Uhm, silver lining to this idea. Now would be a good time to buy Samsung stock.
A ROM would basically look after the "ease and expense of reproproduction", making it a very good anology of a book. Putting the encryption into hardware and requiring DRM hardware for playback, disabling ALL digital outputs in said DRM playback hardware... cooked goose. We'll end up with shitty analog reproductions floating around the P2P networks.
MS has millions (like many many millions) of people using their products. Even a small percentage of liability could lead to bankruptcy.
Or it could lead to more secure products. If a company gets sued for faulty products, they either improve the product or they go out of business.
Lots of ppl hate MS enough that they malisciously work to create problems with it. (Nimda, Melissa, etc...)
Nope. Think of it as a chicken and egg problem. I design a well thought out, highly secure piece of software. People try and try to hack into it, but the effort required is so high and the payoff so small, that hardly anyone persevers long enough to succeed. The opposite is designing a poorly concieved, bug ridden pile of steaming crap that anyone can hack into with no effort at all. The payoff for doing so is huge, attracting anyone who can load up VB.
Windows based machines are built from a broad variety of hardware that MS cannot possibly vouch for. If Windows is unstable as a result of a bad driver, blame wil be misplaced.
Nope again. Blame will be placed with the system that allows a faulty driver to take out the system. That would be like relying on a wet piece of spaghetti to hold together your braking system and then blaming the braking system when the spaghetti fails.
An earlier poster raised the point that MS already has the money, they just failed to deliver the product. Now the marketplace will make them pay for that.
As far as American law is concerned, there's an ongoing trade dispute over stumpage fees charged by the Canadian government to Canadian softwood producers. The US government has lost in the courts 18 times, but still fights it, arguing that the lower stumpage fees allow Canadian companies to sell lumber at below actual cost, and hurts American producers.
In British Columbia (A Canadian Province), the stumpage fees go to the government. The government then uses the money to ensure adequate regulation of the companies. Cutblocks get re-planted, streams are protected, roads are deactivated. The problem is that in the US, they have a auction systems for timber. Private landholders auction their lumber from their private land holdings. Not only do they have to do their own re-planting (adding expense) they also require a profit. (Adding more expense)
When you look at the lumber barons who are doing the lobbying in Washington, most are from the southeastern US. They sell inferior quality wood compared to BC softwood. THeir product is also higher cost, mainly because they refused to spend the money to upgrade their mills. So they produce a low grade, high cost product (very labor intensive) that simply cannot compete in the marketplace. The BC mills spent billions upgrading their mills to be highly efficient. Now they are being penalized for their foresight.
Inevitably, whenever a US industry gets into a non-competitive situation where they can't dominate, out come the lawyers and the lobbyists. (steel) The WTO will overturn this tariff. Until then, thousands of workers and business' in British Columbia will suffer.
Did I mention that the average new house in the US is costing $3K-$5K more? They don't tell you that in Businessweek do they?
I already get over 10 hours using my external NIMH powerpack from RadioShack. About the size of 2 packs of cards, it powers my Z and my Fuji s602 when I'm away from AC for extended periods.
What, exactly, are "all the facts" regarding the Panama Canal?
Let's take what most American children are taught in school about the history of the Panama Canal. Basically, the sanitized version is that the Army Corps of Engineers built it in a heroic effort for the betterment of mankind and the furthering of the American Way of life. Once you get to the real story, only then do you find yourself in posession of adequate information to form an opinion about what really happened. Many things are like this. I used the canal as an example because I was taught a different version in school and the subject came up recently while talking to a USian friend.
No flame taken. My comment was merely a tongue in cheek reply to the notion of securing the borders to terrorists. Parallel thought to throwing out the baby with the bathwater, the freedoms for security, along those lines.
I too was raised in an area where a simpler way of life was possible. The oil thing: US has enough to look after everything if you take out transportation. So medical, plastics etc. would continue quite comfortably for a long long time.
No, you only think it's your decision. Try to think real objectively about something like, say, the Panama Canal. Your opinion of it will be influenced by what you were taught, not by what you might think if you knew ALL the facts.
Wasn't speaking of income. Was speaking of the obscene amounts of wealth that individuals have. Income is a different story. Have no objection to income.
"The increase of $44 billion from fiscal year 2001 to fiscal year 2002 is greater than any other nation's annual defense budget."
When you consider that most of the wealth posessed by the top 2% of the population comes from this travesty, I think you might want to rethink your position. Capitalism is fine in an OPEN and DEMOCRATIC society. If you think you're living in either one of those...
Turn off the TV, do not read newspapers, do not listen to the radio, do not walk or drive anywhere you may see advertising. That's truly the only way to be sure. Oh, did I mention that you should probably forget how to read while you're at it. Then you would never be tempted. Wait, you would also have to stop listening to other people. Hmm.. I guess the easiest way would be to stike yourself dumb, mute and blind. Then you would truly be free.:-)
Unfortunately, having a free mind is not as easy as it seems. We are constantly bombarded from all sides with media that is designed to influence our minds. Starting with our "education" in the clone factories we call schools. If you think of an easy way out, I look forward to hearing about it. No wait, that might influence my thinking and then my mind wouldn't be free. Better to keep it to yourself I guess.
