I'll wait until that annoying prat in the next dorm takes his laptop to a lecture and use his MAC to get him expelled for sending spam and downloading MP3s.... Bwhahahaaaa....
Of course they could be locking ports at the switch to MAC addresses as well so that using something other than your own MAC would lock that port. "So why were you using Annoying Prat's MAC?".
> Probably not, but a lot more desktops get sold > than high-end servers. If AMD manages to get > a toe-hold on the desktop with their 64-bit > solution, the chances are a lot better x86-64 > will migrate up the food chain than ia64 will > migrate down.
After all, isn't this also one reason why we are looking at x86 everywhere instead of a world filled with Sparc/Alpha/PPC? Intel could offer x86-64, but how much smller would their Itanium market be? Quite a dilemma, they would need to hurt Itanium sales to keep the desktop.
Are they selling the bread to keep the silver on the table? (not my quote)
The world would be a safer place if guitars had a "reasonable use" provision built into the DRM that would: Only let the riff to "Smoke on the Water" be played up to 3 times without a licence; Never allow "Stairway to Heaven" be played within the confines of a music shop (add Bluetooth so the guitar can detect that there are many other guitars nearby).
Actually, Bluetooth would be cool, there'd be no excuse for instruments not to be in tune with each other.
50,000 subscribers at $30 each pa: $ 1.5m Rent at $200,000 pm for 12 months: $ 2.4m
Even if they *do* manage to *double* their subscribr base, that still leaves $2.4m out of $3m going on rent and maybe $600k for salaries. Yeah, maybe they can sell banner ads...riiight...
Time for Salon to die so that others can learn from their mistakes. Use your subs money to support Kuro and look to the future.
- Seek to strengthen Australia's domestic enforcement procedures, such as increasing criminal penalties so that they are sufficient to have a deterrent effect on piracy and counterfeiting.
A masterpiece of timing if you ask me. Nothing like having concrete examples to bludgeon us into losing what rights we never had in the first place.
EVACS is the electronic voting system that was available at our most recent local (think state) elections here in Canberra (.au). I went to a talk Tridge gave on it, and it was really interesting to hear the auditability and secrecy considerations they had to make (for example, no touch screens which can accumilate a halo of fingerprints around popular choices). In summary, a bootable CD distro runs a numbered keypad and monitor displaying a ballot paper. Each voter gets a barcode that enables the booth and is used as a checksum. The votes themselves get whacked onto an RDBMS server located at the polling station. At the end of the day, the server is securely moved to the tally-room just like any other ballot box. See Elections ACT for more info on how it went.
We look at these stupid patents and think that large companies are also going to see these stupid patents and think, "that's stupid!". We then hope that these large companies will challenge the holder of these stupid patents because they have their own stupid patents that overlap.
But are they going to? And why should they?
Because the owner of the stupid patent knows that the "infringing" company also has stupid patents, the usual solution is that it gets licenced for a comparitively modest fee. The immediate issue goes away, and the proponents of the system get to point at checks and balances that make sure no-one gets ripped off.
But what happens when we get to the end of this process and we have a King Rat (a nest of rats with their tails inexorably knotted together) of tech companies that have cross licencing on key technology patents? What interest do they have in allowing participation by someone with a marginal number of links to contribute?
I think that processes such as the power law has lead to a small number of players with many links (patents). Unlike blogging, there's no incentive for the top end of town to play with the bottom end of town, and without intervention, you will see a divide where you will be unable to compete in the tech game without access to a large patent portfolio. The existing players are happy with this, because their tails cannot be cut out of the rat king without harming the others.
That will be enough to scare most of the people away from P2P, thanks to half truths. They don't intend to actually go after everyone because that wouldn't be cost effective, as you've noticed.
Ideally the *AA's would also want to make p2p expensive to condone/tolerate on their networks. Pestering ISPs with subpoenas is one avenue of doing this. Hopefully p2p customers bring in more revenue than it costs to service the RIAA.
