Well, I wouldnt ever want to run Skype ever on anything.
A valid reason for wanting to use a real VoIP client that speaks SIP, over the cell data network, might be if you werent at home or anywhere else where you had access to Wifi? Maybe you didnt want to get dinged for each minute you talked, when you could use an unlimited data connection to transfer the same conversation?
Oh, and I forgot to mention - I consider AT&T (FKA SBC, FKA Ameritech) to be one of the biggest evil corporate monopolies in existence and I won't do business with them. And yes, that means I do *NOT* have an AT&T contract on my iPhone, but instead have service through another carrier.
I have an iPhone, and I can *already* install tons of third party apps on it (I can ssh into it [which also means I can mount its fs over sshfs], it runs bash, it has python and many other languages available, not to mention Ive installed about a dozen cute little games), put music on it *without* using iTunes (gtkpod primarily, although Im looking at a CLI utility), and all sorts of other stuff I'm sure Apple would be dead set against.
I have no intention of ever creating an iTunes account, or paying Apple for any music, videos, apps or anything else. And if a firmware upgrade takes away my ability to do this, I will simply chose not to install that upgrade. (And yes, I will research any upgrades and make sure others have successfully done so beforehand)
This doesnt, by itself, eliminate or even reduce spam.
All it does is provide some degree of certainty that a given email, if it passes the dkim check, did in fact originate from a server/account/system under the control of the registrant of the domain name it validates to.
Now, if it were to ever catch on to where 99% of email senders (spammers or otherwise) were using this, it would help to identify the spammer domains from the nonspammer domains. It doesnt, unfortunately, help very much when the spammers live in the same domain as legitimate nonspammers, primarily the free web email provides (such as yahoo)
Well, if it has a valid Yahoo DKIM, then you know it really did originate via a Yahoo account, as opposed to some random trojaned Windoze box just slapping something@yahoo.com in the headers. So if you report it to Yahoo, unless they are totally incompetent (which they are) or in bed with the spammers (which they are too), you could reasonably expect them to actually take some action against the originator (and even if they did, the spammer would just create a new account).
One possible suggestion would be to just 5xx all mail claiming an envelope of @yahoo.com, perhaps with a message to use another email account to send to you and/or a URL to a webform (if some legitimate person wanted to contact you about something you really did want to get (eg a job offer or something)
I agree about the hidden feedback. In fact Ive thought for a while that would be a good idea. But unless someone from eBay reads/. and takes it to heart, I suppose it isnt going to happen.
I guess part of the definition of 'the transaction being complete' takes hold here.
As a buyer, why should I consider the transaction to be complete before the seller has left me feedback, if the seller refuses to consider it complete until I leave feedback for them? It ends up being a fight over who has the 'last word'
In any case, I am happy to forgo feedback (as a buyer) when I come upon the situation. eBay for me isnt a place to collect feedback points, its to find things I want that are hard to find elsewhere.
What would a buyer need to communicate to a seller?
1. That they've made payment. The notice from paypal would take care of this. 2. Where to ship the item. In the vast majority of cases, this is also taken care of by the paypal notice, which would include the confirmed address to ship to.
So at the point that a buyer has made full payment, and provided their address, there really isnt anything else they would be obligated to do or communicate to a seller about?
eBay will do what they will, of course, but I personally think that keeping the feedback hidden until both parties have left feedback would be the best solution.
I've been thinking the exact same thing for some time.
AS an ebay buyer, I don't leave feedback about shipping and accuracy of item until after the seller leaves feedback regarding my payment and communication. Often this leaves the transaction feedbackless, even if there was nothing wrong with it.
Heck, when I use paypal to make payment five minutes after auction close or buyitnow, my positive feedback should damn near be automatic, since ebay owns paypal and has everything integrated anyway.
Hiding feedback until both sides had entered it would work well. The other party could see that you had left feedback, but not wether it was +/- or what you said, until after they had entered theirs.
