In the end, the indies can win. The big labels won't negotiate direct (because the lack of DRM), which is the only way around the compulsory licensing law. But the indie labels or totally indie artists without a label can do their own direct negotiation and get their music on web radio. They generally don't care about DRM (or outright oppose it, anyway).
The catch is that for N web broadcasters and M labels/artists, there will now need to be N*M contracts arranged. In other words every broadcaster will have to have separate arrangements with every label/artist. This is what the original compulsory music licensing was put in place to avoid, so that instead of N*M arrangements it could really be just N+M arrangements through the specified agency (N broadcasters paying royalty fees to one place and M labels/artists collecting them from one place). The "compulsory" aspect to this is that any broadcaster that wants to play any music can do so through the arrangement with that agency, and the label/artist has no choice other than to go collect their cut from the agency.
So the big question is how many web broadcasters will be able to make enough contractual arrangements directly with the many labels/artists to have enough music to keep things flowing. Imagine being an indie artist and finding hundreds of voice mail or email messages from broadcasters wanting to sign a direct contract. It will be a tough job. And it will be even tougher because the broadcaster is on the hook in case the small label/artist was really performing someone else's music. The contracts have to include the real songwriter(s), too. Making sure the music is genuine can be very difficult.
The indies can win. But they have to play this right to do so.
Why are the security cameras on anything other than a closed circuit? It makes no sense for their cameras to be connected to the internet.
Many companies are cutting back on security staff by eliminating in-store people that watch the TV screens. The stores still have some roving security people, but the TV screen watching is now more automated, more centralized, and in some cases even pushed out to homes where people with broadband can be paid even less than the in-store people to sit and watch a bunch of TV camera images for hours, looking for suspect people.
It might be interesting if someone developed a way to fool those systems into thinking someone is watching (frequently clicking to see the next camera).
I can't recall the exact year, but it was around 1984 (scary, eh?). The DECsystem-2060 system running TOPS-20 at The Ohio State University Computer Science Department was connected via a network I believe was CSNET. While using that system I learned of a facility to obtain RFC documents that described things like the format of email headers... by sending email to a specific email address. It would them email the document back. I received over 20 some RFCs that way. They came back within a couple minutes, so I doubt they had someone just sitting there answering it. I suspect this was an early IETF or ARPA facility. Maybe they have some documentation that still remains about this. Maybe it's in an RFC itself. I'll have to Google for more of this.
If Microsoft in any way even communicated the suggestion to these companies to join and vote this way, or even just to join, then, yes, Microsoft effectively paid the feed. Microsoft will most certainly be giving these companies some kinds of favors in the coming future, if not done already.
I agree... you should NOT have to use a popup blocker. Instead, we should have a browser that simply does not implement popup capability in the first place. Then, there wouldn't be anything that needs to be blocked. You could use that browser, instead. Hopefully you are using an OS that doesn't have its own popups inside.
Linux is ready. The problem is AMD (formerly ATI) doesn't want to deal with this. They (AMD) could choose two different paths to Linux success (either opening the documentation to let Linux developers create the drivers, or create the drivers themselves). Instead, they choose to go with an OS in which an older version is now considered an upgrade. What can you do? Don't buy AMD/ATI components that don't have Linux support or open documentation.
They could probably make better use of the die space of the 4th, 3rd, or even 2nd CPU core by putting things like cache there instead. And in another direction, go with SoC (system on a chip) or certain subsets thereof. Combined with serialized bus technologies, this should work while also reducing pin counts.
How would 1080p make existing HDTV STBs obsolete? Didn't they get implemented with the full DVB spec? At least in the USA, TV tuners are required to support the full ATSC standard, which has 18 basic formats (and 18 more for the 1000:1001 frame rate versions).
Advances in science and engineering both create jobs. A couple of coots putting together a transistor in Bell Labs apparently spawned off the international industry that pays CmdrTaco's salary.
Those advances are not any greater for having more scientists and engineers unless there are jobs available for them to do the advancing through. Those coots that put together a transistor could not have done so if they hadn't been hired. You have to hire people and give them something to do for their benefit to society to be realized.
