It wouldn't surprise me if this move by Microsoft is designed to kill off 3rd party clients (many such clients exist for MSN Messenger, all efforts to produce one for Skype have so far failed for legal and/or technical reasons)
Just mandate that anything (be it service manuals, tools, computer kit, parts, service bulletins, computer system firmware updates, diagnostic code books, computer system readers or anything else) that the manufacturer makes available to a dealer must be available to anyone else who wants to acquire it. Require that the prices charged for this stuff to dealers is not allowed to be lower than that charged to others.
If there is nothing that only the dealers have then anyone can fix the problems and there is never a reason to go back to the dealers except for recalls (which are done for free) and maybe warranty work.
Since we are talking about hurricanes (i.e. wind) why not put a Wind Turbine on the roof. If its windy enough to knock out grid power, its certainly going to be windy enough to generate electricity to keep your battery banks charged up.
What I want to know is just what algorithm they plan to use for this encryption and whether they plan to be open and honest about what the crypto they are using or whether they are going to be another snake-oil salesman that promises "strong crypto" but then uses something so weak that a kid in his bedroom could crack it easily.
everything going on right now (certainly in the desktop monitor space) is being driven by TV manufacturers who want "Full HD" and aren't interested in anything else.
So things like viewing angle, resolution and everything else (at least for low-end and mid-range LCDs) is largely dictated by the TV manufacturers.
Even if the NYSE itself could physically stay up and running, there is no way all the people sitting at their desks doing trades all day (or the specialized computer trading systems the guys sitting at their desks are in charge of keeping an eye on) could stay up during an event as large as this.
The answer then is to find a country that: 1.Is friendly to the US and wont do what China is doing 2.Has low labor costs 3.Has low regulation and set up rare earth refineries there. i.e. we overcome the high price of building refineries in America by building them somewhere else that's friendly enough to the US (and/or unfriendly enough to the chinese) that they can be an alternative supplier if the Chinese continue to try to manipulate the market.
I think one of the best examples I have seen in terms of demonstrating how much us Aussies get ripped off is the stories of people buying car tires (and wheels) from US sites like tirerack.com. When you can buy a set of 4 large heavy car tires or wheels (or both), pay the huge shipping costs to get them to Australia, pay the GST (if its more than whatever amount is required for GST to be charged) AND pay someone to put the new tires/wheels onto the car, do wheel alignments and balances etc for less than it would cost to go to a local tire mob and get a set of 4 tires (let alone 4 tires + fitting) then you know something is screwed up.
Probably why sites like tirerack.com have recently been forced by some manufacturers to stop shipping tires internationally.
Ironically (given Microsoft's reputation for poor security) the XBOX 360 is the least hackable of the 3 major consoles right now. (although one would hope Nintendo has learned from the Wii and improved the security in the Wii U)
Only problem is that its getting harder and harder to organize protests and rallies without being harassed by the cops. Its also hard to explain these sorts of issues to normal people or to convince them that its an issue that they need to care about.
Also, as we have seen many times over the years, just because "the people" want something doesn't mean the government will listen.
I remember reading somewhere about Iran being sold/given currency printing presses in the past which were intended for printing Rials but were instead used to print counterfeit US dollars (which lead to upgrades to the security of US currencies)
Unless those machines were destroyed, why cant they use them? (its not like Iran has to worry too much about how hard their banknotes are to counterfeit)
And if you allow these kinds of e-hail apps to continue to operate, it just increases the number of cabs that are unavailable to pick up street hails (since they are all heading to an e-hail) I can see where the TLC is coming from here...
I dont want to expose my personal details in ways that I may not be aware of (because of what someone else did, because of what Facebook did, because of what hackers did etc)
Have a computer program with a good solid Random Number Generator pick the order in which new TLDs get evaluated. No-one can complain because its random and everyone has an equal chance of getting their TLDs evaluated first.
