Who is the RIAA to determine what is acceptable use of a research network? Their purview is the protection of the Copyrights they hold. Period. End of transmission.
For an experimental network such as the I2, the Universities and ARPA are the sole authority on the manner of use, so long as no laws are borken. And, FWIW, the article didn't actually say what exactly was the nature of the "illegal activity".
Isn't "file sharing" the reason we have Internet2? Or, Internet1 for that matter?
Nowhere in the article does it say that the shared files were copyrighted or pirated. Or music, or movies. It's only said that the I2 could allow super-fast doing so, but it does not say what was actually shared, or how the sharing was discovered.
I'm sure that there must have been illegal activity. However, unless it's clearly stated in the corporate media, people might start thinking that any and all file sharing is illegal, and this is simply not true.
It's a matter of keeping the public perception of the actual problem unmuddled.
While this is just a bunch of individuals being unscrupulous in their handling of other people's money, just wait...
Wait until some unscrupulous coder hand your outsources CVS source tree over to a company in a former Soviet State.
Sure, you have "legal contracts" to prevent that. But once your course is out there, no amount of legal action (even if you do manage to find the people responsible, and manage to get them into a sympathetic jurisdiction) will get your IP back under your control.
Some things are not outsourced, ever, no matter the cost advantage. Some things that should not ever have been outsourced, already have been, because the bean-counters had no sense of the pain to which they could be subject as a result.
Give it time. The access methods to the customer data of major financial and insurance agencies, as well as the sources of major retail packages, are quite likely to be floating around as we speak. And even if they don't get disseminated, they're worth a king's ransom, and such ransom will be due in due time.
From my experience the Windows Firewall puts itself at the front of the line with the default of everything blocked (except some popular programs including Microsoft programs)
The only unsecured programs, then, will be ones Microsoft wrote?
Though, my recollection is from the early days of the 80386, when RAM was at a premium. I think I actually had a 4MB RAM-drive card, and wished I could use the space as actual RAM instead.
Glad to see the concept still exists, since it seemed to fade out by way of RAM-cache on HD controllers.
In a way, it makes sense. Downloadable items are goods if they're purchased, and so it makes logical sense to charge sales tax regardless of whether something is actual or virtual.
I'd love to witness the mental gymnastics required to tax something purchased within Everquest though.
And what more does an inferior by comparison console have to achieve, besides milking customers who are not willing to wait for the next best thing?
If anything, what this quote tells me is that, while Microsoft wants to profit by pushing the latest and greatest, Nintendo wants to profit by sitting on its laurels for as long as possible.
Could a lawyer in the house tell me if these scatter-shot law suits by the RIAA can be used to claim that any suit they bring against an entity they can actually drag into court (neither a minor nor a dead grandmother) is likely to be just as random and unsubstantiated?
At least, on my office 1.7Ghz 512MB-RAM notebook. The UI is absolutely unresponsive and eats over 90% of CPU.
I like the idea very much, though, and look forward to being able to pick windows out of virtual space. But this is just nowhere near ready for consumption.
I would *love* to see the demographic distribution/correlation of the students surveyed, in particular Blue vs Red states, private vs public schools, political and denominational majority in their school district, as well as economic backgrounds.
By these conclusions, it seems that what we need is a tool that will slice and dice all media files into little bits (I vote for cluster size, for the inherent "compression" benefit of no wasted slack-space), and then sit in memory and reconstitute them as needed.
You know... The way we used to send pr0n over usenet.
True, but it's a matter of perspective and context. We don't live in the Mekong, we live here. We're already at the mercy of ink cartridges that cost almost as much to replace as would a new printer. Polaroid is already as good as dead, or at least so confined into niche usage as to be irrelevant.
And sure, it'll take decades, but that's not much different than not worrying about global warming because it won't be a problem in our lifetime.
It's a purely academic argument at this point, but it may not be in a few decades. By then, like today's situation with DRM, copyrights and patents, it may be harder to oppose than at the onset of the trend.
