS3 gets highlighted in the Best Buy TV ad. If Best Buy wanted this money, they had to follow the rules that Sony set down about minimum pricing. If they didn't care, they could do whatever they wanted. Since every legitimate website and B&M now easily gets around MAP by hiding the price with "too low to advertise", they all follow MAP rules to get that advertising money. But, because they have to do that, they pressure Sony to stop other stores from advertising low prices (because they can't come up lowest on price search engines anymore), even if there is nothing illegal about it.
You're right, and so's the GP. The GP is right about how the law is written, but you're right about how the courts have chosen to interpret it.
No, the GP is not correct.
The letter of the law specifically says that fair use is permitted and is not copyright infringement, even if the action would otherwise violate a portion of the DMCA:
17 USC 1201(c)(1) Nothing in this section shall affect rights, remedies, limitations, or defenses to copyright infringement, including fair use, under this title.
The DMCA was codified in Title 17, sections 1201-1205 of the United States Code (USC), and you can see by the text that anything otherwise permitted by Title 17 is not a violation of the DMCA portion.
It all works out to "for fair use, you can violate the DMCA, but contributory infringement is not fair use". Contributory infringement includes distributing devices or software whose primary purpose is to remove some sort of copyright protection mechanism, so that's why you can rip a DVD for personal use, but a company can't legally provide you with the software to do it.
Well...I think it's funny...and silly to have a toaster or even fridge connected to the internet.
But where do you draw the "silly" line?
Right now, practically every device in my entertainment rack has an IP address (DVRs, media players, TV, etc.). My web cams all have IP addresses. I see that some recent GPS units have IP connectivity (not things like cell phones with GPS, but standalone GPS).
I wouldn't mind if my furnace or air conditioner were connected, as long as the IP interface is secondary to old-fashioned ways of controlling them.
A toaster or fridge seems silly right now, but who knows about the future.
Obama releasing his videos under this or that yadda, yadda does very little to reform anything at all.
The point isn't really to make sure that FOSS users can watch the videos.
The point is to make the new administration aware of something important that maybe they haven't thought about. Although there are many workarounds that allow you to save a YouTube video, it's not something YouTube really advertises. So, when somebody posts something to YouTube that is intended to be freely shareable, there are actually some restrictions added to it that make it less easy to share.
In theory, it's possible that these sorts of innocent additional restrictions would require violating the DMCA in order to share some freely shareable copyrighted material. This is the sort of thing that Lessig wants the new administration to be aware of.
I don't use particularly old mice because I keep upgrading for features, but my everyday computer keyboard is over 15 years old: Northgate Omnikey Ultra
Most of the older mice still work fine, but are in the parts bin in case I need a quick replacement.
It's called fiber to the home and it is quickly going to change that.
Sure, it's not available everywhere, but where it is, other providers will have to match it, or else suffer. Not all the available consumer connections are symmetric, and you pay less if it isn't:
This also isn't guaranteed bandwidth, but until you see at least 50% uptake, you'll get those speeds. At 100% uptake, Verizon only has infrastructure to support something like 17Mbps for everyone. Only the highest tier will really be hurt, and honestly I just can't even get 20Mbps download from any one site...I really need multiple connections to do that.
Without WSUS, Windows Update will install WGA on Windows 2003 machines as well.
That's 20Mbps symmetric for both the regular and business accounts.
The only real differences are the TOS, the support (24/7 for business), and the static IPs.
Although it's not perfect, what the GP suggested ("C first, then B, then A, then the rest") would mean that if you are match on /24, then it's likely to be very close. After that, check /16 then /8.
You could generalize this to just XOR your public IP with the IP address for the proposed peer and count the leading set bits. More bits means the peer is likely closer to you.
Again, this isn't perfect, but it would help some and doesn't require any extra information about the network other than what is already available to the client.
Extending a business partnership with them, and convincing them that they CAN allow users to serve content without choking their already oversold bandwidth
This is fairly easy to do right now eith US ISPs...it's called a "business account".
They do cost more, but in my case I get 5 static IPs, guaranteed bandwidth, and no interference of any kind with my data (no port blocking, no throttling, and no caps) for $140. Compared to the non-business version with one dynamic IP, port blocking and some throttling (but no caps yet) at $70, it's not a bad deal.
Auto-update works if you have a legitimate copy of Windows, and there are plenty of people using pirated copies of Windows which do not qualify for the "genuine advantage" required by Windows Update.
If someone is already using a pirated copy of Windows as their desktop OS, then they probably wouldn't have a problem running a pirated copy of Windows 2003, either.
In which case, they can then download Windows Server Update Services which doesn't require WGA to download. After installing WSUS on Win2K3, they can configure it to only download updates matching the pirated MS software they have, and then individually approve or reject updates. They would then configure all the systems to retrieve the approved updates from the WSUS server.
By doing this, every update is available, and WGA is never installed on any of the systems.
To step away from the metaphor for a second - I have had severity 1 service tickets open with Oracle support for over a day that ended up being unpublished bugs that were fixed with a patch that was not available until you knew you had run into the bug. Sev 1 to be clear is production systems down.
