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I think the message is that if the technology is being used on some people, whats to stop it being used on others. Although the technology probably wont work and could be broken with a hammer in time for them to run away. I think we (the UK) should begin outsourcing prisioners to other countries - we had a great thing going with austrailia we could just dump all our major problems there and that was it.
Theres already quite a few options for tracking in an emergency - mobile phones, credit cards, license plates, pay-phones etc. but they all depend on the person using those things. RFID tags would be another thing on that list but it would be much harder to avoid them - you would have to cut them out of clothes and buy things anonymously and if you did have a tag on you that could be linked to you then you would have to avoid all shops and anyone with a portable tag scanner which would be even harder.
The technology is there to plant hidden tags on people so potentially anyone, or any government agency (legally or not) could plant these tags without peoples knowledge and make sure scanners are distributed around the place - so basically everyones screwed. Using a GPS system like this will give you more coverage but its much harder to hide so you have to tell the person they are being tracked and that if they try and remove it you'll be there in 2mins (well actually i doubt very much that the link is live 24/7 so if you did rip it off and smash the phone you would have a decent amount of time to get the hell out of there).
RFID tags would be cool aslong as their are strict laws against tracking people and once you are out of the shop you are legally free to remove and destroy the chip (they should indicate where it is and how to remove it without damaging goods). While this makes it pretty pointless as an anti-shoplifting device it has to be done. Also they should (under the data-protection act etc) have to remove the serial number from their database. If your not paranoid then RFID tags would be useful for finding all those lost pens and the tv remote and letting your fridge track what you put in and its use-by-date and all that stuff.
I propose an international unit to stop stupid ideas before they become real. any stupid ideas from anti-piracy fritz chips to mandatory crypto back doors and ISO country royalties would be targeted and the special unit of highly trained black-ops agents would come in and "gently persuade" the people involved to abandon the ideas. Ofcourse they would have to destroy themselves for being a stupid idea in the first place.. ill shut up now
Hopefully, manufacturers will race to put this in their products and wont bother securing links with pesky things like "encryption" because the "bubble" provides security.. then i can have my fun intercepting stuff by standing behind people;)
But if done properly this could be useful - you could control your phone, notebook, or mp3 player using your watch or some sort of mini-handheld touchscreen, rocking
After reading the article and the aura site i still have absolutely no idea how this works, can someone please explain? Articles that talk about rippling pond water and secure bubbles are usually marketing crap.
Galileo is probably going to turn into a club against the will of the US. This is gonna be funny - i just cant wait to see blairs face when he has to choose sides;)
The only agenda the US has is a world were all countries have some form of democratically elected government and a homegrown form of capitalism. How is that not in everyone's benefit? Ever hear of comparative advantage? That's what's made the US the economic power that it is.
Really? I thought the slave trade and foreign sanctions made the US the economic power that it is? And its democracy is going down the drain,comparative advantage is what the US has at the expense of everyone else.
Any alternative to GPS is a major threat to the US.
Well having created GPS itself, (not to mention star wars and a hole host of other things) the US certainly knows about major threats.
As you know, when you band together with others (i.e your united states) it can be very beneficial, Europe just wants to do the same.
Windows runs most kiosks/ATMS etc. I remember having fun at Gatwick airport with a touch screen Windows XP kiosk next to a sports car stand. Me and my friend simply got up the start menu through trial and error and managed to deface the locally stored website:) (helped ofcourse by XP's onscreen keyboard) yes i know it was pointless vandalism but screw them. Ive seen plenty of Windows error messages on cashmachines, timetable displays and the Nectar system at certain shops here (Sainsburys for example) all run windows (might even be possible to get free points but i havnt tried). Im fed up with security consisting of hiding the start menu. And i dont want to find that the ATM crashes _after_ deducting money from my account but before it deals out the cash or something similarly stupid. Kiosk companies: Stop cutting corners and wasting money on Windows licenses, hire better people.
The reason is because audio DRM is fundamentally flawed and will absolutely not work. Even if it means recording the song from an analog output, it will always be possible (and more often than not, you dont even need to go that far, the DRM will be cracked in a matter of time to the stage where a one-click program will allow even non-technical people to break a track!) It only takes one copy of a track to be let loose and every single person in the world can potentially get it.