In my country, I am not allowed to make backups of music that I have purchased or load them onto an MP3 player. I am not allowed to rip a copy to listen to in the car. I am not allowed to copy my vinyl to CD because I don't own it, yet I cannot get replacement CD media for the vinyl because apparently I do own it.
I think copyright has many benefits to society and is a great way to protect creators from being ripped off and having their work stolen, but that it is being used by some as an excuse to gouge soociety unreasonably.
I shouldn't be allowed to steal a cake, but once I have bought it, how I eat it should be my own business.
They used to have a giant train mounted potato gun called "Grossen Tater" that was used to lob potatos the size of volkswagens at Paris during the first World War, but they were forced to dismantle it under the treaty of Versailles. The French also took the giant potatos and shredded them to prevent them being used as weapons, this is why french fries are the shape they are (now eaten to commemorate the great aerial potato attacks of 1916).
If it could be used to make running online forums (such as this one) too risky for any sane person to consider, I'd think that some people would be very happy with such implications.
I really wonder about laws of this kind. Do the lawmakers really think about the implications of this?...
People will not archive every revision of their personal homepage just because they happen to have a small webserver and the law says they have to. I sure as hell won't. Come arrest me.
They won't arrest everyone who fails to comply, but someone will use this to sue your ass off or have you arrested if you draw the right/wrong kind of attention.
I remember suggestions about buying SCO so that Linux could be branded as the official Unix and all their IP GL'ed. Sigh...
And I really, really hope that SCO remember how much FUD the OSF and Unix International wrangle created. A big bitch-fight could see the "winner" taking possesion of a balkanised fringe market in a.NET world. They need to permanently settle this before someone makes it an issue with customers.
The Vice Chancellor for the University was just on the local radio and vowed that the observatory will be rebuilt. I suppose while light pollution may diminish its value to research, it is an exceptional educational facility (plus the street lights around here have been replaced with mercury vapour lamps over the years).
You can run, but you can't hide. Whatever is happening in the USA today will follow tommorrow in much of the world.
3) With every new inane law or result of a lawsuit that I hear, I get one step closer to leaving the United States. It's becoming a bloody corporate rape scene here in the States and I for one am just about at the end of my rope.
And saw the distant red glow of fires approaching from over the mountains. It could have as easily been a smidgeon north to where I live. I remember:
Last night, a harried post-grad rushing around, looking out the door at us, presumably for invading their turf.
Years ago, school trips to Stromlo for science. Technicians fooling about, spilling foggy puddles of liquid nitrogen to impress us.
At college, friend relating a scary tale of my physics teacher driving back down the winding road and waving his hands around and not paying nearly enough attention to driving whilst explaining stuff.
Later at university, a friend of mine being busted by security for burning a bible over Duffield's grave. "It was dark man..."
Orienteering on the map, "Arachnicopia", named for the abundance of spiders on the mountain. Running through thick pine forest, being covered with thick layers of cobwebs and spiders. (Indy eat your heart out)
More recently, work trips there to use the meeting rooms and beautiful views for planning days (my idea:o) )
Coffee in a cafe in the shadow of the dome. Pastries and foccacia.
And Friday was the first time ever my GF had been there.
While I have not seen pictures, the local radio helicopter's description was enough for me to fill in the blanks. Broken telescopes in a tangle of black steel.
There's a cool change in the wind tonight and the firies have the upper hand for the first time.
Could it be that as far as MS is concerned, Apple has served its purpose as a demonstration of the market not being a monopoly? In thise case, it may be better for Apple to appear to be in control of the relationship rather than have MS pull the rug out from under them.
An alternative is that Apple just don't need MS Office anymore. Open Office et al. have shown that MS do not have any particular edge in office suites anymore, and that Apple should be able to integrate with Windows users without installing MS Office.
Then you'll get back to token gestures such as the reading on stage of Brahm Stoker's Dracula when it was first published in order to protect any possible theatrical productions. It would be a negligent management that did not do something trivial such as a small CD-ROM run sold to friends in order to protect such assets in case they ever became popular again.