Guess what? NLOS, low-power, high-bandwidth wireless technology will make it *much* more cost-effective for regional ISP's to offer service in rural areas. Right now the telco and the cableco doesnt care about rural becuase there just isnt enough density to make it profitable for them to run cable. Broadband wireless with the range of TV and without the LOS requirement will make it much easier. Plus, without the monopoly control that telco/cable has with their wires, there might actually be some competition. Of course, due to that, I predict the telco/cable wont be interested in playing, but trust me, independent ISP's would *love* to have an easy way to get broadband to both people unserved by the monopolies, as well as the underserved (eg, treated like cattle with open wallets)
Yout don't give police enough credit. They are smart enough to specify something small enough that lets them look anywhere. And you are wrong - if evidence of another crime is found while they are searching for something else in a location where what they are looking for might conceivable be found, then they can use it.
So in your stolen car scenario, they might also specify 'stolen car keys' in the warrant. Pretty damn small, could be hidden anywhere. Certainly anywhere a brick of coke (it comes in bricks?) was hidden a key could be hidden.
Well, I suppose disagreeing on merely the use of the term is not worth arguing about.
My main point is that none of the concepts wrongly grouped together by the term "IP" are 'property' in any fair sense of the concept, and using that term can be very misleading to the uneducated masses, suggesting that record labels are being deprived of their 'property' when you copy a track from a CD to an MP3 player without paying them again, or that if megacorp inc holds a patent on some lifesaving drug that they are deprived of their 'property' if another company makes the same drug and sells it to poor africans dying of some disease that couldnt afford to buy it from the first company. (And I wont even get started on so-called software patents)
Ya, except for toll roads where there is either no exit, or you have to pay extra toll to exit and then re-enter the road. Tollway plaza = captive customer.
Copyrights, trademarks, and/or patents are not 'property', and they are *very* different concepts, and using a term that suggests they are 'property' or any generalizing term that groups them all together, serves only the interests of the 'greedy' and those that would seek to 'cripple innovation'. If you actually took the time to read the essay at the link I provided you might have a chance of recognizing that.
And I say the photographer is in the wrong by forcible bundling.
The photographer should charge for the service they actually provide - the actual taking of the photos.
I say they have no inherent right to prevent their customer from getting additional prints made from anyone that provides that service. In fact, if I ever paid anyone to take photographs, I would be sure upfront that part of the deal was that the 'deliverable' they provide to me is a CD/DVD/etc with high quality digital versions of the photographs they took, *AND* the copyright on those images, or at the very least a release. They might want to charge me more to provide that, but then I can shop around for the best deal on prints wherever I want.
The term "Intellectual Property", which you refer to by acronym "IPR" is a nonsense term, as you should know if you have any familiarity whatsoever with the issues you are trying to discuss. Since you are talking about "DRM", you probably meant to say "copyright laws", which would have actually meant something that would be clear instead of obfuscatory, since "Digital Restrictions Management" has nothing to do with patents or trademarks.
I think my post was unclear - I am a geek, but I am not unemployed.
In any case, I didnt say *ALL* geeks would be able to do so, but only that *some* would.
As far as how, there are many ways. If so motivated, one could take up residence in a shelter, which often provide free food, and then go to a local public library for computer and Internet access. One could store ones work on USB keys (that one likely already posessed.) There's also unemployment benefits, support from parents, spouses or other family members.
The point is, if a geek *could* continue to have a place to live, food to eat, and computer/Internet access, being unemployed may not necesarrily by itself cause them to decide to stop working on whatever project(s) they may have previously been working on.
1. Nothing will stop kids from creating alternate email addresses on yahoo/msn/aol/gmail/whatever that they could then use to sign up with myspace.
2. How/Does myspace verify that the person submitting the email address is in fact a parent, and that the email address they are submitting belongs to a minor child whom they have legal custody of?
