I think that the subscription series is the next step.
There are at least two kinds of TV with completely different models for revenue. One of them is where the content, the show, is the "product" to be sold. It will be well suited to adapt to pay-per-view internet channels. The other way is where the "product" is the viewer herself. The TV channel is essentially using the TV shows as bait to lure enough eyeballs to the TV so they can sell these viewers to advertising. American broadcast TV is for the most part using the latter model and this model doesn't cope well with DVR and pay-per-view, so it will be declining in favor of the first model. A variation of the first model is the pay-per-channel model a la HBO, but with internet streaming TV being feasible, this model will decline in favour of pay-per-view.
I also predict that we will see new TV business models in the future. One possible development is TV show access being given away as freebees to patrons of *another* product. For example, when buying a certain brand car, you could get access to the next season of Sopranos.
Can anyone give me a real reason for NOT having cameras in public places instead of screaming "Orwellian" or "1984" all the time?
Remember that there are many, many examples in recent history where the "terrorists" have been the good guys.
The common assumption that the people controlling the cameras will remain benevolent and good for all eternity is false.
Sooner or later there will be a Bad Guy in power. One that will put an end to democratic elections and declar himself Emperor, Chancellor or just Big Cheese. That day, the massive surveillance infrastructure will make it so much harder for the resistance. Every single camera will cost lives.
The real question is: Would you react exactly the same to the same situation every time? If so, your actions are said to be deterministic.
Reacting to a situation has little to do with free will. Reacting is not free will.
Free will is when you have the power to create the situation, without reacting to anything. Free will is the power to be the cause without a prior cause, by will alone be the start of the physical world's chain reaction of cause-effect.
Can someone explain why copyrights and patents should expire? I'm being serious.
Because patents often are about physical phenomena which can't be duplicated, and because "Inventing" is in a sense not creating something which did not exist, but rather being really smart and be the first one to figure something out.
Take fire, for example. Imagine someone having a patent on using fire for cooking. That would be a rich family by now, huh? Or what if my ancestors had filed a patent on using a round device called a wheel to reduce friction.
Todays patents on compressed sound and video (aka mp3 or dvd) are more advanced, but they still deal with something which is essentially a naturally occuring phenomenon just waiting to be discovered and used.
The purpose of patents should be to reward the inventor/discovery so society can benefit from more inventions, but the reward should not be so large the inventor benefits more than society does.
You say FRA has always been listening to "international" traffic (radio, satellite etc), not cable/telephone.
But reading the article, Per Kjellnäs, former head of FRA, says that his organization did in fact listen in on telecommunications, but never over the cable network.
FRA are free to legally eavesdrop on every cellphone call as it is not over cable, as well as every cable call that is transmitted using a radio link somewhere before reaching the other subscriber. That is, most telephone calls within Sweden.
As most of the time DOS attacks are performed from outside the country, and therefor outside its juridiction, I doubt they'll even invoke it in court.
This law will allow the police to obtain the identity of the person using the IP address that is used for the DOS attack, even if this DOS attack is directed from Sweden to the outside world. I am sure there is a large amount of political pressure from the US in this matter and Swedish politicians are easy to intimidate.
It is important to note that the sentence term of 2 years was not chosen at random. When a crime carries this sentence as a possiblity, the Swedish police gets greater powers to use surveillance, wiretapping and raids to secure evidence such as the identity of person using a specific IP address.
In fact, this is also why thePiratebay.org exists and is so successful - since file sharing carries a sentence which is usually much less than 2 years, the police are not allowed to raid or subpoena the ISPs for the identity of the person that is using a specific IP address. (The Swedish MPAA aka APB have treid hard to get a criminal conviction for file sharing for this reason.)
Each of us can almost always look at a scene and determine the difference between a jogger and a purse thief on the run or a businessman late for an appointment.
Actually, we can't, we just base this recognition on stereotypes. A well known Swedish criminal called "the laser man" exploited this in the early 90s when robbing banks. He would rob the bank and then change clothes to a business man or a jogger, and then escape the scene. The police would more often than not let him pass through because they were looking for a "escaping robber", not for a "business man taking a slow paced walk".
The police caught on eventually and caught the guy. Computers would of course have even greater difficulties to think "outside the box".
Another example is the US no-fly list.... Another man interviewed by the Daily Show was labeled as Saddam Huessein's *dead* son, whose age would have required Saddam to have sired him at the age of 11!.
