Remote control technologies are far from being usable in case of a disaster. Look at EOD robots. That's military grade stuff, and yet they still get quite a number of malfulctions, while their robots don't have to stray far, crawl through buildings or withstand radioactivity, agressive chemicals. Automated bots would not have enough intelligence to handle the situation. So we are not quite there yet with our technologies. And I am not talking about sentient robots capable of self-sacrifice (someone is hooked on sci-fi novels and anime, huh?), but a simple automated machine that can aid the firemen, policemen or the rescue services in their dangereous as hell jobs.
Likely to "see the radiation"? How about reading up on the spectrum emitted. As for analog cameras — are saying there are robots that use film cameras as visual sensors? If radiation is jamming the electronics then the human sent in that environment will fry on the spot in the matter of minutes. Simple as that.
Those companies might just move to other countries with a more favourable laws. Guess there is a lot of countries that would like Google to pay their taxes. But US gets all the media companies. Would like to see who would fold first, after all it is Hollywood that's driving the innovation and progress. Oh, wait
You cannot make the old model profitable. You cannot get the geany back in the bottle. People have gotten the taste of free stuff and have begun understanding that the business model is flawed. Trust me, filesharing will survive, decentralized nets, encryption technology is available, and approving draconical laws will simply give people the incentive to use those nets. If you make taking crap illegal, people will not stop crapping. Try to enforce it — and you might just be reminded that power is not god-given, that you were actually elected by the people and they might just care enough to take that right away. And remember that there are certain limits to the extent of military power. Those are people too, in the police, in the military, they have friends, family and if you push them to opress the population too much, you might just get the exactly opposite reaction — and if it gets to that Well, I would not want to be in their place.
You know, people have the government they deserve. If large enough percentage of the population gave a sh#t and would actively demonstrated it (that's the word, demonstration, to show your position) there would be no need for a revolution. And trust me, as soon as minority grabs their guns and tries to make a better place for everyone — it never goes the way it should. A lot of blood is spilled, usually that, of the innocent bystanders. And in the end you just end up with another set of greedy smoothtalkers in the sits. Fight for democracy is a never ending one. And as for US — they have been exporting the democracy to middle east in such ammounts, that, there may be none left for the citizens in the states.
Yeah, it will do a lot of good. Like finally replacing the DNS system and moving torrents to shadow-nets. Oh, I would so like to see if the rest of the world will finally make their own DNS infrastructure and SOPA will just create a Great Firewall of USA. Way to go. Heck, I think if we introduce 5 year prison sentence for everyone who downloaded the movie, everyone will just rush to the stores to buy their limited edition blueray for 100 dollars. Or maybe it will decrease the indirect advertising the movies get from torrents and the industry will finally die without the income. Or, more likely they will just tax everyone because if the companies are losing sales it is not because they have a crappy business model, it because of the people, who copy information and share it.
It won't affect piracy. The only thing this is going to achieve is torrent client with built in i2p or something like that. It's enough for people to be scared enough that software developers of popular bittorrent clients (say uTorrent, for example) implement this feature in a user-friendly fashion (click here not to be traced on-line). And there you have it folks, stealth network that just got a great deal bigger and you have no idea what is moving along those "pipes" and where. Good job.
Why don't we use the Army to stop shoplifting? Just shoot anyone suspected of shoplifting on the spot without due process, who needs that anyways? Oh, wait, I've got an even better idea — let's make up a nice act like Stop ShopLifting Act and just carpet bomb any mall, where shoplifting occurs. If you are against it — you are a shoplifter and should be shot on sight. Thank you, that is all.
And let me point out to you — RIAA and MPAA are not after the pirates, heck, they could not care less about those guys, they mostly provide free ads for the music and videos. What they are really scared about — is indie movies and music. With the Internet all the giant media companies could be bypassed and they would stop being the censor deciding (and profiting from it) who gets published and who doesn't. And those guys just cannot let that happen. They don't care about pirates, they care about censoring the Internet (which makes about as much sense as filtering the ocean).
What I expect to happen — as soon as they go agressively after torrents and pirates, then people will just move over to the places where free stuff is. If this legislation is approved, then we are to see the rise of i2p and similar networks. Probably even built into most popular torrent clients, depriving the corporations of the little control they had over Internet.
It would also be nice if they provided the infridging content available for download on the USTR site. You know, just in case everyone wants to make sure the content is infringing.
If only KDE had any decent replacement for GVFS, as KIO right now is nowhere near, fuse support is nonexistant, software that does not directly support KIO is stuck with perverse workarounds that upload the changes to the files only when the program opening it is killed, so it's XFCE for me for now.
I use my computer as a tool. And as such it must be efficient. If make a hammer from soft rubber justifying that "common user might get hurt when using metal hammers" then you are making a goddamn toy, not a tool. And that is exactly what Gnome crew is doing. I get that they are trying to make an impressive interface for tablet PC, but why should regular PC users suffer? Would it hurt them to go play in a "Gnome-Tablet" version of the interface without crippling the desktop version? Those that would not need customizability and would be happy with all the bling could play with the new interface all they want and those that do any actual work could continue to do so without switching DEs.
