Nobody can force DRM video on me, because movies are not a necessity of life, so nobody can require me to buy DRM video if I don't want to. I can make my own decision.
What they'll do is force you to buy software and hardware that they control and you can't use without their permission, in order to enforce their DRM system. And when I say "force" I mean they'll make it so you cannot buy software and hardware which does not abide by their restrictions.
According to their numbers, they will have less than $30/bl equivelence as they scale up.
Everyone claims, nobody delivers. File it with fusion, practical photoelectric (yeah, yeah, I know, just around the corner), and flying cars. Joule has been making claims since 2009. Remember Changing World Technologies and their oil-from-anything claims? Lots of hype, ending in bankruptcy.
I'm surprised no one has brought up submarine warfare for comparison here. When in a sub war, one does not try to destroy their opponent. The enemy of my enemy is my friend. And THE enemy is water. Let the enemy in is the name of the game. Same with space. Vacuum is the enemy. Let the enemy into your opponent's ship and then sit back and watch the show. (for as long as it lasts anyway)
Probably not as effective in space. Submarines have to handle tens of atmospheres of pressure differential, spaceships only one -- and that only in crewed areas.
I could see requiring permission to place transmitters, but why for receivers?
If you follow the links, the FCC said Google Fiber didn't need permission for the Ku band receivers. They amended their filing to reflect that (and to add specific satellites for the Ku-extended band; apparently you not only need an FCC license for the receiving antenna, but for which satellites you point at. Both of which are kind of ridiculous. I wonder if the FCC would have any jurisdiction if you just built an enormous dish and did not actually connect it to anything).
It's not clear why the priorities are increasing. If management is setting high priorities on everything because they've figured out that anything lower won't get done, you have to either stop that behavior (ha!) or set up a "shadow" priority list with the real priority for each project. If priorities are rising because a project really does become more urgent as its due date approaches and passes... well, the system is working. You can't have more work than resources and expect it all to get done, so if none of it can be dropped on the floor, work is going to pile up.
No, that's not how it works. Push too far, expect the unreasonable, and even regular people will stand up and die for what they believe.
No, most of them will simply change their beliefs, and think you are foolish or evil for not changing yours to be in line with those in authority. And when you die, they'll cluck their tongues at your foolishness. That's the future: as Orwell said, a boot stomping on a human face, forever.
Here's an interesting blog by a mozilla developer on the subject of the -webkit prefix. Basically he is reminding people that the extensions should move into W3.
Even hardware vendors can't wait for standards organizations (e.g. 802.11n). There's no way software vendors and web designers can.
Heh, I suspected the unreliability of that list and now I know. Thanks for confirming my opinion. Tell me.... are you employed by the PR department of Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, or are you just in it for the lulz?
How can this be +5 insightful with less than 10 comments on the entire post? It turns out that if you do a search for the phrase "a multi-billion dollar web advertising company with a history of privacy violations", you'll discover this is just spam propped up by puppet accounts.
Yep. By his epithets ye shall know him. Perhaps "multi-billion dollar advertising company with..." is just bonch's version of "carthago delenda est".
OK, suppose everything Heartland says about the documents is true: someone leaked a bunch of real documents, and slipped a bogus "smoking gun" memo in there.
Any PR firm worth its salt could have a field day with that, portraying the Heartland Institute as the victim. Why would they then ruin it by making ridiculous statements implying it's an individual's legal obligation to fact check a document before commenting on it? Do they just have an institutional need to twirl their evil mustache?
So you don't think a string of break-ins could have very serious potential consequences? Someone will wind up dead sooner or later - guaranTEED. The police, not knowing your motives, have no choice but to treat it very seriously and escalate things on their end until they stop it.
And yet, even if I accepted this as true, burglars -- even serial burglars -- are not sentenced based on potential deaths.
Some big name entity makes noise about going with the "little" man supplier, and then their old compatriot casually pass them a back room deal to make them stick with the old compatriots products. I swear, corporate contracts really need to be out in the open, or else they undermine democratic principles.
You make it sound like it's shady, but it's not. That's just negotiation. There's nothing wrong with a company lowering its prices to respond to a threat from a competitor.
And how are you going to develop, Mr. Coward, if you have no computer?
I'd be happy to ignore all the political BS. If it didn't so often result in a figurative gun being shoved into my face along with an order to stop doing what I'm doing. (ignore the figurative gun, you get a literal gun: that's politics) Or same said gun being pointed at my ISP, or suppliers of the equipment I use, etc.
The lock on your bedroom window is crap. I broke it last night, and then rifled through all of your stuff. Did the same to 2 of your neighbors also.. ya know, just to show it wasn't a fluke.
Your welcome.