And presumably Disney will use the profits to further Walt's totalitarian ambitions by vigourously pursuing commie mutant traitors who use DeCSS or p2p file trading.
Having this story on the same page as the latest MPAA and RIAA efforts is illustrative. The outrage only lasts until the next fasionable release.
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I'll wait until that annoying prat in the next dorm takes his laptop to a lecture and use his MAC to get him expelled for sending spam and downloading MP3s.... Bwhahahaaaa....
Of course they could be locking ports at the switch to MAC addresses as well so that using something other than your own MAC would lock that port. "So why were you using Annoying Prat's MAC?".
Xix.
> Probably not, but a lot more desktops get sold
> than high-end servers. If AMD manages to get
> a toe-hold on the desktop with their 64-bit
> solution, the chances are a lot better x86-64
> will migrate up the food chain than ia64 will
> migrate down.
After all, isn't this also one reason why we are looking at x86 everywhere instead of a world filled with Sparc/Alpha/PPC? Intel could offer x86-64, but how much smller would their Itanium market be? Quite a dilemma, they would need to hurt Itanium sales to keep the desktop.
Are they selling the bread to keep the silver on the table? (not my quote)
The world would be a safer place if guitars had a "reasonable use" provision built into the DRM that would: Only let the riff to "Smoke on the Water" be played up to 3 times without a licence; Never allow "Stairway to Heaven" be played within the confines of a music shop (add Bluetooth so the guitar can detect that there are many other guitars nearby).
Actually, Bluetooth would be cool, there'd be no excuse for instruments not to be in tune with each other.
Xix.
50,000 subscribers at $30 each pa: $ 1.5m
Rent at $200,000 pm for 12 months: $ 2.4m
Even if they *do* manage to *double* their subscribr base, that still leaves $2.4m out of $3m going on rent and maybe $600k for salaries. Yeah, maybe they can sell banner ads...riiight...
Time for Salon to die so that others can learn from their mistakes. Use your subs money to support Kuro and look to the future.
Xix.
A masterpiece of timing if you ask me. Nothing like having concrete examples to bludgeon us into losing what rights we never had in the first place.
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But are they going to? And why should they?
Because the owner of the stupid patent knows that the "infringing" company also has stupid patents, the usual solution is that it gets licenced for a comparitively modest fee. The immediate issue goes away, and the proponents of the system get to point at checks and balances that make sure no-one gets ripped off.
But what happens when we get to the end of this process and we have a King Rat (a nest of rats with their tails inexorably knotted together) of tech companies that have cross licencing on key technology patents? What interest do they have in allowing participation by someone with a marginal number of links to contribute?
I think that processes such as the power law has lead to a small number of players with many links (patents). Unlike blogging, there's no incentive for the top end of town to play with the bottom end of town, and without intervention, you will see a divide where you will be unable to compete in the tech game without access to a large patent portfolio. The existing players are happy with this, because their tails cannot be cut out of the rat king without harming the others.
Xix.
Ideally the *AA's would also want to make p2p expensive to condone/tolerate on their networks. Pestering ISPs with subpoenas is one avenue of doing this. Hopefully p2p customers bring in more revenue than it costs to service the RIAA.
Xix.
So by using this app to trade some music with 10 people you can go straight to jail. Wow, that really is one-click convenience.
Xix.
In my country, I am not allowed to make backups of music that I have purchased or load them onto an MP3 player. I am not allowed to rip a copy to listen to in the car. I am not allowed to copy my vinyl to CD because I don't own it, yet I cannot get replacement CD media for the vinyl because apparently I do own it.
I think copyright has many benefits to society and is a great way to protect creators from being ripped off and having their work stolen, but that it is being used by some as an excuse to gouge soociety unreasonably.
I shouldn't be allowed to steal a cake, but once I have bought it, how I eat it should be my own business.
