Living off campus is not always an option if you are at one of the colleges that have the (IMO brain dead) policy that new students must live on campus for the first few years (why do they have such stupid policies anyway?)
The way to go with P2P is to throttle it at the border between the dorm networks and the rest of campus but allow it to go freely on the dorm networks. That encourages sharing to take place inside the dorm network (i.e. people will try and share shit locally instead of pulling it down over expensive off-campus links)
As evidenced by the German Index that restricts the sale of all kinds of media (and has been responsible for self-censorship of all kinds of entertainment media released in germany for decades), either the government doesn't listen to the people on matters of censorship or (more likely), they do listen to the people and (as is so often the case in our modern society), the people with the loudest voice are those in favor of censorship and restrictions.
If you are paying me to come into an office every day and write code for you, you own the stuff I do whilst I am in the office and you are paying me. You should NOT have any claim to the ideas I work on when I am not in the office and being paid by you. If you want to claim ownership of the ideas I have on the weekend when I am not being paid by you, forget it.
The solution to the glass problem is to get the security film applied (they make stuff thats like car window tint only it holds the glass together so they cant smash it out), you can get it in clear and tinted IIRC.
Hummer is surviving because of the buyout by the Chinese. Plus, GM isn't "dead" by any stretch of the imagination. The bankruptcy allows them to reorganize, shed dead weight (like Hummer and Saab and all those dealerships) and come out of it with a plan to make the company profitable again (which hopefully includes building the Volt and other cars on the same tech and selling the things in as many countries as possible including Australia)
Here in Australia, I have seen beer in both glass bottles and aluminum cans. Never seen beer in plastic bottles. Only time I have seen alcohol in plastic containers is cheap cask wine.
This is Australia and its different to the US. There is no requirement to live in student housing. Some choose to do so because it may be cheaper than other options.
The US requirement to live on-campus has always seemed bizzare to me.
If the expert is only allowed to look for music files, store your music as video clips with empty/blank video streams. Such files would even play on iPhones and iPods touch/video/classic/nano Should be easy to rig up a patch to FFMPEG that can convert a MP3 file into an AVI or MPEG container with MPEG layer 3 audio and an empty video stream in whichever codec will produce the smallest filesize (and is supported on your player/portable device of choice). Should even be possible to have it done without re-compressing the MP3 (so no loss of quality)
Since the files would have.mpg or.avi extension and would have MPEG/AVI signatures, even if the expert ran a signature check to look for MP3 audio files stored with another name by searching for the signature that specifies it as a MP3 file (I don't know if the court rules would allow this or not), they still wouldnt find any audio files.
Article 2. No network provider may constrain or restrict access to the Internet in any way, shape, or form other than agreed-upon access speeds unless such constraints/restrictions are required by law (i.e. ISPs being forced to take action by a legal order from law enforcement) or are required to stop actions that are negatively impacting on the network providers network
The last bit allows ISPs to block viruses and malware (e.g. cut someone off who is part of a DDOS attack and needs to be cut off because they are flooding th ISPs network or block spam zombies)
Article 3. No individual shall be held liable for effects of malware or malicious code unknowingly run on a personal computer unless they were involved in the creation or dissemination of the malware or malicious code.
This change ensures that if you create or distribute malware, you cant claim "I didn't know my virus was running on that computer, therefore I can't be held liable for it"
I dont really agree with article 4, it puts a chilling effect on software developers. A better way to write this one would be: Article 4. A company that produces and sells closed source software for use on computers must disclose the existence of (if not the details of) any vulnerabilities discovered in their software and is prohibited from taking any action (under the DMCA or otherwise) against any person carrying out security research on their product or disclosing the findings of that research. In addition, software vendors must patch security holes in their product.
This clause ensures that security research can continue
Article 5, yes I agree on the software front (source code for breathalysers, voting machines, speed cameras etc) should be available. But hardware, no, not unless its a specific part created for the device (so if its a sensor specifically designed to measure alcohol, yes, make that open, but if its just a general purpose part like a NAND gate or a Microprocessor, no, it doesn't need to be open source)
Agree with Article 6
Add some more: Article 7. No network provider may modify any network traffic unless such modification is part of the normal operation of the network.
This clause prevents ISPs from doing DNS hijacking, web page modifications (inserting ads into pages for example) and other such stuff. It would in no way prevent operation of transparent web page caches (which many ISPs provide)
Article 8. No network provider shall be allowed to provide any customer details (including details linking an IP address with a customer account) to anyone unless they are authorized by the customer to provide that information, have a valid law enforcement order (warrant etc) or a valid order from a court of law. (this prevents the RIAA/MPAA/etc from simply asking ISPs to provide details of "alleged" file sharers)
Article 9. Any software, hardware or technology produced by the government or produced at the using government money (including research carried out using government money) will be freely available for everyone to use unless there is a legitimate need to keep it secret (e.g. military hardware or secret spy software installed on a computer in a foriegn government somewhere)
Article 10. Anyone who is holding personal data (including addresses, credit card numbers, social security numbers, bank account details and health details) will be required to notify the public (and more specifically anyone affected) if they have evidence that any of the data they are holding may have been tampered with or accessed without permission. All companies holding such data will be required to take reasonable steps to ensure that the data they hold is kept secure, including taking any reasonable steps to prevent phishing and password theft (for example, anyone handling this data must ensure that the data is encrypted as it travels from the users PC to the companies servers)
Article 11. All data produced by the government and made available to the public will
I think the real problem with the SEGWAY is that so many local authorities banned or restricted the thing, mostly because it goes too fast to be safe on a footpath (much faster than bikes, skates, skateboards, pedestrians etc) and too slow to be safe on the road with cars, motorbikes, scooters etc
The real question at this point is what advantages an Itanium gives you over a Core I7 Quad (or whatever). And what advantages it gives you over other high-end CPUs (POWER, SPARC etc).