Well it seems fair to me that if major corporations can "move" to Bermuda to escape tax's etc. then citizens can "move" to Canada to escape RIAA lawsuits. I just hope the bloody RIAA doesnt get around to the UK - we're very comfortable with our free music/films thank you.
p2p filesharing wont die - its the killer app for broadband. Not many people have seemed to grasp this fact yet but, theres not much use for ever-faster connections unless you have something to download. Websites are not going to increase in size that much, streaming video isnt really what gets people going (its just another tv channel) and games have their limit in bandwidth usage.
Now, give people free content without restrictions and you have something that everyone wants. Why are search engines the most popular websites? because the user types in what they want and gets it. From a users point of view, kazaa is the same as google except you can get everything that you cant get on google - its like the too hot for google channel. Are you seriously telling me that people dont want to be able to download all the music, films, porn, software, games, books and southpark they want for free!?!?! get real!
The only things that might kill p2p filesharing as we know it are:
Legislation and heavy enforcement (at the moment RIAA lawsuits and sen. Friz Hollings are restricted to the US only)
Networks collapsing thru abuse, free-loading, or (taking the law into their own hands) sabotage (they seem to be pretty resistant)
Governments (well in the UK anyway) are pushing broadband for all sorts of PHB reasons like "education" and obviously the ISPs - AOL etc are gonna try and sell it. Sen. Hollings is even for it. The absolute irony here is that the very same people who are pushing broadband so they can sell content are the same ones who will be fucked out of their money by filesharing! its brilliant, serves them right for their evil DRM plans.
I read some theory about the actual plane itself (i.e being a long metal tube) not helping with interference. Busses and trains are also long metal tubes, you can use your gps unit, your mobile, your bluetooth and wi-fi notebook and your cd player all at once in bus, car, or train with out them interfering with each-other. I was always suspicious about airline electronics policies, i guess 10 years ago they were just being as safe as they could which is fine, but now days people really need to use their gadgets so its more in the airlines interests to find out exactly whats going on and try and fix it.
Maybe its because most airliners are quite old and the avionics engineers came up with strange and un-regulated ways of doing things eg "lets send the engine temperature in analog down unsheilded line multiplexed with all the other temperatures at various random frequencies" i could see why that would cause problems.
I'll compare the movie and music industry for you:
They both peddle mostly crap for rip-off prices. They are like drug dealers mixing their product with as much rat poision and random crap as they can so they can sell more. But unlike drug dealers they think that their product should have such high prices because its so hard to sell and smuggle into those record stores.
They both sell products on little disks that cost next to nothing to make. Ive seen CD unit costs for small runs and they cost less than a $, for larger runs - less than half a $. Scale that figure up to a record company who will press thousends and thousends of CDs and whos had 20 years to create the infrastructure - their CDs flow like water, take the price down and people will buy them, people will by more, people like me who have never bought a CD in their life will even start buying them! - you can start to apply that to DVDs aswell now.
Now they dont have to bring the price down, its their choice, but if they suddenly slashed CD prices right down to maybe $1-3 the general CD buying public would go into a state of shock, the shops would have to start turning people away from over crowding!
i agree, why do they have such stupid looking designs? all we ask is that they take a normal looking car and stick an electric/hybrid engine in it. It would even save them money paying for stupid new designers!
Results show the ATI Radeon 9800 Pro drawing around 60 FPS while the nVidia GeForce FX 5900 Ultra only draws around 30
Maybe im missing something, and i dont know much about graphics in games but why is such a high frame-rate needed? or is that a field rate? film runs at 24fps (non-interlaced) and tv at 25 or 30 depending (50 or 60 interlaced fields per second). Why not pump the extra power into more polygons or better quality or something? You could even do fake motion blur...
They could always build their own file-sharing network - they way it would work is you choose all the songs you _want_ to download, and then it downloads white noise and sends off the list to the RIAA so they can a) sue you for "attempted" infringement and b) see what music you like so they can play it on the radio.
