Your comment acutally kinda proves there is a market for distributed computing? Who wrote the program to install on your computer? Sure, there might not be a market for interaction between untrusted peers, but there definitely is a market for internal use of distributed computing amongst trusted peers.
Assuming government X flood site Y. What are the claims for another business hosted on the same box or ISP? Would governments have to legislate provisions against spamming laws so they can legally do it?
This could potentially spiral out of control and make the net unusable, with the network being clogged up as people retaliate.
I think this sums up the bloatware, logrolling fact :
"In fact, Microsoft says you'll have the best experience only if you buy a brand-new system with XP preinstalled. "
If there was a malfunction
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If there was ever a malfunction, as there might be.
How much quicker would it be to send out an SOS to
linux hackers asking for a bug fix. Be a lot quicker for a
few thousand developers around the world trying to fix the bug than
a few engineers in NASA. You could become a world
hero saving a few lives by fixing the unknown bug.
Could have it designed so that you send out a query to say 10 peers, but each time they send to say 60% less. That way you dont keep sending querys forever, but chances are you will find stuff. The query just widens out, but loses its intensity like a ripple in a pond.
If that example of how to use a formula in a spreadsheet was an analogy of.NET then M$ is on drugs. How crazy can you get? If you dont know how to calculate something, you dont keep sending your friend the data to do your work. You learn how to do it from him, get the formula etc, and thats that.
Whats going to happen when a server goes down? Sorry couldnt do your tax today, the formula server was down!
In Sydney I remember that UNSW engineers once stole a train carriage from our city metro. I think it was an old one, but still, pretty huge to go bringing back to campus.
I think that the MP3 culture is so widespread now, that at the end of the day, its going to be too difficult for companies to take away these rights without people noticing. Everyone uses MP3, then suddenly they cant, i think there will be a stink. Everyone will smell a rat straight away and buy the MP3 compatible players. New companies not traditionally in music equipment might start making "MP3 compatible" players. The reality is, the culture is ingrained too much now for consumers to not realise.
What happens if some one dies because they couldnt get to the hospital in time? Is there a liability somewhere since you were restrained in you ability to seek medical help.
I had optimus prime. Do you remember the little
buggy that sat in the trailer? You pressed a lever
near the tow line and it fired out the back.
The other one I had was Sunseeker. This was a
yellow convertible, i think it was a lamborghini -
not sure. Any ideas???
How cool were the tapes that the deceptacons had?
I know that in Australia the n-c would be a restraint on trade covered under the trade practices Act and thus illegal. As long as you dont give away "secrets" i guess its fine.
I guess the "artists" that are left would be those pure artists who create for the joy of creating. All the professional applied artists would disappear.
I wrote a letter to my local member in the Australian Federal Parliament, and he forwarded this onto the Attorney General. This shows they listen. So everyone else do it too.
Dear Attorney General,
I have recently received a letter from one of my constituents, Mr Cameron Gray, concerning international and Australian policy toward the decryption of digital information for personal use. Whilst Mr Gray strongly agrees that copyright should be legally protected, and that the owners of information should be duly paid for their product, he is concerned that copyright legislation is being used by private corporations to simply enforce market monopolies, to the detriment of the consumer. Mr Gray argues that copyright legislation as it now stands prevents a person from developing software to bypass access controls, even where the viewing of the material so protected is entirely legal. An instance he provides is software that allows a person to view DVDs from other countries. He informs me that under current legislation, the development of this software is currently illegal, which reinforces market monopolies but is not related to effective protection of copyright. In the new information age, it is desirable for laws to allow as much access to digital information as possible without infringing rightful copyright. I would appreciate your consideration of Mr Gray's concerns, and your response as to how the Government will preserve the right of Australians to access the digital information now available locally and internationally. Thank you for your consideration of this matter and I look forward to your reply. Yours sincerely DR BRENDAN NELSON MP Federal Member for Bradfield
Sorry about the formatting. I just copy/pasted from WordPerfect.
Doesnt this just show its time for governments to fund open source projects? If governments collaborated on software, that im sure they all use, society would be better off. There would be new, freely available applications, and governments budgets would be so much lower.
Ok, so what if this guy makes a device/program that can unencrypt any of these devices, im sure the music industry would then claim DMCA since it could be used with OTHER devices.
I'd like to know how it is distributed. It says it
is collected and distributed to the copyright
owners. Now do they give it out according to some
formula. What if your a small time artist, making
your own cds, can you claim exemption. Im sure
some artists dont see a cent. Also, do the makers
of coprighted cds have to pay a fee to themselves cause
they use equipment that can be used to pirate
material on an even larger scale than burners
We have these toilets around the center of Sydney that are self cleaning, and have a sterile female voice in a variety of languages on instructions on how to use it. I guess an olympic spin-off.
If these are networked to ask for more detergent, paper etc, i'd think twice about using them. I'd hate to be hacked whilst enjoying some timeout, suddenly your all wet from the self cleaning, and the door fly's open to the public outside!
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Your comment acutally kinda proves there is a market for distributed computing? Who wrote the program to install on your computer? Sure, there might not be a market for interaction between untrusted peers, but there definitely is a market for internal use of distributed computing amongst trusted peers.
It wont matter much in Australia, our government has crippled digital TV so much no one will be using it anyhow.
