Caching of web pages on the internet is considered fair use and is central to the Web. Isn't this like a time-delayed caching server. This is just caching for a different purpose... and they aren't making money off of other people's content.
Umm no. I see mozilla at around 20 megs and ie at 16 megs on win2k. Unless you are into that "new math" we keep hearing so much about, that is more like 1.25 times as much and not 3 times as much. And when you add in all the so called integration with Windows, I'm sure IE is eating up some more memory someplace indirectly.
What good are property rights and national sovereignty if individuals don't go into space.
This treaty is irrelevant, we have to stop publically funding space travel because it will always lose out to pork barrel politics. Also, the mission objectives will always be earth centric. Individuals and groups of individuals must have the legal lattitude to launch their own space craft. I'm guessing a Mars mission could be thrown togfether for a few million dollars in a few years with some creativity and initiative.
Let me know when you figure out how to act like an earthling. Until then I guess I'll just have to wing it.
I don't think the universe is so small that it would expect all earthlings to wear the same clothes, speak the same language and think the same thoughts.
We can't start worrying about the sea monsters if we can't even get off the beach.
easy to filter out most stations
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They sometimes install filters on cable modem only installations, especially it seems if you cancel cable, but keep your cable modem.
So don't go cancelling cable if you can't live without it. I did this and the filter they installed ended up blocking half the channels (especially the ones I was interested in).
"Both of those groups are prepared to stop imports of unlicensed DVD players and to bring lawsuits against companies that ship them."
Anything that plays the DVD format will still be considered as infringing on the DVD patents.
Once again, we here in the freedom loving west will be protected from having to decide if we want cheaper and better technology. After all it is much better when a group of companies work together and decide to impose a standard on the world and then charge us extra for the privilege.
Why don't people go after these companies for Anti-trust violations? When standards are used by an exclusive group of companies to impose market control at the expense of consumers, it is illegal under US law. Companies are supposed to compete with eachother, otherwise it isn't a free market.
But what exactly does it mean to have police present for a search warrant, when the systems being searched might be scattered accross the globe or at least at some other location from the technicians performing the search? Does it mean that the police would just be looking over the shoulder of the technicians or would they actually have to go to where the data is?
web services not replacing something
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I think in IBM's mad rush to push web services onto the market, they are neglecting the fact that there is a limited market right now for this sort of thing and they are pushing web services as a way to build all web applications, where it uneccesarily adds another layer of complexity.
Web services is not a way to build applications which are never intended to be accessed by other applications directly.
Soros helped plunge much of Asia into financial chaos when he pulled out of their markets. Seems that Soros is not an observer of Globalization, but rather an actor with great power and should be regarded accordingly. I believe he is sincere in his desire to make things better, but most meglomaniacs are.
We are back to the old days of AT&T taking 20 years to roll out a new service... this will end up being like "Touch Tone" which we are all still paying for.
The Google Search Appliance is about 20k and my Company has bought one to use as the search engine on our web site. We will be setting it up in production soon. It was a breeze to set up. Just a few configuration pages to go through, and we've had far fewer problems than with any other software/hardware I've seen in a while. And there wasn't a room full of google consultants to make you pay another 200k just to tell you that they are going to have to customize your solution. There are a few business/license restrictions on the software, but it definately meets our needs.
The thing that makes Google great is that they can charge you 20k for a little yellow box and make you feel good about yourself at the end of the day.
Okay, we'll take relief in just our 9 states then. The rest of you can suffer.
But I think it is an invalid point, it isn't the Justice department which would be applying the law, it would be the Federal court, which certainly has jurisdiction over the entire country.
Has anyone noticed that the companies that are buying up the Internet, don't like it. All they want to do is buy it up and destroy it, so they can replace it with their subscription services.
Pay per play/Pay per view/Pay for advertising. Squeeze every fucking dime out of us they can. It is rediculous. Yeah, companies have a right to make a buck, but not to hold a gun to my head. Which is what they do everytime they get their paid lackies, Congressman, to pass another law that says I have to do what the big corporations want me to do or else. Welcome back to the future! Again we find ourselves approaching an age of robber barrons. Just now they all have acronyms and better marketing.
No wonder NSA was okay with 128 bit encryption.
