One solution to the problem would be that every time you download a song from the service, it has no DRM but it has a watermark added that contains some kind of link back to you. Then, if its published on p2p, it can be traced back to who published it.
Is that the V3, V3I, V3C or V3X and which carrier is it?
As for Itunes, there are hacks to get more songs and hacks to run it on more phones. Plus, its known to run on various releases of the E1 ROKR and the V3I RAZR and also the L7 SLVR (I think)
When it comes to getting stuff onto phones. Its not the manufacturers, its the carriers. Best advice: Get a Motorola and a copy of something like P2KTools and use it to get music and pictures onto the phone and camera images off.
The US government (and others) have been claiming that needs export controls since the days when disk drives were the size of washing machines. During the IRAQ situation, they claimed Saddam was buying Playstation 2 consoles to turn into parts for WMDs.
This is exactly why the RIAA are pushing so hard for cd copy protection. Its because of all the people that take CDs (either bought or borrowed from somewhere) and rip the CDs to MP3 players. The RIAA doesnt like this because: 1.All the people using CDs borrowed from mates etc etc 2.People who then copy the MP3 files back off the MP3 player and give it to people and 3.They cant sell you a locked down version of the file to play on your player.
Actually, more and more copies are "DVD" copies (either copies given to people like film reviewers, awards judges or others or copies stolen in some form from pressing plants, DVD authoring shops or something else) "cam" films are getting less and less.
The whole ICT thing is useless anyway. Pirates arent going to care that they get a lower quality image from component output. They will just use the lower quality image, use a DVD version of the film (the bandwidth to distribute any kind of "high definition" content over p2p, bittorrent etc is not there and wont be for quite a while yet and even for physical bootlegging they will still be using normal DVDs for some time to come as too few people can play any kind of high def content) or use a crack for HDCP (I believe there are actually cracks in existance that crack the entire system, not just specific devices).
The people who will care are all the early adopters with their high definition TVs who now find that they need to buy another $$$$$ TV to watch any high definition content. If one standard was to drop this image constraint crap from the standard altogether then they could easily win the "high definition standards war"
Part of why they recompress (and strip out extras and other stuff) is because most DVDs are dual layer. Its significantly cheaper for the priate to recompress it to fit on a single layer blank than it is to produce a bit-for-bit copy on a dual layer disk.
Simple answer is to give people wanting to run a mailserver (and not wanting to have mail go from their server to the ISPs SMTP server) a static IP in a subnet that can be routed differently (I have done most of the training for a Cisco CCNA so I know it can be done without a huge amount of work in the router configs). Or even if not that, just blanket block port 25 and tell people that they can forward email through the ISPs SMTP server or they can buy a "business package" that includes static IP or they can have the ISP host their mailserver.
Or even just identifying zombified customers and giving them some kind of assistance to get rid of the sombies would help.
As for SPF, what SPF allows you to do is to identify that the SMTP server it was sent by (e.g. mail.paypal.com) is allowed to send mail for the domain the email claims to come from (e.g. @paypal.com). Nothing more. What that gives you is a way to mark email comming from mail servers other than those permitted to relay for the domain (especially for domains that are high fraud targets e.g. paypal.com) as possibly suspicious.
SPF wont stop SPAM and I never said it would. What it gives you is a way to look for messages that might not be from who they claim to be from and mark them as possibly suspicious. (hotmail already does this and I think its good)
1.ISPs need to filter or block port 25 by default unless someone specifically requests it unblocked. Or, failing that, detect zombified machines and block those. 2.ISPs need to implement good email based virus scanning (email is a major attack vector for viruses & trojans including spam zombies) 3.ISPs need to implement SPF. SPF wont stop spam but it will make it easier to detect if email claiming to be from fraud@paypal.com is really from paypal.com or if email from asdgtrqwrdasfsd@hotmail.com is really from hotmail.com (and therefore if there is a legit account associated with the address and if the sender of the email owns that account) 4.Governments need to introduce penalties for any provider that knowingly provides hosting (web, email or whatever) to a sender of unsolicited bulk email.
Gameboy Player and Super Gameboy arent emulation, I believe the Super Gameboy actually had a GameBoy Z80 CPU inside and I wouldnt be surprised if the GB Player had the Gameboy Advance ARM chipset in it.
