There was an old system for vinyl - some sort of hidden signal in the audio which would be detected by complient tape recorders and cause them to cease recording. It failed because there was no means by which the labels could compel tape recorder manufacturers to detect and respect the 'do not record' instruction. Impressively designed, as it was all done using only analog filters. No cheap DSP in those days!
Any more? I've only ever found one n-point that did 5GHz, and I had to shop around to get it. 5GHz is more expensive than 2.5GHz, and if consumers don't know what a gigahertz is then why should manuafacturers bother to support it?
Convenience. Piracy isn't just about saving money, though that is part of it. It's also the ability to watch whatever you want, when you want. Even if it's not been released yet in your country, or very old and obscure. All without needing to leave the house or wait more than a couple of hours.
The courts wouldn't see 23,000 cases. The usual procedure here is settlement. The copyright holder just has to make an offer that cannot be refused: Either settle for $7,000 or so, or go to court and face tens of thousands of dollars in legal fees even if you win.
As for the ISPs, I imagine the **IAs would love to see them inconvenienced even further by piracy. It means more of an incentive to put in place technological measures to stop piracy like blocking popular trackers, traffic shaping and tiny usage quotas.
A safe list of IPs wouldn't be practical. It'll be rather less hi-tech than that. When the subpoena results come back, someone is just going to be given the task of reading them all, running a quick google on each name, and striking off the list anyone they find who might pose a problem.
It's a safe practice ground. It would go against what amounts to the Anonymous social code to ever get the law involved in hacking matters, so the script kiddies can test their tools and hone their skills into becoming more capable without the risk of having the police come around to arrest them. Such an anti-authoritarian group would see legal action as betraying their princibles. Hack them and they'll hack back, but they won't call in the lawyers.
Anon's sites arn't actually illegal to view, so no need for a proxy unless you're bragging about your 1337 ski115. When it comes to the DoS, Anonymous relies on hideing in numbers. When you've got 10,000 script kiddies attacking, plus a couple of skilled attackers with botnets, then it's just not practical to track down and charge even a small fraction of those IP addresses. Expensive, time-consuming, and by the time it's gone through the legal system Anonymous will be on to a new target anyway.
I work at an organisation with over a hundred stations and a couple of hundred users*. We've had similar problems with roaming profiles. A user gets up, moves to another room and loses signal - or sometimes it just drops on it's own - and windows throws a hissy fit. Ends up with multible copies of the profile using different suffixes, some of them corrupt, and profiles swelling to hundreds of meg with prf*.tmp files. Then Outlook panics too because it's archive file isn't where it's supposed to be. The fundamentals of Windows multiuser networking predate wireless lans, so at the time of design it was a reasonable assumption that the network would actually be reliable. Not to just pick on Microsoft here - while it's true that Windows goes to hell if the network drops out, linux doesn't handle losing an NFS mount much better.
*Most of the users are only occasionally on the stations, so many times more users than stations.
Seriously, though... wireless has serious inherent disadvantages. Susceptibility to interference, a single collision domain, much lower bandwidth in the analog sense. It's good for mobility, but if you try to run a whole site-LAN on wireless it just wouldn't work - even if you utilised the 800MHz, 2.4GHZ and 5.0GHz bands all at once. Maybe if you put little 60GHz nodes in every room, but it'd be far too expensive.
It's supposed to be confusing. The legal treatment of creationism always has to involve jumping through a few hoops and slight deception in order to wriggle around the first amendment and court precidents. The primary lie is to claim that creationism is a scientific theory and isn't religious at all, in order to avoid openly endorsing a religion. Intelligent Design was created for exactly that purpose - a varient of Creationism that didn't refer to God, but instead to some form of mysterious superintelligent near-omnipotent creator entity that may or may not be God, but certainly looked a lot like him.
They might do like OPEC does with the oil. As soon as some non-Chinese companies are getting production onlined, China can drop the price down and force them out of business. Then raise the price again once the threat of competition is over.
The idea is to get economy of scale to kick in. Use the subsidies to get production up until the unit-cost comes down enough that the subsidies are no longer needed. Doesn't usually work out so cleanly in practice, but that's the idea.
