It makes no sense to white-list YouTube when Google should be making YouTube send HTML5 video to any recent-enough-to-support-HTML5-video version of Chromium anyway.
As long as Rupert Murdoch's people keep waving nice fat cheques in front of the HBO people Game of Thrones will continue to remain exclusive to Foxtel.
The only way that will change is if someone else (Fetch TV, Stan, Presto, Netflix or whoever) is willing to pay more money than Foxtel and I cant see that happening.
If there was a way I could get a free valid copy of Windows 10 now (as an upgrade from my current Windows 7 copy) without actually installing it yet, I would go for it just so I have the option to install it later without paying for it. But I have yet to see a way to do that anywhere.
If Google really wanted to "not be evil" they could come up with a bundle structure that allows you to not pay for any sports channels whatsoever unless you actually want them (but with a single sports tier that contains ALL the good sports and channels for one monthly price so you dont have to buy 6 different packages to get the sports stuff)
If keys and other important data are stored in memory on the CPU chip (which is how Apple does it on the latest iPhones I believe) its not possible to "back up the encrypted data" in that way.
I would say it goes back as far as the late 70s and things like the "New Directions in Cryptography" paper published by Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman (a paper the NSA didn't want published)
Taxpayers already fund all sorts of things that they may not necessarily agree with. Just look at the billions of dollars that have been paid by state and local government to fund sports arenas of all sorts as one example.
Also in quite a few cases the municipalities that want to roll out broadband have had local referendums asking the citizens of those municipalities whether they support tax-payers money being used to roll out broadband and gotten a clear yes vote. (you cant argue that its unfair for taxpayers to spend money on infrastructure like this if those same taxpayers have collectively said "yes" to spending money on that infrastructure).
I only see 10 films (none of which I would watch even if they were free) when I look at the list of Lionsgate stuff on Steam.
No doubt Lionsgate is being its usual stupid self and denying Australians access to most of the films they have added to Steam (if people cant buy the films they want, they will pirate which hurts studio)
The US government should tell all the cable companies that they can only merge with each other and get bigger if they agree to end ALL efforts to stop last mile competition in any form.
So that means no more monopoly deals with local government that prevents competing providers. No more pushing for legislation at any level of government that outlaws competition. No more doing deals with competitors not to roll out competing last mile offerings (i.e. the deal done with Verizon not to roll out more FiOS). No more fighting against efforts by Google and others (including local municipalities) to roll out fast broadband.
#1 isn't rocket science, I have a cellphone from 2009 (Nokia N900) that has a bunch of audio processing algorithms including a multi-band dynamic range compressor.
Not 100% sure about #2 but I bet you could build an app that plays a bunch of different tones and asks you to indicate if you heard the sound or not and from there, programs the device with the range of frequencies that the individual can hear and uses some simple math to adjust the audio to fit into that range.
#3 seems like the hardest part, maybe its time for someone to invent some open source algorithms designed to pick out and amplify conversations and foreground noise and filter out background noise.
#4 would be easy to add if you wired it up to Bluetooth (i.e. give it the same stuff as a bluetooth earbud but wired to the speaker in the device) and used a cellphone or landline that supported Bluetooth.
Here are some suggestions for the MPAA as ways they can reduce the piracy of their films: 1.Stop making tickets so expensive. Every time ticket prices go up, there will be people who now say "I am not paying that much to see xyz movie, I will pirate it instead". Reducing ticket prices will (all other things being equal) lead to more bums in seats and more revenue for the studios. 2.Eliminate the delays between the worldwide release of a film and the local release of a film in various countries (last years movie "Pixels" came out on the 23rd/24th of July in most of the world but didn't come out in Australia until the 10th of September just to give one example). 3.Make older content more widely available on home video format. There are movies I want to add to my extensive DVD collection but are unable to acquire for any amount of money as they are simply unavailable at all, leaving piracy as the only option to watch these films. Some other films are available in the USA but not in Australia (meaning I have to purchase a copy from overseas and deal with DVD region coding and stuff which makes piracy look more attractive). Oh and not charging a fortune for DVD copies of films might help as well...
Yeah the problem is that governments and law enforcement.intelligence agencies want the ability to build an even bigger haystack to search through when what they SHOULD be doing is hiring more guys with the skills to find the needles in the haystack they already have.
More money spent on HUMINT and less spent collecting every piece of data in the known universe might actually lead to the next guys who want to blow up a sports stadium or an airport or a train station or a skyscraper being caught BEFORE they do whatever evil things they plan to do.