Who is more cowardly, the Anonymous Coward or the anonymous coward who mods him down?
Hmmm.. what a great idea. A moderation system that is fair and transparent. Can I patent that?? I'm sure that there would be no prior art here at least.
Isolationism will bring even less security. We begin to ignore what other countries are doing etc.... They have a larger excuse for their hatred and a larger window of opportunity to plan things unnnoticed.
Invade. Create new states, appoint governers and rule with an iron fist. The emperor will be pleased.
With millions of cargo shipments coming in and thousands of planes in the air daily there's no way to secure it.
Simple. Turn it all off. No international trade at all. Quickly, the economy would slow to the point where oil is no longer required to make it run, therefore freeing the military budget to actually perform socially useful things. Standard of living for everyone in the country would actually increase. Of course the income of the top 2% of the country would drop significantly, but hell, we could live without them and their United Defense shares anyway.
It is time to question our long-held assumptions, and explore new policy approaches that could generate tremendous benefits for the American people.
He had me until this sentence. Getting the government to act in the best interests of the American people is not on the agenda. The current licensing scheme guarantees profit for the few. The few, in turn, guarantee $$$ to the government. Anything that threatens this simply will never happen.
In related news, Apple announced that they will be taking legal action against IDG to prevent the use of the term "MAC" in "MACworld". Consequently, the show will now be called "The UnixAlike PPC OS/Hardware World Exposition".
The light blue, Aqua theme has also been removed from all marketing materials.
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Uhm, silver lining to this idea. Now would be a good time to buy Samsung stock.
A ROM would basically look after the "ease and expense of reproproduction", making it a very good anology of a book. Putting the encryption into hardware and requiring DRM hardware for playback, disabling ALL digital outputs in said DRM playback hardware... cooked goose. We'll end up with shitty analog reproductions floating around the P2P networks.
Thus the analogy. (Get it: ANALOGy.)
It's called a book.
:-)
not tracking or tethering the user in any way
I buy. I leave the store. End of story.
allowing the user to view the content on any machine
Any old eyeballs will do
allow the user to study and learn about the encoding scheme used
Read books on language, typesetting, bookbinding etc.
allowing the user to copy the content for his own use, or to give to friends
Photocopyer, writing, speaking into a microphone as you read. And then give the output or the original to friends.
allowing the user to create new collage-type works for the purposes of satire or commentary
Scissors
allow the user to re-sell the content when he's through with it
Used book stores.
yet prevent China-type mass "piracy"
Publishers are still in business, so it must be working for them.
Seriously, the ultimate digital DRM would be something with all the attributes of a book.
MS has millions (like many many millions) of people using their products. Even a small percentage of liability could lead to bankruptcy.
Or it could lead to more secure products. If a company gets sued for faulty products, they either improve the product or they go out of business.
Lots of ppl hate MS enough that they malisciously work to create problems with it. (Nimda, Melissa, etc...)
Nope. Think of it as a chicken and egg problem. I design a well thought out, highly secure piece of software. People try and try to hack into it, but the effort required is so high and the payoff so small, that hardly anyone persevers long enough to succeed. The opposite is designing a poorly concieved, bug ridden pile of steaming crap that anyone can hack into with no effort at all. The payoff for doing so is huge, attracting anyone who can load up VB.
Windows based machines are built from a broad variety of hardware that MS cannot possibly vouch for. If Windows is unstable as a result of a bad driver, blame wil be misplaced.
Nope again. Blame will be placed with the system that allows a faulty driver to take out the system. That would be like relying on a wet piece of spaghetti to hold together your braking system and then blaming the braking system when the spaghetti fails.
An earlier poster raised the point that MS already has the money, they just failed to deliver the product. Now the marketplace will make them pay for that.
As far as American law is concerned, there's an ongoing trade dispute over stumpage fees charged by the Canadian government to Canadian softwood producers. The US government has lost in the courts 18 times, but still fights it, arguing that the lower stumpage fees allow Canadian companies to sell lumber at below actual cost, and hurts American producers.
In British Columbia (A Canadian Province), the stumpage fees go to the government. The government then uses the money to ensure adequate regulation of the companies. Cutblocks get re-planted, streams are protected, roads are deactivated. The problem is that in the US, they have a auction systems for timber. Private landholders auction their lumber from their private land holdings. Not only do they have to do their own re-planting (adding expense) they also require a profit. (Adding more expense)
When you look at the lumber barons who are doing the lobbying in Washington, most are from the southeastern US. They sell inferior quality wood compared to BC softwood. THeir product is also higher cost, mainly because they refused to spend the money to upgrade their mills. So they produce a low grade, high cost product (very labor intensive) that simply cannot compete in the marketplace. The BC mills spent billions upgrading their mills to be highly efficient. Now they are being penalized for their foresight.
Inevitably, whenever a US industry gets into a non-competitive situation where they can't dominate, out come the lawyers and the lobbyists. (steel) The WTO will overturn this tariff. Until then, thousands of workers and business' in British Columbia will suffer.
