The question here is what disadvantages would the MPAA have in intentionally failing a DRM download distribution scheme. I think the most obvious one is that they would prove people dont want to download movies, and that the problem truely lies with traditional distribution methods being troublesome. If you can get a dvd screener and watch it with 4 or 5 of your friends, it's certainly a better option than spending a combined $50 at the theater when the movie comes out. By making the download release concurrent with dvd release, this group is doing nothing to combat that problem.
Microsoft as a company gives money to a list of senseless organizations (and I'm not saying that because I don't like any on the list). While supporting Focus On The Family on one side, Microsoft simultaneously supports planned parenthood. These organizations are mutually opposed. It's like giving money to Hitler while at the same time giving money to Churchill (except forget about the good/evil part). I really don't know if the B&MG foundation is as bad as this, but it would at least seem that Gates gives to be seen of men, not because he believes in anything. This is of course bad, because if Gates feels he must show off he must be hiding something.
The EU government has no reason to do so. They will keep on fining M$ for their antitrust behavior, and only when the fine amount becomes to large will they slow down. The money that they are collecting from microsoft will help pay for future law suits that microsoft brings against them.
There are two factors which keep good connections from getting to people here in the US. 1) Monopolies get away with a bunch. This one is obvious, and the success of the EU over Microsoft (in opposition to the DOJ) shows it pretty well. 2) Most of the country is not near a urban area. Running a fiber optic cable for 50 miles is significantly more difficult than 5 miles.
The US has had some of the worst telephone service in the world for quite some time now, and most of the problem is just regulatory.
I think the assertion is that by Microsoft recoding IE, they are strengthening their own case that Eolas is a patent lizzard. If they simply paid the money, web developers would still be bad off, because they'd have to pay more for MS development accesss. The devs involved know what is going on, and they see Microsoft's case as stronger now.
You have to give Microsoft an F, because when outside developers make programs for windows, they must do significantly better than M$ to provide a program that works. You can see this happen in all the programs that don't readily work on Windows (netscape 4.x comes to mind).
Step back and look for a minute; Microsoft can't really describe mediocrity in the OS market, because they're decidedly below almost everyone else.
I'm afraid you are the one who doesn't understand. There simply aren't any disinterested parties when it comes to elections in the US. For example, there is a long standing sterotype that republicans are good for business. If your "independent" consulting firm is dumb enough to believe this, then they will not be reliable. On the other hand, the tech who does the work may have ties to greenpeace, and decide to sway the election to Ralph Nader. Your solution simply doesn't account for these moronically simple scenarios, and it is in fact what the State Election Commission did in this case. (BlackBoxVoting did hire an independent consultant to do the work).
Sometimes you can't just drop variables out of a situation. Playing the variables to your advantage is the only option.
I have to disagree; If a group appears to be non-advocacy then you simply cannot verify their political position. It is however quite a bit harder to fake being an advocacy group when in fact you are on the other side. Trying to avoid what will indefinatly happen here, isn't a viable solution. The only reason to secure these machines is because people will try to attack the machines from multiple angles. If any one of the groups succeeds in altering the state of the machine, the security implemented by diebold has failed.
I think a much better solution would be to pay diebold based on the number of security breaches. Obviously this kind of machine will have to be maintained, so pay diebold $N*X for every month the machine remains secure. For every occurance of a security breach, subtract 1N from their pay, and give the money to the group which successfully breached the system. The amount of money should be significant enough that even non-political groups would be encouraged to participate, and you would have to setup rules which would retain a reasonable element of attack. These machines should be in a secure environment, so such an attack would have to be accomplished without opening the system to replace parts.
From what diebold is claiming, and extorting from government, my guess is they would fail on several accounts.
I think you're giving too much credit to Ballmers children. Ipods are not competitively priced for their market (neither is creative, or sony... it's the no-brands that are the best deal here). Google is the best of search engines, but for what most children use, msn or yahoo would be just about as good. I think the point is that Ballmers children are just trying to be like everyone else, and Steve isn't liking it. If he rally wants to keep his kids off ipods and google, he should buy them a media player (from a non-apple company), and block google on his firewall.
There really isn't a lot to learn from the competing products; Microsoft only needs a bigger market share to be more competative in these areas, and If MS could copy what their competitors were doing (they can't in the case of google), they would.
You'd be surprised just how few people know that email addresses aren't case sensitive. Don't bother explaining it to one of these poor souls, you'll just confuse him/her.
Lets see here, in order to be a spam king you need to be accomplished in a few of if not all of the followng...
1) Criminal Fruad. (Think "unsubscribe") 2) FCC rule-breaking 3) Microsoft Exploits 4) Bank scams 5) Obscenity
This in addition to what you mentioned, that a spam business indicates more crimes means it should be taken very seriously. Why has the DoJ been so bent on making examples of hackers, but completely ignored the true scum that are scammers?
