By that logic, you could get around the block by putting a domain name on your IP... which is exactly what a smart phisher would do anyways.
No, I strongly expect that they are: 1) filtering URLs with their IP range in it. 2) Resolving URLs to the IP address (then following 1)
Item # 2 is trivial to do... SpamAssassin has plenty of body text checkers looking for URLs (see URIBL_* plugins). It would be trivial to fork one of these applets to look for their cable user IP space.
It's also trivial to get around either block, by using a "web relay" or "shorter link" service to obfuscate. Cox is only going to resolve the IP or hostname 1 layer deep... they're not going to bother parsing outside HTTP Relays for the Location: header or anything...
>How does a copyright holder lose their right to profit if a copy goes to someone who couldn't buy it in the first place? There is no loss there. That's absurd. Where's the loss?
It's kind of like information inflation:
If EVERYONE learns an IT skill (as opposed to only those who could afford it), then won't rich kids suffer? After all they'll compete with more co-applicants when it comes to their next job.
You might as well advocate free education for all, and synchronizing public transportation routes with high-tech development zones...
>I agree with you that people should revolt against the RIAA and stop purchasing their products. But people wont.
WAIT... maybe the RIAA *WANTS* people to boycott them?
Think about it -- lower sales means PERFECT cover to lobby Congress for another copyright extension. Sound far fetched? The RIAA already uses lower CD sales for this goal... they leave out legal MP3 sales, and neglect to factor in consumer preference for downloads to begin with.
(I realize the RIAA really *doesn't* want lower sales, but they're licensing music outside of the CD and then leaving that out of the picture).
>Think about why maybe many immigrants are engineers. Could it be because engineers can get visa's and jobs here? Maybe its because visa's are not given out to basketweavers!
Maybe.
It could also be that CHRISTIAN FUNDAMENTALISTS (aka evangelicals) have successfully dumbed down US education to the point where scarce education funds are used to teach dogma:
science funds used for 'intelligent design' sex education funds used to teach empty 'intelligent design', aka Old Testament creationism myths. stem cell research bans (an easy 'abortion/cloning' target, but if these people were principled they'd go after fertility clinics with equal furor). Not to mention that the average US school spends more on football per year than they do on any of the sciences.
Other countries have education problems, but they WANT their engineers to be good (at the very least so they can mail checks back to home).
The hideous thing is the business wing of the US conservative movement understands what the fundamentalists are doing to education... and as fast as they can they are moving their investments overseas where the education is far less crippled... taking advantage of the wave of lost science jobs they are helping to create.
>And people say there should be a single desktop...
Actually, NO ONE says there should be a 'single desktop'. (Well, I'm sure some people will say anything, but...)
What developers and managers often bemoan is that there is no SINGLE API for development of desktop apps.
In fact your example of XFCE is a PERFECT example of what happens when there IS a common API. XFCE uses GTK as the engine.. as does GNOME. The 'core' functions are all there... and then extended.
I don't think there should EVER be a single desktop -- that sounds like a nightmare on so many levels. I would however love to see a merger between Qt and GTK, or at least much larger co-operation (and there is some already, via freedesktop, but it's all bottom-up driven.
Things may get more interesting on that front, now that Nokia owns Trolltech. I hope they can manage something without scaring the KDE folks.
>>Obviously a country that can send robots instead of soldiers to fight is way more likely to become 'war happy' - so I'm not sure this robot thing is a good idea at all.
>Not necessarily. One of the big reasons the USA lost in Vietnam was that it became politically unacceptable to have body bags coming home.
Almost right. The US public turned against the Vietnam war when MIDDLE CLASS kids came home in body bags.
This for no better reason is why the US military went "volunteer".
Whenever a war hawk gets elected (or appointed) in the US, one of the first things they do is slash federal financial aid, because economics is a driving force of enlistment. Bush has cut college money like no other president ever has before.
You're right about the photographing body bags, but NO ONE CARES because these people "knew what they were volunteering for". Swap that economic group with conscripts for the Iraq occupation, and by now you'd have angry parents with tar, feathers and torches...
Yes, you are from BlueRay and you're giving us the "inside scoop" how unethical they are.
Suuuuurre. Here's why I think you are full of shit:
In CHRONOLOGICAL order:
1) HD-DVD breaks away from BluRay group. Attempts to reconcile were almost successful but one of the large breakaway companies refused. Some say that this company was Microsoft..
2) HD-DVD group skewed statistics and manipulated the media in ways BluRay did not.
