sending a ton of traffic over the net, slowing it down for their countrymen
Please prove this assertion you're making.
P2P is an asynchronous distributed network. If anything, having multiple local downloaders and multiple local uploaders should help speed up the traffic -- not slow it down.
Right now, in San Francisco, we have free wireless access points provided by private individuals for free, and they're working just fine. But if the government gets involved, there is no guarantee that the system will remain free, and by free I mean (free as in beer) and (free as in freedom to browse any web site I want). In my book, money from taxes, and money from bonds, does not mean it's free.
You convince indivual businesses to do so, or if you run a business, you do so yourself.
And you don't even need a business to do this. Many of the free access points in San Francisco are run by private individuals that share their broadband connections. That's all. It's just like P2P. You simply share the resources that you're currently not using.
If the government takes care of this instead (instead of private individuals, non-profits, local businesses, and coffee shops). It will be run just like your local Public Library. You won't be able to access porn, games, and mp3s (even legitimate ones). Your access will be monitored and tracked for "security" reasons (remember the story about Homeland Security complaining about free wireles access points). And just to err on the safe side, your wireless connection will be crippled, this way you won't be able to bypass the controls that government will impose on you (for your own good). And eventually, the city will propose a bond measure and a new tax to pay for it.
I don't know about the other cities, but in San Francisco, it's not the city that has gone wireless -- it's a group of people within the city that have set up free wireless access points.
It only takes one person to set up something like this. You set up your own free wireless access point and then you tell people about it. Eventually, you can meet with other people that have done the same, share information, and form a user group. And when enough of the people at the right locations have joined your group, then you'll have pretty good city-wide coverage.
The point of copyright is to let the creator profit off of his/her work for a time, but not to keep the work out of the public domain perpetually.
A point of clarification.
The original intent of copyright law was to let the public enjoy the benefits of the work perpetually in exchange for a temporary monopoly. The temporary monopoly was only granted as a side-effect of the original intent, it was not even the original intent.
So if you had been an artist who refused to share your work with the public, your work would not have received the benefit of copyright protection.
Word to the wise: if there is more than one EULA, then there's probably spyware. if there's only one, read the bloody thing...
Assuming it's actually a product you're trying to download, and not just a random activex popup. It's usually easier to google whatever name of the product plus add the word "spyware" to it. Reading the EULA is too damn difficult these days.
It's the corollary of the Slashdot effect. Never read the primary source, someone else will already have done it for you.
"So if I find out that Microsoft are just about to launch a new soup called 'Wibble', I can start selling my own 'Wibble' soup first, then claim they are infringing my trademark when they launch? There must be something that prevents this."
IANAL, but three quick thoughts.
First, registering a trademark is not cheap. I could be way off, but I think I remember it used to cost five or six thousand dollars per year per trademark per category (but this figure may include lawyer fees, I don't remember).
Second, in order for you to have the right to sue Microsoft, you would have to register the trademark Wibble in the software category and you would have to make Wibble a software. As far as I am aware, you could make yourself a soup called Windows and noone would stop you.
Third, Microsoft will do a trademark/corporate name search and it will reserve the trademark before making an announcement. So, you may be able to use the trademarked name yourself, but you won't be able to sue Microsoft for infringement if you didn't register the trademarked name first.
Thinking of the tool before thinking of the goal is kind of ass-backwards.
For all I know, you could be operating a $50 a day hot dog stand that may not even need any software. Seriously, whatever business you're into, your business objectives will be unique, and those business objectives should be fleshed out before you invest anymore emotional time into a particular tool.
Am I to understand that only the number of years some software has been pirated will affect your ability to download updates? Or have I misread the article?
"They'll also get their downloads if they do participate and their copy of Windows turns out to be unlicensed.
[...]
The company is not requiring customers to have a genuine copy of Windows to get SP2, though it has blocked a few registration codes that have been known for several years as pirated".
Not trying to be rude, but they're still in business. The article you posted is from 2001. And it looks like they actually have product.
What is the point here?
I don't need a point, it's your job to come up with whatever conclusion you want to come up with. I stand by the facts I presented -- they're all verifiable in the press and on the web.
The fact that Hop-on still has a web site with cell phones on it doesn't bother me. It's been three years already and its web site still doesn't have a disposable cardboard phone for under $30, a claim that made them one of the most heavily hyped companies in the world. If a web site like Napster or a small outfit like Virgin Mobile has its own brand, it's entirely possible for such a successful scam like Hop-on to still be worth something and even have its own "line" of phones.
This reminds me of the brilliant disposable phone business idea. Hire some fugitives of the law to be your top company officers, preferably some people known for having started a fake online casino and having run away with the money of their investors. Covertly buy $200 Nokia phones. Remove their plastic shell and their logo. Surround them in cardboard. Call them prototypes. Tell investors you're going to sell those phones for below $30 and watch the diligent hard-hitting investigative "journalists" hype your wonderful innovative product to no end.
