Putting up one other satellite isn't an option. It can't stay in range all the time. And launching satellites into polar orbits is difficult. It would probably need half a dozen expensive satellite launches to give continuous coverage to the pole.
The north pole drifts quite a lot. The south pole is three miles of ice on top of solid rock, and drifts a lot less. It's drifting of the thousand miles of ice between the south pole and the other end of the cable that they have to worry about.
Unfortunately, it turns out that the earth is a sphere. I know, who would have thought it? But given that, there's the slight practical problem of beaming the microwaves or other wireless connection through a thousand miles of solid rock.
But there isn't a "Spaniards' region". Spain is in region 2, Europe, along with countries speaking English, French, German, Portuguese, Dutch, Italian, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian and many other languages.
The region encoding debate probably isn't much of an issue for Region 1 users, since the majority of disks are released in R1 format. However, for users in other regions, the restrictions are a real pain. Many R1 DVD disks (particularly back-catalogue films) are simply not released in other region encodings, and often when they are eventually released they are of inferior quality (e.g. non-anamorphic or missing the extras). If there were some phased-release scheme which ensured that all disks where eventually released in all regions then I would have far less desire to circumvent the system.
For movies, that is largely true. However, DVDs of American TV shows generally come out on region 2 and 4 DVD years before they are available in region 1, due to TV syndication agreements.
This is a story from a British newspaper, and UK law would apply. IANAL, but it seems unlikely to me that most clickthrough EULAs would survive a challenge under the Unfair Contract Terms Act, which rules that a contract term cannot be enforced if "contrary to the requirement of good faith it causes a significant imbalance in the parties' rights and obligations under the contract, to the detriment of consumers". Furthermore "a standard term must be expressed in plain and intelligible language. A term is open to challenge if it could put you at a disadvantage because you are not clear about its meaning - even if its meaning could be worked out by a lawyer."
Your use of the word "stealing" is clearly incorrect in this case. Web-site users do not have any contract with you that states that they will view the advertisements if they view your content. If you sign anyone up to such a contract, and they block the ads anyway, then they're stealing your content, but merely putting a web page with ads on a web site does not create such a contract, and web users can legitimately view whichever bits of it they want to.
I run a profitable web site that serves over a million pages per day. We have no ads at all. I suggest you find a different source of revenue, as I doubt the advertisement-supported model is viable in the long term.
The equator passes through northern Brazil, some distance from the main Amazon basin. It also passes through Colombia and (obviously enough) Ecuador.
It goes way north of South Africa, and actually passes through about six different countries in Africa -- none of them models of political stability, admittedly.
There are also parts of Indonesia and Kiribati on the equator.
My criterion for an acceptable DRM system is simple. It must be incapable of removing any rights from the end user. Where any form of copying or other use is legally permissible without the consent of the copyright holder, such as redistributing extracts as part of a criticism or comment, making a copy for personal use on a different device, copying a broadcast for later viewing ("time-shifting"), viewing a work on a player in a different part of the world and so on, the copyright holder must be incapable of using the DRM system to prevent such copying.
If a technical solution to preserving "fair use" is not possible, a legal solution would be acceptable -- legislation would have to require that a copyright holder not use a DRM system in such a way as to prevent fair use, and I suggest that the appropriate penalty for failure to comply would be for them to lose the copyright on the work concerned and have it placed in the public domain for all to copy and resell freely.
You will note that several existing DRM technologies, such as DVD region coding and Macrovision, fail to meet this criterion. This is a serious issue which I suggest you should address at the workshop.
It's the entertainment software that will drive it, and there's no free market there. If I don't want to buy a DVD of The Lord Of The Rings from New Line Cinema because they're enrypting it so that it will only play on a Palladium machine, I can't go down the road and buy a copy from another studio that's not doing so.
Government needs to require all entertainment content to be made available to any distributor who wants to sell it subject to RAND (reasonable and non-discriminatory) license payments if they want to establish a free market.
