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I hear lots of people saying "it's not theft; if it is, punish accordingly." OK folks, quick lesson from a non-lawyer.
Winona Ryder (sp?) or Joe Blow goes and shoplifts some things from a store. They have some probability of getting caught and convicted p_{phy}. If they steal value c, they should be punished at least c/p_{phy}.
Maryter for the P2P Cause illegally acquires software/mp3s/divx of value c, but has a far _smaller_ probability of getting caught and convicted p_{elec}. He should be punished at least c/p_{elec}.
This punishment scheme was ruled constitutional by the Supremes in Harmelin v Michigan, 1991.SCT.3666 , 501 U.S. 957, 111 S. Ct. 2680, 115 L. Ed. 2d 836, 59 U.S.L.W. 4839.
Isn't this just multiuser detection?
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The wireless field has had multiuser detection hyped for ages and ages. The gains are real, and eventually we're going to have the signal processing capability to do it; however, power control will be a major problem. CDMA systems can use power control because only one receiver is important (that would be the base station); how would you get power control for MUD?
Unlikely that a copyright being void requires you to release the source code. More likely just means people can make copies of their existing files with impunity, within the jurisdiction of that court. Of course, IANAL, IJFLCE (I just frequent law.cornell.edu).
Perhaps. But on the other hand, it could just be that most people are incompetent at their jobs, driving, and whatever else.
To wit: the left lane on a road is for passing. Most states have laws that restrict the distance that a driver can drive in the left lane before moving over. If you've ever driven long-distance, you know that there are those who insist on indefinately going limit plus 5 (or worse yet: limit) in the left lane. And no, I'm not breaking the law if I try to pass, I live in a prima facie state.
Second: Examine for a moment a Motorola v60c. The earlier versions are the best example of this. The antenna easily bends in one's pocket. (They've fixed this with new antenna revs.) Worse, when extended, the antenna acts as a lever for the (bulky) antenna tip to use to exert massive force against the rest of the antenna. Net result: three antenna breaks in 6 months, two in-pocket.
Third: Went to a fast food place looking for food and directions to a gas station. Someone (A) is trying to help me out by asking someone else (B). A: "you familiar with (cityname)?" B: "yeah, kinda" A: "are there any gas stations near here?" B: "whatcha looking for?" A: "gas"
There's far, far more. These are the easy examples. But if you can honestly say you have not run across any stupidity in the past week, good for you! You're a far more patient being than I.
Incidentally, I don't mean to disparage those who can't use computers. I can't perform brain surgery; just because others have no expertise in my area doesn't make them idiots. But when people cannot do their jobs or comprehend basic English (where English is their native language)...
Or, maybe I'd get more work. Funny how these things work out. (In reality, I look at slash when I am waiting for something, like a program run to finish.)
As we all know from writing code, comments such as "Wet Paint" or "This needs to be fixed" cease to be true long before they are removed from the code. I was just hacking some code today, and reading my commented precondition, and finding out in a painful way that the documentation no longer reflected the true precondition.
In a phrase, "Comments lie." This works both in code and in the Real World.
Let's run some numbers. http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/S.Bhatti/D51-notes/n ode24.html gives a spot beam size of 0.01 degrees (up, but we'll assume you can get the same down) with old technology (INTELSAT). Looking at Teledesic's 288 satellite constellation, you get maybe 400-700 mi up, so using the sin x=x approximation, we get a beamsize of 0.07mi diameter to 0.12mi. Several square miles is off by two to three orders of magnitude. Any further questions?
Your argument stands given your assumptions which are firmly anchored on your ignorance of the design (no offense).
Yes, you need a directional antenna at the user, which could be phase array or a dish. TV birds don't need fine-grained beamsize, so they don't. The spot size in the Teledesic Network isn't very large (probably at least a couple orders of magnitude smaller than your back-of-the-envelope calculations); look at the design documents for details:) (no, you can't get them from anywhere public, and I can't say much more about such details...)
Having audited the system design, I buy the numbers, notwithstanding the fact that they're not going to launch, for financial reasons alone.
You've ignored spatial mux: how many beams do you think you get per antenna? How many antennas do you think are on each bird? Look at the inter-satellite link capacity, and you'll see that the system is engineered for a whole lot more capacity. You're also assuming each place has one bird in view; dense areas can load-balance, and you need lots of birds in view anyways to get smooth handoff. (And you can solve interference using directional gain).
Finally, yes, you can provide DSL-quality, _simultaneously_, to all users, unless you intend to pay for the link to the Internet. If I just connect you to a service provider, then my costs are quite limited, since it only traverses my backhaul, which is already in the sky...
The thing is, they worked out all the legal risks. The FCC already approved, so the baby bells are SoL, besides the fact that to cover launch/o&m (operations ant maintenance) costs, you'll have to price yourself outside the market of said baby bells. Finally, if you don't, the telcos can use you to provide service to remote areas, picking up a nice federal subsidy, while allowing you to sell service that you couldn't otherwise sell (due to the remoteness of the location).