A typical pro-HD-DVD story would: * tout HD-DVD players as selling MORE UNITS and with faster momentum... UNTRUE * show that some PS3 owners were ONLY buying games, then extrapolate that to assert ALL PS3 owners were buying NO movies. * talk about Transformers sales somehow in the context of the format war.. USELESS (it's a single platform title) * Ignore that BluRay title sales have ALWAYS outsold HD-DVD, even though there was a time when HD-DVD was the only game in town. Instead of quoting these numbers in fairness, HD-DVD articles would spin something like "PS3 owners were buying an average of 0.6 movies per player". * The same people who cheered Microsoft's $150 million injection to Paramount were SUDDENLY crying foul when Sony greased Warner by (reportedly) $500 million. WAH. * "numbers" like the above reprinted... and HD-DVD was successful in getting the story printed as "According to numbers released..." or other citation showing HD-DVD in the lead, and often the reprint would exclude whatever magic was used to skew the numbers. For example, betanews.com articles printing an "according to.." that ends with HD-DVD Players outselling BluRay for November 2007. You'd have to go and read the original article to see these were not overall players vs. players, but overall HD vs BluRay MINUS PS3.
It doesn't matter if some PS3 owners aren't getting movies, just as long as enough do. It's still a viable platforms for movies... I would NOT have bought mine if it wasn't also the CHEAPEST BR player. I'll probably buy 1 or 2 games per year, but between new BR movies and Netflix I will use it a lot more for movies.
The fact is that HD-DVD was doomed from the start, and BR eclipsed even when starting last. After HD-DVD folks recruited X-Box fanboys, the discussion went downhill from being about hardware specifications to who has the most free time to waste on online boards.
Microsoft invested $150 million to get Paramount to go HD-DVD exclusive for a short while. *cough* That's ife support money, not really enough to make a difference. The irony is Microsoft wants BOTH FORMATS to remain entangled so that "Windows Media On-Demand" can gain a foothold...
>>1) Someone buys band XXX's CD >>2) They rip it and put it on PirateBay
>Frankly, you almost lost me right there. Normal people do not rip CDs and put them on the Pirate Bay.
Hmm. I agree: normal people do not rip CDs and put them on TPB. You seem to be implying that the word I used is 'Everyone', when I used the word 'Someone'.
>>Now are you really going to suggest that a DRM free version on iTunes will CHANGE the dynamics of this very real scenario? >Yeah, as a matter of fact, I do. How long do you think it will be before we start seeing a glut of applications that will sync up your DRMless iTunes music library with any iPod
How long? I dunno.. since day one? EVERY application can sync DRMless music libraries with "any" iPod. iTunes will even rip your CD's into DRM free AAC or MP3.
Reading your above 2 'points'... try posting in your native language next time. These words you use do not mean what you think they do.
>Hell, with DRMless music, I don't have to go to the Pirate Bay any more. I can just go over to a couple of my buddies' houses, and I'm good to go.
Support the politics of DRM, then pirate music at your friends? That's funny... just a tad hypercritical AND a complete 'follower'. How obtuse.
>>The question waiting to be answered is whether or not DRM free music will encourage/facilitate more "illegal" file sharing. >No, there's no question about that, it most certainly will.
To suggest that removing DRM will increase piracy is pure falacy, and you know it or you would have followed up that opinion with some kind of supporting example. You didn't.
OK, here's the REALITY.. a perfectly everyday sequence of events:
1) Someone buys band XXX's CD 2) They rip it and put it on PirateBay
Now are you really going to suggest that a DRM free version on iTunes will CHANGE the dynamics of this very real scenario? No it won't.
If you counter with "well, that's because CD's don't have DRM" then I'll counter that with "so fucking what.. fine, OK, you can record the album using LINE OUT or HEADPHONE like the old days"
DRM is futile unless you carry the concept all the way to the human brain.
Nope... Perhaps purchased music is dying for OTHER reasons, and piracy is just a boogeyman. Here are some reasons people buy less music:
The RIAA hates the idea of "albums" in the first place. They want SINGLES.. and they better not exceed 3 minutes one second. It's all about radio play. There will never be another Tommy, The Wall, 2112 or Operation Mindcrime due to these RIAA member policies. Why are you surprised then that people fall into this mindset, and ONLY BUY $1 SINGLES?
(Hmm... $1 iTunes single vs $17 CD... ohmygod we lost $16 to piracy!!111)
When people buy, they are buying singles because everything else is contractual filler.
The RIAA literally discourages diversity.. they want formula based music that can be predicted... high dollar investments leaving little to chance.
The RIAA members sat on their ass regarding technology... "stereo" has been around since the 1930's, yet even CARS are capable of 4 and 5 channel sound... but they still publish in stereo. The best concert CDs are BluRay DVDs.
There are even pirate trading groups who specialize in creating AC3 5.1 channel sound from CD audio, because folks are dying for better mediums.
Digital radio on my cable box.. good enough for me. There's also this thing called XM/Sirius... yay, more music you don't have to buy!! That's not piracy... the RIAA licensed this out and the ubiquity of freely listenable music this music IS accounted for, and folks don't care to buy what's still on the radio.
Plus most people are in debt to their eyeballs, and multimedia content is easy to clip from the budget. I don't know anyone who still buys 1 album per week now (or 5 per week, or more) on a regular basis. Years ago that wasn't the case (disclaimer: maybe I'm not a whippersnapper anymore).