The US government should realize by now that Islamic State and other terrorist groups (and increasingly even small cells or lone-wolf attackers like the ones in San Bernadino) already have (and are using) encryption software that even the NSA cant currently break and that further restrictions on cryptography wont make it any easier to catch the bad guys despite the rhetoric of the FBI, NSA and others.
That said, the whole "terrorists around every corner" angle is just a cover story to disguise the fact that the "5 eyes" governments have created a worldwide surveillance network far moire powerful than anything that has come before it and is willing to do anything they can to prevent that surveillance network going dark and cutting off their access to the world's data.
Until the copyright cartel get a narrow law passed stating that things that would otherwise be a CFAA violation or hacking or whatever aren't in fact illegal if they are being done in connection with enforcing copyrights.
It sounds like its basically the opposite of what Wine does. Wine re-implements the Windows API on Linux, it sounds like this new thing re-implements the Linux API (not sure exactly what that means) on top of Windows and lets you run Linux apps.
Java is available under a GPL + exceptions license. Google should take this GPL code and use it as a base for a new VM. Make whatever changes are required to make it slot in place of their current VM (something the GPL explicitly allows them to do) and start shipping it. The "classpath exception" in the Java license would allow them to keep other stuff (such as Google Play Services, the Google store and all the Google apps) closed source whilst still being in compliance with the license attached to the open source Java code.
Yes it will cost a chunk of money to do all the rewrites and stuff but it would mean Oracle has no ability to claim they violated the copyright of the various Java APIs (since the code that implements those APIs in the new VM would be a derived work of the GPL Java source code (where the license explicitly gives you all the rights under copyright law you would need regardless of whether APIs are actually copyrightable or not)
I support keeping reactors that already exist running where its safe to do so. But I also support building new nuclear reactors. Not the ancient technology PWR and BWR reactors but modern 4th generation reactors. Ones that can burn the waste products from the old PWRs and BWRs and dont produce waste that has to be stored for thousands of years. Ones that can operate in ways that mean they cant suffer the kind of catastrophic release of radiation that happened at Fukushima.
4th generation reactors absolutely need to be part of the energy solution as the way to replace the world's dependence on digging dirty black ancient rocks out of the ground and burning them for electricity.
If they can get the cost of a 3.4 hour transatlantic flight down to the cost of a business class ticket on a regular airplane on the same route, whoever flies these things will get a good amount of demand (one of the big problems for Concorde is that not enough people were willing to pay the premium vs a normal air ticket, if this new mob has solved it so its as affordable as a regular business class seat that problem goes away)
Plenty of things below 30MHz worth listening to. Ham Radio guys of all sorts in all sorts of frequencies Aircraft and marine radios CB Radios Many radio stations operate below 30MHz depending on what part of the world you are in (especially AM radio)
The way to go is a trunk-and-feeder model. Buses go from each local area to the nearest major hub (which might be a train station or tram line or it might be some big location where a lot of people go or it might well be the downtown/CBD area if that's the closest big destination) and then fast direct buses (or trains/trams/etc where they exist) go between the hubs.
In my area here in Brisbane, Australia, there are various buses that go around and through residential areas but most of them are reasonably short working services and none of them go into the city or to other destinations far away. They pretty much all go to, from, between or through bus stations associated with train stations or bus stations associated with shopping centers.
If you want to go beyond the local area you catch the local area bus to the nearest major bus station (if you aren't already living near one like I am) and then catch a bus or train from there.
In the case of your example, you would have one route that goes from your home, through your area then goes to the mall (probably the nearest place where a hub could go) then it could go to the other community and through there. Then the same route could run backwards. Then there would be a fast service linking the mall directly to the downtown area.
The problem with this is that by and large the people who actually stand a snowballs chance of being elected ALL side with the vested interests (including supporting incumbent telcos when they want governments to outlaw competition)
So there is no-one you can vote for who wont do this crap.
Australia has a long history of innovation and inventions. Some of the ones you may have heard of include: The black box flight recorder Spray-on skin for burn victims The heart pacemaker Plastic bank notes The bionic ear The electric drill WiFi The medical ultrasound machine The cervical cancer vaccine The boomerang The hills hoist The stubby holder Ugg Boots The Esky The Ute The Victa lawn mower The wine cask
And that's just some of the things Aussies have invented over the years.
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It makes no sense to white-list YouTube when Google should be making YouTube send HTML5 video to any recent-enough-to-support-HTML5-video version of Chromium anyway.