The politics is to provide OpenOffice under more permissive license, as for some businesses this might be a deal-breaker, thus getting more traction for the ODF format. So people will have choice between Apache licensed OpenOffice, or GPLv3 licensed LibreOffice, whichever they go with — it's still compatible.
Yeah, let's weld the bugger shut, so that nobody, including the imaginary bad guy can get in. And if you need to change the oil then just buy a new and upgraded car, that will come with brand new oil.
There is also that: most of people I communicate with use GMail and as the message does not leave the server and server-client communication is over ssl, so it eliminates the third, unencrypted link in the communication chain. As for GPG — only a small percentage of even IT inclined people I know have bothered to generate a key and setup encryption/decryption solution. Mostly those, that have to deal with very sensitive material from time to time. Although there is a government issued smartcard that allows for a widely adopted solution for asymmetric encryption that has software mostly on every computer, which kind of makes the situation a little better (I don't have to get into details explaining about the encryption, public and secret keys or explain how to install the software). Keys are government-issued opensc compatible crypto cards, pubkeys are available online if you know a person's name. So in case of emergency I can always encrypt files with that, given that almost everyone has them now. P.S. That is about Estonia.
Ah, come on already. Enough with the "all the phones have similar design" argument. Put side by side iPhone 3G(S), iPhone 4, any HTC smartphone, any Sony-Ericsson smartphone, Nokia smartphone and Samsung Galaxy (I and 2) then see try to match similar looking phones. Somehow only Samsung managed to make their phone look painfully like the iPhone.
Except for the fact, that communism has not been implemented anywhere in the world. The closest we've come were all kinds of socialism flavours, some of which still flourish in Europe, but don't let the facts distract you.
What? How come every single time GPL comes up everyone automatically assumes that there is a clause that forbids you to profit from GPL-ed projects? I personally modified quite a number of GPL software and, sticking to the license provided the source code along with the binaries AND received a payment. Tell RedHat that you cannot profit from GPL software. And to repeat once again — BSD is about freedom of the coder, GPL is about freedom of the code.
You won't believe, but there are ISPs, that offer external IP and turn on port-blocking by default, allowing more experience customers to disable that.
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Remote control technologies are far from being usable in case of a disaster. Look at EOD robots. That's military grade stuff, and yet they still get quite a number of malfulctions, while their robots don't have to stray far, crawl through buildings or withstand radioactivity, agressive chemicals. Automated bots would not have enough intelligence to handle the situation. So we are not quite there yet with our technologies. And I am not talking about sentient robots capable of self-sacrifice (someone is hooked on sci-fi novels and anime, huh?), but a simple automated machine that can aid the firemen, policemen or the rescue services in their dangereous as hell jobs.
Likely to "see the radiation"? How about reading up on the spectrum emitted. As for analog cameras — are saying there are robots that use film cameras as visual sensors? If radiation is jamming the electronics then the human sent in that environment will fry on the spot in the matter of minutes. Simple as that.
Then sell it with no support whatsoever. I'm pretty the geeks will buy them anyway and as for the rest — it's just 52 dollars.
Those companies might just move to other countries with a more favourable laws. Guess there is a lot of countries that would like Google to pay their taxes. But US gets all the media companies. Would like to see who would fold first, after all it is Hollywood that's driving the innovation and progress. Oh, wait
You cannot make the old model profitable. You cannot get the geany back in the bottle. People have gotten the taste of free stuff and have begun understanding that the business model is flawed. Trust me, filesharing will survive, decentralized nets, encryption technology is available, and approving draconical laws will simply give people the incentive to use those nets. If you make taking crap illegal, people will not stop crapping. Try to enforce it — and you might just be reminded that power is not god-given, that you were actually elected by the people and they might just care enough to take that right away. And remember that there are certain limits to the extent of military power. Those are people too, in the police, in the military, they have friends, family and if you push them to opress the population too much, you might just get the exactly opposite reaction — and if it gets to that Well, I would not want to be in their place.
You know, people have the government they deserve. If large enough percentage of the population gave a sh#t and would actively demonstrated it (that's the word, demonstration, to show your position) there would be no need for a revolution. And trust me, as soon as minority grabs their guns and tries to make a better place for everyone — it never goes the way it should. A lot of blood is spilled, usually that, of the innocent bystanders. And in the end you just end up with another set of greedy smoothtalkers in the sits. Fight for democracy is a never ending one. And as for US — they have been exporting the democracy to middle east in such ammounts, that, there may be none left for the citizens in the states.
Yeah, it will do a lot of good. Like finally replacing the DNS system and moving torrents to shadow-nets. Oh, I would so like to see if the rest of the world will finally make their own DNS infrastructure and SOPA will just create a Great Firewall of USA. Way to go.