Duh, obviosly any intelligent terrorist would fake their age on their ID before boarding!
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I hate them both. I'm not popular amongst Unix users.
Word up, man!
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Assuming we can measure these, of course: * PC boxes per capita
Iceland wins this category, hands down.
* Bittorrent activity
Sweden (Thepiratebay.Org!)
* Secured wifi networks per capita
Holland (check out the global wireless mapping projects)
* Wikipedia contributors
Iraq? Until they got blocked.
* Middle-aged men/women with same legal residence as parents
Italy or Spain. Seriosly.
*...others?
Mars doesn't appear to have a high techie density but if water is found, all bets are off.
The best clients can do is make sure packets are being spread once they're sent to another person. The algorithm works like this --send a "rare" packet, watch to make sure another client shows up with that rare packet in X time. Clients should send their rarest packets first, to keep the swarm happy.
One thing I've noticed is a problem with torrents that are popular and take some time to seed such as..,well amateur home videos.
Quite often new leeches join in on the fun, and everybody starts feeding them packets. They then drop off quickly and all those rare packets being given to the newbies are lost and must be seeded again. I have a feeling this is done intentionally by the RIAA/MPAA to keep torrents really slow.
Perhaps at least the super-seeding mode could be tuned so that clients who have been seen in the swarm the longest gets rewarded with more packets, as they can be assumed to be the most reliable.
The search giant will let employees sell their vested stock options to selected financial institutions in an auction marketplace
That's pure genius! Perhaps we could have professionals bidding on this market place and call them "auction brokers" and we can then have all these professionals work in a place we call the "auction exchange". We could then allow any company that meets certain standards to hold auctions on this market place and code different company auctions with a letter code we can call "auction ticker". Imagine the possibilities.
I thought the idea of voting with my wallet and purchasing the DRM-free mp3 was a good one, but when following the link I got
Sorry, this page is not available in your country
Credit cards have worked online for just about anything else for the last decade. Well, I am sure looking forward to the day our overlords in the music industry cast away the shackles of national borders.
The next step will be RFID in passports, after that RFID tag at birth, under the skin. And while they're at it they might as well take a DNA sample.
That's not a futuristic scenario anymore... Sweden, a leader in this field, now has RFID tags in passports and has been collecting and storing DNA samples of everyone born since 1980. It's true, check it out.
Indeed. So why not outsource the spam filtering, and have a human being in Nigeria read through your mails, and decide if they are spam or not. I am sure they would know if King Mukabuto really was that rich or not.
How do I know that the defect is gone if it is fixed?
Customers with strict requirements on visual accuracy that can only be measured using advanced technical devices are probably few as they would not be using a low-end digital camera in the first place.
One might argue that if you can't see the difference it might not be important for most customers. Does the camera have a problem if you don't even notice it?
I hope you do not assume other manufacturers cameras are "accurate" or "correct" just because of the absence of a similar recall announcement. That would be foolish.
First they made the Sex museum and now there's going to be a Creationist museum? When will they finally make one we nerds can identify with?
Sir, you are lucky. Get your passport in order and obtain Homeland Security approval for travel.
In Sweden, they think sex shouldn't be restricted to a single museum, instead they have built a very nerdy and interesting Computer Museum which is worth a visit. http://www.itceum.se/
There are several comments that says "you have to trust your IT staff". This is all very fine, you can trust them just as much you can trust your Finance department to never leak financial information to selected stock brokers before the quarterly report is released. And we all know that never happends. We can also trust IT staff as much as police officers, and we all know that police officers never snoop on the wife's lover or on the daughter's boyfriend. Yeah, right. Wake up.
My point is that trust is fine but not nearly enough. It is a known fact that the trust will be broken so there must be failsafes built into the system to recover from failures, just like you have a disaster recovery procedure for your servers.
Usually this involves a lot of logging to at least make someone accountable for the inevitable mis-use of information.
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I think that the subscription series is the next step.
There are at least two kinds of TV with completely different models for revenue. One of them is where the content, the show, is the "product" to be sold. It will be well suited to adapt to pay-per-view internet channels. The other way is where the "product" is the viewer herself. The TV channel is essentially using the TV shows as bait to lure enough eyeballs to the TV so they can sell these viewers to advertising. American broadcast TV is for the most part using the latter model and this model doesn't cope well with DVR and pay-per-view, so it will be declining in favor of the first model. A variation of the first model is the pay-per-channel model a la HBO, but with internet streaming TV being feasible, this model will decline in favour of pay-per-view.