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I think that given that the NSA has allowed stronger encryption to be exported supports the idea that "they" have much more powerful algorithms than "they" have let on.
after reading the article here http://digitalmass.boston.com/news/2002/02/20/emai l.html it becomes pretty clear that this was not a wiretap (meaning intercepted en route), but rather obtained as a result of the girl and/or authorities recording one end of the conversation... which is legal in most states, but Penn requires the consent of both parties... seems pretty open and shut, they didn't have the consent of both parties. But this would only apply within Pennsylvania.
The source code is not at the center of their monopoly, it is their monopolistic business practices.
It isn't as if they maintain a monopoly through superior code and secure bug free implementations. It is through capitalizing on their market position using anti competitive business arrangements to extend their market position and share in a way that no other company has been able to do in recent memory. Not since Standard Oil I think. (ATT is a more recent example, but they didn't really extend their market, just prevented others from capitalizing on it.)
Also, source code is a vague term here... which version?
I don't mind monthly charges for actual use of someone else's resources, but just to use a device that I have purchased...
Electricity - you are usually only charged for the amount you use, At any time I could just hook up solar panels or a generator and not pay for someone else's electricity.
Water - again I am paying for water, not water service.
Phone - well they are all bastards, but I'm sort of paying for the use of their wires... even though they cost next to nothing to operate after all the admistrative overhead.
Gas - well duh. You burn the stuff.
Cellular - they do have all those towers around, but they charge way too much to use them. And they are bastards too.
then there is...
Tivo - well you do get all those great features that you don't need with the service. Software updates are useful, but the thing should work without them. but there is no option to just get a box that can record movies and play them back. Hello? What resources of theirs would I be using just to have the thing sitting in my living room?
"TiVo service is required and sold separately. No functionality is represented or should be expected by the TiVo DVR without a paid subscription to the TiVo Service. Receipt of TiVo service is subject to the terms of the TiVo Service Agreement."
I just want a device to record video and store it, maybe just be able to transfer it off the device for storage or viewing elsewhere. I don't want to be an entertainment slave.
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Caching of web pages on the internet is considered fair use and is central to the Web. Isn't this like a time-delayed caching server. This is just caching for a different purpose... and they aren't making money off of other people's content.
"Wow, if it's a monopoly, then it certainly hasn't hurt prices."
Not only monopolies are guilty of anticompetive acts. Basically, any action that is "in restraint of trade" or "deceptive" by businesses are illegal.
Umm no. I see mozilla at around 20 megs and ie at 16 megs on win2k. Unless you are into that "new math" we keep hearing so much about, that is more like 1.25 times as much and not 3 times as much. And when you add in all the so called integration with Windows, I'm sure IE is eating up some more memory someplace indirectly.
Yup. So what?
What good are property rights and national sovereignty if individuals don't go into space.
This treaty is irrelevant, we have to stop publically funding space travel because it will always lose out to pork barrel politics. Also, the mission objectives will always be earth centric. Individuals and groups of individuals must have the legal lattitude to launch their own space craft. I'm guessing a Mars mission could be thrown togfether for a few million dollars in a few years with some creativity and initiative.
Let me know when you figure out how to act like an earthling. Until then I guess I'll just have to wing it.
I don't think the universe is so small that it would expect all earthlings to wear the same clothes, speak the same language and think the same thoughts.
We can't start worrying about the sea monsters if we can't even get off the beach.
They sometimes install filters on cable modem only installations, especially it seems if you cancel cable, but keep your cable modem.
So don't go cancelling cable if you can't live without it. I did this and the filter they installed ended up blocking half the channels (especially the ones I was interested in).
"Both of those groups are prepared to stop imports of unlicensed DVD players and to bring lawsuits against companies that ship them."
Anything that plays the DVD format will still be considered as infringing on the DVD patents.
Once again, we here in the freedom loving west will be protected from having to decide if we want cheaper and better technology. After all it is much better when a group of companies work together and decide to impose a standard on the world and then charge us extra for the privilege.
Why don't people go after these companies for Anti-trust violations? When standards are used by an exclusive group of companies to impose market control at the expense of consumers, it is illegal under US law. Companies are supposed to compete with eachother, otherwise it isn't a free market.
But what exactly does it mean to have police present for a search warrant, when the systems being searched might be scattered accross the globe or at least at some other location from the technicians performing the search? Does it mean that the police would just be looking over the shoulder of the technicians or would they actually have to go to where the data is?
