We can be thankful that at least Microsoft is now being up front and honest about its true intentions. This has always been M$'s dream and ambition - to extort users by making them pay perpetually for the privilege of supporting M$ hegemony. Let us all remember that this is the M$ endgame every person is supporting when he or she chooses to buy and use Windows, buy XBox consoles and otherwise support that company. We can be relatively sure that Windows 7 will be a flop similar to flop that is Vista, and as M$ grows more desperate for revenue it will start introducing these mandatory "pay and pay and pay again to play" anti-consumer, anti-competitive schemes.
Now should I want to take it further and go LLC or incorporate or what have you there will be many thousands spent on lawyers, taxes, bribes etc.
You really think an LLC or corporation requires thousands in fees, taxes and bribes? Have you ever heard of legalzoom.com or bizfilings.com? They'll get either one of those business entities established for you for under $500. No lawyers need be involved. Now, if you're in a state that punishes small businesses like California you pay a huge $800 per year fee for your corporation or LLC regardless of whether you make a single cent or not, but in most states there are no such mandatory fees.
If the telco wants to stop the city from commencing with its plan to build the network while the matter is being litigated, the telco has to seek an injunction against the city. Otherwise, the city can proceed until there's a ruling or verdict one way or the other. IANAL.
This concept of a semantic web is pretty new to me as a general "Web 2.0" type buzzword. There's no question that in general we want our computing experiences to be more thorough and intelligent. But if we're talking about computers analyzing the web, what we really are looking for it seems is true artificial intelligence. We want the type of AI that Tony Stark has. And I think 25 years from now perhaps we may start getting systems that come close to that goal, but there still appears to be a lot of work required before we realize those dreams.
That's a good idea in general, but Apple probably doesn't want to expose its hardware divisions to that level of competition. Apple knows the market would reward a company that provided midrange tower hardware but Apple chooses not to compete in that space, so there's a danger that those midrange clones could become very popular if Apple were to officially support them to any extent..
Could a third party sue to force the case to be brought into a court of law, claiming public interest in the matter?
U.S. courts require that those bringing lawsuits have "standing" to bring them. A third party can't bring a lawsuit on behalf of another because that third party would have no standing in court to do so.
That is an impressive gain eBay received through those analytics. I have to wonder, though, why it took so long for their network team to remove bottlenecks. Was there some breakthrough technology that just recently allowed for this kind analysis, or were the engineers lazy all these years?
Neither Sony nor Apple support homebrew/CFW/jailbreak. as a result, if you want the freedom to use your own device as you see fit, you need to void your warranty, and Apple/Sony have shown that they will actively try to combat such practices.
Minor quibble, you don't void your warranty through jail-breaks. I don't Apple has ever refused service over that issue. Unlocking yes, but unauthorized software installation I don't think so.
I suppose young people have a perfectly fine excuse for our Internet addictions: We're just making use of our brains! I do wonder whether older people would yield increased brain activity similar to younger users when studied over a period of increased Internet usage.
The MacBooks, with their int-degraded graphics, were always lame, but axing Firewire 400 and not adding Firewire 800 is hella-lame. And this is coming from an "Apple Acolyte." Perhaps I need a different/. name.
What in the world is "fast" dial-up? That's an oxymoron AFAIK. Whenever I try to use my AT&T DSL freebie dial-up at remote locales I quickly remember that each web page takes at minimum 4 minutes to load properly.
Should be found and put on trial immediately. Whichever financial guru thought Mortgage Backed Securities and Credit Default Swaps were good ideas for people to invest was either a moron or crook, most likely the latter. I encourage you to RTFA, though, it's a fun read (and I'm no fan of the NY Times).
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Media Wonk
User Profile Paul Sweeting
Paul Sweeting is the editor of ContentAgenda.com and a columnist for Video Business. He has covered the home entertainment industries since 1985 for Billboard, Variety, Publishers Weekly and other leading business publications. He is based in Washington, DC.
It's DMCA exemption time! - October 6, 2008 Get those anti-circumvention exemptions ready kids! It's time for the Copyright Office's triennial review of Section 1201(a)(1) of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, in which the Register of Copyrights makes recommendations to the Librarian of Congress about granting temporary exemptions to the ban on circumventing encryption on certain classes of works. The federal register notice is here. Congress added the triennial review to the DMCA as a fail-safe mechanism, in case it turned out that the blanket ban on circumvention was "unduly burdening" fair use of certain types of work. The exemptions are only good for three years, however, and must be reapplied for with each review.