Gas was cheap, and the promise was too good to resist. All the convenience of city life - the ready access to jobs, entertainment, shopping - and yet with the clean air, parks and community of country life.
You wouldn't want a parabola - to reflect back to the point of origin, you'd want a sphere. It'd be impractical though, due to the impossibility of tracking a moving car. Remember they are at ground zero for every note, so the car is built for it and the driver willing to sacrifice his hearing.
Less smartphone, more tablet. They have a serious disadvantage right now: Tablets will not fit in your pocket like a phone can. Make the screen flexible and they could furl or fold up. A long way to go though - the flexiscreen needs to be made bigger, higher resolution, color and touch-sensitive. Or it could just become a fold-up Kindle.
Or it could be that Sony, fearing Anonymous attacks, had their engineers start running systematic security audits - and then discovered that PSN had been hacked months ago, but do well that it hadn't been noticed.
Those rednecks tend to believe that climate change is a hoax perpetuated by liberals to allow the UN to take over, and so would be most gleeful at cutting NOAA and eliminating the flow of money and thus power to all those evil scientists.
Of course I do. I also know that almost all households now have their own router, which the ISP doesn't control, and which has the only MAC the ISP is going to get to see. They can't trace the customer side of that router. It is not in their area of authority.
No, it's easy enough to determine which customer address used the MAC. So usually (Not always, there are cases of mistaken records, glitches and boundry timeing issues), the ISP can match to a customer address. That doesn't mean an individual, just the household. Could be the billpayer, one of his family, a neighbour hacking the network, a friend of one of the family who brought their laptop around, a computer compromised by a hacker, and so on.
Nope. It's always been *illegal* to tape your LPs and share with friends - copyright law has existed since before the first audio recording was set in wax cylinder, and there is no 'but it was just for a friend' exception. Just because the law was unenforced and largely unenforceable doesn't make it legal.
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There was an old system for vinyl - some sort of hidden signal in the audio which would be detected by complient tape recorders and cause them to cease recording. It failed because there was no means by which the labels could compel tape recorder manufacturers to detect and respect the 'do not record' instruction. Impressively designed, as it was all done using only analog filters. No cheap DSP in those days!
"There are things that help"
Ferrets.
Any more? I've only ever found one n-point that did 5GHz, and I had to shop around to get it. 5GHz is more expensive than 2.5GHz, and if consumers don't know what a gigahertz is then why should manuafacturers bother to support it?
Convenience. Piracy isn't just about saving money, though that is part of it. It's also the ability to watch whatever you want, when you want. Even if it's not been released yet in your country, or very old and obscure. All without needing to leave the house or wait more than a couple of hours.
The courts wouldn't see 23,000 cases. The usual procedure here is settlement. The copyright holder just has to make an offer that cannot be refused: Either settle for $7,000 or so, or go to court and face tens of thousands of dollars in legal fees even if you win.
As for the ISPs, I imagine the **IAs would love to see them inconvenienced even further by piracy. It means more of an incentive to put in place technological measures to stop piracy like blocking popular trackers, traffic shaping and tiny usage quotas.
A safe list of IPs wouldn't be practical. It'll be rather less hi-tech than that. When the subpoena results come back, someone is just going to be given the task of reading them all, running a quick google on each name, and striking off the list anyone they find who might pose a problem.
It's a safe practice ground. It would go against what amounts to the Anonymous social code to ever get the law involved in hacking matters, so the script kiddies can test their tools and hone their skills into becoming more capable without the risk of having the police come around to arrest them. Such an anti-authoritarian group would see legal action as betraying their princibles. Hack them and they'll hack back, but they won't call in the lawyers.
Anon's sites arn't actually illegal to view, so no need for a proxy unless you're bragging about your 1337 ski115. When it comes to the DoS, Anonymous relies on hideing in numbers. When you've got 10,000 script kiddies attacking, plus a couple of skilled attackers with botnets, then it's just not practical to track down and charge even a small fraction of those IP addresses. Expensive, time-consuming, and by the time it's gone through the legal system Anonymous will be on to a new target anyway.