Heck, I think if we introduce 5 year prison sentence for everyone who downloaded the movie, everyone will just rush to the stores to buy their limited edition blueray for 100 dollars. Or maybe it will decrease the indirect advertising the movies get from torrents and the industry will finally die without the income. Or, more likely they will just tax everyone because if the companies are losing sales it is not because they have a crappy business model, it because of the people, who copy information and share it.
s/Obama/US government for the last couple of decades
There, FTFY.
It won't affect piracy. The only thing this is going to achieve is torrent client with built in i2p or something like that. It's enough for people to be scared enough that software developers of popular bittorrent clients (say uTorrent, for example) implement this feature in a user-friendly fashion (click here not to be traced on-line). And there you have it folks, stealth network that just got a great deal bigger and you have no idea what is moving along those "pipes" and where. Good job.
As long as the wallets are in their jeans
Don't see anything to laugh about, and it is quite sad to see that some countries have forfeited this right in exchange for an illusion of security.
Only it it's pirated porn, but you can write your congressman, I'm sure he will happily share some of his own favourite sites.
Why don't we use the Army to stop shoplifting? Just shoot anyone suspected of shoplifting on the spot without due process, who needs that anyways? Oh, wait, I've got an even better idea — let's make up a nice act like Stop ShopLifting Act and just carpet bomb any mall, where shoplifting occurs. If you are against it — you are a shoplifter and should be shot on sight. Thank you, that is all.
And let me point out to you — RIAA and MPAA are not after the pirates, heck, they could not care less about those guys, they mostly provide free ads for the music and videos. What they are really scared about — is indie movies and music. With the Internet all the giant media companies could be bypassed and they would stop being the censor deciding (and profiting from it) who gets published and who doesn't. And those guys just cannot let that happen. They don't care about pirates, they care about censoring the Internet (which makes about as much sense as filtering the ocean).
What I expect to happen — as soon as they go agressively after torrents and pirates, then people will just move over to the places where free stuff is. If this legislation is approved, then we are to see the rise of i2p and similar networks. Probably even built into most popular torrent clients, depriving the corporations of the little control they had over Internet.
It would also be nice if they provided the infridging content available for download on the USTR site. You know, just in case everyone wants to make sure the content is infringing.
If only KDE had any decent replacement for GVFS, as KIO right now is nowhere near, fuse support is nonexistant, software that does not directly support KIO is stuck with perverse workarounds that upload the changes to the files only when the program opening it is killed, so it's XFCE for me for now.
I use my computer as a tool. And as such it must be efficient. If make a hammer from soft rubber justifying that "common user might get hurt when using metal hammers" then you are making a goddamn toy, not a tool. And that is exactly what Gnome crew is doing. I get that they are trying to make an impressive interface for tablet PC, but why should regular PC users suffer? Would it hurt them to go play in a "Gnome-Tablet" version of the interface without crippling the desktop version? Those that would not need customizability and would be happy with all the bling could play with the new interface all they want and those that do any actual work could continue to do so without switching DEs.
Why change the oil, when you can sell a new car, with new, better oil.
The politics is to provide OpenOffice under more permissive license, as for some businesses this might be a deal-breaker, thus getting more traction for the ODF format. So people will have choice between Apache licensed OpenOffice, or GPLv3 licensed LibreOffice, whichever they go with — it's still compatible.
Yeah, let's weld the bugger shut, so that nobody, including the imaginary bad guy can get in. And if you need to change the oil then just buy a new and upgraded car, that will come with brand new oil.
There is also that: most of people I communicate with use GMail and as the message does not leave the server and server-client communication is over ssl, so it eliminates the third, unencrypted link in the communication chain.
As for GPG — only a small percentage of even IT inclined people I know have bothered to generate a key and setup encryption/decryption solution. Mostly those, that have to deal with very sensitive material from time to time.
Although there is a government issued smartcard that allows for a widely adopted solution for asymmetric encryption that has software mostly on every computer, which kind of makes the situation a little better (I don't have to get into details explaining about the encryption, public and secret keys or explain how to install the software). Keys are government-issued opensc compatible crypto cards, pubkeys are available online if you know a person's name. So in case of emergency I can always encrypt files with that, given that almost everyone has them now.
P.S. That is about Estonia.
Ah, come on already. Enough with the "all the phones have similar design" argument. Put side by side iPhone 3G(S), iPhone 4, any HTC smartphone, any Sony-Ericsson smartphone, Nokia smartphone and Samsung Galaxy (I and 2) then see try to match similar looking phones. Somehow only Samsung managed to make their phone look painfully like the iPhone.
Except for the fact, that communism has not been implemented anywhere in the world. The closest we've come were all kinds of socialism flavours, some of which still flourish in Europe, but don't let the facts distract you.
What? How come every single time GPL comes up everyone automatically assumes that there is a clause that forbids you to profit from GPL-ed projects? I personally modified quite a number of GPL software and, sticking to the license provided the source code along with the binaries AND received a payment.
Tell RedHat that you cannot profit from GPL software.
And to repeat once again — BSD is about freedom of the coder, GPL is about freedom of the code.
Read you loud and clear.
You won't believe, but there are ISPs, that offer external IP and turn on port-blocking by default, allowing more experience customers to disable that.