As long as Rupert Murdoch's people keep waving nice fat cheques in front of the HBO people Game of Thrones will continue to remain exclusive to Foxtel.
The only way that will change is if someone else (Fetch TV, Stan, Presto, Netflix or whoever) is willing to pay more money than Foxtel and I cant see that happening.
If there was a way I could get a free valid copy of Windows 10 now (as an upgrade from my current Windows 7 copy) without actually installing it yet, I would go for it just so I have the option to install it later without paying for it. But I have yet to see a way to do that anywhere.
If Google really wanted to "not be evil" they could come up with a bundle structure that allows you to not pay for any sports channels whatsoever unless you actually want them (but with a single sports tier that contains ALL the good sports and channels for one monthly price so you dont have to buy 6 different packages to get the sports stuff)
If keys and other important data are stored in memory on the CPU chip (which is how Apple does it on the latest iPhones I believe) its not possible to "back up the encrypted data" in that way.
I would say it goes back as far as the late 70s and things like the "New Directions in Cryptography" paper published by Whitfield Diffie and Martin Hellman (a paper the NSA didn't want published)
Taxpayers already fund all sorts of things that they may not necessarily agree with. Just look at the billions of dollars that have been paid by state and local government to fund sports arenas of all sorts as one example.
Also in quite a few cases the municipalities that want to roll out broadband have had local referendums asking the citizens of those municipalities whether they support tax-payers money being used to roll out broadband and gotten a clear yes vote. (you cant argue that its unfair for taxpayers to spend money on infrastructure like this if those same taxpayers have collectively said "yes" to spending money on that infrastructure).
I only see 10 films (none of which I would watch even if they were free) when I look at the list of Lionsgate stuff on Steam.
No doubt Lionsgate is being its usual stupid self and denying Australians access to most of the films they have added to Steam (if people cant buy the films they want, they will pirate which hurts studio)
The US government should tell all the cable companies that they can only merge with each other and get bigger if they agree to end ALL efforts to stop last mile competition in any form.
So that means no more monopoly deals with local government that prevents competing providers. No more pushing for legislation at any level of government that outlaws competition. No more doing deals with competitors not to roll out competing last mile offerings (i.e. the deal done with Verizon not to roll out more FiOS). No more fighting against efforts by Google and others (including local municipalities) to roll out fast broadband.
#1 isn't rocket science, I have a cellphone from 2009 (Nokia N900) that has a bunch of audio processing algorithms including a multi-band dynamic range compressor.
Not 100% sure about #2 but I bet you could build an app that plays a bunch of different tones and asks you to indicate if you heard the sound or not and from there, programs the device with the range of frequencies that the individual can hear and uses some simple math to adjust the audio to fit into that range.
#3 seems like the hardest part, maybe its time for someone to invent some open source algorithms designed to pick out and amplify conversations and foreground noise and filter out background noise.
#4 would be easy to add if you wired it up to Bluetooth (i.e. give it the same stuff as a bluetooth earbud but wired to the speaker in the device) and used a cellphone or landline that supported Bluetooth.
Here are some suggestions for the MPAA as ways they can reduce the piracy of their films:
1.Stop making tickets so expensive. Every time ticket prices go up, there will be people who now say "I am not paying that much to see xyz movie, I will pirate it instead". Reducing ticket prices will (all other things being equal) lead to more bums in seats and more revenue for the studios.
2.Eliminate the delays between the worldwide release of a film and the local release of a film in various countries (last years movie "Pixels" came out on the 23rd/24th of July in most of the world but didn't come out in Australia until the 10th of September just to give one example).
3.Make older content more widely available on home video format. There are movies I want to add to my extensive DVD collection but are unable to acquire for any amount of money as they are simply unavailable at all, leaving piracy as the only option to watch these films. Some other films are available in the USA but not in Australia (meaning I have to purchase a copy from overseas and deal with DVD region coding and stuff which makes piracy look more attractive). Oh and not charging a fortune for DVD copies of films might help as well...
Yeah the problem is that governments and law enforcement.intelligence agencies want the ability to build an even bigger haystack to search through when what they SHOULD be doing is hiring more guys with the skills to find the needles in the haystack they already have.
More money spent on HUMINT and less spent collecting every piece of data in the known universe might actually lead to the next guys who want to blow up a sports stadium or an airport or a train station or a skyscraper being caught BEFORE they do whatever evil things they plan to do.