It will be a GOOD thing if the music industry contracts because it's a cartel that exists to bloat its ranks with middlemen who were obsolete 20 years ago. Read the 1998 Salon article on RIAA piracy of the artists, written by a very articulate Courtney Love.
Things will settle down, but maybe the record labels will be WEAKER than the artists for a change. (Although content wise, I don't see much of a music revolution while Clear Channel controls so much of the airwaves).
The whole "US Economy will be ruined" by open music is a scam. The same people spouting this belief have simply overvalued their personal investments in the RIAA member companies. If the economy goes down the toilet because of $2 DRM free downloads at iTunes, maybe it was too frail to begin with (and maybe those same DRM cheerleeders shouldn'd have cheered all our manufacturing jobs overseas, to the benefit of no one but themselves).
I don't think you got it at all. The price of sugar in the US is fixed, AND imports of sugar are heavily taxed.
Which is fine with the sugar producers, because there is not enough sugar MANUFACTURING capacity to supply the country. There's plenty of sugar on the shelf, but it's there because candy etc makers shy away from it due to expense. If the price of sugar were at the world price... there would be an actual shortage for sure.
(And the capacity or potential shortage wouldn't be an issue if imports restrictions were relaxed.)
Price fixing always leads to an artificial glut or shortage, or a search for alternatives.
>If Sony wins a format war, does that mean the end times are near?
"son'ys evil cuz bluray is all DRM just go hddvd its $99!!1"
The irony is most the Sony bashers would trade one DRM format for another, and last I checked Microsoft and Sony were equally "evil". *shrugs*
Lots of online "posting" by supposed HD-DVD fans, but consistently sold fewer player or media sales compared to BluRay. Where were the HD-DVD sales?
Which makes me wonder if the MS push to split HD-DVD from BluRay, then keeping them from reconciling, then directly FUNDING $150 million to studios... that this wasn't really a Microsoft tactic to stall physical media and momentum for.... movie downloads at windowsmedia.com! (cue tada.wav)
It wasn't too long ago that MS tried the same tactic, siding with DVD+R when most of the industry went with DVD-R. Eventually we all got combo recorders, but MS held up the technology using FUD for at least 12 months.
I get my PS3 in 6 days.. can't wait! (Now if only Beer Nutz or Three Sheets were released in high def...)
About 8 years ago I worked on the SynaPix project which was also very similar to the article. The SynaFlex system could recover motion paths, direction, camera path and scene geometry automatically from video. Or you could focus on one aspect/stage of this and (such as manually tracking points to trace an object or inserting perfect geometry to match a known object such as a floor plane, thus buttressing the geometry and sometimes tracking results).
Pretty neat stuff. A pity the company outspent itself (too many goals, a >50% non-engineering staff before even a first sale - how many times has that scenario repeated itself?)
You know, I had to read your post twice, and by the tone of some replies I think others misunderstood also.
>3. Because you want to keep you clients, you port your application to Linux. In order to get access to the proper low-level interfaces (that you imagine you need for your bean counter), you start writing some kernel support functions.
Your point is incomplete. You're not trolling here, so *I* know that you didn't intentionally leave out the bit about "At the same time, you knowingly and deliberately choose to ignore the license terms of the Linux kernel and libc library. That or your design process is so loose and anarchistic that your boss and your company lawyers have never told you it's NOT OK to violate ANYONE'S license (GPL or otherwise), so you did so and didn't tell the boss where you stole the [GPL] code from."
The ambiguity just serves to support the anti-GPL argument, which is never clear. I've never heard anyone argue the [LICENSE TYPE] is "bad" because you're not allowed to ignore the terms." because EVERYONE supports licenses, especially companies like McAfee.
>Navigation on the right, content and comments in the middle, links and tools on the right. No, that's not a newspaper layout (which have more than 3 columns, in case you've never opened one!), and it makes at least some fucking sense.
You are assuming that the GP and everyone else doesn't take advantage of Preferences to get rid of that useless right column, which I did years ago and don't remember what the settings were. Perhaps the GP also surfs/. as '2 columns'.
(Personally, I think 3 columns for a SINGLE piece of content is stupid, but using it to frame smaller scraps/elements is perfectly OK. I mean, what are people supposed to do.. be forced into making everything one ROW the width of the screen??)
Back to the point, I agree that CSS has poor vertical support, which is the big complaint. The counter to that (and it is quite valid) is that you're designing for your monitor at something else's expense, or assumptions other's can' meet. So what, I say PROVIDED that the content remains ACCESSIBLE and MACHINE READABLE.
