I dunno about other providers, but Comcast requires you to register the MAC of your computer with them (they disguise this by having you go to a website in IE, supposedly only to set up your comcast account). The modem ignores connections from any other MAC. So you clone the MAC of your computer to the router to use it. I dunno if it actually sends it to Comcast or if it's the modem itself that knows it.
If I write my grocery list on a giant billboard on the side of the road, I'm writing it for myself, but I really can't get mad if someone else sees it and writes it down.
I dunno what it's like where you live, but in my town if someone bothers me by screaming too loudly I can call the police and have them put a stop to it... Isn't that similar to "opt-out"? (generally I don't because it's more entertaining to listen, but still).
Once I filled out an order form and Chrome asked me "would you like to save your credit card data?". So likely they already have the credit card numbers for a lot of people who value speed over privacy.
I'd bet that most people WOULDN'T opt in, since doing so would take a little time out of their day that they don't want to spend opting into a service that they don't get an immediate reward to (yes I know that in the end they all win since the geolocation gets better, but most people won't think about that).
we could even write our own rendering systems and send them along with our code.
I think to do that they would either have to have an API for communicating with the browser (which we already have, it's called HTML5/css), or the browser would have to trust code coming from a potentially unknown server that tells it how to draw. That opens the possibility of malicious rendering code. Same deal with our own scripting languages (though technically you can ALREADY do this, just write a daemon that runs port 80 and can read your specific code, or loads as an apache module) Personally I find HTML5 and js remarkably easy to code in, even for complicated projects. Also, isn't HTML5 not quite completed yet? It may become "easier" to use in time.
You know at first I didn't think that the number you gave was accurate-thought it was too low... Then I actually did some research into it: http://www.epa.gov/ogwdw/wot/pdfs/book_waterontap_full.pdf
"The national average cost of water is $2.00 per. 1000 gallons."
So $0.002 / gallon.
Assuming 16 glasses of water / gallon (http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=1006042500884) we get:
$0.000125 / glass of water.
the President of the United States supposedly the most powerful position on EArth really only has three hammers with which to fix things. Lawyers, diplomats, and Military. He has no other tool. what's worse is his diplomats and Military are partially controlled by Congress.
For being so Powerful he really can't do much.
It's that way on purpose, so that the "most powerful man in the world" doesn't become a dictator.
While I agree with your other post about people feeling entitled to content that they didn't pay for, I think you're going a little overboard here. To use a car analogy, it's like renting a car that is supposed to have a 150 hp engine (that's horsepower, not health/hit points) and then being told if you actually get up to 150 at any time your engine will automatically throttle back down to 50 hp. Yes, it's not your car, you're just paying for the privilege of using it, and the people who you got it from have every right to throttle it down, but in that case they shouldn't advertise a 150 hp engine when they know they'll never let you get that high. I feel entitled to my ISP telling me what speeds I can ACTUALLY get before being throttled down.
The difference is that the electricity companies never CLAIMED to be able to give every household max current draw at any given moment (AFAIK). When I signed up for Comcast I was told "You can have 16 down, 6 up." Whenever I get close to the bandwidth that I was told I could have I get throttled down. Yes, there was the fine print in the contract saying "you can't actually have these speeds 'cause our network can't handle it", but doesn't that imply false advertising?
Want to use even rudimentary hardware? You are probably going to need to install some sort of third party driver.
However, if Linux doesn't have driver support for that hardware, good luck getting it to run, period. I don't disagree with anything else you said though.
aptitude has a more gui-like interface, vs apt, which is generally command-line. Ergo it's more "abstract", which in this case means "easier to use for someone not trained on a console"
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Yeah why doesn't anyone ever talk about that? Maybe because Apple just never tells us when they take info they aren't supposed to....
I dunno about other providers, but Comcast requires you to register the MAC of your computer with them (they disguise this by having you go to a website in IE, supposedly only to set up your comcast account). The modem ignores connections from any other MAC. So you clone the MAC of your computer to the router to use it. I dunno if it actually sends it to Comcast or if it's the modem itself that knows it.
If I write my grocery list on a giant billboard on the side of the road, I'm writing it for myself, but I really can't get mad if someone else sees it and writes it down.
I dunno what it's like where you live, but in my town if someone bothers me by screaming too loudly I can call the police and have them put a stop to it... Isn't that similar to "opt-out"? (generally I don't because it's more entertaining to listen, but still).
