Most likely at the chintzy franchise stores that aren't owned by the company that do that crap, there won't be free WiFi either, because they aren't a "participating McDonalds."
If the ISPs are successful in charging per MB, it will be the end of the Internet as a corporate communication and support tool. Download the manual for that new gizmo? I don't think so -- mail me one on paper or the gizmo goes back to the store.
There are statutory damages for copyright infringement--specific performance isn't going to cut it--and they had their chance for that anyway. (IANAL but if NYCL wants to jump in here...)
Played around with this; works for some but not others. Could it be tied to whether each user has been forced through the new privacy settings processed yet?
So you want to outlaw passengers using cell phones, too? How about the nanny state mind its own fscking business and deal with actual bad driving? Oh, that's right--that would take work and not generate so much revenue.
A marginal nuclear power that detonates one nuke is signing his nation's death warrant--it's not Mutual Assured Destruction; it's assured self-destruction. That and MAD with the major world powers having the weapons are much more reassuring to me than the touchy-feely idea of unilateral disarmament (to which I say, "you first.").
False dichotomy. The U.S.S.R. was on track to developing them and the last thing the free world needed was for the Reds to have them first. Unless, that is, you wish you had grown up with a taste for harsh vodka and fish eggs.
I'd be completely unsurprised if it were to come out later that some party interested in what people with "something to hide" search for is behind Scroogle. That said, I pump my (pretty much innocuous) searches through it--but if you are serious about privacy, I'd hit it through TOR from a sanitized (or better yet minimal, a la lynx) browser as well.
Fair enough, but that's beyond mere "deep packet inspection" and into the realm of impersonating user traffic. Not that there's not precedent for that (e.g. Comcast), but doing that at line speed would likely be quite expensive.
The optical drive doesn't require me to agree to a separate legal agreement which gives me the right to return the drive if I refuse, either: false analogy, FAIL.
Why wouldn't that seem fair? Any other return (e.g. defective laptop) for a refund would be at retail. Why not the OS--for which the user is forced to either agree to a EULA or return?
Finally, if there were a backdoor, if Microsoft used it for anything against the most gave of crimes, they would tip their hand, and people would realize there is a hidden way in the OS. Then either #2 or #1 would happen, which either would be REALLY bad for MS.
That's a comforting belief, but you underestimate the ability of law enforcement to gather evidence that's either illegal or would reveal sources and methods (or in this case, likely both), use that knowledge to "stumble" on some information, and use that information which can be held out as having been legally obtained to bootstrap a warrant.
For an analogy outside computer technology, consider the cop driving up and down the street illegally spying with a FLIR camera; when s/he gets a hit, he just "happens upon" some suspicious persons or "hears an anonymous tip." With that, Jane/Johnny Law obtains a warrant, busts down the door, and seizes the grow operation--that s/he wouldn't have known about but for illegal surveillance. Of course, this approach has backfired at least once.
You changed the subject first, so I am pretty sure it's okay to mention additional information while still also addressing the point (you mentioned my "beef" with the iTMS as you'll recall).
Anyway, I do know what AAC is and also know that it doesn't become MP3 (you know, that compression standard everyone supports (although I'll give you that I'm surprised at how many players now support it, if not no where near all) without being lossily decompressed and then recompressed thus incurring further compression loss.
Tell me, do you work for free or for a reduced rate if your employer's profit goes down?
I think you'll find that salary increases or the lack thereof (or, in some places, pay cuts) are quite tightly coupled to an employer's profit--I cynically have observed that it is more so when profit goes down than when it goes up. So yes.
That's nice--and it's a conversion that incurs more compression loss, and is just another reason for people to not stray from the walled garden. And let's not forget the DRM on video files, there because the MPAA is "making" them (I mean, it's not like Apple has so many eyeballs they can call some shots, right--or that they took DRM from audio files only when forced by competition). Anyway, I was only pointing out that AAC isn't exactly a ubiquitous standard, DRM or no--I didn't even mention a "beef" with the iTMS. By your logic, because people with copy protected AACs could burn and re-rip to MP3 from the resultant lossy WAVs, there was never a problem.
It doesn't really matter that AAC is an "open standard" when Apple is pretty much the only one using and supporting it in portable players--it's proprietary in effect if not in name.
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Most likely at the chintzy franchise stores that aren't owned by the company that do that crap, there won't be free WiFi either, because they aren't a "participating McDonalds."