2 things: 1.The number of films being shown digitally (i.e. where there is no film print involved) is a very small number of the total screenings of films. Digital projectors for movie theaters are VERY expensive for the theater owners to buy.
and 2.Even if the distribution was digital, that doesnt take away the need to figure out how many showings of a film are required. A large part of the delay between US releases and e.g. aus releases is aparently so that they can use box office and marketing numbers from the US release to decide how many prints to make for the australian release (and how many screenings they should have etc)
Here in australia, pretty much all DVD players are either region free out of the box or can be made region free by changing some settings. Stores will happily advise as to how to get a player that is region free and its all 100% legal (in fact, the ACCC has issued a ruling that basicly says "region locks are an illegal restraint of trade" IIRC)
A series of stories about the various characters and events alluded to in the movies that we DONT see.
For example, one epoisode (or episode arc) could be a story covering han solo and just exactly WHY jabba the hutt is so pissed off at him. Or a story arc covering the theft of the plans for the first death star (leading into a chase of the blockade runner by the imperial fleet which then leads into episode 4) Or a story arc covering how Leia (lukes sister) ended up becoming a princess on Alderan. Or a story arc showing more history of the Millenium Falcon (up to the part where we first see it in episode 4)
Microsoft has released the "Windows Research Kernel". From what I can tell, it is a release of a large part of the windows kernel sources (some parts are released as source, some parts like the kernel debugger, plug & play manager and power manager are released as library files) for use by academics to teach operating systems classes.
Whats notable is that the licence for this allows creation of derived works. The only things it seems to have is a clause requiring copyright to be not misattributed (i.e. you have to keep the microsoft copyright on it), a "no commercial use" clause and a "if you make changes you have to send them to MS" clause. It aint GPL but hey, it IS a BIG change from what microsoft normally does with their code.
I dont know more details than this and a google for it finds very little information (from MS or otherwise)
Forcing behavorial changes on microsoft is better than just punishment. Even if they were forced to pay huge globs of money to the EU in fines, its not going to stop them from continuing their monopolistic business practices that keep competitors out. The only way to way to resolve the situation is to force behavorial changes. That means blocking monopolistic business practices (all the things microsoft does to OEMs because they are a monopoly and the OEMs have to do what MS says for example). That means forcing microsoft to open those things which it is using to maintain its monopoly like Windows Media Player file formats, MSN Messenger protocol, office document formats etc. That means real change (A complete breakup of microsoft might be the only way to solve this for good)
From reading the legaleze in that PDF, it looks like the EU basicly wants microsoft to unbundle Windows Media Player (which it did by creating the Windows XP N edition) and to publish specs for the protocols used by windows machines to provide file sharing, printer sharing and user management. If the EU really wants to see the details of windows file sharing and such, they should go read the SAMBA source code, as far as I know SAMBA is a 100% working implementation of the protocols in question (correct me if I am wrong here)
Personally, I want to see the EU (or some other agency) force some real penalties on MS. Examples: Ban MS from having secret contracts with OEMs and force them to have transparency in dealings with OEMs and restrictions on telling OEMs what they can and cant ship alongside windows (e.g. if microsoft says to an OEM "If you ship Firefox/OpenOffice/BeOs/Linux/" as well as shipping windows (either on the same PC or on different PCs in the lineup) you will have to pay more for windows, that would be a violation of this) Force microsoft to disclose more of their "secret recipies" such as the office document formats (is there anything that can read an access MDB file without going through microsoft libraries?) or the NTFS file system or the MSN messenger protocols or the Windows Media audio and video formats (obviously an exemption would be given to allow them to keep the DRM parts of the format a secret:) Force microsoft to publish more APIs that they are using but not disclosing to their competitors (including APIs in dlls related to internet explorer, windows media player, themeing etc). This should include some kind of way for people who find an API that isnt documented by microsoft to go to the "review board" monitoring the MS penalty and point out that microsoft is not in complience. (they documented a bunch of APIs as part of the US lawsuit but there are plenty of APIs that are still completly undocumented)
Problems with a.xxx domain: 1.Who decides what is required to go under.xxx (and what happens if someone disaggrees) 2.What do you do with a site like, hypothetically, www.hotgirls.co.uk (made up name)? Do you create www.hotgirls.xxx.uk and force them to move? Or do you move it to www.hotgirls.xxx? (and then what about www.hotgirls.com? where does that go?) 3.How do you deal with people having to find the sites once they move? How does someone used to going to www.hotgirls.com find www.hotgirls.xxx? 4.How do you deal with something like (again made up) hotgirls.vhost.net or www.someisp.net/~hotgirls/? (forcing the ISP or vhost to get a.xxx domain and move the sites to it would cost a fortune and be a technical nightmare) 5.Who polices the internet looking for sites that are breaking the rules (and who pays for that) 6.How do you enforce.xxx accross national borders? How do you force the british, french, canadians, russians, nigerians, chinese, koreans etc etc to comply with the.xxx domain and put their porn there 7.What do you do when decides to block.xxx? (could happen, especially if the people running things are in the same camp as the "all TV must be edited before it goes on air to make sure no "wardrobe malfunctions" can happen" people) 8.Who is going to pay for all this? (the costs for everyone to get a.xxx domain for example) 9.Having a.xxx domain will make it even easier for payment services like paypal and others to block adult sites (which is bad if you run an adult site operator that needs to do paymeny processing) and 10.Having a.xxx domain makes it easier for the anti-porn crusaders of this world to go after porn sites.