The last rulemaking, in 2006, resulted in six exemptions:
1. Audiovisual works included in the educational library of a college or universityâ€(TM)s film or media studies department, when circumvention is accomplished for the purpose of making compilations of portions of those works for educational use in the classroom by media studies or film professors.
2. Computer programs and video games distributed in formats that have become obsolete and that require the original media or hardware as a condition of access, when circumvention is accomplished for the purpose of preservation or archival reproduction of published digital works by a library or archive. A format shall be considered obsolete if the machine or system necessary to render perceptible a work stored in that format is no longer manufactured or is no longer reasonably available in the commercial marketplace.
3. Computer programs protected by dongles that prevent access due to malfunction or damage and which are obsolete. A dongle shall be considered obsolete if it is no longer manufactured or if a replacement or repair is no longer reasonably available in the commercial marketplace.
4. Literary works distributed in ebook format when all existing ebook editions of the work (including digital text editions made available by authorized entities) contain access controls that prevent the enabling either of the bookâ€(TM)s read-aloud function or of screen readers that render the text into a specialized format.
5. Computer programs in the form of firmware that enable wireless telephone handsets to connect to a wireless telephone communication network, when circumvention is accomplished for the sole purpose of lawfully connecting to a wireless telephone communication network.
6. Sound recordings, and audiovisual works associated with those sound recordings, distributed in compact disc format and protected by technological protection measures that control access to lawfully purchased works and create or exploit security flaws or vulnerabilities that compromise the security of personal computers, when circumvention is accomplished solely for the purpose of good faith testing, investigating, or correcting such security flaws or vulnerabilities.
Written comments recommending exemptions are due in the Copyright Office December 2, 2008. A notice of proposed rulemaking will be issued later in December based on those recommendations, and final comments are due February 2, 2009.
I don't know the details of his plan, but if the healthcare is only extended to those under a certain level of income
Wrong, it is not. I do know the details of his plan - my degree is in Political Science and I keep up with this stuff on a daily basis. His statement on the subject is something along the lines of, "Under my proposal if you like your current coverage you can keep it, or you can switch to the plan that members of Congress have access to." He says nothing about means testing for this massive new entitlement he's proposing.
Then why do so many of your countrymen come down south to have elective surgery they can't otherwise get in a timely fashion in the great white north? In case others don't know, American politicians suck, and they corrupt most things they try to accomplish. Look at Freddie and Fannie (those great Democratic Party institutions started by American Socialist FDR). The Medicare Entitlement is about to go bust in a spectacular way, and Barack Obama wants to extend that type of program to every person in America. As if we're not going bankrupt fast enough. Yes, he tries to downplay it (especially in the health care ads he's currently running that don't mention his government coverage proposal at all). He thinks that businesses are going to continue paying for their employees' benefits when they can save a bunch and tell them instead to go on Obama's "Congress plan." Well, he's either laughably naive or a liar when he says that. And the fact that McCain completely misses an opportunity to point out his circuitous plan to Socialize medicine is really a huge failure on his part.
Seriously? I think every other government implicitly trusts that the technology the rest of the world uses is good enough to get the job done. Spy agencies should have higher standards, but I somehow doubt Intel M$ clear each one of their designs with the NSA every release. If you can point me to a statute from another government that demands what China is supposedly demanding, I'll concede the point.
Social security is secure because it's not tied to the volatile open market.
Social(ist) (In)Security is not secure at all, but thanks for dodging the question. SS will go bust without substantial reform. As for it not being tied to the "volatile open market," that's why I explicitly said that private accounts could be very conservatively invested, in things like annuities or municipal bonds, and not the stock market. Private retirement plans that government employees have access to have been shown to give as much as twice the returns of that pathetic Socialist pyramid scheme. It's ridiculously outmoded and should be phased out; intellectually honest people can look at the situation objectively and very easily come to that conclusion.
Our system is horrible because it is run by lobbyists and big pharma, not because state socialized medicine is bad.
If you want to believe those are the sole causes, fine, but it still makes absolutely no sense to extend a system that is performing poorly currently and is due to go bust in a huge way in the next two decades to the entire population. Have you seen the Medicare liability data? I assume you haven't. But again with that response you're not answering the question; you're just making up excuses for the failed Social(ist) welfare state.
And let me say, if you're upset because you'll be required to pay more tax than the less fortunate, and cause you to drive a 5 series instead of a 7 with the 18 inch rims. ..
Once again you fail to address the question. I asked about punishing incentive through excessive taxation, and again you can't answer the question.
