I wouldn't say that wish lists are an innovation. They are merely see that people are willing to provide that info online for everyday items. In practice, its not different than a wedding registry at a department store ( the once collosal megastores compared to the general stores they replaced )
2 of them are blatant violations ( complete reposts ) Several are links to probably infringing documents ( unfortunately not legal under the DMCA) . Some are "its a zip with an exe wrapper, don't look at the wrapper".
I don't see how #86 is a violation at all. It asks a question that I wouldn't want to answer were I microsoft, but its valid and I believe (and hope), legal.
What is wrong with comment #86? It certainly isn't the text of the pdf as the letter claims. Thats has no copyright violation AFAIK, just a hypothetical question.
#353 is a rebuttal saying he honestly didn't see a license agreement.
I always view these protocols as a way that in the short term will increase access to information, including the really early adopters, warez.
But if everything is sent out in a really public manner, it's not too hard to just make a bot with "files <-> ip" and then use that information for law enforcement. Whereas once you had to ask for logs or packetsniff, now you can just download at will and then send a bill to the owner of the IP.
A way to invalidate patents within the patent system rather than in the legal system. A new class of software patents with 4-7 year enforcement length seems fairly practical.
I know there will be disagreements. There always are. That doesn't stop change from occuring.
Larger Education Budgets:
needs to be directed in the correct way. I think about making teaching an attractive profession rather than the silly fodder spat out by education colleges right now. There are some great teachers being produced but they are few and far between.
I think more science should be available on a widespread basis. I think more music and theatre programs should exist too. I think *lots* of people need more math. Sit in on a 100level college science lab where people are trying to cope with the complexities of the sin of angle and try to not mutter "why haven't you had more math".
More money isn't the only solution, but without it I Don't think you can attract people to teach. Do you think people that spend more time with your kids than you do should make ( probably ) 1/2 your salary?
Space: I think most Earth Orbit missions should be controlled by private corporations but real exploration should be encouraged rather than the piddling being done now. Until ore becomes valuable enough to finance space mining, I don't think theres enough to keep bussiness interested. Aside from telecommunications, what company would conduct business in space? Space Planes?
Decency Acts:
I think filters in libraries is appropriate as long as the filter is placed by community standards and not a national law. Libraries do quite well managing their content on their own.
Watching porn on a library's 24" monitor isn't what I'm trying to protect. But I'd rather see the library have a policy against it rather than a law.
Net Taxes: For now, implementing a tax is too impractical. For such a thing to be practical, it has to take the shape of a national VAT tax and then a 50-50 split between the 2 states in which the transaction takes place in.
The 50 split to the host state can be recouped in local revenue taxes on the business. Then it could just be a national sales tax that is split amongst the by population once buying things online becomes near enough to the standard that states are losing money from it. I'm not fluent enough in economic theory to guess as to where that point would be.
Ad revenue for EQ inside EQ wouldn't help. Addicts have enough trouble keeping up with eating, much less visiting some website that takes them away from their virtual crack.
I always think these games should get their costs to just that of a CD and survive on only the monthly charge.
Because the cost of launching a manned mission, retrieving the satellite, bringing the silcon back down, retooling, and re launching is more expensive than build your own and launch.
Probably because they get the new release around the same time you see it on slashdot and they probably have to do some amount of quality testing on it before redhat releases a package.
If redhat had official updates before say, debian, can you imagine the amount of complaints netscape would get?
IIRC, the cost of manufacture of a CD is less than a CD and they get to charge more. Cassettes started selling less and less. Their move torwards CD as a format was partially economic and partly consumer acceptance.
I don't get the CD-R argument, copying from a CD source isn't a big deal, especially with cheap Cd-r prices. I think its that CD's are just practical for other things. The next wave of formats will unfortunately try and distinguish themselves as completely different hardware formats.
SACD or DVD-audio or stick with what we have or MP3. In a perfect world we'd have 1 of the high end formats and a portable format like tapes for the car.
I can't justify buying mp3s. I don't look at them as a way to keep my music, just to listen to them for a short period of time. I like the fact other formats are clearer but it is nice to be able to say "hey check this song out". Now if there was only a way when you bought CDs to say where influenced your buying decision.
There really isn't a simliarity here because cars are a product you sell and the mall is a forum where you sell.
If the mall had its own commerce web site, that would place them in direct competition with their customers ( the people who set up shop inside the mall ). They aren't afraid they'll go out of business but they are afraid of losing very high premium rent.
The inefficiency is what the mall makes their money on. Cut out the cost of rent, products cheaper online, mall loses business ( or rather, has to cut rent prices )
Its not wrong to pay for postage. (Typically $3 for Priority Mail ) There is no handling charge. You're not allowed to compensate more than the value of the media.
Usually media is given directly. Its all about sharing. No handling charges because the band worked to give you the music, you're only copying the band's work.
Theatres only get 10% or so of the first weekend of proceed from film sales last I heard. Each successive week they get a larger and larger % of proceeds.
This was the reasoning on why an old 2000 seat theatre in town ( from the old style movie houses ) can't show new movies.
Slashdot Mirror
Wasn't this just the uptime clock or whatever rolls over instead of it crashes?
I wouldn't say that wish lists are an innovation. They are merely see that people are willing to provide that info online for everyday items. In practice, its not different than a wedding registry at a department store ( the once collosal megastores compared to the general stores they replaced )
These ports are dynamic I believe. It really is a pain to just set up what should be a few simple rules.
Yes, just picking the ports you want to let through is the correct way to firewall but It'd be nice if the gnome stuff was linked with libwrap.
look at all of the posts mentioned in the letter.
2 of them are blatant violations ( complete reposts ) Several are links to probably infringing documents ( unfortunately not legal under the DMCA) . Some are "its a zip with an exe wrapper, don't look at the wrapper".