Your idea sounds good enough with little thought, but really law enforcement is trusted too much already. It would be pretty sad if a officer could get a bum off the street, authorize two "waivers" and then legally let someone pound a adversary. Of course there's little to stop this from happening now, with this kind of loophole you take away all accountability.
Housing is a terrible indication of inflation. Your analogy is bad, but CD album costs are not much higher than LPs when you consider inflation. Whatever the cause, there will be an opportunity for the industry to raise their prices. It might not happen though, dvd releases are approximately the same price as a VHS tape, when there's a VHS available.
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My reasons were sound, I was trying to show the parent just how rediculous his assertions were by conforming to the same style. CD's have been around what, maybe 20 years? Dvds haven't been around for ten, but someone is saying that the consumer shouldn't have backup rights simply because these new formats are reliable. Thats like arguing that your BMW is reliable because it's newer than a Model T, and it hasn't broken down in the first 30k miles. The only difference is that Books are a lot more reliable than a model T.
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1) I'm not convinced that the first amendment should apply to you! 2) DRM should be not be allowable for copywrited works. 3) What are you going to do when your cheap dvd player breaks (this will invariably happen, eventually), and you loose your disk?
It is not your place to question fair use, fair use is a integral part of copyright law. Furthermore, your argument against backups doesn't work. Books do not fail to work if their cover falls off, and to be completely fair, you should consider the degrade rates of different mediums. Optical disks haven't been around long enough to verify if they hold up even a similar amount of time as a properly printed book. There are books still in circulation that were written 100 years ago, and until that is the case for optical disks, there simply _isn't any argument_ that they should not be copyable.
It's a high-end workstation card; the price on these things drops only about 10% for the first 5 years simply because they aren't mass produced, and they aren't mass marketed.
Switching to a minute-by-minute rate is probably the only solution to avoiding hidden charges. It shouldn't be this way, but it is. There is a bonus though, a few prepaid wirless providers are selling service at 10c/min which is very close to the same cost you'll pay for a $40/month service. For people who use phones less than 400min/month, it's a nice option.
Fact is, you can get a nokia 6010 with low-cost service from t-mobile already. It may not be as good as around the world, but when you only have to compete with gross theivery in the rest of the industry it's hard to justify being low-cost.
Of course like you said, his assertion is a little underdefined. Such a scheme could still be possible if you wrote a proprietary streaming client/server and only released it for the device in question. It could be considered DRM in the most elementary sense, but it would not be as intrusive as most schemes. OTOH, why would you want to hear someone else's music on your own super-cool $500 player? The idea might work, but nobody would use it for streaming.
I think that it should only be SUPERHERO, in bold, yellow print.
Honestly, Marvel/DC should be able to argue any form of the compound word (if they actually had a legitimate claim), but going after a bar is really outside their business. A C&D letter in this case would be inappropriate, and all the bar would have to do is make a reference to the Marvel/DC trademark.
Do the 8-15% of households with HDTV's have the HDMI port? If not, they wont be watching hi-def. All the backstabbing in the consumer electronics business is really what will keep people away from BD/HD, either because people are paranoid or just simply confused out of their minds. By treating early adopters of HDTVs with no respect, Sony and Toshiba will likely find many problems selling their next-gen equipment.
Unlike p2p networks where there isn't a solid paper trail, these websites hire people. If they are conducting business in the U.S., they may still be required to follow this law. Payment schemes also make things more complex.
Minor is the word they use when they're trying to corral irresponsible adults. As to your argument, the issue isn't the body part, it's whose body part. The wording (at least in the topic) was pretty self-contradicting though.
You should note that I didn't say "if you want a cheap system go to a friend/pc shop" I said high quality. The kind of profit margin that either Dell or Alienware pushes out for their top of the line systems is in hundreds of dollars. If you want the best, and are willing to pay for the best you should go to someone you trust.
I'm not sure if your NAS device is IDE based or SCSI based (internally). ATA drives use a locking mechanism that is not actually on the disk, but on the circuit boards surrounding the disk (I have some experience with locking/unlocking drives for Xbox repair/modification). Some drives dont lock, others will lock, but do not unlock when supplied with the correct password. I haven't had a new drive go into a persistant lock state, but a referbished drive was persistantly locked the first time I locked it, and a older 8gb drive failed to work in a system simply because it would not unlock.
You should be especially careful with any data you keep on a system of this type. I would reccomend at least keeping a mirror of the box to make sure you dont loose the whole thing.
AlienWare starts systems with about the same level of hardware as Dell. Last time I looked at their lineup, they were trying to sell a system with embedded video. We know how bad Dell support is, and they will likely move their alienware support devision to india too. The only good thing I can see coming of this is lower prices. This really makes sense, if you want a high quality system and support, you should go to a PC shop or a friend.
