Of course the NSA will weather it, will continue to exist and will continue to spy. For them it's a (short) embarrassing time after which the news media will forget them and all will be the same for them again.
The ones who pay for this are the US IT companies which will be distrusted world wide and the US government (politicians, diplomats, secretary of state, etc) who will be distrusted even by their closest allies. US companies will notice it in the long term bottom line e.g. when big foreign companies won't outsource to a US company. The public will forget the scandal soon like they forgot Echelon, the big companies who have actual trade secrets however won't, and if they do they will probably regret it soon when their secrets aren't secret anymore and their US competitors magically know everything they do. These losses are however far in the future: more than a quarter away so they will be denied, at least publically and especially by the ones responsible: the politicians.
The politicians will have a lot less trust and goodwill from their foreign counterparts, even and especially from allied countries.
Something that is is known http://www.anandtech.com/show/6465/nintendo-wii-u-teardown , is that the Wii U CPU is made in 45nm and has a size of 32.76mm2 This puts it into the ballpark of the size of a current Atom CPU and the same ballpark of computing power. IBM has no magic fairy dust to do (much) better than Intel in a smaller die with worse process tech. 3.5GHz x86 is simply crazytalk.
since I'm a dirty foruhner from socialist Europe, but isn't "I cannot imagine party leadership will be happy with so radical a suggestion as granting copyright protection for the limited times needed to promote the progress of science and useful arts." going totally against the spirit and literally wording of the Constitution of the USA? He admits he considers the current law blatantly unconstitutional and still knowingly supports it. If he is a member of congress or any other public politic body and has swore any oaths on the constitution, he's now in breach of said oath, no?
This is especially warranted since this is not the first time these Scripps people did this: http://www.fidosysop.org/4460/04/scripps-local-news-removing-nasa-videos-from-youtube/ Last April, Scripps did the same thing with the video of space shuttle Discovery's last voyage to the Smithsonian. One time is an accident, 2 times is malice and should be acted upon
Simply blackmail in a legal way: you sue the programmer in the US so he has to spend tens of thousands of dollars to defend himself: that will bankrupt him. Or he won't spend that amount of money to defend himself and the torts from the lawsuit will bankrupt him. Now the MPAA has a lever and can coerce the programmer to testify for them. Welcome to the legal system of the United States of America. If some people with italian sounding names did such a thing, they'd be prosecuted under RICO.
With Windows Phone Nokia has to do whatever Microsoft wants.
This is half-true. Microsoft has very hard minimum specs, if any company attempts to undercut those, they can lose the licensing. On the other hand, there isn't a lot of incentive to make a more powerful Win phone because of how smoothly the core OS runs at those minimum specs.
This is wrong. I just checked the current Windows Phone 7.5 Systems. From the cheapest 195€ one to the most expensive 579€ Lumia. ALL of them have 512MB RAM, a single core CPU, no SD card slot, a 800x480 screen and either 8 or 16GB flash storage. Every single one of them. These are all hard limits you can't go over or under when you want a license. Microsoft killed any product differentiation for the vendors. Even Apple has more differentiation.
This is an improved GPS chip, allowing a phone to pinpoint its location even when GPS is spotty. Shopkeepers won't get the data, even if the phone companies would be allowed to sell location data cause there is no ROI: not enough people will have such a chip to even make it worthwhile. Neither do they need data that detailed. As some other poster already wrote: they'd rather know how much money the customer has, not where he is right now. Both, the have not and the billionaire can watch the same Mercedes 600SL or Smart car with their phone in their pocket. Doesn't tell the shopowner who can actually afford the luxury car.
What can happen is that the government subpoenas the telco location data for a subscribe just like they do now and that the better accuracy helps them to pinpoint the location of the subscribe better. This can be used for "OMG evil gubmint!" or it can be used, probably a lot less of course, for finding a missing person e.g. inside an avalanche.
Of course without deliberately wrong sensationalism like this, the pagehits aren't coming.
They do. Consumer protection associations all over the EU are working on it in pretty much every member country. However, the EU only decides on directives, to put these into law, each member country has to write their own law to comply with their own constitution and other legal principles separately. Therefore to stop such an infringement, every country has to have its own lawsuit or other compliance process to rectify transgressions against a EU decision.
The specs are not respectable: the Alienware X51 has a MOBILE i7, which is a very different thing from a desktop one. It also has a mobile GPU which is the equivalent of a nvidia GT530. Not exactly a gaming card. Faster than a xbox360, yes but definitely not a gaming card.