I don't see how #86 is a violation at all. It asks a question that I wouldn't want to answer were I microsoft, but its valid and I believe (and hope), legal.
What is wrong with comment #86? It certainly isn't the text of the pdf as the letter claims.
Thats has no copyright violation AFAIK, just a hypothetical question.
#353 is a rebuttal saying he honestly didn't see a license agreement.
It did shut down the forum after it learned that music was being illegally traded there.
I always view these protocols as a way that in the short term will increase access to information, including the really early adopters, warez.
But if everything is sent out in a really public manner, it's not too hard to just make a bot with "files <-> ip" and then use that information for law enforcement. Whereas once you had to ask for logs or packetsniff, now you can just download at will and then send a bill to the owner of the IP.
Visa Versa would be a fun situation too.
Patent reform:
A way to invalidate patents within the patent system rather than in the legal system. A new class of software patents with 4-7 year enforcement length seems fairly practical.
I know there will be disagreements. There always are. That doesn't stop change from occuring.
Larger Education Budgets:
needs to be directed in the correct way. I think about making teaching an attractive profession rather than the silly fodder spat out by education colleges right now. There are some great teachers being produced but they are few and far between.
I think more science should be available on a widespread basis. I think more music and theatre programs should exist too. I think *lots* of people need more math. Sit in on a 100level college science lab where people are trying to cope with the complexities of the sin of angle and try to not mutter "why haven't you had more math".
More money isn't the only solution, but without it I Don't think you can attract people to teach. Do you think people that spend more time with your kids than you do should make ( probably ) 1/2 your salary?
Space: I think most Earth Orbit missions should be controlled by private corporations but real exploration should be encouraged rather than the piddling being done now. Until ore becomes valuable enough to finance space mining, I don't think theres enough to keep bussiness interested.
Aside from telecommunications, what company would conduct business in space? Space Planes?
Decency Acts:
I think filters in libraries is appropriate as long as the filter is placed by community standards and not a national law. Libraries do quite well managing their content on their own.
Watching porn on a library's 24" monitor isn't what I'm trying to protect. But I'd rather see the library have a policy against it rather than a law.
Net Taxes: For now, implementing a tax is too impractical. For such a thing to be practical, it has to take the shape of a national VAT tax and then a 50-50 split between the 2 states in which the transaction takes place in.
The 50 split to the host state can be recouped in local revenue taxes on the business. Then it could just be a national sales tax that is split amongst the by population once buying things online becomes near enough to the standard that states are losing money from it. I'm not fluent enough in economic theory to guess as to where that point would be.
Things lots of geeks could agree on
- patent system reform
shorter software patent life span
establishment of a more public approval process
- larger education budgets
reignite sciece / tech studying in school
more math
- funding NASA for _real_ missions ( read: making mars a viable goal )
- completely unrestricted crypto
- anti-decency acts
- 0 net taxes
The trouble is on issues that get brought up to be the major things in political debates, we are all fragemented.
We all view abortion ( though I'd guess more are pro choice ), social security, health care, etc. differently.
Unified on some issues but not enough to say "hey thats the Technocratic party, they stand for what I'm for, I'm voting for them."
Ad revenue for EQ inside EQ wouldn't help. Addicts have enough trouble keeping up with eating, much less visiting some website that takes them away from their virtual crack.
I always think these games should get their costs to just that of a CD and survive on only the monthly charge.
Because the cost of launching a manned mission, retrieving the satellite, bringing the silcon back down, retooling, and re launching is more expensive than build your own and launch.
Probably because they get the new release around the same time you see it on slashdot and they probably have to do some amount of quality testing on it before redhat releases a package.
If redhat had official updates before say, debian, can you imagine the amount of complaints netscape would get?
If you mean you haven't seen a commerial RTS, isn't that what myth2 is? I don't know what the latter levels are like b/c I've only played the demo.
Perhaps you miss the build phase, instead of the same units.
IIRC, the cost of manufacture of a CD is less than a CD and they get to charge more. Cassettes started selling less and less. Their move torwards CD as a format was partially economic and partly consumer acceptance.
I don't get the CD-R argument, copying from a CD source isn't a big deal, especially with cheap Cd-r prices. I think its that CD's are just practical for other things. The next wave of formats will unfortunately try and distinguish themselves as completely different hardware formats.
SACD or DVD-audio or stick with what we have or MP3. In a perfect world we'd have 1 of the high end formats and a portable format like tapes for the car.
I can't justify buying mp3s. I don't look at them as a way to keep my music, just to listen to them for a short period of time. I like the fact other formats are clearer but it is nice to be able to say "hey check this song out". Now if there was only a way when you bought CDs to say where influenced your buying decision.
There really isn't a simliarity here because cars are a product you sell and the mall is a forum where you sell.
If the mall had its own commerce web site, that would place them in direct competition with their customers ( the people who set up shop inside the mall ). They aren't afraid they'll go out of business but they are afraid of losing very high premium rent.
The inefficiency is what the mall makes their money on. Cut out the cost of rent, products cheaper online, mall loses business ( or rather, has to cut rent prices )
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The bug was that they had already freed that memory else where.
Its not wrong to pay for postage. (Typically $3 for Priority Mail ) There is no handling charge. You're not allowed to compensate more than the value of the media.
Usually media is given directly. Its all about sharing. No handling charges because the band worked to give you the music, you're only copying the band's work.
....saving up for another DAT deck
Theatres only get 10% or so of the first weekend of proceed from film sales last I heard. Each successive week they get a larger and larger % of proceeds.
This was the reasoning on why an old 2000 seat theatre in town ( from the old style movie houses ) can't show new movies.