I also predict that we will see new TV business models in the future. One possible development is TV show access being given away as freebees to patrons of *another* product. For example, when buying a certain brand car, you could get access to the next season of Sopranos.
Can anyone give me a real reason for NOT having cameras in public places instead of screaming "Orwellian" or "1984" all the time?
Remember that there are many, many examples in recent history where the "terrorists" have been the good guys.
The common assumption that the people controlling the cameras will remain benevolent and good for all eternity is false.
Sooner or later there will be a Bad Guy in power. One that will put an end to democratic elections and declar himself Emperor, Chancellor or just Big Cheese. That day, the massive surveillance infrastructure will make it so much harder for the resistance. Every single camera will cost lives.
Not a false positive. The Chinese pirated copies of windows probably come pre-installed with Backdoor.Haxdoor
Of course the do, courtesy of CIA and the NSA. That's why symantec had to back down and quick...
So the only way to get rid of those changes is to accept or reject each one individually.
This is faster: Select All, Copy, Create New Document, Paste, Save. Done.
The real question is: Would you react exactly the same to the same situation every time? If so, your actions are said to be deterministic.
Reacting to a situation has little to do with free will. Reacting is not free will.
Free will is when you have the power to create the situation, without reacting to anything. Free will is the power to be the cause without a prior cause, by will alone be the start of the physical world's chain reaction of cause-effect.
Can someone explain why copyrights and patents should expire? I'm being serious.
Because patents often are about physical phenomena which can't be duplicated, and because "Inventing" is in a sense not creating something which did not exist, but rather being really smart and be the first one to figure something out.
Take fire, for example. Imagine someone having a patent on using fire for cooking. That would be a rich family by now, huh? Or what if my ancestors had filed a patent on using a round device called a wheel to reduce friction.
Todays patents on compressed sound and video (aka mp3 or dvd) are more advanced, but they still deal with something which is essentially a naturally occuring phenomenon just waiting to be discovered and used.
The purpose of patents should be to reward the inventor/discovery so society can benefit from more inventions, but the reward should not be so large the inventor benefits more than society does.
Quick and dirty solution: Pig Latin.
All they want is to identify the terrorists: Allah and Jihad are the only words the system needs to know.
You say FRA has always been listening to "international" traffic (radio, satellite etc), not cable/telephone.
But reading the article, Per Kjellnäs, former head of FRA, says that his organization did in fact listen in on telecommunications, but never over the cable network.
FRA are free to legally eavesdrop on every cellphone call as it is not over cable, as well as every cable call that is transmitted using a radio link somewhere before reaching the other subscriber. That is, most telephone calls within Sweden.
As most of the time DOS attacks are performed from outside the country, and therefor outside its juridiction, I doubt they'll even invoke it in court.
This law will allow the police to obtain the identity of the person using the IP address that is used for the DOS attack, even if this DOS attack is directed from Sweden to the outside world. I am sure there is a large amount of political pressure from the US in this matter and Swedish politicians are easy to intimidate.
It is important to note that the sentence term of 2 years was not chosen at random. When a crime carries this sentence as a possiblity, the Swedish police gets greater powers to use surveillance, wiretapping and raids to secure evidence such as the identity of person using a specific IP address.
In fact, this is also why thePiratebay.org exists and is so successful - since file sharing carries a sentence which is usually much less than 2 years, the police are not allowed to raid or subpoena the ISPs for the identity of the person that is using a specific IP address. (The Swedish MPAA aka APB have treid hard to get a criminal conviction for file sharing for this reason.)
Each of us can almost always look at a scene and determine the difference between a jogger and a purse thief on the run or a businessman late for an appointment.
Actually, we can't, we just base this recognition on stereotypes. A well known Swedish criminal called "the laser man" exploited this in the early 90s when robbing banks. He would rob the bank and then change clothes to a business man or a jogger, and then escape the scene. The police would more often than not let him pass through because they were looking for a "escaping robber", not for a "business man taking a slow paced walk".
The police caught on eventually and caught the guy. Computers would of course have even greater difficulties to think "outside the box".
