The more interesting statistic is the number of products being shipped that use open source code (e.g. GPL) where they are violating the license, have not released any of the code they are required to and have not acknowledged their use of open source code (sometimes they will comply after a lot of pressure, sometimes they never comply)
It is the carriers who refuse to allow full un-sandboxed native SDKs for phones (such as the motorola linux phones) and insist on DRM and other crap, usually sighting some BS about open phones being a "security risk to the network"
If there was a security risk to the network from open phones, the FCC would not have given certification to the FIC Neo1973 and it would be illegal to use one in the US.
Someone should do what was done in the lead-up to the Iraq war (where Bush/Blair/Howard deliberatly made it seem like Saddam was a lot more of a threat than he really was) and come up with some evidence linking all this crap to terrorists. Then the US will have no choice but to do something about it:)
It may sound bad but I actually WANT something like this to be created such that it will spread with the full force of Code Red, Nimda, Blaster, Storm and other massive attacks. 1000s of people and organizations worldwide (some of whom are important and/or have lost important data) would be hit and the world might actually start giving a stuff about computer security.
Its clear from the DTrace source from Apple that this is intentional. The OS has a "this app cannot be debugged" flag and they deliberatly made the decision that "cannot be debugged" == "cannot be DTraced" Most likely they are trying to prevent tracing/debugging/reverse engineering of apps like iTunes and QuickTime that host ITMS DRM content.
With regard to the ringtones, dont blame Apple, blame the screwed up copyright law where you have to pay one set of royalties to get a license to play a song on a portable music player but a totally different set of royalties to play that same song on that same portable music player just because an external stimulus has triggered.
All 3 ISPs are cable companies with heavy investment in distribution of content from the major media companies. Distribution that is threatened both by piracy and by "free" content being distributed on line.
Even in America, bandwidth isn't free. ISPs cant go on offering "unlimited" bandwidth anymore, they really have 3 choices: 1.Tell people that they only get a certain amount of bandwidth per month (i.e. the.au model) and charge people based on that number 2.Give people "unlimited" bandwidth (with no caps) but limit their usage (blocking BitTorrent for example) so they cant actually USE the bandwidth they are given (i.e. the Comcast model) or 3.Give people totally unlimited bandwidth with no restrictions on BitTorrent etc and watch as the ISP goes out of business because everyone is using far more bandwidth than they are paying for (and the ISP doesn't have enough money to pay its bandwidth bills)
We have this in Australia and despite those who say "its stupid", it does actually WORK. Combining fixed caps (e.g. "you get 40GB per month on this plan and once you use it, you drop down to dialup speeds/have to pay for more") with QoS so that BitTorrent and other bandwidth hogs are sent to the back of the queue is the correct solution to (as Comcast calls it) the "P2P menace"
eBay will usually remove an item if there is a threat of a lawsuit over it (MMO gold, Scientology e-meters, OEM copies of windows etc) They will generally also remove an item if it violates the law (i.e. stuff which is illegal to own or illegal to sell in the way its being sold like scalpers selling event tickets in states where doing so is illegal)
The bad guys would probably use a service like Western Union and send some flunky to pick up the money (so that no-one has records of who the bad guys are)
Pitch it to a studio (who will most likely say no) then when the studio gets bought out a short time later, come back and claim they said yes the first time.
Its how Lucas got his first film (THX 1138) made. (he pitched it to Warner Bros who said no, then Warner Bros was brought out by someone else, then Lucas went back and said that Warner had said yes pre-buyout and got enough money to make his film)
Here in Perth, I have found that often people seem to be more willing to wait for someone who has worked in the industry for 3 years (and has 1-2 years doing work with the specific technology that they are using) than to hire someone with skills but no industry experience (like me) and train them up. Getting a programming job in Perth with no prior commercial programming experience is almost impossible:(
Basically you had the cable companies pushing one option and the likes of TiVO pushing another option.
The TiVO proposal involved defining standard data formats for video on demand, pay per view, TV guide, that thing where they map multiple channels to one physical channel space on the cable etc. The head end would only send data to the device which would interpret it and display it using a UI designed by the device manufacturer.
The cable companies proposed (and seem to have gotten) that all boxes supporting the 2-way functionality implement a custom Java variant and that the programs and data for 2-way functionality are all delivered from the head end. The cable companies wanted this because A.They can then control the look and feel of the UI for the TV guide, video-on-demand, pay-per-view etc and B.They are able to use OCAP as a platform for all the interactive voting, interactive games and other stuff (which makes the cable companies even MORE money than they already get from subscription fees and advertising)
The real issue is which airline you are flying. Some are better than others. Unfortunatly, because national governments like to protect the dinosaur airlines from competition by better airlines (overseas carriers looking to enter the market, startups who think they can draw business away from the big boys), often the airlines that have the good stuff (better food, better seats, better entertainment etc) dont fly the route you want to fly.