I don't think Palm lost out (go see all the buzz about the Palm Pre), I think handwriting recognition in general has lost out in favor of QWERTY keyboards (both physical and virtual).
Forget endless models of guitar, drum kit, bass etc. Someone just make a keyboard peripheral for these music games, thats about the only thing that will get me interested...
You forgot to mention traveling on an airplane, traveling on a coach, traveling on Amtrak, holding a bank account, gambling at a casino (they have to take your details so they can tell the IRS if you win and need to pay income tax on that win IIRC) or owning a firearm.
Start setting up manufacturing capacity in Mexico to make things like kitchenware, toys, computer keyboards and other things that are currently being made in China. I dont know what sort of wages you could pay a Mexican vs what you could pay someone in China to do the same job but I suspect that once you factor in the boat trip from China vs the truck ride from Mexico, the total cost to produce, say, a plastic container in Mexico would be cheaper than producing the same container in China. Assuming that is the case, companies like Wal-Mart could make more profit, lower their prices or both. So it has the advantage of giving Mexicans a job so they have less reason to come to the USA, the advantage of potentially lower mfg costs for these goods and it cuts China out of the equation.
Don't want the church to try and bury anything that discredits the bible the way they did to the discoveries of Jean-Francois Champollion in Egypt in the 1820s
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Except that the link in TFA for the CSA clearly says "Remove Network Bridging" which would include Internet Connection Sharing.
Living off campus is not always an option if you are at one of the colleges that have the (IMO brain dead) policy that new students must live on campus for the first few years (why do they have such stupid policies anyway?)
The way to go with P2P is to throttle it at the border between the dorm networks and the rest of campus but allow it to go freely on the dorm networks. That encourages sharing to take place inside the dorm network (i.e. people will try and share shit locally instead of pulling it down over expensive off-campus links)
Didn't iTunes go DRM free for all their music?
Or is there still music on iTunes thats DRM protected?
As evidenced by the German Index that restricts the sale of all kinds of media (and has been responsible for self-censorship of all kinds of entertainment media released in germany for decades), either the government doesn't listen to the people on matters of censorship or (more likely), they do listen to the people and (as is so often the case in our modern society), the people with the loudest voice are those in favor of censorship and restrictions.
And how to be lumberjacks.
If you are paying me to come into an office every day and write code for you, you own the stuff I do whilst I am in the office and you are paying me. You should NOT have any claim to the ideas I work on when I am not in the office and being paid by you. If you want to claim ownership of the ideas I have on the weekend when I am not being paid by you, forget it.
The solution to the glass problem is to get the security film applied (they make stuff thats like car window tint only it holds the glass together so they cant smash it out), you can get it in clear and tinted IIRC.
Hummer is surviving because of the buyout by the Chinese.
Plus, GM isn't "dead" by any stretch of the imagination. The bankruptcy allows them to reorganize, shed dead weight (like Hummer and Saab and all those dealerships) and come out of it with a plan to make the company profitable again (which hopefully includes building the Volt and other cars on the same tech and selling the things in as many countries as possible including Australia)
OS/2 for Windows? You mean there was actually a time when Microsoft and IBM WEREN'T at each others throats?
Since Google is using Webkit for the rendering engine, using QT for the linux version makes sense (especially now that its LGPL)
Go buy your DRM free content from Amazon MP3 store, Wal-Mart MP3 store or iTunes.
Oh wait, you are talking about video content (TV and movies), right?
Here in Australia, I have seen beer in both glass bottles and aluminum cans. Never seen beer in plastic bottles. Only time I have seen alcohol in plastic containers is cheap cask wine.
This is Australia and its different to the US. There is no requirement to live in student housing. Some choose to do so because it may be cheaper than other options.
The US requirement to live on-campus has always seemed bizzare to me.
If the expert is only allowed to look for music files, store your music as video clips with empty/blank video streams.
Such files would even play on iPhones and iPods touch/video/classic/nano
Should be easy to rig up a patch to FFMPEG that can convert a MP3 file into an AVI or MPEG container with MPEG layer 3 audio and an empty video stream in whichever codec will produce the smallest filesize (and is supported on your player/portable device of choice). Should even be possible to have it done without re-compressing the MP3 (so no loss of quality)
Since the files would have .mpg or .avi extension and would have MPEG/AVI signatures, even if the expert ran a signature check to look for MP3 audio files stored with another name by searching for the signature that specifies it as a MP3 file (I don't know if the court rules would allow this or not), they still wouldnt find any audio files.