Ask Palin... please! The comic world is begging you.
I asked Obama for answer, and again you evade because you have no credible response. Besides, Palin isn't the one naively advocating sky high taxes for those making over $250,000 a year in revenue.
Did Hannity shit in your brain? McCain has Falwell. ..
Really quite mature. McCain has distanced himself from the Christian right to a greater extent than Obama has distanced himself from the "religious left." Indeed, it took Wright several direct jabs at Obama for the latter to flip-flop and pull out of the radical church he had belonged to for decades.
Will McCain repudiate Fox News?
You think Fox News and the DailyKOS are at all analogous? You are truly far gone, as is those who bothered to waste mod points on your stupidity.
Coerce? Does that mean we can say, stop killing Palestinians, arresting them, torturing them, and taking their land with the guns, tanks, helicopters, and jets that we give you, accept UN resolution 242 and go back to your 1967 borders. ..
Israel will stop killing so-called "Palestinians" when they stop making war and committing terrorism against Israel; when they give up their perennial dream of "driving the Jews to the Sea" and perpetrating a second Holocaust. As for "taking their land," it is Jewish land From Time Immemorial, and modern day Israel only holds a fraction of its historical land. As for 242, you should reread it because it doesn't say what you think it says (if you've ever read it at all), and as for "1967 border" it would indeed be great if Israel would return to its post-Six Day War 1967 borders, reclaiming the lands it threw away in the 1970s including the Sinai. (I realize that's not what you meant, but I can use your imprecise language in that fashion against you.) As for the so-called "Palestinians," they can go live in any one of 52 predominately Muslim countries in the world, 22 of which are ethnically Arab. If they stop occupying Jewish land and murdering Jews, they'll be able to live in peace with the one Jewish country on earth. But the purpose of my original ques
Senator Obama, why are you opposed to Health Savings Account plans, which would protect people from catastrophic illness costs while giving them a monetary incentives to seek treatment early and stay healthier?
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We can be thankful that at least Microsoft is now being up front and honest about its true intentions. This has always been M$'s dream and ambition - to extort users by making them pay perpetually for the privilege of supporting M$ hegemony. Let us all remember that this is the M$ endgame every person is supporting when he or she chooses to buy and use Windows, buy XBox consoles and otherwise support that company. We can be relatively sure that Windows 7 will be a flop similar to flop that is Vista, and as M$ grows more desperate for revenue it will start introducing these mandatory "pay and pay and pay again to play" anti-consumer, anti-competitive schemes.
And yet so many love to hate Jews and the Jewish State nevertheless. Go figure. . .
No, my under $500 estimate is inclusive of state fees to establish the entity.
Now should I want to take it further and go LLC or incorporate or what have you there will be many thousands spent on lawyers, taxes, bribes etc.
You really think an LLC or corporation requires thousands in fees, taxes and bribes? Have you ever heard of legalzoom.com or bizfilings.com? They'll get either one of those business entities established for you for under $500. No lawyers need be involved. Now, if you're in a state that punishes small businesses like California you pay a huge $800 per year fee for your corporation or LLC regardless of whether you make a single cent or not, but in most states there are no such mandatory fees.
If the telco wants to stop the city from commencing with its plan to build the network while the matter is being litigated, the telco has to seek an injunction against the city. Otherwise, the city can proceed until there's a ruling or verdict one way or the other. IANAL.
This concept of a semantic web is pretty new to me as a general "Web 2.0" type buzzword. There's no question that in general we want our computing experiences to be more thorough and intelligent. But if we're talking about computers analyzing the web, what we really are looking for it seems is true artificial intelligence. We want the type of AI that Tony Stark has. And I think 25 years from now perhaps we may start getting systems that come close to that goal, but there still appears to be a lot of work required before we realize those dreams.
If your Mac seriously takes 1.5 minutes to boot stock, you can call that a big old FAIL.
Apple now has 10% share of the market and growing. I'd say OS X is real and increasing competition for Windows now.
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That's a good idea in general, but Apple probably doesn't want to expose its hardware divisions to that level of competition. Apple knows the market would reward a company that provided midrange tower hardware but Apple chooses not to compete in that space, so there's a danger that those midrange clones could become very popular if Apple were to officially support them to any extent..
Could a third party sue to force the case to be brought into a court of law, claiming public interest in the matter?
U.S. courts require that those bringing lawsuits have "standing" to bring them. A third party can't bring a lawsuit on behalf of another because that third party would have no standing in court to do so.