Assuming government X flood site Y. What are the claims for another business hosted on the same box or ISP? Would governments have to legislate provisions against spamming laws so they can legally do it? This could potentially spiral out of control and make the net unusable, with the network being clogged up as people retaliate.
I guess the future isnt on the net. It will be on tomorrow though...
Hope they have some good batteries on it. Or do they simply plug it in to the onboard 12V cigarette lighter?
I think this sums up the bloatware, logrolling fact :
"In fact, Microsoft says you'll have the best experience only if you buy a brand-new system with XP preinstalled. "
If there was ever a malfunction, as there might be. How much quicker would it be to send out an SOS to linux hackers asking for a bug fix. Be a lot quicker for a few thousand developers around the world trying to fix the bug than a few engineers in NASA. You could become a world hero saving a few lives by fixing the unknown bug.
This has got to piss off some maths dudes who have been working all their life to get a theorem named after them, only to have a 8th grader get one.
Once we finish with Mir, can we guess what happens to NEAR?
Could have it designed so that you send out a query to say 10 peers, but each time they send to say 60% less. That way you dont keep sending querys forever, but chances are you will find stuff. The query just widens out, but loses its intensity like a ripple in a pond.
If that example of how to use a formula in a spreadsheet was an analogy of .NET then M$ is on drugs. How crazy can you get? If you dont know how to calculate something, you dont keep sending your friend the data to do your work. You learn how to do it from him, get the formula etc, and thats that.
Whats going to happen when a server goes down? Sorry couldnt do your tax today, the formula server was down!
Stay tuned for a linux keyring, where you can plug in and play TM
In Sydney I remember that UNSW engineers once stole a train carriage from our city metro. I think it was an old one, but still, pretty huge to go bringing back to campus.
I think that the MP3 culture is so widespread now, that at the end of the day, its going to be too difficult for companies to take away these rights without people noticing. Everyone uses MP3, then suddenly they cant, i think there will be a stink. Everyone will smell a rat straight away and buy the MP3 compatible players. New companies not traditionally in music equipment might start making "MP3 compatible" players. The reality is, the culture is ingrained too much now for consumers to not realise.
What happens if some one dies because they couldnt get to the hospital in time? Is there a liability somewhere since you were restrained in you ability to seek medical help.
I just checked, it was actually sunstreaker.
I had optimus prime. Do you remember the little buggy that sat in the trailer? You pressed a lever near the tow line and it fired out the back. The other one I had was Sunseeker. This was a yellow convertible, i think it was a lamborghini - not sure. Any ideas??? How cool were the tapes that the deceptacons had?
I know that in Australia the n-c would be a restraint on trade covered under the trade practices Act and thus illegal. As long as you dont give away "secrets" i guess its fine.
I guess the "artists" that are left would be those pure artists who create for the joy of creating. All the professional applied artists would disappear.
I wrote a letter to my local member in the Australian Federal Parliament, and he forwarded this onto the Attorney General. This shows they listen. So everyone else do it too.
Dear Attorney General, I have recently received a letter from one of my constituents, Mr Cameron Gray, concerning international and Australian policy toward the decryption of digital information for personal use. Whilst Mr Gray strongly agrees that copyright should be legally protected, and that the owners of information should be duly paid for their product, he is concerned that copyright legislation is being used by private corporations to simply enforce market monopolies, to the detriment of the consumer. Mr Gray argues that copyright legislation as it now stands prevents a person from developing software to bypass access controls, even where the viewing of the material so protected is entirely legal. An instance he provides is software that allows a person to view DVDs from other countries. He informs me that under current legislation, the development of this software is currently illegal, which reinforces market monopolies but is not related to effective protection of copyright. In the new information age, it is desirable for laws to allow as much access to digital information as possible without infringing rightful copyright. I would appreciate your consideration of Mr Gray's concerns, and your response as to how the Government will preserve the right of Australians to access the digital information now available locally and internationally. Thank you for your consideration of this matter and I look forward to your reply. Yours sincerely DR BRENDAN NELSON MP Federal Member for Bradfield
Sorry about the formatting. I just copy/pasted from WordPerfect.
Doesnt this just show its time for governments to fund open source projects? If governments collaborated on software, that im sure they all use, society would be better off. There would be new, freely available applications, and governments budgets would be so much lower.
When you ahead in the race you want the race to end now. When your losing in a race, you want the race to keep on going until your winning.
Ok, so what if this guy makes a device/program that can unencrypt any of these devices, im sure the music industry would then claim DMCA since it could be used with OTHER devices.
I'd like to know how it is distributed. It says it is collected and distributed to the copyright owners. Now do they give it out according to some formula. What if your a small time artist, making your own cds, can you claim exemption. Im sure some artists dont see a cent. Also, do the makers of coprighted cds have to pay a fee to themselves cause they use equipment that can be used to pirate material on an even larger scale than burners
We have these toilets around the center of Sydney that are self cleaning, and have a sterile female voice in a variety of languages on instructions on how to use it. I guess an olympic spin-off.
If these are networked to ask for more detergent, paper etc, i'd think twice about using them. I'd hate to be hacked whilst enjoying some timeout, suddenly your all wet from the self cleaning, and the door fly's open to the public outside!