I think the worst part of all this is the passengers on board the planes let this happen. Who could let a terrorist kill a stewardest with a knife and not stop them? I guess they didn't have to live with themselves for long. I think I'd pick a briefcase over a ceramic knife in a fight anyway. I can't believe Americans in general are so gutless. I could understand if there were 20 terrorists on the plane but it doesn't sound like there was.
Several years ago DEC sued Intel becasue they infringed on close to 100 patents on Alpha technology. Before DEC manufactured the Alpha they submitted all the specs to Intel for possible manufacturing. DEC desided to build a fab plant and do it themselves. This fab plant was loosing DEC millions and millions. When DEC discovered all the patent infrigements they came up with an out of court settlement of selling the fab plant to Intel for 2 Billion along with the rights for Intel to use any of the Alpha technology they wanted to. This was around 3 or 4 years ago.
The simple solution is for Napster to incorporate some kind of beat detection in their client. I recently ran across some library/utility that claimed it could categorize the style of a song. I forget what it was called or even if it was functional, but the idea is there. If you want to download a Metallica song but it says the genre is commentary, not metal, you probably won't download it. This could be taken a step further to having a "song characteristic checksum" held at a central location, sort of like CDDB. If the song doesn't seem to match then it could be discarded from the network. This would also be great for incomplete songs, and lets not forget simple checking for corrupt frames in the mp3. Bands like BNL can have their fun, it's just a game, and it really doesn't make a difference. Some people just don't understand that anything that can be done with computers can be undone just as easy, and in the long run they're doing us a favor. This whole issue just brings to light that our "standards" for mp3's are too low (non existent really) and must be raised.
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I think the worst part of all this is the passengers on board the planes let this happen. Who could let a terrorist kill a stewardest with a knife and not stop them? I guess they didn't have to live with themselves for long. I think I'd pick a briefcase over a ceramic knife in a fight anyway. I can't believe Americans in general are so gutless. I could understand if there were 20 terrorists on the plane but it doesn't sound like there was.
Several years ago DEC sued Intel becasue they infringed on close to 100 patents on Alpha technology. Before DEC manufactured the Alpha they submitted all the specs to Intel for possible manufacturing. DEC desided to build a fab plant and do it themselves. This fab plant was loosing DEC millions and millions. When DEC discovered all the patent infrigements they came up with an out of court settlement of selling the fab plant to Intel for 2 Billion along with the rights for Intel to use any of the Alpha technology they wanted to. This was around 3 or 4 years ago.
The simple solution is for Napster to incorporate some kind of beat detection in their client. I recently ran across some library/utility that claimed it could categorize the style of a song. I forget what it was called or even if it was functional, but the idea is there. If you want to download a Metallica song but it says the genre is commentary, not metal, you probably won't download it. This could be taken a step further to having a "song characteristic checksum" held at a central location, sort of like CDDB. If the song doesn't seem to match then it could be discarded from the network. This would also be great for incomplete songs, and lets not forget simple checking for corrupt frames in the mp3. Bands like BNL can have their fun, it's just a game, and it really doesn't make a difference. Some people just don't understand that anything that can be done with computers can be undone just as easy, and in the long run they're doing us a favor. This whole issue just brings to light that our "standards" for mp3's are too low (non existent really) and must be raised.