CALEA is not meant to subvert wiretapping laws. It is meant to apply the existing wiretapping processes to the online world. If a warrant is attaigned to wiretap a PSTN line, the process is pretty straightforward: the authorities contact the local phone company and get the tap setup. What do the authorities do if that person uses a VoIP service instead of a PSTN line? They are asking for the same access to wiretap as they have with PSTN.
Note that I am not arguing the merits of wiretaps, or the illegality of domestic, non-judge-approved wiretaps: just the original motives behind CALEA.
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Is it time yet to admit that Excel is an excellent piece of software? It has managed to stay true to its core competencies (calculations) while gaining many new audiences. I have used it in the past year for stock analysis, dynamic web queries (a simple Crystal Reports), and site wireframing. While many look at the insecurity of macros, they are enormously useful for the financial community and advanced data analysis.
The great thing about open source though, I bet there is someone *right now* using the test files provided by this author to improve the Open Office parsing routines. Gotta love it.
what phrase would better describe the 109 pound a year television license fee? yes, it's making more private deals and eventually might become wholly-privately funded, but the mandatory tax is what funds most of it today.
I agree completely. The BBC is an enforced premium channel, like HBO, but with no choice not to pay for it.
It's only a nice time to produce state-funded content in the sense of publicity. The BBC is seen as having an "amazing" perspective on file-sharing, but HBO and ABC are seen as "not understanding" the new technologies.
But it's easy to embrace BitTorrent when you are BBC and enforce payment through tax. Not easy to support BitTorrent downloads when you are HBO, and it will begin to subvert your business model.
It's not about the content, it's about the commercials.
BBC, as a state-funded institution, is doing its job by achieving maximum reach. If it can expand its reach through online distribution, then it is doing a better job at fulfilling its state-funded mission.
I'm sure ABC doesn't mind that thousands of people watched LOST in high-definition on their computer monitors via BitTorrent downloads. What ABC must mind is that these home-edited, advertising-free distributions of their content subvert their entire business model.
> The online advertising market has been hard lately
The leading online advertising company, Google, made $805.9 million dollars last quarter. Maybe it's a problem with DoubleClick and not with a bad online advertising market?
A quote from Google's earning report: "This revenue growth reflects strong traffic and monetization growth in the quarter as well as advertisers' growing recognition of the Internet as an effective advertising medium."
Have any of these webmasters heard of stress testing tools? Finding database connection errors could be a lot easier than directing a large community to click a link.
The iTunes on Campus program includes an iTunes institutional site license that allows your university or college to provide your students with the iTunes application -- the world's best digital jukebox -- at no cost.
Wow.... the right to distribute a free program via campus servers instead of Apple servers (and bandwidth).
WTF does market capitalization have to do with the health of a company?! Will iTunes Music Store have an effect on AAPL's revenues and profits is the relevant question. You also failed to consider the ramifications of iTunes on Windows.
AAPL's 2002 revenues were $5,742 million. Net profits were $65 million.
So, $45 mil extra in revenues is indeed insignificant... about 0.7% of 2002 revs. Furthermore, they have to pay the music companies... Word is they will have to pay about 65% of the gross revenues to the music companies, leaving 35% for AAPL. So, without taking into account extra operating expenses, they can expect an extra $15 mil.
But numbers of Mac users pale in comparison to PC users. 5% vs 90%? iTunes is best-of-breed software.... I think it can capture quite a bit of the PC market for music downloads and playback. And Mac users are still downloading the iTunes 4 update! So I don't think a ten-fold increase in a year or two is that crazy!
Characterizing the evolution of titles as simply giving in to political correctness is unfair. Titles have an amazing ability to define people and their interactions with others.
The shift from "negro" to "black" to "African-American" (and more recently, to "African American," no hyphen) is important and significant.
It makes sense that a "systems administrator" who keeps the email server running but also develops, keeps track of project plans, and runs meetings, would object to being boxed in with a limiting title.
Just me, or is this scarily reminiscent of the 1999 talk of how web tech (Flash!?!) is going to save the world?
From the white paper:
It's 6am and time for Lisa to get up. The kids are still asleep and she opens
her laptop. She immediately connects to her 802.11 network at
home. Macromedia Central notices that she is online and updates information
on movie listings, weather, and recipe of the day from Lisa's favorite cooking
site. She checks out today's recipe to see what it's suggesting: a mushroom /
scallion soup. She sends the recipe's ingredient list directly to her grocery
store application, which immediately adds the ingredients with the
appropriate amounts to the shopping cart. She adds a few additional items to
the cart, specifies a delivery for that evening. Because applications in Central
can be used together, and it already knows her preferences and her login,
this takes just a moment.
Some posts seemed to be indicating that with quantum cryptography no encryption was necessary because the sender and receiver would always know if someone was intercepting the message.
I thought that quantum cryptography was a means towards creating a reliable and truly random one time pad (quite unlike the previous claim posted on Slashdot). So A would send a stream of photons to B... B would measure the photons with one of two different measuring templates.... The eavesdropper could also try to measure the photons.... but she only gets one chance.... Now A and B talk on a public line. A asks B, how did you measure the first photon? If it is different than how A intented it to be measured... it is thrown out.... The ones that are left after this process create a random number that both A and B have.
This random number can then be used for the OTP...
