A communist ideology is based around the idea of limited wealth.
Ideas/music/movies can be copied an infinite number of times.
Everyone can have a copy, and nobody loses anything.
Copyright/patent is intended to encourage new thought by allowing people who have new ideas to make a living from coming up with new ideas.
The record companies want to be able to come up with a single idea, and continue to make money off of that single idea for the lifetime of the author they buy it from.
Do you really think it's fair that a competent engineer can come up with hundreds of unique ideas per year and still make $100,000 during the years he is working for a company paying for those, but an artist and/or record company only needs to come up with a few great ideas in a lifetime and continue to generate wealth on them?
Visa has decided that 'some' security failures are OK due to the nature of the business they're in. They're trying to deliver a relatively secure service to billions of people who do stupid things like drop their credit cards, write PIN numbers on post-it notes, naively enter personal information into phishing sites, and so on. If they were to adopt a fail proof security system if such a thing were even indeed possible, credit cards would likely be so inconvenient as to be rejected by the majority of consumers.
The olympic IT system I suspect consists of a substantially lower number of accounts.
I also fail to see how having 'some' breakins is not acceptable. There is *always* the possibility of a security breech, no matter who designs the system. What does the IT system at the olympics have which is so much more important to protect than mountains of consumer debt? Gymnastics scores? Visa can't prevent those from being grossly manipulated anyway... Or maybe the results of the 100m. I can hear the announcement now... Ladies and gentlemen, despite what all of you just witnessed, our computers say the lead runner actually took longer to finish the race, so we'll be awarding the medal to the second guy to cross the finish line.
Theoretically, that argument would hold *some* water if the officer didn't have his blinking lights or siren going at the time. But that raises an interesting question... Why did the speeder pull over?:P
In IT, if you suspect someone's keyboard is unplugged, you ask them to unplug their keyboard, blow on the connection, then plug it back in again. Then he/she isn't insulted that you think they overlooked something. They look for the plug, discover it IS unplugged, and fix the problem.
In politics, if you suspect corruption influenced a decision. . .
"Because there is no compatibility between IPv4 and IPv6, there is no migration path."
Funny, my NIC seems to understand both just fine.
I don't see any reason why I can't be behind an IPV4 NAT AND have a public IPV6 address. At the same time.
That would be sweet.
I think the problem is a shortage of ISPs wanting to hand out IPV6 addresses. I've never been offered one. I would take it if offered... As long as I get to keep my IPV4 address until the rest of the world catches up to me.
Unless you happen to think the open directory project is particularily successful. http://dmoz.org/
Truth is, when you put one, or even a few editors in charge of something, most of them are biased, then they eventually tire of whatever they've been put in charge of (unless they're getting PAID for their efforts.)
Wikipedia's strength is in the effortlessness with which new talent can get involved in the process.
I wonder what the turnover rate is on wikipedia for people who edit/enforce accuracy of well established pages...
More accurately, people googling for yahoo is no different than dialing 0 to speak to an operator to get the number for 411 and make a connection for you.
True, but was it a sudden lack of Quality Control, in '95 or a sudden proliferation of devices which cause some serious electromagnetic disturbances near the desk? (i.e. cell phones)
I don't see how this would count as income at all. Unless you're selling gold, but who does that? Other than gold farmers, who can undercut any American by using cheap labor.
I can see them potentially wanting to tax the sale of accounts, yes, but given the above model of income, the game account itself is capital, and any profits from it's sale would have to be taxed as capital gains, meaning the initial cost of the account, and membership fees paid would be deducted from the sale amount before it could be taxed.
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On the other hand I can't wait until millions of highly toxic RoHS compliant rechargeable batteries get recalled because their recharging circuits start developing tin whiskers, short circuit and explode. Look what you whiny environmentalists did! Muahahaha.
Podcast isn't a digital audio/video product at all, it's a method of transferring data.
Granted, the generic spam has less to do with actual Spam (thanks to Monty Python) than Podcasting has to do with iPods, but 'podcasting' really has nothing to do with iPods at all (other than the fact if iPods didn't exist it would have been called something else, but then... so would spam)
I wonder if they were truely comparing "Cable VoIP" or the concept of providing dial-tone/phone service over cable.
It wouldn't just be as simple as dedicating a channel to voice. It would be simplest implemented over DOCSIS, so yes, still VoIP. The advantage the cable providers have is being able to then place a higher priority on the VoIP packets, and shoot them across their own network (where the priority is guaranteed to be honored reliably, as opposed to on the public internet)
I could see this being useful if you could set the washing machine from work to make a horrible screaming noise until your spouse/kids put a load in. You would get laundry done AND your family would appreciate that you're thinking about them.
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This isn't a communist ideology.
A communist ideology is based around the idea of limited wealth.
Ideas/music/movies can be copied an infinite number of times.
Everyone can have a copy, and nobody loses anything.
Copyright/patent is intended to encourage new thought by allowing people who have new ideas to make a living from coming up with new ideas.
The record companies want to be able to come up with a single idea, and continue to make money off of that single idea for the lifetime of the author they buy it from.