At the bottom of the ballot the machine will print an SHA1 checksum of a combination of the votes and a secret string configured the same in all machines. Instead of putting the ballot in the box, the ballot is scanned in immediately. The votes are cross checked against the checksum, and the voter has the option to view a screen list of the votes. If the ballot fails to scan, mark it void and start over. If the ballot scans OK, put it in the locked box.
Now there are multiple counts. The totals collected through the day can be reported to the media. The ballot boxes are delivered to a central facility which runs them all through another scan to verify the counts. Manual counting can happen if the comparison is not satisfactory.
Add a unique, randomly ordered, ID number on each ballot, printed before the election. Keep a record of which ballots go to which polling places. Record these with the counts. Record the IDs of ballots voided (where possible). This can help in situations where an audit becomes necessary. Do occaisional random audits.
Prices will eventually bottom out at the mass production levels deliverable from China. In the long term, price is irrelevant. It will consist of the cost of paying people a dollar a day, cheap land, and shipping over the ocean in disposable containers... the price of DVDs today.
Little of what Flash is used for even requires Flash and could be done with modern OS-agnostic DHTML. Sadly, too many web designers are sucking Adobe's dipstick.
All we need is library code to support H.264 and a plug-in for Firefox for each OS.
... and ask whatever users you have that aren't youtube addicts to upgrade nicely.
And be sure to point them where they can get a copy of Flash 9 based on whatever OS they are using, as discovered by parsing the User Agent or other data.
(Note that this advice assumes you're not serving up HD content.)
Why? Are you saying that Flash 9 won't support HD?
I've now set up my system to re-install Windows every time I boot into Windows. It just copies a pre-installed image of Windows into the Windows C: partition where the registry is. The D: partition has all the Windows data. So does that make me a violator of the DMCA?
Adobe went with Blu-Ray as the only high definition recordable disk supported by their Adobe® Premiere® Pro CS3 editing suite. You can see the list of what works here.
No. They are just using some bad methodologies for updating the database each time an article is read. Given the variety of places I see errors happening, it appears they are hitting the database many times over the course of constructing one page, and are updating something in the database for each one of those hits in a way that requires a transaction lock. They'd have the same problem on a database run on Linux if they don't change the way they use the database. It's an architecture design problem.
Ironically, I've hated IPsec since its inception. I always though security should be end-to-end on the connections, since in theory it was just the data, and the end point authentications, that were important. Now it appears that IPsec actually has a valid use. One problem is that it won't completely protect from provider abuses, since once they determine some IP address on the network is a Torrent or Tor site, they can throttle based on that IP address (source IP). And we also need to be using IPsec/ESP for other communications as well.
It is possible to make a watermark that is a sequence of encrypted bits that are sufficiently scrambled and modulated over multiple orthogonal frequencies as to appear to be nothing more than very slight background hiss. Redundancy from multiple copies of the watermark would still allow extracting it even if other noise is added. You'd have to know how to decode the watermark, or at least demodulate it if the frequency set is not cryptographically selected, to remove it. If you merged two songs, you very well could end up with both watermarks being present and decodable.
SIIA learned about the situation through a confidential tip, the trade group said. The person who reported Knowledge Networks will receive a $6,000 reward.
A couple decades ago, when I worked at a major university and lived near campus, I was buying new furniture and needed to dump a couple of old things. One of them was a yellow leather couch that was too wide (4 seats) to let me fit in the new stuff. So I set it out by the street with a sign on it that read "Free couch". 4 days later the landlord told me to get rid of that couch if no one would take it. So I got an idea. I made a new sign. I marked on the sign "Couch $50" in big letters with a fake phone number in small digits under it. Then I crossed out the "$50" and wrote slightly smaller "$35" under it. I put that on the couch around 9:30 AM. I came back at 12:00 noon and the couch was gone.
They were attacked, because private citizens felt that nobody should offer that, that's silly. That was Novell working to offer a unique value proposition.