People DO want web apps, and they want them to operate like desktop apps. If CSS and DOM can't manage to grow like that, I already know what's going to happen... we're going to see Microsoft push something like 'Avalon' or desktop-app-XML onto the web. And you know what? People will LOVE it.. especially if IE does that and eliminates bugs that USERS care about (note I didn't say developers... MS has called them "pawns")
It's also interesting that Microsoft has been bickering with the Javascript folks, because Microsoft wants Javascript to receive no more improvements. What's Microsoft working on, and how far outside W3.org recommendations is it? Microsoft has realized that IE7 is pretty close to FF, so they can go pack to what they were working on before the emergency decision to even make an IE7.
Sorry for the rambling thoughts.. it's late and I'm distracted. Hope this makes sense.
re they more legitimate than the standard patent troll... because they have their name on a KEYBOARD? For $9, you can too.
Look at what they are claiming a patent on -- multiple 'meta' keys. LOTS of obvious, prior art here. Was there an 8-bit computer that DID NOT employ this technique for extended characters? How about most laptops, with a reduced key set.
Even Microsoft would not go after OLPC for this (although we may find they 'licensed' this patent to fund the effort, just like they licensed/funded SCO). These guys are now tied on the Evil Index... with Monsanto. I don't have words to describe how revolting this is.
>Downloads a bunch of random stuff for you directly from the publisher, and you rate it. Then it downloads more stuff based on what you like, and what other users who liked that like. Fun:)
Most of the RIAA labels are limited to 30 second clips (unfortunately), but some of the same tracks and artists are available as 'live' tracks. The RIAA does not own live tracks unless they themselves published it. Some artists encourage taping of their shows and so there is a wealth of 'bootleg' show recordings.
>What happened to mankind's fascination with space?
Because in space, there are no runaway ex-CIA generals to capture, and no oil.
It's revisionist to suggest that the space race had anything to do with science or education or exploration. Sure, 99% of the people WORKING on the project felt so... but it was a military project in civilian clothing. It took a LOT of pressure by NASA workers to get one token scientist on the moon mission... and in one document, he lightheartedly referred to outsider treatment because he was an egghead and not a combat pilot.
For the price or the Iraq war, we could afford solid missions to the moon and Mars. The damage done to the present and future economy by the neo-cons like Cheney will not be understood until someone else has to pay for it. It is a sad chapter in US history that we elected these neo-cons, who had vested interests in bankrupting the USA and many of which carry "dual passports".
There will be a space race again all right... led by China. The USA will react, but will be so poor that they have to outsource the shipbuilding.
I am paranoid. I run Windows Server 2008, running as a normal user. IE 7 is configured as my default browser in enhanced security mode, which is locked down and secure.
The really paranoid admins would never surf from their server, period. For that matter there is also no desktop interface on a paranoid setup. These are potential attack vectos.
If you are that cautions, why not run your browser virtualized? just install a VMWare 'browser appliance' (or if you 'require' a Windows browser, install XP inside of Vmware, Virtual PC etc).
This is not to suggest what you do is a bad setup - it is far better than most installations. I trust FireFox, but I wouldn't surf on a server at ALL if it is a production box. A post-mortem of a resulting breach can only point back at you...
>I think it should be legal unless you're cracking someone's WEP or WPA to get in.
What you describe IS legal - your NIC *requests approval* to connect, and the "open" WAP grants it. There is no hackery, brute force or other ill methods used.
Unfortunately, some district attorneys and police want to "grab headlines".
The fact that so-and-so was arrested for it, changes nothing. The application of the law against riders of "open networks" is bogus, and will be shown to be so when it is eventually tested in court.
If the politicians want to make a law against SHARED internet, they can try. If they want to make it against the law to OPERATE an insecure network, they can also try. While both of these would be misguided attempts, at least they would be HONEST application of the law. But it won't happen.
The fact that Joe Sixpack "checked email without purchasing coffee" outside some diner, and then gets arrested for it... these things happen because it's difficult to hold authorities accountable for their errors.
It's not a good match. It may WORK, but that's not the same thing.
C7 is good for embedded apps, or low-power low-heat. It's not at all responsive in the way that your USUAL overpowered desktop CPU is.
If your budget is $60 same as this, I'd get a CPU/mobo combo from NewEgg or Directron. Seriously. If you thought a 2.8Ghz Celeron would be OK, you can easily match it with a AM2 processor or an older P4. Shop around.
Why protect the advisor? You're obviously (and justifiably) upset about the waste and unfulfilled promise. It would be interesting if you had the time to Freedom Of Information request or otherwise dig up what the public record was and what advice the city received.
At the very best, you help another deployment avoid the same mistake. At worst, someone is embarrassed (big deal.. that shouldn't trump the truth).
My hometown Nashua NH was supposed to do downtown wifi. I think it was killed when Verizon cried to the state capital. The project was shut down with NOTHING to replace it.*
*(Except user-funded CDMA access, which I have on my phone.. but costs my employer $70/month for crummy 512K with high latency.).
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By that logic, you could get around the block by putting a domain name on your IP... which is exactly what a smart phisher would do anyways.
No, I strongly expect that they are:
1) filtering URLs with their IP range in it.
