I've got my kids brainwashed: You don't use Google, and you don't use an iPod.
How rather sad actually that he looks at it that way. Of course maybe he uses aversion therapy with them; it's better not use google or an ipod than being hit by a flying chair...
I wish to see how they add freedom then:)...So far it looks like they have instead been mostly taking it further away, with Digital Restrictions Management as just one example.
I believe the idea of the $100 laptop was principally for school children and to support education. While it may be true that it can be made possible for one to hook up a cell phone to a tv and keyboard appliance and maybe get some very limited computing in the home or hut, nobody is going to drag their TV into the classroom! That is precisely why Negroponte chose to develop a $100 laptop, and not a $100 desktop, or $100 dockable phone.
So is it that the carriers now wish to disclaim that they are "Common Carriers" since they will no longer carry content on an entirely non-discriminatory basis?
They mix in twice the caffine? And the stock in companies that make defibrillators saw a rise in this announcement while dentistry groups everywhere welcomed a coffee drink that uses teeth melting corn syrup!
One of the historically frustrating parts of the "practice" of physics, particularly nuclear physics, is that one normally cannot just "do" physics on your own, such as setup a bevatron in the backyard. Well, at least that used to be true!:).
Of course there are now other cutting edge fields that also are now open to low power and smaller scale/lower cost experimentation as well. These include fun with lasers, slowing light through different mediums, and of course the ever popular tabletop "cold fusion" experiments. Some of these do have low enough cost to offer the garage or shed bound would be noble prize winner an oppertunity.
We created something like this many years ago with Bayonne, for a specific merchant that, um, had a certain high volume web business with customers who would, er, be rather concerned about their privacy, and did not trust entering credit cards over the internet to procure their, ahm, "personal use" products. They were once in the top 10 internet search terms, too...
This seems to effect things that may present "french cultural content", so, in this sense, it is specific to media, or to publishing software that does things with media. This makes me think of other similar nonsense like the broadcast flag.
But, looking on the bright side, weren't those mplayer people a bunch of arrogant French coders?!:). Of course the secret to being French is a matter of loving the two W's and having the correct amount of arrogance (the secret being there is no correct amount that is sufficient).
But in reality, it proves dumb laws and ideas can occur anywhere.
The biggest single threat to the security of VOIP deployments is CALEA mandated backdoors in VOIP services IMHO. This is in effect government mandated exploits waiting to be exploited by others as well. Cisco was only the latest to demonstrated just how well undisclosed backdoors hidden by obscurity really work, but in this case the problem is not one that can later simply be fixed in the code, because it was broken by the law.
Perhaps if voice or video mail became very commonplace to exchange through internet email, even 30gigs might begin to seem small, though people would expect to stream it then if its being held on a remote site. Or, finally, an email service with enough space to hold the all the world's spam in one mailbox!
I guess Microsoft did not know the Government of Mass. worked for and must make choices on behalf of the PEOPLE of Mass., and not for or on behalf of Microsoft. Or maybe they still do not understand this. What is one to make of a vendor that publically demands someone choose its products, and on it's terms? Perhaps Halliburton should demand the government choose it to reconstruct New Orleans using Halliburton and demand it is done the Halluburton way, if another vendor is chosen? Perhaps when someone comes out of the "Apple" store, someone from Best Buy should come up to you and demand you purchase Dell PC's from them instead?
The passwords were...taped on the back?! Obviously it was a mistake on the part part of this school district to allow students to learn to read or think. Okay, a little too much sarcasm I think for Sunday morning in an otherwise sad and particularly disgusting example of misuse of the criminal justice system.
When the great universities in Paris, Oxford, and Bolognia were first founded, it was often common for the students to copy and produce their own books. This was to assure knowledge would be disseminated and retained, and was one of the principle functions of these early Universities. Now that we have in our means the ability finally to infinitely copy and preserve knowledge, some would like to turn the clock back to the dark ages for sake of profit. Really rather sad, actually.