I don't like the idea that my kids might have to buy a film camera on the black market, just to be able to take a photo that doesn't blur copyrighted material, or insert brand names into holiday pictures.
Say you're chatting on the phone at the mall, and some phr33k injects the virus into your BT phone. You head home, and the virus hops into your car on startup. Then, as you're passing this 5Kr1p7 K1dd13'5 ex-girlfriend's exit the virus notices this on your GPS and disables your car. Maybe by cutting off fuel injection, forcing you to coast to the side of the road.
As you sit there trying to get it going again, every car that passes you is infected.
It's a brilliant DDoS. Sort of like having a bunch of pizzas delivered to her house, only the punk closed down the highway.
When Dell makes a box of this size and slickness, with WiFi and BT built right in, so that it would look good sitting on my mantle next to my plasma screen, feeding it media, while I control it wirelessly from across the room, we'll talk.
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You mean like DRM will never be mandated for digital equipment?;)
Oh, I'm sure it'll be the same thing, only it'll be set in a post-9/11 American suburbia, with a plot twist at the ends, wherein our protagonist will end up tortured in a Gitmo-like detention center, only to have the whole thing exposed by some enterprising young journalist with connections to the mob. Portman will have a homosexually charged encounter with Tilly, and the special effects will kick ass (except for Jar-Jar Binks, who'll show up and ruin it all)!
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Who is the RIAA to determine what is acceptable use of a research network? Their purview is the protection of the Copyrights they hold. Period. End of transmission.
For an experimental network such as the I2, the Universities and ARPA are the sole authority on the manner of use, so long as no laws are borken. And, FWIW, the article didn't actually say what exactly was the nature of the "illegal activity".
Isn't "file sharing" the reason we have Internet2? Or, Internet1 for that matter?
Nowhere in the article does it say that the shared files were copyrighted or pirated. Or music, or movies. It's only said that the I2 could allow super-fast doing so, but it does not say what was actually shared, or how the sharing was discovered.
I'm sure that there must have been illegal activity. However, unless it's clearly stated in the corporate media, people might start thinking that any and all file sharing is illegal, and this is simply not true.
It's a matter of keeping the public perception of the actual problem unmuddled.
While this is just a bunch of individuals being unscrupulous in their handling of other people's money, just wait...
Wait until some unscrupulous coder hand your outsources CVS source tree over to a company in a former Soviet State.
Sure, you have "legal contracts" to prevent that. But once your course is out there, no amount of legal action (even if you do manage to find the people responsible, and manage to get them into a sympathetic jurisdiction) will get your IP back under your control.
Some things are not outsourced, ever, no matter the cost advantage. Some things that should not ever have been outsourced, already have been, because the bean-counters had no sense of the pain to which they could be subject as a result.
Give it time. The access methods to the customer data of major financial and insurance agencies, as well as the sources of major retail packages, are quite likely to be floating around as we speak. And even if they don't get disseminated, they're worth a king's ransom, and such ransom will be due in due time.
My Longhorn Beta still has a config.sys file, with the line BUGS=OFF. You know... Just in case.
From my experience the Windows Firewall puts itself at the front of the line with the default of everything blocked (except some popular programs including Microsoft programs)
The only unsecured programs, then, will be ones Microsoft wrote?
Whew... I was worried there for a moment.
Yes!
Though, my recollection is from the early days of the 80386, when RAM was at a premium. I think I actually had a 4MB RAM-drive card, and wished I could use the space as actual RAM instead.
Glad to see the concept still exists, since it seemed to fade out by way of RAM-cache on HD controllers.
They used to, actually. I've no idea what happened to them, but there used to be ISA cards you could plug RAM into, which would then show up as HDs.
Bad geek, bad geek...
What'cha gonna do?
What'cha gonna do when your new hardware won't boot Linux for you?