That is an impressive gain eBay received through those analytics. I have to wonder, though, why it took so long for their network team to remove bottlenecks. Was there some breakthrough technology that just recently allowed for this kind analysis, or were the engineers lazy all these years?
Neither Sony nor Apple support homebrew/CFW/jailbreak. as a result, if you want the freedom to use your own device as you see fit, you need to void your warranty, and Apple/Sony have shown that they will actively try to combat such practices.
Minor quibble, you don't void your warranty through jail-breaks. I don't Apple has ever refused service over that issue. Unlocking yes, but unauthorized software installation I don't think so.
The FBI has apparently taken down Master Splinter. Quick brothers, to the Turtle Van! Haha.
This bust really alters the context of the ninja in Ninja Turtles, doesn't it?
I suppose young people have a perfectly fine excuse for our Internet addictions: We're just making use of our brains! I do wonder whether older people would yield increased brain activity similar to younger users when studied over a period of increased Internet usage.
The MacBooks, with their int-degraded graphics, were always lame, but axing Firewire 400 and not adding Firewire 800 is hella-lame. And this is coming from an "Apple Acolyte." Perhaps I need a different /. name.
What in the world is "fast" dial-up? That's an oxymoron AFAIK. Whenever I try to use my AT&T DSL freebie dial-up at remote locales I quickly remember that each web page takes at minimum 4 minutes to load properly.
Should be found and put on trial immediately. Whichever financial guru thought Mortgage Backed Securities and Credit Default Swaps were good ideas for people to invest was either a moron or crook, most likely the latter. I encourage you to RTFA, though, it's a fun read (and I'm no fan of the NY Times).
I decided to copy the text of TFA:
Media Wonk
User Profile
Paul Sweeting
Paul Sweeting is the editor of ContentAgenda.com and a columnist for Video Business. He has covered the home entertainment industries since 1985 for Billboard, Variety, Publishers Weekly and other leading business publications. He is based in Washington, DC.
It's DMCA exemption time! - October 6, 2008
Get those anti-circumvention exemptions ready kids! It's time for the Copyright Office's triennial review of Section 1201(a)(1) of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, in which the Register of Copyrights makes recommendations to the Librarian of Congress about granting temporary exemptions to the ban on circumventing encryption on certain classes of works. The federal register notice is here. Congress added the triennial review to the DMCA as a fail-safe mechanism, in case it turned out that the blanket ban on circumvention was "unduly burdening" fair use of certain types of work. The exemptions are only good for three years, however, and must be reapplied for with each review.
The last rulemaking, in 2006, resulted in six exemptions:
1. Audiovisual works included in the educational library of a college or universityâ€(TM)s film or media studies department, when circumvention is accomplished for the purpose of making compilations of portions of those works for educational use in the classroom by media studies or film professors.
2. Computer programs and video games distributed in formats that have become obsolete and that require the original media or hardware as a condition of access, when circumvention is accomplished for the purpose of preservation or archival reproduction of published digital works by a library or archive. A format shall be considered obsolete if the machine or system necessary to render perceptible a work stored in that format is no longer manufactured or is no longer reasonably available in the commercial marketplace.
3. Computer programs protected by dongles that prevent access due to malfunction or damage and which are obsolete. A dongle shall be considered obsolete if it is no longer manufactured or if a replacement or repair is no longer reasonably available in the commercial marketplace.
4. Literary works distributed in ebook format when all existing ebook editions of the work (including digital text editions made available by authorized entities) contain access controls that prevent the enabling either of the bookâ€(TM)s read-aloud function or of screen readers that render the text into a specialized format.
5. Computer programs in the form of firmware that enable wireless telephone handsets to connect to a wireless telephone communication network, when circumvention is accomplished for the sole purpose of lawfully connecting to a wireless telephone communication network.
6. Sound recordings, and audiovisual works associated with those sound recordings, distributed in compact disc format and protected by technological protection measures that control access to lawfully purchased works and create or exploit security flaws or vulnerabilities that compromise the security of personal computers, when circumvention is accomplished solely for the purpose of good faith testing, investigating, or correcting such security flaws or vulnerabilities.
Written comments recommending exemptions are due in the Copyright Office December 2, 2008. A notice of proposed rulemaking will be issued later in December based on those recommendations, and final comments are due February 2, 2009.
I don't know the details of his plan, but if the healthcare is only extended to those under a certain level of income
Wrong, it is not. I do know the details of his plan - my degree is in Political Science and I keep up with this stuff on a daily basis. His statement on the subject is something along the lines of, "Under my proposal if you like your current coverage you can keep it, or you can switch to the plan that members of Congress have access to." He says nothing about means testing for this massive new entitlement he's proposing.