I would like my reward now.
OK, we'll sentence you based on the potential damage you might have done -- to wit, you could have accidentally burned the entire house down while you were there, and the fire could have spread to the entire neighborhood and killed a bunch of people.
Sentence the man for what he did: breaking into the computers. Not based on crap like "Potentially what you did could have been utterly disastrous to Facebook"
Nope, this one's done. There's nothing so permanent as a temporary restriction. The moratorium will be extended indefinitely (or as long as the copyright on Mickey Mouse, whichever is shorter)
Wait... you want to do away with copyright altogether?
We have inexpensive machines capable of being used to violate the reproduction right with the click of a mouse. We have an entire network of networks capable of being used to violate the distribution right as easily. There is no way to stop this aside from absolutely draconian measures, going even further than PIPA and SOPA. It's either the Internet or enforced copyright, and I know where I stand.
This has happened before on a smaller scale. The VCR made it possible to trivially violate the reproduction right on television shows. The RIAA took it to the courts, and the lower courts agreed: The VCR and copyright could not co-exist, therefore the VCR must go. The Supreme Court took the case, and decided it was copyright which must give, and carved a hole in it for the VCR. The hole you'd need to carve for the Internet would destroy copyright.
So this is less likely to turn into another Civil War (or War Between the States, if you will), and more something resembling the American Revolution, if anything.
Think again. I doubt enough people are so upset with the Federal government that they have a snowball's chance in hell of making any headway against it. So what's it going to look like? Orwell's "boot stomping on a human face, forever."
Actual story: - Lunch was not taken away from the girl; she was given extra food because they were worried she might not have enough.
Nor does the story say lunch was taken away from her. In fact, since she brought it home, it implies otherwise.
- A standard form letter was sent to the parent, which said that she may be charged for the food - in fact, since the child was enrolled in the right program, she was not actually charged for the food
This is also not at odds with the story, which said "which could result in a fee".
- The food given was milk and vegetables, not chicken nuggets.
Milk, a vegetable, a fruit, and chicken nuggets. Of which the girl, being a typical American 4-year-old, only ate the nuggets.
I'm talking about crystal methamphetamines. The stuff that rots your teeth, makes you hallucinate bugs under your skin, and so on. It's not a "party drug" like cocaine, nor is it a "mellow" thing like weed. Do you think the "faces of meth" theme seen in law-enforcement slideshows across the country is simply propaganda? My
Like I said, "Reefer Madness". You might as well show homeless alcoholics with the DTs and claim they're representative of alcohol users. Of course meth isn't a "mellow" drug; it's an upper. And it's nasty if abused, like alcohol, heroin, or cocaine. What it's not is some sort of magic crazy pill on which one taste means "you're on a one-way road, downhill, no brakes".
Name one non-nuclear industrial process that can kill millions and render an area of thousands of square miles uninhabitable for a hundred thousand years.
Kill millions? Hydro power. Releases of poison gas (akin to the Bhopal disaster) could likely do it in the right place.
Render an area of thousands of square miles uninhabitable for a hundred thousand years? Sorry, nuclear accidents don't do that either.
And really, they should not be wasting all that heat. It should be tied into cogeneration of something - warming up greenhouses, buildings, whatever. But they shouldn't be just wasting it.
Figure out a way to efficiently move low-grade heat around, and you'll retire rich. (Or get the invention stolen from you by a large corporation and die a pauper, but them's the breaks)
There's generally not a lot you can use low-grade heat for in Tennessee in the summer.
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What they'll do is force you to buy software and hardware that they control and you can't use without their permission, in order to enforce their DRM system. And when I say "force" I mean they'll make it so you cannot buy software and hardware which does not abide by their restrictions.
Everyone claims, nobody delivers. File it with fusion, practical photoelectric (yeah, yeah, I know, just around the corner), and flying cars. Joule has been making claims since 2009. Remember Changing World Technologies and their oil-from-anything claims? Lots of hype, ending in bankruptcy.
Probably not as effective in space. Submarines have to handle tens of atmospheres of pressure differential, spaceships only one -- and that only in crewed areas.
If you follow the links, the FCC said Google Fiber didn't need permission for the Ku band receivers. They amended their filing to reflect that (and to add specific satellites for the Ku-extended band; apparently you not only need an FCC license for the receiving antenna, but for which satellites you point at. Both of which are kind of ridiculous. I wonder if the FCC would have any jurisdiction if you just built an enormous dish and did not actually connect it to anything).
It's not clear why the priorities are increasing. If management is setting high priorities on everything because they've figured out that anything lower won't get done, you have to either stop that behavior (ha!) or set up a "shadow" priority list with the real priority for each project. If priorities are rising because a project really does become more urgent as its due date approaches and passes... well, the system is working. You can't have more work than resources and expect it all to get done, so if none of it can be dropped on the floor, work is going to pile up.
