DRM's more or less open goal is to prevent "casual theft" in the form of playground CD swapping, but it's much easier to sue someone who took deliberate, non-obvious steps to circumvent a protection than sueing someone who just copied something. For infringers, it takes away the "oops I didn't know it was forbidden" excuse.
Just like AOL subscribers have caught on to using "a softwares" like Winzip to unzip zip files, they'll ask how to get programs to play "thier" files even though they keep annoyingly asking to "aquice a lisnce", and people will point the to un-drm utilities with just a big fat "crack" button.
There will still be OTA Digital broadcasts for those w/o cable or sat. This is just eliminating the analog portion of the spectrum used for TV.
How many people have shiny new TV sets that can receive digital signals (and HDTV to boot, since most digital signals are HD, even if only upsampled) that don't have cable or satellite reception?
(of course, there probably will be digital set-top box receivers available, much like the ones advertised already in the UK and Netherlands, so digital OTA will be an alternative in a way.)
The biggest change is that you really can print photos at home now. Ten years ago that wasn't practical.
It's not practical now either, but somehow people insist on doing it. You can get photos printed on real photographic paper for 14 eurocents a piece (or 9 a piece if you order 100 or more), and that'll last years. The "cheap" inktjet prints actually cost more and fade like nobody's business. Now, probably the ten cent prints aren't archival quality, but they'll last at least a few decades.
In addition, new kinds of paper have opened up new opportunities to use your printer: bumper stickers, tee shirts, even tattoos. You can't get those at Kinko's.
Actually, you can. You might have to order stuff like mugs and calendars, but they do offer it. Though it would be easier to order stuff like that from a place like cafepress. Some online shops will even print a monochrome (white) picture on a dark colored tee. Which is nice.
The decisions of what Verisign can charge and how long they can charge is are really up to YOU: the customer. Vote with your feet and start looking at some non Versign controlled TLD's!
This works because there is absolutely no cost or inconvenience associeted with changing your internet address!
People will magically assume that they should go to yourdomain.someobscurenonversigingTLDlikedotbizorp erhapsdotus in stead of yourdomain.net when you drop it (and when it's subsequently re-registered by a domain spammer or your competitor).
Also, e-mail will magically be rerouted so you won't miss a single e-mail, and said domainspammers/competitors won't get mail meant for you on their mailserver (you know, like paypal password reset links and stuff).
Quoth TFA: Further, there are certain capabilities present in DECnet that have never evolved in TCP/IP. These include transparent remote file access, session management and validation, and integrated system management access.
Yes, TCP/IP has not evolved these layers at all. In stead, TCP/IP users are forced to accept that TCP/IP only provides reliable socket-based bi-directional streams of data routed world wide. Meanwhile in stead of being comfortably locked into a proprietary system, they face the challenge of choosing which applications to use to manage their sessions, presentation and file transfer.
HTTP(S), WebDAV, (S)FTP, SSH, SOAP, JMS, BXXP, XMPP, RTSP, SIP, NFS, SMB, NNTP, IMAP, etc. etc. And all of these protocols come with their own strengths and weaknesses! Worse, you could even swap TCP/IP out from underneath some of these protocols in favor of, for example, IPv6 or in some cases even an old dinosaur like NetBIOS.
To make matters worse, all these protocols come with easy-to use APIs, libraries, executable tools and even multi-vendor support, so far as to even be integrated into development environments such as "Java" or "Perl"..
The obvious drawback of this is of course that relying on these, for the most part, "open standards" makes it easier for your software to interoperate and be compatible across platforms and networks.
Next article written by Captain Obvious; "Many enterprises using Windows file sharing to replicate mission-critical information across Windows systems."
(Not that there's anything wrong with being lazy and using the OS' default transparant network thingamajig.. But that's not exactly winning on merits)
Now, if any one has any information as why DECnet is (supposedly) so much more robust and dependable than TCP/IP (especially DECnet-over-IP), I'd like to hear it. Does it use error correcting codes? Does it have some sort of secDNS equivalent (or even an analog to secure BGP? that would be kinda neat).
The point is that over here (Europe) you don't need that much legal counsel (yet). If you really require it, you go to a lawyer and pay whatever hourly fees there are to be paid. This way, people only go to a lawyer as a last resort. With a monthly fee, I would imagine that people are more inclined to get a lawyer involved since they have already paid for them anyway.