Or.. you could just re-think the system and get rid of those 100 year old laws that have no relevence and were around before modern technology (NetBIOS);) realise what can and cant be done (DRM, DMCA) in a fairness and enforce-able sense, properly think out laws and their consequences, educate people to whats going on around them and stop allowing politicians to be bribed and pushed by people with their own agendas.
Im sure viruses, hacking, even port scanning are banned in most countries and/or ISP policies. That doesnt mean people don't get hacked or get the virus! Anyone who cares enough will use protection - firewalls, anti-virus, properly set-up systems. Banning spam or any of the software thats used to create it means nothing. People will still get spam, maybe not as much but they will still get it and they will still need filters. It just ads another layer of legislation to the internet which is essentially just a hack, so you have to balance it out - if people are still going to get spam and always will even if the whole world bans it, then they might as well just use filters, is it worth reducing it abit by adding more laws?
Governments are acting like Microsoft, their laws are full of massive holes so every month they issue more hot-fixes, thats not the way to do it.
You can stop most pop-up adverts and you can stop most spam. Instead of making draconian laws that involve banning software - the very same type of laws we try to stop when its the DMCA. We can use technology to stop these annoying things. Any sort of html based pop-up can easily be stopped in the browser or via a proxy, if its something you downloaded then dont download it! Most adware programs have been cracked - eg. Kazaa lite to stop adverts so you can use the cracks and show the marketing people just how much you hate intrusive adverts. Dont let the government fill the internet with stupid legislation thats un enforceable and usually punishes people who have legitimate uses against it.
Just checking.. the RIAA arnt comming to England any time soon are they?
It would be interesting to see what a world without music labels would be like, and how that could be acomplished. I'm all for ruining the RIAA and its members, even just for the curiosity factor, sure you might loose a couple of bands and knock-offs from stupid reality tv shows, but really, who cares? maybe if were lucky we could loose Justin Timberlake, but he probably has enough cash to make it on his own.
Ok i havnt RTFA and i dont no much about American copyright, but isnt there a law that says you must uphold copyright infringements, i.e you have no choice in who you sue, you have to sue everyone who infringes your work?
Either way, i wouldnt mind writing and signing a document promising that i will never buy a CD, do they have any of those forms ready yet?
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I think the message is that if the technology is being used on some people, whats to stop it being used on others. Although the technology probably wont work and could be broken with a hammer in time for them to run away. I think we (the UK) should begin outsourcing prisioners to other countries - we had a great thing going with austrailia we could just dump all our major problems there and that was it.
Theres already quite a few options for tracking in an emergency - mobile phones, credit cards, license plates, pay-phones etc. but they all depend on the person using those things. RFID tags would be another thing on that list but it would be much harder to avoid them - you would have to cut them out of clothes and buy things anonymously and if you did have a tag on you that could be linked to you then you would have to avoid all shops and anyone with a portable tag scanner which would be even harder.
The technology is there to plant hidden tags on people so potentially anyone, or any government agency (legally or not) could plant these tags without peoples knowledge and make sure scanners are distributed around the place - so basically everyones screwed. Using a GPS system like this will give you more coverage but its much harder to hide so you have to tell the person they are being tracked and that if they try and remove it you'll be there in 2mins (well actually i doubt very much that the link is live 24/7 so if you did rip it off and smash the phone you would have a decent amount of time to get the hell out of there).
RFID tags would be cool aslong as their are strict laws against tracking people and once you are out of the shop you are legally free to remove and destroy the chip (they should indicate where it is and how to remove it without damaging goods). While this makes it pretty pointless as an anti-shoplifting device it has to be done. Also they should (under the data-protection act etc) have to remove the serial number from their database. If your not paranoid then RFID tags would be useful for finding all those lost pens and the tv remote and letting your fridge track what you put in and its use-by-date and all that stuff.
I propose an international unit to stop stupid ideas before they become real. any stupid ideas from anti-piracy fritz chips to mandatory crypto back doors and ISO country royalties would be targeted and the special unit of highly trained black-ops agents would come in and "gently persuade" the people involved to abandon the ideas. Ofcourse they would have to destroy themselves for being a stupid idea in the first place.. ill shut up now
Hopefully, manufacturers will race to put this in their products and wont bother securing links with pesky things like "encryption" because the "bubble" provides security.. then i can have my fun intercepting stuff by standing behind people ;)
But if done properly this could be useful - you could control your phone, notebook, or mp3 player using your watch or some sort of mini-handheld touchscreen, rocking
After reading the article and the aura site i still have absolutely no idea how this works, can someone please explain? Articles that talk about rippling pond water and secure bubbles are usually marketing crap.