2) Resolving URLs to the IP address (then following 1)
Item # 2 is trivial to do... SpamAssassin has plenty of body text checkers looking for URLs (see URIBL_* plugins). It would be trivial to fork one of these applets to look for their cable user IP space.
It's also trivial to get around either block, by using a "web relay" or "shorter link" service to obfuscate. Cox is only going to resolve the IP or hostname 1 layer deep... they're not going to bother parsing outside HTTP Relays for the Location: header or anything...
>How does a copyright holder lose their right to profit if a copy goes to someone who couldn't buy it in the first place? There is no loss there. That's absurd. Where's the loss?
It's kind of like information inflation:
If EVERYONE learns an IT skill (as opposed to only those who could afford it), then won't rich kids suffer? After all they'll compete with more co-applicants when it comes to their next job.
You might as well advocate free education for all, and synchronizing public transportation routes with high-tech development zones...
>I agree with you that people should revolt against the RIAA and stop purchasing their products. But people wont.
WAIT... maybe the RIAA *WANTS* people to boycott them?
Think about it -- lower sales means PERFECT cover to lobby Congress for another copyright extension.
Sound far fetched? The RIAA already uses lower CD sales for this goal... they leave out legal MP3 sales, and neglect to factor in consumer preference for downloads to begin with.
(I realize the RIAA really *doesn't* want lower sales, but they're licensing music outside of the CD and then leaving that out of the picture).
>Think about why maybe many immigrants are engineers. Could it be because engineers can get visa's and jobs here? Maybe its because visa's are not given out to basketweavers!
Maybe.
It could also be that CHRISTIAN FUNDAMENTALISTS (aka evangelicals) have successfully dumbed down US education to the point where scarce education funds are used to teach dogma:
science funds used for 'intelligent design'
sex education funds used to teach empty 'intelligent design', aka Old Testament creationism myths.
stem cell research bans (an easy 'abortion/cloning' target, but if these people were principled they'd go after fertility clinics with equal furor).
Not to mention that the average US school spends more on football per year than they do on any of the sciences.
Other countries have education problems, but they WANT their engineers to be good (at the very least so they can mail checks back to home).
The hideous thing is the business wing of the US conservative movement understands what the fundamentalists are doing to education... and as fast as they can they are moving their investments overseas where the education is far less crippled... taking advantage of the wave of lost science jobs they are helping to create.
>And people say there should be a single desktop...
Actually, NO ONE says there should be a 'single desktop'. (Well, I'm sure some people will say anything, but...)
What developers and managers often bemoan is that there is no SINGLE API for development of desktop apps.
In fact your example of XFCE is a PERFECT example of what happens when there IS a common API. XFCE uses GTK as the engine.. as does GNOME.
The 'core' functions are all there... and then extended.
I don't think there should EVER be a single desktop -- that sounds like a nightmare on so many levels.
I would however love to see a merger between Qt and GTK, or at least much larger co-operation (and there is some already, via freedesktop, but it's all bottom-up driven.
Things may get more interesting on that front, now that Nokia owns Trolltech. I hope they can manage something without scaring the KDE folks.
>>Obviously a country that can send robots instead of soldiers to fight is way more likely to become 'war happy' - so I'm not sure this robot thing is a good idea at all.
>Not necessarily. One of the big reasons the USA lost in Vietnam was that it became politically unacceptable to have body bags coming home.
Almost right.
The US public turned against the Vietnam war when MIDDLE CLASS kids came home in body bags.
This for no better reason is why the US military went "volunteer".
Whenever a war hawk gets elected (or appointed) in the US, one of the first things they do is slash federal financial aid, because economics is a driving force of enlistment. Bush has cut college money like no other president ever has before.
You're right about the photographing body bags, but NO ONE CARES because these people "knew what they were volunteering for". Swap that economic group with conscripts for the Iraq occupation, and by now you'd have angry parents with tar, feathers and torches...
Yes, you are from BlueRay and you're giving us the "inside scoop" how unethical they are.
Suuuuurre. Here's why I think you are full of shit:
In CHRONOLOGICAL order:
1) HD-DVD breaks away from BluRay group. Attempts to reconcile were almost successful but one of the large breakaway companies refused. Some say that this company was Microsoft..
2) HD-DVD group skewed statistics and manipulated the media in ways BluRay did not.
A typical pro-HD-DVD story would:
* tout HD-DVD players as selling MORE UNITS and with faster momentum... UNTRUE
* show that some PS3 owners were ONLY buying games, then extrapolate that to assert ALL PS3 owners were buying NO movies.
* talk about Transformers sales somehow in the context of the format war.. USELESS (it's a single platform title)
* Ignore that BluRay title sales have ALWAYS outsold HD-DVD, even though there was a time when HD-DVD was the only game in town. Instead of quoting these numbers in fairness, HD-DVD articles would spin something like "PS3 owners were buying an average of 0.6 movies per player".