Debian packages are not really projects. There are projects which are divided into many smaller packages, like Xorg or Libreoffice, and there are packages which contain many small projects in aggregate, e.g. kdeapps. I'd take both of these studies with large bovine portions of salt.
From the universal declaration of human rights: "Article 19.
Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers."
So according to this, people apparently have the right to create pornography and the right to seek out/receive pornography.
Yes, censoring shouldn't exist. Like censoring when someone calls for the assassination of the president, and maybe all the rest of Washington's elected officials, of all abortion doctors you can think of, of all Jews, of all right wing americans who start wars, against all drug dealers and everything else I've forgotten. For good measure this should be done from a CBSABCFOX broadcast at 8 in the evening in a nationwide program with lots of "fuck", "piss", "cunt" and "barf" thrown in to a standing picture of the goatse man.
I mean, there is no child pornography in there and it shouldn't be censored, right. Face it: EVERY society censors. No exceptions. First Amendment is a nice little bit of paper, but nothing more.
How do courts deal with an encrypted printout? I'm sure at least one prohibition bootlegger has encrypted his ledger of booze sales to avoid giving the g-men legal ammunition. Aren't there precedents from that time?
It's not an Arduino competitor but runs a normal, general purpose Linux distro of your choice. However, you also have to provide an enclosure, a SD card and a 5V charger with USB plug for power.
but what other connectors does it have? USB? Ethernet? WLAN? SD Card? If so, it's another Raspberry Pi, just a lot smaller. And if we are lucky it has an A8 and maybe more memory. Root it and you have a nice little cheap home Linux server. I can dream, right?
He doesn't (didn't?) like Guantanamo either, it's still there. He didn't like retroactive immunity for the telcos for snooping either, it's still law. You need to look at his actions, not his well spoken words. If the law is bad in his opinion, it's his duty to veto it. If he signs it he agrees. No ifs, no buts no maybes.
The US wouldn't survive it. Socially internally lots more division and strife than Vietnam, lots more. Being a pariah internationally mainly economically and politically.
The US is a lot less capable economically and needs a lot more support from others to actually survive than they did 40 years ago when Vietnam happened where there still was a Cold War going on. The US is already in a economic and social mess with no way out in sight, but right now this is a slow decline. With a war like this it would be a unmitigated disaster economically and socially with the decline being a falling from a cliff. In short: the US doesn't have the money or will to fight even another Iraq or Afghanistan, forget about Iran. Iran precisely can pursue its nuclear program so easily cause the US fucked up their last two wars and can't afford to wage a third. Israel can and does snub the US everytime they need or want cause the US desperately doesn't want them to bomb the iranian nuclear program.
Lastly, effective campaign from the air costs a lot less lives than an occupation, but its comparatively much more expensive. Smart Bombs are expensive compared to.50 cal bullets and jet maintenance is pricier than an oil change on a HMMV.
You cannot hide genocide. That's what the "smoking-ruins victory" actually means. Even the Israelis aren't capable of that as seen with the palestinians and Lebanon cause that would deprive them of their "We are persecuted by you evil Nazis who don't agree with our politics against Lebanon/Palestine! Holocaust! Shoa! Hater!" defense. While the US killed tens or hundreds of enemies/civilians for every dead GI in each of their last wars (Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq), they still lost every one of these wars in reality: lots of money and people spent but being lot worse off afterwards. Classical pyrrhic victory.
Another corporation similar to Rambus which invents stuff and then demands royalties for licenses and patents. Just what we needed for economic growth!
UMG clearly violated other people's copyright, acted in bad faith, and committed countles crimes against innocent kittens. All water under the bridge right now. However, what measures do you, Google, enact immediately so UMG cannot commit such an unlawful act again? This time, UMG is the only culprit and you only a stupid patsy who wasn't very clever when you made a contract. Now you and the public at large see how there is a problem with this contract, so how do you propose to fix it? Will you revoke UMGs direct access? Will you make another contract with fines for unlawful censoring? Will you protect your lawful users from companies like UMG at all?
I hope you filter your incoming mail manually as well, just to be consistent. Hint: there was no "take down notice". It's an automated system just like your spamfilter. Not randomness involved.
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Of course the NSA will weather it, will continue to exist and will continue to spy. For them it's a (short) embarrassing time after which the news media will forget them and all will be the same for them again.