If aviation worldwide was deregulated and e.g. foreign airlines such as Singapore Airlines and QANTAS were allowed to fly domestic routes inside the US, the dinosaur airlines that offer the crappy service like United and American would have to get better or go bust.
(disclaimer: I have never flown on any US carrier but I have read enough about how US carriers suck from people who have)
This is different to google, these 2 sites were linking specifically to mostly infringing content (and from a quick google, they were clearly indicating the fact that they link to feature films and TV shows, both things that generally imply content produced by someone who isn't going to give a random web site permission to host their content)
Google links to anything and everything.
If I run a newspaper and someone places a classified ad to sell a stolen TV, I am not breaking any law by running that ad. (especially if, like google, I have no idea the TV was stolen). But if the majority of the classified ads in the paper are for stolen items and/or I was promoting the use of the paper to sell stolen goods, I would be in trouble.
No, this is not competition for the telcos. This is a way for the telcos to provide something better than dialup to customers who cant get anything else (DSL, cable etc)
Who do I write to here in Australia to ensure that we dont sign on to crap like this? Kevin Rudd? My local federal MP?
Although somehow I think that all the letters in the world wont make one iota of difference once Hollywood says "we will not shoot a single frame of film in any country that does not sign this treaty"
Let me know if they actually decide to get some DECENT music... How can they make 7 games in the series (6 if you dont count the Aerosmith one) and not have a single AC/DC song (for those who dont know, AC/DC are the best ever Australian band when it comes to playing guitars, drums and rock music fast and loud)
Use GTK# if you want a cross-platform UI toolkit based on.NET.
This work on WinForms is intended to provide a way to run.NET applications written for Windows on top of Mono. And for doing that, it has to be compatible with the Microsoft implementation of WinForms.
What I want to know is why they didnt just make IE7 a mandatory part of SP3 in much the same way as IE got the security improvements in XP SP2 (firewall, pop-up blocker etc)
Even if this passes, it wont necessarily help. The lawyers for the big telcos/cable companies will spend the next decade in courtrooms coast to coast trying to argue for their interpretation of what "provide service in a non-discriminatory manner" actually means.
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You dont need any encryption keys to watch ATSC digital signals, in fact ATSC is (IIRC) documented online completely.
Command & Conquer Tiberian Sun and Command & Conquer Red Alert 2 used Voxel based 3d models for various vehicles in the game.
The more interesting statistic is the number of products being shipped that use open source code (e.g. GPL) where they are violating the license, have not released any of the code they are required to and have not acknowledged their use of open source code (sometimes they will comply after a lot of pressure, sometimes they never comply)
It is the carriers who refuse to allow full un-sandboxed native SDKs for phones (such as the motorola linux phones) and insist on DRM and other crap, usually sighting some BS about open phones being a "security risk to the network"
If there was a security risk to the network from open phones, the FCC would not have given certification to the FIC Neo1973 and it would be illegal to use one in the US.
Someone should do what was done in the lead-up to the Iraq war (where Bush/Blair/Howard deliberatly made it seem like Saddam was a lot more of a threat than he really was) and come up with some evidence linking all this crap to terrorists. Then the US will have no choice but to do something about it :)
It may sound bad but I actually WANT something like this to be created such that it will spread with the full force of Code Red, Nimda, Blaster, Storm and other massive attacks. 1000s of people and organizations worldwide (some of whom are important and/or have lost important data) would be hit and the world might actually start giving a stuff about computer security.
Its clear from the DTrace source from Apple that this is intentional. The OS has a "this app cannot be debugged" flag and they deliberatly made the decision that "cannot be debugged" == "cannot be DTraced"
Most likely they are trying to prevent tracing/debugging/reverse engineering of apps like iTunes and QuickTime that host ITMS DRM content.
With regard to the ringtones, dont blame Apple, blame the screwed up copyright law where you have to pay one set of royalties to get a license to play a song on a portable music player but a totally different set of royalties to play that same song on that same portable music player just because an external stimulus has triggered.
All 3 ISPs are cable companies with heavy investment in distribution of content from the major media companies. Distribution that is threatened both by piracy and by "free" content being distributed on line.