Could I get the sum payed out to me in 5 installments of 20,000 USD over 5 years?
No, it will be just like the lottery, you'll have a chance in a trillion they select your spam report, and if you win they'll divy up the proceeds among the people who submitted the same identical spam sample, and then they'll deduct taxes out of whatever is left and pay you in inflation-diminished installments over the next thirty years.
"I used to drive by a billboard every day that had about 12 pictures of kids, all who shot themselves or were shot by a friend, playing with a parent's gun."
And what if you drove by a billboard every day that had about 12 pictures of kids that had been killed by coconuts that had fallen on their heads while they were at the beach. Would you be for coconut control?
Really, let's get some perspective on this. Kids will die of car accidents, suicide attempts, playground accidents, accidental poisoning, and many other causes before there is ever a chance that they will die of gun shots. Our attempts at controlling those risks should be based on hard statistics, not what we see on billboards.
Follow Occam's Razor. Think of the simplest answer you can possibly think of and find a way to achieve it.
In my case, I moved to a safer neighborhood. It took me two years to effect the move to one of the two neighborhoods I had in mind, but the wait was worth it. My neighborhood is now safer and cleaner, and yet I didn't have to sacrifice on the amount of rent I was paying, nor did I sacrifice on the amount of time I was spending on the commute. It took a while, but my patience paid off.
Now, I don't know the age of your mother, but assuming she's getting older. Do you think her neighborhood is going to improve, or get worse? And as she does become older, do you think it will get easier for her to move, or not? It's never easy to move and it's never a good time to move, but it's usually one of the best and healthiest solutions.
The truth is, we all have different learning abilities and learning disabilities of various degrees. On one hand, we give special privileges to some for their outstanding abilities, and on the other hand, we give special privileges to some others for their underperforming abilities. Our society has become quite schizophrenic.
To be successful these days, parents need to convince teachers and admission officials that their kid is smart -- smarter than average -- and yet they also need to convince those same people that their kid is not so smart -- not as smart as all the others.
It won't be fixed until the "majority", that is, white people, apologize collectively and sincerely...
This is such rubbish. I'm white, but I first came to this country fifteen years ago and I've never had an easy life.
I'm just glad that the "majority" in California will no longer be white, because I'm so tired of being blamed for everything. At least, with an Asian population that is being discriminated against and an Hispanic population that is becoming the majority, the racist practice of Affirmative Action might die here.
That's right, blame the lawyers. This excuse is so lame. In the corporation I used to work for, many of the ideas I'd get would get shot down because of legal reasons. But usually it was just ignorance talking, and the lawyers were the only ones that backed me up.
If you want to blame something, blame the political process for assigning promotions. Usually, the guy that becomes principal, or the guy that becomes CEO, is the one that never offended anyone or the one that never did anything.
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Please prove this assertion you're making.
P2P is an asynchronous distributed network. If anything, having multiple local downloaders and multiple local uploaders should help speed up the traffic -- not slow it down.
If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
Right now, in San Francisco, we have free wireless access points provided by private individuals for free, and they're working just fine. But if the government gets involved, there is no guarantee that the system will remain free, and by free I mean (free as in beer) and (free as in freedom to browse any web site I want). In my book, money from taxes, and money from bonds, does not mean it's free.
And you don't even need a business to do this. Many of the free access points in San Francisco are run by private individuals that share their broadband connections. That's all. It's just like P2P. You simply share the resources that you're currently not using.
If the government takes care of this instead (instead of private individuals, non-profits, local businesses, and coffee shops). It will be run just like your local Public Library. You won't be able to access porn, games, and mp3s (even legitimate ones). Your access will be monitored and tracked for "security" reasons (remember the story about Homeland Security complaining about free wireles access points). And just to err on the safe side, your wireless connection will be crippled, this way you won't be able to bypass the controls that government will impose on you (for your own good). And eventually, the city will propose a bond measure and a new tax to pay for it.
It only takes one person to set up something like this. You set up your own free wireless access point and then you tell people about it. Eventually, you can meet with other people that have done the same, share information, and form a user group. And when enough of the people at the right locations have joined your group, then you'll have pretty good city-wide coverage.
A point of clarification.
The original intent of copyright law was to let the public enjoy the benefits of the work perpetually in exchange for a temporary monopoly. The temporary monopoly was only granted as a side-effect of the original intent, it was not even the original intent.
So if you had been an artist who refused to share your work with the public, your work would not have received the benefit of copyright protection.
That makes sense, thanks.
And another question is, did Linus really register a trademark on Linux? I'm surprised that he even bothered.
Assuming it's actually a product you're trying to download, and not just a random activex popup. It's usually easier to google whatever name of the product plus add the word "spyware" to it. Reading the EULA is too damn difficult these days.