What part of Europe is that? I live in The Netherlands, and I've got legal insurance. It's about EUR 10/month - 1 hour with a lawyer would equal about a year's worth of insurance premiums. So, obviously, it's not used that much. On the other hand, when you need it, especially when your income suddenly comes to a halt (say, a car crash, labor dispute), it pays itself back.
The rates for the US appear to be about $20/month. I bet Michael Jackson wished he'd paid for it;-)
Note that there are all sorts of restrictions on when you can claim legal assistance. They won't pursue frivolous claims for you, for example. If you want that kind a service, you need to get you a lawyer on retainer.
I live in The Netherlands, which is even smaller and more densely populated than the UK. 50 miles to work sounds about right. Actually, 102 miles back and forth.
With sites like rotten.com do you refer to the web growing as "Net" growth or "Gross" growth?
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so they take 6$ for redirecting an ISP DNS cache to your domain DNS server ? and only when the DNS cache time-to-live is over...
No, they only run a few top level servers, most top-level servers are run for no fee at all by third parties. check here. ICANN only runs L, Verisign only runs A and J.
RIPE, ISC and NORDUnet/Autonomica do all of the heavy lifting, really.
So, basically, ICANN and Verisign are only in the business of making an entry in the master database.
Last time I checked, my PC is in my home. Fuck anybody who wants to come into my home and tell me what I can and cannot do. (That includes adware sneakily installing itself, they can go fuck themselves aswell, but if I choose to do something crazy like that, then I'll do as I bloody well please).
They could at the very least keep the pages online with some sort of disclaimer that the site isn't being updated. bbc.co.uk/archive/web/ or some such.
The BBC has plenty of (free; they peer with everyone) bandwidth to keep stuff like this online indefinately. Archiving it offline and only offline is silly.
Where did I say I'm on a linux box? I'm actually not. Still pisses me off to see a.msi being used to so they can force you to "agree" to a EULA before reading information that can be formatted perfectly well in.html, all nice and indexable by google. Yes, the EULA is the REAL reason for using an MSI (or.exe's containing.doc word documents on other parts of Microsoft.com) - so.MSI is actually being used to make sure the format isn't open, not just inaccessible to google and people who don't like to run executable code on their machines just to read some text.
As an aside; Acrobat's installer is a piling heap of crap - it actually decompresses its contents multiple times.
STFU and get your facts. You can download the schema to MS XML right here. Let us know if you find where they binary encode anything.
Schema? You'd expect a schema to be a.xsd file. You're linking to some sort of proprietary.msi file, whatever it may be. Well, an installer obviously - doesn't gator come in a handy dandy.msi these days?
Anyway, even an 'open' schema (rather, syntax/grammar) is useless when the semantics are "it's supposed to come out.. well, like it does when it goes in this blackbox. Good luck re-implementing it."
Yeah, I have that version. It sucks. It has no line numbers, which makes it totally unusable for anything but just reading a play straight through. Plus, no decent editing, footnotes, intros, etc.
This description is exactly what patents were designed to do, protect the original product from imitators that intrude on its market position.
No they're not designed to protect original products. They're designed to provide incentives in the form of a temporary monopoly to researchers who disclose their inventions 'To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts'.
You'd know that if you had even had the slightest cursory look at patent law; it's basis in the US Constitution.
Otherwise, there's no way in hell they'll subsidise your climb up the Folding@Home ladder.
It would be trivial for a games publishing house to include a client running in the background in their games. Of course, the client should run only during gameplay, so you could argue "but mom, I'm fighting cancer!"
(To knee-jerkers: Go ahead and call me a Google apologist or a Google fanboy or what have you if you want to. But refute my facts, refute my point of view, challenge my opinions and *back it all up* before you even think about sticking a label on me.
At least you don't hold yourself to the same standard of backing up your point of view. After all, if you did, you'd have to prove that no google employee ever has or will in the future mis-use the information they collect on punters.
"I'm sure they wouldn't do it" isn't a convincing argument against concerns over potential abuse.
Live digital instruments (such as professional keyboards) are often 20- to 24-bit, 192 KHz, and lossless digital amplifiers have been around since the 60s.
Will it block access to MP3 files and a big list of other file-types/filename-extensions? Like MSN Messenger 7 does? But, like MSN Messenger, allow.WMA files? And do this under the guise of "security", alleging that MP3 is an "unsafe" format (though unlike WMAs, MP3s can't launch websites or "acquire licenses" and stuff like that)..
Divx is used for transfrerring over the internet, so the smaller the file is, the better.
Then use H.264 instead of DivX. It's smaller. It's also supported in QuickTime 7, Nero Showtime uses it, ffmpeg and vlc (beta) use it, and there's even a windows codec floating about (Moonlight-Elecard).
Me, I like DivX/Xvid better because it doesn't take as much CPU as H.264 (AKA AVC/Mpeg 4 part 10) - also, my DVD player can play DivX/Xvid just fine.
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DRM's more or less open goal is to prevent "casual theft" in the form of playground CD swapping, but it's much easier to sue someone who took deliberate, non-obvious steps to circumvent a protection than sueing someone who just copied something. For infringers, it takes away the "oops I didn't know it was forbidden" excuse.
Just like AOL subscribers have caught on to using "a softwares" like Winzip to unzip zip files, they'll ask how to get programs to play "thier" files even though they keep annoyingly asking to "aquice a lisnce", and people will point the to un-drm utilities with just a big fat "crack" button.
These people will still have no clue.
This right here is what the world needs more of. Transformer b-boys!
There will still be OTA Digital broadcasts for those w/o cable or sat. This is just eliminating the analog portion of the spectrum used for TV.
How many people have shiny new TV sets that can receive digital signals (and HDTV to boot, since most digital signals are HD, even if only upsampled) that don't have cable or satellite reception?
(of course, there probably will be digital set-top box receivers available, much like the ones advertised already in the UK and Netherlands, so digital OTA will be an alternative in a way.)
The biggest change is that you really can print photos at home now. Ten years ago that wasn't practical.
It's not practical now either, but somehow people insist on doing it. You can get photos printed on real photographic paper for 14 eurocents a piece (or 9 a piece if you order 100 or more), and that'll last years. The "cheap" inktjet prints actually cost more and fade like nobody's business. Now, probably the ten cent prints aren't archival quality, but they'll last at least a few decades.
In addition, new kinds of paper have opened up new opportunities to use your printer: bumper stickers, tee shirts, even tattoos. You can't get those at Kinko's.
Actually, you can. You might have to order stuff like mugs and calendars, but they do offer it. Though it would be easier to order stuff like that from a place like cafepress. Some online shops will even print a monochrome (white) picture on a dark colored tee. Which is nice.
Though in this case, a slightly longer mission statement might be called for.
I suggest adding "oh yeah, and like, no dupes."
This works because there is absolutely no cost or inconvenience associeted with changing your internet address!
People will magically assume that they should go to yourdomain.someobscurenonversigingTLDlikedotbizor
Also, e-mail will magically be rerouted so you won't miss a single e-mail, and said domainspammers/competitors won't get mail meant for you on their mailserver (you know, like paypal password reset links and stuff).
Sounds reasonable. Except for one thing. Why did they hire some one for this job? What problem needed to be solved? Did that problem get solved?
Presumably the problem was that not enough people were typing. So they hired some one to type, and measured the typing, right?
They should've hired some guys off of IRC. They type a lot.
Yes, TCP/IP has not evolved these layers at all. In stead, TCP/IP users are forced to accept that TCP/IP only provides reliable socket-based bi-directional streams of data routed world wide. Meanwhile in stead of being comfortably locked into a proprietary system, they face the challenge of choosing which applications to use to manage their sessions, presentation and file transfer.
HTTP(S), WebDAV, (S)FTP, SSH, SOAP, JMS, BXXP, XMPP, RTSP, SIP, NFS, SMB, NNTP, IMAP, etc. etc. And all of these protocols come with their own strengths and weaknesses! Worse, you could even swap TCP/IP out from underneath some of these protocols in favor of, for example, IPv6 or in some cases even an old dinosaur like NetBIOS.
To make matters worse, all these protocols come with easy-to use APIs, libraries, executable tools and even multi-vendor support, so far as to even be integrated into development environments such as "Java" or "Perl"..
