Run cables all throughout Europe (if they aren't there already) and then run the cables down through Greece, Turkey and other friendly countries into the Red Sea and through to Asia or so. I see no reason why the cables have to run down the length of the Mediterranean (up until you hit Turkey or so, all the countries it would need to run through are part of the EU now so it would be easy to just draw up an EU wide set of rules for it)
Verizon will NEVER allow any phone on its network if that phone allows you to run apps Verizon hasn't given approval to. Personally, I want to see AT&T or T-Mobile spend whatever it takes to build more towers so they can match the coverage of Verizon (at least in urban areas)
To apply tax to things when they earn real income. For example, if you sell 3000 in WOW gold on ebay for US$500 (to make up an example since I don't know real values), you have to pay tax on the US$500 just like any other income. In that case you would not pay any tax at all on the ingame stuff.
The only issue comes up with currencies like the Linden Dollar that can be converted back and forth with US$ and other currencies, for those you could treat it like any other currency (presumably if I give you 500 euros as payment for something, thats still income and has to be reported as such, the same could apply to L$)
The big content providers would likely love to see a much looser patent system, then they wouldn't need to pay royalties to the patent holders of e.g. MPEG for all the content they distribute.
No, its like the gun companies refusing to sell to people who specifically state they intend to use it for crime.
When someone buys the fake Viagra on the dodgy pills site, they use their credit card. It is presumably possible for the credit card companies to identify the merchants tied to these sites in the same way as they identify online casinos in order to comply with other laws regarding those. Therefore, they could block these transactions (or cut off the merchant accounts completely if thats fesable)
Personally, I would like to see an end to the protectionism governments seem to have for aviation. Allow ANY airline that meets safety rules and etc to fly from any airport to any other airport. Get rid of the quaint 20th century ideas that domestic airlines should be based in the US and let foriegn airlines compete against the dinosaurs.
What makes ActiveState Perl different from Perl as seen on Linux et al? Why cant you just run the same Perl code from Linux on ActiveState? And if it sucks so much, why has no-one done a more straight port from the Linux code (or is that what Cygwin Perl is for?)
Write to your local MP and senators (especially write to those who hold the ballance of power in the senate). The greens have already said they will oppose this in its current form (Whether they would accept it if it was 100% opt-in and voluntary I dont know) If we can get enough people to oppose it (especially those on the liberal/national opposition in the senate) Kevin wont be able to pass the law necessary to implement the filtering.
I have no problem if the government wants to make filtering software available. Or even if they want to mandate that ISPs must make filtering software (or ISP-side filtering) available to those who want it. As long as it is opt-in, its fine with me (since I can and will choose not to use it).
Java is popular because A.Employers who are likely to employ new graduates are looking for it (more so than C and C++ these days) and B.Java hides or eliminates most of the complexity seen in C and C++ (pointers etc).
Based on what I have seen in my efforts to get employment, having "commercial experience" seems to be more important these days than having a degree. What they dont tell you is how you GET that "commercial experience".
You cant make it yourself, the schematics for the GSM radio portion are not there (because of the FCC etc, its illegal to operate a GSM radio that hasn't been approved by the FCC).
With regards to Java, from what I gather, the openjdk code is now 99% free software (mostly missing some sound parts and some stuff for SNMP IIRC, all the graphics and font bits are now free, as is all the crypto and security bits) and if you use IceTea (which takes OpenJDK as uses code from GNU java to fill in as many missing pieces as possible), its even closer.
2001 (the book, the film and the story) was basically co-written by one of the best SF authors of all time (Arthur C Clarke) and one of the best filmmakers of all time (Stanley Kubrick). Also, from what I gather, there wasnt a huge amount of involvement in the creative process by MGM (as opposed to the way most films get made today)
Wouldn't surprise me if people just didnt know that the Acela Express was a viable alternative to air travel. Plus, even with all the savings in time (no need to go out to the airport, go through security etc) there may still be other reasons to fly.
Windows Media Video DRM is standardized (or in theory it was until MS decided to go it alone with the Zune and Zune store). OMA DRM created by the Open Mobile Aliance is standardized, any mobile phone maker or content provider can sign up to it. Blu-Ray DRM is standardized, as is CSS on DVDs. The trick is convincing the content providers (netflix, blockbuster etc) to start using a standardized DRM solution (why would they want to allow you to play the videos back on a device that could also potentially play back content from their competitors)
I dont think people are arguing that the big media corps shouldn't be allowed to enforce their copyright, only that they should be using the proper means to do so (gather evidence, send a proper subpoena to the ISP or file a john doe lawsuit and then go to court and take on the copyright violator in court) instead of trying to make the ISPs act as copyright cops.
