When a group that exploits a communication network system for information is also in charge of its security, what happens when a weakness is found? Do you:
A) Keep the weakness secret so you can exploit it. B) Publish the fix so your networks are fixed, but also allowing those you may be monitoring to fix as well, and cut off an information source.
Bruce Schneier has a great commentary on this at his blog.
Given the age of the older microwave links, plus the fact they were doing the processing, but were bandwidth-limited, it's probable that they've had the storage and processing power for a while, but the bandwidth infrastructure is now just catching up.
1.) In demand tunes should be higher-priced due to supply and demand.
2.) Older obscure tunes should be higher priced to recoup production costs over the smaller sales volume.
Historically, big labels would have lower prices on new releases by B-list or unknown artist that they were pushing to break big, or leftover stock that didn't sell and was never going to sell. Digital downloads mean no leftover stock or inventory costs. There may be some "teaser tracks" out at $0.69, from major labels, but not many. I could see an artist on their own label or a small independent selling that low if it would bring a much wider audience to their work.
In the old coin-op game 10-Yard Fight, there was a giant floating arrow to point to where the ball would go when kicking an extra point. If one of your blockers ran into the arrow, he was blocked just as if he'd run into an opposing player. It didn't affect gameplay, because it always happened after the kick, but it was amusing, nonetheless.
Here's the funny thing: for music, public performance rights are licensed through ASCAP and BMI, which are run by and for musicians. Record companies (ie. the RIAA) only see part of this money if they happen to own a publishing company.
Who handles what:
Songwriter copyrights: ASCAP/BMI (in Canada SOCAN) on behalf of the artist Publishing copyrights: Harry Fox Agency Mechanical copyrights: RIAA on behalf of the record label. Digital copyrights: RIAA via SoundExchange on behalf of the record label and artist
Radio and live performances pay royalties for songwriter copyrights.
RIAA would like for radio to pay royalties on mechanical copyrights.
Many artists (especially those who perform other people's songs) want to add a "Performance copyright" so that radio would pay a royalty to the performer as well as the songwriter.
Pandora, webcasters etc. pay royalties on digital copyrights, which are split between the record label and the songwriter.
Playing the radio at a place of business will mean playing royalties for songwriter copyrights, while playing CD's at a place of business would mean paying royalties on both mechanical and songwriter copyrights.
OLGA, the online guitar archive, got in copyright trouble with Harry Fox for publishing tablature of copyrighted songs.
I'm sure NYCL or someone else who knows all the ins and outs can correct or expand upon this.
There are plenty of news sources out there that don't have a lot of those stories (NPR, for example).
Actually NPR is at a record high rating. More people listen to NPR's Morning Edition than watch Good Morning America or the Today Show. Of course that's probably because the number of people who are in their car driving to work form a huge base for NPR that (hopefully) aren't able to watch TV.
Here's a link to the Washington Post article
If antibiotics are over-the-counter, then they will be over-used, and/or misused in ways that lead to more antibiotic resistant strains of bacteria (e.g. penicillin-resistant gonorrhea, or MRSA). Shelf life is another concern. Several common prescription medicines not only become ineffective as they age, but eventually become toxic. OTC interactions with prescription drugs are a common problem that would spread as more medicines are made OTC. Too many people take dosage and usage directions for prescription and OTC drugs too lightly as it is. Making more drugs OTC will only make this problem worse.
In most cases, if software was developed under a government contract, then the government has full rights to the source code. It would be a great starting place for updating a number of existing applications. Version control and vetting of results could be problematic in some cases, but not impossible to overcome.
Actually, Harriot also discovered sunspots prior to Galileo, and discovered Snell's law prior to Snell. He also was among the first to hypothesize the optimum lattice packing of spheres was the traditional hexagonal-based packing. (The book "Kepler's Conjecture" is a great read on this.) He simply didn't publish any of his work. THAT is why he is unknown.
To ask those internet cafes to run Linux is to ask them to get rid of their source of profits.
Two questions:
1.) Does the PRC government really care about internet cafe profits, or does it care more about having control over them?
2.) Does the PRC government "ask" the cafes to run Red Flag Linux, or is it telling them? If it is forcing cafes that have documented, licensed versions of Windows on their machines to switch (and pay $700 per machine to do so), then it's not "asking".