That's fine until the first virus that skims the victim's Outlook Sent Items folder and resends everything from the past couple of weeks that had an attachment, with the attachment infected with a copy of the virus, and a note added at the beginning saying "Here's an updated copy of the file."
The only way to be safe is not to open any attachments, even if you think you know what they are.
You've overestimated the price of colour toner quite substantially. It's more like 15-30 cents per page for all consumable costs (toner, drums, fusers etc.), for 5% coverage. And B&W only is much cheaper, close to mono laser printer costs. It's a lot cheaper than inkjet for large quantities.
I'd rewrite the copyright laws to explicitly make the allowing of all kinds of fair use a requirement for a copyright to be granted. It would be perfectly legal to protect a work using protection schemes that prevent fair uses (such as making excerpts, viewing it on other devices, lending it and reselling it), but that would automatically void its copyright so that if anyone *could* copy it, they could legally redistribute as many copies as they wanted. And, of course, the DMCA prohibitions on circumventing access controls wouldn't apply to any access control that prevented any fair use.
As far as I can tell, it doesn't have stuff that I use all the time, such as
Different width columns on the same page
Wrapping text round irregular edges of imported pictures
Different headers and footers for odd and even pages
Not only does it meant that those features aren't available for use, but if it doesn't have them it can't possibly do a decent job of importing Word documents that use them.
Until robots get to the price of a washer/dryer we won't see them much of anywhere. Look how long it is taking to get HDTV going in the states! And DVD players might overtake VCRs this year. And forget about the DVD recorders! Everytime I see or hear about a new gadget that claims it is priced near that of a luxury car I cringe. Maybe my great-great grandkids will get to play with them.
It does rather depend on how useful the gadget is. I believe that luxury cars have always been priced near the price of a luxury car, but they seem to sell a few million of them per year.
I can certainly see some consumer robotics applications that people would pay that kind of money for. Even some that aren't sex-related.
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On the other hand, if you're a business looking to get some traffic to your site a search engine can be a great place to start. Especially a popular one like google. I would be very tempted to do the same thing to get my sites near the top if they weren't already there.
You can't do the same thing. Nor can anyone else by themselves. This method requires a large number of people working in concert, and is more likely to be successful for whimsy than for commercial gain.
The best answer only works if you have more than one box at your colocation facility, and involves buying another box. Buy a terminal server. Connect it to all the serial ports on your other devices. Secure access to it thoroughly. Now, you can telnet to the serial port on a box from another box -- with decent hardware, e.g. Sun Netras, you can even powercycle it if you need to.
Can you imagine how suprised a future archielogist will be when they dig into some radioactive waste that is still active in 10,000 years? Lethally suprised. *L* Maybe there will be legends of curses on people who dig in ancient sites? Kind of like the curse of the mummy.
I think you're confusing "still radioactive in 10,000 years" and "still lethal in 10,000 years". If it's very radioactive now, it has a short half-life, and will have pretty much decayed. it won't last unless it wasn't very radioactive to start with.
The music business seems to me like an ideal candidate for those RAND (reasonable and non-discrimnatory) licenses that caused some trouble at the W3C recently. Supppose that anyone could legally distribute copies of music provided they paid the artist the same amount per copy as they would get from their actual official record company. It would let services like mp3.com distribute music cheap by charging 2 cents per track instead of $1 on top of what goes to the artist, it would bring CD prices down really quickly and it would actually help the artists.
Of course, while the entertainment business controls half of Congress, it's not going to happen.
At 110GHz, light travels less than 3mm in one clock cycle -- less than the width of the processor, I presume. And if it's accessing memory from a RAM chip 10cm away, it'll be waiting close to a hundred clock cycles to get anything back.
No, the exact opposite. Very large populations which don't have outlying parts that are reproductively isolated tend to be very stable. You get fast evolution, and eventually speciation, when a very small population is isolated from the rest of the species, preferably in a different environment.