ISPs should NOT have any obligation to pass on legal notices sent by the big media corps to their customers or to act as "copyright cops" for the big media companies. Making the ISPs responsible for copyright violations on their networks is like making the electricity companies liable when someone uses their electricity for a drug lab.
If nothing else, they should drop IE5 right now. IE6 runs on all the platforms that are still supported by Microsoft so there is no reason to support IE5.
Windows 2000 is nearing the end of support anyway (where MS no longer releases security updates) if it hasn't already so Microsoft should just say "no more IE6 security updates, if you want security updates, you have to update to XP SP3 and IE7"
Then all they have is IE7 (on XP SP3, 2003 SP1, XP x64, Vista SP1, Vista SP1 x64 and 2008) to worry about.
IANAL nor do I know how UK copyright law works but why doesn't someone who owns a website (preferably one involving paid content or something) and who also has an account with BT visit their website via their BT connection, have all the inserted ads come up and then sue BT for copyright violation.
I dont know how things work in Canada but do Canadian telco regulations (and Bell rules) allow 3rd party ISPs to install their own DSLAMs in the Bell exchanges?
No, thats why you have a special license for people who are driving vehicles that big, regardless of who or what is being carried. Someone driving in a normal passenger vehicle (car, SUV, pickup, minivan etc) doesn't magically need more training or skills just because they are taking paid passengers.
What they need to do is to detect when people are using unsafe SQL queries (i.e. the ones that cause SQL injections) and warn you. Visual C++ has all kinds of options to warn if your program has potential buffer overflows or the like, why cant ASP/ASP.NET (and others) have something to warn that you are using unsafe SQL queries (and in a way that makes it clear what you need to do to fix it). More to the point, where are these idiots getting their SQL skills and why arent the resources (books, classes etc) changing the way they teach/demonstrate/talk about/etc SQL so that they only discuss the safe ways of doing it.
Also, we need managers to start caring about this problem so that they insist their database guys use safe SQL queries.
Its like you parking your car in a bad area and having it broken into/stolen time and again and yet you dont spend any money adding an alarm or other measures to make your car less likely to be broken into.
Why cant web dev languages (PHP/ASP/Java etc) and databases add language features to A.Make writing database driven web apps the RIGHT way easier than doing it the WRONG way and B.Sanitize database inputs to stop this rogue SQL before it gets run by the database?
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Run cables all throughout Europe (if they aren't there already) and then run the cables down through Greece, Turkey and other friendly countries into the Red Sea and through to Asia or so.
I see no reason why the cables have to run down the length of the Mediterranean (up until you hit Turkey or so, all the countries it would need to run through are part of the EU now so it would be easy to just draw up an EU wide set of rules for it)
Verizon will NEVER allow any phone on its network if that phone allows you to run apps Verizon hasn't given approval to.
Personally, I want to see AT&T or T-Mobile spend whatever it takes to build more towers so they can match the coverage of Verizon (at least in urban areas)
To apply tax to things when they earn real income. For example, if you sell 3000 in WOW gold on ebay for US$500 (to make up an example since I don't know real values), you have to pay tax on the US$500 just like any other income. In that case you would not pay any tax at all on the ingame stuff.
The only issue comes up with currencies like the Linden Dollar that can be converted back and forth with US$ and other currencies, for those you could treat it like any other currency (presumably if I give you 500 euros as payment for something, thats still income and has to be reported as such, the same could apply to L$)
The big content providers would likely love to see a much looser patent system, then they wouldn't need to pay royalties to the patent holders of e.g. MPEG for all the content they distribute.
No, its like the gun companies refusing to sell to people who specifically state they intend to use it for crime.
When someone buys the fake Viagra on the dodgy pills site, they use their credit card. It is presumably possible for the credit card companies to identify the merchants tied to these sites in the same way as they identify online casinos in order to comply with other laws regarding those. Therefore, they could block these transactions (or cut off the merchant accounts completely if thats fesable)
I believe Nokia, Sony and others comply with Egyptian law too and do not sell phones with GPS either.
Personally, I would like to see an end to the protectionism governments seem to have for aviation. Allow ANY airline that meets safety rules and etc to fly from any airport to any other airport. Get rid of the quaint 20th century ideas that domestic airlines should be based in the US and let foriegn airlines compete against the dinosaurs.
What makes ActiveState Perl different from Perl as seen on Linux et al? Why cant you just run the same Perl code from Linux on ActiveState? And if it sucks so much, why has no-one done a more straight port from the Linux code (or is that what Cygwin Perl is for?)
Write to your local MP and senators (especially write to those who hold the ballance of power in the senate).
The greens have already said they will oppose this in its current form (Whether they would accept it if it was 100% opt-in and voluntary I dont know)
If we can get enough people to oppose it (especially those on the liberal/national opposition in the senate) Kevin wont be able to pass the law necessary to implement the filtering.