Do you really think it's fair that a competent engineer can come up with hundreds of unique ideas per year and still make $100,000 during the years he is working for a company paying for those, but an artist and/or record company only needs to come up with a few great ideas in a lifetime and continue to generate wealth on them?
Visa has decided that 'some' security failures are OK due to the nature of the business they're in. They're trying to deliver a relatively secure service to billions of people who do stupid things like drop their credit cards, write PIN numbers on post-it notes, naively enter personal information into phishing sites, and so on. If they were to adopt a fail proof security system if such a thing were even indeed possible, credit cards would likely be so inconvenient as to be rejected by the majority of consumers.
The olympic IT system I suspect consists of a substantially lower number of accounts.
I also fail to see how having 'some' breakins is not acceptable. There is *always* the possibility of a security breech, no matter who designs the system. What does the IT system at the olympics have which is so much more important to protect than mountains of consumer debt? Gymnastics scores? Visa can't prevent those from being grossly manipulated anyway... Or maybe the results of the 100m. I can hear the announcement now... Ladies and gentlemen, despite what all of you just witnessed, our computers say the lead runner actually took longer to finish the race, so we'll be awarding the medal to the second guy to cross the finish line.
Theoretically, that argument would hold *some* water if the officer didn't have his blinking lights or siren going at the time. :P
But that raises an interesting question... Why did the speeder pull over?
In IT, if you suspect someone's keyboard is unplugged, you ask them to unplug their keyboard, blow on the connection, then plug it back in again. Then he/she isn't insulted that you think they overlooked something. They look for the plug, discover it IS unplugged, and fix the problem.
In politics, if you suspect corruption influenced a decision. . .
Yeah, but does it run linux?
If so, I'd like a beowulf cluster of them.
"Because there is no compatibility between IPv4 and IPv6, there is no migration path."
Funny, my NIC seems to understand both just fine.
I don't see any reason why I can't be behind an IPV4 NAT AND have a public IPV6 address. At the same time.
That would be sweet.
I think the problem is a shortage of ISPs wanting to hand out IPV6 addresses. I've never been offered one. I would take it if offered... As long as I get to keep my IPV4 address until the rest of the world catches up to me.
It's like ra-i-ain. . .
Good point.
This will never work.
Unless you happen to think the open directory project is particularily successful.
http://dmoz.org/
Truth is, when you put one, or even a few editors in charge of something, most of them are biased, then they eventually tire of whatever they've been put in charge of (unless they're getting PAID for their efforts.)
Wikipedia's strength is in the effortlessness with which new talent can get involved in the process.
I wonder what the turnover rate is on wikipedia for people who edit/enforce accuracy of well established pages...
More accurately, people googling for yahoo is no different than dialing 0 to speak to an operator to get the number for 411 and make a connection for you.
True, but was it a sudden lack of Quality Control, in '95 or a sudden proliferation of devices which cause some serious electromagnetic disturbances near the desk? (i.e. cell phones)
That's a good idea. Can I donate my WoW account to a charity and have them sell it?
Hmm,
The parent doesn't look anything like a troll to me. Nope. Snopes.com totally debunked that QWERTY myth. I just don't have a link handy.
I don't see how this would count as income at all. Unless you're selling gold, but who does that? Other than gold farmers, who can undercut any American by using cheap labor.
I can see them potentially wanting to tax the sale of accounts, yes, but given the above model of income, the game account itself is capital, and any profits from it's sale would have to be taxed as capital gains, meaning the initial cost of the account, and membership fees paid would be deducted from the sale amount before it could be taxed.
I resemble that comment!
That rules out my RoHS conspiracy theory.
On the other hand I can't wait until millions of highly toxic RoHS compliant rechargeable batteries get recalled because their recharging circuits start developing tin whiskers, short circuit and explode. Look what you whiny environmentalists did! Muahahaha.
Podcast isn't a digital audio/video product at all, it's a method of transferring data.
Granted, the generic spam has less to do with actual Spam (thanks to Monty Python) than Podcasting has to do with iPods, but 'podcasting' really has nothing to do with iPods at all (other than the fact if iPods didn't exist it would have been called something else, but then... so would spam)
Never heard of SPAM? Wha?
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Too late, the 70+ crowd has already adopted the buzzword 'newfangled walkman' to refer to their iPods.
I wonder if they were truely comparing "Cable VoIP" or the concept of providing dial-tone/phone service over cable.
It wouldn't just be as simple as dedicating a channel to voice. It would be simplest implemented over DOCSIS, so yes, still VoIP. The advantage the cable providers have is being able to then place a higher priority on the VoIP packets, and shoot them across their own network (where the priority is guaranteed to be honored reliably, as opposed to on the public internet)
Might I direct your attention toward the post. ...
See anything familiar?
"There is presumably an ugly little fact that ruins this beautiful theory. So it goes."
How about... We already have and widely use private/public key encryption? What is the author getting at here?
$message =~ s/problem/opportunity/g
Oops.
$message =~ s/opportunitys/opportunities/g
Excellent.
Use oil for energy??? Preposterous!
Yes, especially the classics like "Mozart: Behind The Music"
Waitaminute.
I could see this being useful if you could set the washing machine from work to make a horrible screaming noise until your spouse/kids put a load in. You would get laundry done AND your family would appreciate that you're thinking about them.