It would have looked even funnier if Sun announced 2.0 the day *after* 2.2 was released.
OTOH, we still use Open Windows, so it's not like we've been racing to embrace this newfangled CDE stuff...
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"No, I don't have multiple machines, don't you know that your software won't work with BSD..."
You could also do stuff like force all web requests through a proxy, so that all http requests are made by a single machine.
OTOH, the technique makes for yet another tool to be used when spelunking for potential holes into a firewall.
Citizens figured the water's been through so many kidneys, it *has* to be pure....
They used to have a giant train mounted potato gun called "Grossen Tater" that was used to lob potatos the size of volkswagens at Paris during the first World War, but they were forced to dismantle it under the treaty of Versailles. The French also took the giant potatos and shredded them to prevent them being used as weapons, this is why french fries are the shape they are (now eaten to commemorate the great aerial potato attacks of 1916).
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They won't arrest everyone who fails to comply, but someone will use this to sue your ass off or have you arrested if you draw the right/wrong kind of attention.
Xix.
Maybe nannys should sing Metallica songs in protest?
Hey, we could *all* have a day where we sing "Enter Sandman" out loud in public places and refuse to pay.
Xix.
And I really, really hope that SCO remember how much FUD the OSF and Unix International wrangle created. A big bitch-fight could see the "winner" taking possesion of a balkanised fringe market in a .NET world. They need to permanently settle this before someone makes it an issue with customers.
Xix.
The Vice Chancellor for the University was just on the local radio and vowed that the observatory will be rebuilt. I suppose while light pollution may diminish its value to research, it is an exceptional educational facility (plus the street lights around here have been replaced with mercury vapour lamps over the years).
Xix.
And saw the distant red glow of fires approaching from over the mountains. It could have as easily been a smidgeon north to where I live. I remember:
:o) )
Last night, a harried post-grad rushing around, looking out the door at us, presumably for invading their turf.
Years ago, school trips to Stromlo for science. Technicians fooling about, spilling foggy puddles of liquid nitrogen to impress us.
At college, friend relating a scary tale of my physics teacher driving back down the winding road and waving his hands around and not paying nearly enough attention to driving whilst explaining stuff.
Later at university, a friend of mine being busted by security for burning a bible over Duffield's grave. "It was dark man..."
Orienteering on the map, "Arachnicopia", named for the abundance of spiders on the mountain. Running through thick pine forest, being covered with thick layers of cobwebs and spiders. (Indy eat your heart out)
More recently, work trips there to use the meeting rooms and beautiful views for planning days (my idea
Coffee in a cafe in the shadow of the dome. Pastries and foccacia.
And Friday was the first time ever my GF had been there.
While I have not seen pictures, the local radio helicopter's description was enough for me to fill in the blanks. Broken telescopes in a tangle of black steel.
There's a cool change in the wind tonight and the firies have the upper hand for the first time.
Xix.
The spooks here used to feed hard drives and tapes into a nearby iron smelter. One way brownian crypto...
Xix.
Could it be that as far as MS is concerned, Apple has served its purpose as a demonstration of the market not being a monopoly? In thise case, it may be better for Apple to appear to be in control of the relationship rather than have MS pull the rug out from under them.
An alternative is that Apple just don't need MS Office anymore. Open Office et al. have shown that MS do not have any particular edge in office suites anymore, and that Apple should be able to integrate with Windows users without installing MS Office.
Xix.
Then you'll get back to token gestures such as the reading on stage of Brahm Stoker's Dracula when it was first published in order to protect any possible theatrical productions. It would be a negligent management that did not do something trivial such as a small CD-ROM run sold to friends in order to protect such assets in case they ever became popular again.
Xix.
And presumably Disney will use the profits to further Walt's totalitarian ambitions by vigourously pursuing commie mutant traitors who use DeCSS or p2p file trading.
Having this story on the same page as the latest MPAA and RIAA efforts is illustrative. The outrage only lasts until the next fasionable release.
Xix.