Galileo is probably going to turn into a club against the will of the US. This is gonna be funny - i just cant wait to see blairs face when he has to choose sides ;)
The only agenda the US has is a world were all countries have some form of democratically elected government and a homegrown form of capitalism. How is that not in everyone's benefit? Ever hear of comparative advantage? That's what's made the US the economic power that it is.
Really? I thought the slave trade and foreign sanctions made the US the economic power that it is? And its democracy is going down the drain,comparative advantage is what the US has at the expense of everyone else.
Any alternative to GPS is a major threat to the US.
Well having created GPS itself, (not to mention star wars and a hole host of other things) the US certainly knows about major threats.
As you know, when you band together with others (i.e your united states) it can be very beneficial, Europe just wants to do the same.
Windows runs most kiosks/ATMS etc. I remember having fun at Gatwick airport with a touch screen Windows XP kiosk next to a sports car stand. Me and my friend simply got up the start menu through trial and error and managed to deface the locally stored website :) (helped ofcourse by XP's onscreen keyboard) yes i know it was pointless vandalism but screw them. Ive seen plenty of Windows error messages on cashmachines, timetable displays and the Nectar system at certain shops here (Sainsburys for example) all run windows (might even be possible to get free points but i havnt tried). Im fed up with security consisting of hiding the start menu. And i dont want to find that the ATM crashes _after_ deducting money from my account but before it deals out the cash or something similarly stupid. Kiosk companies: Stop cutting corners and wasting money on Windows licenses, hire better people.
The reason is because audio DRM is fundamentally flawed and will absolutely not work. Even if it means recording the song from an analog output, it will always be possible (and more often than not, you dont even need to go that far, the DRM will be cracked in a matter of time to the stage where a one-click program will allow even non-technical people to break a track!) It only takes one copy of a track to be let loose and every single person in the world can potentially get it.
unknowingly? that makes no sense what so ever! why should you have to pay a fine because someone else has screwed up (namely Microsoft)?!
Well it seems fair to me that if major corporations can "move" to Bermuda to escape tax's etc. then citizens can "move" to Canada to escape RIAA lawsuits. I just hope the bloody RIAA doesnt get around to the UK - we're very comfortable with our free music/films thank you.
Now, give people free content without restrictions and you have something that everyone wants. Why are search engines the most popular websites? because the user types in what they want and gets it. From a users point of view, kazaa is the same as google except you can get everything that you cant get on google - its like the too hot for google channel. Are you seriously telling me that people dont want to be able to download all the music, films, porn, software, games, books and southpark they want for free!?!?! get real!
The only things that might kill p2p filesharing as we know it are:
Governments (well in the UK anyway) are pushing broadband for all sorts of PHB reasons like "education" and obviously the ISPs - AOL etc are gonna try and sell it. Sen. Hollings is even for it. The absolute irony here is that the very same people who are pushing broadband so they can sell content are the same ones who will be fucked out of their money by filesharing! its brilliant, serves them right for their evil DRM plans.
Thats only because theres no PIAA yet ;)
I read some theory about the actual plane itself (i.e being a long metal tube) not helping with interference. Busses and trains are also long metal tubes, you can use your gps unit, your mobile, your bluetooth and wi-fi notebook and your cd player all at once in bus, car, or train with out them interfering with each-other. I was always suspicious about airline electronics policies, i guess 10 years ago they were just being as safe as they could which is fine, but now days people really need to use their gadgets so its more in the airlines interests to find out exactly whats going on and try and fix it.
Maybe its because most airliners are quite old and the avionics engineers came up with strange and un-regulated ways of doing things eg "lets send the engine temperature in analog down unsheilded line multiplexed with all the other temperatures at various random frequencies" i could see why that would cause problems.
I'll compare the movie and music industry for you:
They both peddle mostly crap for rip-off prices. They are like drug dealers mixing their product with as much rat poision and random crap as they can so they can sell more. But unlike drug dealers they think that their product should have such high prices because its so hard to sell and smuggle into those record stores.