The US government should realize by now that Islamic State and other terrorist groups (and increasingly even small cells or lone-wolf attackers like the ones in San Bernadino) already have (and are using) encryption software that even the NSA cant currently break and that further restrictions on cryptography wont make it any easier to catch the bad guys despite the rhetoric of the FBI, NSA and others.
That said, the whole "terrorists around every corner" angle is just a cover story to disguise the fact that the "5 eyes" governments have created a worldwide surveillance network far moire powerful than anything that has come before it and is willing to do anything they can to prevent that surveillance network going dark and cutting off their access to the world's data.
Until the copyright cartel get a narrow law passed stating that things that would otherwise be a CFAA violation or hacking or whatever aren't in fact illegal if they are being done in connection with enforcing copyrights.
It sounds like its basically the opposite of what Wine does.
Wine re-implements the Windows API on Linux, it sounds like this new thing re-implements the Linux API (not sure exactly what that means) on top of Windows and lets you run Linux apps.
But are the longer range radio technologies (e.g. 900MHz) legally usable without special licensing?
Java is available under a GPL + exceptions license. Google should take this GPL code and use it as a base for a new VM. Make whatever changes are required to make it slot in place of their current VM (something the GPL explicitly allows them to do) and start shipping it. The "classpath exception" in the Java license would allow them to keep other stuff (such as Google Play Services, the Google store and all the Google apps) closed source whilst still being in compliance with the license attached to the open source Java code.
Yes it will cost a chunk of money to do all the rewrites and stuff but it would mean Oracle has no ability to claim they violated the copyright of the various Java APIs (since the code that implements those APIs in the new VM would be a derived work of the GPL Java source code (where the license explicitly gives you all the rights under copyright law you would need regardless of whether APIs are actually copyrightable or not)
If they are in the "woods" (i.e. somewhere rural) they are probably not close enough to that neighbor for WiFi to be an option.
I support keeping reactors that already exist running where its safe to do so. But I also support building new nuclear reactors. Not the ancient technology PWR and BWR reactors but modern 4th generation reactors. Ones that can burn the waste products from the old PWRs and BWRs and dont produce waste that has to be stored for thousands of years. Ones that can operate in ways that mean they cant suffer the kind of catastrophic release of radiation that happened at Fukushima.
4th generation reactors absolutely need to be part of the energy solution as the way to replace the world's dependence on digging dirty black ancient rocks out of the ground and burning them for electricity.
If they can get the cost of a 3.4 hour transatlantic flight down to the cost of a business class ticket on a regular airplane on the same route, whoever flies these things will get a good amount of demand (one of the big problems for Concorde is that not enough people were willing to pay the premium vs a normal air ticket, if this new mob has solved it so its as affordable as a regular business class seat that problem goes away)
Plenty of things below 30MHz worth listening to.
Ham Radio guys of all sorts in all sorts of frequencies
Aircraft and marine radios
CB Radios
Many radio stations operate below 30MHz depending on what part of the world you are in (especially AM radio)
Just use the GWX control panel, it can disable everything so its not possible to accidentally update to Windows 10.
The way to go is a trunk-and-feeder model. Buses go from each local area to the nearest major hub (which might be a train station or tram line or it might be some big location where a lot of people go or it might well be the downtown/CBD area if that's the closest big destination) and then fast direct buses (or trains/trams/etc where they exist) go between the hubs.
In my area here in Brisbane, Australia, there are various buses that go around and through residential areas but most of them are reasonably short working services and none of them go into the city or to other destinations far away. They pretty much all go to, from, between or through bus stations associated with train stations or bus stations associated with shopping centers.
If you want to go beyond the local area you catch the local area bus to the nearest major bus station (if you aren't already living near one like I am) and then catch a bus or train from there.
In the case of your example, you would have one route that goes from your home, through your area then goes to the mall (probably the nearest place where a hub could go) then it could go to the other community and through there. Then the same route could run backwards. Then there would be a fast service linking the mall directly to the downtown area.
The problem with this is that by and large the people who actually stand a snowballs chance of being elected ALL side with the vested interests (including supporting incumbent telcos when they want governments to outlaw competition)
So there is no-one you can vote for who wont do this crap.
Australia has a long history of innovation and inventions. Some of the ones you may have heard of include:
The black box flight recorder
Spray-on skin for burn victims
The heart pacemaker
Plastic bank notes
The bionic ear
The electric drill
WiFi
The medical ultrasound machine
The cervical cancer vaccine
The boomerang
The hills hoist
The stubby holder
Ugg Boots
The Esky
The Ute
The Victa lawn mower
The wine cask
And that's just some of the things Aussies have invented over the years.