Make it legal to circumvent the DMCA if you have permission from the copyright holder of the work to make or use a copy. This means that, for example, it would be legal to circumvent the protection on proprietary digital cameras (those ones that you have to bring back to the shop to get the photos out of for example), proprietary formats (camera RAW files etc), mobile phones (where the phone provider has locked down picture transfer) or other locked down technologies in order to get the content you created (and therefore hold the copyright to) off the device. It would also mean that it would be legal to circumvent the protection on a device containing free software (Linux for example) in order to replace the free parts of the software (since you have permission from the copyright holder to make a copy of the software that is already on the device and permission to use a new copy of the software).
Remember that this is for parents who are lending their cars to their kids, not kids with their own cars who are getting all sorts of crap done to them.
Both Diablo II and Starcraft (along with Warcraft III) have seen very active modding communities. Will blizzard be supporting mods in Diablo III and Starcraft II? (e.g. through the release of tools, editors etc)?
I know of at least one piece of anti-copying software which specifically checks for filemon (as it was at the time, this was before process monitor appeared).
This cancellation could be a GOOD thing if you like Renegade. It means that instead of Tiberium (which is a FPS that, based on the released info, was NOTHING like renegade), people will play (and support) mods such as Renegade X, Reborn, RA:APB and RA2:AR that DO play like Renegade.
If the virus writers were smart and used something like RSA, it would be just as hard to derive the encryption key either way. No method currently exists (AFAIK) that makes cracking a RSA key any faster than a simple brute force.
And of course, if someone DID find the RSA key, the authors of the virus would release a new version with a new RSA key.
No, there is no cartel. What there is is one monopoly (Tel$tra) abusing its power and dictating to ISPs what those ISPs need to pay for access to the Tel$tra network.
To be considered a cartel, there would have to be some kind of deal done between the major players to deliberatly keep prices higher than they should be. The huge number of players in the DSL market means that that cant happen.
If there was a cartel and some kind of secret "lets keep the prices high" agreement, would we really see some of the deals coming from the likes of iiNet, Optus etc?
The Australian system is NOT a cartel system, there are at least 15 different major DSL ISPs and a whole pile of minor ones. Plus you can get various kinds of wireless from the mobile phone companies.
I dont know about anything non-standard but I do know that I have used a mini USB cable from a Sony Cybershot Digital Camera to talk to Motorola phones before (along with the Motorola drivers).
As for your Tracfone phone, its highly likely that you would be able to find all the things you need to get photos off it (including the drivers) available for download somewhere. Then you just need the mini USB cable.
It means that when the network is congested, heavy users get sent to the back of the queue. But when its not congested, you can use all the bandwidth you like for BitTorrent, VoIP, YouTube and whatever else.
As for the 250GB cap, if you need more than 250GB per month buy a business class package or something.
Motorola dont make their connectors proprietary. And if you buy one of their GSM linux based phones (unsure about other phones like 3G) you can access it via USB mass storage and put normal MP3 files on for ringtones and take normal JPG files off for pictures.
I have a Motorola Z6 and I can access it as a standard mass storage device, a USB printing device (for photo kiosks I guess) or in "media sync" mode (which may be a Motorola invention or may be a Microsoft invention, I dont know). The phone included a copy of Motorola Phone tools in the box along with a standard USB cable.
And I can plug it into the PC via USB, fire up phone tools and use it as a modem (with internet apps on the PC talking over the GPRS connection)
Some companies (Motorola for example) have adopted mini USB for charging and power (which is good), others such as Nokia continue to use proprietary connectors.
Your proposal is what ISPs here in Australia do and it works great, most ISPs have different speeds (256k, 512k, 1.5mbps, 8mbps, ADSL2 where available etc) and different caps (10gb, 20gb, 50gb or whatever)
Its possible to cause major injury to someone by bashing them with a cricket bat, does that mean we should ban all videos featuring cricket? You can use all kinds of power tools to hurt and even kill someone (saws, grills, grinders etc), does that mean we should ban woodworking videos featuring these tools?
The windows patch may not necessarily work on the mac if the mac version of Spore is like the mac version of C&C3 and contains programmable pixel and vertex shaders that are customized for the mac version.
The portions of the international arms control treaties of the postwar era dealing with encryption (the same ones that Phil Zimmerman violated when he first released PGP to the world) came about because the allies saw firsthand how encryption can change the face of war (and how they need to make sure that the new breed of computer based encryption was something THEY had but the bad guys did not)
The obvious question is, why dont Ford and GM and Chrysler simply threaten to move all production to non-union areas (whether thats Mexico, some other part of the US or whatever else) unless the unions agree to changes. Ford, GM and Chrysler could then totally redo all their operations to become more like Toyota, Honda and Nissan.
Fact is, unless the unions change, the big 3 will go out of business or move offshore anyway.
I have owned 3 different Motorola phones and all 3 have used mini USB for charging. All 3 have included or provided a wall-wart charger with a mini USB plug on the end that can charge the phone with no computer needed
A new law is needed that forces companies to disclose (to the affected customers at a minimum) any time that data breaches have occurred. This then allows people to e.g. check their credit card statements more carefully in case their CC# has been used by whoever hacked the database or whatever.