It comes down to the simple fact that an 'email address' is not an identity tied to anything in the real world, nor is any real person limited to one, nor is there any way for a third party to know what email address(es) another person uses beyond what that person has told them. Nor should they be any of these.
Ah, I wasnt familiar with the Kindle itself - but still, if you do have a computer, and you have an MP3 on it (ripped from CD or from wherever) can you copy it to the Kindle and play it there? If so, then if I did have one, my preference would *still* be to obtain (wether via Amazon, ripping from CD, or whatever) MP3's using stock open software (web browser, cdparanoia/lame, etc) on an actual desktop machine and then copy them to the Kindle via whatever mechanism was supported (USB, bluetooth, wifi whatever)
As long as unemployed geeks (no offense meant, as I am one as well) can afford a place to live and Internet access, I predict they will continue to develop their favorite projects.
I would think that a better music player application for your Kindle would probably be up to either the FoSS community (if the Kindle is sufficiently open) or the maker of the Kindle itself. Not really anything to do with someone selling MP3's online.
And personally, if I was going to be downloading mp3's to play on a portable device, I'd use my normal desktop/laptop and regular browser to get them (and keep a copy there) and then mount the device or its memory card and copy the files to it.
Having to have special application software to download music is something to avoid, and tends to lock one into the specific platforms it is available for.
Nor would I really want to log into the mp3 store's site directly from the device, assuming it even had a browser.
I dunno about anyone else, but as far as the smoking in public thing - I dont want to impinge on anyone's right to inhale the fumes from burning leaves, if that is what they want to do. I am only opposed to them subsequently exhausting those fumes into the air that other employees, customers, passerby then have to breathe - especially any that happen to be children (granted, that wont be the case in bars, but it certainly will be in restaurants and other public places)
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Well, I wouldnt ever want to run Skype ever on anything.
A valid reason for wanting to use a real VoIP client that speaks SIP, over the cell data network, might be if you werent at home or anywhere else where you had access to Wifi? Maybe you didnt want to get dinged for each minute you talked, when you could use an unlimited data connection to transfer the same conversation?
Oh, and I forgot to mention - I consider AT&T (FKA SBC, FKA Ameritech) to be one of the biggest evil corporate monopolies in existence and I won't do business with them. And yes, that means I do *NOT* have an AT&T contract on my iPhone, but instead have service through another carrier.
I have an iPhone, and I can *already* install tons of third party apps on it (I can ssh into it [which also means I can mount its fs over sshfs], it runs bash, it has python and many other languages available, not to mention Ive installed about a dozen cute little games), put music on it *without* using iTunes (gtkpod primarily, although Im looking at a CLI utility), and all sorts of other stuff I'm sure Apple would be dead set against.
I have no intention of ever creating an iTunes account, or paying Apple for any music, videos, apps or anything else. And if a firmware upgrade takes away my ability to do this, I will simply chose not to install that upgrade. (And yes, I will research any upgrades and make sure others have successfully done so beforehand)
This doesnt, by itself, eliminate or even reduce spam.
All it does is provide some degree of certainty that a given email, if it passes the dkim check, did in fact originate from a server/account/system under the control of the registrant of the domain name it validates to.
Now, if it were to ever catch on to where 99% of email senders (spammers or otherwise) were using this, it would help to identify the spammer domains from the nonspammer domains. It doesnt, unfortunately, help very much when the spammers live in the same domain as legitimate nonspammers, primarily the free web email provides (such as yahoo)
Well, if it has a valid Yahoo DKIM, then you know it really did originate via a Yahoo account, as opposed to some random trojaned Windoze box just slapping something@yahoo.com in the headers. So if you report it to Yahoo, unless they are totally incompetent (which they are) or in bed with the spammers (which they are too), you could reasonably expect them to actually take some action against the originator (and even if they did, the spammer would just create a new account).