Trollaxor.
If the ISPs are successful in charging per MB, it will be the end of the Internet as a corporate communication and support tool. Download the manual for that new gizmo? I don't think so -- mail me one on paper or the gizmo goes back to the store.
There are statutory damages for copyright infringement--specific performance isn't going to cut it--and they had their chance for that anyway. (IANAL but if NYCL wants to jump in here ...)
Played around with this; works for some but not others. Could it be tied to whether each user has been forced through the new privacy settings processed yet?
Someone was going to be first to open the box. Better it was we who caught hope after it was opened.
So you want to outlaw passengers using cell phones, too? How about the nanny state mind its own fscking business and deal with actual bad driving? Oh, that's right--that would take work and not generate so much revenue.
A marginal nuclear power that detonates one nuke is signing his nation's death warrant--it's not Mutual Assured Destruction; it's assured self-destruction. That and MAD with the major world powers having the weapons are much more reassuring to me than the touchy-feely idea of unilateral disarmament (to which I say, "you first.").
False dichotomy. The U.S.S.R. was on track to developing them and the last thing the free world needed was for the Reds to have them first. Unless, that is, you wish you had grown up with a taste for harsh vodka and fish eggs.
I wonder how much developing them so that the enemy wasn't the only one that had them has saved us.
I'd be completely unsurprised if it were to come out later that some party interested in what people with "something to hide" search for is behind Scroogle. That said, I pump my (pretty much innocuous) searches through it--but if you are serious about privacy, I'd hit it through TOR from a sanitized (or better yet minimal, a la lynx) browser as well.
Fair enough, but that's beyond mere "deep packet inspection" and into the realm of impersonating user traffic. Not that there's not precedent for that (e.g. Comcast), but doing that at line speed would likely be quite expensive.
Two words: Diffie and Hellman.
As the AC said, there was no attempt to enforce a contract after the fact before I owned the DIMM or the hard disk, so the analogy doesn't apply.
The optical drive doesn't require me to agree to a separate legal agreement which gives me the right to return the drive if I refuse, either: false analogy, FAIL.
Why wouldn't that seem fair? Any other return (e.g. defective laptop) for a refund would be at retail. Why not the OS--for which the user is forced to either agree to a EULA or return?
Nice choice of words there, AC.
That's a comforting belief, but you underestimate the ability of law enforcement to gather evidence that's either illegal or would reveal sources and methods (or in this case, likely both), use that knowledge to "stumble" on some information, and use that information which can be held out as having been legally obtained to bootstrap a warrant.
For an analogy outside computer technology, consider the cop driving up and down the street illegally spying with a FLIR camera; when s/he gets a hit, he just "happens upon" some suspicious persons or "hears an anonymous tip." With that, Jane/Johnny Law obtains a warrant, busts down the door, and seizes the grow operation--that s/he wouldn't have known about but for illegal surveillance. Of course, this approach has backfired at least once.
And the government backdoor would make this exercise unnecessary.
Anyway, I do know what AAC is and also know that it doesn't become MP3 (you know, that compression standard everyone supports (although I'll give you that I'm surprised at how many players now support it, if not no where near all) without being lossily decompressed and then recompressed thus incurring further compression loss.
I think you'll find that salary increases or the lack thereof (or, in some places, pay cuts) are quite tightly coupled to an employer's profit--I cynically have observed that it is more so when profit goes down than when it goes up. So yes.
And the U.S. five cent coin was taken by coin acceptors in the U.K. as a 20 pence coin.
That's nice--and it's a conversion that incurs more compression loss, and is just another reason for people to not stray from the walled garden. And let's not forget the DRM on video files, there because the MPAA is "making" them (I mean, it's not like Apple has so many eyeballs they can call some shots, right--or that they took DRM from audio files only when forced by competition). Anyway, I was only pointing out that AAC isn't exactly a ubiquitous standard, DRM or no--I didn't even mention a "beef" with the iTMS. By your logic, because people with copy protected AACs could burn and re-rip to MP3 from the resultant lossy WAVs, there was never a problem.
It doesn't really matter that AAC is an "open standard" when Apple is pretty much the only one using and supporting it in portable players--it's proprietary in effect if not in name.
Take the teeth out of the GPL and you also do the same to copyright. I have a feeling RMS would be okay with that.