Wiretap. I think to get China to approve this, they already have this down cold. I can assure you that the architecture is quite... robust for wiretappers. Of course, once people start using end-to-end encryption...
If you want to talk about global issues, wiretap is one thing, but spectrum usage is another. You cannot operate where you cannot get spectrum.
Frankly, the technical risks are the ones that sunk Teledesic. They had an awesome legal team and lots of money to burn on regulatory issues, and they did a bang-up job of it.
Mesh networks/ad hoc networks use a flat addressing space (for now). Given that, you can use a link local address... so IANA, in effect, has already put out the addresses.
I think the telcos would go crying to the FCC, since Congress doesn't really meddle in such affairs. And given the difficulty of actually preventing this stuff (it's at least as hard as stopping p2p)...
...and you could embed the unique serial number in any downloaded music via the then-in-vogue watermarking scheme. Since it's hard to do this with pressed CDs, this seems like the ideal way to snag leaked serial numbers...
I am a hardcore computer game player. I have been on the Mac platform at home since forever, and I have always found more quality games that I could use simltaneously.
Can't use them all simultaneously, eh? Ah, the poor multitasking of MacOS, now heralded as a feature;)
The data is always encrypted on the hard drive, and is only decrypted at the cache. So steal it, remove battery, submerge in liquid nitrogen is the only way to get even a little bit of data out of it. The really cute exploit is to tunnel their challenge/response over a network of some sort (say, cell phones), and just have someone follow the legitimate user around until all the information is decrypted.
Car rental companies actually profit from collisions. It's called "loss-of-use" charges. You crash a car, it goes to the shop for 7 days, they charge you 7 days rent. Since they never always rent all their cars (let's say on average 6/7ths), they've actually earned a full day's rent!
Rental car companies make a killing in every department. They shouldn't make more by enforcing arbitrary and capricious contract terms.
IEEE is a US organization, thus bound by US law. They ask for the copyright form when they become a publisher. I think it's pretty easy to see why they wouldn't want to publish something in violation of US law (albeit a possibly unconstitutional one).
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I hear lots of people saying "it's not theft; if it is, punish accordingly." OK folks, quick lesson from a non-lawyer.
Winona Ryder (sp?) or Joe Blow goes and shoplifts some things from a store. They have some probability of getting caught and convicted p_{phy}. If they steal value c, they should be punished at least c/p_{phy}.
Maryter for the P2P Cause illegally acquires software/mp3s/divx of value c, but has a far _smaller_ probability of getting caught and convicted p_{elec}. He should be punished at least c/p_{elec}.
This punishment scheme was ruled constitutional by the Supremes in Harmelin v Michigan, 1991.SCT.3666 , 501 U.S. 957, 111 S. Ct. 2680, 115 L. Ed. 2d 836, 59 U.S.L.W. 4839.
The wireless field has had multiuser detection hyped for ages and ages. The gains are real, and eventually we're going to have the signal processing capability to do it; however, power control will be a major problem. CDMA systems can use power control because only one receiver is important (that would be the base station); how would you get power control for MUD?
Unlikely that a copyright being void requires you to release the source code. More likely just means people can make copies of their existing files with impunity, within the jurisdiction of that court. Of course, IANAL, IJFLCE (I just frequent law.cornell.edu).
It encrypts the cache. Which is very easy to do in 5-6 seconds. The disk contents are always encrypted.
Perhaps. But on the other hand, it could just be that most people are incompetent at their jobs, driving, and whatever else.
To wit: the left lane on a road is for passing. Most states have laws that restrict the distance that a driver can drive in the left lane before moving over. If you've ever driven long-distance, you know that there are those who insist on indefinately going limit plus 5 (or worse yet: limit) in the left lane. And no, I'm not breaking the law if I try to pass, I live in a prima facie state.
Second: Examine for a moment a Motorola v60c. The earlier versions are the best example of this. The antenna easily bends in one's pocket. (They've fixed this with new antenna revs.) Worse, when extended, the antenna acts as a lever for the (bulky) antenna tip to use to exert massive force against the rest of the antenna. Net result: three antenna breaks in 6 months, two in-pocket.
Third: Went to a fast food place looking for food and directions to a gas station. Someone (A) is trying to help me out by asking someone else (B). A: "you familiar with (cityname)?" B: "yeah, kinda" A: "are there any gas stations near here?" B: "whatcha looking for?" A: "gas"
There's far, far more. These are the easy examples. But if you can honestly say you have not run across any stupidity in the past week, good for you! You're a far more patient being than I.
Incidentally, I don't mean to disparage those who can't use computers. I can't perform brain surgery; just because others have no expertise in my area doesn't make them idiots. But when people cannot do their jobs or comprehend basic English (where English is their native language)...
Or, maybe I'd get more work. Funny how these things work out. (In reality, I look at slash when I am waiting for something, like a program run to finish.)
The vast majority of people I deal with (in the real world) are idiots. And no, I'm not in tech support/customer service.