I think that a.kids domain should be created specifically for sites that are kid-friendly. For example, LEGO could have www.lego.kids. Barbie could have www.barbie.kids. Yahoo could have www.yahoo.kids (special human edited directory of sites safe for kids). Wikipedia could have www.wikipedia.kids with content that is kid-safe (although whether it is possible to have an online encyclopedis that is both editable by anyone AND kid-safe is questionable:) And so on. Rules would be in place to ensure that any site in the.kids domain complied with laws like COPPA. (although I fail to see how an email address could be considered "personal information").
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One solution to the problem would be that every time you download a song from the service, it has no DRM but it has a watermark added that contains some kind of link back to you.
Then, if its published on p2p, it can be traced back to who published it.
In situations like that, they can have a corporate IM server and allow people to talk to others in the company but not to people outside it.
And just how do you propose to get the behemoth that is the Linux Kernel compiling with something other than GCC???
Whats the difference between a popular download-only song and a popular song that you can buy on CD?
Is that the V3, V3I, V3C or V3X and which carrier is it?
As for Itunes, there are hacks to get more songs and hacks to run it on more phones. Plus, its known to run on various releases of the E1 ROKR and the V3I RAZR and also the L7 SLVR (I think)
When it comes to getting stuff onto phones. Its not the manufacturers, its the carriers. Best advice: Get a Motorola and a copy of something like P2KTools and use it to get music and pictures onto the phone and camera images off.
The US government (and others) have been claiming that needs export controls since the days when disk drives were the size of washing machines. During the IRAQ situation, they claimed Saddam was buying Playstation 2 consoles to turn into parts for WMDs.
This is exactly why the RIAA are pushing so hard for cd copy protection. Its because of all the people that take CDs (either bought or borrowed from somewhere) and rip the CDs to MP3 players. The RIAA doesnt like this because:
1.All the people using CDs borrowed from mates etc etc
2.People who then copy the MP3 files back off the MP3 player and give it to people
and 3.They cant sell you a locked down version of the file to play on your player.
Actually, more and more copies are "DVD" copies (either copies given to people like film reviewers, awards judges or others or copies stolen in some form from pressing plants, DVD authoring shops or something else)
"cam" films are getting less and less.
The whole ICT thing is useless anyway.
Pirates arent going to care that they get a lower quality image from component output. They will just use the lower quality image, use a DVD version of the film (the bandwidth to distribute any kind of "high definition" content over p2p, bittorrent etc is not there and wont be for quite a while yet and even for physical bootlegging they will still be using normal DVDs for some time to come as too few people can play any kind of high def content) or use a crack for HDCP (I believe there are actually cracks in existance that crack the entire system, not just specific devices).
The people who will care are all the early adopters with their high definition TVs who now find that they need to buy another $$$$$ TV to watch any high definition content. If one standard was to drop this image constraint crap from the standard altogether then they could easily win the "high definition standards war"
Part of why they recompress (and strip out extras and other stuff) is because most DVDs are dual layer. Its significantly cheaper for the priate to recompress it to fit on a single layer blank than it is to produce a bit-for-bit copy on a dual layer disk.