In a way, it makes sense. Downloadable items are goods if they're purchased, and so it makes logical sense to charge sales tax regardless of whether something is actual or virtual.
I'd love to witness the mental gymnastics required to tax something purchased within Everquest though.
A sufficiently large majority is ignorant and/or apathetic of the matter.
Most people see television as incidental entertainment, rather than a civil liberty worthy of a crusade.
And what more does an inferior by comparison console have to achieve, besides milking customers who are not willing to wait for the next best thing?
If anything, what this quote tells me is that, while Microsoft wants to profit by pushing the latest and greatest, Nintendo wants to profit by sitting on its laurels for as long as possible.
Could a lawyer in the house tell me if these scatter-shot law suits by the RIAA can be used to claim that any suit they bring against an entity they can actually drag into court (neither a minor nor a dead grandmother) is likely to be just as random and unsubstantiated?
At least, on my office 1.7Ghz 512MB-RAM notebook. The UI is absolutely unresponsive and eats over 90% of CPU.
I like the idea very much, though, and look forward to being able to pick windows out of virtual space. But this is just nowhere near ready for consumption.
I would *love* to see the demographic distribution/correlation of the students surveyed, in particular Blue vs Red states, private vs public schools, political and denominational majority in their school district, as well as economic backgrounds.
This sounds suspiciously like the sort of logic that says putting stickers on your Civic will make it go faster.
By these conclusions, it seems that what we need is a tool that will slice and dice all media files into little bits (I vote for cluster size, for the inherent "compression" benefit of no wasted slack-space), and then sit in memory and reconstitute them as needed.
You know... The way we used to send pr0n over usenet.
True, but it's a matter of perspective and context. We don't live in the Mekong, we live here. We're already at the mercy of ink cartridges that cost almost as much to replace as would a new printer. Polaroid is already as good as dead, or at least so confined into niche usage as to be irrelevant.
And sure, it'll take decades, but that's not much different than not worrying about global warming because it won't be a problem in our lifetime.
It's a purely academic argument at this point, but it may not be in a few decades. By then, like today's situation with DRM, copyrights and patents, it may be harder to oppose than at the onset of the trend.
I don't like the idea that my kids might have to buy a film camera on the black market, just to be able to take a photo that doesn't blur copyrighted material, or insert brand names into holiday pictures.
Say you're chatting on the phone at the mall, and some phr33k injects the virus into your BT phone. You head home, and the virus hops into your car on startup. Then, as you're passing this 5Kr1p7 K1dd13'5 ex-girlfriend's exit the virus notices this on your GPS and disables your car. Maybe by cutting off fuel injection, forcing you to coast to the side of the road.
As you sit there trying to get it going again, every car that passes you is infected.
It's a brilliant DDoS. Sort of like having a bunch of pizzas delivered to her house, only the punk closed down the highway.
When Dell makes a box of this size and slickness, with WiFi and BT built right in, so that it would look good sitting on my mantle next to my plasma screen, feeding it media, while I control it wirelessly from across the room, we'll talk.
You mean like DRM will never be mandated for digital equipment? ;)
Have you tried to find a 5.25" floppy lately?
Give it time.
I wonder how long it will take Nokia to make a 35mm cell-phone, too.
True, one man can't control it. One man with a backhoe, however, is a different story entirely. ;)
He who can destroy a thing, controls a thing.
Oh, I'm sure it'll be the same thing, only it'll be set in a post-9/11 American suburbia, with a plot twist at the ends, wherein our protagonist will end up tortured in a Gitmo-like detention center, only to have the whole thing exposed by some enterprising young journalist with connections to the mob. Portman will have a homosexually charged encounter with Tilly, and the special effects will kick ass (except for Jar-Jar Binks, who'll show up and ruin it all)!
I don't believe you! Who's got that for their hold music? Give me their number, so I could call them up, and ask to be put on hold!
But, if you're recording the hold music, the RIAA might have a thing or two to say about it.