No, most of them will simply change their beliefs, and think you are foolish or evil for not changing yours to be in line with those in authority. And when you die, they'll cluck their tongues at your foolishness. That's the future: as Orwell said, a boot stomping on a human face, forever.
Mal's side had lost before the show even started.
Even hardware vendors can't wait for standards organizations (e.g. 802.11n). There's no way software vendors and web designers can.
Heh, I suspected the unreliability of that list and now I know. Thanks for confirming my opinion. Tell me.... are you employed by the PR department of Microsoft, Apple, Facebook, or are you just in it for the lulz?
Yep. By his epithets ye shall know him. Perhaps "multi-billion dollar advertising company with..." is just bonch's version of "carthago delenda est".
OK, suppose everything Heartland says about the documents is true: someone leaked a bunch of real documents, and slipped a bogus "smoking gun" memo in there.
Any PR firm worth its salt could have a field day with that, portraying the Heartland Institute as the victim. Why would they then ruin it by making ridiculous statements implying it's an individual's legal obligation to fact check a document before commenting on it? Do they just have an institutional need to twirl their evil mustache?
And yet, even if I accepted this as true, burglars -- even serial burglars -- are not sentenced based on potential deaths.
You make it sound like it's shady, but it's not. That's just negotiation. There's nothing wrong with a company lowering its prices to respond to a threat from a competitor.
And how are you going to develop, Mr. Coward, if you have no computer?
I'd be happy to ignore all the political BS. If it didn't so often result in a figurative gun being shoved into my face along with an order to stop doing what I'm doing. (ignore the figurative gun, you get a literal gun: that's politics) Or same said gun being pointed at my ISP, or suppliers of the equipment I use, etc.
OK, we'll sentence you based on the potential damage you might have done -- to wit, you could have accidentally burned the entire house down while you were there, and the fire could have spread to the entire neighborhood and killed a bunch of people.
Sentence the man for what he did: breaking into the computers. Not based on crap like "Potentially what you did could have been utterly disastrous to Facebook"
Nope, this one's done. There's nothing so permanent as a temporary restriction. The moratorium will be extended indefinitely (or as long as the copyright on Mickey Mouse, whichever is shorter)
We have inexpensive machines capable of being used to violate the reproduction right with the click of a mouse. We have an entire network of networks capable of being used to violate the distribution right as easily. There is no way to stop this aside from absolutely draconian measures, going even further than PIPA and SOPA. It's either the Internet or enforced copyright, and I know where I stand.
This has happened before on a smaller scale. The VCR made it possible to trivially violate the reproduction right on television shows. The RIAA took it to the courts, and the lower courts agreed: The VCR and copyright could not co-exist, therefore the VCR must go. The Supreme Court took the case, and decided it was copyright which must give, and carved a hole in it for the VCR. The hole you'd need to carve for the Internet would destroy copyright.
Think again. I doubt enough people are so upset with the Federal government that they have a snowball's chance in hell of making any headway against it. So what's it going to look like? Orwell's "boot stomping on a human face, forever."
Nor does the story say lunch was taken away from her. In fact, since she brought it home, it implies otherwise.
This is also not at odds with the story, which said "which could result in a fee".
Milk, a vegetable, a fruit, and chicken nuggets. Of which the girl, being a typical American 4-year-old, only ate the nuggets.
Like I said, "Reefer Madness". You might as well show homeless alcoholics with the DTs and claim they're representative of alcohol users. Of course meth isn't a "mellow" drug; it's an upper. And it's nasty if abused, like alcohol, heroin, or cocaine. What it's not is some sort of magic crazy pill on which one taste means "you're on a one-way road, downhill, no brakes".
Not just central planning. Central planning by utter bastards.
If "by all accounts" you mean "by the accounts of the heirs to the producers of 'Reefer Madness'", yes. Otherwise, no.
Kill millions? Hydro power. Releases of poison gas (akin to the Bhopal disaster) could likely do it in the right place.
Render an area of thousands of square miles uninhabitable for a hundred thousand years? Sorry, nuclear accidents don't do that either.
I've seen the claim here, on slashdot, I think. From one of the resident patent defenders.
Imagine that today in 2012 we were still using a processor architecture based on an 1970s-era calculator chip.
Oh, wait...
Figure out a way to efficiently move low-grade heat around, and you'll retire rich. (Or get the invention stolen from you by a large corporation and die a pauper, but them's the breaks)
There's generally not a lot you can use low-grade heat for in Tennessee in the summer.