Simple answer is to give people wanting to run a mailserver (and not wanting to have mail go from their server to the ISPs SMTP server) a static IP in a subnet that can be routed differently (I have done most of the training for a Cisco CCNA so I know it can be done without a huge amount of work in the router configs). Or even if not that, just blanket block port 25 and tell people that they can forward email through the ISPs SMTP server or they can buy a "business package" that includes static IP or they can have the ISP host their mailserver.
Or even just identifying zombified customers and giving them some kind of assistance to get rid of the sombies would help.
As for SPF, what SPF allows you to do is to identify that the SMTP server it was sent by (e.g. mail.paypal.com) is allowed to send mail for the domain the email claims to come from (e.g. @paypal.com). Nothing more. What that gives you is a way to mark email comming from mail servers other than those permitted to relay for the domain (especially for domains that are high fraud targets e.g. paypal.com) as possibly suspicious.
SPF wont stop SPAM and I never said it would. What it gives you is a way to look for messages that might not be from who they claim to be from and mark them as possibly suspicious. (hotmail already does this and I think its good)
1.ISPs need to filter or block port 25 by default unless someone specifically requests it unblocked. Or, failing that, detect zombified machines and block those.
2.ISPs need to implement good email based virus scanning (email is a major attack vector for viruses & trojans including spam zombies)
3.ISPs need to implement SPF. SPF wont stop spam but it will make it easier to detect if email claiming to be from fraud@paypal.com is really from paypal.com or if email from asdgtrqwrdasfsd@hotmail.com is really from hotmail.com (and therefore if there is a legit account associated with the address and if the sender of the email owns that account)
4.Governments need to introduce penalties for any provider that knowingly provides hosting (web, email or whatever) to a sender of unsolicited bulk email.
Gameboy Player and Super Gameboy arent emulation, I believe the Super Gameboy actually had a GameBoy Z80 CPU inside and I wouldnt be surprised if the GB Player had the Gameboy Advance ARM chipset in it.
The numbers are generally hard-wired into the phone and cant be changed.
1.I wonder if they are going to use actual emulation for the games or if its going to be some kind of rewrite or partial rewrite...
and 2.Why dont we see more companies making their back catalogs available
2 things:
1.The number of films being shown digitally (i.e. where there is no film print involved) is a very small number of the total screenings of films. Digital projectors for movie theaters are VERY expensive for the theater owners to buy.
and 2.Even if the distribution was digital, that doesnt take away the need to figure out how many showings of a film are required. A large part of the delay between US releases and e.g. aus releases is aparently so that they can use box office and marketing numbers from the US release to decide how many prints to make for the australian release (and how many screenings they should have etc)
Here in australia, pretty much all DVD players are either region free out of the box or can be made region free by changing some settings.
Stores will happily advise as to how to get a player that is region free and its all 100% legal (in fact, the ACCC has issued a ruling that basicly says "region locks are an illegal restraint of trade" IIRC)
This looks like a "clone" of the Motorola SLVR to me. (no idea how the SLVR compares with this one for size though)
The problem with replacing IE is if the webpages the apps want to display use IE-only crap somehow.
A series of stories about the various characters and events alluded to in the movies that we DONT see.
For example, one epoisode (or episode arc) could be a story covering han solo and just exactly WHY jabba the hutt is so pissed off at him. Or a story arc covering the theft of the plans for the first death star (leading into a chase of the blockade runner by the imperial fleet which then leads into episode 4) Or a story arc covering how Leia (lukes sister) ended up becoming a princess on Alderan. Or a story arc showing more history of the Millenium Falcon (up to the part where we first see it in episode 4)
Microsoft has released the "Windows Research Kernel".
From what I can tell, it is a release of a large part of the windows kernel sources (some parts are released as source, some parts like the kernel debugger, plug & play manager and power manager are released as library files) for use by academics to teach operating systems classes.
Whats notable is that the licence for this allows creation of derived works. The only things it seems to have is a clause requiring copyright to be not misattributed (i.e. you have to keep the microsoft copyright on it), a "no commercial use" clause and a "if you make changes you have to send them to MS" clause. It aint GPL but hey, it IS a BIG change from what microsoft normally does with their code.