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CALEA is not meant to subvert wiretapping laws. It is meant to apply the existing wiretapping processes to the online world. If a warrant is attaigned to wiretap a PSTN line, the process is pretty straightforward: the authorities contact the local phone company and get the tap setup. What do the authorities do if that person uses a VoIP service instead of a PSTN line? They are asking for the same access to wiretap as they have with PSTN.
Note that I am not arguing the merits of wiretaps, or the illegality of domestic, non-judge-approved wiretaps: just the original motives behind CALEA.
Is it time yet to admit that Excel is an excellent piece of software? It has managed to stay true to its core competencies (calculations) while gaining many new audiences. I have used it in the past year for stock analysis, dynamic web queries (a simple Crystal Reports), and site wireframing. While many look at the insecurity of macros, they are enormously useful for the financial community and advanced data analysis.
The great thing about open source though, I bet there is someone *right now* using the test files provided by this author to improve the Open Office parsing routines. Gotta love it.
state-funded and governmentally-controlled are separate concepts.
what phrase would better describe the 109 pound a year television license fee? yes, it's making more private deals and eventually might become wholly-privately funded, but the mandatory tax is what funds most of it today.
I agree completely. The BBC is an enforced premium channel, like HBO, but with no choice not to pay for it.
It's only a nice time to produce state-funded content in the sense of publicity. The BBC is seen as having an "amazing" perspective on file-sharing, but HBO and ABC are seen as "not understanding" the new technologies.
But it's easy to embrace BitTorrent when you are BBC and enforce payment through tax. Not easy to support BitTorrent downloads when you are HBO, and it will begin to subvert your business model.
It's not about the content, it's about the commercials.
BBC, as a state-funded institution, is doing its job by achieving maximum reach. If it can expand its reach through online distribution, then it is doing a better job at fulfilling its state-funded mission.
I'm sure ABC doesn't mind that thousands of people watched LOST in high-definition on their computer monitors via BitTorrent downloads. What ABC must mind is that these home-edited, advertising-free distributions of their content subvert their entire business model.
> The online advertising market has been hard lately
The leading online advertising company, Google, made $805.9 million dollars last quarter. Maybe it's a problem with DoubleClick and not with a bad online advertising market?
A quote from Google's earning report: "This revenue growth reflects strong traffic and monetization growth in the quarter as well as advertisers' growing recognition of the Internet as an effective advertising medium."
Have any of these webmasters heard of stress testing tools? Finding database connection errors could be a lot easier than directing a large community to click a link.
Apache Bench (ab)
Apache Flood
Jakarta JMeter
Microsoft WAST
Doom 3 was definitely a AAA title for PC.
Madden 2005 and ESPN NFL 2K5 are considered some of the best console games ever (definitely AAA).
Burnout 3, a console game released last month, received incredible reviews.
GameRankings.com
Halo 2 and Gran Turismo 4 are the next 2 anticipated killer console games for 2005.
The iTunes on Campus program includes an iTunes institutional site license that allows your university or college to provide your students with the iTunes application -- the world's best digital jukebox -- at no cost.
Wow.... the right to distribute a free program via campus servers instead of Apple servers (and bandwidth).
WTF does market capitalization have to do with the health of a company?! Will iTunes Music Store have an effect on AAPL's revenues and profits is the relevant question. You also failed to consider the ramifications of iTunes on Windows.
AAPL's 2002 revenues were $5,742 million. Net profits were $65 million.
So, $45 mil extra in revenues is indeed insignificant... about 0.7% of 2002 revs. Furthermore, they have to pay the music companies... Word is they will have to pay about 65% of the gross revenues to the music companies, leaving 35% for AAPL. So, without taking into account extra operating expenses, they can expect an extra $15 mil.
But numbers of Mac users pale in comparison to PC users. 5% vs 90%? iTunes is best-of-breed software.... I think it can capture quite a bit of the PC market for music downloads and playback. And Mac users are still downloading the iTunes 4 update! So I don't think a ten-fold increase in a year or two is that crazy!
10 * $45 mil = $450 mil extra in revenues
10 * $15 mil = $150 mil extra in profits
This is significant indeed.
Characterizing the evolution of titles as simply giving in to political correctness is unfair. Titles have an amazing ability to define people and their interactions with others.
The shift from "negro" to "black" to "African-American" (and more recently, to "African American," no hyphen) is important and significant.
It makes sense that a "systems administrator" who keeps the email server running but also develops, keeps track of project plans, and runs meetings, would object to being boxed in with a limiting title.
From the white paper:
MIT's OKI Project, Open Knowledge Initiative
Stanford's CourseWork
University of Michigan's CHEF Project
Some posts seemed to be indicating that with quantum cryptography no encryption was necessary because the sender and receiver would always know if someone was intercepting the message.
I thought that quantum cryptography was a means towards creating a reliable and truly random one time pad (quite unlike the previous claim posted on Slashdot). So A would send a stream of photons to B... B would measure the photons with one of two different measuring templates.... The eavesdropper could also try to measure the photons.... but she only gets one chance.... Now A and B talk on a public line. A asks B, how did you measure the first photon? If it is different than how A intented it to be measured... it is thrown out.... The ones that are left after this process create a random number that both A and B have.
This random number can then be used for the OTP...