How is this really different from what Industrial Engineers and Operations Research people already do? Fedex, UPS, airlines and the like spend a lot of money planning routes for cost efficiency, taking into account time, fuel, labor, and other costs, including load balancing among drivers. Essentially it's another cost minimization problem with a slightly different set of variables. As more companies seek out solutions, it will become another specialized consulting field, where experts in building design, HVAC, electrical engineering will be hired for planning. Ideally, an in house IT department should not have to worry about this during normal operations. It would be only need to be addressed when one of the conditions underlying the original plan is no longer true, (e.g. growth beyond original plans, major hardware changes/upgrades etc.)
Cambridge Soundworks makes a model with optical digital outputs. No clue if there are any restrictions on them, though. On a higher end, Yamaha makes several AV receivers that handle HD as well. Again I have no knowledge whether or not the digital outputs are crippled in any way.
Given that Rambus was charging 2X the royalty for DDR than for RDRAM in an effort to get memory and chipset manufacturers to use their proprietary RDRAM, and the performance and integration problems Intel had with RDRAM, the harm to consumers should be obvious. Then again, in a world where common sense ruled, all of Rambus' executives should be in jail already, and Rambus' DDR patents would have been nullified.
It's distortions, statements, and mindsets like this that have to be refuted.
From the editorial:
Big broadband companies are headed for a clash with Washington over whether consumers have a right to get as much as they want from the Internet, as fast as they want it, without paying extra for the privilege. The editorial goes on to conflate neutral treatment of packets with "neutral pricing" (their term for flat rate).
Okay, it's an update/reissue of a board game that's been out of print for a decade or so, but it's great to finally have it for a new generation of players.
From the article:
City Car users would be required to swipe their credit card as a form of deposit. The cars could also be tracked using GPS. To protect privacy, the GPS info could then be deleted once the car is safely returned to a kiosk. Law enforcement would fight tooth and nail to keep the GPS data from being deleted. The legitimate use would be to track someone who stole a vehicle (using a stolen credit card, probably), or used it as a getaway car for some other crime. Once stored, it's too tempting to use for other purposes. Of course this is essentially already the case with rental cars.
Correlation does not imply causation. While the correlation may be very strong, causation cannot be assumed without ruling out many other potential contributing factors.
It is a federal law banning state and local governments from taxing the net. That is useful to prevent artificial "tariff boundaries" that have no real relevance. Of course the definition of physical presence in a state for sales tax still applies, but that becomes an issue only for large web vendors with distribution centers (or other such offices) in multiple states.
If AT&T has done nothing wrong, what do they have to hide?
In this case, even if AT&T has done nothing wrong, they have been told in very bold terms by the DHS that if they divulge details, then they are guilty of divulging "state secrets" and will be prosecuted accordingly. The blame once again goes back to the executive branch of government.
It would be interesting if Congress held a closed session, where the "state secrets" defense didn't apply, and put the telecom executives under oath. I'm sure the executive branch would fight this tooth and nail as well.
Folk isn't dead, it has just gone independent of the major labels. Many artists either have their own label, or record for small labels like Compass, Waterbug, Red House, Gadfly, or Rounder. The economics of the big labels just don't work well for smaller, independent artists. Labels will often dictate the terms of recording to smaller artists, forcing them to spend more money to do it the label's way rather than the artist's way. Artists on their own label usually make more money (better budget control), and have full artistic control, to boot. Folk artists learned early on to use the Web, email lists, MySpace, and other means of electronic communication to maintain a fan base. CDBaby has also made it easy for an independent artist to sell CD's nationwide.
The biggest obstacle to folk music is not the record labels, but the corporate concentration of commercial radio. Independent singer-songwriters are pretty much relegated to public radio, or satellite radio. ASCAP and BMI's methods of computing airplay for royalties favors the large commercial stations and shortchanges the artists who don't get airplay there. Since voting in ASCAP and BMI is apportioned in accordance to royalties received, that isn't likely to change. The royalty rate negotiations for webcasting will have a major effect as well, since the viability of smaller webcasters (and simulcasting of public radio) are threatened.
