It'd have to be a strong enough net to disable a drone, and far enough away that the blast didn't cause damage. Fine for buildings, but useless on vehicles.
Perhaps. After a ten-year court case. Then, once microsoft has destroyed all competition and ensured profits of many billions, the EU can give another record-breaking billion-euro fine.
Perhaps that is the future: Companies willing to build upon open standards and base software, but make it propritary and closed enough to build a business upon.
The argument is that inconsistancy in law is an inherently bad thing. Thus either alcohol must be banned, or other drugs legalised. Either works to resolve the contradiction.
The key then is browser transparency. It'd need to be possible to have an HTML document specify an image or video file, but via hash address (magnet would do perfectly, so long as we can agree on which hash to use). That way the dynamic parts come in via the usual HTTP, the static parts via the new protocol (With HTTP fallback, magnet can specify that too).
Production costs have increased. These aren't the days where gamers will be so easily satisfied with pixel-art, five-poly spaceships and text for dialog*. A top-tier game these days needs much larger teams making highly detailed resources from textures to level design, and even voice actors. It's exactly the same situation that raised the cost of hollywood movie production: Standards rose, to the point where audiences would reject any movie that used obviously painted backdrops and cheap special effects. If you look back at some of the movies considered great classics**, you can see that the production cost would suit the Asylum. It's a feedback loop of expense: The more money is spent on production, the more buyers demand and so the more must be spent to meet their expectations next time.
*Final fantasy excepted.
** The Birds is a good example. Painted backdrops and stuffed models on string, but it scared people back then.
Have you ever debated one? Like most fringe factions, they tend towards unconventional views. They are essentially small-government libertarians taken to an extreme, combined with a support for free-market economics that borders on religious faith.
Ubuntu, fedora and such may be able to convince *some* manufacturers to install their keys. May. Some. What about all the tiny, specialised distros though? Are we supposed to have distro-makers go to every OEM (both motherboard manufacturers and PC/laptop manufacturers) and ask them? It'd be a tremendous effort just to get HP or Dell to reply to an email from some ten-man not-for-profit team working on a niche distro. That's assuming Microsoft doesn't do any behind-the-scenes stuff to hinder the efforts too, like quietly hinting off-the-record that OEMs which allow only Microsoft's key and no others may recieve Windows OEM licences are a slightly reduced cost. This is Microsoft we're dealing with, remember - the company history is littered with examples of unfair and anticompetative business methods.
But why did they want to use Microsoft's key? Because it's only possible to sign a bootloader with one key, no more, and Microsoft's key is the only key that you can be sure every motherboard is going to recognise. Linux is very much a niche thing on the desktop still - OEMs have no reason to bother adding ubuntu's own key to the whitelist. Much less all the hundreds of lesser distros.
Europe actually extended the copyright period to match the US a few years ago as a result of intense lobbying by record labels, concerned that the great rock-and-roll bands of the fifties were getting dangerously close to public domain. But the extension didn't apply to broadcasts. At least in the UK, the copyright duration can be a complicated thing, as different types of work have different terms.
As best I can figure out, that IHAD speech goes public domain in the UK at the end of 2013. It won't in the US for a few more decades, but come the end of 2013 I'm going to have that speech up on my website. Hosted in the UK, by a UK company, on behalf of a UK citizen.
Not quite. The worshipers of Rand still are strong supporters of IP rights. Enforcing IP law is one of the very few things they do want the government involved with: They regard the enforcement of private properly as the only thing the government should be responsible for, be it physical or intellectual.
Amusingly, a lot of the political push for a-la-carte came from the social conservatives who were very upset that in order to get the channels they wanted, they needed to buy bundled that included evil and corrupting channels like... well, all of them except the religious channels, sport and Fox news.
There are many reasons:
- Lack of money.
- An interest in obscure things not widely available.
- Convenience, espicially for minors who have no bank card with which to pay online.
- Desired content not available legally in their region.
- Activism
- Collection-building as a hobby
- Community involvement.
Works great for multiplayer games. Less so singleplayer. Even if you put enough of the game on a server that it can't be simply cracked, requiring an internet connection just to play in single-player generates substantial ill-will from players. Nothing though compared to the ill-will generated eight years later, when the servers become unprofitable to run and the game becomes impossible to run.