* The same people who cheered Microsoft's $150 million injection to Paramount were SUDDENLY crying foul when Sony greased Warner by (reportedly) $500 million. WAH.
* "numbers" like the above reprinted... and HD-DVD was successful in getting the story printed as "According to numbers released..." or other citation showing HD-DVD in the lead, and often the reprint would exclude whatever magic was used to skew the numbers. For example, betanews.com articles printing an "according to.." that ends with HD-DVD Players outselling BluRay for November 2007. You'd have to go and read the original article to see these were not overall players vs. players, but overall HD vs BluRay MINUS PS3.
It doesn't matter if some PS3 owners aren't getting movies, just as long as enough do. It's still a viable platforms for movies... I would NOT have bought mine if it wasn't also the CHEAPEST BR player. I'll probably buy 1 or 2 games per year, but between new BR movies and Netflix I will use it a lot more for movies.
The fact is that HD-DVD was doomed from the start, and BR eclipsed even when starting last. After HD-DVD folks recruited X-Box fanboys, the discussion went downhill from being about hardware specifications to who has the most free time to waste on online boards.
Microsoft invested $150 million to get Paramount to go HD-DVD exclusive for a short while. *cough* That's ife support money, not really enough to make a difference. The irony is Microsoft wants BOTH FORMATS to remain entangled so that "Windows Media On-Demand" can gain a foothold...
>>1) Someone buys band XXX's CD
>>2) They rip it and put it on PirateBay
>Frankly, you almost lost me right there. Normal people do not rip CDs and put them on the Pirate Bay.
Hmm. I agree: normal people do not rip CDs and put them on TPB.
You seem to be implying that the word I used is 'Everyone', when I used the word 'Someone'.
>>Now are you really going to suggest that a DRM free version on iTunes will CHANGE the dynamics of this very real scenario?
>Yeah, as a matter of fact, I do. How long do you think it will be before we start seeing a glut of applications that will sync up your DRMless iTunes music library with any iPod
How long? I dunno.. since day one?
EVERY application can sync DRMless music libraries with "any" iPod.
iTunes will even rip your CD's into DRM free AAC or MP3.
Reading your above 2 'points'... try posting in your native language next time. These words you use do not mean what you think they do.
>Hell, with DRMless music, I don't have to go to the Pirate Bay any more. I can just go over to a couple of my buddies' houses, and I'm good to go.
Support the politics of DRM, then pirate music at your friends? That's funny... just a tad hypercritical AND a complete 'follower'. How obtuse.
>>The question waiting to be answered is whether or not DRM free music will encourage/facilitate more "illegal" file sharing.
>No, there's no question about that, it most certainly will.
To suggest that removing DRM will increase piracy is pure falacy, and you know it or you would have followed up that opinion with some kind of supporting example. You didn't.
OK, here's the REALITY.. a perfectly everyday sequence of events:
1) Someone buys band XXX's CD
2) They rip it and put it on PirateBay
Now are you really going to suggest that a DRM free version on iTunes will CHANGE the dynamics of this very real scenario?
No it won't.
If you counter with "well, that's because CD's don't have DRM" then I'll counter that with "so fucking what.. fine, OK, you can record the album using LINE OUT or HEADPHONE like the old days"
DRM is futile unless you carry the concept all the way to the human brain.
Nope... Perhaps purchased music is dying for OTHER reasons, and piracy is just a boogeyman. Here are some reasons people buy less music:
The RIAA hates the idea of "albums" in the first place. They want SINGLES.. and they better not exceed 3 minutes one second.
It's all about radio play. There will never be another Tommy, The Wall, 2112 or Operation Mindcrime due to these RIAA member policies. Why are you surprised then that people fall into this mindset, and ONLY BUY $1 SINGLES?
(Hmm... $1 iTunes single vs $17 CD... ohmygod we lost $16 to piracy!!111)
When people buy, they are buying singles because everything else is contractual filler.
The RIAA literally discourages diversity.. they want formula based music that can be predicted... high dollar investments leaving little to chance.
The RIAA members sat on their ass regarding technology... "stereo" has been around since the 1930's, yet even CARS are capable of 4 and 5 channel sound... but they still publish in stereo. The best concert CDs are BluRay DVDs.
There are even pirate trading groups who specialize in creating AC3 5.1 channel sound from CD audio, because folks are dying for better mediums.
Digital radio on my cable box.. good enough for me. There's also this thing called XM/Sirius... yay, more music you don't have to buy!! That's not piracy... the RIAA licensed this out and the ubiquity of freely listenable music this music IS accounted for, and folks don't care to buy what's still on the radio.
Plus most people are in debt to their eyeballs, and multimedia content is easy to clip from the budget. I don't know anyone who still buys 1 album per week now (or 5 per week, or more) on a regular basis. Years ago that wasn't the case (disclaimer: maybe I'm not a whippersnapper anymore).