Having said that, I disagree with the article, as the human species' environment has changed so radically over the past few thousand years that there must be some fairly rapid evolution going on to catch up. There are the disease resistances that others have mentioned, but more importantly resistance to recreational drugs -- alcohol was a killer to populations that hadn't had a few thousand years to develop some resistance, for example.
The technologies that gave the Romans their advantage weren't things like roads and construction, they were organisational technologies like distributed command structures and military discipline. And Rome fell because they lost those technologies, not because others acquired them.
Similarly, the technologies that give the West its edge aren't nukes and stealth bombers, they're freedom of communication and democracy. And the danger isn't that the enemy will acquire them, because they would then cease to be the enemy -- it's that the West will lose them.
That's a really bad idea. First, it encourages companies to do even more contracting out of menial jobs to non-employees so that the cap goes up. Second, it makes it impossible to get decent people to run the cleaning companies, temp agencies, and so on, which probably makes working for them even worse.
Better to set the rules so that the top paid executive can't earn more than 10x minimum wage, no matter what the rest of the staff in that particular company are paid.
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Putting up one other satellite isn't an option. It can't stay in range all the time. And launching satellites into polar orbits is difficult. It would probably need half a dozen expensive satellite launches to give continuous coverage to the pole.
The north pole drifts quite a lot. The south pole is three miles of ice on top of solid rock, and drifts a lot less. It's drifting of the thousand miles of ice between the south pole and the other end of the cable that they have to worry about.
Unfortunately, it turns out that the earth is a sphere. I know, who would have thought it? But given that, there's the slight practical problem of beaming the microwaves or other wireless connection through a thousand miles of solid rock.
But there isn't a "Spaniards' region". Spain is in region 2, Europe, along with countries speaking English, French, German, Portuguese, Dutch, Italian, Danish, Swedish, Norwegian and many other languages.
The region encoding debate probably isn't much of an issue for Region 1 users, since the majority of disks are released in R1 format. However, for users in other regions, the restrictions are a real pain. Many R1 DVD disks (particularly back-catalogue films) are simply not released in other region encodings, and often when they are eventually released they are of inferior quality (e.g. non-anamorphic or missing the extras). If there were some phased-release scheme which ensured that all disks where eventually released in all regions then I would have far less desire to circumvent the system.
For movies, that is largely true. However, DVDs of American TV shows generally come out on region 2 and 4 DVD years before they are available in region 1, due to TV syndication agreements.
(Quotes from the Office of Fair Trading website at <http://www.oft.gov.uk/Consumer/Unfair+terms+in+c
I run a profitable web site that serves over a million pages per day. We have no ads at all. I suggest you find a different source of revenue, as I doubt the advertisement-supported model is viable in the long term.
Check an atlas.
The equator passes through northern Brazil, some distance from the main Amazon basin. It also passes through Colombia and (obviously enough) Ecuador.
It goes way north of South Africa, and actually passes through about six different countries in Africa -- none of them models of political stability, admittedly.
There are also parts of Indonesia and Kiribati on the equator.
My criterion for an acceptable DRM system is simple. It must be incapable of removing any rights from the end user. Where any form of copying or other use is legally permissible without the consent of the copyright holder, such as redistributing extracts as part of a criticism or comment, making a copy for personal use on a different device, copying a broadcast for later viewing ("time-shifting"), viewing a work on a player in a different part of the world and so on, the copyright holder must be incapable of using the DRM system to prevent such copying.
If a technical solution to preserving "fair use" is not possible, a legal solution would be acceptable -- legislation would have to require that a copyright holder not use a DRM system in such a way as to prevent fair use, and I suggest that the appropriate penalty for failure to comply would be for them to lose the copyright on the work concerned and have it placed in the public domain for all to copy and resell freely.
You will note that several existing DRM technologies, such as DVD region coding and Macrovision, fail to meet this criterion. This is a serious issue which I suggest you should address at the workshop.
Government needs to require all entertainment content to be made available to any distributor who wants to sell it subject to RAND (reasonable and non-discriminatory) license payments if they want to establish a free market.