People who move to another country are sufficiently rare that they are not worth worrying over, and people buying DVDs while on holiday is something region coding is supposed to prevent.
Pot is illegal largely because it used to be the drug of choice in the black community in the US, back in the days of segregation. This resulted in a few influential newspapers and crusaders getting it banned, concerned it would cause members of said community to forget their proper subservient place.
Conversely, tobacco was a drug of choice for the white population. Even when it was later discovered that tobacco usage was responsible for a a host of medical afflictions, there was no serious proposal to prohibit that. Even in Europe, the furthest we've gone is to regulate advertising and restrict smoking in enclosed public spaces.
Not just for airports any more. With technology like this, they can start minaturising the tech so every cop doing a stop-and-search can inspect the suspect. For, ah, weapons. Of course.
That's my project for the next few weeks. I managed to get a stack of old Celeron machines for ten quid each. Six of them. So I shall learn how to set up a beowolf cluster with LinuxPMI. If it works, I'll look into finding new processors that actually outperform an abacus. I intend to use it for developing my interest in signal processing and compression.
The de facto authority is Microsoft, because theirs is the only public key that most OEMs are going to bother to include in their firmware. Yes, a linux vendor could just go to Verisign to get their bootloader signed - but then they would have to go to every OEM, individually, and convince them to include that key as authorised. It's the same dilemma as is had with linux drivers: Outside of servers, linux is a very small player, and OEMs have little if any reason to make even minimal effort to support it.
Sure, you can get Verisign to sign your bootloader... but, guess how many OEMs are going to include any key except Microsoft's as authorised? Very few, I would imagine, for the same reason that so few provide decent linux drivers. There is no reason for them to support an operating system that remains in use only by a small minority, outside of servers.
Asus transformer. The keyboard is also a cover. Though not thin - it holds additional batteries, which give it enough weight to stop the tablet tipping it over backwards.
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It'd have to be a strong enough net to disable a drone, and far enough away that the blast didn't cause damage. Fine for buildings, but useless on vehicles.
Perhaps. After a ten-year court case. Then, once microsoft has destroyed all competition and ensured profits of many billions, the EU can give another record-breaking billion-euro fine.
It doesn't have to be uncrackable. It just has to be sufficiently hard that people who are not experienced with linux never get to try it.
Perhaps that is the future: Companies willing to build upon open standards and base software, but make it propritary and closed enough to build a business upon.
Don't worry, Microsoft is planning to fix that soon enough.
The argument is that inconsistancy in law is an inherently bad thing. Thus either alcohol must be banned, or other drugs legalised. Either works to resolve the contradiction.
The key then is browser transparency. It'd need to be possible to have an HTML document specify an image or video file, but via hash address (magnet would do perfectly, so long as we can agree on which hash to use). That way the dynamic parts come in via the usual HTTP, the static parts via the new protocol (With HTTP fallback, magnet can specify that too).
Production costs have increased. These aren't the days where gamers will be so easily satisfied with pixel-art, five-poly spaceships and text for dialog*. A top-tier game these days needs much larger teams making highly detailed resources from textures to level design, and even voice actors. It's exactly the same situation that raised the cost of hollywood movie production: Standards rose, to the point where audiences would reject any movie that used obviously painted backdrops and cheap special effects. If you look back at some of the movies considered great classics**, you can see that the production cost would suit the Asylum. It's a feedback loop of expense: The more money is spent on production, the more buyers demand and so the more must be spent to meet their expectations next time.
*Final fantasy excepted.
** The Birds is a good example. Painted backdrops and stuffed models on string, but it scared people back then.
Have you ever debated one? Like most fringe factions, they tend towards unconventional views. They are essentially small-government libertarians taken to an extreme, combined with a support for free-market economics that borders on religious faith.