I think in IBM's mad rush to push web services onto the market, they are neglecting the fact that there is a limited market right now for this sort of thing and they are pushing web services as a way to build all web applications, where it uneccesarily adds another layer of complexity.
Web services is not a way to build applications which are never intended to be accessed by other applications directly.
Soros helped plunge much of Asia into financial chaos when he pulled out of their markets. Seems that Soros is not an observer of Globalization, but rather an actor with great power and should be regarded accordingly. I believe he is sincere in his desire to make things better, but most meglomaniacs are.
http://blueos.free.fr/
We are back to the old days of AT&T taking 20 years to roll out a new service... this will end up being like "Touch Tone" which we are all still paying for.
The Google Search Appliance is about 20k and my Company has bought one to use as the search engine on our web site. We will be setting it up in production soon. It was a breeze to set up. Just a few configuration pages to go through, and we've had far fewer problems than with any other software/hardware I've seen in a while. And there wasn't a room full of google consultants to make you pay another 200k just to tell you that they are going to have to customize your solution. There are a few business/license restrictions on the software, but it definately meets our needs.
The thing that makes Google great is that they can charge you 20k for a little yellow box and make you feel good about yourself at the end of the day.
Okay, we'll take relief in just our 9 states then. The rest of you can suffer.
But I think it is an invalid point, it isn't the Justice department which would be applying the law, it would be the Federal court, which certainly has jurisdiction over the entire country.
Has anyone noticed that the companies that are buying up the Internet, don't like it. All they want to do is buy it up and destroy it, so they can replace it with their subscription services.
Pay per play/Pay per view/Pay for advertising. Squeeze every fucking dime out of us they can. It is rediculous. Yeah, companies have a right to make a buck, but not to hold a gun to my head. Which is what they do everytime they get their paid lackies, Congressman, to pass another law that says I have to do what the big corporations want me to do or else. Welcome back to the future! Again we find ourselves approaching an age of robber barrons. Just now they all have acronyms and better marketing.
I think that given that the NSA has allowed stronger encryption to be exported supports the idea that "they" have much more powerful algorithms than "they" have let on.
can't be far behind?
Just give me your money and shut up.
Okay maybe you can point out where they actually sell clustering sofware, the only thing I saw was that they resell stuff from MPI Software
But that software (MPI/Pro) is available on Windows and Linux anyway, so why spend more money on Windows licenses and some developer kits?
after reading the article here http://digitalmass.boston.com/news/2002/02/20/emai l.html it becomes pretty clear that this was not a wiretap (meaning intercepted en route), but rather obtained as a result of the girl and/or authorities recording one end of the conversation... which is legal in most states, but Penn requires the consent of both parties... seems pretty open and shut, they didn't have the consent of both parties. But this would only apply within Pennsylvania.
Why not? It work for gnutella to replace napster...
The source code is not at the center of their monopoly, it is their monopolistic business practices.
It isn't as if they maintain a monopoly through superior code and secure bug free implementations. It is through capitalizing on their market position using anti competitive business arrangements to extend their market position and share in a way that no other company has been able to do in recent memory. Not since Standard Oil I think. (ATT is a more recent example, but they didn't really extend their market, just prevented others from capitalizing on it.)
Also, source code is a vague term here... which version?
I don't mind monthly charges for actual use of someone else's resources, but just to use a device that I have purchased...
...
Electricity - you are usually only charged for the amount you use, At any time I could just hook up solar panels or a generator and not pay for someone else's electricity.
Water - again I am paying for water, not water service.
Phone - well they are all bastards, but I'm sort of paying for the use of their wires... even though they cost next to nothing to operate after all the admistrative overhead.
Gas - well duh. You burn the stuff.
Cellular - they do have all those towers around, but they charge way too much to use them. And they are bastards too.
then there is
Tivo - well you do get all those great features that you don't need with the service. Software updates are useful, but the thing should work without them. but there is no option to just get a box that can record movies and play them back. Hello? What resources of theirs would I be using just to have the thing sitting in my living room?
from the tivo.com:
"TiVo service is required and sold separately. No functionality is represented or should be expected by the TiVo DVR without a paid subscription to the TiVo Service. Receipt of TiVo service is subject to the terms of the TiVo Service Agreement."
I just want a device to record video and store it, maybe just be able to transfer it off the device for storage or viewing elsewhere. I don't want to be an entertainment slave.