The ones who pay for this are the US IT companies which will be distrusted world wide and the US government (politicians, diplomats, secretary of state, etc) who will be distrusted even by their closest allies. US companies will notice it in the long term bottom line e.g. when big foreign companies won't outsource to a US company. The public will forget the scandal soon like they forgot Echelon, the big companies who have actual trade secrets however won't, and if they do they will probably regret it soon when their secrets aren't secret anymore and their US competitors magically know everything they do. These losses are however far in the future: more than a quarter away so they will be denied, at least publically and especially by the ones responsible: the politicians.
The politicians will have a lot less trust and goodwill from their foreign counterparts, even and especially from allied countries.
Something that is is known http://www.anandtech.com/show/6465/nintendo-wii-u-teardown , is that the Wii U CPU is made in 45nm and has a size of 32.76mm2
This puts it into the ballpark of the size of a current Atom CPU and the same ballpark of computing power. IBM has no magic fairy dust to do (much) better than Intel in a smaller die with worse process tech. 3.5GHz x86 is simply crazytalk.
since I'm a dirty foruhner from socialist Europe, but isn't
"I cannot imagine party leadership will be happy with so radical a suggestion as granting copyright protection for the limited times needed to promote the progress of science and useful arts."
going totally against the spirit and literally wording of the Constitution of the USA? He admits he considers the current law blatantly unconstitutional and still knowingly supports it. If he is a member of congress or any other public politic body and has swore any oaths on the constitution, he's now in breach of said oath, no?
No it's not a wake up call. Only if one of these games is successful like the "500 million US Dollar on the first day" latest Call of Duty sequel http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-205_162-57551285/call-of-duty-black-ops-2-earns-$500-million-in-24-hours/
If one of these games, or better several, are huge hits, then the publishers will howl. Not before.
This is especially warranted since this is not the first time these Scripps people did this: http://www.fidosysop.org/4460/04/scripps-local-news-removing-nasa-videos-from-youtube/
Last April, Scripps did the same thing with the video of space shuttle Discovery's last voyage to the Smithsonian.
One time is an accident, 2 times is malice and should be acted upon
Simply blackmail in a legal way: you sue the programmer in the US so he has to spend tens of thousands of dollars to defend himself: that will bankrupt him. Or he won't spend that amount of money to defend himself and the torts from the lawsuit will bankrupt him. Now the MPAA has a lever and can coerce the programmer to testify for them.
Welcome to the legal system of the United States of America. If some people with italian sounding names did such a thing, they'd be prosecuted under RICO.
With Windows Phone Nokia has to do whatever Microsoft wants.
This is half-true. Microsoft has very hard minimum specs, if any company attempts to undercut those, they can lose the licensing. On the other hand, there isn't a lot of incentive to make a more powerful Win phone because of how smoothly the core OS runs at those minimum specs.
This is wrong. I just checked the current Windows Phone 7.5 Systems. From the cheapest 195€ one to the most expensive 579€ Lumia.
ALL of them have 512MB RAM, a single core CPU, no SD card slot, a 800x480 screen and either 8 or 16GB flash storage. Every single one of them. These are all hard limits you can't go over or under when you want a license. Microsoft killed any product differentiation for the vendors. Even Apple has more differentiation.
Every engineer knows: no machine is really safe.
The only question is how bad do things get when it fails?
This is an improved GPS chip, allowing a phone to pinpoint its location even when GPS is spotty.
Shopkeepers won't get the data, even if the phone companies would be allowed to sell location data cause there is no ROI: not enough people will have such a chip to even make it worthwhile. Neither do they need data that detailed. As some other poster already wrote: they'd rather know how much money the customer has, not where he is right now. Both, the have not and the billionaire can watch the same Mercedes 600SL or Smart car with their phone in their pocket. Doesn't tell the shopowner who can actually afford the luxury car.
What can happen is that the government subpoenas the telco location data for a subscribe just like they do now and that the better accuracy helps them to pinpoint the location of the subscribe better. This can be used for "OMG evil gubmint!" or it can be used, probably a lot less of course, for finding a missing person e.g. inside an avalanche.
Of course without deliberately wrong sensationalism like this, the pagehits aren't coming.
They do. Consumer protection associations all over the EU are working on it in pretty much every member country.
However, the EU only decides on directives, to put these into law, each member country has to write their own law to comply with their own constitution and other legal principles separately. Therefore to stop such an infringement, every country has to have its own lawsuit or other compliance process to rectify transgressions against a EU decision.
No TV series. Only movies from selected Studios which are part of Ultraviolet.
The specs are not respectable: the Alienware X51 has a MOBILE i7, which is a very different thing from a desktop one. It also has a mobile GPU which is the equivalent of a nvidia GT530. Not exactly a gaming card. Faster than a xbox360, yes but definitely not a gaming card.