Lets say some poor squib has got his latest Windows "vista" at home, with vista media player, and he has a nice music file he recently purchased from the Microsoft "trust us" Digital Restriction Music store? The poor squib is thrown in jail because he was jay walking on the wrong day where there happened to be a terrorist manhunt in progress, and now they demand to see this file??
Question: If the guy didn't create the file but some automated software agent downloaded it for him, is he still liable for a key he has no way of knowing?
Possibility: Perhaps keys are automatically kept in escrow so that others can get it? Maybe even the keys generated by the trussed computing platform itself? But then of course the machine's owner still doesn't have it, though if he also stored his own private files encrypted on such an untrustworthy platform maybe they can get those also without needing to even let him know they did so? Now wouldn't that be funny if the only person in the world not permitted to do with his own data as s/he wants is the machine owner? But that is a part of the problem with Trussed Computing and DRM...this bit of legal sillyness simply makes the issue even more obvious that trusted computing is about the fact that trusting the user is not.
Certainly that meaning does also exist in both Britian and the U.S., although I think its more commonly used in Britian; No, I am not suggesting that randy British wives cheat more often than American wives, just that the phrase for the husband "getting his horns" is more commonly used there.
Given the traditional meaning and use behind the phrase is that the husband has been shamed and/or humiliated publically by his wife, it does suggest some interesting ideas for interpreting what it means to receive Microsoft's longhorn.
But I preferred the steer comparison instead, for certainly Microsoft is a rancher that is all hat and no cattle.
There actually is such a "Union", which offers a local for those practicing the software "trade". The IWW (Industrial Workers of the World), more effectionately known as "the Wobblies", actually do this. I will say no more, for the IWW and its long and colorful history are in itself is a topic that when researched through google should cause endless thought and speculation on many things past and present, and which many people will hold very strong views about. My suggestion, it would have been far more painful for his (now ex) employers if rather than reporting their misdeeds to the police as some had suggested, he instead responded by trying to "unionize" their "software shop" under the IWW!:)
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How rather sad actually that he looks at it that way. Of course maybe he uses aversion therapy with them; it's better not use google or an ipod than being hit by a flying chair...
So is it that the carriers now wish to disclaim that they are "Common Carriers" since they will no longer carry content on an entirely non-discriminatory basis?
Of course there are now other cutting edge fields that also are now open to low power and smaller scale/lower cost experimentation as well. These include fun with lasers, slowing light through different mediums, and of course the ever popular tabletop "cold fusion" experiments. Some of these do have low enough cost to offer the garage or shed bound would be noble prize winner an oppertunity.
But, looking on the bright side, weren't those mplayer people a bunch of arrogant French coders?! :). Of course the secret to being French is a matter of loving the two W's and having the correct amount of arrogance (the secret being there is no correct amount that is sufficient).
But in reality, it proves dumb laws and ideas can occur anywhere.
Wasn't this very thing promised some 4 or 5 years ago?
We call them politicians.
The moderation did not match my intent either :)
...that the knots contain "infringing code"!
Same story, new victims.
Question: If the guy didn't create the file but some automated software agent downloaded it for him, is he still liable for a key he has no way of knowing?
Possibility: Perhaps keys are automatically kept in escrow so that others can get it? Maybe even the keys generated by the trussed computing platform itself? But then of course the machine's owner still doesn't have it, though if he also stored his own private files encrypted on such an untrustworthy platform maybe they can get those also without needing to even let him know they did so? Now wouldn't that be funny if the only person in the world not permitted to do with his own data as s/he wants is the machine owner? But that is a part of the problem with Trussed Computing and DRM...this bit of legal sillyness simply makes the issue even more obvious that trusted computing is about the fact that trusting the user is not.
Given the traditional meaning and use behind the phrase is that the husband has been shamed and/or humiliated publically by his wife, it does suggest some interesting ideas for interpreting what it means to receive Microsoft's longhorn.
But I preferred the steer comparison instead, for certainly Microsoft is a rancher that is all hat and no cattle.