Duh, obviosly any intelligent terrorist would fake their age on their ID before boarding!
Word up, man!
Iceland wins this category, hands down.
Sweden (Thepiratebay.Org!)
Holland (check out the global wireless mapping projects)
Iraq? Until they got blocked.
Italy or Spain. Seriosly.
Mars doesn't appear to have a high techie density but if water is found, all bets are off.
The best clients can do is make sure packets are being spread once they're sent to another person. The algorithm works like this --send a "rare" packet, watch to make sure another client shows up with that rare packet in X time. Clients should send their rarest packets first, to keep the swarm happy.
..,well amateur home videos.
One thing I've noticed is a problem with torrents that are popular and take some time to seed such as
Quite often new leeches join in on the fun, and everybody starts feeding them packets. They then drop off quickly and all those rare packets being given to the newbies are lost and must be seeded again. I have a feeling this is done intentionally by the RIAA/MPAA to keep torrents really slow.
Perhaps at least the super-seeding mode could be tuned so that clients who have been seen in the swarm the longest gets rewarded with more packets, as they can be assumed to be the most reliable.
How could Time pick such a self-absorbed, idiotic loser as Person of the Year?
Because they felt Paris Hilton has had too much media attention already?
The search giant will let employees sell their vested stock options to selected financial institutions in an auction marketplace
That's pure genius! Perhaps we could have professionals bidding on this market place and call them "auction brokers" and we can then have all these professionals work in a place we call the "auction exchange". We could then allow any company that meets certain standards to hold auctions on this market place and code different company auctions with a letter code we can call "auction ticker".
Imagine the possibilities.
Follow your dreams. You can meet your goals. I am living proof. Beefcake! BEEFCAKE!
This is a thread about programming. Are you sure you didn't mean to say 0xDEADBEEF?
I thought the idea of voting with my wallet and purchasing the DRM-free mp3 was a good one, but when following the link I got
Sorry, this page is not available in your country
Credit cards have worked online for just about anything else for the last decade. Well, I am sure looking forward to the day our overlords in the music industry cast away the shackles of national borders.
The next step will be RFID in passports, after that RFID tag at birth, under the skin. And while they're at it they might as well take a DNA sample.
That's not a futuristic scenario anymore... Sweden, a leader in this field, now has RFID tags in passports and has been collecting and storing DNA samples of everyone born since 1980. It's true, check it out.
2. The Human solution sometimes is the best.
Indeed. So why not outsource the spam filtering, and have a human being in Nigeria read through your mails, and decide if they are spam or not. I am sure they would know if King Mukabuto really was that rich or not.
How do I know that the defect is gone if it is fixed?
Customers with strict requirements on visual accuracy that can only be measured using advanced technical devices are probably few as they would not be using a low-end digital camera in the first place.
One might argue that if you can't see the difference it might not be important for most customers. Does the camera have a problem if you don't even notice it?
I hope you do not assume other manufacturers cameras are "accurate" or "correct" just because of the absence of a similar recall announcement. That would be foolish.
First they made the Sex museum and now there's going to be a Creationist museum? When will they finally make one we nerds can identify with?
Sir, you are lucky. Get your passport in order and obtain Homeland Security approval for travel.
In Sweden, they think sex shouldn't be restricted to a single museum, instead they have built a very nerdy and interesting Computer Museum which is worth a visit. http://www.itceum.se/
They snipped off the tip of a tail, severed a spinal cord, injured the optic nerve and damaged various internal organs.
Sounds like the script of a Tarantino movie...
when the software costs tens of thousands of dollars per seat, there's a great incentive for vendors to lock it down.
Yes, the massive pirating by the 15 year old piratebay crews would surely hurt their revenues.
There are several comments that says "you have to trust your IT staff". This is all very fine, you can trust them just as much you can trust your Finance department to never leak financial information to selected stock brokers before the quarterly report is released. And we all know that never happends. We can also trust IT staff as much as police officers, and we all know that police officers never snoop on the wife's lover or on the daughter's boyfriend. Yeah, right. Wake up.
My point is that trust is fine but not nearly enough. It is a known fact that the trust will be broken so there must be failsafes built into the system to recover from failures, just like you have a disaster recovery procedure for your servers.
Usually this involves a lot of logging to at least make someone accountable for the inevitable mis-use of information.