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The question here is what disadvantages would the MPAA have in intentionally failing a DRM download distribution scheme. I think the most obvious one is that they would prove people dont want to download movies, and that the problem truely lies with traditional distribution methods being troublesome. If you can get a dvd screener and watch it with 4 or 5 of your friends, it's certainly a better option than spending a combined $50 at the theater when the movie comes out. By making the download release concurrent with dvd release, this group is doing nothing to combat that problem.
Microsoft as a company gives money to a list of senseless organizations (and I'm not saying that because I don't like any on the list). While supporting Focus On The Family on one side, Microsoft simultaneously supports planned parenthood. These organizations are mutually opposed. It's like giving money to Hitler while at the same time giving money to Churchill (except forget about the good/evil part). I really don't know if the B&MG foundation is as bad as this, but it would at least seem that Gates gives to be seen of men, not because he believes in anything. This is of course bad, because if Gates feels he must show off he must be hiding something.
The EU government has no reason to do so. They will keep on fining M$ for their antitrust behavior, and only when the fine amount becomes to large will they slow down. The money that they are collecting from microsoft will help pay for future law suits that microsoft brings against them.
There are two factors which keep good connections from getting to people here in the US.
1) Monopolies get away with a bunch. This one is obvious, and the success of the EU over Microsoft (in opposition to the DOJ) shows it pretty well.
2) Most of the country is not near a urban area. Running a fiber optic cable for 50 miles is significantly more difficult than 5 miles.
The US has had some of the worst telephone service in the world for quite some time now, and most of the problem is just regulatory.
I think the assertion is that by Microsoft recoding IE, they are strengthening their own case that Eolas is a patent lizzard. If they simply paid the money, web developers would still be bad off, because they'd have to pay more for MS development accesss. The devs involved know what is going on, and they see Microsoft's case as stronger now.
You have to give Microsoft an F, because when outside developers make programs for windows, they must do significantly better than M$ to provide a program that works. You can see this happen in all the programs that don't readily work on Windows (netscape 4.x comes to mind).
Step back and look for a minute; Microsoft can't really describe mediocrity in the OS market, because they're decidedly below almost everyone else.
I'm afraid you are the one who doesn't understand. There simply aren't any disinterested parties when it comes to elections in the US. For example, there is a long standing sterotype that republicans are good for business. If your "independent" consulting firm is dumb enough to believe this, then they will not be reliable. On the other hand, the tech who does the work may have ties to greenpeace, and decide to sway the election to Ralph Nader. Your solution simply doesn't account for these moronically simple scenarios, and it is in fact what the State Election Commission did in this case. (BlackBoxVoting did hire an independent consultant to do the work).
Sometimes you can't just drop variables out of a situation. Playing the variables to your advantage is the only option.
I have to disagree; If a group appears to be non-advocacy then you simply cannot verify their political position. It is however quite a bit harder to fake being an advocacy group when in fact you are on the other side. Trying to avoid what will indefinatly happen here, isn't a viable solution. The only reason to secure these machines is because people will try to attack the machines from multiple angles. If any one of the groups succeeds in altering the state of the machine, the security implemented by diebold has failed.
I think a much better solution would be to pay diebold based on the number of security breaches. Obviously this kind of machine will have to be maintained, so pay diebold $N*X for every month the machine remains secure. For every occurance of a security breach, subtract 1N from their pay, and give the money to the group which successfully breached the system. The amount of money should be significant enough that even non-political groups would be encouraged to participate, and you would have to setup rules which would retain a reasonable element of attack. These machines should be in a secure environment, so such an attack would have to be accomplished without opening the system to replace parts.
From what diebold is claiming, and extorting from government, my guess is they would fail on several accounts.
I think you're giving too much credit to Ballmers children. Ipods are not competitively priced for their market (neither is creative, or sony... it's the no-brands that are the best deal here). Google is the best of search engines, but for what most children use, msn or yahoo would be just about as good. I think the point is that Ballmers children are just trying to be like everyone else, and Steve isn't liking it. If he rally wants to keep his kids off ipods and google, he should buy them a media player (from a non-apple company), and block google on his firewall.
There really isn't a lot to learn from the competing products; Microsoft only needs a bigger market share to be more competative in these areas, and If MS could copy what their competitors were doing (they can't in the case of google), they would.
You'd be surprised just how few people know that email addresses aren't case sensitive. Don't bother explaining it to one of these poor souls, you'll just confuse him/her.
Lets see here, in order to be a spam king you need to be accomplished in a few of if not all of the followng...
1) Criminal Fruad. (Think "unsubscribe")
2) FCC rule-breaking
3) Microsoft Exploits
4) Bank scams
5) Obscenity
This in addition to what you mentioned, that a spam business indicates more crimes means it should be taken very seriously. Why has the DoJ been so bent on making examples of hackers, but completely ignored the true scum that are scammers?