I'll second this. We just ran into such a bug when trying to restore a database.
The application connecting to the database was upgraded, and something went wrong when it tried to modify the schema, so we rolled back to the backup taken immediately before the start of this. Normally, this would have been simple, but apparently there's a bug with our version of Oracle that caused the restore to fail. Luckily, it only took an extra couple of hours to work around and we were still in our planned outage window, but it still sucked that it was a bug known to Oracle.
Of course, we didn't hit the Oracle bug in our development and test systems, because the application didn't fail in the schema update on those, thank's to Mr. Murphy.
Something about more sessions to track uses more cpu and memory. I'd imagine it has to do with the tables required to track the sessions.
A "router" doesn't have session state. The only information it keeps are routing tables, and those are not dependant on the traffic being sent, but rather on the network topology.
Most home users have routers that also contain address-translating, stateful firewalls, and this is probably what you are thinking of. Too many active connections can cause such a device to stop working, but in practice even the cheapest sold today can handle somewhere between 1000 and 2000 connections.
In the U.S., inexperience combined with education is valued more than experience, because the worker's initial pay can be low, and the worker can be trained easily due to the education.
This is the same theory used to justify offshoring.
Reality has shown that having a college degree is completely unrelated to your ability to quickly learn actual job skills and apply them. Where I work, we have several college graduates who also have certifications for various skills, but this seems to have made them unable to have any problem solving skills or perform new tasks without a relatively large amount of guidance.
You can't photocopy books, whether or not it's for private use.
Yes, you can photocopy books, even in their entirety, if you own the original.
What you can't do is distribute the copies.
This still leaves grey areas, as making copies of a book and having all the people in your immediate household reading copies at the same time may or may not be "distribution".
I was partly incorrect. I was wrong about Thursday. But if you look at the wiki link you provided, FDR did move up Thanksgiving one week to give retailers a longer shopping season
The actual effect of moving Thanksgiving from the last Thursday to the fourth Thursday in November isn't really that much.
Only two years out of every seven have a November with 5 Thursdays, so 71% of the time there is no difference between "the 4th Thursday" and "the last Thursday".
you need to sit 6-8 feet from a 42-50" display to really see the difference, more than that and your eyes cant see the resolution.
Oh, my, you must be blind.
I sit over 10 feet away from my 38" TV (an honest-to-goodness picture tube set), and everyone who has seen the TV can tell the difference. It's measured resolution is about 1400x900, so most all HD is at or close to full resolution.
Meanwhile, SD is at most 720x480, and usually a lot less than that. It's easy to tell the difference.
Now, the difference between 1920x1080 and 1280x720 is something that you can't really tell without a large display with the ability to fully resolve 1920x1080.
It's much easier to get to the endpoints of the Acela, and so you save all the transit time to the airport, all the security delay, the waiting to board delay, and the sitting on the tarmac delay.
For the Washington to New York run, it's generally faster to take the train.
Of course, if you're dirt cheap and have the time, there are bus tickets for less than $40 round trip, and some specials were as low as $1 one-way.
ADS-B provides more accurate/precise information to pilots in addition to having far more extensive coverage than radar.
None of the benefits you mention really requires satellites as part of the system.
Currently, "radar" isn't really used by most civilian airports. Although they do have the capability to do "skin paints", they generally rely on the airplane transponders which report the GPS and inertial navigation information when queried by the air traffic control systems.
There is no reason you can't take this same information the tower receives now and send it out to all planes in the area so they can have in-cockpit displays like you refer to. Basically, it'd be the same system without the satellites. It would be a lot cheaper to do, and would have exactly the same results, but it wouldn't be as cool, so it probably wouldn't get funded.
Does the hack allow the Apple TV to play HD content?
I know the stock system cannot, but I haven't seen if that is a software or hardware limitation.
Of course you can't live on goodwill and scotch alone.
You also need blackjack and hookers.
I wonder what happens if son/daughter is adopted and doesn't know, yet this shows DNA link to a criminal parent.
Although your idea is interesting, your logic is faulty.
If an adopted child has a birth parent who is a criminal and the child has DNA in the database, then police would want to contact the child to find the birth parent. But, they would know the child is adopted, since the only way to locate them would be to go through adoption records.
The reverse (child given up for adoption who is a criminal, and birth parent is a near match in the database) is a little different, but the parent usually knows they have given up their child. Even if they are a "hit-and-run father", they shouldn't be traumatized to learn they had a child.
Excuse me? What version are you using?
Every once in a while, I'll get an update prompt because I have the configuration set to check on startup and check periodically. You can disable both of these, and it will never prompt you to update anything.
And, "Vuze" is really just Azureus with an optional UI. The executable is still named "Azureus.exe", and if you choos the old UI in options, it basically works exactly as before. I'm running version the latest 4.0.x release, and it really isn't any different from version 2.x if you use the old UI...just a few more new features.
As for the restart problem, just let the update happen and restart when it's convenient for you.