Oh I agree. I'm just pointing out WHY they won't do it.
NO ONE GIVES A FUCK ABOUT YOUR HOUSE OVER THE OTHER 6 BILLION PEOPLE'S HOMES.
But that's not the point. Attitudes like that are why our civil liberties keep being eaten away.
But if you're living in the basement wouldn't the AP be your mom's, not yours? ;)
Once I filled out an order form and Chrome asked me "would you like to save your credit card data?". So likely they already have the credit card numbers for a lot of people who value speed over privacy.
Bear in mind that to a lot of people (ie non-techs), the simple hardware they are using IS special equipment.
I'd bet that most people WOULDN'T opt in, since doing so would take a little time out of their day that they don't want to spend opting into a service that they don't get an immediate reward to (yes I know that in the end they all win since the geolocation gets better, but most people won't think about that).
we could even write our own rendering systems and send them along with our code.
I think to do that they would either have to have an API for communicating with the browser (which we already have, it's called HTML5/css), or the browser would have to trust code coming from a potentially unknown server that tells it how to draw. That opens the possibility of malicious rendering code. Same deal with our own scripting languages (though technically you can ALREADY do this, just write a daemon that runs port 80 and can read your specific code, or loads as an apache module) Personally I find HTML5 and js remarkably easy to code in, even for complicated projects. Also, isn't HTML5 not quite completed yet? It may become "easier" to use in time.
Generally HTML5 works in 90% of browsers (though some features aren't completed yet, maybe that's what you mean?)
So what if it's legal in your country to rip a CD?
Given their recent actions, I highly doubt that matters to the RIAA.
AFAIK You can already be sued for not paying for a license to sing happy birthday to someone if you operate in a commercial capacity.
a CD, a downloaded MP3, and a book are all identical as far as copyright law is concerned
Until the RIAA realize they can't get money this way and a new revision to the copyright is suddenly introduced in Congress.
Glory. (I had to)
"No. 6,791,536: simulating mouse inputs using non-mouse devices"
"No. 6,897,853: simulating mouse inputs using non-mouse devices"
Can someone explain to me why Microsoft has two patents for the same thing? Or an I just reading that wrong?
Good point. The statement probably should be "Content owners have the right to make money when their content is distributed"
You know at first I didn't think that the number you gave was accurate-thought it was too low... Then I actually did some research into it:
http://www.epa.gov/ogwdw/wot/pdfs/book_waterontap_full.pdf
"The national average cost of water is $2.00 per. 1000 gallons."
So $0.002 / gallon.
Assuming 16 glasses of water / gallon (http://answers.yahoo.com/question/index?qid=1006042500884) we get:
$0.000125 / glass of water.
the President of the United States supposedly the most powerful position on EArth really only has three hammers with which to fix things. Lawyers, diplomats, and Military. He has no other tool. what's worse is his diplomats and Military are partially controlled by Congress.
For being so Powerful he really can't do much.
It's that way on purpose, so that the "most powerful man in the world" doesn't become a dictator.
While I agree with your other post about people feeling entitled to content that they didn't pay for, I think you're going a little overboard here. To use a car analogy, it's like renting a car that is supposed to have a 150 hp engine (that's horsepower, not health/hit points) and then being told if you actually get up to 150 at any time your engine will automatically throttle back down to 50 hp. Yes, it's not your car, you're just paying for the privilege of using it, and the people who you got it from have every right to throttle it down, but in that case they shouldn't advertise a 150 hp engine when they know they'll never let you get that high. I feel entitled to my ISP telling me what speeds I can ACTUALLY get before being throttled down.
The difference is that the electricity companies never CLAIMED to be able to give every household max current draw at any given moment (AFAIK). When I signed up for Comcast I was told "You can have 16 down, 6 up." Whenever I get close to the bandwidth that I was told I could have I get throttled down. Yes, there was the fine print in the contract saying "you can't actually have these speeds 'cause our network can't handle it", but doesn't that imply false advertising?
Want to use even rudimentary hardware? You are probably going to need to install some sort of third party driver.
However, if Linux doesn't have driver support for that hardware, good luck getting it to run, period. I don't disagree with anything else you said though.
aptitude has a more gui-like interface, vs apt, which is generally command-line. Ergo it's more "abstract", which in this case means "easier to use for someone not trained on a console"
Most Source-based games work in WINE.