Article 1 is good, I like that.
Article 2. No network provider may constrain or restrict access to the Internet in any way, shape, or form other than agreed-upon access speeds unless such constraints/restrictions are required by law (i.e. ISPs being forced to take action by a legal order from law enforcement) or are required to stop actions that are negatively impacting on the network providers network
The last bit allows ISPs to block viruses and malware (e.g. cut someone off who is part of a DDOS attack and needs to be cut off because they are flooding th ISPs network or block spam zombies)
Article 3. No individual shall be held liable for effects of malware or malicious code unknowingly run on a personal computer unless they were involved in the creation or dissemination of the malware or malicious code.
This change ensures that if you create or distribute malware, you cant claim "I didn't know my virus was running on that computer, therefore I can't be held liable for it"
I dont really agree with article 4, it puts a chilling effect on software developers. A better way to write this one would be:
Article 4. A company that produces and sells closed source software for use on computers must disclose the existence of (if not the details of) any vulnerabilities discovered in their software and is prohibited from taking any action (under the DMCA or otherwise) against any person carrying out security research on their product or disclosing the findings of that research. In addition, software vendors must patch security holes in their product.
This clause ensures that security research can continue
Article 5, yes I agree on the software front (source code for breathalysers, voting machines, speed cameras etc) should be available. But hardware, no, not unless its a specific part created for the device (so if its a sensor specifically designed to measure alcohol, yes, make that open, but if its just a general purpose part like a NAND gate or a Microprocessor, no, it doesn't need to be open source)
Agree with Article 6
Add some more:
Article 7. No network provider may modify any network traffic unless such modification is part of the normal operation of the network.
This clause prevents ISPs from doing DNS hijacking, web page modifications (inserting ads into pages for example) and other such stuff. It would in no way prevent operation of transparent web page caches (which many ISPs provide)
Article 8. No network provider shall be allowed to provide any customer details (including details linking an IP address with a customer account) to anyone unless they are authorized by the customer to provide that information, have a valid law enforcement order (warrant etc) or a valid order from a court of law. (this prevents the RIAA/MPAA/etc from simply asking ISPs to provide details of "alleged" file sharers)
Article 9. Any software, hardware or technology produced by the government or produced at the using government money (including research carried out using government money) will be freely available for everyone to use unless there is a legitimate need to keep it secret (e.g. military hardware or secret spy software installed on a computer in a foriegn government somewhere)
Article 10. Anyone who is holding personal data (including addresses, credit card numbers, social security numbers, bank account details and health details) will be required to notify the public (and more specifically anyone affected) if they have evidence that any of the data they are holding may have been tampered with or accessed without permission. All companies holding such data will be required to take reasonable steps to ensure that the data they hold is kept secure, including taking any reasonable steps to prevent phishing and password theft (for example, anyone handling this data must ensure that the data is encrypted as it travels from the users PC to the companies servers)
Article 11. All data produced by the government and made available to the public will
The real reason Apple went with Intel is that IBM couldn't deliver a G5 chip with low enough power consumption for laptops.
I think the real problem with the SEGWAY is that so many local authorities banned or restricted the thing, mostly because it goes too fast to be safe on a footpath (much faster than bikes, skates, skateboards, pedestrians etc) and too slow to be safe on the road with cars, motorbikes, scooters etc
The real question at this point is what advantages an Itanium gives you over a Core I7 Quad (or whatever). And what advantages it gives you over other high-end CPUs (POWER, SPARC etc).
I don't think Palm lost out (go see all the buzz about the Palm Pre), I think handwriting recognition in general has lost out in favor of QWERTY keyboards (both physical and virtual).
Forget endless models of guitar, drum kit, bass etc.
Someone just make a keyboard peripheral for these music games, thats about the only thing that will get me interested...
You forgot to mention traveling on an airplane, traveling on a coach, traveling on Amtrak, holding a bank account, gambling at a casino (they have to take your details so they can tell the IRS if you win and need to pay income tax on that win IIRC) or owning a firearm.
Start setting up manufacturing capacity in Mexico to make things like kitchenware, toys, computer keyboards and other things that are currently being made in China. I dont know what sort of wages you could pay a Mexican vs what you could pay someone in China to do the same job but I suspect that once you factor in the boat trip from China vs the truck ride from Mexico, the total cost to produce, say, a plastic container in Mexico would be cheaper than producing the same container in China. Assuming that is the case, companies like Wal-Mart could make more profit, lower their prices or both.
So it has the advantage of giving Mexicans a job so they have less reason to come to the USA, the advantage of potentially lower mfg costs for these goods and it cuts China out of the equation.
Don't want the church to try and bury anything that discredits the bible the way they did to the discoveries of Jean-Francois Champollion in Egypt in the 1820s
The films and the overall "Ghostbusters" IP are in fact owned by Sony and Columbia Tristar. (a division of Sony)