No. They were attacked because their agreement with Microsoft:
encouraged Microsoft to expand or continue its FUD campaign.
could be used as evidence by Microsoft to support their IP claims.
unfairly tipped a balanced playing field in the open source markets.
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In the end, the indies can win. The big labels won't negotiate direct (because the lack of DRM), which is the only way around the compulsory licensing law. But the indie labels or totally indie artists without a label can do their own direct negotiation and get their music on web radio. They generally don't care about DRM (or outright oppose it, anyway).
The catch is that for N web broadcasters and M labels/artists, there will now need to be N*M contracts arranged. In other words every broadcaster will have to have separate arrangements with every label/artist. This is what the original compulsory music licensing was put in place to avoid, so that instead of N*M arrangements it could really be just N+M arrangements through the specified agency (N broadcasters paying royalty fees to one place and M labels/artists collecting them from one place). The "compulsory" aspect to this is that any broadcaster that wants to play any music can do so through the arrangement with that agency, and the label/artist has no choice other than to go collect their cut from the agency.
So the big question is how many web broadcasters will be able to make enough contractual arrangements directly with the many labels/artists to have enough music to keep things flowing. Imagine being an indie artist and finding hundreds of voice mail or email messages from broadcasters wanting to sign a direct contract. It will be a tough job. And it will be even tougher because the broadcaster is on the hook in case the small label/artist was really performing someone else's music. The contracts have to include the real songwriter(s), too. Making sure the music is genuine can be very difficult.
The indies can win. But they have to play this right to do so.
This is actually good for Apple because more people will buy an iPhone now that they know they will be able to use a less evil carrier.
Many companies are cutting back on security staff by eliminating in-store people that watch the TV screens. The stores still have some roving security people, but the TV screen watching is now more automated, more centralized, and in some cases even pushed out to homes where people with broadband can be paid even less than the in-store people to sit and watch a bunch of TV camera images for hours, looking for suspect people.
It might be interesting if someone developed a way to fool those systems into thinking someone is watching (frequently clicking to see the next camera).
I can't recall the exact year, but it was around 1984 (scary, eh?). The DECsystem-2060 system running TOPS-20 at The Ohio State University Computer Science Department was connected via a network I believe was CSNET. While using that system I learned of a facility to obtain RFC documents that described things like the format of email headers ... by sending email to a specific email address. It would them email the document back. I received over 20 some RFCs that way. They came back within a couple minutes, so I doubt they had someone just sitting there answering it. I suspect this was an early IETF or ARPA facility. Maybe they have some documentation that still remains about this. Maybe it's in an RFC itself. I'll have to Google for more of this.
If Microsoft in any way even communicated the suggestion to these companies to join and vote this way, or even just to join, then, yes, Microsoft effectively paid the feed. Microsoft will most certainly be giving these companies some kinds of favors in the coming future, if not done already.
... given a memory test during Congressional confirmation.
I agree ... you should NOT have to use a popup blocker. Instead, we should have a browser that simply does not implement popup capability in the first place. Then, there wouldn't be anything that needs to be blocked. You could use that browser, instead. Hopefully you are using an OS that doesn't have its own popups inside.
Linux is ready. The problem is AMD (formerly ATI) doesn't want to deal with this. They (AMD) could choose two different paths to Linux success (either opening the documentation to let Linux developers create the drivers, or create the drivers themselves). Instead, they choose to go with an OS in which an older version is now considered an upgrade. What can you do? Don't buy AMD/ATI components that don't have Linux support or open documentation.
They could probably make better use of the die space of the 4th, 3rd, or even 2nd CPU core by putting things like cache there instead. And in another direction, go with SoC (system on a chip) or certain subsets thereof. Combined with serialized bus technologies, this should work while also reducing pin counts.
How would 1080p make existing HDTV STBs obsolete? Didn't they get implemented with the full DVB spec? At least in the USA, TV tuners are required to support the full ATSC standard, which has 18 basic formats (and 18 more for the 1000:1001 frame rate versions).