Did I mention that the average new house in the US is costing $3K-$5K more? They don't tell you that in Businessweek do they?
You'll also know who to bitch out.
I use addresses like amazon_spam@yourdomain.com
That way I can tell for SURE where it came from. Plus I filter based on _spam in the To: field.
I already get over 10 hours using my external NIMH powerpack from RadioShack. About the size of 2 packs of cards, it powers my Z and my Fuji s602 when I'm away from AC for extended periods.
Oh, I use both devices with a 340MB Microdrive.
As with competition in business, you can vote it down by simply going somewhere else.
12567476521 and I'll raise you a palindrome.
What, exactly, are "all the facts" regarding the Panama Canal?
Let's take what most American children are taught in school about the history of the Panama Canal. Basically, the sanitized version is that the Army Corps of Engineers built it in a heroic effort for the betterment of mankind and the furthering of the American Way of life. Once you get to the real story, only then do you find yourself in posession of adequate information to form an opinion about what really happened. Many things are like this. I used the canal as an example because I was taught a different version in school and the subject came up recently while talking to a USian friend.
No flame taken. My comment was merely a tongue in cheek reply to the notion of securing the borders to terrorists. Parallel thought to throwing out the baby with the bathwater, the freedoms for security, along those lines.
I too was raised in an area where a simpler way of life was possible. The oil thing: US has enough to look after everything if you take out transportation. So medical, plastics etc. would continue quite comfortably for a long long time.
No, you only think it's your decision. Try to think real objectively about something like, say, the Panama Canal. Your opinion of it will be influenced by what you were taught, not by what you might think if you knew ALL the facts.
Wasn't speaking of income. Was speaking of the obscene amounts of wealth that individuals have. Income is a different story. Have no objection to income.
Source of the following quote.
"The increase of $44 billion from fiscal year 2001 to fiscal year 2002 is greater than any other nation's annual defense budget."
When you consider that most of the wealth posessed by the top 2% of the population comes from this travesty, I think you might want to rethink your position. Capitalism is fine in an OPEN and DEMOCRATIC society. If you think you're living in either one of those...
If my mind is not free, I will NEVER be secure.
:-)
Turn off the TV, do not read newspapers, do not listen to the radio, do not walk or drive anywhere you may see advertising. That's truly the only way to be sure. Oh, did I mention that you should probably forget how to read while you're at it. Then you would never be tempted. Wait, you would also have to stop listening to other people. Hmm.. I guess the easiest way would be to stike yourself dumb, mute and blind. Then you would truly be free.
Unfortunately, having a free mind is not as easy as it seems. We are constantly bombarded from all sides with media that is designed to influence our minds. Starting with our "education" in the clone factories we call schools. If you think of an easy way out, I look forward to hearing about it. No wait, that might influence my thinking and then my mind wouldn't be free. Better to keep it to yourself I guess.
Who is more cowardly, the Anonymous Coward or the anonymous coward who mods him down?
Hmmm.. what a great idea. A moderation system that is fair and transparent. Can I patent that?? I'm sure that there would be no prior art here at least.
The decision-making capabilities of the American people can be questionable at times.
Oh, you mean like this?
Since you feel so strongly about it that you were willing to use your real ID on the response.
Consider it done Mr. Coward.
Isolationism will bring even less security. We begin to ignore what other countries are doing etc.... They have a larger excuse for their hatred and a larger window of opportunity to plan things unnnoticed.
Invade. Create new states, appoint governers and rule with an iron fist. The emperor will be pleased.
With millions of cargo shipments coming in and thousands of planes in the air daily there's no way to secure it.
Simple. Turn it all off. No international trade at all. Quickly, the economy would slow to the point where oil is no longer required to make it run, therefore freeing the military budget to actually perform socially useful things. Standard of living for everyone in the country would actually increase. Of course the income of the top 2% of the country would drop significantly, but hell, we could live without them and their United Defense shares anyway.
The bill does not specify what techniques--such as viruses, worms, denial-of-service attacks, or domain name hijacking--would be permissible.
1. Locate IP/Device in meatspace.
2. Cruise Missile.
Since this solution would use armaments supplied by United Defense, Bush would definately approve this solution. (His daddy would see to it)
Microsoft looses money on every xbox sold.
I wish that they'd "loose" some of that cash in my neighborhood. We've cleaned up most of the "loose" stuff we had around here.
they loose money on the console...
Hmmm... I didn't realize the money was tied up so tightly that they had to "loose" it...
It is time to question our long-held assumptions, and explore new policy approaches that could generate tremendous benefits for the American people.
He had me until this sentence. Getting the government to act in the best interests of the American people is not on the agenda. The current licensing scheme guarantees profit for the few. The few, in turn, guarantee $$$ to the government. Anything that threatens this simply will never happen.
but its called MACWORLD!
In related news, Apple announced that they will be taking legal action against IDG to prevent the use of the term "MAC" in "MACworld". Consequently, the show will now be called "The UnixAlike PPC OS/Hardware World Exposition".
The light blue, Aqua theme has also been removed from all marketing materials.