It's the corollary of the Slashdot effect. Never read the primary source, someone else will already have done it for you.
IANAL, but three quick thoughts.
First, registering a trademark is not cheap. I could be way off, but I think I remember it used to cost five or six thousand dollars per year per trademark per category (but this figure may include lawyer fees, I don't remember).
Second, in order for you to have the right to sue Microsoft, you would have to register the trademark Wibble in the software category and you would have to make Wibble a software. As far as I am aware, you could make yourself a soup called Windows and noone would stop you.
Third, Microsoft will do a trademark/corporate name search and it will reserve the trademark before making an announcement. So, you may be able to use the trademarked name yourself, but you won't be able to sue Microsoft for infringement if you didn't register the trademarked name first.
Read the article. This act doesn't make you a criminal. It only makes your sentence longer if you were already found to be committing fraud.
A point of clarification, IBM not only supplied, but also had IBM employees servicing the machines within the concentration camps.
Thinking of the tool before thinking of the goal is kind of ass-backwards.
For all I know, you could be operating a $50 a day hot dog stand that may not even need any software. Seriously, whatever business you're into, your business objectives will be unique, and those business objectives should be fleshed out before you invest anymore emotional time into a particular tool.
"They'll also get their downloads if they do participate and their copy of Windows turns out to be unlicensed.
[...]
The company is not requiring customers to have a genuine copy of Windows to get SP2, though it has blocked a few registration codes that have been known for several years as pirated".
I don't need a point, it's your job to come up with whatever conclusion you want to come up with. I stand by the facts I presented -- they're all verifiable in the press and on the web.
The fact that Hop-on still has a web site with cell phones on it doesn't bother me. It's been three years already and its web site still doesn't have a disposable cardboard phone for under $30, a claim that made them one of the most heavily hyped companies in the world. If a web site like Napster or a small outfit like Virgin Mobile has its own brand, it's entirely possible for such a successful scam like Hop-on to still be worth something and even have its own "line" of phones.
Can someone explain this to me. Where is the error here? Is there supposed to be a space betweent the equal sign and the quote mark?
Line 10, character 12:
TOPMARGIN="0" LEFTMARGIN="0"
^
Error: there is no attribute TOPMARGIN for this element (in this HTML version)
This reminds me of the brilliant disposable phone business idea. Hire some fugitives of the law to be your top company officers, preferably some people known for having started a fake online casino and having run away with the money of their investors. Covertly buy $200 Nokia phones. Remove their plastic shell and their logo. Surround them in cardboard. Call them prototypes. Tell investors you're going to sell those phones for below $30 and watch the diligent hard-hitting investigative "journalists" hype your wonderful innovative product to no end.
No, it will be just like the lottery, you'll have a chance in a trillion they select your spam report, and if you win they'll divy up the proceeds among the people who submitted the same identical spam sample, and then they'll deduct taxes out of whatever is left and pay you in inflation-diminished installments over the next thirty years.
You obviously didn't read the fine prints.
I'm glad they're ADA compliant.
And what if you drove by a billboard every day that had about 12 pictures of kids that had been killed by coconuts that had fallen on their heads while they were at the beach. Would you be for coconut control?
Really, let's get some perspective on this. Kids will die of car accidents, suicide attempts, playground accidents, accidental poisoning, and many other causes before there is ever a chance that they will die of gun shots. Our attempts at controlling those risks should be based on hard statistics, not what we see on billboards.
In my case, I moved to a safer neighborhood. It took me two years to effect the move to one of the two neighborhoods I had in mind, but the wait was worth it. My neighborhood is now safer and cleaner, and yet I didn't have to sacrifice on the amount of rent I was paying, nor did I sacrifice on the amount of time I was spending on the commute. It took a while, but my patience paid off.
Now, I don't know the age of your mother, but assuming she's getting older. Do you think her neighborhood is going to improve, or get worse? And as she does become older, do you think it will get easier for her to move, or not? It's never easy to move and it's never a good time to move, but it's usually one of the best and healthiest solutions.
To be successful these days, parents need to convince teachers and admission officials that their kid is smart -- smarter than average -- and yet they also need to convince those same people that their kid is not so smart -- not as smart as all the others.
This is such rubbish. I'm white, but I first came to this country fifteen years ago and I've never had an easy life. I'm just glad that the "majority" in California will no longer be white, because I'm so tired of being blamed for everything. At least, with an Asian population that is being discriminated against and an Hispanic population that is becoming the majority, the racist practice of Affirmative Action might die here.
Some enterprising law student, or even some enterprising pre-law student, should try to fight this -- it will be a good experience.
If you want to blame something, blame the political process for assigning promotions. Usually, the guy that becomes principal, or the guy that becomes CEO, is the one that never offended anyone or the one that never did anything.