Can someone please put Hansard on DVD. Due to its large size, im sure you could fit a whole years worth on.
Then, have someone decrypt it openly, and see what the corporations do then. It would look pretty bad to deny access to the proceedings occurring in parliament.
If they do nothing, then the cats out of the bag, if they do something, then see you later DMCA.
We had an article in the Sydney Morning Herald today claiming open source was "people who think commmercial software code should be free". The journos have no idea at all. I think we need a company like red hat etc to explain to these people what it means.
Its only a vulnerablity if M$ doesnt fix the errors. If there are a few bugs that are exposed it would look bad for two reasons.
1. It would probably take them a long time to fix them.
2. The effort to get everyone in the world running M$ to update would be a pain in the butt, and everyone would get pissed off at M$
Firstly, I would imagine that you would need someone in the project to have been proved beyond reasonable doubt as having access to the stolen source code. MS can't just point and scream at every OSS project claiming poor.
Secondly, if that did happen, wouldnt you then need to prove the person who had looked at the source code, used it in the OSS project.
Which begs the question, how do u do that??? What constitutes using code from another source. Often people use code, but will rewrite it for there situation, more the idea behind the code is used.
Shoot me if im ignorant. But could that mean that you could "see" the SDMI watermark? I guess you would need to see an untarnished one, and then the difference would be the watermark.
Can it help if you dont have an untarnished song? Could you use other songs, since I imagine there are only a limited number of watermarks, and then look for common bits?
Any thoughts from people who know about this?
Cam
I can understand part 1, but part 2 is good. Since it improves program correctness and stops buggy programs. This improves the quality of your code since your forced to be aware of potential stuff ups.
In your last article you wrote about how the record companies are running
scared, emergency meetings, those kinds of things. It's so far from the
truth -- it's not factually inaccurate, it's a perception, but it's not a fair
perception.
Ok so does that mean they are running scared since the previous articles were, "not factually inaccurate". This guy cant make his mind up. He is really saying "yeah well, your article was wrong, but actually was not wrong, but we dont like the fact it isnt wrong."
Why would they have something to fallback on?
Its not like you'd release your second best effort, and expect it to fail miserably. That would look bad on them.
They released their best........hoping it would be fine. It wasnt, and so their best was second rate.
This still might result in more tax for the government.
Say the original value of the company is $100. When you do things like share-splits, it doesnt change the value of the company - its just more shares for the same amount of value. (You can cut a pie to tiny pieces, but the sum is still a pie)
In this case, since the share are going to employees, there is a shift in the distribution of wealth from normal shareholders (mums and dads say) to the employees.
So instead of the M$ employees owning say 10% of the value, they might now own 20% of the value.
Since I would imagine M$ employees earn above the average salary, the would pay more in tax than the other stock holders.
(im using arbitary numbers, and also assuming that the capital gains tax is somehow linked to marginal rate of tax in the US, im in AUS so can someone fix that bit up)
In Australia, we have a imputation system. So its fairer in that it stops double taxation. If money is paid to shareholders in form of dividends, they get a tax credit on the income tax paid by the corporation on that portion of income they received.
Im not sure what the tax rates are in the US, but if this happened in australia, the government would get more money since the capital gains tax is hooked to ur marginal tax rate. So since company tax is lower than personal tax rate, (above a certain income) - more is received by the government.
The article says
"NEW YORK (Reuters) - AT&T Corp. (NYSE:T - news) is mulling a plan to charge
Internet merchants for the customers it delivers
to their Web sites and for the value of goods
bought there, industry analysts said on Monday."
Can i get my cut for choosing to click there? It wa alot of work in deciding which one to go to, and ultimately it was my work which allows At&T and the business to get my business, so i deserve a cut too.
I reckon Apple has postioned the Mac to survive well into the future. With servers to be commodity based Linux, doesnt the unix layer make them integrate better? The desktop will be Mac, the server linux in the future. M$ out of the picture.
Say they did find a "perfect" SDMI, it would never takeoff anyhow. It is impossible to force a market to a particular outcome, no matter how you change the rules - the market always finds away around.
If I was a struggling electronics company needing to improve market share, why not bang out a few whizz bang mp3 players that consumers will buy. Im sure electronic companies exist that dont even care about the record industry, as long as their players sell.
Consumers are familiar with mp3, and have already made their minds up. No catch-up play will change that. The horse has bolted - and it aint coming back.
How much does it cost to use a studio and actually produce a high quality recording of work? I dont want some dodgy recording from a persons bedroom in the future.
What if I received a spam email in my hotmail account with a link to DeCSS source?
Isnt hotmail providing me a link through their website to DeCSS?
I know its not publically available, but what If everyone was spammed. Hotmail should have made reasonable attempts to stop their clients from seeing an illegal link.
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The site isnt too good anyhow. I went to order some tickets, and not all events could be ordered online. I still had to ring up for a phone operator, and listen to 4 pre-recorded msgs till I could order.
Even if the ALT tages are added, the site still wont do much!
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Can someone please put Hansard on DVD. Due to its large size, im sure you could fit a whole years worth on. Then, have someone decrypt it openly, and see what the corporations do then. It would look pretty bad to deny access to the proceedings occurring in parliament. If they do nothing, then the cats out of the bag, if they do something, then see you later DMCA.
We had an article in the Sydney Morning Herald today claiming open source was "people who think commmercial software code should be free". The journos have no idea at all. I think we need a company like red hat etc to explain to these people what it means.