Even in America, bandwidth isn't free. .au model) and charge people based on that number 2.Give people "unlimited" bandwidth (with no caps) but limit their usage (blocking BitTorrent for example) so they cant actually USE the bandwidth they are given (i.e. the Comcast model) or 3.Give people totally unlimited bandwidth with no restrictions on BitTorrent etc and watch as the ISP goes out of business because everyone is using far more bandwidth than they are paying for (and the ISP doesn't have enough money to pay its bandwidth bills)
ISPs cant go on offering "unlimited" bandwidth anymore, they really have 3 choices: 1.Tell people that they only get a certain amount of bandwidth per month (i.e. the
We have this in Australia and despite those who say "its stupid", it does actually WORK. Combining fixed caps (e.g. "you get 40GB per month on this plan and once you use it, you drop down to dialup speeds/have to pay for more") with QoS so that BitTorrent and other bandwidth hogs are sent to the back of the queue is the correct solution to (as Comcast calls it) the "P2P menace"
eBay will usually remove an item if there is a threat of a lawsuit over it (MMO gold, Scientology e-meters, OEM copies of windows etc)
They will generally also remove an item if it violates the law (i.e. stuff which is illegal to own or illegal to sell in the way its being sold like scalpers selling event tickets in states where doing so is illegal)
The bad guys would probably use a service like Western Union and send some flunky to pick up the money (so that no-one has records of who the bad guys are)
Pitch it to a studio (who will most likely say no) then when the studio gets bought out a short time later, come back and claim they said yes the first time.
Its how Lucas got his first film (THX 1138) made. (he pitched it to Warner Bros who said no, then Warner Bros was brought out by someone else, then Lucas went back and said that Warner had said yes pre-buyout and got enough money to make his film)
Here in Perth, I have found that often people seem to be more willing to wait for someone who has worked in the industry for 3 years (and has 1-2 years doing work with the specific technology that they are using) than to hire someone with skills but no industry experience (like me) and train them up. :(
Getting a programming job in Perth with no prior commercial programming experience is almost impossible
Basically you had the cable companies pushing one option and the likes of TiVO pushing another option.
The TiVO proposal involved defining standard data formats for video on demand, pay per view, TV guide, that thing where they map multiple channels to one physical channel space on the cable etc. The head end would only send data to the device which would interpret it and display it using a UI designed by the device manufacturer.
The cable companies proposed (and seem to have gotten) that all boxes supporting the 2-way functionality implement a custom Java variant and that the programs and data for 2-way functionality are all delivered from the head end. The cable companies wanted this because A.They can then control the look and feel of the UI for the TV guide, video-on-demand, pay-per-view etc and B.They are able to use OCAP as a platform for all the interactive voting, interactive games and other stuff (which makes the cable companies even MORE money than they already get from subscription fees and advertising)
The real issue is which airline you are flying. Some are better than others. Unfortunatly, because national governments like to protect the dinosaur airlines from competition by better airlines (overseas carriers looking to enter the market, startups who think they can draw business away from the big boys), often the airlines that have the good stuff (better food, better seats, better entertainment etc) dont fly the route you want to fly.
If aviation worldwide was deregulated and e.g. foreign airlines such as Singapore Airlines and QANTAS were allowed to fly domestic routes inside the US, the dinosaur airlines that offer the crappy service like United and American would have to get better or go bust.
(disclaimer: I have never flown on any US carrier but I have read enough about how US carriers suck from people who have)
This is different to google, these 2 sites were linking specifically to mostly infringing content (and from a quick google, they were clearly indicating the fact that they link to feature films and TV shows, both things that generally imply content produced by someone who isn't going to give a random web site permission to host their content)
Google links to anything and everything.
If I run a newspaper and someone places a classified ad to sell a stolen TV, I am not breaking any law by running that ad. (especially if, like google, I have no idea the TV was stolen). But if the majority of the classified ads in the paper are for stolen items and/or I was promoting the use of the paper to sell stolen goods, I would be in trouble.
No, this is not competition for the telcos. This is a way for the telcos to provide something better than dialup to customers who cant get anything else (DSL, cable etc)
Who do I write to here in Australia to ensure that we dont sign on to crap like this?
Kevin Rudd? My local federal MP?
Although somehow I think that all the letters in the world wont make one iota of difference once Hollywood says "we will not shoot a single frame of film in any country that does not sign this treaty"
Its not like Rock Band has any AC/DC either.
In fact, there is currently no authorized way for me to play AC/DC songs on any kind of guitar game.
Let me know if they actually decide to get some DECENT music...
How can they make 7 games in the series (6 if you dont count the Aerosmith one) and not have a single AC/DC song (for those who dont know, AC/DC are the best ever Australian band when it comes to playing guitars, drums and rock music fast and loud)
Use GTK# if you want a cross-platform UI toolkit based on .NET.
.NET applications written for Windows on top of Mono. And for doing that, it has to be compatible with the Microsoft implementation of WinForms.
This work on WinForms is intended to provide a way to run
What I want to know is why they didnt just make IE7 a mandatory part of SP3 in much the same way as IE got the security improvements in XP SP2 (firewall, pop-up blocker etc)
Even if this passes, it wont necessarily help. The lawyers for the big telcos/cable companies will spend the next decade in courtrooms coast to coast trying to argue for their interpretation of what "provide service in a non-discriminatory manner" actually means.