I have no problem if the government wants to make filtering software available. Or even if they want to mandate that ISPs must make filtering software (or ISP-side filtering) available to those who want it. As long as it is opt-in, its fine with me (since I can and will choose not to use it).
Java is popular because A.Employers who are likely to employ new graduates are looking for it (more so than C and C++ these days) and B.Java hides or eliminates most of the complexity seen in C and C++ (pointers etc).
Based on what I have seen in my efforts to get employment, having "commercial experience" seems to be more important these days than having a degree. What they dont tell you is how you GET that "commercial experience".
You cant make it yourself, the schematics for the GSM radio portion are not there (because of the FCC etc, its illegal to operate a GSM radio that hasn't been approved by the FCC).
With regards to Java, from what I gather, the openjdk code is now 99% free software (mostly missing some sound parts and some stuff for SNMP IIRC, all the graphics and font bits are now free, as is all the crypto and security bits) and if you use IceTea (which takes OpenJDK as uses code from GNU java to fill in as many missing pieces as possible), its even closer.
2001 (the book, the film and the story) was basically co-written by one of the best SF authors of all time (Arthur C Clarke) and one of the best filmmakers of all time (Stanley Kubrick). Also, from what I gather, there wasnt a huge amount of involvement in the creative process by MGM (as opposed to the way most films get made today)
Wouldn't surprise me if people just didnt know that the Acela Express was a viable alternative to air travel. Plus, even with all the savings in time (no need to go out to the airport, go through security etc) there may still be other reasons to fly.
Windows Media Video DRM is standardized (or in theory it was until MS decided to go it alone with the Zune and Zune store).
OMA DRM created by the Open Mobile Aliance is standardized, any mobile phone maker or content provider can sign up to it.
Blu-Ray DRM is standardized, as is CSS on DVDs.
The trick is convincing the content providers (netflix, blockbuster etc) to start using a standardized DRM solution (why would they want to allow you to play the videos back on a device that could also potentially play back content from their competitors)
I dont think people are arguing that the big media corps shouldn't be allowed to enforce their copyright, only that they should be using the proper means to do so (gather evidence, send a proper subpoena to the ISP or file a john doe lawsuit and then go to court and take on the copyright violator in court) instead of trying to make the ISPs act as copyright cops.
ISPs should NOT have any obligation to pass on legal notices sent by the big media corps to their customers or to act as "copyright cops" for the big media companies. Making the ISPs responsible for copyright violations on their networks is like making the electricity companies liable when someone uses their electricity for a drug lab.
If nothing else, they should drop IE5 right now. IE6 runs on all the platforms that are still supported by Microsoft so there is no reason to support IE5.
Windows 2000 is nearing the end of support anyway (where MS no longer releases security updates) if it hasn't already so Microsoft should just say "no more IE6 security updates, if you want security updates, you have to update to XP SP3 and IE7"
Then all they have is IE7 (on XP SP3, 2003 SP1, XP x64, Vista SP1, Vista SP1 x64 and 2008) to worry about.
IANAL nor do I know how UK copyright law works but why doesn't someone who owns a website (preferably one involving paid content or something) and who also has an account with BT visit their website via their BT connection, have all the inserted ads come up and then sue BT for copyright violation.
I dont know how things work in Canada but do Canadian telco regulations (and Bell rules) allow 3rd party ISPs to install their own DSLAMs in the Bell exchanges?
No, thats why you have a special license for people who are driving vehicles that big, regardless of who or what is being carried. Someone driving in a normal passenger vehicle (car, SUV, pickup, minivan etc) doesn't magically need more training or skills just because they are taking paid passengers.
Good point on the ad hoc SQL thing. Be a bit hard to write, say, PhpMyAdmin using only the "safe" way of doing SQL :)
What they need to do is to detect when people are using unsafe SQL queries (i.e. the ones that cause SQL injections) and warn you. Visual C++ has all kinds of options to warn if your program has potential buffer overflows or the like, why cant ASP/ASP.NET (and others) have something to warn that you are using unsafe SQL queries (and in a way that makes it clear what you need to do to fix it). More to the point, where are these idiots getting their SQL skills and why arent the resources (books, classes etc) changing the way they teach/demonstrate/talk about/etc SQL so that they only discuss the safe ways of doing it.
Also, we need managers to start caring about this problem so that they insist their database guys use safe SQL queries.
Its like you parking your car in a bad area and having it broken into/stolen time and again and yet you dont spend any money adding an alarm or other measures to make your car less likely to be broken into.
Why cant web dev languages (PHP/ASP/Java etc) and databases add language features to A.Make writing database driven web apps the RIGHT way easier than doing it the WRONG way and B.Sanitize database inputs to stop this rogue SQL before it gets run by the database?