I dont know more details than this and a google for it finds very little information (from MS or otherwise)
Forcing behavorial changes on microsoft is better than just punishment. Even if they were forced to pay huge globs of money to the EU in fines, its not going to stop them from continuing their monopolistic business practices that keep competitors out.
The only way to way to resolve the situation is to force behavorial changes. That means blocking monopolistic business practices (all the things microsoft does to OEMs because they are a monopoly and the OEMs have to do what MS says for example). That means forcing microsoft to open those things which it is using to maintain its monopoly like Windows Media Player file formats, MSN Messenger protocol, office document formats etc.
That means real change (A complete breakup of microsoft might be the only way to solve this for good)
From reading the legaleze in that PDF, it looks like the EU basicly wants microsoft to unbundle Windows Media Player (which it did by creating the Windows XP N edition) and to publish specs for the protocols used by windows machines to provide file sharing, printer sharing and user management.
:)
If the EU really wants to see the details of windows file sharing and such, they should go read the SAMBA source code, as far as I know SAMBA is a 100% working implementation of the protocols in question (correct me if I am wrong here)
Personally, I want to see the EU (or some other agency) force some real penalties on MS. Examples:
Ban MS from having secret contracts with OEMs and force them to have transparency in dealings with OEMs and restrictions on telling OEMs what they can and cant ship alongside windows (e.g. if microsoft says to an OEM "If you ship Firefox/OpenOffice/BeOs/Linux/" as well as shipping windows (either on the same PC or on different PCs in the lineup) you will have to pay more for windows, that would be a violation of this)
Force microsoft to disclose more of their "secret recipies" such as the office document formats (is there anything that can read an access MDB file without going through microsoft libraries?) or the NTFS file system or the MSN messenger protocols or the Windows Media audio and video formats (obviously an exemption would be given to allow them to keep the DRM parts of the format a secret
Force microsoft to publish more APIs that they are using but not disclosing to their competitors (including APIs in dlls related to internet explorer, windows media player, themeing etc). This should include some kind of way for people who find an API that isnt documented by microsoft to go to the "review board" monitoring the MS penalty and point out that microsoft is not in complience. (they documented a bunch of APIs as part of the US lawsuit but there are plenty of APIs that are still completly undocumented)
Best I can tell is "documentation".
But documentation for what?
What things are microsoft being asked to document?
Problems with a .xxx domain: .xxx (and what happens if someone disaggrees) .xxx domain and move the sites to it would cost a fortune and be a technical nightmare) .xxx accross national borders? How do you force the british, french, canadians, russians, nigerians, chinese, koreans etc etc to comply with the .xxx domain and put their porn there .xxx? (could happen, especially if the people running things are in the same camp as the "all TV must be edited before it goes on air to make sure no "wardrobe malfunctions" can happen" people) .xxx domain for example) .xxx domain will make it even easier for payment services like paypal and others to block adult sites (which is bad if you run an adult site operator that needs to do paymeny processing) .xxx domain makes it easier for the anti-porn crusaders of this world to go after porn sites.
.kids domain should be created specifically for sites that are kid-friendly. For example, LEGO could have www.lego.kids. Barbie could have www.barbie.kids. Yahoo could have www.yahoo.kids (special human edited directory of sites safe for kids). Wikipedia could have www.wikipedia.kids with content that is kid-safe (although whether it is possible to have an online encyclopedis that is both editable by anyone AND kid-safe is questionable :) And so on. Rules would be in place to ensure that any site in the .kids domain complied with laws like COPPA. (although I fail to see how an email address could be considered "personal information").
1.Who decides what is required to go under
2.What do you do with a site like, hypothetically, www.hotgirls.co.uk (made up name)? Do you create www.hotgirls.xxx.uk and force them to move? Or do you move it to www.hotgirls.xxx? (and then what about www.hotgirls.com? where does that go?)
3.How do you deal with people having to find the sites once they move? How does someone used to going to www.hotgirls.com find www.hotgirls.xxx?
4.How do you deal with something like (again made up) hotgirls.vhost.net or www.someisp.net/~hotgirls/? (forcing the ISP or vhost to get a
5.Who polices the internet looking for sites that are breaking the rules (and who pays for that)
6.How do you enforce
7.What do you do when decides to block
8.Who is going to pay for all this? (the costs for everyone to get a
9.Having a
and 10.Having a
I think that a