Slashdot Mirror
Al, is that you?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Weird_al_yankovic
I want to read this year's Halloween memo.
When a group that exploits a communication network system for information is also in charge of its security, what happens when a weakness is found? Do you:
A) Keep the weakness secret so you can exploit it.
B) Publish the fix so your networks are fixed, but also allowing those you may be monitoring to fix as well, and cut off an information source.
Bruce Schneier has a great commentary on this at his blog.
Given the age of the older microwave links, plus the fact they were doing the processing, but were bandwidth-limited, it's probable that they've had the storage and processing power for a while, but the bandwidth infrastructure is now just catching up.
In the Label's mind:
1.) In demand tunes should be higher-priced due to supply and demand.
2.) Older obscure tunes should be higher priced to recoup production costs over the smaller sales volume.
Historically, big labels would have lower prices on new releases by B-list or unknown artist that they were pushing to break big, or leftover stock that didn't sell and was never going to sell. Digital downloads mean no leftover stock or inventory costs. There may be some "teaser tracks" out at $0.69, from major labels, but not many. I could see an artist on their own label or a small independent selling that low if it would bring a much wider audience to their work.
In 500 mm turn right at the Hippocampus, and you have reached your destination.
I knew I should have taken that left turn at the pituitary. (said in a Bugs Bunny voice of course)
In the old coin-op game 10-Yard Fight, there was a giant floating arrow to point to where the ball would go when kicking an extra point. If one of your blockers ran into the arrow, he was blocked just as if he'd run into an opposing player. It didn't affect gameplay, because it always happened after the kick, but it was amusing, nonetheless.
Here's the funny thing: for music, public performance rights are licensed through ASCAP and BMI, which are run by and for musicians. Record companies (ie. the RIAA) only see part of this money if they happen to own a publishing company.
Who handles what:
Songwriter copyrights: ASCAP/BMI (in Canada SOCAN) on behalf of the artist
Publishing copyrights: Harry Fox Agency
Mechanical copyrights: RIAA on behalf of the record label.
Digital copyrights: RIAA via SoundExchange on behalf of the record label and artist
Radio and live performances pay royalties for songwriter copyrights.
RIAA would like for radio to pay royalties on mechanical copyrights.
Many artists (especially those who perform other people's songs) want to add a "Performance copyright" so that radio would pay a royalty to the performer as well as the songwriter.
Pandora, webcasters etc. pay royalties on digital copyrights, which are split between the record label and the songwriter.
Playing the radio at a place of business will mean playing royalties for songwriter copyrights, while playing CD's at a place of business would mean paying royalties on both mechanical and songwriter copyrights.
OLGA, the online guitar archive, got in copyright trouble with Harry Fox for publishing tablature of copyrighted songs.
I'm sure NYCL or someone else who knows all the ins and outs can correct or expand upon this.
There are plenty of news sources out there that don't have a lot of those stories (NPR, for example).
Actually NPR is at a record high rating. More people listen to NPR's Morning Edition than watch Good Morning America or the Today Show. Of course that's probably because the number of people who are in their car driving to work form a huge base for NPR that (hopefully) aren't able to watch TV. Here's a link to the Washington Post article
Very Simple,
If antibiotics are over-the-counter, then they will be over-used, and/or misused in ways that lead to more antibiotic resistant strains of bacteria (e.g. penicillin-resistant gonorrhea, or MRSA). Shelf life is another concern. Several common prescription medicines not only become ineffective as they age, but eventually become toxic. OTC interactions with prescription drugs are a common problem that would spread as more medicines are made OTC. Too many people take dosage and usage directions for prescription and OTC drugs too lightly as it is. Making more drugs OTC will only make this problem worse.
In most cases, if software was developed under a government contract, then the government has full rights to the source code. It would be a great starting place for updating a number of existing applications. Version control and vetting of results could be problematic in some cases, but not impossible to overcome.
Actually, Harriot also discovered sunspots prior to Galileo, and discovered Snell's law prior to Snell. He also was among the first to hypothesize the optimum lattice packing of spheres was the traditional hexagonal-based packing. (The book "Kepler's Conjecture" is a great read on this.) He simply didn't publish any of his work. THAT is why he is unknown.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Harriot
Two questions:
1.) Does the PRC government really care about internet cafe profits, or does it care more about having control over them?