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Make it legal to circumvent the DMCA if you have permission from the copyright holder of the work to make or use a copy. This means that, for example, it would be legal to circumvent the protection on proprietary digital cameras (those ones that you have to bring back to the shop to get the photos out of for example), proprietary formats (camera RAW files etc), mobile phones (where the phone provider has locked down picture transfer) or other locked down technologies in order to get the content you created (and therefore hold the copyright to) off the device. It would also mean that it would be legal to circumvent the protection on a device containing free software (Linux for example) in order to replace the free parts of the software (since you have permission from the copyright holder to make a copy of the software that is already on the device and permission to use a new copy of the software).
Remember that this is for parents who are lending their cars to their kids, not kids with their own cars who are getting all sorts of crap done to them.
Both Diablo II and Starcraft (along with Warcraft III) have seen very active modding communities. Will blizzard be supporting mods in Diablo III and Starcraft II? (e.g. through the release of tools, editors etc)?
I know of at least one piece of anti-copying software which specifically checks for filemon (as it was at the time, this was before process monitor appeared).
This cancellation could be a GOOD thing if you like Renegade.
It means that instead of Tiberium (which is a FPS that, based on the released info, was NOTHING like renegade), people will play (and support) mods such as Renegade X, Reborn, RA:APB and RA2:AR that DO play like Renegade.
If the virus writers were smart and used something like RSA, it would be just as hard to derive the encryption key either way. No method currently exists (AFAIK) that makes cracking a RSA key any faster than a simple brute force.
And of course, if someone DID find the RSA key, the authors of the virus would release a new version with a new RSA key.
No, there is no cartel. What there is is one monopoly (Tel$tra) abusing its power and dictating to ISPs what those ISPs need to pay for access to the Tel$tra network.
To be considered a cartel, there would have to be some kind of deal done between the major players to deliberatly keep prices higher than they should be. The huge number of players in the DSL market means that that cant happen.
If there was a cartel and some kind of secret "lets keep the prices high" agreement, would we really see some of the deals coming from the likes of iiNet, Optus etc?
The Australian system is NOT a cartel system, there are at least 15 different major DSL ISPs and a whole pile of minor ones. Plus you can get various kinds of wireless from the mobile phone companies.
I dont know about anything non-standard but I do know that I have used a mini USB cable from a Sony Cybershot Digital Camera to talk to Motorola phones before (along with the Motorola drivers).
As for your Tracfone phone, its highly likely that you would be able to find all the things you need to get photos off it (including the drivers) available for download somewhere. Then you just need the mini USB cable.
Per http://tech.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=974853&threshold=0&commentsort=0&mode=thread&cid=25143883 (an email from a Comcast engineer) the traffic management will only happen if the head end network port approaches full utilization (the "near congestion state" they refer to)
It means that when the network is congested, heavy users get sent to the back of the queue. But when its not congested, you can use all the bandwidth you like for BitTorrent, VoIP, YouTube and whatever else.
As for the 250GB cap, if you need more than 250GB per month buy a business class package or something.
Motorola dont make their connectors proprietary. And if you buy one of their GSM linux based phones (unsure about other phones like 3G) you can access it via USB mass storage and put normal MP3 files on for ringtones and take normal JPG files off for pictures.
I have a Motorola Z6 and I can access it as a standard mass storage device, a USB printing device (for photo kiosks I guess) or in "media sync" mode (which may be a Motorola invention or may be a Microsoft invention, I dont know). The phone included a copy of Motorola Phone tools in the box along with a standard USB cable.
And I can plug it into the PC via USB, fire up phone tools and use it as a modem (with internet apps on the PC talking over the GPRS connection)
Some companies (Motorola for example) have adopted mini USB for charging and power (which is good), others such as Nokia continue to use proprietary connectors.
Your proposal is what ISPs here in Australia do and it works great, most ISPs have different speeds (256k, 512k, 1.5mbps, 8mbps, ADSL2 where available etc) and different caps (10gb, 20gb, 50gb or whatever)
Its possible to cause major injury to someone by bashing them with a cricket bat, does that mean we should ban all videos featuring cricket? You can use all kinds of power tools to hurt and even kill someone (saws, grills, grinders etc), does that mean we should ban woodworking videos featuring these tools?
The windows patch may not necessarily work on the mac if the mac version of Spore is like the mac version of C&C3 and contains programmable pixel and vertex shaders that are customized for the mac version.
Its not a legal grey area, distributing anything linked to the libraries in the XDK is a clear violation of copyright law.
Not to mention the complete LACK of ANYTHING from the land down under (Australia) in ANY guitar/band type game that I have seen :(
Lets all use this as an example next time the boss suggests moving some business critical stuff to .NET...
The portions of the international arms control treaties of the postwar era dealing with encryption (the same ones that Phil Zimmerman violated when he first released PGP to the world) came about because the allies saw firsthand how encryption can change the face of war (and how they need to make sure that the new breed of computer based encryption was something THEY had but the bad guys did not)
The obvious question is, why dont Ford and GM and Chrysler simply threaten to move all production to non-union areas (whether thats Mexico, some other part of the US or whatever else) unless the unions agree to changes. Ford, GM and Chrysler could then totally redo all their operations to become more like Toyota, Honda and Nissan.
Fact is, unless the unions change, the big 3 will go out of business or move offshore anyway.
I have owned 3 different Motorola phones and all 3 have used mini USB for charging. All 3 have included or provided a wall-wart charger with a mini USB plug on the end that can charge the phone with no computer needed
A new law is needed that forces companies to disclose (to the affected customers at a minimum) any time that data breaches have occurred. This then allows people to e.g. check their credit card statements more carefully in case their CC# has been used by whoever hacked the database or whatever.
If AT&T and T-Mobile could legally and technically ban use of OpenMoko phones on their network, they would do it.