Its only a vulnerablity if M$ doesnt fix the errors. If there are a few bugs that are exposed it would look bad for two reasons.
1. It would probably take them a long time to fix them.
2. The effort to get everyone in the world running M$ to update would be a pain in the butt, and everyone would get pissed off at M$
Firstly, I would imagine that you would need someone in the project to have been proved beyond reasonable doubt as having access to the stolen source code. MS can't just point and scream at every OSS project claiming poor. Secondly, if that did happen, wouldnt you then need to prove the person who had looked at the source code, used it in the OSS project. Which begs the question, how do u do that??? What constitutes using code from another source. Often people use code, but will rewrite it for there situation, more the idea behind the code is used.
Shoot me if im ignorant. But could that mean that you could "see" the SDMI watermark? I guess you would need to see an untarnished one, and then the difference would be the watermark. Can it help if you dont have an untarnished song? Could you use other songs, since I imagine there are only a limited number of watermarks, and then look for common bits? Any thoughts from people who know about this? Cam
I want a stereo, with a simple interface to get songs like a jukebox. Have it networked to my computer so I can add new songs easily. would be sweet.
I can understand part 1, but part 2 is good. Since it improves program correctness and stops buggy programs. This improves the quality of your code since your forced to be aware of potential stuff ups.
what you really mean is superposition isnt it?
In your last article you wrote about how the record companies are running scared, emergency meetings, those kinds of things. It's so far from the truth -- it's not factually inaccurate, it's a perception, but it's not a fair perception.
Ok so does that mean they are running scared since the previous articles were, "not factually inaccurate". This guy cant make his mind up. He is really saying "yeah well, your article was wrong, but actually was not wrong, but we dont like the fact it isnt wrong."
Sure there are lots of text editors, but you cant walk unless you crawl. Its all about experience, learning and becoming expert at programming.
I imagine that the number of programs is inversely proportional to the difficulty. As it gets more difficult, you get less programs.
Cam.
(P.S Cheers to all those people at the GreenGate Hotel in Killara, whos alcohol has made this commment possible!)
Why would they have something to fallback on?
Its not like you'd release your second best effort, and expect it to fail miserably. That would look bad on them.
They released their best........hoping it would be fine. It wasnt, and so their best was second rate.
Of course, that does ignore the fact that you might get some other funds (i.e dividends) while you hold the penny. So not really the case at all.
This still might result in more tax for the government.
Say the original value of the company is $100. When you do things like share-splits, it doesnt change the value of the company - its just more shares for the same amount of value. (You can cut a pie to tiny pieces, but the sum is still a pie)
In this case, since the share are going to employees, there is a shift in the distribution of wealth from normal shareholders (mums and dads say) to the employees.
So instead of the M$ employees owning say 10% of the value, they might now own 20% of the value.
Since I would imagine M$ employees earn above the average salary, the would pay more in tax than the other stock holders.
(im using arbitary numbers, and also assuming that the capital gains tax is somehow linked to marginal rate of tax in the US, im in AUS so can someone fix that bit up)
Cam
In Australia, we have a imputation system. So its fairer in that it stops double taxation. If money is paid to shareholders in form of dividends, they get a tax credit on the income tax paid by the corporation on that portion of income they received.
Im not sure what the tax rates are in the US, but if this happened in australia, the government would get more money since the capital gains tax is hooked to ur marginal tax rate. So since company tax is lower than personal tax rate, (above a certain income) - more is received by the government.
The article says
"NEW YORK (Reuters) - AT&T Corp. (NYSE:T - news) is mulling a plan to charge
Internet merchants for the customers it delivers
to their Web sites and for the value of goods
bought there, industry analysts said on Monday."
Can i get my cut for choosing to click there? It wa alot of work in deciding which one to go to, and ultimately it was my work which allows At&T and the business to get my business, so i deserve a cut too.
Not the Messerschimdt, theyd want the specs of the Enigma - so they can wear a T-Shirt with blueprint on the back!
So would that mean that DeCSS in an email wouldnt be illegal after six months? t=0 illegal t=6 legal mmmm
I reckon Apple has postioned the Mac to survive well into the future. With servers to be commodity based Linux, doesnt the unix layer make them integrate better? The desktop will be Mac, the server linux in the future. M$ out of the picture.
Say they did find a "perfect" SDMI, it would never takeoff anyhow. It is impossible to force a market to a particular outcome, no matter how you change the rules - the market always finds away around. If I was a struggling electronics company needing to improve market share, why not bang out a few whizz bang mp3 players that consumers will buy. Im sure electronic companies exist that dont even care about the record industry, as long as their players sell. Consumers are familiar with mp3, and have already made their minds up. No catch-up play will change that. The horse has bolted - and it aint coming back.
How much does it cost to use a studio and actually produce a high quality recording of work? I dont want some dodgy recording from a persons bedroom in the future.
What if I received a spam email in my hotmail account with a link to DeCSS source? Isnt hotmail providing me a link through their website to DeCSS? I know its not publically available, but what If everyone was spammed. Hotmail should have made reasonable attempts to stop their clients from seeing an illegal link. --
The site isnt too good anyhow. I went to order some tickets, and not all events could be ordered online. I still had to ring up for a phone operator, and listen to 4 pre-recorded msgs till I could order. Even if the ALT tages are added, the site still wont do much!
Dont you rent the URL? $x per year. The buying and selling of URLS is just people acquiring the right to rent it.