It will be a GOOD thing if the music industry contracts because it's a cartel that exists to bloat its ranks with middlemen who were obsolete 20 years ago. Read the 1998 Salon article on RIAA piracy of the artists, written by a very articulate Courtney Love.
Things will settle down, but maybe the record labels will be WEAKER than the artists for a change. (Although content wise, I don't see much of a music revolution while Clear Channel controls so much of the airwaves).
The whole "US Economy will be ruined" by open music is a scam. The same people spouting this belief have simply overvalued their personal investments in the RIAA member companies. If the economy goes down the toilet because of $2 DRM free downloads at iTunes, maybe it was too frail to begin with (and maybe those same DRM cheerleeders shouldn'd have cheered all our manufacturing jobs overseas, to the benefit of no one but themselves).
I don't think you got it at all.
The price of sugar in the US is fixed, AND imports of sugar are heavily taxed.
Which is fine with the sugar producers, because there is not enough sugar MANUFACTURING capacity to supply the country.
There's plenty of sugar on the shelf, but it's there because candy etc makers shy away from it due to expense.
If the price of sugar were at the world price... there would be an actual shortage for sure.
(And the capacity or potential shortage wouldn't be an issue if imports restrictions were relaxed.)
Price fixing always leads to an artificial glut or shortage, or a search for alternatives.
>If Sony wins a format war, does that mean the end times are near?
"son'ys evil cuz bluray is all DRM just go hddvd its $99!!1"
The irony is most the Sony bashers would trade one DRM format for another, and last I checked Microsoft and Sony were equally "evil". *shrugs*
Lots of online "posting" by supposed HD-DVD fans, but consistently sold fewer player or media sales compared to BluRay. Where were the HD-DVD sales?
Which makes me wonder if the MS push to split HD-DVD from BluRay, then keeping them from reconciling, then directly FUNDING $150 million to studios... that this wasn't really a Microsoft tactic to stall physical media and momentum for.... movie downloads at windowsmedia.com! (cue tada.wav)
It wasn't too long ago that MS tried the same tactic, siding with DVD+R when most of the industry went with DVD-R. Eventually we all got combo recorders, but MS held up the technology using FUD for at least 12 months.
I get my PS3 in 6 days.. can't wait! (Now if only Beer Nutz or Three Sheets were released in high def...)
About 8 years ago I worked on the SynaPix project which was also very similar to the article. The SynaFlex system could recover motion paths, direction, camera path and scene geometry automatically from video. Or you could focus on one aspect/stage of this and (such as manually tracking points to trace an object or inserting perfect geometry to match a known object such as a floor plane, thus buttressing the geometry and sometimes tracking results).
Pretty neat stuff. A pity the company outspent itself (too many goals, a >50% non-engineering staff before even a first sale - how many times has that scenario repeated itself?)
You know, I had to read your post twice, and by the tone of some replies I think others misunderstood also.
>3. Because you want to keep you clients, you port your application to Linux.
In order to get access to the proper low-level interfaces (that you imagine you need for your bean counter), you start writing some kernel support functions.
Your point is incomplete. You're not trolling here, so *I* know that you didn't intentionally leave out the bit about "At the same time, you knowingly and deliberately choose to ignore the license terms of the Linux kernel and libc library. That or your design process is so loose and anarchistic that your boss and your company lawyers have never told you it's NOT OK to violate ANYONE'S license (GPL or otherwise), so you did so and didn't tell the boss where you stole the [GPL] code from."
The ambiguity just serves to support the anti-GPL argument, which is never clear. I've never heard anyone argue the [LICENSE TYPE] is "bad" because you're not allowed to ignore the terms." because EVERYONE supports licenses, especially companies like McAfee.
>Navigation on the right, content and comments in the middle, links and tools on the right. No, that's not a newspaper layout (which have more than 3 columns, in case you've never opened one!), and it makes at least some fucking sense.
/. as '2 columns'.
You are assuming that the GP and everyone else doesn't take advantage of Preferences to get rid of that useless right column, which I did years ago and don't remember what the settings were. Perhaps the GP also surfs
(Personally, I think 3 columns for a SINGLE piece of content is stupid, but using it to frame smaller scraps/elements is perfectly OK. I mean, what are people supposed to do.. be forced into making everything one ROW the width of the screen??)
Back to the point, I agree that CSS has poor vertical support, which is the big complaint. The counter to that (and it is quite valid) is that you're designing for your monitor at something else's expense, or assumptions other's can' meet. So what, I say PROVIDED that the content remains ACCESSIBLE and MACHINE READABLE.
People DO want web apps, and they want them to operate like desktop apps. If CSS and DOM can't manage to grow like that, I already know what's going to happen... we're going to see Microsoft push something like 'Avalon' or desktop-app-XML onto the web. And you know what? People will LOVE it.. especially if IE does that and eliminates bugs that USERS care about (note I didn't say developers... MS has called them "pawns")
It's also interesting that Microsoft has been bickering with the Javascript folks, because Microsoft wants Javascript to receive no more improvements. What's Microsoft working on, and how far outside W3.org recommendations is it? Microsoft has realized that IE7 is pretty close to FF, so they can go pack to what they were working on before the emergency decision to even make an IE7.