You should be paying Euros for the PS3, not USD.
Those advances are not any greater for having more scientists and engineers unless there are jobs available for them to do the advancing through. Those coots that put together a transistor could not have done so if they hadn't been hired. You have to hire people and give them something to do for their benefit to society to be realized.
There should be another step.
At the bottom of the ballot the machine will print an SHA1 checksum of a combination of the votes and a secret string configured the same in all machines. Instead of putting the ballot in the box, the ballot is scanned in immediately. The votes are cross checked against the checksum, and the voter has the option to view a screen list of the votes. If the ballot fails to scan, mark it void and start over. If the ballot scans OK, put it in the locked box.
Now there are multiple counts. The totals collected through the day can be reported to the media. The ballot boxes are delivered to a central facility which runs them all through another scan to verify the counts. Manual counting can happen if the comparison is not satisfactory.
Add a unique, randomly ordered, ID number on each ballot, printed before the election. Keep a record of which ballots go to which polling places. Record these with the counts. Record the IDs of ballots voided (where possible). This can help in situations where an audit becomes necessary. Do occaisional random audits.
Prices will eventually bottom out at the mass production levels deliverable from China. In the long term, price is irrelevant. It will consist of the cost of paying people a dollar a day, cheap land, and shipping over the ocean in disposable containers ... the price of DVDs today.
All we need is library code to support H.264 and a plug-in for Firefox for each OS.
And be sure to point them where they can get a copy of Flash 9 based on whatever OS they are using, as discovered by parsing the User Agent or other data.
Why? Are you saying that Flash 9 won't support HD?
I've now set up my system to re-install Windows every time I boot into Windows. It just copies a pre-installed image of Windows into the Windows C: partition where the registry is. The D: partition has all the Windows data. So does that make me a violator of the DMCA?
Adobe went with Blu-Ray as the only high definition recordable disk supported by their Adobe® Premiere® Pro CS3 editing suite. You can see the list of what works here.
No. They are just using some bad methodologies for updating the database each time an article is read. Given the variety of places I see errors happening, it appears they are hitting the database many times over the course of constructing one page, and are updating something in the database for each one of those hits in a way that requires a transaction lock. They'd have the same problem on a database run on Linux if they don't change the way they use the database. It's an architecture design problem.
So use IPsec in ESP mode.
Ironically, I've hated IPsec since its inception. I always though security should be end-to-end on the connections, since in theory it was just the data, and the end point authentications, that were important. Now it appears that IPsec actually has a valid use. One problem is that it won't completely protect from provider abuses, since once they determine some IP address on the network is a Torrent or Tor site, they can throttle based on that IP address (source IP). And we also need to be using IPsec/ESP for other communications as well.
It is possible to make a watermark that is a sequence of encrypted bits that are sufficiently scrambled and modulated over multiple orthogonal frequencies as to appear to be nothing more than very slight background hiss. Redundancy from multiple copies of the watermark would still allow extracting it even if other noise is added. You'd have to know how to decode the watermark, or at least demodulate it if the frequency set is not cryptographically selected, to remove it. If you merged two songs, you very well could end up with both watermarks being present and decodable.
Slashdot doesn't abuse its users with giant full screen ads, or must-click-through pages, or pop-ups, or pop-behinds.
I bet that was Anonymous Coward. He gets around.
A couple decades ago, when I worked at a major university and lived near campus, I was buying new furniture and needed to dump a couple of old things. One of them was a yellow leather couch that was too wide (4 seats) to let me fit in the new stuff. So I set it out by the street with a sign on it that read "Free couch". 4 days later the landlord told me to get rid of that couch if no one would take it. So I got an idea. I made a new sign. I marked on the sign "Couch $50" in big letters with a fake phone number in small digits under it. Then I crossed out the "$50" and wrote slightly smaller "$35" under it. I put that on the couch around 9:30 AM. I came back at 12:00 noon and the couch was gone.
Who the hell wants free stuff?
No. They were attacked because their agreement with Microsoft: