Perhaps on the surface however there is a striking resembalance between the sequence of events and the claims made about stacker disk compression software/Company. MS Offered to buy the Stacker but wanted to see the source code first, once it was handed over, they backed out of the deal and launched their own disk compression software in the next version of MS-DOS (IIRC v6).
If you live in the UK (or EU) then this is already illegal under section 1 of the Computer misuse act. Since this act is a result of EU Treaty obligations similar legislation exist accross the EU.
This same legislation could theoretically be used against junk emailers.
'The Computer Misuse Act 1990' Section 1;
1.--(1) A person is guilty of an offence if-- (a) he causes a computer to perform any function with intent to secure access to any program or data held in any computer; (b) the access he intends to secure is unauthorised; and (c) he knows at the time when he causes the computer to perform the function that that is the case. (2) The intent a person has to have to commit an offence under this section need not be directed at-- (a) any particular program or data; (b) a program or data of any particular kind; or (c) a program or data held in any particular computer. (3) A person guilty of an offence under this section shall be liable on summary conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale or to both.
The whole idea of capitalism is that the capitalist (shareholder/investor) risks their capital because they reap the rewards (profits). This company is seeking to have the employees assume the risk, without offering something in return.
Employees have a contract that the company cannot change without the employees *agreement. (one party cannot unilaterally change a contract, it needs the agreement of both parties).
If the company wishes to pass on [some of] the risk of doing business (losses) the employees want something in return, a share in the upside.
These people have a contract the company should honour it.
If the company is likely to survive I would demand stock as compensation for the change of terms, if survival seems unlikely I would decline the change of conditions and start searching for a new position.
The worst thing they can do is invoke any severance clause and they usually includes several months salary and gardening leave, a pleasant though given the imminent arrival of spring/summer.
My pet hate is that Templates subvert Polymorphism and so cause excessive code bloat.
Since each new templated type added to the project generates an entirely new class, the size of code base can rise exponentionally.
Unfortunately there is no easy solution to this problem. A Hand-crafting solution whilst producing much smaller code also requires a lot more work, and requires good OO design skills. STL magnifies the easy of use vs utility trade off.
There will be third choice rolling out nationally sometime next year. This project (www.kitv.co.uk), true Interactive DTV is
currently only available in Kingston up Hull. It will be available nationally from some time next summer.
It's already offer more services (DTV,VOD,Internet,Email, Fax Bridge) than the established players. Ultimately it will support any Service available over IP.
...And you'll be able to pay everytime you want to watch a program.
Wrong. The PVR Content is delivered freely as part of the basic service subscription, Essentially an ADSL line rental that starts at 6UKP (~10USD/EURO)pcm.
Bye-bye timeshifting;
Wrong. This is time shifted DTV, though currently we don't support pausing a live-stream, this a not-yet-implemented restriction.
hello being c*****d by paying to re-watch content you've already purchased once.
Wrong, the BBC is a public service broadcaster and this is free content, delivered at point of use for free. The consumer pays nothing for the content.
The nature of our platform mean this can even be enhanced, it is truely interactive and enhanced using web content. Essentially the following styled for DTV Browser.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/blueplanet/
Of course content providers and the BBC love VOD - it's practically a licence to print money with very little benefit to the consumer.
Wrong, The BBC is funded through public licence, the probably excercises the highest standards and produces the best serious (Educational/Documentaries/Current Affairs/News) content in world.
TiVo basically gives you VOD without the overbearing corporate greed associated with current attempts at it.
Server side PVR built using VOD technology is another option that is emerging in the UK. We are already doing a limited form of this with our iDTV system. I'm aware that at least two others are also developing this technology.
Server side offers a number of cost & QOS advantages. Since each piece of contents needs to be stored only once, when server side the total hardware cost is reduced, even when considering high level of redundancy. Server side also has advantage of eliminating the requirement for in-field or return-to-base repairs. The cost advantage to the SP, and consequently the consumer is considerable. The unit cost of this system is currently around £60 (~100USD/EURO) and this tend towards zero as the customer base increases.
The issue with server side is licencing (as ever:) though we have found the BBC very cooperative, indeed enthusiastic; about this technology. Hopefuly this will force commercial content providers to be more flexible.
Whilst I support the move to reclaim the words Geek & Nerd and desensitise their insulting connotations. I've always liked the word Technocrat, it presents a very positive position of exercising power through technology the very idea we are seeking to instil.
How do people feel about the 'Technocratic Lobby' ?
When considering the rise of broadband technology and the convergent devices and the emergence of IP based DTV/VOD Systems the logical conclusion would be to use a network technology (i.e Ethernet) rather than USB. This offers the practical advantage of allowing the POTS phone(s) to be plugged directly into a broadband connection, without the requirement of a PC next to the phone.
Regarding call charges, these are probably break-out charges from the Internet into the Telephone network. A necessary service for this device to be used practically, i.e. calling an ordinary Phone.
Good reasons to vary response
on
Cloaking Detection?
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· Score: 3, Informative
(cloaking is the practice of delivering a specially optimized page to search engine spiders while delivering a completely different page to the user).
There are good reasons for a site to respond differently to different clients. Indeed responding to the capabilities of the client should be considered 'best practice'.
There are a host of client types out there other than just PC Browsers and Robots, IDTV STB's, 3G & WAP Phones, Convergent devices. The range is set to explode.
This is the whole reason for the Http 'Accept' header, which is provided to allow a server to handler clients with different capabilities.
http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec1 4. html
Re:I'd make or modify an existing program to do th
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Cloaking Detection?
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Then do a simple compare.
It's not nessecarry to compare the pages, calc a CRC or HASH for each version and test/store those.
I don't think so, the preference is broken, categories cannot be selected, so it's not possible to configure Mozilla. I cannot configure my proxy, so my testing has not gotten very far.
So I pop over to the BugZilla site to report the bug, and I have to start jumping through hoops, why the need to pre-register to report bugs? What happened to the idea that many eyes make bugs shallow ?
I don't know what is more scary the original story or the fact that somebody as seen fit to moderate a perfectly reasonable comment about a perfectly reasonable concern to 'Flamebait'.
I just HOPE it's just a MS astroturfer because the alternative is too fighterning to comprehend.
I cannot help drawing parrallels between this and the National Socialists, in German using IBM equipment used to manage the census, in the runup to the final solution during WW2.
The direction the US is moving is starting to get really scary from the outside.
The whole iDTV sector is starting to show real convergence between DTV and IT, and there are plenty of opportunities, you've picked young field with massive upside.
In your shoes, VOD sounds idea, I would suggest you checkout nCube and their Customer List. I know they include the BBC and ourselves. They are the world leader, by a considerable margin in the field of Video on Demand systems.
nCubes use Transit, a flavour of Unix designed for Video Content management.
I'd also suggest you develop your skills in RTSP(RTP),IP,MPEG.
This suggests an intriguing idea: Internet Independent.
Prerequisites:
1) A declaration of an Internet Independent. 2) A declaration including extra-territorialism. 3) A declaration including openness and freedom. 4) A when connecting to the Internet is recognition of this declaration (#1). 5) subversion of this independence, may result in Internet sanctions(#2). 6) signing the declaration confers certain Internet Citizenship rights, and responsibilities(#3).
#1 I recognise this is difficult to achieve in practice, however two possibilities suggest themselves to me. a) This condition is included in any next-generation future-net system. b) This position is acheived progressively, over time, 'if you want to connect to the Independent Internet, you must recognise it's independence' as expressed in this declaration.
#2 Partial or complete disconnection from the internet, using a mechanism similar to the RBL. This could range from a the whole sub-net of a State to a single IP:Port.
#3 The responsibilities are those consistent with compliance with the declaration.
Why? I've always believed we need a Technocratic Meritocracy.
The test of any Jurisdiction is can the Court exerted its Authority over that Jurisdiction.
The Internet has repeatedly demonstrated than National courts cannot (PGP, DeCSS, et.all), as worst they can only exert their authority over a small proportion of it.
If they cannot exert their authotity over it, then defacto, they have no Jurisdiction.
Perhaps in more ways than you realise, since I feel pretty confident that Content on Demand systems like this (www.kitv.co.uk) are the Killer App you are talking about.
A monopoly by definition is not a free market
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Firstly, a monopoly by definition is not a free market. In free market I can buy/trade with anybody, in a monopoly I don't have that choice, therefore it's not free.
Having a monopoly is NOT illegal.
Perhaps this is true in the land of corporate greed, but monopolies are illegal in nearly every civilised/developed country.
So what you're saying is pretty much "If you're too dumb to figure out when to use a hammer and when to use a wrench or a screwdriver, then it makes more sense to stick with *only* a hammer for consistency and training's sake.", right?
And every requirement becomes a nail to be beaten into submission. lol:)
p.s. This is a well known usenet troll.
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=%22topmind@tec hn ologist.com%22+troll&btnG=Google+Search
http://groups.google.com/groups?as_uauthors=topm in d@technologist.com%20&hl=enSo
Two ideas based on the words of Rev Martin Niemoller.
http://serendipity.magnet.ch/cda/niemoll.html
http://www.hoboes.com/html/FireBlade/Politics/ni em oller.shtml
---
First they came for the Crackers,
I didn't speak out,
I wasn't a Cracker,
Next they came for the Hackers
I didn't speak out,
I wasn't a Hacker ,
Next they came for...
---
Rev. Martin Niemoller, jailed for Preacher free speech, Germany 1937.
Dmitry Sklyarov, jailed for Preacher free speech, USA 2001.
Tactically this is not necessarily a bad thing. The EFF can appeal to a higher court even if EFF had won, RIAA would have appealed to a higher court.
RIAA et. al. have essentially unlimited resources to fight these cases.
EFF, have limited funds so quick cases in a lower court preserves EFF legal funds.
Further more if you keep losing in the lower courts you can maintain a tactical advantage by retaining the initiative until the last stage. The decision of the highest court is then binding on all lower courts.
The RIAA does not have the advantage of losing in lower courts, imagine the headlines if they lost at any level.
Slashdot Mirror
InterruptDescriptorT wrote : Let's keep producing more violent movies and glorifying war, like Platoon, Saving Private Ryan
: Uh... You honestly think Platoon or Saving Private Ryan "glorif[y] war"?
and Loligo responded
I pretty such InterruptDescriptorT was being ironic, something else that does not seem to cross the cross the atlantic very well.
http://www.dictionary.com/search?q=irony
MS's involvement in this was pretty minimal
Perhaps on the surface however there is a striking resembalance between the sequence of events and the claims made about stacker disk compression software/Company. MS Offered to buy the Stacker but wanted to see the source code first, once it was handed over, they backed out of the deal and launched their own disk compression software in the next version of MS-DOS (IIRC v6).
If you live in the UK (or EU) then this is already illegal under section 1 of the Computer misuse act. Since this act is a result of EU Treaty obligations similar legislation exist accross the EU.
This same legislation could theoretically be used against junk emailers.
'The Computer Misuse Act 1990'
Section 1;
1.--(1) A person is guilty of an offence if--
(a) he causes a computer to perform any function with intent to secure access to any program or data held in any computer;
(b) the access he intends to secure is unauthorised; and
(c) he knows at the time when he causes the computer to perform the function that that is the case.
(2) The intent a person has to have to commit an offence under this section need not be directed at--
(a) any particular program or data;
(b) a program or data of any particular kind; or
(c) a program or data held in any particular computer.
(3) A person guilty of an offence under this section shall be liable on summary conviction to imprisonment for a term not exceeding six months or to a fine not exceeding level 5 on the standard scale or to both.
http://www.hmso.gov.uk/acts/acts1990/Ukpga_1990
The whole idea of capitalism is that the capitalist (shareholder/investor) risks their capital because they reap the rewards (profits). This company is seeking to have the employees assume the risk, without offering something in return.
Employees have a contract that the company cannot change without the employees *agreement.
(one party cannot unilaterally change a contract, it needs the agreement of both parties).
If the company wishes to pass on [some of] the risk of doing business (losses) the employees want something in return, a share in the upside.
These people have a contract the company should honour it.
If the company is likely to survive I would demand stock as compensation for the change of terms, if survival seems unlikely I would decline the change of conditions and start searching for a new position.
The worst thing they can do is invoke any severance clause and they usually includes several months salary and gardening leave, a pleasant though given the imminent arrival of spring/summer.
so what are the downsides to the STL?
My pet hate is that Templates subvert Polymorphism and so cause excessive code bloat.
Since each new templated type added to the project generates an entirely new class, the size of code base can rise exponentionally.
Unfortunately there is no easy solution to this problem. A Hand-crafting solution whilst producing much smaller code also requires a lot more work, and requires good OO design skills. STL magnifies the easy of use vs utility trade off.