The obvious drawback of this is of course that relying on these, for the most part, "open standards" makes it easier for your software to interoperate and be compatible across platforms and networks.
Next article written by Captain Obvious; "Many enterprises using Windows file sharing to replicate mission-critical information across Windows systems."
(Not that there's anything wrong with being lazy and using the OS' default transparant network thingamajig.. But that's not exactly winning on merits)
Now, if any one has any information as why DECnet is (supposedly) so much more robust and dependable than TCP/IP (especially DECnet-over-IP), I'd like to hear it. Does it use error correcting codes? Does it have some sort of secDNS equivalent (or even an analog to secure BGP? that would be kinda neat).
This way, people only go to a lawyer as a last resort. With a monthly fee, I would imagine that people are more inclined to get a lawyer involved since they have already paid for them anyway.
What part of Europe is that? I live in The Netherlands, and I've got legal insurance. It's about EUR 10/month - 1 hour with a lawyer would equal about a year's worth of insurance premiums. So, obviously, it's not used that much. On the other hand, when you need it, especially when your income suddenly comes to a halt (say, a car crash, labor dispute), it pays itself back.
The rates for the US appear to be about $20/month. I bet Michael Jackson wished he'd paid for it
Note that there are all sorts of restrictions on when you can claim legal assistance. They won't pursue frivolous claims for you, for example. If you want that kind a service, you need to get you a lawyer on retainer.
I live in The Netherlands, which is even smaller and more densely populated than the UK. 50 miles to work sounds about right. Actually, 102 miles back and forth.
With sites like rotten.com do you refer to the web growing as "Net" growth or "Gross" growth?
and only when the DNS cache time-to-live is over...
No, they only run a few top level servers, most top-level servers are run for no fee at all by third parties. check here. ICANN only runs L, Verisign only runs A and J.
RIPE, ISC and NORDUnet/Autonomica do all of the heavy lifting, really.
So, basically, ICANN and Verisign are only in the business of making an entry in the master database.
Last time I checked, my PC is in my home. Fuck anybody who wants to come into my home and tell me what I can and cannot do. (That includes adware sneakily installing itself, they can go fuck themselves aswell, but if I choose to do something crazy like that, then I'll do as I bloody well please).
The BBC has plenty of (free; they peer with everyone) bandwidth to keep stuff like this online indefinately. Archiving it offline and only offline is silly.
As an aside; Acrobat's installer is a piling heap of crap - it actually decompresses its contents multiple times.
Schema? You'd expect a schema to be a
Anyway, even an 'open' schema (rather, syntax/grammar) is useless when the semantics are "it's supposed to come out.. well, like it does when it goes in this blackbox. Good luck re-implementing it."
Then again, that's how Shakespeare wrote it.
No they're not designed to protect original products. They're designed to provide incentives in the form of a temporary monopoly to researchers who disclose their inventions 'To promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts'.
You'd know that if you had even had the slightest cursory look at patent law; it's basis in the US Constitution.
Yes. It's just D, not R, seeing as how it's been done before multiple times in the exact same way in consumer products from different vendors.
It would be trivial for a games publishing house to include a client running in the background in their games. Of course, the client should run only during gameplay, so you could argue "but mom, I'm fighting cancer!"
At least you don't hold yourself to the same standard of backing up your point of view. After all, if you did, you'd have to prove that no google employee ever has or will in the future mis-use the information they collect on punters.
"I'm sure they wouldn't do it" isn't a convincing argument against concerns over potential abuse.
Have a look at the mapping provided by our kindly municipal authorities;
Have fun.
Damn my incompatible 10bit 30Khz ears!
Will it block access to MP3 files and a big list of other file-types/filename-extensions? Like MSN Messenger 7 does? But, like MSN Messenger, allow .WMA files? And do this under the guise of "security", alleging that MP3 is an "unsafe" format (though unlike WMAs, MP3s can't launch websites or "acquire licenses" and stuff like that)..
Then use H.264 instead of DivX. It's smaller. It's also supported in QuickTime 7, Nero Showtime uses it, ffmpeg and vlc (beta) use it, and there's even a windows codec floating about (Moonlight-Elecard).
Me, I like DivX/Xvid better because it doesn't take as much CPU as H.264 (AKA AVC/Mpeg 4 part 10) - also, my DVD player can play DivX/Xvid just fine.