Debian packages are not really projects. There are projects which are divided into many smaller packages, like Xorg or Libreoffice, and there are packages which contain many small projects in aggregate, e.g. kdeapps. I'd take both of these studies with large bovine portions of salt.
From the universal declaration of human rights:
"Article 19.
Everyone has the right to freedom of opinion and expression; this right includes freedom to hold opinions without interference and to seek, receive and impart information and ideas through any media and regardless of frontiers."
So according to this, people apparently have the right to create pornography and the right to seek out/receive pornography.
Yes, censoring shouldn't exist. Like censoring when someone calls for the assassination of the president, and maybe all the rest of Washington's elected officials, of all abortion doctors you can think of, of all Jews, of all right wing americans who start wars, against all drug dealers and everything else I've forgotten. For good measure this should be done from a CBSABCFOX broadcast at 8 in the evening in a nationwide program with lots of "fuck", "piss", "cunt" and "barf" thrown in to a standing picture of the goatse man.
I mean, there is no child pornography in there and it shouldn't be censored, right.
Face it: EVERY society censors. No exceptions. First Amendment is a nice little bit of paper, but nothing more.
How do courts deal with an encrypted printout? I'm sure at least one prohibition bootlegger has encrypted his ledger of booze sales to avoid giving the g-men legal ammunition. Aren't there precedents from that time?
It's not an Arduino competitor but runs a normal, general purpose Linux distro of your choice.
However, you also have to provide an enclosure, a SD card and a 5V charger with USB plug for power.
but what other connectors does it have? USB? Ethernet? WLAN? SD Card? If so, it's another Raspberry Pi, just a lot smaller. And if we are lucky it has an A8 and maybe more memory.
Root it and you have a nice little cheap home Linux server. I can dream, right?
He doesn't (didn't?) like Guantanamo either, it's still there. He didn't like retroactive immunity for the telcos for snooping either, it's still law.
You need to look at his actions, not his well spoken words.
If the law is bad in his opinion, it's his duty to veto it. If he signs it he agrees. No ifs, no buts no maybes.
The US wouldn't survive it. Socially internally lots more division and strife than Vietnam, lots more. Being a pariah internationally mainly economically and politically.
The US is a lot less capable economically and needs a lot more support from others to actually survive than they did 40 years ago when Vietnam happened where there still was a Cold War going on. The US is already in a economic and social mess with no way out in sight, but right now this is a slow decline. With a war like this it would be a unmitigated disaster economically and socially with the decline being a falling from a cliff. In short: the US doesn't have the money or will to fight even another Iraq or Afghanistan, forget about Iran. Iran precisely can pursue its nuclear program so easily cause the US fucked up their last two wars and can't afford to wage a third. Israel can and does snub the US everytime they need or want cause the US desperately doesn't want them to bomb the iranian nuclear program.
Lastly, effective campaign from the air costs a lot less lives than an occupation, but its comparatively much more expensive. Smart Bombs are expensive compared to .50 cal bullets and jet maintenance is pricier than an oil change on a HMMV.
You cannot hide genocide. That's what the "smoking-ruins victory" actually means. Even the Israelis aren't capable of that as seen with the palestinians and Lebanon cause that would deprive them of their "We are persecuted by you evil Nazis who don't agree with our politics against Lebanon/Palestine! Holocaust! Shoa! Hater!" defense.
While the US killed tens or hundreds of enemies/civilians for every dead GI in each of their last wars (Vietnam, Afghanistan, Iraq), they still lost every one of these wars in reality: lots of money and people spent but being lot worse off afterwards. Classical pyrrhic victory.
Another corporation similar to Rambus which invents stuff and then demands royalties for licenses and patents. Just what we needed for economic growth!
Dear Youtube/Google,
UMG clearly violated other people's copyright, acted in bad faith, and committed countles crimes against innocent kittens. All water under the bridge right now.
However, what measures do you, Google, enact immediately so UMG cannot commit such an unlawful act again? This time, UMG is the only culprit and you only a stupid patsy who wasn't very clever when you made a contract. Now you and the public at large see how there is a problem with this contract, so how do you propose to fix it? Will you revoke UMGs direct access? Will you make another contract with fines for unlawful censoring? Will you protect your lawful users from companies like UMG at all?
I hope you filter your incoming mail manually as well, just to be consistent.
Hint: there was no "take down notice". It's an automated system just like your spamfilter. Not randomness involved.
Has the MPAA sued Tech News yet? Sent them a costly legal notice? No? Then it's not like your torrent example.