Ubuntu, fedora and such may be able to convince *some* manufacturers to install their keys. May. Some. What about all the tiny, specialised distros though? Are we supposed to have distro-makers go to every OEM (both motherboard manufacturers and PC/laptop manufacturers) and ask them? It'd be a tremendous effort just to get HP or Dell to reply to an email from some ten-man not-for-profit team working on a niche distro. That's assuming Microsoft doesn't do any behind-the-scenes stuff to hinder the efforts too, like quietly hinting off-the-record that OEMs which allow only Microsoft's key and no others may recieve Windows OEM licences are a slightly reduced cost. This is Microsoft we're dealing with, remember - the company history is littered with examples of unfair and anticompetative business methods.
But why did they want to use Microsoft's key? Because it's only possible to sign a bootloader with one key, no more, and Microsoft's key is the only key that you can be sure every motherboard is going to recognise. Linux is very much a niche thing on the desktop still - OEMs have no reason to bother adding ubuntu's own key to the whitelist. Much less all the hundreds of lesser distros.
Europe actually extended the copyright period to match the US a few years ago as a result of intense lobbying by record labels, concerned that the great rock-and-roll bands of the fifties were getting dangerously close to public domain. But the extension didn't apply to broadcasts. At least in the UK, the copyright duration can be a complicated thing, as different types of work have different terms.
As best I can figure out, that IHAD speech goes public domain in the UK at the end of 2013. It won't in the US for a few more decades, but come the end of 2013 I'm going to have that speech up on my website. Hosted in the UK, by a UK company, on behalf of a UK citizen.
Not quite. The worshipers of Rand still are strong supporters of IP rights. Enforcing IP law is one of the very few things they do want the government involved with: They regard the enforcement of private properly as the only thing the government should be responsible for, be it physical or intellectual.
Amusingly, a lot of the political push for a-la-carte came from the social conservatives who were very upset that in order to get the channels they wanted, they needed to buy bundled that included evil and corrupting channels like... well, all of them except the religious channels, sport and Fox news.
There are many reasons:
- Lack of money.
- An interest in obscure things not widely available.
- Convenience, espicially for minors who have no bank card with which to pay online.
- Desired content not available legally in their region.
- Activism
- Collection-building as a hobby
- Community involvement.
Works great for multiplayer games. Less so singleplayer. Even if you put enough of the game on a server that it can't be simply cracked, requiring an internet connection just to play in single-player generates substantial ill-will from players. Nothing though compared to the ill-will generated eight years later, when the servers become unprofitable to run and the game becomes impossible to run.
People who move to another country are sufficiently rare that they are not worth worrying over, and people buying DVDs while on holiday is something region coding is supposed to prevent.
Pot is illegal largely because it used to be the drug of choice in the black community in the US, back in the days of segregation. This resulted in a few influential newspapers and crusaders getting it banned, concerned it would cause members of said community to forget their proper subservient place.
Conversely, tobacco was a drug of choice for the white population. Even when it was later discovered that tobacco usage was responsible for a a host of medical afflictions, there was no serious proposal to prohibit that. Even in Europe, the furthest we've gone is to regulate advertising and restrict smoking in enclosed public spaces.
Not just for airports any more. With technology like this, they can start minaturising the tech so every cop doing a stop-and-search can inspect the suspect. For, ah, weapons. Of course.
That's my project for the next few weeks. I managed to get a stack of old Celeron machines for ten quid each. Six of them. So I shall learn how to set up a beowolf cluster with LinuxPMI. If it works, I'll look into finding new processors that actually outperform an abacus. I intend to use it for developing my interest in signal processing and compression.
The de facto authority is Microsoft, because theirs is the only public key that most OEMs are going to bother to include in their firmware. Yes, a linux vendor could just go to Verisign to get their bootloader signed - but then they would have to go to every OEM, individually, and convince them to include that key as authorised. It's the same dilemma as is had with linux drivers: Outside of servers, linux is a very small player, and OEMs have little if any reason to make even minimal effort to support it.
Sure, you can get Verisign to sign your bootloader... but, guess how many OEMs are going to include any key except Microsoft's as authorised? Very few, I would imagine, for the same reason that so few provide decent linux drivers. There is no reason for them to support an operating system that remains in use only by a small minority, outside of servers.
While OSX is a descendant of BSD, iOS is not.
Asus transformer. The keyboard is also a cover. Though not thin - it holds additional batteries, which give it enough weight to stop the tablet tipping it over backwards.