Your idea sounds good enough with little thought, but really law enforcement is trusted too much already. It would be pretty sad if a officer could get a bum off the street, authorize two "waivers" and then legally let someone pound a adversary. Of course there's little to stop this from happening now, with this kind of loophole you take away all accountability.
Housing is a terrible indication of inflation. Your analogy is bad, but CD album costs are not much higher than LPs when you consider inflation. Whatever the cause, there will be an opportunity for the industry to raise their prices. It might not happen though, dvd releases are approximately the same price as a VHS tape, when there's a VHS available.
My reasons were sound, I was trying to show the parent just how rediculous his assertions were by conforming to the same style. CD's have been around what, maybe 20 years? Dvds haven't been around for ten, but someone is saying that the consumer shouldn't have backup rights simply because these new formats are reliable. Thats like arguing that your BMW is reliable because it's newer than a Model T, and it hasn't broken down in the first 30k miles. The only difference is that Books are a lot more reliable than a model T.
1) I'm not convinced that the first amendment should apply to you!
2) DRM should be not be allowable for copywrited works.
3) What are you going to do when your cheap dvd player breaks (this will invariably happen, eventually), and you loose your disk?
It is not your place to question fair use, fair use is a integral part of copyright law. Furthermore, your argument against backups doesn't work. Books do not fail to work if their cover falls off, and to be completely fair, you should consider the degrade rates of different mediums. Optical disks haven't been around long enough to verify if they hold up even a similar amount of time as a properly printed book. There are books still in circulation that were written 100 years ago, and until that is the case for optical disks, there simply _isn't any argument_ that they should not be copyable.
It's a high-end workstation card; the price on these things drops only about 10% for the first 5 years simply because they aren't mass produced, and they aren't mass marketed.
Switching to a minute-by-minute rate is probably the only solution to avoiding hidden charges. It shouldn't be this way, but it is. There is a bonus though, a few prepaid wirless providers are selling service at 10c/min which is very close to the same cost you'll pay for a $40/month service. For people who use phones less than 400min/month, it's a nice option.
Fact is, you can get a nokia 6010 with low-cost service from t-mobile already. It may not be as good as around the world, but when you only have to compete with gross theivery in the rest of the industry it's hard to justify being low-cost.
Of course like you said, his assertion is a little underdefined. Such a scheme could still be possible if you wrote a proprietary streaming client/server and only released it for the device in question. It could be considered DRM in the most elementary sense, but it would not be as intrusive as most schemes. OTOH, why would you want to hear someone else's music on your own super-cool $500 player? The idea might work, but nobody would use it for streaming.
I think that it should only be SUPERHERO, in bold, yellow print.
Honestly, Marvel/DC should be able to argue any form of the compound word (if they actually had a legitimate claim), but going after a bar is really outside their business. A C&D letter in this case would be inappropriate, and all the bar would have to do is make a reference to the Marvel/DC trademark.
Do the 8-15% of households with HDTV's have the HDMI port? If not, they wont be watching hi-def. All the backstabbing in the consumer electronics business is really what will keep people away from BD/HD, either because people are paranoid or just simply confused out of their minds. By treating early adopters of HDTVs with no respect, Sony and Toshiba will likely find many problems selling their next-gen equipment.
Unlike p2p networks where there isn't a solid paper trail, these websites hire people. If they are conducting business in the U.S., they may still be required to follow this law. Payment schemes also make things more complex.
Minor is the word they use when they're trying to corral irresponsible adults. As to your argument, the issue isn't the body part, it's whose body part. The wording (at least in the topic) was pretty self-contradicting though.
You should note that I didn't say "if you want a cheap system go to a friend/pc shop" I said high quality. The kind of profit margin that either Dell or Alienware pushes out for their top of the line systems is in hundreds of dollars. If you want the best, and are willing to pay for the best you should go to someone you trust.
I'm not sure if your NAS device is IDE based or SCSI based (internally). ATA drives use a locking mechanism that is not actually on the disk, but on the circuit boards surrounding the disk (I have some experience with locking/unlocking drives for Xbox repair/modification). Some drives dont lock, others will lock, but do not unlock when supplied with the correct password. I haven't had a new drive go into a persistant lock state, but a referbished drive was persistantly locked the first time I locked it, and a older 8gb drive failed to work in a system simply because it would not unlock.
You should be especially careful with any data you keep on a system of this type. I would reccomend at least keeping a mirror of the box to make sure you dont loose the whole thing.
AlienWare starts systems with about the same level of hardware as Dell. Last time I looked at their lineup, they were trying to sell a system with embedded video. We know how bad Dell support is, and they will likely move their alienware support devision to india too. The only good thing I can see coming of this is lower prices. This really makes sense, if you want a high quality system and support, you should go to a PC shop or a friend.