One possible suggestion would be to just 5xx all mail claiming an envelope of @yahoo.com, perhaps with a message to use another email account to send to you and/or a URL to a webform (if some legitimate person wanted to contact you about something you really did want to get (eg a job offer or something)
I agree about the hidden feedback. In fact Ive thought for a while that would be a good idea. But unless someone from eBay reads /. and takes it to heart, I suppose it isnt going to happen.
I guess part of the definition of 'the transaction being complete' takes hold here.
As a buyer, why should I consider the transaction to be complete before the seller has left me feedback, if the seller refuses to consider it complete until I leave feedback for them? It ends up being a fight over who has the 'last word'
In any case, I am happy to forgo feedback (as a buyer) when I come upon the situation. eBay for me isnt a place to collect feedback points, its to find things I want that are hard to find elsewhere.
What would a buyer need to communicate to a seller?
1. That they've made payment. The notice from paypal would take care of this.
2. Where to ship the item. In the vast majority of cases, this is also taken care of by the paypal notice, which would include the confirmed address to ship to.
So at the point that a buyer has made full payment, and provided their address, there really isnt anything else they would be obligated to do or communicate to a seller about?
eBay will do what they will, of course, but I personally think that keeping the feedback hidden until both parties have left feedback would be the best solution.
I've been thinking the exact same thing for some time.
AS an ebay buyer, I don't leave feedback about shipping and accuracy of item until after the seller leaves feedback regarding my payment and communication. Often this leaves the transaction feedbackless, even if there was nothing wrong with it.
Heck, when I use paypal to make payment five minutes after auction close or buyitnow, my positive feedback should damn near be automatic, since ebay owns paypal and has everything integrated anyway.
Hiding feedback until both sides had entered it would work well. The other party could see that you had left feedback, but not wether it was +/- or what you said, until after they had entered theirs.
Guess what? NLOS, low-power, high-bandwidth wireless technology will make it *much* more cost-effective for regional ISP's to offer service in rural areas. Right now the telco and the cableco doesnt care about rural becuase there just isnt enough density to make it profitable for them to run cable. Broadband wireless with the range of TV and without the LOS requirement will make it much easier. Plus, without the monopoly control that telco/cable has with their wires, there might actually be some competition. Of course, due to that, I predict the telco/cable wont be interested in playing, but trust me, independent ISP's would *love* to have an easy way to get broadband to both people unserved by the monopolies, as well as the underserved (eg, treated like cattle with open wallets)
Yout don't give police enough credit. They are smart enough to specify something small enough that lets them look anywhere. And you are wrong - if evidence of another crime is found while they are searching for something else in a location where what they are looking for might conceivable be found, then they can use it.
So in your stolen car scenario, they might also specify 'stolen car keys' in the warrant. Pretty damn small, could be hidden anywhere. Certainly anywhere a brick of coke (it comes in bricks?) was hidden a key could be hidden.
Well, I suppose disagreeing on merely the use of the term is not worth arguing about.
My main point is that none of the concepts wrongly grouped together by the term "IP" are 'property' in any fair sense of the concept, and using that term can be very misleading to the uneducated masses, suggesting that record labels are being deprived of their 'property' when you copy a track from a CD to an MP3 player without paying them again, or that if megacorp inc holds a patent on some lifesaving drug that they are deprived of their 'property' if another company makes the same drug and sells it to poor africans dying of some disease that couldnt afford to buy it from the first company. (And I wont even get started on so-called software patents)
Ya, except for toll roads where there is either no exit, or you have to pay extra toll to exit and then re-enter the road. Tollway plaza = captive customer.
Copyrights, trademarks, and/or patents are not 'property', and they are *very* different concepts, and using a term that suggests they are 'property' or any generalizing term that groups them all together, serves only the interests of the 'greedy' and those that would seek to 'cripple innovation'. If you actually took the time to read the essay at the link I provided you might have a chance of recognizing that.
And I say the photographer is in the wrong by forcible bundling.
The photographer should charge for the service they actually provide - the actual taking of the photos.
