encryption in order to avoid traffic shaping is useless. in italy many providers are cutting down p2p traffic. there was an online interview with one of them who admitted that they did. he was specifically asked if traffic encryption could stop their filters.
he explained that it didn't. my understanding is that their filters looked at a combination of high bandwith usage with big numbers of open ports
This was done in Italy in 2005 with the Po river and analyzing the sewage water of several cities. According to the oldest article I've found it was done by an american and an italian university.
This is how it works in Italy. Every time music is played the SIAE (italy's RIAA) gets money.
I used to work at a small radio station. You have to compile a list of every song you play, and pay accordingly. Provents should go to the artist you listed. I think bigger radio stations pay a fixed amount every month, based on the number of listeners.
If you run any form of public place (a bar, a shop, a factory) and there is a radio playing music, you pay a tax that is based on the number of speakers you have in place. I think this is enforced in bars only, though. The idea is that you are making money (selling coffee) thanks to the music. You have to pay for this even if all you play is classical music, not copyrighted music, your own music, whatever.
If you want somebody to play some live music, apart from getting every kind of permit you need, you have to make the same list of songs as for radio stations, and you pay on that. Then you pay taxes based on the estimated number of people that are in the bar / restaurant / whatever. You pay this even if you play your own music, or public domain music, or classical music. This is the best known tax as, if you want to have live music at your wedding (rock or string quartet, doesn't matter), you have to pay it (based on the number of guests you have invited). It has pissed off many people.
If you buy blank cds or dvds - blank support tax.
And now the fun part. All the money they get that doesn't come from the lists with the artists names on it goes into a big pot that is then redistributed among all of the artists. In equal parts? Not really. It is done according to sales figures (best selling artists get most money) and mostly with some tables that were decided ages ago and never changed. So the biggest part of the money goes to a few people, mostly for "liscio", which is basically classic ballroom music.
Under US law, such a tap is illegal. There are some encrypted channels for cel phone conversations in America, but they have been mostly phased out because of the lack of consumer demand. In the US, such a tap is illegal. Even if such inflamatory behaviors were discovered, the person who did the tap would not disclose it as it would highlight personal illegal activities. Note that there is nothing that the technology is doing to prevent it.
It is illegal in Italy as well, that just doesn't stop people from doing it. In this case, it seems like people working for leading mobile phone company were actively doing this.
i've once been in a company where every desk was motorized, and everyone could lift it and work standing up every once in a while. People said they were much more productive this way.
I'm sure that in Italy the *only* thing that counts is the original receipt. COAs, stickers and the like are worth nothing in case of an inspection.
This lead in the past to very bad practices by small computer shops: they would install pirated copies of windows on customers' computers, which know nothing about COAs and think they are ok because they have an invoice stating that they paid for the software. This shops, in turn, make a 100% profit on the 'sale'.
I remember a few years ago I was repairing some pcs at a customer's office, and I told them that it looked like they didn't have any license at all. When I explained to them about COAs, they just didn't care, since they said that in case of inspection they would held the shop responsible for any license problem.
I'm sure that this kind of practice had a strong influence on introducing WGA kinds of activation.
This also has some interesting side effects: since the law here requires you to keep receipt for at least (I think) 5 years, what if I'm still using office 97 on my office PCs? (I still am.) Can BSA or a similar entity ask me for a proof of license?
When I lived in Charlottesville, VA there was a several month campaign of "the connosiers are coming". When they came, it was a "club" where you paid a flat fee and got discounts at local restaurants.
In the middle ages this was common practice. Many of the documents that are left were last wills from rich and powerful people, and they would always include a donation "pro anima" (for the soul) to some local church.
>Now that DVB subtitles are available, can you imagine OCRing the (image based) subtitles, >saving them into the recorded stream and having full-text-searchable tv programmes?
that what video.google.com was at first. you could search full text from indexed close captions. it looks like you can't do that anymore though.
Italian band Elio e le storie tese does this very thing at their live shows. At the end of the concert you can buy (cheaply) the recording of the first half of the concert on cd, or, if you bring any usb storage drive, they'll give you a copy in mp3.
The 'just half' part of the idea comes from technical reasons, i believe.
I use 7-zip too, because it's free and open, but try to open a zip file with 1000s of text files in it: honestly, winzip (v. 7.0, last i've used) it's still much faster.
The indictment from virginia's court has all of the IPs of the compromised computers, which are carefully 'hidden' as black text on black background text.
I don't think the open doors analogy is fit. What you are getting is not a property, is a service.
When using network sockets, there are well documented protocols being used.
So the client computer is basically saying to the server, or wireless router: can I connect? and the server replies: sure, go ahead
It would be the same thing if a bartender gave drinks for free because he wasn't trained in asking for money in exchange. Would the customers be liable of theft if they took advantage of this?
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the big news last year was that the US added retina scan to fingerprinting to all incoming passengers.
encryption in order to avoid traffic shaping is useless.
in italy many providers are cutting down p2p traffic.
there was an online interview with one of them who admitted that they did.
he was specifically asked if traffic encryption could stop their filters.
he explained that it didn't.
my understanding is that their filters looked at a combination of high bandwith usage with big numbers of open ports
ciao
davide
This was done in Italy in 2005 with the Po river and analyzing the sewage water of several cities.
According to the oldest article I've found it was done by an american and an italian university.
this is the original paper (in english)
http://www.ehjournal.net/content/4/1/14
ciao
This is how it works in Italy.
Every time music is played the SIAE (italy's RIAA) gets money.
I used to work at a small radio station. You have to compile a list of every song you play, and pay accordingly. Provents should go to the artist you listed.
I think bigger radio stations pay a fixed amount every month, based on the number of listeners.