The N900 is the best phone I have ever used. Full Linux system. Great physical keyboard. And it supports QT (as well as the GTK-based Hildon) if I ever get around to writing some apps for the thing.
The difference is that no-one has built a DVD player in their basement or back shed yet. People have built all kinds of 3D-output-devices (additive, subtractive, extrusion, melting, solidification and others) in their basements, back sheds, workshops and hacker-spaces. Just like its proven to be impossible to stop people sharing downloading the various CSS decryption programs or DVD rippers and making copies of DVDs with them, I doubt it would be possible to stop people sharing plans for 3D-output-devices or instructions on how to build one and where to get the bits you need.
GSM, UMTS and LTE are not complex because they need to be, they are complex because a lot of entities with massive patent portfolios spent billions of dollars ensuring that they are complex (by finding ways to get as many of their patents as possible into the standards)
Cellular standards like GSM and UMTS (no idea about other standards like LTE or CDMA) are not designed to be secure. They are designed to be complex to implement and to use as many pieces of patented technology as possible.
The number one question I would like to ask politicians, political candidates and people more generally (including and especially both Obama and Romney) is this: Do you believe that it is acceptable for the government of the United States of America and its agencies to violate the Constitutional rights and civil liberties of ordinary American Citizens in the name of the War on Terror?
The question at issue (to me) seems to be this: If you purchase an item in a foreign country and import it into the United States without permission from the rights holder, does the initial purchase in the foreign country count as the "First Sale" for the purposes of the "First Sale" doctrine in US law.
If you buy a textbook printed overseas from a US bookstore, that would count as the "First Sale" and since it was presumably imported with the permission of the rights holder, there is no issue.
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IBM probably has a license for those patents. And if they dont, they could easily crush or out-lawyer the holders of both patents.
It wouldn't surprise me if this move by Microsoft is designed to kill off 3rd party clients (many such clients exist for MSN Messenger, all efforts to produce one for Skype have so far failed for legal and/or technical reasons)
Just mandate that anything (be it service manuals, tools, computer kit, parts, service bulletins, computer system firmware updates, diagnostic code books, computer system readers or anything else) that the manufacturer makes available to a dealer must be available to anyone else who wants to acquire it. Require that the prices charged for this stuff to dealers is not allowed to be lower than that charged to others.
If there is nothing that only the dealers have then anyone can fix the problems and there is never a reason to go back to the dealers except for recalls (which are done for free) and maybe warranty work.
Since we are talking about hurricanes (i.e. wind) why not put a Wind Turbine on the roof. If its windy enough to knock out grid power, its certainly going to be windy enough to generate electricity to keep your battery banks charged up.
What I want to know is just what algorithm they plan to use for this encryption and whether they plan to be open and honest about what the crypto they are using or whether they are going to be another snake-oil salesman that promises "strong crypto" but then uses something so weak that a kid in his bedroom could crack it easily.
The other bonus of a pencil is that it cant dry out and stop working in the way that pens (or printer cartridges) seem to do.
everything going on right now (certainly in the desktop monitor space) is being driven by TV manufacturers who want "Full HD" and aren't interested in anything else.
So things like viewing angle, resolution and everything else (at least for low-end and mid-range LCDs) is largely dictated by the TV manufacturers.
Even if the NYSE itself could physically stay up and running, there is no way all the people sitting at their desks doing trades all day (or the specialized computer trading systems the guys sitting at their desks are in charge of keeping an eye on) could stay up during an event as large as this.
i.e. they would allow games rated up to M in the USA as well as games rated up to MA in Australia or whatever.
The answer then is to find a country that:
1.Is friendly to the US and wont do what China is doing
2.Has low labor costs
3.Has low regulation
and set up rare earth refineries there.
i.e. we overcome the high price of building refineries in America by building them somewhere else that's friendly enough to the US (and/or unfriendly enough to the chinese) that they can be an alternative supplier if the Chinese continue to try to manipulate the market.