I say they have no inherent right to prevent their customer from getting additional prints made from anyone that provides that service. In fact, if I ever paid anyone to take photographs, I would be sure upfront that part of the deal was that the 'deliverable' they provide to me is a CD/DVD/etc with high quality digital versions of the photographs they took, *AND* the copyright on those images, or at the very least a release. They might want to charge me more to provide that, but then I can shop around for the best deal on prints wherever I want.
The term "Intellectual Property", which you refer to by acronym "IPR" is a nonsense term, as you should know if you have any familiarity whatsoever with the issues you are trying to discuss. Since you are talking about "DRM", you probably meant to say "copyright laws", which would have actually meant something that would be clear instead of obfuscatory, since "Digital Restrictions Management" has nothing to do with patents or trademarks.
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/not-ipr.html
Oops, that was supposed to include this URL for reference:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DOCSIS#Speed_Table
FYI, with DOCSIS 2, that limit is over 40Mbit/s and with DOCSIS 3 its over 170Mbit/s
Considering net traffic is mostly burst traffic, I wonder how many end users the cableco's are putting on each segment.
It isnt about a picture of the logo on the car - its about pictures of the car itself.
I think my post was unclear - I am a geek, but I am not unemployed.
In any case, I didnt say *ALL* geeks would be able to do so, but only that *some* would.
As far as how, there are many ways. If so motivated, one could take up residence in a shelter, which often provide free food, and then go to a local public library for computer and Internet access. One could store ones work on USB keys (that one likely already posessed.) There's also unemployment benefits, support from parents, spouses or other family members.
The point is, if a geek *could* continue to have a place to live, food to eat, and computer/Internet access, being unemployed may not necesarrily by itself cause them to decide to stop working on whatever project(s) they may have previously been working on.
As some may have recognized,
1. Nothing will stop kids from creating alternate email addresses on yahoo/msn/aol/gmail/whatever that they could then use to sign up with myspace.
2. How/Does myspace verify that the person submitting the email address is in fact a parent, and that the email address they are submitting belongs to a minor child whom they have legal custody of?
It comes down to the simple fact that an 'email address' is not an identity tied to anything in the real world, nor is any real person limited to one, nor is there any way for a third party to know what email address(es) another person uses beyond what that person has told them. Nor should they be any of these.
If you are referring to the prior article on slash, thats a hydrogen cloud, not helium. And it wont get here for 20 million years or more.
Ah, I wasnt familiar with the Kindle itself - but still, if you do have a computer, and you have an MP3 on it (ripped from CD or from wherever) can you copy it to the Kindle and play it there? If so, then if I did have one, my preference would *still* be to obtain (wether via Amazon, ripping from CD, or whatever) MP3's using stock open software (web browser, cdparanoia/lame, etc) on an actual desktop machine and then copy them to the Kindle via whatever mechanism was supported (USB, bluetooth, wifi whatever)
As long as unemployed geeks (no offense meant, as I am one as well) can afford a place to live and Internet access, I predict they will continue to develop their favorite projects.
I would think that a better music player application for your Kindle would probably be up to either the FoSS community (if the Kindle is sufficiently open) or the maker of the Kindle itself. Not really anything to do with someone selling MP3's online.
And personally, if I was going to be downloading mp3's to play on a portable device, I'd use my normal desktop/laptop and regular browser to get them (and keep a copy there) and then mount the device or its memory card and copy the files to it.
Having to have special application software to download music is something to avoid, and tends to lock one into the specific platforms it is available for.
Nor would I really want to log into the mp3 store's site directly from the device, assuming it even had a browser.
I dunno about anyone else, but as far as the smoking in public thing - I dont want to impinge on anyone's right to inhale the fumes from burning leaves, if that is what they want to do. I am only opposed to them subsequently exhausting those fumes into the air that other employees, customers, passerby then have to breathe - especially any that happen to be children (granted, that wont be the case in bars, but it certainly will be in restaurants and other public places)