The only way to be safe is not to open any attachments, even if you think you know what they are.
You've overestimated the price of colour toner quite substantially. It's more like 15-30 cents per page for all consumable costs (toner, drums, fusers etc.), for 5% coverage. And B&W only is much cheaper, close to mono laser printer costs. It's a lot cheaper than inkjet for large quantities.
I'd rewrite the copyright laws to explicitly make the allowing of all kinds of fair use a requirement for a copyright to be granted. It would be perfectly legal to protect a work using protection schemes that prevent fair uses (such as making excerpts, viewing it on other devices, lending it and reselling it), but that would automatically void its copyright so that if anyone *could* copy it, they could legally redistribute as many copies as they wanted. And, of course, the DMCA prohibitions on circumventing access controls wouldn't apply to any access control that prevented any fair use.
I rather doubt that it's constitutional to tax speech based on its content. Coming next, 1000% tax on publications supporting the Democratic party?
- Different width columns on the same page
- Wrapping text round irregular edges of imported pictures
- Different headers and footers for odd and even pages
Not only does it meant that those features aren't available for use, but if it doesn't have them it can't possibly do a decent job of importing Word documents that use them.It does rather depend on how useful the gadget is. I believe that luxury cars have always been priced near the price of a luxury car, but they seem to sell a few million of them per year.
I can certainly see some consumer robotics applications that people would pay that kind of money for. Even some that aren't sex-related.
You can't do the same thing. Nor can anyone else by themselves. This method requires a large number of people working in concert, and is more likely to be successful for whimsy than for commercial gain.
The best answer only works if you have more than one box at your colocation facility, and involves buying another box. Buy a terminal server. Connect it to all the serial ports on your other devices. Secure access to it thoroughly. Now, you can telnet to the serial port on a box from another box -- with decent hardware, e.g. Sun Netras, you can even powercycle it if you need to.
The music business seems to me like an ideal candidate for those RAND (reasonable and non-discrimnatory) licenses that caused some trouble at the W3C recently. Supppose that anyone could legally distribute copies of music provided they paid the artist the same amount per copy as they would get from their actual official record company. It would let services like mp3.com distribute music cheap by charging 2 cents per track instead of $1 on top of what goes to the artist, it would bring CD prices down really quickly and it would actually help the artists.
Of course, while the entertainment business controls half of Congress, it's not going to happen.
At 110GHz, light travels less than 3mm in one clock cycle -- less than the width of the processor, I presume. And if it's accessing memory from a RAM chip 10cm away, it'll be waiting close to a hundred clock cycles to get anything back.
No, the exact opposite. Very large populations which don't have outlying parts that are reproductively isolated tend to be very stable. You get fast evolution, and eventually speciation, when a very small population is isolated from the rest of the species, preferably in a different environment.
Having said that, I disagree with the article, as the human species' environment has changed so radically over the past few thousand years that there must be some fairly rapid evolution going on to catch up. There are the disease resistances that others have mentioned, but more importantly resistance to recreational drugs -- alcohol was a killer to populations that hadn't had a few thousand years to develop some resistance, for example.
The technologies that gave the Romans their advantage weren't things like roads and construction, they were organisational technologies like distributed command structures and military discipline. And Rome fell because they lost those technologies, not because others acquired them.
Similarly, the technologies that give the West its edge aren't nukes and stealth bombers, they're freedom of communication and democracy. And the danger isn't that the enemy will acquire them, because they would then cease to be the enemy -- it's that the West will lose them.
Deflation, not inflation. Everquest paraphernalia loses 30% of its value per year.
That's a really bad idea. First, it encourages companies to do even more contracting out of menial jobs to non-employees so that the cap goes up. Second, it makes it impossible to get decent people to run the cleaning companies, temp agencies, and so on, which probably makes working for them even worse. Better to set the rules so that the top paid executive can't earn more than 10x minimum wage, no matter what the rest of the staff in that particular company are paid.