Enough to be stuck in the office on a Sunday evening.
As we all know from writing code, comments such as "Wet Paint" or "This needs to be fixed" cease to be true long before they are removed from the code. I was just hacking some code today, and reading my commented precondition, and finding out in a painful way that the documentation no longer reflected the true precondition.
In a phrase, "Comments lie." This works both in code and in the Real World.
Let's run some numbers. http://www.cs.ucl.ac.uk/staff/S.Bhatti/D51-notes/n ode24.html
gives a spot beam size of 0.01 degrees (up, but we'll assume you can get the same down) with old technology (INTELSAT). Looking at Teledesic's 288 satellite constellation, you get maybe 400-700 mi up, so using the sin x=x approximation, we get a beamsize of 0.07mi diameter to 0.12mi. Several square miles is off by two to three orders of magnitude. Any further questions?
Your argument stands given your assumptions which are firmly anchored on your ignorance of the design (no offense).
:) (no, you can't get them from anywhere public, and I can't say much more about such details...)
Yes, you need a directional antenna at the user, which could be phase array or a dish. TV birds don't need fine-grained beamsize, so they don't. The spot size in the Teledesic Network isn't very large (probably at least a couple orders of magnitude smaller than your back-of-the-envelope calculations); look at the design documents for details
Having audited the system design, I buy the numbers, notwithstanding the fact that they're not going to launch, for financial reasons alone.
To follow up Mr. AC's comments:
You've ignored spatial mux: how many beams do you think you get per antenna? How many antennas do you think are on each bird? Look at the inter-satellite link capacity, and you'll see that the system is engineered for a whole lot more capacity. You're also assuming each place has one bird in view; dense areas can load-balance, and you need lots of birds in view anyways to get smooth handoff. (And you can solve interference using directional gain).
Finally, yes, you can provide DSL-quality, _simultaneously_, to all users, unless you intend to pay for the link to the Internet. If I just connect you to a service provider, then my costs are quite limited, since it only traverses my backhaul, which is already in the sky...
The thing is, they worked out all the legal risks. The FCC already approved, so the baby bells are SoL, besides the fact that to cover launch/o&m (operations ant maintenance) costs, you'll have to price yourself outside the market of said baby bells. Finally, if you don't, the telcos can use you to provide service to remote areas, picking up a nice federal subsidy, while allowing you to sell service that you couldn't otherwise sell (due to the remoteness of the location).
Wiretap. I think to get China to approve this, they already have this down cold. I can assure you that the architecture is quite... robust for wiretappers. Of course, once people start using end-to-end encryption...
If you want to talk about global issues, wiretap is one thing, but spectrum usage is another. You cannot operate where you cannot get spectrum.
Frankly, the technical risks are the ones that sunk Teledesic. They had an awesome legal team and lots of money to burn on regulatory issues, and they did a bang-up job of it.
Mesh networks/ad hoc networks use a flat addressing space (for now). Given that, you can use a link local address... so IANA, in effect, has already put out the addresses.
I think the telcos would go crying to the FCC, since Congress doesn't really meddle in such affairs. And given the difficulty of actually preventing this stuff (it's at least as hard as stopping p2p)...
...and you could embed the unique serial number in any downloaded music via the then-in-vogue watermarking scheme. Since it's hard to do this with pressed CDs, this seems like the ideal way to snag leaked serial numbers...
Can't use them all simultaneously, eh? Ah, the poor multitasking of MacOS, now heralded as a feature ;)
The data is always encrypted on the hard drive, and is only decrypted at the cache. So steal it, remove battery, submerge in liquid nitrogen is the only way to get even a little bit of data out of it. The really cute exploit is to tunnel their challenge/response over a network of some sort (say, cell phones), and just have someone follow the legitimate user around until all the information is decrypted.
The research paper on this will be presented at ACM MobiCom 2002, the premier conference on wireless networks and such.
Since the website requires a 72-hour registration, care to say a bit more about the plan? Monthly fee? Minutes included? ...
Geek MPAA movies (eg LOTR): good
Linux: good
Using Linux to further the MPAA: good
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A good analysis of this story is here.
Also more info here.
Car rental companies actually profit from collisions. It's called "loss-of-use" charges. You crash a car, it goes to the shop for 7 days, they charge you 7 days rent. Since they never always rent all their cars (let's say on average 6/7ths), they've actually earned a full day's rent!
Rental car companies make a killing in every department. They shouldn't make more by enforcing arbitrary and capricious contract terms.
Speeding cameras have the same problem. (you may not remember the circumstances).
But that aside, please get in the right lane if you're going to go 5 over. People tailing you is as dangerous for you as it is for them.
IEEE is a US organization, thus bound by US law. They ask for the copyright form when they become a publisher. I think it's pretty easy to see why they wouldn't want to publish something in violation of US law (albeit a possibly unconstitutional one).
(so it appears, from previous comment posts). Either that or someone really uneducated about network addressing, CIDR, etc...