Sorry for the rambling thoughts.. it's late and I'm distracted. Hope this makes sense.
All of the above, with economy of words:
:-)
Google is not Monsanto.
It's not due to video games, but instead we drew the ire of the Flying Spaghetti Monster. ...for getting rid of the sea pirates. And stuff. Amen!
re they more legitimate than the standard patent troll... because they have their name on a KEYBOARD? For $9, you can too.
Look at what they are claiming a patent on -- multiple 'meta' keys. LOTS of obvious, prior art here. Was there an 8-bit computer that DID NOT employ this technique for extended characters? How about most laptops, with a reduced key set.
Even Microsoft would not go after OLPC for this (although we may find they 'licensed' this patent to fund the effort, just like they licensed/funded SCO). These guys are now tied on the Evil Index... with Monsanto. I don't have words to describe how revolting this is.
>Downloads a bunch of random stuff for you directly from the publisher, and you rate it. Then it downloads more stuff based on what you like, and what other users who liked that like. Fun :)
Sounds like last.fm.
Most of the RIAA labels are limited to 30 second clips (unfortunately), but some of the same tracks and artists are available as 'live' tracks. The RIAA does not own live tracks unless they themselves published it. Some artists encourage taping of their shows and so there is a wealth of 'bootleg' show recordings.
>What happened to mankind's fascination with space?
Because in space, there are no runaway ex-CIA generals to capture, and no oil.
It's revisionist to suggest that the space race had anything to do with science or education or exploration. Sure, 99% of the people WORKING on the project felt so... but it was a military project in civilian clothing. It took a LOT of pressure by NASA workers to get one token scientist on the moon mission... and in one document, he lightheartedly referred to outsider treatment because he was an egghead and not a combat pilot.
For the price or the Iraq war, we could afford solid missions to the moon and Mars. The damage done to the present and future economy by the neo-cons like Cheney will not be understood until someone else has to pay for it. It is a sad chapter in US history that we elected these neo-cons, who had vested interests in bankrupting the USA and many of which carry "dual passports".
There will be a space race again all right... led by China. The USA will react, but will be so poor that they have to outsource the shipbuilding.
I am paranoid. I run Windows Server 2008, running as a normal user. IE 7 is configured as my default browser in enhanced security mode, which is locked down and secure.
The really paranoid admins would never surf from their server, period. For that matter there is also no desktop interface on a paranoid setup. These are potential attack vectos.
If you are that cautions, why not run your browser virtualized? just install a VMWare 'browser appliance' (or if you 'require' a Windows browser, install XP inside of Vmware, Virtual PC etc).
This is not to suggest what you do is a bad setup - it is far better than most installations. I trust FireFox, but I wouldn't surf on a server at ALL if it is a production box. A post-mortem of a resulting breach can only point back at you...
>I think it should be legal unless you're cracking someone's WEP or WPA to get in.
What you describe IS legal - your NIC *requests approval* to connect, and the "open" WAP grants it.
There is no hackery, brute force or other ill methods used.
Unfortunately, some district attorneys and police want to "grab headlines".
The fact that so-and-so was arrested for it, changes nothing. The application of the law against riders of "open networks" is bogus, and will be shown to be so when it is eventually tested in court.
If the politicians want to make a law against SHARED internet, they can try. If they want to make it against the law to OPERATE an insecure network, they can also try. While both of these would be misguided attempts, at least they would be HONEST application of the law. But it won't happen.
The fact that Joe Sixpack "checked email without purchasing coffee" outside some diner, and then gets arrested for it... these things happen because it's difficult to hold authorities accountable for their errors.
In Soviet Russia, toilet wipes you!
It's not a good match. It may WORK, but that's not the same thing.
C7 is good for embedded apps, or low-power low-heat. It's not at all responsive in the way that your USUAL overpowered desktop CPU is.
If your budget is $60 same as this, I'd get a CPU/mobo combo from NewEgg or Directron. Seriously. If you thought a 2.8Ghz Celeron would be OK, you can easily match it with a AM2 processor or an older P4. Shop around.
Why protect the advisor? You're obviously (and justifiably) upset about the waste and unfulfilled promise. It would be interesting if you had the time to Freedom Of Information request or otherwise dig up what the public record was and what advice the city received.
At the very best, you help another deployment avoid the same mistake. At worst, someone is embarrassed (big deal.. that shouldn't trump the truth).
My hometown Nashua NH was supposed to do downtown wifi. I think it was killed when Verizon cried to the state capital. The project was shut down with NOTHING to replace it.*
*(Except user-funded CDMA access, which I have on my phone.. but costs my employer $70/month for crummy 512K with high latency.).
Ah. Perhaps that explains EMI's actions then. Punishment.