Then why do so many of your countrymen come down south to have elective surgery they can't otherwise get in a timely fashion in the great white north? In case others don't know, American politicians suck, and they corrupt most things they try to accomplish. Look at Freddie and Fannie (those great Democratic Party institutions started by American Socialist FDR). The Medicare Entitlement is about to go bust in a spectacular way, and Barack Obama wants to extend that type of program to every person in America. As if we're not going bankrupt fast enough. Yes, he tries to downplay it (especially in the health care ads he's currently running that don't mention his government coverage proposal at all). He thinks that businesses are going to continue paying for their employees' benefits when they can save a bunch and tell them instead to go on Obama's "Congress plan." Well, he's either laughably naive or a liar when he says that. And the fact that McCain completely misses an opportunity to point out his circuitous plan to Socialize medicine is really a huge failure on his part.
only register and vote if you have an intelligent vote to cast!
Seriously? I think every other government implicitly trusts that the technology the rest of the world uses is good enough to get the job done. Spy agencies should have higher standards, but I somehow doubt Intel M$ clear each one of their designs with the NSA every release. If you can point me to a statute from another government that demands what China is supposedly demanding, I'll concede the point.
Social security is secure because it's not tied to the volatile open market.
Social(ist) (In)Security is not secure at all, but thanks for dodging the question. SS will go bust without substantial reform. As for it not being tied to the "volatile open market," that's why I explicitly said that private accounts could be very conservatively invested, in things like annuities or municipal bonds, and not the stock market. Private retirement plans that government employees have access to have been shown to give as much as twice the returns of that pathetic Socialist pyramid scheme. It's ridiculously outmoded and should be phased out; intellectually honest people can look at the situation objectively and very easily come to that conclusion.
Our system is horrible because it is run by lobbyists and big pharma, not because state socialized medicine is bad.
If you want to believe those are the sole causes, fine, but it still makes absolutely no sense to extend a system that is performing poorly currently and is due to go bust in a huge way in the next two decades to the entire population. Have you seen the Medicare liability data? I assume you haven't. But again with that response you're not answering the question; you're just making up excuses for the failed Social(ist) welfare state.
And let me say, if you're upset because you'll be required to pay more tax than the less fortunate, and cause you to drive a 5 series instead of a 7 with the 18 inch rims. . .
Once again you fail to address the question. I asked about punishing incentive through excessive taxation, and again you can't answer the question.
Ask Palin... please! The comic world is begging you.
I asked Obama for answer, and again you evade because you have no credible response. Besides, Palin isn't the one naively advocating sky high taxes for those making over $250,000 a year in revenue.
Did Hannity shit in your brain? McCain has Falwell. . .
Really quite mature. McCain has distanced himself from the Christian right to a greater extent than Obama has distanced himself from the "religious left." Indeed, it took Wright several direct jabs at Obama for the latter to flip-flop and pull out of the radical church he had belonged to for decades.
Will McCain repudiate Fox News?
You think Fox News and the DailyKOS are at all analogous? You are truly far gone, as is those who bothered to waste mod points on your stupidity.
Coerce? Does that mean we can say, stop killing Palestinians, arresting them, torturing them, and taking their land with the guns, tanks, helicopters, and jets that we give you, accept UN resolution 242 and go back to your 1967 borders. . .
Israel will stop killing so-called "Palestinians" when they stop making war and committing terrorism against Israel; when they give up their perennial dream of "driving the Jews to the Sea" and perpetrating a second Holocaust. As for "taking their land," it is Jewish land From Time Immemorial, and modern day Israel only holds a fraction of its historical land. As for 242, you should reread it because it doesn't say what you think it says (if you've ever read it at all), and as for "1967 border" it would indeed be great if Israel would return to its post-Six Day War 1967 borders, reclaiming the lands it threw away in the 1970s including the Sinai. (I realize that's not what you meant, but I can use your imprecise language in that fashion against you.) As for the so-called "Palestinians," they can go live in any one of 52 predominately Muslim countries in the world, 22 of which are ethnically Arab. If they stop occupying Jewish land and murdering Jews, they'll be able to live in peace with the one Jewish country on earth. But the purpose of my original ques
Senator Obama, why are you opposed to Health Savings Account plans, which would protect people from catastrophic illness costs while giving them a monetary incentives to seek treatment early and stay healthier?