2.) Does the PRC government "ask" the cafes to run Red Flag Linux, or is it telling them? If it is forcing cafes that have documented, licensed versions of Windows on their machines to switch (and pay $700 per machine to do so), then it's not "asking".
How is this really different from what Industrial Engineers and Operations Research people already do? Fedex, UPS, airlines and the like spend a lot of money planning routes for cost efficiency, taking into account time, fuel, labor, and other costs, including load balancing among drivers. Essentially it's another cost minimization problem with a slightly different set of variables. As more companies seek out solutions, it will become another specialized consulting field, where experts in building design, HVAC, electrical engineering will be hired for planning. Ideally, an in house IT department should not have to worry about this during normal operations. It would be only need to be addressed when one of the conditions underlying the original plan is no longer true, (e.g. growth beyond original plans, major hardware changes/upgrades etc.)
Cambridge Soundworks makes a model with optical digital outputs. No clue if there are any restrictions on them, though. On a higher end, Yamaha makes several AV receivers that handle HD as well. Again I have no knowledge whether or not the digital outputs are crippled in any way.
Given that Rambus was charging 2X the royalty for DDR than for RDRAM in an effort to get memory and chipset manufacturers to use their proprietary RDRAM, and the performance and integration problems Intel had with RDRAM, the harm to consumers should be obvious. Then again, in a world where common sense ruled, all of Rambus' executives should be in jail already, and Rambus' DDR patents would have been nullified.
FPL just wanted to make sure everyone tested their backup generators prior to hurricane season.
Are the Qualcomm developers who support Penelope part of this? Will their work be incorporated into Thunderbird, or is it a separate project?
From the editorial: Big broadband companies are headed for a clash with Washington over whether consumers have a right to get as much as they want from the Internet, as fast as they want it, without paying extra for the privilege. The editorial goes on to conflate neutral treatment of packets with "neutral pricing" (their term for flat rate).
Okay, it's an update/reissue of a board game that's been out of print for a decade or so, but it's great to finally have it for a new generation of players.
Talisman
http://www.blackindustries.com/?template=TM&content=talisman-history
Correlation does not imply causation. While the correlation may be very strong, causation cannot be assumed without ruling out many other potential contributing factors.
RTFA -
It is a federal law banning state and local governments from taxing the net. That is useful to prevent artificial "tariff boundaries" that have no real relevance. Of course the definition of physical presence in a state for sales tax still applies, but that becomes an issue only for large web vendors with distribution centers (or other such offices) in multiple states.
If AT&T has done nothing wrong, what do they have to hide?
In this case, even if AT&T has done nothing wrong, they have been told in very bold terms by the DHS that if they divulge details, then they are guilty of divulging "state secrets" and will be prosecuted accordingly. The blame once again goes back to the executive branch of government.
It would be interesting if Congress held a closed session, where the "state secrets" defense didn't apply, and put the telecom executives under oath. I'm sure the executive branch would fight this tooth and nail as well.
Folk isn't dead, it has just gone independent of the major labels. Many artists either have their own label, or record for small labels like Compass, Waterbug, Red House, Gadfly, or Rounder. The economics of the big labels just don't work well for smaller, independent artists. Labels will often dictate the terms of recording to smaller artists, forcing them to spend more money to do it the label's way rather than the artist's way. Artists on their own label usually make more money (better budget control), and have full artistic control, to boot. Folk artists learned early on to use the Web, email lists, MySpace, and other means of electronic communication to maintain a fan base. CDBaby has also made it easy for an independent artist to sell CD's nationwide.
The biggest obstacle to folk music is not the record labels, but the corporate concentration of commercial radio. Independent singer-songwriters are pretty much relegated to public radio, or satellite radio. ASCAP and BMI's methods of computing airplay for royalties favors the large commercial stations and shortchanges the artists who don't get airplay there. Since voting in ASCAP and BMI is apportioned in accordance to royalties received, that isn't likely to change. The royalty rate negotiations for webcasting will have a major effect as well, since the viability of smaller webcasters (and simulcasting of public radio) are threatened.