I think one of the best examples I have seen in terms of demonstrating how much us Aussies get ripped off is the stories of people buying car tires (and wheels) from US sites like tirerack.com. When you can buy a set of 4 large heavy car tires or wheels (or both), pay the huge shipping costs to get them to Australia, pay the GST (if its more than whatever amount is required for GST to be charged) AND pay someone to put the new tires/wheels onto the car, do wheel alignments and balances etc for less than it would cost to go to a local tire mob and get a set of 4 tires (let alone 4 tires + fitting) then you know something is screwed up.
Probably why sites like tirerack.com have recently been forced by some manufacturers to stop shipping tires internationally.
Ironically (given Microsoft's reputation for poor security) the XBOX 360 is the least hackable of the 3 major consoles right now. (although one would hope Nintendo has learned from the Wii and improved the security in the Wii U)
Only problem is that its getting harder and harder to organize protests and rallies without being harassed by the cops.
Its also hard to explain these sorts of issues to normal people or to convince them that its an issue that they need to care about.
Also, as we have seen many times over the years, just because "the people" want something doesn't mean the government will listen.
ok, so who do I vote for at the next Federal Election that isn't going to bow down to the US and to big US corporations?
I remember reading somewhere about Iran being sold/given currency printing presses in the past which were intended for printing Rials but were instead used to print counterfeit US dollars (which lead to upgrades to the security of US currencies)
Unless those machines were destroyed, why cant they use them? (its not like Iran has to worry too much about how hard their banknotes are to counterfeit)
And if you allow these kinds of e-hail apps to continue to operate, it just increases the number of cabs that are unavailable to pick up street hails (since they are all heading to an e-hail)
I can see where the TLC is coming from here...
I dont want to expose my personal details in ways that I may not be aware of (because of what someone else did, because of what Facebook did, because of what hackers did etc)
Have a computer program with a good solid Random Number Generator pick the order in which new TLDs get evaluated.
No-one can complain because its random and everyone has an equal chance of getting their TLDs evaluated first.
The N900 is the best phone I have ever used. Full Linux system. Great physical keyboard. And it supports QT (as well as the GTK-based Hildon) if I ever get around to writing some apps for the thing.
The difference is that no-one has built a DVD player in their basement or back shed yet. People have built all kinds of 3D-output-devices (additive, subtractive, extrusion, melting, solidification and others) in their basements, back sheds, workshops and hacker-spaces. Just like its proven to be impossible to stop people sharing downloading the various CSS decryption programs or DVD rippers and making copies of DVDs with them, I doubt it would be possible to stop people sharing plans for 3D-output-devices or instructions on how to build one and where to get the bits you need.
GSM, UMTS and LTE are not complex because they need to be, they are complex because a lot of entities with massive patent portfolios spent billions of dollars ensuring that they are complex (by finding ways to get as many of their patents as possible into the standards)
Cellular standards like GSM and UMTS (no idea about other standards like LTE or CDMA) are not designed to be secure. They are designed to be complex to implement and to use as many pieces of patented technology as possible.
The number one question I would like to ask politicians, political candidates and people more generally (including and especially both Obama and Romney) is this:
Do you believe that it is acceptable for the government of the United States of America and its agencies to violate the Constitutional rights and civil liberties of ordinary American Citizens in the name of the War on Terror?
I want to see a PC (that can run a full Linux distro) that has this FSF stamp.
Or even just the bits that go into one (motherboard, CPU, GPU, RAM etc)
The question at issue (to me) seems to be this:
If you purchase an item in a foreign country and import it into the United States without permission from the rights holder, does the initial purchase in the foreign country count as the "First Sale" for the purposes of the "First Sale" doctrine in US law.
If you buy a textbook printed overseas from a US bookstore, that would count as the "First Sale" and since it was presumably imported with the permission of the rights holder, there is no issue.