They both sell products on little disks that cost next to nothing to make. Ive seen CD unit costs for small runs and they cost less than a $, for larger runs - less than half a $. Scale that figure up to a record company who will press thousends and thousends of CDs and whos had 20 years to create the infrastructure - their CDs flow like water, take the price down and people will buy them, people will by more, people like me who have never bought a CD in their life will even start buying them! - you can start to apply that to DVDs aswell now.
Now they dont have to bring the price down, its their choice, but if they suddenly slashed CD prices right down to maybe $1-3 the general CD buying public would go into a state of shock, the shops would have to start turning people away from over crowding!
i agree, why do they have such stupid looking designs? all we ask is that they take a normal looking car and stick an electric/hybrid engine in it. It would even save them money paying for stupid new designers!
Results show the ATI Radeon 9800 Pro drawing around 60 FPS while the nVidia GeForce FX 5900 Ultra only draws around 30
Maybe im missing something, and i dont know much about graphics in games but why is such a high frame-rate needed? or is that a field rate? film runs at 24fps (non-interlaced) and tv at 25 or 30 depending (50 or 60 interlaced fields per second). Why not pump the extra power into more polygons or better quality or something? You could even do fake motion blur...
They could always build their own file-sharing network - they way it would work is you choose all the songs you _want_ to download, and then it downloads white noise and sends off the list to the RIAA so they can a) sue you for "attempted" infringement and b) see what music you like so they can play it on the radio.
Or.. you could just re-think the system and get rid of those 100 year old laws that have no relevence and were around before modern technology (NetBIOS) ;) realise what can and cant be done (DRM, DMCA) in a fairness and enforce-able sense, properly think out laws and their consequences, educate people to whats going on around them and stop allowing politicians to be bribed and pushed by people with their own agendas.
Im sure viruses, hacking, even port scanning are banned in most countries and/or ISP policies. That doesnt mean people don't get hacked or get the virus! Anyone who cares enough will use protection - firewalls, anti-virus, properly set-up systems. Banning spam or any of the software thats used to create it means nothing. People will still get spam, maybe not as much but they will still get it and they will still need filters. It just ads another layer of legislation to the internet which is essentially just a hack, so you have to balance it out - if people are still going to get spam and always will even if the whole world bans it, then they might as well just use filters, is it worth reducing it abit by adding more laws?
Governments are acting like Microsoft, their laws are full of massive holes so every month they issue more hot-fixes, thats not the way to do it.
You can stop most pop-up adverts and you can stop most spam. Instead of making draconian laws that involve banning software - the very same type of laws we try to stop when its the DMCA. We can use technology to stop these annoying things. Any sort of html based pop-up can easily be stopped in the browser or via a proxy, if its something you downloaded then dont download it! Most adware programs have been cracked - eg. Kazaa lite to stop adverts so you can use the cracks and show the marketing people just how much you hate intrusive adverts. Dont let the government fill the internet with stupid legislation thats un enforceable and usually punishes people who have legitimate uses against it.
Banning list-generation software seems a bit heavy-handed, doesn't it?
As usual the people making the laws seem to be making mistakes.
Making laws is like making love (with a sheep) - you gotta cover every hole, but you still need to let it breathe!
Ok im sorry about that, really i am, i will get help i promise.
Just checking.. the RIAA arnt comming to England any time soon are they?
It would be interesting to see what a world without music labels would be like, and how that could be acomplished. I'm all for ruining the RIAA and its members, even just for the curiosity factor, sure you might loose a couple of bands and knock-offs from stupid reality tv shows, but really, who cares? maybe if were lucky we could loose Justin Timberlake, but he probably has enough cash to make it on his own.
Ok i havnt RTFA and i dont no much about American copyright, but isnt there a law that says you must uphold copyright infringements, i.e you have no choice in who you sue, you have to sue everyone who infringes your work?
Either way, i wouldnt mind writing and signing a document promising that i will never buy a CD, do they have any of those forms ready yet?
Now all i need is a way to reshape the bullet in-flight for my high powered rifle and presto, the perfect assasination ;)