If you run any form of public place (a bar, a shop, a factory) and there is a radio playing music, you pay a tax that is based on the number of speakers you have in place. I think this is enforced in bars only, though. The idea is that you are making money (selling coffee) thanks to the music. You have to pay for this even if all you play is classical music, not copyrighted music, your own music, whatever.
If you want somebody to play some live music, apart from getting every kind of permit you need, you have to make the same list of songs as for radio stations, and you pay on that. Then you pay taxes based on the estimated number of people that are in the bar / restaurant / whatever. You pay this even if you play your own music, or public domain music, or classical music. This is the best known tax as, if you want to have live music at your wedding (rock or string quartet, doesn't matter), you have to pay it (based on the number of guests you have invited). It has pissed off many people.
If you buy blank cds or dvds - blank support tax.
And now the fun part. All the money they get that doesn't come from the lists with the artists names on it goes into a big pot that is then redistributed among all of the artists. In equal parts? Not really. It is done according to sales figures (best selling artists get most money) and mostly with some tables that were decided ages ago and never changed. So the biggest part of the money goes to a few people, mostly for "liscio", which is basically classic ballroom music.
ciao
davide
funny you mention that, being that bologna university is the oldest western university in the world (founded in 1088)
ciao
davide
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Under US law, such a tap is illegal. There are some encrypted channels for cel phone conversations in America, but they have been mostly phased out because of the lack of consumer demand. In the US, such a tap is illegal. Even if such inflamatory behaviors were discovered, the person who did the tap would not disclose it as it would highlight personal illegal activities. Note that there is nothing that the technology is doing to prevent it.
It is illegal in Italy as well, that just doesn't stop people from doing it. In this case, it seems like people working for leading mobile phone company were actively doing this.
i've once been in a company where every desk was motorized, and everyone could lift it and work standing up every once in a while. People said they were much more productive this way.
This is something similar.
I'm sure that in Italy the *only* thing that counts is the original receipt. COAs, stickers and the like are worth nothing in case of an inspection.
This lead in the past to very bad practices by small computer shops: they would install pirated copies of windows on customers' computers, which know nothing about COAs and think they are ok because they have an invoice stating that they paid for the software.
This shops, in turn, make a 100% profit on the 'sale'.
I remember a few years ago I was repairing some pcs at a customer's office, and I told them that it looked like they didn't have any license at all. When I explained to them about COAs, they just didn't care, since they said that in case of inspection they would held the shop responsible for any license problem.
I'm sure that this kind of practice had a strong influence on introducing WGA kinds of activation.
This also has some interesting side effects: since the law here requires you to keep receipt for at least (I think) 5 years, what if I'm still using office 97 on my office PCs? (I still am.) Can BSA or a similar entity ask me for a proof of license?
When I lived in Charlottesville, VA there was a several month campaign of "the connosiers are coming". When they came, it was a "club" where you paid a flat fee and got discounts at local restaurants.
gabbo! gabbo! GABBO!!
In the middle ages this was common practice. Many of the documents that are left were last wills from rich and powerful people, and they would always include a donation "pro anima" (for the soul) to some local church.
I wish music stores had DRMed music in it's own section, just like there are classical, jazz, etc sections.
This way the broad public might be going to notice something is happening...
>Now that DVB subtitles are available, can you imagine OCRing the (image based) subtitles, >saving them into the recorded stream and having full-text-searchable tv programmes?
that what video.google.com was at first.
you could search full text from indexed close captions.
it looks like you can't do that anymore though.
well, for this very reason whenever I read slashdot I don't point my browser to http://slashdot.org/ but to http://slashdot.org/search.pl instead.
if i remember correctly, one of the biggest power wasters when it comes to standby mode is your doorbell - when multiplied for every house on earth.
The story is not about Roland or Beatles Beatles or whatever other random user is submitting a lot of stuff this week.
Shouldn't that read:
"The story is not about Roland or Beatles Beatles or whatever other random user is submitting a lot of stuff this week."?
Ah, slashdot editors...
(But then, I am from Germany, probably the country most critical of nuclear power all over Europe.)
For the record, Italy has had a total ban on nuclear power since Chernobyl.
Italian band Elio e le storie tese does this very thing at their live shows. At the end of the concert you can buy (cheaply) the recording of the first half of the concert on cd, or, if you bring any usb storage drive, they'll give you a copy in mp3.
The 'just half' part of the idea comes from technical reasons, i believe.
I use 7-zip too, because it's free and open, but try to open a zip file with 1000s of text files in it: honestly, winzip (v. 7.0, last i've used) it's still much faster.
The indictment from virginia's court has all of the IPs of the compromised computers, which are carefully 'hidden' as black text on black background text.
like dupont making a diamond head usb thumb drive
I don't think the open doors analogy is fit.
What you are getting is not a property, is a service.
When using network sockets, there are well documented protocols being used.
So the client computer is basically saying to the server, or wireless router: can I connect?
and the server replies: sure, go ahead
It would be the same thing if a bartender gave drinks for free because he wasn't trained in asking for money in exchange.
Would the customers be liable of theft if they took advantage of this?
Remember, the Vatican is a very historic place. There is monumentery there that cannot be disturbed by the placing of wireless transponders.
I think the real point here is: the Vatican is a very historic place, so try and get a wireless signal go through those 3 feet thick walls.
and besides, I think it's all a matter of priorities, and I don't see how wi-fi could make the vatican's top 10 to-do list anytime soon.
In my company we're still using win98 and office 97, with a linux box as domain controller, and everything runs fine and dandy.
Only one pc runs winxp, and that's because it was purchased recently and even the lowest-specs computer i could by runs it smoothly.
Other than that, if it ain't broke...
This one is another approach.