I work at an organisation with over a hundred stations and a couple of hundred users*. We've had similar problems with roaming profiles. A user gets up, moves to another room and loses signal - or sometimes it just drops on it's own - and windows throws a hissy fit. Ends up with multible copies of the profile using different suffixes, some of them corrupt, and profiles swelling to hundreds of meg with prf*.tmp files. Then Outlook panics too because it's archive file isn't where it's supposed to be. The fundamentals of Windows multiuser networking predate wireless lans, so at the time of design it was a reasonable assumption that the network would actually be reliable. Not to just pick on Microsoft here - while it's true that Windows goes to hell if the network drops out, linux doesn't handle losing an NFS mount much better.
*Most of the users are only occasionally on the stations, so many times more users than stations.
Ye cannae change the laws of physics!
Seriously, though... wireless has serious inherent disadvantages. Susceptibility to interference, a single collision domain, much lower bandwidth in the analog sense. It's good for mobility, but if you try to run a whole site-LAN on wireless it just wouldn't work - even if you utilised the 800MHz, 2.4GHZ and 5.0GHz bands all at once. Maybe if you put little 60GHz nodes in every room, but it'd be far too expensive.
It's supposed to be confusing. The legal treatment of creationism always has to involve jumping through a few hoops and slight deception in order to wriggle around the first amendment and court precidents. The primary lie is to claim that creationism is a scientific theory and isn't religious at all, in order to avoid openly endorsing a religion. Intelligent Design was created for exactly that purpose - a varient of Creationism that didn't refer to God, but instead to some form of mysterious superintelligent near-omnipotent creator entity that may or may not be God, but certainly looked a lot like him.
They might do like OPEC does with the oil. As soon as some non-Chinese companies are getting production onlined, China can drop the price down and force them out of business. Then raise the price again once the threat of competition is over.
The idea is to get economy of scale to kick in. Use the subsidies to get production up until the unit-cost comes down enough that the subsidies are no longer needed. Doesn't usually work out so cleanly in practice, but that's the idea.
Gas was cheap, and the promise was too good to resist. All the convenience of city life - the ready access to jobs, entertainment, shopping - and yet with the clean air, parks and community of country life.
You wouldn't want a parabola - to reflect back to the point of origin, you'd want a sphere. It'd be impractical though, due to the impossibility of tracking a moving car. Remember they are at ground zero for every note, so the car is built for it and the driver willing to sacrifice his hearing.
It's a pride thing. You may not want to hear it, but they *want* you to hear it. A way off announcing their cultural identity.
It's ROT13 somehow, and appears to be similar in nature to the non-cyphered texts. Strings of quotes concatenated.
Legal action always lags a few years behind current pirate techology. Limewire used to be huge.
Less smartphone, more tablet. They have a serious disadvantage right now: Tablets will not fit in your pocket like a phone can. Make the screen flexible and they could furl or fold up. A long way to go though - the flexiscreen needs to be made bigger, higher resolution, color and touch-sensitive. Or it could just become a fold-up Kindle.
Or it could be that Sony, fearing Anonymous attacks, had their engineers start running systematic security audits - and then discovered that PSN had been hacked months ago, but do well that it hadn't been noticed.
Those rednecks tend to believe that climate change is a hoax perpetuated by liberals to allow the UN to take over, and so would be most gleeful at cutting NOAA and eliminating the flow of money and thus power to all those evil scientists.
Of course I do. I also know that almost all households now have their own router, which the ISP doesn't control, and which has the only MAC the ISP is going to get to see. They can't trace the customer side of that router. It is not in their area of authority.
No, it's easy enough to determine which customer address used the MAC. So usually (Not always, there are cases of mistaken records, glitches and boundry timeing issues), the ISP can match to a customer address. That doesn't mean an individual, just the household. Could be the billpayer, one of his family, a neighbour hacking the network, a friend of one of the family who brought their laptop around, a computer compromised by a hacker, and so on.
You can make any of them run on the GUI terminal if you set the appropriate environment variable first to tell it where the screen is.
Nope. It's always been *illegal* to tape your LPs and share with friends - copyright law has existed since before the first audio recording was set in wax cylinder, and there is no 'but it was just for a friend' exception. Just because the law was unenforced and largely unenforceable doesn't make it legal.