There will be third choice rolling out nationally sometime next year. This project (www.kitv.co.uk), true Interactive DTV is
currently only available in Kingston up Hull. It will be available nationally from some time next summer.
It's already offer more services (DTV,VOD,Internet,Email, Fax Bridge) than the established players. Ultimately it will support any Service available over IP.
Wrong. The PVR Content is delivered freely as part of the basic service subscription, Essentially an ADSL line rental that starts at 6UKP (~10USD/EURO)pcm.
Bye-bye timeshifting;
Wrong. This is time shifted DTV, though currently we don't support pausing a live-stream, this a not-yet-implemented restriction.
hello being c*****d by paying to re-watch content you've already purchased once.
Wrong, the BBC is a public service broadcaster and this is free content, delivered at point of use for free. The consumer pays nothing for the content.
The nature of our platform mean this can even be enhanced, it is truely interactive and enhanced using web content. Essentially the following styled for DTV Browser.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/blueplanet/
Of course content providers and the BBC love VOD - it's practically a licence to print money with very little benefit to the consumer.
Wrong, The BBC is funded through public licence, the probably excercises the highest standards and produces the best serious (Educational/Documentaries/Current Affairs/News) content in world.
TiVo basically gives you VOD without the overbearing corporate greed associated with current attempts at it.
Wrong, the BBC is a not-for profit, is TIVO ?
Could you be more wrong
Server side PVR built using VOD technology is another option that is emerging in the UK. We are already doing a limited form of this with our iDTV system. I'm aware that at least two others are also developing this technology.
Server side offers a number of cost & QOS advantages. Since each piece of contents needs to be stored only once, when server side the total hardware cost is reduced, even when considering high level of redundancy. Server side also has advantage of eliminating the requirement for in-field or return-to-base repairs. The cost advantage to the SP, and consequently the consumer is considerable. The unit cost of this system is currently around £60 (~100USD/EURO) and this tend towards zero as the customer base increases.
The issue with server side is licencing (as ever:) though we have found the BBC very cooperative, indeed enthusiastic; about this technology. Hopefuly this will force commercial content providers to be more flexible.
not call it the "Geek Lobby".
Whilst I support the move to reclaim the words Geek & Nerd and desensitise their insulting connotations. I've always liked the word Technocrat, it presents a very positive position of exercising power through technology the very idea we are seeking to instil.
How do people feel about the 'Technocratic Lobby' ?
Why use USB?
When considering the rise of broadband technology and the convergent devices and the emergence of IP based DTV/VOD Systems the logical conclusion would be to use a network technology (i.e Ethernet) rather than USB. This offers the practical advantage of allowing the POTS phone(s) to be plugged directly into a broadband connection, without the requirement of a PC next to the phone.
Regarding call charges, these are probably break-out charges from the Internet into the Telephone network. A necessary service for this device to be used practically, i.e. calling an ordinary Phone.
(cloaking is the practice of delivering a specially optimized page to search engine spiders while delivering a completely different page to the user).
1 4. html
There are good reasons for a site to respond differently to different clients. Indeed responding to the capabilities of the client should be considered 'best practice'.
There are a host of client types out there other than just PC Browsers and Robots, IDTV STB's, 3G & WAP Phones, Convergent devices. The range is set to explode.
This is the whole reason for the Http 'Accept' header, which is provided to allow a server to handler clients with different capabilities.
http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec
Then do a simple compare.
It's not nessecarry to compare the pages, calc a CRC or HASH for each version and test/store those.
Have they even bothered to testing this version?
I don't think so, the preference is broken, categories cannot be selected, so it's not possible to configure Mozilla. I cannot configure my proxy, so my testing has not gotten very far.
So I pop over to the BugZilla site to report the bug, and I have to start jumping through hoops, why the need to pre-register to report bugs? What happened to the idea that many eyes make bugs shallow ?
My advice wait for the next release candidate.
I don't know what is more scary the original story or the fact that somebody as seen fit to moderate a perfectly reasonable comment about a perfectly reasonable concern to 'Flamebait'.
I just HOPE it's just a MS astroturfer because the alternative is too fighterning to comprehend.
a former USA-o-phile.
Goodbye America, It's been nice knowing you.
I cannot help drawing parrallels between this and the National Socialists, in German using IBM equipment used to manage the census, in the runup to the final solution during WW2.
The direction the US is moving is starting to get really scary from the outside.
The whole iDTV sector is starting to show real convergence between DTV and IT, and there are plenty of opportunities, you've picked young field with massive upside.
We (Kingston Interactive Television) are showing what can be acheived with IP over Broadband. Interactive Digital Television, Internet Television, and finally Video-On-Demand.
IMHO the whole Interactive Digital Television model is shifting from a broadcasting towards a VoD model.
In your shoes, VOD sounds idea, I would suggest you checkout nCube
and their Customer List. I know they include the BBC and ourselves. They are the world leader, by a considerable margin in the field of Video on Demand systems.
nCubes use Transit, a flavour of Unix designed for Video Content management.
I'd also suggest you develop your skills in RTSP(RTP),IP,MPEG.
This suggests an intriguing idea: Internet Independent.
Prerequisites:
1) A declaration of an Internet Independent.
2) A declaration including extra-territorialism.
3) A declaration including openness and freedom.
4) A when connecting to the Internet is recognition of this declaration (#1).
5) subversion of this independence, may result in Internet sanctions(#2).
6) signing the declaration confers certain Internet Citizenship rights, and responsibilities(#3).
#1 I recognise this is difficult to achieve in practice, however two possibilities suggest themselves to me. a) This condition is included in any next-generation future-net system. b) This position is acheived progressively, over time, 'if you want to connect to the Independent Internet, you must recognise it's independence' as expressed in this declaration.
#2 Partial or complete disconnection from the internet, using a mechanism similar to the RBL. This could range from a the whole sub-net of a State to a single IP:Port.
#3 The responsibilities are those consistent with compliance with the declaration.
Why? I've always believed we need a Technocratic Meritocracy.
The test of any Jurisdiction is can the Court exerted its Authority over that Jurisdiction.
The Internet has repeatedly demonstrated than National courts cannot (PGP, DeCSS, et.all), as worst they can only exert their authority over a small proportion of it.
If they cannot exert their authotity over it, then defacto, they have no Jurisdiction.
I wonder what effect these observations will have on superstring theory,
/ Ma thematicians/Schrodinger.html
Probably the same effect as Schrodinger's Box had on his cat.
http://www-groups.dcs.st-andrews.ac.uk/~history
... about "demand"
Perhaps in more ways than you realise, since I feel pretty confident that Content on Demand systems like this (www.kitv.co.uk) are the Killer App you are talking about.
Firstly, a monopoly by definition is not a free market. In free market I can buy/trade with anybody, in a monopoly I don't have that choice, therefore it's not free.
Having a monopoly is NOT illegal.
Perhaps this is true in the land of corporate greed, but monopolies are illegal in nearly every civilised/developed country.
So what you're saying is pretty much "If you're too dumb to figure out when to use a hammer and when to use a wrench or a screwdriver, then it makes more sense to stick with *only* a hammer for consistency and training's sake.", right?
And every requirement becomes a nail to be beaten into submission. lol:)
p.s. This is a well known usenet troll.
http://groups.google.com/groups?q=%22topmind@te
http://groups.google.com/groups?as_uauthors=top
Two ideas based on the words of Rev Martin Niemoller.i em oller.shtml
...
http://serendipity.magnet.ch/cda/niemoll.html
http://www.hoboes.com/html/FireBlade/Politics/n
---
First they came for the Crackers,
I didn't speak out,
I wasn't a Cracker,
Next they came for the Hackers
I didn't speak out,
I wasn't a Hacker ,
Next they came for
---
Rev. Martin Niemoller, jailed for Preacher free speech, Germany 1937.
Dmitry Sklyarov, jailed for Preacher free speech, USA 2001.
5,000 Movies
x 120 Mins per Movie
x 60 Mins per Second
x 4 Mbps (lowest rate for full screen MPEG2)
This suggest's about 17TB, (~585 30 Gig Disks).
Tactically this is not necessarily a bad thing. The EFF can appeal to a higher court even if EFF had won, RIAA would have appealed to a higher court.
RIAA et. al. have essentially unlimited resources to fight these cases.
EFF, have limited funds so quick cases in a lower court preserves EFF legal funds.
Further more if you keep losing in the lower courts you can maintain a tactical advantage by retaining the initiative until the last stage. The decision of the highest court is then binding on all lower courts.
The RIAA does not have the advantage of losing in lower courts, imagine the headlines if they lost at any level.
"MPA/RIAA lose as DCMA ruled unconstitutional"